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Johan Lubman was born in tervcabrier county, West Virginia, So prender second, 1- It. The first fifteen years of his live he went in Virginia." There wife no -thirds of any account at that time in the newchlorluand win re he was brought up. John Rieuman never went to shind but three month- in his life, and tover god wal u. his spelling-lunk. When in his sixteenth your the busily le :: Viremia. Mr. Richman's father had a large family of clubin a. and wanted nor land, which rubl not well bestained i Virginat, and Ja are I the removalt . Hbmws- The rattle there and lar- could not in soll ar lanc,. uni, un wise saisir, to tis ir western ili-tinatinn. Mr. Richman states that les sixmonths le-plas magmarried when in this, holding the cattle till the faturls
Litle Vorin mt. naver. Hon they lived on rented Innl, und rasil tien enp. In company wahl one Men- Laulshaw, Mr Richman'- father white the Ent- barras tomber en a her font. In eight or ten have they got the or four harrels of Invir. Mr. Rahman was Hi well pleased with the ted in the right. the up some of the wind land there. The Goals lett Vernation hours in
when the Kisbrnare tati's touch up the is residence in Douglascounty, provided
Hares ata der fonte of white living in the present limits of the
three vrar- ant the ir arrival. Broly port now terapie the sin af' their all
farsang las te ing to brush the pas tu but hishead the or trans tom's tak Joe this, planting, tall on truth of six when tlp y had -perwoher! in putting Intrte. n ain - in with air 'They then begin work at handling a lades. The legs with
At Ilu s _. d louis-four Me Babmit w .. neirried to Mary { ho Int, a
Plathelena, Andrew, Servet When, Martha, Sarah, Ruth, Mars, Ane tol,
winter, the romanteber of tin wear la thy devotedl ter laban on the Firm, than antt In the Me Homemget toask Jis port. I Down the time he som large . trongch in hold a please, he was screeningneed to leave work, and for moverand your waiter lowa base to spent aus based work, which Jon is still had ware low nauy, wolle che portaterra
hand the pressle as ort ative is long trov + howde, at which has eltlige niels up tosend
He was homme de a memberof the Dh www ratio party, and in the walt his best vate for President tor ilocations Restantes of New York. I'min the organ- ration of the Farmers', or Return movement, Me i In business mature patel the only. He is among the young men of the county, and at the leser marked his eoover, At the way of therate for ham achats seat a questions wurde is sterrounded with everything which contributes to the colberts and super- ments of life, gravel with the presence of an allertional wife and in all per bability a caret, yet more honorable and useful, lies before him.
ALEXANDER BRAGG.
ALEXANDER BRAGG, the son of Junine Bragg, and his wife Serah Kahler, was hom in Greenbrier county, West Virginia, J.mbary nineteenth, 1923. \ the age of five years he lesen his education. His first teacher was based Showde, and wastrequently hi- two brothers, John and food, and , man mano Newton Walker The related-lamises were of be, with split free fenetres. it. memuhny the wlade hugth of the mont. Near the teacher's disk stowwi chs dintreslik, & terror to the children who compost the school. Mexapeler wady mi-nho vous boy Int at aut scholar, and he obtained the princides of a
boas Brage removed with his family to Illinois in Isas arriving at what is In Ingle county in September of that year The territory was thete pen- tar hetweer. They or four topsbe- lived in the somvedel viernes, and the west - tter iesand those were bien antes away. The prices wir enered with tall gra -- and no -m weiss, and the united was the home of a large som- her of wild hog. The French and Indian trading har four makes de los t'amargo had just been abandoned before the arrival of the family. Mr Beige entered englue acres of land. "Their final was hig and bonany, a diet webdienst emnight in those pioneer days. Their alling was ahouse at Ingene, forty miles aw ny, mul after that at Georgetown, in Vermilion ** Hints
Vecamier Brugy was twelve years obl at the time of his arrival in illinois,
hi work for Jedin Richman at eight shallare a month. Tour this year after
tên the breaking nut ný the Mexican war an Is It, he vohintered in the ser- vier, joining the third regiment Illutan4 volunteer, Ins company avler the hemosand of Cap. W. Bilags. The regiment complessonel at Alog, and from there the old Glenare converted them to New Orleans, where they encamped three weeks in the old latte grond made historio bis the triumphant victory at General Ju Lean over the Batch it. the war of Isis They nest procurbed he stemmer to Bazie Santiago, in Texas Remaining lite their works, the Their met stopping-place was the gates of Jalape. when the show passed commits of the mountains ware plainly visible in the distin. At the page ni Vers l raz Mr. Bragg was taken sich with the minh the ories - and from there forwarded to Whom. Je nached how ator an alwine of i'met halt & sour. At the esta limon of the war he rousses a lamed warrant. His pas in actual service waw eight dollars a mouth, and las cereived a bounty efforts-two thiller
Me. Bragg during the manunder of his life has been a former. Is owned 1.201 gore - out how land, all pand for with ton mortgages steundering the pro-
valued at sio wi, and he stunde among the salad mon of the quanty.
ROBERT E. CARMACK.
Tut grandfather of Me tomark was among the sole withers of L'est
afterward. Ile. twee wonders winesseling the arrival of the finals ware the Is rartheted as the winner of the great wine So proti-net had has brought
Deres of the road nem, the tabule weer aser destacael, telling wieder stalen from them, nor did any iseule no mener to give them fare for the estety
At ho ban ut Loir arrival ogly two letdes of permanent wrtorre hvid
1 Este
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a high under His -weer - in life Just love the result of his pan labut not in thenight. Some empty a higher cobb lever in the community than Inder Muniek.
JAMES R. HAMMET.
AMove the obhet nsilents of the terrib ry now emlimarel in Denglat- counts i- Mr. Jones R. Hanmet, of L'ancien town-lup, living in the original place of sith ment des the sanaly. The Hammet landy as of Fish descent. Mr. Hammuet's gramlather, Richard Himmet, w w a native of the county of Cork. Ireland. There the Hunmets had recorded for a long period, and were connected with the Treuwith another old times of the neighborshuwel
daugater. These all, at duk font jatnul- emigrdel to Ametast. John Ham- mit, the father of the subject of this hangraphy, was probably the next to try his fortunes in the New World He came to this country when a sommer nam, and look up his revideres in Montgomery ewonus, Virginia, and there married Diana Graniner, a native of the tilil Poummmminn, but hke her Im-leuni of Iri-h derect, Though of Irish birth and kiel, Joum Haummet received a liberal English eslucatinti.
The three younger brothers come to Vinerict at a later period, and likewise settled in Virginia, stine of them, William Hammint, Dreams a Methodist preacher, and alunat 1955 or 1940, revisited his old house where his 1. both as an evangeliet attracted large crowds at people He rented preaching in his re- tora to America, and settled in Mississippi. He was andraquently elected to Congress trian the Vicksburg district, list after the termination of his con- gressional labors, continued to preach. His qualities is an natur were san to have tava of a high under. In the caller heathers Richard Ji ummet na- a man of great en egy and versatile talent. The greater part of in- life, after coming to Son ris, was spent in Misisippi, where he was a permettent Juli- tician, and for a time esliter of the Virkebring Water Personal detention ut that day were usually sealed bis an appeal to the case of humor raugnized tis the curing- of -wiely in that lendity, and there is a round of Richard Hun- met's lighting at less than three rocks. His disposition whenically hued him fur hite in the Nwith. Lle was a Whig, und rojoved great popularity with the members of that party.
James R. Hammer, the aim of John Hammer, was born in Montgomery county, Virginia, on the hr-t of January, 1426. His father never bought land in Virginia un account of his flyerting to live permanently in a slavehabling combiunity. He was occupied tor mesreal your as manager of the state of Gen. Juin Preston. When James was tes that a year old, the family se- moved to Bourlon county, Kentucky. There were three children, of when Jame R. was the thord. His father purchased no land ho re, but tarmed the land of Con. June Me[hotell. Onle clave later would be obtained, and he resolved to make up his reglene in a few state In 12 do site Ilmais, coming to what was then I fark i minis, the northern limits of which at that tin Lxle: - Juil mitth Iu Wisent-in, art intepal cight lumineil arres ot luml Ising month of the present t wn if l'amargo. Harrison fall accompanied 3Ir. Hammet, sul leah entered land on the same day. Thee men were, there- fore, the fir-t land-hollers in Lumgins county,
Me Hanimet did not at once remove with his family in flitigis, un acrunt of the siblings of the region and because he had leased the farm in Kentucky for a terni of five years. This lease he unterquently wild. In the fall of Isas, the fanals hn Kentucky, atd arrived in Hlumi- in November of that wear. Their hou-hold townis weer conveyed ha teams at nach and horses Me Hamnat aum tue somuger elulden made the pournet in a marriage. It was late in the wall. The prairie had been banned off and Infure a calan could be exerted winter manie ugens the parties po. In livet wantsee the family were com- pelled to live in a tool, tatile after the modern artis -is le with the fire in fertit there there is other hoals were pelored and congel resend the hier During the winter +hove bont was visited las Imainede of bentiens why would come in to warm and -it around the hry while the fiss alnidrep wonbi Fall birk toward the will- . ) the trot. Ilu ginori conduct of the . ivades was such as to brave the inpresion of the mood of Me Hlamint that they were pratan I batterylife in their relations with the shooter, stel that their prosent de placabile coalition
nall prophet auf For obras. Her family stuur to the county a ser alter the
Hradshow ; John, the subject of this biography ; Jantes; Christina, who married ! braved in take - room. The seth ments in the nightorbial were few and
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
nowyil the transph of the principle he hul .- porsel. mul to abolition of the
lost to nearly the white tomat en clunles i In : 52 use bothes not at the ir
Since the age at topten Me Citauch hos lova a catchut and active
of material sound as the sedmnames in which has hees die has the endless. His house, taner als - troms I ante segue-almond within the sha for at the chus a in which he has t best a shop interest, and toward the landing of which he-
thirty , township sixteen, Frage Irn.
EPHRAIM DRAGOO, (DECEASED.)
FERRAIN DIR MAN) WIR th - of John at) Hangah Drago, and was himn in Sebou Cannes, Kentucky, January 2nd, 25lt. His father died come to Kentucky from Parissivana Plum vere diesen children, of wh or Forany W.ts tlw thinl. He worked on ht- father's tarm winie a loud and a young m att, and after he was twenty -one for a time at the paper'- trade
In the twenty-fourth year of his age be married Lonio Jante Younger, a na- tive of the adpining County of Bullitt. The date in the marriage was the linh of March, Ist, and Mr. brigas was then oude in her butments wear. The list , settson Mr. Dragon engaged in hotel-keeping, but the test turul Lis attention to farming, which contimed hi- orenfattiom for the rest of lus lite. Atter a te++ blence of seven stars in Kemlucky, Mr Drugo removed with his funds to In- diana. Thave children had then been barn. He setibest in Indians about fome- tern mile- alune Terre Haute, two miles vast ut the state line between liliana an I Illinois. He lived here four years, and then camerasel tos [hai, last entars. then barmitz pirt af foles He anh ren here two hundred neps ot land, in the neigh! «rhoid of which he lived tih the das at his death.
It was the will of los2 when he came to Dongles Limity. He -abonnently increased the amount of his land bou three hundred and twenty acres He aley followed mole and stock raising. Mr. Drago was a thorough Detwrat in his political convictions, but still liberal toward his pestoe opponents. In his minner he was quiet and muy-tentations. He was father above the average height, of fair paquestions, dark hair and esex and nulde complexion. He wa- obliving in his di-position and kirk in his dome tic relations.
His death reported on the Path of January, 1-15, and his mortal remains now repre in the Cemetery in Cintres. ]his widow, a tutheir wife of things- four years, who had shared his fortunes from a mere girl, and twelve children, six of whom are married, were left to mourn the loss of a devoted bushand and kind father.
W. L. WATSON.
W. L. WATSON was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, on the twenty -second of Dereniber, 1>37. His father was Willliam D. Watson, in his early life an itinerant Methodist preacher who traveled extensively through Indians, having been born in the neighborhumil of Vincennes, aud in Fountain county of that state married Mary Low. His health finally failed him, and . first he received a salary of eighty dollar- a year, out of which he clothed hits- cotuing to Illinois, he located above theurgetown in Vermilion counts. William self The highest he received was two hundred dollars per year, his salary in IN41. Watson, the grandfather, was born in Kentucky, and when a young man settled ip the vicinity of Vincennes. Indiana.
W. L. was the obJest son and sound child of the family. His father name to Douglas county, then Coley, in I>W, and located hr-con Brushy Fork, a short distance west of Newman. After a reglene: here of a year or two ho moved to Camargo and afterward to serling thirty-hu, in town-hip sixteen, range nine, where he resolved till his death, which curral in theober. Isis, Hi- wife survived him till April, 1-66 They had mne . haldren. W L .. Watson was between four and five years old when his father los well southeast oft amargo. At this latter plare he maibis revived hi- elmation, fartiv amiler ine pietrite- tion of his father, who taught school at ( imargin, and was one of his first teachers. The old log school-house -tround about one hundred yards north of Alonzo Lion's stane, on the road loading north form & unarg. In the winter of 1449-50, and also 15:53-14, he attended the teurertown Andemv, in Ver- milion ominty, then having the best reputation of any school of learning in this juin of the state. . At the death of his father in Isi, Mr. Watson, to the oldest son, løk charge of the farm atl managul at in the interests of the family till
The War of the Rebellion at this time hal broken out, and in February, 1 -2. Mr. Watson volunteered. die preferred the avans revue and being unable to enlist in an Illiuni: I avairy regiment, he went to $1. Low- und enlisted in the Fitth Mi -- uri cavalry Sir three years He was with the Fuch Missouri two years and a half, during which time he was really in sle outhern tart ot Mie- sort. In Senest, Joel, he poselisted in the Thirteenth Mis un escales, and . rved to January, Joi. He was a non-mass-media refiere. At the close of the war huis prague ni was sent out on the plains to hyhit the Indian. While in Missari he was in the campaign against Pipe, sur in the battle of Incluyen- denra and Fort went", Alter rreewing his thi-charge in Jinunes, Issi, he came home, and command forming on the old homestead A direct line be Inatight met portion of the property from the other incir, Hr Hus Dwu- our hundred and ninutren ser. , an action, thirty-bar and thirty-nie, township wixv en, ring ning, and in -tion- une, fifteen, and tour
On the two mir-fourth of Novemiwr, Ist," he murru-i M - Enina R Mo- Inan. a new en Falgar vanty, libanotv. Their the clubfren are all living. Mr. Watson ha- always- laen a Bogatdienu in gulatie. Wie marin is well im- perner, and his resume au lo wen among the so we all-trating this work He is among the artive and enterpruing mon of his tona-hip.
HARRISON HILL ..
IT is letting that in the hingraphics of the early settlers of Complan I'manaly the & anty. Mr Fall is now a re-velvet of Kontinby For six years toelbow- ing 1944, he lived wir t aminhe, in [azt i. t ngtity
The graprifather of Me. tabl orphel when song in Ierland He came to
the Last king raser be built Child's Meile, a model pant in this point of funti he.
Few hundred sballare, which he- batter aulvoured hires to anevent in Westa por lasul-
a baratos, and he bald sewing Trall if he wanted he ppe lasten bensich the strangling he-
of Beachis born. South of ded to a more brain liplan vamp, 's Fresch wal In- dian trading point, white Hinge, ne Bridgeport, nos - Hs auch minha-
Most of the fund is suff in his jessespin, He returned in Konto be won alter
In sarly hte Me tolewis , Whis On the ha shing rest of the war he lu- tam isten ir massed Bands through his instrumentals the Cannes-
From the till of land to the fall of Jones, Me Will nodded mer Kottache,
= now reales at the spring. He has seven children, of whom alr. George L. Gill, of Camargo, is one, the umly living son of the family.
NEWMAN TOWNSHIP.
CHARLES M. CULBERTSON.
MA CHARLES M. CCI BERT 'S, ut Chicago, though not a resident of Douglas counts, is one of the longest land-owners, and for many years has been promi- TH ntis alenafied with it- mler. - t- 11 .- farmi of twenty -three humble.si artes an Samman township is a batut land among the finest improved in the county. It is only in the - ne of owning this farm that Mr. fulbertson iva farmer. Pirk-jacking has les his mother for many years. He jest prosent entor niemaler of one of the larze tirow in that business in Chungo.
The family from which he i- descended are af Scotch diment. His great- grandfather emigrated From Svaland to America at an early day, and the family settled in Lancaster runtity, Pennsylvania. The derenilant- here he- name somewhat numerous, and care the name to a settleutent, Culbertson's Row, so called from the fact of Ladies of that name occupying an extent of 07Entry in one direction for referat miles. Here his father Charles MI Cut- bertini, was born, and from there, in the year ISIN, emigrated to Indiana, having previously married Eledet. Motarny. The father -they in Jeder- -on county. It was the your art. e hi- anival, on the fifth of Signs. 1-19, in Jefferson county, Indiana, that harh& M. Cochete a, the daljeet of our -het h. was bom. The elmentional whvantages at the command uf voung d'albert-on were not of a very liberal charter The schools were npen only a few months in the poor, and the systemi ot in-trn tien was vastly inferior to that oflurded by the common school ut torelay il. had maine to rely on his own jaren- tions and industry for the elements of knowledge which he aquina. He began lite for him-elf at an early age. Ar fourteen he left home, and coming to New- purt in Vermilion cwminty. In liina, hegan clerking in a store at that place. This was in the Year Ind. H- kept this pr-itwin for about eight years. At
Mr. Culbertson was now past the age of twenty-one. During his clerkship he had exhibited business qualif atious of a high under, and his services had been of value to ht enquayer. He now entered into a partnership with Daniel & Jones in carry on a general merchandising and pork-picking bun- new at Newport. Thi- partoer-hip continued tall 1464 U'n to Isi; the hust- new was carried on at Newport, and after that late at &'bieago. The changent location was principally neuwied in the diversion of trade from the Wala-h he reason of the development of the railroad system. In the hist settlement of the country, trvle naturalis vaid an mailet by the river-, hat As the multi- pication of failnad line tended to railway centres, Mr. Cullwert-in removed] in l'hicaen in 1857, which city has since heen bi- home. The firm packed pork there as early as Isi's. During the list sixteen years of the partnership be- turen Mr. Jones and Mr. faltprison, there had never tu-n the wrath of a pen between them, such was the romalence that each repose in the other. In 144, Mr. Jones wild out hus interest in the firms to Mose Fowler and Adams Earle. af Lataverte, and Lyman Blair, oft luego, who then became associated with Me Culbertson in carrying on the Imensa, Mr. Earle surequently wild his interest to Me. Luthertwo, and in 1971 Mr. Blir bought out Mr Fowler. Eines loud, the name of the bror has been Culbertson, Hair and Co The en- terprise with which the huitsine- has been cumincted, ha- produced favorable Ruit. Their operation- I've beco enlarged from time to time, and the urm now ire a login- up in the million- every year.
In 1.4.4, when twente.bir vars af are, Mr. Cullwertson was nmited in mar- riage to His kleef, William, of Nieport, Indians, where juments were for. merk wirdents of Penn-shanks The eight chillen which have how the noion are all living In the da a of the old Whig party, Mr Calle man was a Whig tta the way of the me ties of the gerai Harrison in 1 -je, he lashed ballet. Four years alter len voel por f lav and they for Taylor, sont, br Juin- coln twice, soul for istant wine At the poselential election in 1 - in, when he would love vote! for Froment. he was inlight on sement of buscare want from the state less welt wiele in the sapart of the content in the regent civil war, and as bel the union came with every man- in his power. During the windy't he was a member of the Board of Dinales of the themes lawend of frach, show support was often of grester nomment to the
His attention #3- directed to farming from a munral inclination, and love of the garant. In 1-72 . enbred a - tion of land which was formed part of his prent proje rty. In 1-4,; the- had increhunt to seven hutudred ar tes, of which thatve honderd and later . igot a re invented 'The farm now pretend twenty.
bang, and more and on -porto mails in worth of the southern bentlary The En lo sange an -12- from Du tty pe the hundred and sixty mes Among the Home tode godeet on the farm an tantotwo miles of belge" The gate
the springand 1-73, of wight huetrock and eighty-live apple and pra lo trope The mais larmy of two they unl ups in in gram, of all varieties of which it is Imiei that the bhwe are -. shes'est sie, 1961, the farit has been given up large to for wow is I mat ton tos bom batolead to sel of cutle ite handled each yrir, umel Inum two to theer heelrel head of hogs, une hummind stel bftv int
thatis sionsand deliver is poppel every year to win the laren when fully
martial. this tonet. \ Ind. P. M. P .a. m. of Virgins It & #
He became connected with the Cumberland Pro est riba d'hond. in ', at the age of thirty. Son etter this, at Salud avon Istore Is boring After a long struggle and much thought to superings became a cuih. date for the mistry, in - pieniles Iale, In ast; he was in just to preach. The serious donde he entertuned i regard to stering . the work were partly ou mannt at time detritiwy in his works . I. neation. But he pointed look at me would mute o profes tion, poring over his studies something late con the night. The thets attend himself for the work to which the Lord bea, it was him. In september , he was set apart to the whole work of the mantry. Fag a tina held all promotion-h in Indians poaching to take rest congregation, not going to self to missionary work. The hul charge for a van or a church in Vong an- cry onmay. It was hes custom erers Simply to parael -one where, and through the work lo stenled to the allure of the fire.
tailles, who was In county alvares in bite, also determuss! to renun, thisler, principally for the reason that he might be near his chibiten In April, INTE, he cameto Douglas, then a part of Coles enty. He wasthesights per -of land in tunt live, toastship sixteen, tanve Gmarleen, sind as soon as he could bubl hi- home, moved on the property At the time of has having Indiana, he had charge of a Lungregation there, which was very loth to give him up. Hi- tarewell -ecion was an weersinn for tear-, both on the part of pastor and people.
Ile -howed the same zol in the work of the ministry in Illinois as had characterized his later in Indiana. He began preaching directly altre his arrival, On the wenty eighth of July, 1.54, he organized the Fairti bol tu- Deriana Instruction Church For a short name servier were locked in Mr ( volley : house, & builling for school and church purposes was erected by the month. in the manner of 1596 That was med till about Iste, when the whoul b.ilfing was sold. and arringement- maple for the onstruction of a chapel slunce. This was dedicated in November, 1"
SI tosley had emer ned the pastor of the church from its organization, Imat in ITS an amount of increasing years and feeling health, he asked to be relieved from his charge His mantle i. I on the samulders of his son, the Boss. Cina P. Colley, who had underz ne a thorough care of preparation for the ministry, graduating at Lincoln I'niveraity, and at the age of thirty three thank up the work hi- tatterr had laid down.
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