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By his brot wite Mr. Conley had two children, both of whom are dead. Il is last marriage was blessed with eight children, James M., John .A . Maty Jite. William B, Samuel, Alfred N. Cyri P_ and Lizzie The first two are farmers living in the neighborhood of their father, married and having hil- dren Mary J., married Withem W. Young, whose biography appear in the following -kotch. Wilham B. diet az intint. Sumunel volunteered in the service of his country during the late civil war Just it the place of the stone- gle, on the ninth of April, 1867, he w 14 killed at the stove of Fort Makely, Mas ar Mobile, Alabama. IT. fell, -Just dead in the the white in the art of -along the w il ofthe Fort. Altre died at the age of fifteen. ( arne has been mestrand as pastor of the Fairfield ehned. Izzie is the white of fame& M. Sal. alle for these years and a half was a soller in the war.
The Her. Mr & oalles, now at the age of seventy-wa, though not in charge of any congregation, still continues hi- labors as has he auch pertoits. Oshier men coonceted with the early settlement of the county have hesapal together greater wealth, and rien to higher prominence, but few have done to much for the educational and toutal advancetuent of the people.
WILLIAM W YOUNG, IDECEASED.)
MR. WILLIAM W. YOUNG, who died in 1560, was one of the cortiest settlers of Newman town-hup. He was a native of Whensant anuty, Isient, where he was born on the Auch of September, 1596. Ils father's family had nemusel from Kontinky, and withed in imlista at an early site When Williams three of the year- add. his father again changed by location, this time wrong to Fountain Counts, Indiana, where he Gabriel in- derogation of a bien - William lisesi with his is her until he was twenty-one imposing but vous of- vantigas der ubtuning an education, and then begin working bir het Is the
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, ILLINOIS
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WILLIAM SHUTE.
Withan Entry, a resident of Vesenan, has been one of the prominent
a compleet years in Patlak Ipin. Je emigrated to them, and was mir at the pioneer of test -de -veling un mold From grond on the Old river 1. amorwant parcel to lawrence Party, where Willa state was born, in the thirteenth m January, INI;
The tinet twelve veirs of Ins life were spent in this Williams wont to school and learned to spelt, hadde your ISest his father again changed bts beation, this time setting in Vormann connes, Indiana. Here he entered land, pal followed bis secupation of a farmer, residing ha te till his death, which we are in 'S.A. The family consisted it all of fourtres children, at when two be we you living Seven have these homas in Indiana, three in Missouri geld two m Thaoi« William agun attended school in Vermilion comuty. 16 remained at home until he was tor bts two, and then began larning for luime Hi. On the route, Ohio, bat whose parents had removed to Vernalinn county, Then Surah www of the age of thirteen.
It was pueshistoly atter this that Mr. Stanite Ingran Jite for him-elf. For three years he rented latul. He then bought engliy szeres for three dollar- at acre, He subsequently sold this, and in 1815 bought one hundred aut twenty antes for seven dollars an are, adding the next wear the same amount at the me price In i&d. on having Indmina, he owned hve humplred and forty acres, which he sull for tsruty dollars on arre. H.s father-in-law aml wife's people fuel previously removed to Dugas conne which was still embraced in d'oles, and in the year mentioned above Mr. Shoote joined them In 199 he had ent red six hundred and forty actes of luml near his present hamte, which by applying land warrants maly eut him eighty cents an sere. I'm coming to
in the edge of the timber immediately west of the prevent town. He was thus one of the earliest settlers of the vicinity of Newman.
In addition to farming, which he he followed since the first coming into the wanty, he has also been arontrairtor and builder, in which esprity he hit erected a Jarge atunter of pubhar and privat? Janlding-, Among the public buildings, whose construction has been under his ayervision, there mois he mentionnil the Presbyterian and Methodid thurches on the Ridge, m the northern part of Newinan township ; the Presbyterian t'lurch at Fairummint, in Vernation county ; and the large structure for educational purposes at the same place, Mr. Sinte having butit in all nine school-houses. He was formerly, also, a heavy Jealer in stock, dupping to New York and Cincinnati, \ nam- ber of other occupations have also claimed huts attention. The lives of few non have been Insier. He has been a Whig and Republican in politics. Mix of his ten chubiren are living. Of these Any is the wife of James Hancock, of the firm of Murphy, Habewek and Co. Minerva, the third child, is the wite of Allon Marie, of Tuscola. The others, Richard, Hezekiah, William B. and David Il., ride at Newman. For twenty-two years Mr. Site has Iwill & then ver of the Methodist ( Durch His life has been one of industry and hard work. He has met with misfortunes aud reveries, but these lus rnergy has
Newman.
JAMES HOPKINS.
JAMES HOPKINS was one of the earliest settlers along the Brushy Fork lini- her He-was born in Pakawar county, Chin, on the twelfth of Filarutry, ISTi. When nine years old the family removal to Vermeling county, Indiana. Hin. on the twenty-first of January, 1994, he married Flisleth Ann Tienne. In October, 1541. he mime to [hauts Inmiting along the timber in section fit. townslup bien, range fourben, where he will dive He 'best bought man hogy- dred and thirty apps of land, at seven dothis an acre, and more nous have him- Ired and Harty-nine. He has had t. n children three of wlan were hora in Indiana. Iws of her son, John Williams, and Eli Thomas, enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Regiment Illoos- Volunteers at the beginning of the war of the Rela lion, sunt Inth died in the m reise, the former on the thittrenthol Ihreal- twar luka, Movi-oppi.
SARGENT TOWNSHIP.
WILLIAM F. MURPHY.
kaszan, dove they were in Maryland at a pe tual present to the Revolutionary War
Wilmers Morphis, the father of the subject of our when he, was born in Mirs. land in 15-2 mod po est the party part of bas life plus For. He served as a saber in the war nt 1912 At the itus of the war, in Is), with his wif, wler
www. Ohn, when he citel lus hir November 9, 1423, at tle rija age at eightysix the bad essen candles, eyes toys and har girls "The sixth of tto e wes iVerlies b. Marques, bare en Rose counts, toledo, as mentioned mese,
performing and vila die mesi He was tarkan at the named the pop it with Blue a cry ption of the liter he worked In the month at wilfer varying foiun wix and a quarter to fifteen dollars, wiel when he was employed in sharing
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JAMES MI COOLLEY.
ONE of the shhet asulents of the northeastern part et Donelas county is Mr James M Costly, thu sian of the Bes . nathan Castles, afore biography ap- pear 19 another part of this work, and to which we hler our realer for facts
way of schools and gastritis. He loves to go to - held at the age of twelve year having been thought to read before that time at home. In nl he went in tive detoront schools for & terne of three months cach, west of the int at &t juried of two year :p. This the hilleen n. with' + loading, of which he went take a le ontage only part of the time. we stretched over a period of eight your But Ma Caille, No side improving the chances of regular instruction watch fell in his way, sticheit at home, andl'the- secured the principles of a good L'ng-
of rail-splitting, miel -plit many a lot of mails at hity cents a humlred. Ile k .: thus a: played for a year ne more, carving has avrupation her bring land and chopping cord-will, Together with a cousin be mole twenty-test themaul rail- in one wauter.
In February, Ist, when in his twenty-third year, he amarried Mi -- Heder .A. Young, a native of Fonmain county, Indiant. Immediately attrereding the occurance of this event be rented land in Theperanne counts, Imchana lle remained here for two years and a half, rausing three crops, and snaking mates enough to make a start in Itonnes, to which state he had resolved to enngrate In 18"" he visited several connues of Illinois in search of a boonsteal for mm- self and family. Wub a land warrant he took up on hundred and siers seres of land, then in the north part of tales eventy and in November, Isit, with his wife he moved on the property. Bis serupations has been that of a furnier in which he has met with wiees. He now ouns mer two hundred sens of well inprovedl Lind, in sertton even, town-hip sixteen, range burles.n.
The part of Ihnglas county in which Mr trolley fases was almost within Hitler at the tune n' his arrival A family head in the groove mear las, war his by ber-in-law William \ Young, bad comole theon a month previous. Itis wife died on the tears inthe 'thinker, Je is He wes again married on the hr-t of March, 18tal, to sarah Wackelt, a nature of Brown omnis, teluo, born there June the second, 1%. Her lanniy emigrated to !hunt-, and attlet m the neighborhood of Tolone about 1859. Be his first wife, Mr. Grilles had finir children, John Y., Jonmhan L, Mary F. and an infant son. John Y diedl in Indiana, at the age of sevin months Inmuithan L. wa- bour weeks old at the time of his death. Mary E. Is still at home. Mix rlubdren have been the fruits of the second marriage, Mehnila E., Nancy L., I-aar ML., Samuel L., Jesse May, Janke S.
Politically, Mr. Cuiller in his early life was connected with the Whig parts. His first vote for President was rast for General Winhell scott in 182. On the organization of the Republican party it frente a supporter at al- principles. He was opposed to the extension af eluvery in the territoens and hence the foundation of his political convictions. He ha- generally voted the Republi- can ticket. For four years, From 1965 to 1972, he held the other of Justice of the Pere. For many years he has temu a member of the Comabet lanet Presby- teman church, having sorted with that organization at the age of eighteen. He is -. prosinecmomenteel world the Saints ! Cleant. when he was of worship is near ai- reis ner, and ot which his father was for a long time juster, and now la- brother. Mr Coolles has been a citizen whose inlinener has been of value in the community. What he has accomplished in life has been the result of his own chort -. He has out hen over-zeslons n the pursuit of wealth, but bas wight rather to provide a home for iumself and thanly, where the comfort of lite might surmind them.
ISAAC SKINNER
OF the Hitlers in the neighborworst of Newman the father of Inae Skin- ner a .. among the earliest, to ting an 15 " to se Verandi att wants, ladlatte, now i- har shower wis lan au helena, January il doit There were no a hole in the vacitury when he he aume to the tements He worked for bi- Auber until of age, and it on went In farmis son rented lared. In Isidor Hr now he three hundred oui righty app. H, has been married thfor tifn'y
ception he is the subject lesung poplat of Se aman Town-loop.
F. F. BARBER.
Tus fattar of Mr. 1. 1. Harber, of Norman township, was a Konturkian,
Pour les. 1 I Harter was the third child, barn in ' ferment County, and the 9th of Jours, 1-2%.
Hi- wirly - trading was sin b ax was alorshel in that slav, nt ring hast a pomer
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stor at Newman Suivre Jammers, Til, In has down engaged in the banking The Ir pling interest puntos;hed by Me. Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Murphy der berliner phildes , Maren, Minskad , Name .
wand Samal ( Miller, who lives was the Former of Mr May . Super. I. ing in the same township; and thenthet- resale at home Mr Murphy Lash a
as policies, though has la-anew salaire has + mentioned hat ere lucitely to prithis lite Simies 1847 he has days a member of the Mettent's Chips he and he bb
Lindes in the beginning of buty rateer in Hhnnis, we have already , ital, ti- caius were pradud up to the beginning of the war For a final -medar -tak The investment of loveplats expand was poste igualle monde on langt. In the me laundred and trendy aeres fin two thousand, have movedred seller- - minute apres for fourteen hundred sballare ; and ambre sighty arns her erstra ma- direi dollars His land lies me sections four, mon, ton, bifeen sil sixteen, of town-lesp fftren, range ten, and woon in bowenstup fiffen, range win No
Mr. Murphy is a share w & business man, and law ney oss have been the result at Test inde among the wood and subw mtial men of the rim.es, antis fobi in high esteris in the community in which he hver. In April, isit has hool- un harmed to the ground in the absence of the ipady. His please Delete. a live view of phila we present in the blographie the patient of this was. h. www .aile in 1972. for all pordie merprises In hes token a lateral par 11. -nincrilidl to the lanbling of some of the endpools in the quarts During the war, not of his way sucos, las largele asiste in telling the quot tut hi- brown- ship, ouder President Lincoln' - different call- mor trapp-, ilt- hte nun vr 11 tu isad before the people of the vrants as an instaure of what actions and cuter- prise can du.
SNOWDEN SARGENT.
THE locality earliest connected with the name of Sargent is Snow Hill, Eng- Laul, the ancestral habe at the family from a remote porad. The priest laither, wish, came to MEirs fapt and witled there prest als to the Revolution es Was, in which struggle la took part on the side of the chapter. Deunge, Wil- Stunden as the grandfather of the subjectof this sketch. this Site Sargent removed frome Maryland to what is mon Iske county, thin, - ne tuu before THE, and was among the carly pioneers of that regilt Tan leather ranie at the sime time, and settled on the Bull's skm t'rok, forty ar hits anky from I inminanti
Ili Sargent, Mr. Sargent's father, was born in Maryland, and time to Ohio sion alive the age of twenty-one. He did not mares till about thirty mes omple un respect to lite marriage which he dicted leseluden ut to follow Jh mir- siel Lier the the Word, then reaching in Kentucky, but with a buen he had pro-
I. nrv. Lviles, Sonsilen, Mirs, Harriet, BBabeth mul Borgaron All we living with the export of Beignon and Hears. Sammeln and Elizabeth, the wife of Andrew iwona, are the cady anes tesalong in thoughts rasens Snowden Sargent wastorn in Pike county, thin, And twenty-mont, ISHI. day Ihis father always - miguel to the walkeroptions -Fland- Fold in the a ich-
tunities Int his advatreno ot in knos hogy When muchin his tastipr muh up his mind to come to Illans, where land was ches and sur fo ert.
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The trip to Illinois was made in the spring of 1820 snowden at the ily -on whos avvengano of his father. They left bror po won the realite with out Most In
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Hi- Either was a minister, and was advent from home a great deal of the time, and while he was way Jones, as the oldest of the children, managed the athers of the farm. He remamel at home until he wia twenty-one had passed bis maturity, he started out with has maul, as, and waters; and with no other capire in addition to these desute los sue wrongth and asorty- tion, be undertook the work of casting one has own birune. He provence jobs , month of June, I-AR, he was married to Strah Howard, a nauve at horn
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CITIZENS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, ILLINOIS,
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ANDREW GWINN
Ost of the carlied settlers of what is now Ihandla-comune, is andrea towenn.
which slightly proyectoal besond thetree Juliette s- was the nur. Mr. wenn - unerring ride perneed it with a bullet, and the unfortunate lindan crawled awas as test he would in watch of saker quarter. His old rate was for a long time . in the possession of his grubben
Andrew tiwinn is the sun of Moses Gwiun. The mother - maiden mine was Elizabeth Wilson. He was born on the Lemonleur river in Monna- county, nuw in Wint Virginia, on the mouth et March. Isit. He Isthier's family was conjured of eleven children, of whom sight are now living. An- drew was the with child in the weder at his birth, The Best of the family are still living at the old house in West Virginia, Greathinter county The aln- cational advantage which Judson towane soviel were very limited. Alt - gather be valy went to school ten og eleven months, and this wy- at the age of twelve ur thirteen. Hle went alont six ne athes to a Pavel Khuads, three to John Rhoads, and two to a man manual Walker. His father was a tarmier, and he when quite young was obliged to work on the farm. He thus became early ininated in a putut in which he has ever since ban essind He lived in Virginia until the age of Finty -three
It being tappeible for lum to obban fund in that country. be determined to emigrate West and make for him -. If a bonne there. He will his interest in his tather 4 estate for thifre hundred dollar- He had saved alot two hundred more, and this with a hore, solle and brille, constituted the capital with which he begin Ins western life. He had lecture the, at the age of twenty -one, visited the neighborhood of Lifevette, Indiana. His journey was made in company with noe neighbors, of whom Me towinn is the wie survivor. He entered land in the vicinity of Indishapoh-, que tract for Fimwif and three for his brother-, after which he returned to Virginia, and remained there two years longer.
At the expiration of this time, he again journeyed West with a determination to settle. He was not favorable improved with the tubler country around Indianapolis, and accordingly came to Illinow, tir-l to bis brother's, at Pale- tine, in i rawiund county, and afterward to visit the Richtunns, early -ettlery of the territory now ebibrarel in Douglas county. Hle the- beaune acquainted with the country, and liking it determined to love Jort. The place where be now lives was then the home of the widow vagant, where step-daughter Mr. Gwinn sufrequently married. This marriage occurred on Easier Sunday, April 3, 1830. Mr. Gwinn, formerly Elizabeth Jane Sargent, was born in Pike county, s thio, and came to the neighbourtuant ahont five years before het husband Two lnodred and eleven acres of land heleneed to his wife. He has acquired other tracts of land fruin tune in tinw, lle is uw one of the largest Lod-owner- in Douglas county, having in his jest-slun over 31t0} art. On fint coming to the country his attention was ihrected to general firmung, the raising vi corn, wheat, and the commun wricultural staples As wem as be acquired mein-, he heyun to trade in stock and cattle, a hu-inew in which ' he has -in 'e engagel largely.
Mr and MIN, Gwinn have had thirteen rluldren They may be named as follow4 in the wohler of their births Lour-a Jane, Elizabeth Ann, Rachel L'erry, Mary Matilda, Thornton William. Andrew Lewis, Lorenzo Howard. Enos Prather, samuel t', John Wilson, Oliver MonteIL Eluser El !- kurth, and Vir- ginia May. All are living with the exception of Elizabeth Ann, Rachel Berry, Andres Lewis, Lorenzo Howard, Juha Water, and Samlet. Jana- ton William to a farmer, living near bis lather. I mi-a J. partied Thotaus Rutledge. Mary is the wife of Mr. A. J Thayer, a drugrist of Newman The rest live at borue Mr. (, winn's land lies in section- twiniv-three, twenty-four. twenty-five thirty five and thirty-ix, in township bitten, rings ten , In sections thirty and thirty-one, town-luip bleen, range eleven ; un'l in sections twenty and twenty nine, township filtren, range tourtien. His pulence on section twenty-bir, we present among the illustrations ot this wark
In politics Mr. Gewann has been a Wing and a Poputstan He enter for Henry { lay in let, and the candidates of lue Wing, atri afterwards ol the Republican par .: generally revived hi- opport, although ne i- nut a than to be towed down by party trammel. He has long been a member of the Mether dist .burch, having united with that organization in 196, when twenty-ix years old. Fur many years he was a cla --- leler. He an-i-trd in Innbling the first church, in all probability, ever ensted in tale wants It -trawl at the grave yard immediately arrowsthe road from his prosent residente. the obtained a sub-cription of two hundred and fifty-three dollar-, twenty-five ut whuh he sabentad hussel, and then went to work and built the house on la- own re- pon-chility, at the tint of much time and labor fi- reputation tar intrerity stand. without estain. He is naturally she ad and of far het anes within tions In harith sel and strength Mr. Gwinn was hittel to shand among the race of early pioneers Hampl . augestemeio the times of the am taler and entermine From his andstare he has inherited a love of hunting, in which he who, much enthusia-in even in his declining war.
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