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Marble and atone Work
11
Woolen goods.
Masonry, brick and stone.
1
1
20
Agricultural Implementa
Bris and shoes ...
10100
92100
Musical Instruments, organi
15640
Trend and other bakery products
41:18
55613
LIVINGSTON.
OH, animal.
21000
Patent medielites.
50
2130
16.0
64715
Corrleges und wagons ..
Clothing. men's
1510
19303
67586
Carriages and wagons
Saddlery and barnes.
2
51
61.00
Flourink-mill product
5
26
Sash, doora und ballods.
19
CooperogC ...
11910
Saddlery und barbera
Soup sod candies
Fiav. dressed ..
13
3725
Flouring-mill products
2
20
Sash, doors and blinds
15
2:275
Tib, copper and sheet-tron ware
Tobacco, cigara,
3
15
5451
13.0
Tio, copper and sheet Irun ware
Furniture ..
44700
21100
1200
Woolen goods
1f
10:350
26:43
51459
Woolen goods ..
GUJJU
237
ILLINOIS MANUFACTURING STATISTICS.
INDUSTRIES BY COUNTIES.
INDUSTRIES BY COUNTIES.
INDUSTRIES BY COUNTIES,
ployed.
Handy em-
ployed
Capital.
Wages.
Products,
Wages,
Materiale,
Establish-
Capital.
MaterialN.
Products.
10041%
WARes.
Hands cin-
Products,
('apital.
Muterinis.
Hands Pm-
MENARD.
Dollars.
Dollara.
Dollars.
RICHLAND.
Doliura. Dollar ».
Dollar a.
Dolar«,
UNION.
Dollara. Dollars. Dollara.
Dollars.
Brick ....
9159
1997
Cooperage ..
15
Agricultural Implements.
5210
1491
Curringes and wagons.
Flouring-molll prodnels.
15010
180:00
Boxes, packing ...
51,40
I'M:250
Furbilure ...
2490
11TEN
Carriages and wagons .
9
21
2900
19315
Flouring-mill products
11
1100
14
19%
8150
26315
Forniture
11194
Lumber, ciwed.
Cooperage ...
+4318
8112
Sashi, doors and Mludu
15
15300
Flourlog-milli producia.
9130
22112
333175
+16231
Lumber, onwed ...
Tobacco, clgura.
Lline .....
125℃
11132
15000
24
15020
Maronry, brick and stone ..
Suudiery and harness.
10102
17415
Lumber, sawed.
81
1
5001
5140
Saddicry nud harness.
11
ROCK ISLAND.
1560
131 100
Wooleu goods
Slone and enribeu ware.
10000
Agricultural implementa
555
990600
901636
1500900
Wool, carded ..
651
I4500
1 900
MERCER.
Boots and shoes ..
18
16000
21531
05.95
Bread and olher bakery producta.
28752
VERMILION.
Carriages And Wagons.
Flooring-inlll products,
120
15170
16
19000
Brick .+++
10
Brick.
9
39
115U
6100
2025
Lumber, mnwcd ..
Saddlery and harness.
3551
7440
1494
Broojus and wisp-brushes
159
158:10
$28850
Carringes and wagons.
51
19959
Carriages and wagons.
Clothing, men's .....
2750
Clothing, men's ..
12670
11
1 1000
22200
Flouring-mill products
1+130)
131:30
191965
231502
MONROE.
Women's
82:25
Furniture ...
21970
Flonring-mill products.
6
171000
37500
536710
626150
Cooperage ..
15530
Flouring-mul products
70
200500
33030
882775
0317-6
fron, caslingy ..
911
1OUT
Liquors, Innit ....
Gas ...
9075
16000
Liquors, Ilstilled.
2100
4619
10700
1150
10125
2317
Iron, casl Ings. ..
70.00
T8500
Lumber, sawed.
Saddlery and harness
Leather, Janned.
26300
-1200
5275
46400
Machinery ...
:1
5103
MONTGOMERY.
eurrled
25601
Saddlery und harness.
1003
Lime ...
Woulen goods.
24910
Brick.
5
1650
10250
Liquors, ilsiUled
29
1849
212100
295-00
Carrlages and wagons ..
05
133500
WABASH.
Cars, freight and passenger.
Lumber, pinned.
16
12815
120750
Carriages and wagons.
Clothlog, Men's ...
Cooperage ....
17800
sawed.
55.504
19:1770
Machinery, engines and bollera.
1:91
81000
Flouring-Julll products
182175
Flouring-mill producla.
12
25010
508327
10ST19
16
5311
22100
5591
Mineral and sodu waters
Furnliure ......
145000
Lumber, sawed ..
14060
Paper ...
5%
"35130
5010
Forallure ..
Sushi, doors and blluds.
9200
10750
Iron, castings.
Printing, newspaper
Liquors, men !.
19540
1490
1
10
15000
Luinber, sawcd.
9
17850
Pumps ..
WARREN.
Machinery (not specified ) ...
10000
9850
20000
Smidlery oud hurness.
Sash, doors and blinds
1210
Agricultural Implements
59000
219101
railroad-repairing.
18170
Suap and candles ...
51721
10
SJone and carthen ware
15 50
15985
251.2
Wrick ...
5750
1050
Saddlery and harness .....
35300
1810
Tin, copper and sheel-Iron ware.
12
והיה
מקס
16100
$116
54612
Tin, copper und sheet-Iron warc.
Carriages and wagons.
11
46
Tobacco, clynrs ..
13
$150
12600
t'lotblog, nico's ...
91021
Wooleu goods
Wooden ware ..
Flouring-juIll proc
185500
1688-1)
MORGAN.
10J101
Iron. costingw ...
1-4
17:10
$2500
Woolen goods ...
172010
Lumber, sau ed ....
1800}
Agricoltural impl ercors
122
15:00
9710
27525
Saddlery oud harness,
12/19
21371
SALESL
Tin, copper and shcet-Iron ware.
Buole and shoes.
11190
Wouletigvody ..
8900
11003
Brick ....
Carriages and wagons.
12269
1333870
Flouring-Inill products.
18
156/NJ
6123
71560
1 23000
1113
WASHINGTON.
Clothing. inch's ...
Lumber, mawed ..
25500
Flourlog-mill producie.
133900
923815
11378
Wool, carded
19-UJ
12375
Agricultural Implementa. ...
4440
10650
Furniture.
52%
SANGAMON.
Carriages and wagont,
11975
5130
91110
Cooperage ....
26400
46677
Liquors, malt.
5290
Saddlery and harness.
107100
60175
Agricullaral linplements.
4675
Flooring-milll products
1285150
1540652
=
Tin, copper and sheel-Iron ware
11800
Bookbinding . ..
Lumber, Bowed ...
SardJery and Jrairness.
15
1400
11950
10520
191:«
Tobacco, cigars.
Boora nud slines.
13200
Woolen goude.
59000
145500
2
1-1
Brend atul other Unkery products
5170
Tin, copper and sheet-Iron ware
259.00
Carringes and wagons
11
13666
Woolen goods.
8350
12500
MOULTRIE.
Clothing, men's
$1
14350
Confectionery
15011
WAYNE.
Flouring-mill producla
6016
89353
Flouring-inlif producis.
76
3193310
175 500
5-510
5120
25-148
Funiture ....
11
1050
Boots and shoes.
91 65
2550
Lumber, swed
Woolen gouds
11270
Iron, cuellogs.
2.
Carriages und wagons .
0155
153G
Liquore, mall
25
1129 M
Couperage.
14:18
23211
Lumber, mawed
41
Flonring-mill produci.
8000
18130
224130
OGLE.
25000
Furabore.
11
8415
153:30
l'arringes and Wagons
15350
6610
8013
Machinery, engines and bollera.
14000
Marble and slono work.
14
Lumber, sawed ..
17
102025
101.10
ALInerel and soda wal ers.
Molasses and my rup.
10351
30661
Flax, dressed. .
4500
Paper, wrapping.
Saddlery and harness
4550
10361
Flouring-mill products.
Woolel goude ..
19500
63425
Lutyher, planed.
Prloling, newspaper
5656
saddlery and hurness,
Sosh, doors and binde
119.00
$1000
29
19121
Tin, copper and sheet-Iron ware ..
10911
WHITE.
Saddlery and harness.
6316
fin, copper and sheet-iron ware ...
9750
1190
24140
Tobacco, clgars ...
2200
62375
Woolen goods.
150000
80 01
136000
Carriages and wagons.
8100
2430
5227
14027
PEORIA.
Flouring-mill prout
13-10
Lumiber, Mwed
10750
219530
20500
Baking-powders
10000
1500
SCHUYLER.
Wool, carded,
1
#553
10900
Bookbinding
10
9
181500
Corringes and wagons
EL
10250
2599
Bread and other bakery products.
10
01941
+4500
Flouring-moll products
16876
2599
WHITESIDE.
Brick ...
6:150
ISSODO
Hrooms und wisp-brushes.
15
Lumber, sawed
2H 41]
15000
Agricultural Implements.
2
70
22,25
Carrlagres and wagons ..
115
NER
154150
Woolen goods.
125001
Bread and other bakery produel
11235
Clothing, men's ..
.3
57215
Brick .
9730
women's ..
11
45
7100
17000
SCOTT
Carriages and wagons.
61900
11:250
56195
Coffee and Spices, ground,
1
7
23500
Clolbing, men's
3G
511150
5
Carringes and Wagons.
89875
Cooperage .
1272
1.310
Coffins ..
Cooperage ...
18
175
270003
162
2210036
121161
12111
20955
66,000
2001181
Flouring-mill producia. ..
Luunber, sawed ..
19459
Flourlug-mill products
11
J2
10550
Furallare.
50
86250
261311
17:55
Flouring-inill products.
Furniture, cabiloel.
5
90110
Stone und earthen Ware ..
2931
11:219
Gloves and mnlitens.
98
21500
31501
Furs, dressed ..
24500
Trop. casi Ings
10275
Gas ....
1
15
15H0
64623
109000
SHELBY.
Liquors, dlelilled.
60
226501
4610
Iron, castingy i not specined).
sloves, heniere, clc.
1
53001
36400
Lumber, planed
54-0
11533
Liquors, dlllled.
745000
178612
1517189
2125970
Brick
14
5915
11600
21201
10400
6
13975
52788
90C60
Carriages and wagon
malt
150
10100
13001
Clothing. wonell'& ..
12
1100
10500
Marble and stone work
Masonry, brick and stone.
19
365
Lumber, snwed,
25620
Machinery Inol specified ) ..
141
31969T
124336
175806
Flouring-mill producis.
Lumber, Bowed
16900
Millinery ...
n
5450
10301
engines and bollers
18
11 8900
63020
16190
12000
Saddlery and harness.
15500
Paper, wrapping ...
19
Starble and stone work.
Woolen goods
21590
Printing, newspaper.
14
$150
21
13000
Saddiery nud hartiess.
18
SUSTI
14720
2812
MillstoneF.
83000
Thi, copper and shecl-trou ware
10154
Paper, printing.
9351
wrapping.
I
5. 000
1900
STARK.
Tobacco, cigars,
8-01
5200
10650
Printing and publishing. 1 0. 8.)
10
117000
14.000
1
2016
18740
Job
11000
Carriages and wagons
15
1650
9645
13229
Woolen goods.
9590
Pumps.
23 RU
25000
Flouring-mill pro
26
102150
122249
-
7095
13175
WILL
1157
Woolen goods
1500
Saddlery and barnens.
190000
Safes, doors, vaults, ( Ore-proof].
Agricultural Implemente,
9
100
00359
156534
Bush, doors and blinds ..
103701
ST. CLAIR.
Bouts and Eliocs ..
Soup and candles.
1|00
10100
1690
100990
221490
Bread and other bakery products.
16
13
27155
35190
Tin, copper onu sbeet-Iron ware
91495
Agricultural Supplements.
lirick . ...
Fubacco, chewing and smoking
Boots and shoes ....
182
90813
3
11rooijis and wlep-brushes
1
12000
15520
cigars
9
7952
19210
Bread abil other bakery products
Brick +
19
BT2M)
Carriages and wagons.
14-1900
20790
168570
Woolen goods
11
20.50
Clothing, men's.
99
125:20
5271
Carriages and wagone
179
124610
16-01
188124
Clothing. men's.
Confectionery
15
108570
Confectionery
21000
PERRY.
69401
Cooperage ..
2
Flooring-mlll producis.
100
361500
53790
51789
645119
Boots ond shoes ..
9000
1170
19910
Cooperage ..
95060
215263
GAS ..
40010
4750
Carriages and Wagons ..
7918
21353
Flouring-will products,
2527133
3077913
Iron, cosilagy.
12
125570
204156
Flourlug-will products
51000
9170
Furniture, cabinet .
231
1361
67153
Leather, tanned.
12
52100
Machinery.
15001
4
16316
curried.
14
Sucidtery and harness
234
Iron, forged and roiled.
$2100
036500
866150
Lijne ..
Sash, doors and blinds
J0521
nails and splkes, cut, ete
139
115000
Liquor, inall ...
10230
51274
Tin, copper and sheet-Iron ware
2850
10200
9
25:300
11
450
290)
Liquon, distilled
8610
113500
Lumber, planed.
166500
Machinery ( not specified ) ...
THỦ
1310
PIATT,
Lumber, planed.
-1
9!
22201
21178
relirond repairing
13:00
91050
Marble and alone wurk .....
ST
Tombstones.
221
120010
Flouring.mill product
1
5
23570
11565
kowed.
10900
05100
1
12
Saddlery and harney
4492
Machinery, (nor speelned ).
1
28
1
13
7150
5130
108L
Tallrond-repairing
13125
Saddlery and harbees.
21.3000
Sush, doors and blinds.
27
19210
90225
PIKE.
Marble and plone work ..
16
82001
4350
Ship bulkilug, repairlug. etc ... ..
17
15001
13300
Tin, copper and sheel-Iron ware ..
6
Agelcultural Implements,
5
00:00
12650
Mainory, brick and stone.
2
12
15175
89900
Boota and shoes ...
19000
Oll, vegetable. ..
Tobacco, cigors
12
Woolen goods
45760
Brick ...
Sndillery aod harness.
20
12175
84722
Carriages and wagoujs,
Sousl, doors and blbnds
1900
Clelblog. men's.
16211
Soup mid candles. ..
2
1800
14520
26500
WILLIAMISON.
Соорегаје ..
9203
Tin, copper and sheel-Iron ware
18
1:159
90111
Flooring-will product
5617-0
Tobacco, cigara
Carriages and Wagon
10
laquors, vinous.
Woolen gouds
15000
16070
Cooperage ...
18
1700
1623
Luinber, sawed.
4910
9.000
50160
Machinery
11-20
STEPHENSON.
Flouring-jnill products
Luibber, sawed.
15
4583
Prin !! oggi newspaper).
14
11001
19625
40500
Woolen goods.
22196
1.3.XM
Saddlery and harness.
98755
Agricultural buplement
11000
Tin, copper and sheet-Iron ware.
7
15
20100
5124
Tobacco, chewing and smoking
11975
19794
191122
Blacklug ..
Brick ..
12/11
WINNEBAGO.
Wuulen guudla.
93000
Carriages and wagons.
14500
43543
Cooperage ...
19515
606500
267675
337460
1114025
POPE.
FlourIng-mili products
$26400
Agricultural Implements ...
5
Bread and other bakery products
10300
Furniture
55UU
Brick ++++
$100
2400
5
73800
105008
Iron, Cast bagt.
9
26
Carriages and wagons
96
19541
Flouring-hill products.
11
Wool, carded
5
510
28/2
1058-
Lewher, Janjeil.
10
Cheese .
currled
9325
50000
Liquors, malt ....
2010
Clothing, men's
1542 %
Cotron goods ..
1190100
17500
12110
182010
PULASKI.
Poleni mediciocs
5125
Fleurinis-will products.
585500
13000
Hobs and wagon material.
21
40001
13000
18250
Priollog, Job
Furniture .
5375
12130
21 442
Lline. .
Suddfery and barness.
Gloves und mitlens.
10
91 53
Liquore, mall
1
5
2100
40000
Lainher, onwed.
1
251
1:2210
30.112
Smalt, doors and blinde
Iron, bolla, nuts, washers, &c.
15811
Ship building. repairing, ctc
Tobacco, cigars ..
castlugs
204315
15
Wooden ware, churus.
Leather, muned.
9150
91150
None oud carthen Ware ..
30UJO
Woolen goods.
87190
14000
Wood, Jurned and curved
Liquors, mall,
FIND
10050
TAZEWELL.
Machinery ..
16
2TSINJ
1015
170
52100
PUTNAML.
Agricultural Implement
Paper ( not specined).
Flouring-nulll products
59500
71944
176
189500
92150
152110
292000
priming ...
46
10500)
1
15250
wrapping ...
14
4715
HANDOLPII
Carrluges and wagons.
62395
Printing, newspaper
Clothing, men's
145470
5150
Pumps .. ..
10
135/10
Cooperage
18110
Saddlery and harness.
1723
1646
Agricultural linplument
$150
5155
13900
17591
Flouring-mill products.
Furpliure ...
13
15785
831150
Sash, doors and blind".
Carriages nod wagons
19
1000g
21970
Tin copper and sheer-Iron ware.
10
19
1541)
Cooperage ...
11
Iron, custings,
נגדה 2
Woolen goods ..
17
19500
217-50
13011]
Flouring nilll producta
505TS
1193146
1427136
24-200
1:316
Liquors, disified
126913
Liquota, malt
Lumber, sawed.
4593
19212
MillInery
5
15
WOODFORD.
Oll. vegetable.
1
17575
Printing, newspaper.
Suildlery und harness.
10
Saddlery And Turnoss.
12NM
19911)
Carrlages ond wagons ..
31
Tin, copper and sheet-Iron wato.
415
26-105
TABU
Flouring-Julll producla
Woolen goods
6639
Sash, doors and bilnds.
1850
23237
3005G
1ju, copper and sheet-Iron ward ....
Saddlery und Iarucas ..
10060
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.
FTON. FONTAINE E. ALBRIGHT was horn in Simp- son County, Kentucky, December 20, 1845. He re- eeived his carly education at tho common schools and subse- quently attended college at his own expense; studied law, and was admitted to practice at Cairo in May, 1867. In June, 1867, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney, and removed to Murphys- horo, Jackson County, in 1870. He was married August 1, 1870, to Maggie L. Shaunessy, daughter of Judge Shaunessy, of Cairo. He has acted in various official capacities, and as a lawyer has participated with ability and success iu many noted trials. In politics he has also taken a leading part, having heen Chairman both of the Demoeratio and Liberal Central Committees.
REV. SAMUEL ATWELL, son of Thomas and Naney (Horlen) Atwell, was horn in Harrison County, Indiana, De- eember 16, 1834. His education was chiefly ohtained after ar- riving at manhood. He married, in 1865, Josephine Pell, of Brooklyn, Illinois, and has three children. He professed religion September 18, 1852, and joined the United Baptist Church ; was licensed to preach in 1861, and ordained, in 1865, to preach at Metropolis, Illinois. In the late war he was first a Captain, tben commissioned Major of the Fifty-sixth Illinois, and fought in seventeen battles and skirmishes. In 1866, he was elected Sheriff of Massac County ; in 1869, Clerk of the Court, and reelected in 1873 for four years.
CHARLES BENNETT, Esq., lawyer, Mattoon, Illinois, son of John and Haunah Bennett, is a native of Bridgeton, Maine. By his own exertions he fitted for college, and gradu- ated at Bowdoin in 1864. He studied law at Bridgeton and Pitland, and came to Illinois in 1866. Since March, 1867, he has practiced bis profession at Mattoon, where he is now City Attorney, also attorney for the First National Bank of Mat- toon. During the war, he entered the Twenty-third Maine Regiment as private, and hecame First Lieutenant of the Nine- teenth, giving his serviees to his ceuntry till the close of tbe war. He was married at Bridgeton, Maine, to Miss Susan W. Cleaves, December 3, 1868.
GEN. JOHN L. BEVERIDGE was horn in Washington County, New York, in 1824. In 1842, be removed to De Kalh County, Illinois, and afterward to Tennessee, where he studied law and was admitted to praetico. In 1855, he removed to Chicago, and established himself at the har. In 1861, entered the service as Major of Eighth Illinois Cavalry. In 1863, re- turned and organized Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, of which he was commissioned Colonel, and was afterward promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. In 1870, he was elected Sena- tor from the Twenty-fifth Distriet; in 1871, to Congress, to fill the unexpired term of Hon. John A. Logan; in 1872, elected Lieutenant Governor, and, hy the election of Gen. Oglesby to the United States Senate, became Oovernor of Illi- nois, inaugurated January 23, 1873.
JAMES MAXWELL BLACKBURN, one of the pioneers of Illinois, was horn in Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1797. In 1819, he was married to Miss Casandra Windner, the first white child horn on the Wabash, and has had seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom five are living. In 1820, he commenced improving a farm in Edgar County, Illi-
nois, where he has ever sinee resided, engaged in farming and stock raising. He served bis country as Colonel in the Blaek- hawk war for ninety days, and was honorahly discharged. In his business, he has heen successful, and sustains a reputation for honor and integrity. He is now a widower, and resides near Paris, Edgar County.
HON. WILLIAM ORANVILLE BOWMAN, lawyer, Shawneetown, was born in Pulaski County, Kentucky, Janu- ary 7, 1829. His parents were J. Winston and Mary Bow- man. At the age of fourteen he left home, and having learoed the printer's trade at Independence, Missouri, heeame editor of the Western Expositor of that eity in 1848-49. He then taught school in Kentucky, Tennessee and Illinois; studied law and was admitted to the bar at Shawneetown in 1856; was Judge of Gallatin County Court two terms; elected member of the Constitutional Convention in 1869, and elected to the State Legislature in 1871. Mr. Bowman has always heen a Demoerat, and has been influential in seeuring the local lines of railway centering at Shawneetown, and developing the coal, iron and salt mines of that seetion.
WILLIAM JAMES BOYD, Esq., born in Maysville, Kentucky, April 30, 1824, was the son of John and Leah C. Boyd, natives respectively of Kentucky and Maryland. At thirteen, he came to Gallatin County, Illinois. In 1846, he commeneed husiness in New Haven, Illinois, and for seven years carried on an extensive tan-yard and hoot and shoe man- ufactory. He then removed to Nettle Bottom, Gallatin County, where he has developed one of the largest and best eultivated farms in the county. March 24, 1847, he was married to Miss Jane Bradford, and has two daughters. Mr. Boyd huilt himself a fine residence and livery establishment, in 1874, and carries on an extensive husiness in livery and farming.
WILLIAM H. BOYER, sou of Lewis W. and Cynthiann Boyer, was born in Spencer County, Indiana, February 5, 1851. He attended Glendale Academy, Spencer County, In- diana, also Hartsville University, Bartholomew County, and completed his studies at the Missouri State Normal School in 1872. He studied law and was admitted to practico at the age of twenty-three. In 1874, he hecame Principal of tbe Cave-in-Rock School, and was unanimously chosen to the same position the following year. He is now engaged in a successful practice of his profession as a lawyer at Elizabeth- town, and feels largely indebted for his success to Hon. W. S. Morris, with whom he studied and for a short period practiced. Mr. Boyer, at this writing, is uumarried.
JAMES WASHINGTON BRADSHAW was born near Fairfield, Wayne County, Illinois, August 3, 1848. He re- ceived a fair English education at the common schools. From 1867 to 1870, he was engaged in teaching, making rapid prog- ress during the same time in his studies. In 1870, he entered the St. Louis Commercial University as a student, and graduated in the summer of 1871. J. H. Wilson, A. M., LL. B., memher of the St. Louis har, was his teacher in business and law. In tho spring of 1873, he entered the Enfield High School as teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping, and in March, 1865, was choseu Principal of the Commercial Department of Ham- ilton College. He is at present a member of the faculty of that institution.
WILLIAM ERVIN BRANN, M. D., son of George W. and Queen Brann, natives of Kentucky, was horn near Dixon, Wehster County, Kentucky, Septemher 8, 1851. His advan- tages were limited in early life, bis father dying when he was seven years of age. He was married, October 11, 1874, to Miss Emily C. Pankey. He studied some time at Dixon Academy, hut preferring Carlow Academy, he removed there and finished his education in the fall of 1872. Returning to Dixon, he studied medicine under Dr. Cosly, of that place, and attended lectures at the Medical College in Cincinnati till the fall of 1873, when he settled in Saline County, Illinois, where he has huilt up an extensive practice.
REEDER SMITH BRIGHAM, M. D., was born in Brad- ford County, Pennsylvania, June 10, 1832. He had but poor advantages in early life, hut, heing of an inquiring mind, ro- solved to educate himself, and nobly struggled against adver- sīty. In 1860, be married Miss Mary Goe, of Zenia, Ohio, by whom he has had five children, and with whom he has lived happily for sixteen years. For a wbile his occupation was teaching. He then hecame a student at Diekinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, after which he traveled and delivered lectures on various suhjeets. In 1856, began the study of medicine; in 1864, entered the United States Navy, serving one year as midshipman ; graduated in the Homeopathic Med- ical College of St. Louis, and settled as physician in Cairo in 1867.
LARKIN FERREL BROOKS, born in Jackson County, Tennessee, July 22, 1814, is the son of Matthew and Polly Brooks. He received a limited education. September 22, 1836, was married to Martha R. MeCall, by wbom he has had eight children, viz. : William T., James T., Alfred H., Polly J., Matthew C., Elijab H., Amelia C. and Eletha. Mr. Brooks has followed farming, stock raising and milling as his chief husiness. He built a steam-mill on the farm which he now owns, by the means of which and other influences he started the village of Water Valley. He is a member of the Christian Cbureb, and has always taken deep interest in religion and morals.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN, son of George and Barbara Brown, was horn in Washington County, Virginia, in Novemher, 1812. His advantages for education were meager, hut he was a diligent student, and made the hest of his oppor- tunities. He was married August 7, 1833, to Miss E. A. Maness, and is the father of three children, named as follows : Mary C., Edward, deceased, and George W., now a merchant at Harrishurg, Illinois. Mr. Brown followed the manufacture of hoots and shoes till 1845, when he hegan blacksmithing and manufacturing wagons, carriages and farming implements at Galatia, Saline County, from which he retired in 1872. He has heen a constant member of the Metbodist Episcopal Church sinee 1846.
ASAHEL BURNETT .- Born in Vernon, Trumhull Coun- ty, Ohio, December 4, 1829. His parents were John and Harriet Burnett, his mother heiog the first white ehild born in Hartford, Trumhull County, Ohio. He was reared on a farm, educated at the cemmon school and academy, and at the age of twenty struck out for himself, " without a dollar or even a tolerahle suit of clothes." He has made life useful, and has
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acquired a good character and a competenee. Ile never earned a dollar by " speculation," but has required hy honesty, indus- try and frugality what he has. During twenty-five years lie has followed farming, and school teaching iu tho autumns and winters. Was married July 17, 1853, to Miss Ellen Farnham, and October 3, 1854, to Miss Didnmia Robertson, and became a citizen of Johnson County, Illinois, in 1854.
DR. JOSIAH BURRITT, of Half Day, Lake County, was born in Johnstown, New York, July 6, 1820, the son of Ben- , jamin and Katharina Burritt. The first fifteen years of his life passed on the paternal farm, where be had all the advan- tages of a good education. Well prepared, he started West and eame to Elgin in 1837. In 18.12, he studied surgery and medicine with Dr. Brainard, of Chicago, and was an attendant of tho first course of medical lcetures given in that city. Mr. Burritt selceted IInlf Day, in Lake County, as his residence, where his large practice shows hest his great successes as sur- geon and physician. Mr. Burritt married iu August, 1866, Miss Nellie M. Whitney, by whom he has three children.
REV. ROBERT CALDWELL was born in Logan County, Kentucky, February 1, 1820; received a common school edu- eation ; worked on a farm till 25 years of age ; professed re- ligion at the age of 27; was married July 25, 1838, to Miss Henrietta Wallis; was ordained to the ministry in the Mis- sionary Baptist Church in 1848, and has continued ever since a successful preacher. In 1857, he moved to Leavenworth City, Arkansas, and organized a church of seven members, in- cluding himself aud wife; be remained in charge till the ehureb numbered uear 800. In 1865, he settled at Owensboro, Ken- tueky ; at Centralia, Illinois, in 1871, whence he removed to Cairo in 1873. In all these places his labors have been blessed by large additions to the churches.
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