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REV. WILLIS CHARLES was born near MeLcansboro, Illinois, September 13, 1848. His parents were William Charles, an East Tennesseean, and Charity Charles, daughter of Prof. Henry Clark, a celebrated teacher in Southern Illinois. Obtaining a good education, he, at 17, commenced teaching. He taught two years in Hamilton County, wus Principal of the Shadsville school two years, the Elizabethtown graded school two years, Rose Clare high school one year, and afterward, with his sister, taught a seleet Normal school at Elizabethtown. He professed religion in 1868, joined the General Baptist Church, was ordained minister, and gained some distinction as a elergyman. In 1871, he entered Hillsdale College. In 1874 was elected Trustee of Oakland College, and corresponding editor of the General Baptist Herald, and, in December, 1875, Professor of Theology in Oakland College, which institution he helped to endow. He intends giving this college and the work of the ministry his undivided attention in the future.
DR. ALEXANDER M. CHEEK was born in Smithland, Kentucky, July 7, 1848. His parents were L. R. and Eliza- heth (Harris) Cheek ; his education limited. In May, 1868, his parents moved to Metropolis, and bere he pursued his pre- paratory studies in medicine under Drs. Merrill and Brownson, attending lectures at the Homeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, and graduated at the Hahnemaun Medical College of Chicago, at the session of 1872-3. After graduating, prac- ticed for a while at Nashville, Tenuessce, and was then called to a partnerahip with his old preceptor at Moberly, Missouri, and practiced with snecess. He has since returned and built up a very successful practice at Metropolis, Illinois, where he now resides.
AARON G. CLOUD, Esq., MeLeansboro, son of William C. aud Elizabeth Cloud, was born in Dearborn County, In- diana, November 1, 1818 ; removed with his father to Galla- tin County, Illinois, in 1832; in 1842, became financial agent and book-keeper for the Illinois Iron Furnace, in Hardin County. In 1847, he removed to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and followed mercantile business till 1852, when he removed to McLeans- boro. In 1873, he invested largely in real estate stocks, notes
and bonds, in which he has dealt extensively till the present time. Married November 23, 1843, to Miss Eleanor H. Me- Coy, and hus one daughter and a son, who is a hanker at Mc- Leausboro.
JOHN COKER, Esq., MeLeansboro, son of Rev. Charles and Catharine Coker, was born near Mcleansboro, Illinois, April 10, 1843. His father died of a disease coutracted in the Mexican war. In 1863, he entered the State Normal Uni- versity, acquired a liberal education, and engaged in teaching. He was Second Lieutenant of Company HI, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Illinois, in the late war; studied law and was ad- mitted to practice in 1867, sinee which he has become a sue- cessful practitioner. Was appointed Assistant United States Marshal for Hamilton County, of which he took the census in 1870. Contributing largely to the founding of Hamilton Col- lege, he was appointed ono of the managers in 1865.
HENRY A. COLE, M. D., son of Amos and Adeline (More) Cole, born in Worthington, Massachusetts, April 9, 1825. His early life was characterized by earnest struggles to obtain an education. IIe attended three full courses of medi- eal lectures at Pittsfield, Mass., and practiced medicine and dentistry at Adams and Shelburn Falls, Muss., where he was a leading member of the Methodist Church, and of the Sab- bath school. Jannary 1, 1852, he was married to Augusta V. Packard, by whom he had five children. During the past four years he has practiced dentistry und medicine in Shawneeto wD.
HON. JAMES A. CONNOLLY, of Charleston, lawyer and United States District Attorney for Southern Illinois, was born in Newark, N. J., March 8, 1838; son of William and Margaret Connolly. Removed to Ohio in 1848. He was Second Clerk of the State Senate, Fifty-third General Assem- bly, and graduated at the Classical Academy of Rev. J. B. Selby, at Chesterville, in 1856. In the late war he was Major of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Illinois, und was breveted Lieutenant Colonel for gallant and meritorious ser- viees in the field; was a member of the Illinois House of Rep- resentatives in 1873, 1874 and 1875, and in March, 1876, was appointed United States District Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Married to Miss Mary Duun, at Mt. Gilead, Ohio, February 9, 1863.
PROF. THOMAS JEFFERSON COOPER, Shawnee- town, Gallatin County, son of Isnae and Eliza J. Cooper, born at Shawneetown, April 15, 1848. Till the age of eightcen, he attended the district schools; he then entered McKendree Col- lege, where he remained till the spring of 1867, when he re- turned home and commenced teaching, resuming his college course in 1868, and remaining till the spring of 1869, when he again resumed the profession of teaching. During all this time he depended upon his own exertions. Feeling unable to continue his college courae at MeKendree, he entered the Branch Normal School in Southern Illinois, and continued, at intervals, till 187-4, when he was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for Gullatin County.
CAPT. L. W. CREEMENS was born in Cabell County, Virginia, September 15, 1833. His parents' names were Byrd T. and Sophronia S. Cremeens. He was brought up in a new settlement, without early educational advantages, but by in- dustry and application, he acquired a good stock of informa- tion, having taught school several years, and also studied law. He was married, in 1854, to Miss Margaret T. Miller. By trade, Mr. Cremeens is a joiner and brick mason. During the Rebellion he was Captain of Company F, in tlie Forty- first Illinois Regiment, and is at present in the practice of law at MeLeansboro, Hamilton County, where he hus followed the profession about eight years.
JOHN S. CRUM .- Born near the summit of the Alle- ghany Mountains, in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 9, 1836; the son of Aaron and Sophia Crum, Americun born, hut of German descent. Mr. Crum's early days were spent in poverty and hard toil, with few advantages for educa-
tion. February 3, 1859, he married Miss Eady E. Smith, of Missouri, who died August 31, 1868; November 26, 1868, he married Miss Carmelia Boyt, of Johnson County, Illinois, and has had five children. At the breaking out of the war, he enlisted in Company D, Thirty-first Illinois, under command of Col. John A. Logan. At the battle of Fort Donelson was severely wounded, and discharged July 25, 1862-a hrave soldier. For the past eleven years he has been Postmaster of Vienna, Johnson County.
HON. SHELBY M. CULLOM, Springfield, was horn in Wayne County, Kentucky, November 22, 1829. He received a good common school education, and afterward spent two years at Roek River Seminary. In 1853, he studied law, was elected City Attoruey in 1855, and to the Legislature in 1856. He was Presidential Elector in 1850, and had a lucrative prac- tice in his profession till 1860, when he was again clected to the Legislature and made Speaker of the House. In 1864, he was elected to Congress by nearly 2,000 majority. He was again elected to the Legislature in 1866, 1868 and 1872, the latter time heing again ehosen Speaker. He is now Republi- ean candidate for Governor.
CRESSA KING DAVIS was born in Spencer County, In- diana, November 10, 1830, and educated at the common schools of that State. In 1852, he began the study of medi- eine at Huntingburg, Indiana, under Dr. Hughes, at the same time engaged in mereantile pursuits. After two years of study and assistant practice with his preceptor, be concluded to abandon medicine and study law, which he cammenced with Geu. Veneh, of Rockport. In 1858, he moved to Shawnee- town, and was there admitted to practice, making that his home for two years, wben he removed to Harrisburg. Iu 1861, be entered the army as Captain in the Sixth dinois, served till December, 1862, when he resigued, and has since been actively engaged in his profession.
DAVID DAVIS, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was horn in Cecil County, Maryland, March 9, 1815. He graduated at Kenyon College, Kenyon, Ohio, at the early age of seventeen, and studied law at Lenox, Mas- sachusetts, with Judge H. W. Bishop, two years, and at the New Haven Law School one year. He was married, in 1838, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Judge Walker, of Lenox. He has two children-George P. Davis, of Bloomington, and Mrs. Sallie Swayne, daughter-in-law of Chief Justice Swayne, of Toledo, Ohio. He located permanently at Bloomington, Illinois, in 1836, and devoted himself to the practice of law and land speculations. He has heen Judge of Circuit Court several terms, and was appointed hy Abraham Lincoln, whose particular friend he was, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He is immensely wealthy, and is claimed, hy the National Democracy, as one of their favorites for the Presideney.
WINSTEAD DAVIE, the founder of the town of Anna, Union County, was born in North Carolina, January 3, 1797. He was maimed from his birth, und has used crutches during life. September 19, 1824, he married Anna Willard, and has had ten children. Receiving a limited education in boyhood, he taught school during five years, since which he has heen engaged in mercantile business, and has been County Clerk, Clerk of Circuit Court, Probate Judge and Postmaster. The town of Anna was named after his wife, Anna Davic. At the age of forty-five he inherited $2,000, and has increased his wealth to $240,000. Mr. Davie resides in Jonesboro.
HON. JOHN DOUGHERTY, lawyer and Ex-Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, was born near Marietta, Ohio, May G, 180G; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1831 ; in 1832, was cleeted to the State Legislature; also in 1834, re- signing at the end of the session of that year to fill the office of State's Attorney. In 1836, he was again elected to the House; was an efficient, active and responsible member. In 1842, he was elected to the State Senate, and again in 1846 ; was Lieutenant Governor in 1868, Lincoln Elector in 1864, and Elector twice since, on the Grant electoral ticket. Since
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his service as Lieutenant Governor, has resumed the practice of law. Married March 5, 1829, to Miss Catherine James, of Union County ; six children living ; one son, William L., killed by a fall from his carriago in 1864.
HON. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS was born at Brandon, Vermont, April 23, 1813, of a poor family, and eked out a very limited education. He worked upon a farm, and, in 1833, moved to Illinois. Here studied law; opened practice at Jack- sonville ; ut twenty-two, became Attorney General of Illinois; next memher of Legislature; in 1840, State Secretary; in 1841, a Judge of State Supreme Court; next elected to United States House of Representatives ; in 1847, to United States Senate, and constantly reelected to same until his death in Chicago, June 3, 1861. In Presidential campaign of 1860 he was defeated hy Abraham Lincoln. An ardent Democrat, eloquent orator and great statesman.
ASAHEL W. DURHAM was born in Gallatin (now Saliue) County, Illinois, September 8, 1832. His paronts were Ira and Maria Durham, born respectively in North Caro- lina, June 4, 1804, and December, 1805. His early life was spent in elearing land and receiving such a common school education as enabled him to obtain a certificate as teacher. He was married first, December 18, 1851, to Melvina E. Coffey, daughter of Eld. A. Coffey, of Saline County, and second, to Margaret Webb, of Franklin County, and has two children living, one from each marriage. Ile was engaged in farming till 1863, when he was elected Sheriff of Saline County ; since then, has heen keeping hotel and teaching school.
RICHARD EDWARDS, LL. D., A. M., the President of the State Normal School, at Normal, was born in Aberyst- with, South Wales, England, December 13, 1822. His father emigrated to America in 1833, and settled in Ohio. Richard Edwards' desire for knowledge was so great that he overcame all ohstaeles, and, giving up the carpenter trade, which ho had learned, taught sebool until he could enter, in 1845, the State Normal School of Massachusetts. He became assistant teacher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic School, and, later, was engineer at the Cochituate Water Works. Next called to Salem, Massa- chusetts, then to St. Louis; he accepted, in 1862, tho call of the State Normal School of Illinois as Professor of Mathe- matics, and was, in June, 1863, elected President thereof, which position he has held ever since to tho best advantage of the school and his own honor.
HON. SAMUEL M. ETTER, Springfield, was horn in Newville, Pennsylvania, May 16, 1830, and eame to Illinois in 1854. He worked hard and economized elosely to obtain his education, which he received at Twinsburgb, Ohio, at the Mas- sillon High Sebool, and at Kalamazoo (Michigan) College. He was elected Principal of the Union High School at Perrys- burgh, Ohio. He came to Illinois to take charge of the schools at Lacon. His success here and at Galva, Illinois, is well known. In 1863, he was ebosen President of the State Teachers' Association. In 1864, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon bim by Knox College. His successcs as Superintendent of the city schools at Kankakee and at Bloom- ington placed him in the front rank of State educators. He assisted in the first organization of the Normal School work. In November, 1874, be was elected to the office of Superin- tendent of Public Instruction of Illinois.
CHARLES E. FULLER, Esq., Attorney, at Belvidero, was born in Flora Township, Boone County, Illinois, March 31, 1849, and lived on the farm till 12 years of age. He is the son of Seymour and Eliza A. Fuller. His father, a prominent farmer, still resides on the old homestead. The son, in 1868, attended Wheaton (Ill.) Collego, but did not graduate. He read law under Hou. Jesse S. Hildrup, and was admitted to the bar August 17, 1870. April 24th, 1873, Mr. Fuller married Miss Sadie A., daughter of Capt. Hugh Maekey, of Cherry Valley, Illinois. He has practiced law continuously in Belvidere since 1870, and has built up a large and constantly
increasing practice in Boone, MeHenry, DeKalb and Wiune- bago Counties, fully equal to that of any attorney in the circuit. Mr. Fuller makes a specialty of criminal law, in which he is eminently successful.
ISAAC FIJNK, the patriot who would first sacrifice all his wealth to save his country and then meet his opponents, from the point of a pin to the mouth of a eannon, was born in Clark County, Kentucky, November 17, 1797. His parents re- moved to Ohio, where he visited the common schools. In 1823, himself and au elder brother settled in Funk's Grove, McLean County, Illinois, and, by wise management, acquired a large fortune, including 27,000 neres of the choicest land. Mr. Funk was elected, on the Whig ticket, to the Legislature, in 1840; again in 1861 and 1863. Mr. Funk had married, 1826, Cassandra Sharp. They had ten children. He and his wife died the same day, January 29, 1865.
JAMES GAINES, son of Alexander and Mary Gaines, horn in Greene County, Ohio, May 31, 1825. He remained at homo and worked on his father's farm till 25 years of age, receiving the limited advantages of the common schools about three months in the year. In March, 1849, he married Miss Louisa Weaver, and had three ebildren-one son and two daughters. In 1872-3, he represented his county in the Gen- eral Assembly of the State. His business is farming, raising and shipping stock, and he is widely known as one of the most prominent citizens of Edgar County.
EDWIN GAYLORD, M. D .- Born in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1834; educated at the common schools, and at Judson College, Illinois ; studied the profession of medicine; attended lectures in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan ; and graduated at Rush Medical College, at the age of 21. After three years' practice at Kewanee, Illinois, he entered and received a diploma from the Medical College at Nashville, Tennessee; and was promoted from Assistant Surgeon to the rank of Surgeon in the army during the war of the Rebellion. Dr. Gaylord belongs to an old family in the United States, whose pedigree has been writ- ten by William Gaylord, of Cincinnati. The lineage is traced haek to William of Dorchester and Pierre, of Jamestown (1630).
REV. JOHN D. GILLHAM was born in Jersey County, Illinois, September 17, 1834. At the age of 14 he was thrown upon his own resources, his parents having died when he was quite young. He labored hard in the summer and attended school in the winter, working for his board ; and thus by hard study and close application acquired a good knowledge of books and science, and is among the leading theologians of Southern Illinois At the age of 22 he was licensed to preaeb by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Since joining the South- ern Conference, in 1856, he has filled the following appoint- ments : Gillespio, Litebfield, Kan. ; Upper Alton, Edwards- ville, Salem, Centralia, Nashville and Cairo, lahoring with marked success in all these places.
SAMUEL M. GLASSFORD, of Vienna, Johnson County, is a native of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. He was born on the 15th of November, 1825, his parents being George and Elizabeth Glassford. His means of education were very lim- ited. In 1847, he married Elizabeth Jones, by whom he bas five children, viz .: George Washington, James Monroe, Sophia Josephine, Charles Augustus and Mary Ellen. Mr. Glassford bas followed, principally, tho business of farming. On the 3d of November, 1874, he was elected to the State Senato from the Fifty-first District, having been nominated on the Farmers' ticket. He is a substantial and well informed representative of bis distriet.
JAMES EDWIN GOWAN, M. D .- Born in Carroll County, Tennessee, October 31, 1841; son of Granville Gowan and Elvina (Wood) Gowau. After attending common school, he went to Jackson College and studied under Prof. Dodd, in his seventeenth and eighteenth years. His medical
studies were under Dr. Branie, a graduate of Rush Medical College, in 1865 and 1866. He was married on the 6th of January, 1864, to Miss Harriet Yates, of Massae County, Illi- nois, and has four children living, viz. : Elizabeth Eveline, Anner and Minno; one deceased-George. Dr. Gowan is ono of the successful practitioners of Massac County, where he has practiced since leaving school in 1866, and has built up a large husiness in his profession.
HENRY HARRISON GRANDSTAFF, son of Benja- min and Susannah Grandstaff, was born in Carter County, Tennesseo, January 21, 1827. Till 20 years of age he fol- lowed the trade of a moulder; then served in the Mexican war; then followed his trade again ; then mercantile business and bookkeeping for about three years. To avoid heing drafted in the Rebel army, he fled from Chattanooga and came to Cairo on a flatboat, iu 1861 ; having only Southern money, ho went to Missouri, where ho remained till late in 1864, suf- fering from imprisonment first by one army and then by the other, and finally returned to Illinois, penniless. He has since prospered in business and made himself a comfortable home. Was married June 15, 1869, to Mrs. Polly A. Crippen, and has had seven children.
ULYSSES S. GRANT, eighteenth President of the United States, was born April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Ohio ; graduated at West Point in 1843; served in the Mexican war, out of which he came as breveted Captain, and in 1853 he received his commission as full Captain. He resigned in 1854. He settled, ahout 1859, in Galena, where be was en- gaged by his father in the leather trade. At the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion, Grant entered the volunteer army as Captain of a company he had organized, and rose rapidly, hy his brilliant achievements, from the rank of Captain to that of General of the armies of the United States. By compelling the surrender of Lec's army, 1865, he brought the war of the Rebellion to a successful termination. He was elected Presi- dent of the United States in 1868, and reelected in 1872.
PHILIP DODDRIGE BAXTER GRATTAN, M. D., was born at Marion, Williamson County, Illinois, August 3, 1843. He attended school from the age of six to sixteen, finishing a thorough course of study, and then hegan to read medicine under Dr. Sneed, and finished bis course under Dr. C. A. Smith, of Gallatia, Illinois. In 1862-3, he attended the Chicago Medical College, and had commenced practice at Gallatia when, in the fall of 1863, he raised a battalion of soldiers, and, in Fchruary, 1864, was commissioned Senior Major of the 13tb Illinois Cavalry, and served till the fall of 1865. After the war he returned to his practice at Gallatia, where he has been eminently successful.
JOHN MARSHALL GREGG was born near McLeans- horo, Hamilton County, Illinois, in the year 1850. His parents were Hezekiah and Martha A. Gregg. The former came from North Carolina to Illinois in 1832, the latter in 1835. When John was small, bis father located at Marion, Illinois, for the purpose of giving his children the advantages of a good education, which were well improved. John was pre- pared to enter upon the study of law at the age of twenty, and for that purpose located at Harrisburg in April, 1873, and studied with James M. Gregg, till 1875, at which time he was appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court, and has since served in that capacity.
HON. ELISHA GRIDLEY, Lake County, born in Onon- daga Valley, New York, June 23, 1817; came to Chicago June 20, 1835, to Lake County in July, 1835. Mr. Gridley received a good Englishi education in the schools of his native place. He has held several county offices, and served one torm in the Senate from the Eighth Senatorial District. His occupation, since he came to Illinois, bas heen farming. He was married to Miss Charlotte S. Hunewell, March 5, 1829, and has one son-George W. Gridley.
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COL. HIRAM W. HALL, MeLeunsboro, Hamilton County, was born on a farm near McLeanshoro, August 5, 1825. By diligence and application he obtained a good English education, and served in the Mexican war, under Gen. Taylor. Return- iug, he was married, in 1848, to Miss Julia Ann McLean. In 1861, he raised a company for the Fortieth Illinois Regiment, was promoted to the colonelcy in 1863, and commanded the Fortieth Regiment till the close of the war. In 1867, Gov. Palmer appointed bim to locate and carry on an Asylum for the Insane in Southern Illinois. Ile is now an active member of the General Assembly, to which he was elected in 1874.
JOHN CARROLL HALL, son of Hiram W. and Julia A. Hall, was born on a farm in Hamilton County, on August 1st, 1849. His father gave the promising youth as good an education as his circumstances would permit. He studied law first, at Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., then taught school for one year, and finished his studies in 1871 at the University of Chicago, graduating with honors, and eutering upon thio practice of his profession in the summer of 1871, at McLeanshoro. Although business came slow at the first, his thorough knowledge, bis integrity and energy assured him in a sbort time success, and he is named now already among the foremost lawyers of Southern Illinois.
HUBERT HARNEY HARRIS, Esq., born in Marion County, North Carolina, June 6, 1836. His parents were G. W. and Amanda Harris, with whom he moved to Bedford Connty, Tennessee, in 1844. August 25, 1857, he was mar- ried to Miss Tabitha A. Mells, daughter of Rev. T. J. Mells, and has had six children, viz. : Thomas D., William W., Telara W., Mary A. and Eddie (twins) and Minnic. Mr. Harris moved, with bis family, to Illinois in 1861. He received a collegiate education, and followed teaching till 1867, when, baving studied law, be was admitted to the bar and bas since practiced, making land titles a specialty. He resides at Har- risburg, Saline County.
JOEL HAWS was horn in Madison County, Virginia, August 15, 1796. He is a son of Conrad and Susan Haws ; was married on the 27thi of April, 1824, to Elizabeth Gibson, and is the father of ten children, eight of whom are living. In 1805, Mr. Haws removed from Virginia to Clinton County, Ohio. He was a soldier in the war of 1812; enlisted in 1813, served in the Second Regiment Ohio Volunteers, under Col. Sumalt and Capt. William Fordyce, in the Division commanded by Gen. Denoc, of Cincinnati, and was honorably discharged in 1814. Both his grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolu- tionary war. Since 1838, Mr. Haws has been a farmer in Putnam County, Illinois, and bas all his children settled around him, near Magnolia, and all prospering.
WILLIAM HAWS, born in Orange County, Virginia, September 23, 1800. He lived with his parents in Ohio till the age of twenty-one. August 27, 1821, he removed to Sangamon County, Illinois. Removing thence to bis present residence in Putnam County (then Tazewell) in 1826, he built the first log cabin between Ottawa and Washington. There were no white people then in that part of the country, except a few Indian traders. Putnam County was organized at bis house, in 1831. He was one of the first grand jurors at the first terin of court, which was beld at the old trading bouse near Hennepin. Governor Ford was then Prosecuting Attor- ney of the district.
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