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CYRUS L. HAYES, of Mt. Vernon, is a native of Bel- mont County, Ohio, horn August 24, 1832. His parents were James and Jane Hayes. He was reared on a farm, with- out educational advantages in early life. In 185G, he removed to Iowa, baving learned the printer's trade at Fremont, Ohio. From 1857 to 1860, he published the Delbi Democrat and Iowa News at Delhi, and the Gazette at Anamosa, and was employed as a journeyman printer in the office of tho Herald, at Dubuque, during the war. He was married in 1860, to Miss E. D. Noble, of Delbi, Iowa, and has four children, viz. :
Charley Nohle, Mary Louise, Robert Russell and Bessie Dar- ling. In December, 1865, he removed to Mt. Vernon, Illinois, where he has published a Democratic paper ever since, except a short time in 1872:
JACOB HILEMAN was born in Anna Townsbip, Union County, Illinois, December 21, 1823. His parents, Christian and Nancy Hileman, came into the State from North Carolina in 1800. He was raised poor aud without education ; but his father's good taste in farming led him to desire to excel in that occupation ; after his marriage to Miss T. Q. Sifford, Feb ruary 15, 1846, he started out to put this idea of his life-work in execution, though with little means at tbat timo. Ho has now one of the most valuable and tasteful farms in Union County, one mile east of Anna, and is recognized as one of the model farmers of Southern Illinois.
JAMES HOUSTON .- Born in Brackin County, Ken- tucky, January 21, 1820; son of George S., and grandson of Levi Houston, of Maryland, who served during the wholo of the Revolutionary war. In early life, Mr. Houston's advan- tages for education were quite limited; but he resolved on rear- ing his family to a different fortune. He was married October 16, 1845, to Hannah Robb, of Clermont, Ohio, and bas had ten children. Four of them are teachers, the aggregate time of their teacbing being twenty-nine years; two sons in business in Cincinnati-one a machinist and the other a printer-and two others in the Southern Normal School, at Carbondale, Illi- nois. It can be truly said that Mr. Houston has lived for his family, having devoted the best part of bis life to their cduca- tion and moral training, and bis ehildren all do honor to their parents.
DR. ROBERT HUNTER, of Chicago, famous as a special- ist in all lung and throat diseases, is the son of Dr. James Hunter, M. R. C. S., of England, and was born in that coun- try in 1825; when he was five years old his father removed to New York City. Dr. Robert Hunter was carly introduced by his father in the sciences of liis profession. After his gradua- tion from the New York University, receiving the diploma of the college of physicians and surgeons, he passed, in 1846, the Board of Medical Examination of Canada, and received the provincial license. He studied afterward at the Geneva Uni- versity, and then practiced in the hospitals of London and New York. In 1871, Dr. Hunter set up the Carbon Theory of Consumption, giving his famous inhalation method as the only cure ; 1874 he removed to Chicago, where his fame had pre- ceded him, and where he soon had a largo practice. Dr. Hunter was married to the daughter of Rev. King Burton, of Toronto, Canada, November 14, 1846, by whom he had six sons and one daughter, the sons mostly successful in business.
HON. MATTHEW JAMES INSCORE, son of Joseph and Eliza Inscore, is a native of Springfield, Tennessee, born February 22, 181. He was tbrown upon his own resources at eight years of age, in consequence of the death of liis parents, and while learning the saddle and harness maker's trade, studied law alone, although he had never attended school but part of a . three months' term. April 7, 1862, he married Amanda J. Hoskins, and has fivo children. He has beld the offices of City Clerk, Police Magistrate and City Treasurer of the city of Anna ; Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Eigh- teentb District, and member of the House of Representatives in the Twenty-eightb and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies.
DANIEL JACOBS, son of Jouathan and Susanna Jacobs, boru in Marietta, Daupbin County, Pa., in September, 1824. In his minority he learned the trade of a millwright, and re- ceived twelve months' schooling in log school houses. Joined tbe Fourtb Indiana and went to Mexico in 1847. Was mar- ried June 8, 1854, to Margaret A. Bradford, of Gallatin County, Illinois, having come to the State in 1852. His busi- ness, prior to this, bad been building mills, milling and steam- boating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. He built two large flouring-mills and two saw-mills in Gallatin County, and also cleared 200 acres of heavily timbered land, and raised a family of six children.
CORNWALL KIRKPATRICK, son of Andrew and Anna Kirkpatrick, was born at Fredericktown, Knox County, Ohio, December 23, 1814. His father being a manufacturer of earthen ware, naturally led liim to become interested and skilled in tho pottery business, to wbicb be bas devoted a good portion of his life. In 1840, he huilt a small pottery in Covington, Kentucky ; from 1849 to 1853, conducted the "stoneware" business successfully at Point Pleasant, Ohio, where he owned the house in which President Grant was born; from 1857 to 1859, operated an extensive pottery, which be built, at Mound City, Illinois ; since 1859 has built at Anna, Union County, a pottery establishment which manufactures and ships over 10,000 gallons of stoneware per annum.
GUSTAVUS KOERNER, LL. D., was born in Frankfort, Germany, November 20, 1809. He received a liberal educa- tion at the College of Frankfort, aud studied law at the Uni- versity of Jena two years, completing his studies at Munich and Heidelberg, and gradunting in 1832 with the degree of LL. D. He came to America in 1833, locating at Belleville, Illinois, where be commenced the study of American law, and was admitted to the bar in 1835. Practiced till 1845; was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court. In 1852, ho was elected Lieutenant Governor on tbo Democratio ticket, and in 1856, he joined the Republican party. During the war he orgauized the Forty-third Illinois, and was Colouel on the staff of Gen. Fremont. In 1863, appointed Minister to Spain. In 1868, was Republican Elector on the Grant ticket. In 1872, was candidate for Governor on tho Democratie ticket, and was defeated. Mr. Koerner has contributed frequently to the jour- nalistic literature of the day, and is the author of a volume entitled "From Spain."
REV. PHILIP HENRY KROH, son of Henry and Mary Kroh (settlers in Illinois in 1837), was born at Newtown, Frederick County, Virginia, February 10, 1824. He spent three years at Woodward College, Cincinnati, two years at Hanover College, and three years at the Theological Seminary at Columbus, Ohio, and, being well educated for the ministry, spent nineteen years of bis life in successfully preaching tbe Gospel in connection with the German Reformed Church. In 1870, he was elected County Superintendent of Schools in Union County, and served four years. For several years past ho has turned his attention to fruit culture, at Anna, Union County, and has made it successful. He was married in 1850, and lias a well-educated family.
JOHN FISER LATHAM was born in Johnson County, Illinois, May 26, 1831. He was brought up on a farm, and attended such common schools as the country then furnished, which were irregular and poorly taught. Yet he struggled against adversity, and in 1857 commenced the study of medi- ciue under Dr. S. H. Bundy ; practiced in Saline County, Illi- nois, till 1868, when be attended a course of lectures at Keo- kuk, Iowa. In 1868, he attended a course of law lectures, and was admitted to the bar in March of that year; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1856, in Williamson County, and, in 1875, was appointed a Notary Public by Gov. Beveridge.
HON. LUTHER WATERMAN LAWRENCE, Belvi- dere, Boone County, was born in Chenango County, New York, April 19, 1808; son of John and Lydia (Sweet) Lawrence. His early life was spent on a farm in Pompey, New York; at fifteen, apprenticed to the tanner, currier and shoemaker trade; married on January 22, 1829, to Elvira Chamberlain. In 1836, he came to Belvidere, Illinois, and recovered his health by farming. In 1851, elected Superintendent of Schools; in 1854, 1856 and 1862, to the State Legislature; in 1861, to the Constitutional Convention ; and, in 1865, County Judge, which office he still holds. Ho was ordained in 1839, and · officiated as Baptist Minister, in connection with other duties, and established several ohurcbes.
JOHN NELSON LEDBETTER, Esq., son of Matthew and Rachel Ledbetter, was born in Hopkins County, Ken- tucky, April 26, 1830, and lived on his father's farm, enjoy-
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ing the advantages of good schools, till the age of nineteen. He then entered into commercial life, in which be continued till twenty-six, when he was married ( March 25, 1856) to Miss Rchecca A. Myers, and purchased a farm in Hardin County, on which ho lived till 1866. During ull this time he dealt extensively iu real estate and grain, and had command of the general abstract business of the county. In 1866 he moved to Elizabethtown, and is carrying on commercial business in connection with real estate.
EX-PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN was horn in Hardiu County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809. Parents, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. Early studious, with few advan- tages, moved with the family, at eight, to Spencer County, In- diana. In 1830, moved with the family to Macon County, Illinois, Worked at farming and rail splitting ; served in the Blackhawk war; at twenty-three, membor Legislature; theu Postmaster, surveyor, lawyer and leader of Whig party. He afterward located at Springfield, and iu 1842 married the daughter of Hon. R. S. Tedd, of Kentucky. Elected Member of Congress in 1846. After memorable contest with Douglas for Senate, and a defeat, was elected, in 1860, on Republican ticket, to Presidency, reflected in 1864, issued Proclamation of Emancipation, January 1, 1863, and was assassinated night of April 14, 1865, by J. Wilkes Booth.
HON. JOHN A. LOGAN was horn in Jackson County, Illinois, February 9, 1826; the son of Dr. John Logau, a physician from Ireland. With hut slight advantages at school, he afterward graduated at Louisville University. Serving in the Mexican war in various positions, and with ability, he, in 1848, hegan to study law, and receiving diploma at Louisville, began practice; 1852-'57, was Prosecuting Attorney of Third Judicial District ; 1852, elected Member of Legislature, and three times reclected; 1858, elected to Congress on Demo- cratic ticket, and again in 1860. Served in Union army during Rebellion with great distinction, promoted to Major General of Volunteers, elected on Republican ticket to Fortieth, Forty- first and Forty-second Congresscs, and by Legislature to United States Senate, 1871-'77.
GRANVILLE LOWTHER, son of Elias and Harrict Lowther, was born in Virginia on the 19th of December, 1839. He received, in boyhood, only a few moutbs' instruction at the district school, and was married June 16, 1870, to Miss Bunetta Burnett, hy whom he has one son and two daughters. Mr. Lowtber has been engaged chiefly in mercantile business for a livelihood, and is one of the active and energetie business men of Paris, Edgar County, having been trained in the school of self-reliance, and achieved his success by his own unaided exertions. In this respect he is an example well worthy of imitation hy every poor hoy.
JACOB G. LYNCH was horn near Nashville, Washington County, Illinois, September 4, 1842, where he was educated at the Nasbville Seminary, mostly hy his own exertions, his father having died when he was three years old, his mother when he was ten, and his grandfather, with whom he then went to live, when be was fifteen. At the age of eighteen, he removed to Cairo, and was immediately appointed Deputy County Clerk. At twenty-three he was elected County Clerk, which office he still holds. Mr. Lynch, meantime, studied law, but regarding office and real estate business as more profit- ahle, has followed the latter. The firm of Lynch & Howley is one of the chief real estate firms in Southern Illinois.
DR. WILLIAM M. A. MAXEY is the son of William and Mary E. Maxey, who were among the carly pioneers of Jefferson County, Illinois. He was horn in Sumner County, Tennessee, in May, 1812, and came with his parents to Illinois in 1818. Ile attended the first school ever taught in the county, hecame a teacher, studied medicine, and hegan to practice in 1842. On the 14th of July, 1830, he was married to Eddy Owen, and has had ten children, as follows: Simcon W., Samuel T., John V., Harriet J., William C., Sarah C. and Hulda N., all living ; Vilindu S., John B. and Mary E., deccased. Dr. Maxey has been a Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1845.
THOMAS McCORD, son of David and Esther McCord, born in Washington County, Virginia, in 1799, and came to Edgar County, Illinois, in 1834. Prior to this removal, in 1815, he married Miss Julia M. King. Since settling in Illinois, his business has been farming and raising stock. For over fifty-nine years Mr. and Mrs. McCord have heen members of the Presbyterian Church, and their honest and upright lives give reality to their profession of the Christian religion. Active in improvements, Mr. McCord was one of the prime movors iu establishing an Agricultural Society in Edgar County.
ROLLAND JEFFERSON MCGINNIS, of Rose Clare, Hardin County, was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1821; received a liberal education, and studied afterward medicine, including two full courses at the University of New York, from which he honorably graduated in 1847. In a short time bis practice had taken and grown to such proportions that he was hardly ahle to fill his calls. When the great Rchellion broke out, Dr. McGinnis was in the South, hut as his inherent love for our form of government did not allow him to indorse tbe doctrine of secession, he was forced to give up his home there and come North, when he settled near Rose Clare Post Office, Hardin County. Dr. McGinnis was twice married and has eight children,
ROBERT MICK, of Harrishurg, Saline County, was horn in Saline County, November 13, 1819. His parcuts, Charles and Susan Mick, could give him only a very rudimentary edu- cation, on which he improved greatly by hard study at night and on Sundays. He was always engaged in farming and stock raising, and, since 185I, added to it a general merchan- dizing business in Harrishurg. His success and his prosperity are founded in the thoroughness wherewith he does every- thing, in his upright and straightforward husiness qualities. Mr. Mich was married twice; the first time in 1844, to Mar- tha Stricklin, who died in October, 1868; he was married again in 1869, to Hardenia Nyherg.
REV. WILLIAM BARR MINTON was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, October 21, 1849. His father, Robert B. Minton has been Professor of Mathematies in Blackburn University, Carbondale, Illinois, an institution which he took charge of when William was tbirteen years of age, and where the latter graduated in 1870, being not quite twenty- , one years old. In the fall of 1871, he was licensed to preach by tbe Alton Presbytery. In May, 1874, he graduated at the Auburn (N. Y.) Theological Seminary, being ordained in April, 1874, to the full functions of the ministry, hy the Cairo Presbytery. His residence is at Anna, and be is exerting a large influence over a wide circle of churches in Southern Illinois-an able, zealous and practical prcacher.
WILLIAM S. MORRIS, of Elizabethtown, Hardin County, was horu December 4, 1842, in Gallatin County. His parents were unable to give him more than the first heginnings of an education, although his talents were great. When the war broke out, he enlisted as private, and on April 2, 1865, we sce him promoted to the First Lieutenancy of Company C, Thirty- first Illinois Iufantry, for his valiant conduct and fine intellec- tual qualities. On his return home, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and by his incessant lahor he mastered soon the in- tricacies of law and was admitted to the bar. In 1872, he was elected State's Attorney on the Republican ticket. Mr. Morris married, on the 13th of June, 1866, Miss Mary E. Garland, hy whom he has four children.
N. B. MORRISON was horn and reared in New Hamp- shire, whicre he became, hy profession, a civil engineer. In the interest of his occupation he came first to Illinois at the time of the letting of the contracts for the Central Railroad, in the fall of 1852. He was afterward olected to the Twenty- cightlı General Assembly of Illinois, and served acceptably in that body. Mr. Morrison, while in the House of Representa- tives, was a member of the Committee on Railroads. He is at present engaged in milling and dealing in grain, at Odin, Marion County.
HON. WILLIAM R. MORRISON was born in Monroe County, Illinois, September 14, 1825. He was bronght up on a farm and attended the common schools preparatory to study- ing at McKendree College; studied law and was admitted to practice in 1851 ; served as a private in the Mexican war, and in the late war organized a company in the Forty-ninth Illinois ; in 1852, was elected Circuit Clerk of Union County ; from 1854 to 1860, served as member of the State Legislature, acting two years as Speaker of the House, and was again elected to the House in 1870. He was elected by the Demo- cratic party to the Thirty-eighth, Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses, and is Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means in the latter, at the present time.
REV. FREDERICK MYERS, son of Jeremiah and Dearks Myers, was born in Kentucky, February 18, 1831, and brought up in Indiana. While passing from New Albany to Louisville, in 1863, he was suspected of being a slave, and was arrested as such on arriving at the latter city. He is a married man and bas one child -- Frederick A. Myers-having married Miss Josephine Scott, at Ypsilanti, Michigan. In the early part of his life he was in mercantile business, but has been a traveling preacher eighteen years, and is now Pastor of the African M. E. Church at Cairo, Alexander County-a church numbering 250 members, and prospering under his ministry.
JOHN HARDIN NORRIS, M. D., was horn at Brad- fordsville, Kentucky, April 29, 1830. In early life he labored under great disadvantages, heing obliged to work hard till 18, up to which time be received only ten weeks' schooling. But he was a diligent student, and not even the necessity of study- iug at home hy fire-light after his daily task was done de- terred him from acquiring knowledge. From 18 to 25, he taught school, studying medicine the last four years of teach- ing, and practiced in Southern Illinois till the beginning of the war; was Captain and Major during the war in the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry, and, in 1867, graduated at the University of Iowa: Has been three times married, and is the father of seven ebildren.
GEN. RICHARD J. OGLESBY was born in Oldham County, Kentucky, July 25, 1824. In 1836, he settled in Decatur, Illinois; afterward removed to Terre Haute, Indiana; in 1840, went to Ohio County, Kentucky, and learned the carpenter's trade.' Returning to Illinois, he studied law. and was admitted in 1845. Served one year as First Lieutenant in the Fourth Illinois in the Mexican War ; went to California in the gold excitement and mined for eighteen months; went to Europe in 1856; in 1860, elected to the State Legislature; was Colonel of the Eightb Illinois, and, after the battle of Corinth, Major General of Volunteers; elected Governor of Illinois soon after the close of the war ; reelected in 1872, and soon after chosen United States Senator.
WILLIAM HAMPTON PANKEY, of Harrishurg, Sa- line County, was born February 1, 1836, in the same county. lis parents, William and Hannah Pankey, gave him all the timo he wanted for his own instruction and home study ; thus he acquired a good and solid education. Raised on the farm, he himself carried on farming. It was his pride to im- prove his property to the utmost of his means, and his pros- perity proves his success. His sterling qualities as man and citizen soon attracted attention, and once Sheriff for two years, he was lately elected as County Commissioner. Mr. Pankcy married, in 1856, Miss Sarah Ann Bickers, hy whom he had eleven children, four of whom are dead, as also is his wife.
GEORGE S. PARK, Magnolia, Putnam County, was born in Windham County, Vermont, October 28, 1811. His parents, Hezekiah and Hannah Park, lived on their own farm. George was a hard working hoy, and attended his father's shecp on the green hills. He went to a common school about nine months, but under the strict discipline and instruction of his father he studied at home by the light of hemlook knots by night, and he carried his hook to the field, and would read a period and reflect upon it while at work. Thus inured to toil and hard-
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ship, he early learned to depend upon his own genius and in- dustry to win his way through life. IIe attended Chester Academy two terms, and taught school at fifteen, and then canne West to Illinois and selected the site of his present resi- deuce as the home of his declining years. In 1833, he at- tended Illinois College, and, in 1835, went to Texas, joined the volunteers, and in the winter and spring nl 1836, acted as Quartermaster of one division, and afterward joined Col. Fau- ning at Goliad, and fought till Texan independence was uchieved - the vohinteers generally finding themselves, although they afterward received gifts of land.
Returning northward by land, to Missonri, whicu the famous Platte Country was opening for settlement, he reached a site on the Missouri River, and laid out the town of Parkville, and commenced mercantile business, and was prosperous.
In 1849, he was married to Eliza Ann Vore, who died in 1851. He contributed liberally to get the telegraph to his town, aud established a weekly paper-" The Industrial Lumi- mary"-the leading object of which was to promote education, agriculture, horticulture and internal improvements. He or- ganized a railroad company, designed to run from Chicago via tho mouth of the Kansas to the great cattle regions of tbe Southwest and to Galveston, and petitioned Congress for a grant of land, and obtained a grant from the Gulf northward to Red River.
Kansas was now opening to settlers, and the border strife commenced; tbe people opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise ; opposed Atchison, and favored Benton ; opposed ariued bodies going over to Kansas to vote and force slavery upon an unwilling people; advocated the just and equal rights oľ every citizen, and called on the General Government to pro- tect them. The Border Ruffian press of Western Missouri now opened their batteries to demolisb the single press in their midst that stood up for Ircednm; hungry politicians all over the State excited little crowds, calling it the "' great uprising of the people." But finding they could not sustain their cause by argument, they intimated to the editor that
" Grim vengeance was whetting a sword That through his soul should go."
About this time, Mr. Park determined to establish an agri- cultural eollege at the mouth of Big Blue River (now Mau- hattan, Kan.), and aided the institution till it was accepted hy the State. On the 13th of April, 1855, he started to pilot some gentlemen there. Ou the next day the Blue Lodge of Platte City sent a mob of seventy armed men, who entered the office, pied the type, broke up the furniture, took Mr. Patter- sou (an accomplished writer from Scotland) a prisoner, but re- leased him on condition of his leaving the country ; they then plunged the press into the Missouri River, and resolved to meet there again in two weeks, and if they found George S. Park, to put him in the river with his press, or if he went to Kansas, to "follow him and hang him wherever found." There seemed little chance to resist the storm, should be return. Mr. Park telegraphed the Governor of the State (Sterling Priee), asking for protection, and, in answer, was directed to the Sheriff and Judge; but the Sheriff was in the mob, and the Judge a member of the lodge. He then telegraphed the President of the United States ( Franklin Pierce), asking protection from the troops at Fort Leavenworth. The President replied that "it was a shame to treat a citizen thus who had violated no law, but he could not interfere in a 'Sovereign State."" No hope being left, Mr. Park armed himself, and through many perils left the State.
On the 12th of July, 1855, he married Mary L. Holmes. He has now only one ehild living-Ella Park.
On the 2d of November, 1855, he and his wife returned to Parkville. The Blue Lodges now sent 300 inen to take him in the night, hut getting information in time, Mr. Park's friends rallied in about equal numbers, when the mob subsided.
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