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Our subject in his fraternal relations is a Mason, having passed all the chairs in the local lodge. He is a trustee of the Metho- dist church, of which both he and his wife are faithful members and liberal supporters. The doctor is a loyal Democrat. He is a member and president of the pension board. Dr. Fyke is one of the well known men in
Marion county, where his long and success- ful career has been spent, and has a pleas- ant and well furnished home in Odin.
CHARLES C. SANDERS.
The subject has seen the development of Marion county from an obscure wild prairie district to one of the leading counties - of the state, and he has done his full share in promoting the industrial and civic affairs of the county, ranking today among her best known and most highly honored citizens.
Charles C. Sanders was born in Centralia township, Marion county, December 21, 1848, the son of Robert and Nancy (Cop- ple) Sanders, both natives of Indiana. The father came to this county a single man in an early day and married here. He was al- ways a farmer and blacksmith, having bought a farm in Centralia township which he sold and went to Missouri, where he re- mained a short time, then came back to Centralia township and bought another farm on which he lived until his death in 1855. His wife died in 1854. They were the parents of six children, namely: Cath- erine, deceased; Charles C., our subject ; John, deceased; Samuel, Robert and the youngest child was a boy. The subject's parents died when he was small and he went to live with John Thomas for three years in Centralia township, also three years with John McClelland, who was his guardian until 1865.
When seventeen years old our subject
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went to enlist in the Union army as a sub- stitute, but his uncle prevented him from en- listing. He then went to work out at different places, until he was nineteen years old. On December 28, 1867, he married Martha Jane Hudlow, who was born De- cember 11, 1849, in Jefferson county, Illi- nois, the daughter of James and Roxanna (Hildibiddle) Hudlow. James Hudlow died in 1849. His widow then married Alexander Garren; her third husband was John Sprouse, and her fourth husband was George Birge. She died in 1898. Mrs. San- ders had one sister who married Thomas Groves. She lived in Indiana.
After his marriage the subject lived on his father's place for a time, then he traded for his present farm in section 25, Centralia township, where he has one hundred and twenty acres. It had only a few improve- ments on it when he took charge, but being a hard worker he developed a good home and a fine farm, about half of the place now being cleared, on which highly productive land he raises corn, hay, apples, peaches, pears and much small fruit, and he also raises some good horses, hogs and cattle, and carries on a general farming business with great success, being a good manager. He has always been a farmer, but he found time to operate a threshing machine for twenty-seven years and did a thriving busi- ness.
Mr. Sanders is a Democrat and he has held minor offices, having served on the school board. He is a member of the Chris- tian church.
The subject and wife are the parents of six children, namely: Robert C., a farmer in Clinton county, this state, married Addie J. Cameron and they have five children, namely : Fred, Dwight, Claude, Melinda and Menzo. Mary Etta, the second child of the subject, married Elmer Satterfield, of Rac- coon township, and they have the following children: Frank, Bert, Clara, James, Sarah and Ottie. Nancy, the subject's third child, married Edgar Morrison, lives at Odin, Il- linois, and has three children, Jessie, Charlie and Mary. Lillie, who married George Day, lives at Odin, Illinois, and has one daughter, Pearl; Edgar is a farmer in Rac- coon township, this county, who married Delle Martin, and they have two children, Ruby and Floyd; Dicey May is living at home.
Our subject is a well known man in this county where he has many friends and bears an exemplary reputation.
DANIEL C. GENOWAY.
The people of Denver township, Rich- land county, Illinois, point to Daniel C. Genoway as one of their most valued citi- zens, admiring him for his high moral character, for his life among them for more than a half century may well be likened unto an open book. That they place implicit confidence in him is evidenced by the fact that they have elected him to several town- ship offices, the duties of which he dis-
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charged with credit. He made his advent into the world in the pioneer days, and spent his boyhood days upon the farm.
Mr. Genoway was born in Clermont county, Ohio, September 7, 1831, and in his early "teens" left the farm to become an apprentice to a carpenter. He also learned the cooper's trade, but did not work at it for a great length of time. The father of the subject was Joseph Genoway. His mother's maiden name was Rebecca Crum- baugh, born in Ohio in 1799. The paternal grandfather of the subject, Joseph. Geno- way, came from his native France, as one of General LaFayette's soldiers to aid the America colonists in the Revolutionary war. Liking the country, he remained here becoming a citizen of the young republic. and finally settling in Connecticut. Mr. Genoway's maternal grandfather, Jacob Crumbaugh, emigrated from Germany to this country, settling in Kentucky, and a few years later was married to Mary Baker, of Maryland, whose ancestors were from Germany.
The subject came to what is now Denver township, Richland county, in 1855, and worked industriously at his trade, building many dwellings and barns. He and Philip Heltman, well known in this locality, were engaged in building a barn in Jasper county during the days of the Civil war, when a recruiting officer happened to pass, and de- scending from the roof Mr. Heltman en- listed on the spot. Mr. Genoway was mar- ried to Ruth McGuire in January, 1861. Their children were Charles Vanlanding-
ham, born October 27, 1862; Peter Elmer, born February 11, 1865. The first named was educated for the medical profession, and after some local practice being anxious to advance, studied medicine in. New York City, Vienna, Austria and Rome. He is now an eminent physician in Spokane, Washington. He has a wife and three chil- dren. Peter Elmer was educated at Olney, and is now a professional teacher. He holds a high official position in the Ben Hur fraternity. He married Miss Eva McLain, and has two children. Some time after the birth of these children the wife of the sub- ject died, and on March 7, 1869, he es- poused Martha Washburn. His second wife was born in Denver township, Febru- ary 22, 1851, and was the daughter of Hen- ry and Eleanor (Gard) Washburn. Her pa- ternal grandparents were Willis and Nan- cy (Allender) Washburn, born respective- ly in 1799 and 1801. Her uncle, Joseph Washburn, was a soldier in Wilders' fa- mous brigade, as was her uncle, James Washburn, who died in the army hospital at New Albany, Indiana. Her ancestors were generally members of the Baptist faith. The subject and his wife had six chil- dren : Harry E. was born February 9, 1870. He has traveled extensively, but is now at home with his parents; Rebecca E., born November II, 1871, died the same year; John H., born March 5. 1873, married to Florence Watts in 1894, and lives near Fred- ricktown, Missouri, being a miner: Lemuel T., born September 6, 1874, served in the Spanish war and died October 19. 1904;
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Lillie M., born February 2, 1877, now the wife of Clifton O. Walker, of Piatt county, with three children, Fern, Martha and Del- bert; George Andrew Louis, born Novem- ber 7, 1883, married December 24, 1905, to Bertha Cook, was in the regular army as telegrapher in Alaska for three years, and received from the government one hundred and sixty acres of land near Wendt, South Dakota, where he is now operator and ex- press agent, and where he owns in addition to government land a tract of equal size which he purchased.
The father of the wife of the subject, Henry R. Washburn, is still an active man at the age of eighty-three years, and lives in Piatt county, Illinois. He was twice married and the fruit of each union was nine children. When he first came to Il- linois he worked for fifty cents a day, and through his own efforts acquired a farm of two hundred acres. Mr. and Mrs. Geno- way are known as very charitable people, and they are now raising two little girls, who were left homeless, Frances Steward and Cora Cagel. The former was taken into the home when eleven years old, and the latter when two years old.
FRANK BRADFORD.
The subject of this review enjoyed dis- tinctive prestige among the enterprising men of Marion county, having fought his way onward and upward to a prominent
position in industrial circles and in every relation of life his voice and influence were on the side of right as he saw and under- stood the right. He was always interested in every enterprise for the general welfare of the community and liberally supported every movement calculated to benefit his fel- low men; and although the last chapter in his life drama has been brought to a close and he has been called to a higher sphere of action, his influence is still felt for good in his community and he is greatly missed by hosts of friends and acquaintances.
Frank Bradford was born in Weymouth, Medina county, Ohio, August 10, 1852, where he spent his boyhood days and at- tended the common schools. About 1865 he came with his father, George Bradford, and family to Flora, Illinois, where the father conducted the old Buckeye House and where Frank engaged successfully in farming and trading until 1879, in which year he was happily married to Mary E. Hull, the only daughter of the late Erasmus Hull, and to this union a son and a daughter were born, the former having died in infancy; the latter is now Mrs. Roland C. Brinkerhoff. Of Mr. Bradford's own family but two sisters survive in 1908, namely: Mrs. Minnie Bettis, of Arkansas, and Rose Lebus, of Ardmore, Oklahoma. Mrs. Bradford, a woman of many fine traits, is living in Salem® in the cozy, substantial and well furnished Bradford residence. Frank Bradford was a descendant of the ninth generation of Gen. William Bradford, of Revolutionary fame. George Bradford, father of our sub-
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ject, was born in Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts, and he was called to his rest while living in Arkansas. The mother of the subject was known in her maidenhood as Abalinda Russell, who was born in Hart- ford, Connecticut, April 10, 1823, and she was called to her reward while living in Flora, Illinois, February 27, 1872, at the age of forty-eight years. The subject's parents were of the best blood and reputa- tion and were much admired in whatever community they lived for their honest and hard-working lives.
When but a mere lad Mr. Bradford united with the Methodist Episcopal church at Flora, Illinois. He was received into the Methodist church in Salem by letter on De- cember 12, 1879, under the pastorate of Rev. Fred L. Thompson and he remained in that faith, an ardent supporter of the church un- til his death.
Atkin, and Mr. Bradford took a position with this firm which soon became E. Hull & Son,. changing later to the Hull Dry Goods Company and then to C. E. Hull. Mr. Bradford remained through all these changes, having been regarded as indispens- able to the firm's business, until he went as manager for the firm to Kinmundy, where he remained for a short time building up the trade in a very substantial way, and later he was manager for Hammond & Hull in Salem. While conducting the latter busi- ness Mr. Bradford suffered an attack of ner- vous prostration and was very sick for a time. Both for recreation and as a means of regaining his health he began managing his farm, spending only an occasional day in the store; but improvement was not so rapid as was expected for the long and strenuous life in the commercial world had undermined his health so extensively that rapid improvement and even recuperation could not be expected, consequently on Wed- nesday night, February 6, 1907, when he was planning to attend a meeting of the Pythian Sisters in company with his wife, about 5:30 o'clock in the afternoon, he was seized with an attack of apoplexy while at his home. This soon developed into paraly- sis of the left side which soon became com- plete. He remained in an unconscious state until 6:50 the following morning, when the white winged messenger came. The funeral services were conducted at the residence Saturday afternoon following, by Rev. J. G. Tucker, of the Methodist Episcopal
Soon after his marriage, Mr. Bradford located in Salem and entered upon a long and honorable business career of which all speak with words of praise. Being of a jolly disposition and having a kind word for everyone, he commanded, perhaps, the largest patronage of any single salesman in the community. His scrupulously honest methods and his natural ability also at- tracted scores of customers. He first en- tered the mercantile establishment of Hull and Morris. In 1880, Mr. Hull having purchased the interest of Mr. Morris and also the interest of Scott Muggy in the firm of Atkin & Muggy, the two stocks were combined under the firm name of Hull & church and interment was made in the
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family lot in East Lawn Cemetery. The floral offerings were beautiful and elaborate from the many friends of the deceased and also from the Knights of Pythias and Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows lodges, the Pythian Sisters and the Rebekahs, of which orders either he or Mrs. Bradford had been consistent members. And the great throng of sorrowing friends and acquaintances that came to pay a last tribute to their much loved friend attested as fully as was possible the love and high esteem in which Mr. Bradford was held by every one who knew him. Public-spirited and liberal he was ever in the forefront of all plans for im- provement and the betterment of Salem and his sudden calling away was a distinct loss to the entire community, for his life had been industrious, scrupulously honest and kind.
JAMES HARVEY DELZELL.
the township, and such possessions as he holds he has accumulated through the prac- tice of honest and straightforward business methods.
The subject is the son of John N. Delzell, and was born in Tennessee August 13, 1845. His father, who was born December 29, 1818, in Blount county, died December 12, 1903. He was educated in a college at Marysville, Tennessee, and after leaving that institution became a teacher, and later engaged in mercantile business. He re- moved to Denver township in 1861 with his family and team, and with eighty-four dollars in his pocket. Through his indus- try he eventually accumulated farm land amounting to four hundred acres, a large portion of which he cleared for cultivation. The grandfather of the subject, Robert Del- zell, came to Denver township in 1853, and died there. He was born about 1788, and was a soldier in the War of 1812. His wife, whose maiden name was Dorcas Da- vis, was of Scotch ancestry, and her father served as a soldier during the Revolution- ary war. The subject had five brothers and two sisters. Daniel, born July 5, 1847, was educated for the ministry, while John, whose birth occurred September 9, 1849, became a teacher, and was for many years Clerk of Olney, Illinois. Both of these brothers were educated at McKendree Col- lege. Lebanon, Illinois, and both are now dead. William H. was born April 27, 1852, and is now a resident of Wichita, Kansas, having retired from active life. Charles
James H. Delzell is justly proud of the fact that his ancestors were among those hardy pioneers who endured with great for- titude the numerous perils and hardships that beset men and women who sought homes in the wilderness of the new republic in its earlier days. Mr. Delzell is one of the striking figures in Denver township, Richland county, Illinois, not only from a physical, but a mental standpoint. He is a man who has seen much of the world, and has kept in touch with human events. He ranks among the heaviest land owners in was born October 27. 1855, and died in
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early manhood. The birth of Alice (Del- zell) Adams occurred February 28, 1858, while Laura (Delzell) Mitchell was born No- vember 24, 1860. The date of George's birth was August 24, 1868, ad he lives at Newton, Illinois.
The subject married Martha Lowe March 24, 1868, and their children were D. W. and Mrs. Ora (Delzell) Hoel. The former was married to Teressa Tippett, and they have six children, Mattie, Howard, Grace, Lester, Edna and Mabel. Mrs. Hoel, daugh- ter of the subject, is the mother of three children. The subject has been married four times, his second wife having been Emma Monroe, his third Nancy Adeline Hardin. His present wife, whose maiden name was Mary Jackson, was born Novem- ber 22, 1854, and married May 10, 1877. Their children are: John, born March I, 1881, a merchant at Palestine, Illinois ; Mrs. Sadie Dauwalder, born November 27, 1882; Mrs. Dora Seessengood, born July 26, 1884; Elsie, born September 21, 1888; Ed- ward, born October 26, 1890; Myrtle, born May 6, 1893; Raymond, October 31, 1895.
The father of Mrs. Delzell, Cornelius Jackson, died April 1, 1894, aged sixty years. The subject of this sketch is the owner of two hundred and twenty acres of well improved land, and has been one of the most active agriculturists in this com- munity, combining the cultivation of the soil with stock raising and shipping. The family of which he is a member has al- ways preserved an honorable name, and is highly esteemed in this county. Mr. Delzell
was made a Mason in 1866. He has strong religious convictions, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of long standing.
JOHN E. MARTIN.
John E. Martin has spent his entire life in Salem, Illinois, having been born here December 24, 1857, the son of Gen. James S. Martin. His mother was known in her maidenhood as Jane Elston, of English ancestry. The parents of the subject were married in Salem. To them were born seven children, three of whom are living, namely : John E., our subject; Luther, living in Salem; and Mrs. Grace M. Webster, also of Salem. They all received the most care- ful training possible by their parents and were given good common school educations. The subject's father, whose life history is given in detail on another page of this work, passed away in 1907, after a long and busy career, and the mother of the subject, who was a woman of beautiful attributes, was called home in 1889.
John E. Martin, our subject, spent his boyhood in Salem, where he attended the common schools, making a splendid record in the same. He later attended the Claverack (New York) Military School, and a private school at Kennett Square, Penn- sylvania, which was later moved to Media, that state. He also went to school at Boon- ville, Missouri, to the Kemper Family school. In both of the latter he made rapid
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progress and came out well fitted for life's duties. After leaving school Mr. Martin launched in the dry goods business in Salem in which he continued with marked success attending his efforts for a number of years. finally moving his store to Sandoval, Illi- nois, where he also remained for several years, building up an excellent trade by rea- son of his minute knowledge of this line of business and his courteous treatment of customers, always giving them value re- ceived. In 1888 our subject assisted his father, who was State Chairman of the Re- publican State Committee, in the clerical work, and after the campaign he accepted a position with J. B. Farwell Company at Chicago, as salesman, and he remained with this firm for five or six years, giving entire satisfaction in his work. He came back to Salem about 1890 for the purpose of ac- cepting a position with the Salem Na- tional Bank which he has been connected with since that time, giving the managers of this institution entire satisfaction and handling his position in such a way as to increase the prestige of the bank and reflect much credit upon his innate ability. He has prospered by reason of his executive ability and modern business methods until he has accumulated considerable property, owning at this time valuable farming lands. He is also a stockholder in the Salem Na- tional Bank.
Mr. Martin's domestic life dates from June 18, 1894, when he was united in mar- riage with Clara Merritt, the accomplished daughter of Hon. T. E. Merritt, an old and respected family of Salem. This union has
been blessed by the birth of five children, two of whom are living and three deceased. Their names are: The first child died in infancy, unnamed; James Stewart and Mar- garet Merritt, twins, are both deceased; Merritt Elston and Alice Jane are living, both bright and interesting children.
Mr. Martin takes a great interest in church work, being a member of the Episco- pal church, to which his wife also belongs. He has been interested in helping build the new church on West Union street, which is one of the most attractive and subtsantial little churches in Salem. In politics Mr. Martin is a loyal Republican, always ready to lend a helping hand to promote the in- terests of his community whether along po- litical, educational, moral or religious lines. The home of the subject is nicely furnished, and presided over with rare grace and dignity by Mrs. Martin, who is often host- ess to numerous friends of this popular family. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are pleasant people to meet, always courteous and kind.
AARON BUGHER FARQUHAR.
Another of the representative farmers of Richland county is the subject of this sketch. who is the owner of a fine landed estate in sections 22 and 23, Denver township, and is carrying on the various departments of his enterprise with that discretion and diligence that insures success.
Aaron B. Farquhar was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1841, the son of William and Sarah ( Moss) Farquhar.
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They were both natives of Washington coun- patriotic feeling and enlisted his services in ty, Pennsylvania, and were married in Fay- ette county, that state, living on a farm there the remainder of their lives, the father dying January 26, 1856, at the age of fifty- five years ; his wife survived him many years, dying about 1898, at the advanced age of eighty-five and was buried in Red Stone cemetery, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, while the remains of her husband rest in the Quaker· cemetery, near Fayette City, Penn- sylvania. They were the parents of six chil- dren, five of whom grew to maturity, one dying in childhood, the subject of this sketch being the youngest in order of birth.
Aaron B. Farquhar remained at home on the farm and attended the free schools there until about eighteen years of age, his father having died when he was about fifteen years of age, he remained on the place with his mother for three years after his father's death. In 1860 the subject came by rail to Illinois where he worked on a farm by the month in Knox county, near Galesburg. He left Knox county in 1861, returning to Penn- sylvania and began the study of dentistry and began practicing the same in Knox county, Illinois, in 1861, to which place he had re- turned from Pennsylvania. He was very successful in his practice and he remained in Knox county until 1862. In May of that year he went to California, where he prac- ticed his profession part of the time, also did some gold mining while there. In Octo- ber, 1863, he returned to his old home in Pennsylvania, where he remained that win- ter and on March 24. 1864, gave way to his
defense of his country, in Company H, Eight- eenth United States Infantry, under Cap- tain Mills, in which he served until October, 1866, when he was transferred to Company C, Second Battalion, where he remained un- til he was mustered out of service, March 24, 1867, at Fort Philip Kearney, Dakota. This was at the place of the Sioux Indian massacre, December 21, 1866. Eighty-four men were sent out to protect a wood train from the Indians and not a man returned alive, all having been killed and scalped. by the Indians, and had it not been that the subject was on guard duty at that time he would have been with the unfortunate sol- diers that fell a prey to the Sioux. During the Civil war Mr. Farquhar served gallantly in the battles of Resaca, Buzzard's Roost, Missionary Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Chickamauga and many others, comprising ten principal battles, from Missionary Ridge to Jonesboro, Georgia. He returned to Lookout Mountain and did picket duty during the winter of 1864. In March, 1865. he was detailed to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he did recruiting service. He was also at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and Chicago, on the same mission. In April, 1866, he again joined the regiment and moved to the Da- kotas, where he remained until mustered out. He returned to Pennsylvania where he re- mained one year after he had been mustered out, enjoying a rest after the many hard- ships of an army career.
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