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In 1896 Mr. Hull was elected to repre- sent the Forty-second Senatorial District, composed of the counties of Clay, Washing- ton, Marion and Clinton, in the Upper House of the State Legislature, in the cam- paign of which memorable year he ran far in advance in his home town of any other can- didate on the Democratic ticket, receiving more votes than were polled for William Jennings Bryan, the popular head of the na- tional ticket, and the idol of Democracy. Mr. Hull's career in the General Assembly
was eminently honorable, and he took high rank as an industrious and useful member, who spared no effort in behalf of his con- stituents, besides laboring earnestly and faithfully for the general good of his state. In 1904 he was renominated by his party, and in the ensuing election his Republican competitor withdrew from the race, it being evident that he would be overwhelmingly de- feated. The district that year was com- posed of the counties of Marion, Clay, Clin- ton and Effingham. In the senate he be- came the minority leader, and in addition to serving on a number of important com- mittees, took an active part in the general deliberations of the chamber, participating in the discussions and debates, and to him belongs the credit of leading in the fight for a direct primary, also of being the only mi- nority leader who ever succeeded in holding his party together on minority legislation. Mr. Hull's senatorial experience is replete with duty ably and faithfully performed, and such was the interest he manifested for his district that he won the confidence and good will of the people irrespective of po- litical alignment, all of whom speak in praise of his honorable course and the broad enlightenment spirit which he displayed throughout his legislative career. As already stated he is a familiar figure in the conven- tions of his party, both local and state, and for a period of twenty-eight years he has not missed attending a Democratic national convention.
For several years Mr. Hull owned and occupied the place where Mr. Bryan was
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born, but after the campaign of 1896 he sold it to Mr. Bryan, between whom and himself the warmest friendship has ever prevailed. The two were classmates when they at- tended high school, since which time they have labored for each other's interests, and as stated above, their attachment is stronger and more enduring than the ordinary ties by which friends are bound together. Mr. Hull has served the people of his city as School Director, and for a period of two years he was president of the Inter-State In- dependent Telephone Association, besides being for a number of years a member of the executive committee. He also served for a series of years on the executive commit- tee for the operators on the scale of agree- ment, with the United Mine Workers of America, a position of great responsibility and delicacy, as is indicated by the fact of his having devoted one hundred and twelve days in one year to the settlement of wage scales and of disputes between the contend- ing parties, besides having been called upon repeatedly to adjust differences and har- monize conflicting interests, which arose from time to time, between the two organi- zations.
The domestic chapter in the life of Mr. Hull dates from May 10, 1883, when he was happily married to Miss Lulu Ham- mond, the accomplished and popular daugh- ter of Hon. J. E. W. Hammond, the latter a prominent merchant and influential politician of Marion county, Illinois, who served in the Legislature, on the County Board of Supervisors, and for many years
was one of the public spirited men and rep- resentative citizens of Salem. On her mother's side Mrs. Hull traces to the Lov- ells and Hensleys, who were among the earliest settlers of Marion county, as is men- tioned elsewhere in this volume. Senator Hull's beautiful and attractive home on North Broadway, the finest and most de- sirable private dwelling in the city, is brightened and rendered doubly attractive by the presence of two intelligent and in- teresting daughters, namely: Lovell, born January 8, 1888, and Louise, whose birth occurred on the 31st day of May, 1897, these with their parents constituting a happy and almost ideal domestic circle.
Senator Hull's fraternal association rep- resents the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks', the Knights of Pythias, Inde- pendent Order of Red Men, and the Modern Woodmen, in all of which he has been an active and influential worker, besides being honored with important official positions from time to time. In the midst of his many strenuous duties as a business man and public servant, the Senator has not neg- lected the higher obligations which man owes to his Maker, nor been unmindful of the claims of the Christian religion-to which deep and absorbing subject he has devoted much profound study and investi- gation, and in the light of which he has been led into the straight and narrow way which leads to a higher state of being here, and to eternal felicity beyond death's mys- tic stream. Subscribing to no human creeds or man-made doctrines, he takes the
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Holy Scriptures alone for his rule of faith and practice, and as an humble and consist- ent member of the Christian, or Disciple, church, demonstrates by his daily life the beauty and value of the faith which he pro- fesses. He has been identified with the re- ligious body since his young manhood, and for more than twenty years has been the able and popular superintendent of the Sunday school, besides filling other official stations. Mrs. Hull is also a faithful and devout Christian, an active member of the church, and deeply interested in all lines of good work under the auspices of the same. Since her fourteenth year she has been the accom- plished organist of the congregation in Sa- lem, as well as an efficient and enthusiastic teacher in the Sunday school. Senator Hull is a liberal contributor to benevolent enter- prises, and it was through his initiation and influence that the present handsome temple of worship used by the Christian church, was erected, his contributions to the build- ing fund being twenty-five dollars for every one hundred dollars contributed by the con- gregation. In addition to his munificence already noted, the Senator has given largely to various worthy objects of which the world knows nothing, in this way exempli- fying the spirit of the Master, by not letting the left hand know what the right hand doeth, or in other words, doing good in secret in the name of the Father who hath promised to reward such actions openly.
Senator Hull is a splendid specimen of well rounded, symmetrically developed, vi-
rile manhood, with a commanding presence and a strong personality, being six feet in height, weighing two hundred and thirty- four pounds, and moving among his fellows as one born to leadership. He is a notice- able figure in any crowd or assemblage, and never fails to attract attention, not only by his powerful physique, but by the amiable qualities of mind and heart, which show in his face, and always make his presence pleas- ing to all beholders. He has directed his life along lines which could not fail to ef- fect favorably the physical as well as the mental man, having from his youth been singularly free from thoughts which lower and degrade self-respect, and from those in- siduous habits which pollute the body and debase the soul, and which today are prov- ing the destruction of so many young men of whom better things have been expected. Mr. Hull is a total abstainer in all the term implies, having never tasted, much less taken a drink of any kind of intoxicants, nor used tobacco in any of its forms; neither has he ever taken the name of God in vain. He is pleasing and companionable, a favorite in the social circle, and a hale and hearty spirit, whose presence inspires good humor, and who believes in legitimate sports and pas- times and in the idea that fret and worry are among the greatest enemies of happi- ness. With duties that would crush the ordi- nary man, he has his labors so systematized that he experiences little or no inconveni- ence in doing them. He believes in rest and recreation and is an advocate of vacations, and he invariably takes one every summer,
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but not in the manner that many do, by locking his office and hieing away to the seaside, lake or forest, to spend the season in tiresome sports. His vacations, which are always enjoyable, are spent in the hay- field, where he finds the recreation condu- cive to good health and a contented mind.
Personally Mr. Hull is a gentleman of unblemished reputation, and the strictest in- tegrity and his private character and im- portant trusts have always been above re- proach. He is a vigorous as well as an independent thinker, a wide reader, and he has the courage of his convictions upon all subjects which he investigates. He is also strikingly original and fearless, prosecutes his researches after his own peculiar fash- ion, and cares little for conventionalism or for the sanctity attaching to person or place by reason of artificial distinction, tradition or the accident of birth. He is essentially cosmopolitan in his ideas, a man of the peo- ple in all the term implies, and in the best sense of the word a representative type of that strong American manhood, which commands and retains respect by reason of inherent merit, sound sense and correct con- duct. He has so impressed his individuality upon his community as to win the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens and be- come a strong and influential power in lead- ing them to high and noble things. Measured by the accepted standard of ex- cellence, his career, though strenuous, has been eminently honorable and useful, and his life fraught with great good to his fel- lows and to the world.
WILLIAM H. DILLMAN.
William H. Dillman, the well known president of the Clay County State Bank at Louisville, Illinois, was born in Oskaloosa township, on the family homestead, where he grew to manhood. The date of his birth was July 14, 1867. He is the son of Louis Dillman, a native of Kentucky, who came to Illinois when fourteen years old and set- tled in Oskaloosa township on a farm, . where he lived for many years. He is now retired, making his home in Louisville. He was formerly president of the State Bank and is well known in the county as a man of much ability. Vachel Dillman, grand- father of the subject, was also a native of Kentucky, who came to this state at an early day and developed a good farm. The subject's mother was Harriett B. Smith, whose people were natives of Tennessee, where she was born. She is still living. Eleven children were born to the subject's parents, namely : Dr. Asa E., of Steuben, Wisconsin; Mrs. Mary E. Graham, of Os- kaloosa township; Mrs. Sarah E. Burdick, of Oskaloosa township; William H., our subject; Dr. J. V., at Ingraham, Illinois; Lillie M., now deceased; Mrs. Ida Steeley, cf Louisville, this county ; Mrs. Della Mont- gomery, also of Louisville; Dora, deceased ; Polly Ann, deceased; Henry, deceased.
William H. Dillman was united in mar- riage in 1898 to Cora P. Brown, the refined and accomplished daughter of P. P. Brown, of Louisville, Illinois, and two children have been born to this union, namely : Howard B.
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and Robert V., ten and five years old re- spectively at this writing, 1908, both bright and interesting lads.
Mr. Dillman acquired a good common school education, and after spending three years at the State Normal, at the Union Christian College of Merom, Indiana, and at the Orchard City College at Flora, Illi- nois, where he graduated with honors, Mr. Dillman entered the law office of Hagle & Shriner in that city, and in 1896 was ad- mitted to the bar, since which time he has been ranked as one of the leading lawyers of Clay county, and. has built up an excellent business, practicing in all the courts in this and adjoining counties with great success.
When Judge Farmer, now one of the Su- preme Judges of the state of Illinois, was on the bench of this, the Forty-second Senato- rial District, he selected Mr. Dillman as the Master in Chancery of this county. Later on, upon the death of William H. Hudelson, Mr. Dillman, by the terms of the will, was made the executor, the will conveying to him in trust for twenty years money and property representing over two hundred thousand dollars. No better testimony of confidence in a man's integrity has ever been paid to a citizen of this county. Mr. Dillman was Master in Chancery for six years. The directors of the Clay County State Bank elected him president of that institution in the summer of 1908.
his county's affairs. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows, the Home Circle. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dillman are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Dillman, busy with the management of the bank, which he gives the most care- ful attention and which is regarded as one of the solidest banks of the southern part of the state, finds insufficient time to carry on his law practice, although it is not entirely abandoned. Mr. Dillman throughout his ca- reer has been very active, progressive and de- termined, carrying forward in successful completion whatever he has undertaken in a business way. Mr. Dillman attributes a very large measure of his success to his many and faithful friends. He is clearly entitled to be classed among the leading citi- zens of Clay county-a man whose strong individuality is the strength of integrity, vir- tue and deep human sympathy and no one has more friends than he throughout the district.
H. T. PACE.
A happy combination of characteristics is possessed by the honorable gentleman of whom the biographer now essays to write, for he has shown during his long residence in Salem, Marion county, Illinois, that he is a man of rare business acumen, foresight and sagacity, at the same time possessing lauda- ble traits of character such as integrity, in-
He was the Democratic nominee for Rep- resentative from this district in 1908, but was defeated. He has always been a stanch Democrat and has taken an active part in dustry, sobriety and kindliness; these, com-
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bined with his public spirit and model home life, have resulted in winning for Mr. Pace the unqualified esteem of all who know hini.
H. T. Pace was born one and one-half miles south of Salem on a farm, February 3, 1850, and, believing that better opportu- nities awaited him right here at home, he early decided to cast his lot with his own people rather than seek uncertain success in other fields, and, judging from the pro- nounced success which has attended his sub -- sequent efforts, one must conclude that he made a wise decision.
The subject's father was George W. Pace, a native of Kentucky, who came to Jefferson county, Illinois, when a young man, but soon after locating here he moved to Marion county, where he engaged in farming, later in the furniture business, having spent many years in this; he also learned the tailor's trade and conducted a tailor shop for a time soon after coming here. He was a man of considerable force and influence, honest, hard working and hospitable, who spared no pains in rearing his family in the best pos- sible manner, always holding out high ideals and lofty aims. He was noted as a great story teller as well as a kindly, neighborly man. He was born December 18, 1806, and passed to his rest June 1, 1867. He was one of the oldest pioneers of Marion county, be- ing one of the best known and most beloved men in the county and familiarly called "Un- cle George."
The mother of the subject, whose birth oc- curred on the same day of the month as that of her husband, December 18th, in the year
1808, was known in her maidenhood as Ta- bithia J. Rogers, a native of Tennessee, the representative of a fine old Southern fam- ily, and she "crossed over the mystic river" to join her worthy life companion on the other shore February 26, 1881, at the age of seventy-three years, after closing a serene and beautiful life of the noblest Christian at- tributes and wholesome influence. One of the most commendable traits in our subject was his devotion to his mother, with whom he lived until her death, joyfully administer- ing to her every want and sacrificing much in his own life that she might be comfortable and happy. Nine children were born to the parents of the subject, only three of whom are living at this writing, 1908. The living are: O. H. Pace, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, at the age of sixty-eight years; Mrs. O. E. Tryner, living at Long Beach, California, at the age of sixty years; H. T., our subject. The parents of the subject were married May 13, 1830.
H. T. Pace remained under his parentai roof-tree during the lifetime of his parents. He attended the common schools in Salem, where he diligently applied himself and re- ceived a good education. However, thirst- ing for more knowledge, he attended college at Jacksonville, Illinois, for a short time. The stage having allurements and he having nat- ural talents as a comedian, he traveled for three years with some of the best companies on the road as a black-face comedian, win- ning wide notoriety through this medium.
Tiring of the stage, he went to Denver in 1880, where he clerked for a while in a jew-
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elry store, later worked as a Pullman con- ductor between Denver and Leadville over the South Park Railroad. In 1884 Mr. Pace came back to Salem and has remained here ever since prospering in whatever he has un- dertaken.
The harmonious domestic life of the sub. ject dates from 1884, when he was united in marriage with Alice H. Andrews, the ac- complished and popular daughter of Samuel Andrews, who sacrificed his life for his country, having met death in the Union lines while fighting in defense of the flag. At the time of their marriage Mr. Pace was sup- posed to be on his death bed from a sudden and serious illness. The married life of this couple has been a most ideal one and has re- sulted in the birth of seven children, five of whom are living. Their names follow : Claude S., of Salem, engine foreman at the Chicago & Eastern Illinois shops; Effie Jenella, Lynn Harvey, Ned R., Gladys D., Lowell died in infancy, as did also the last child, Mona.
After his marriage Mr. Pace went into the piano business, which he has since con- ducted for twenty-five years, the greatest success attending his efforts, his house being known throughout Marion county, and his trade extending many miles in every direc- tion, as a result of his skill in managing this line and his uniform fairness and courteous- ness to customers. His piano parlor is one of the popular business houses of Salem. Mr. Pace keeps a modern and up-to-date line of musical instruments, talking machines and similar goods.
Fraternally Mr. Pace is a member of the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen and the Eastern Star, being the Worthy Patron in the latter order.
Mr. Pace is now the only member of this worthy family in Marion county, and he is one of the oldest native born residents of Salem. Among his interesting collection of relics and curios is an old clock which his father and mother bought when they first went to housekeeping.
In all the relations of life our subject has been found worthy of the trust imposed in him, being a man of rare business ability, force of character and possessing praise- worthy qualities of head and heart which make him popular with all whom he meets, and he is today regarded by all classes as be- ing one of the staunchest, most upright and representative citizens of Marion county.
D. D. HAYNIE.
For the high rank of her bench and bar Illinois has always been distinguished, and it is gratifying to note that in no section of the commonwealth has the standard been lowered in any epoch of its history. To the subject of this review, who is at the time of this writing, 1908, the popular and influen- tial Clerk of the Circuit Court at Salem, Marion county, we may refer with propriety and satisfaction as being one of the able and representative members of the legal profes- sion of the state. He prepared himself most
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carefully for the work of his exacting pro- fession and has ever been ambitious and self-reliant, gaining success and securing his technical training through his own deter- mination and well directed efforts. He not only stands high in his profession but is a potent factor in local politics, his advice being often relied upon in the selection of candidates for county offices and he has led such a career, one upon which not the shadow or suspicion of evil rests, that his counsel is often sought and heeded in im- portant movements in the county, with grati- fying results.
D. D. Haynie was born in Marion county, Illinois, November 22, 1848. His father was William D. Haynie, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, where he was born August 29, 1798. He came with his mother to Winchester, Tennessee, when he was ten years old, and remained there until . he reached young manhood. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, having performed gal- lant service in the same, after which he re- turned to Kentucky, settling near Hopkins- ville, where he married Elizabeth B. Frost, and where he lived for several years, finally in 1832 moving to Salem, Illinois, bringing three slaves with them, which they later lib- erated. They lived in Salem, developing the primitive conditions which they found, for many years, rearing eleven children, namely : Abner F., deceased, having died in 1850; General Isham N., who died in 1868, having been adjutant general at the time of his death, formerly colonel of the Forty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry ;
William M., died in 1855; Rebecca was the wife of James Marshall, who moved to Texas and died there about 1857; George W., quartermaster of the Forty-eighth Illi- nois Volunteer Regiment, who died in 1891, when seventy years old; Mary and John B., both died in infancy ; Elizabeth is the widow of Hon. B. B. Smith, who was one of the first and best lawyers in southern Illi- nois, and who died in 1884, his widow now residing at Mount Vernon, Washington : Martha J., now deceased, was the wife of Dr. Thomas Williams, of Jacksonville, Flor- ida, dying in Philadelphia in 1906; Sarah C. is the wife of L. L. Adams, of Spokane, Washington; D. D., our subject, was the youngest of the family.
Our subject made his home with his father until he died in 1870, the subject's mother surviving until 1884. They were people of excellent qualities of mind and heart, and spared no pains in giving their children every advantage possible, and the wholesome home influence in which they were reared is reflected in the characters of the subject and the other children.
D. D. Haynie attended the common schools when a boy, making rapid progress. Being ambitious and thirsting for all the book learning possible, he entered the State Normal at Bloomington, Illinois, after a course in which he made an excellent record, he returned home and clerked, but believing that his true life path lay along the higher lines of the legal profession, he begun the study of law and was admitted to the Salem bar in 1871. His success was instantaneous
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and he soon built up a good practice. His born to the subject and wife, who was given unusual attributes soon attracted attention the name of May E., and who is now the wife of William W. Morrow, of Oklahoma City. The subject's wife was called to her rest January 21, 1878, and he was married the second time, this wife being in her maidenhood, Maggie Bobbitt, daughter of Joseph J. Bobbitt, who was a soldier in the Eighth Kentucky Regiment. She proved a worthy helpmeet and to this union the fol- lowing interesting children were born: Edith M., now living in Spokane, Washing- ton; Donald C., of Salem, Illinois, is clerk for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Rail- way Company. The subject's wife died in April 1890. The subject then married Rose M. Haley, the daughter of Rev. J. L. Haley, a well known Cumberland Presbyterian minister, the date of the wedding falling on July 14, 1891. No children have been born to this union which has been a most harmonious one. and he was appointed clerk in the Pension Agency located in Salem, which position he held with much credit for a period of six years. He then devoted some of his time to farming with gratifying results, at the same time continuing his law practice which had by this time been built up to a very large practice. He has continued with great suc- cess ever since he first began practice in 1885. During this time he has served his county and city in many official capacities. He was twice elected president of the City Board of Education, and afterward was a member of the same for two terms; during his connection with the same the educational interests of the city were greatly strength- ened. He was elected Police Magistrate in 1904 and elected Circuit Clerk as a Repub- lican and is serving in this capacity in 1908, making one of the best clerks the court has ever had. In all his political and official Fraternally the subject has been a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows for thirty-seven years, having occupied the chairs of the same, and he has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity since 1879, a chapter member. career, not the least dissatisfaction has arisen over the manner in which he has handled the affairs entrusted to him, and he has by this consistent record gained a host of admiring friends throughout the county.
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