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Rev. Gisler and wife are the parents of three daughters, Luella, Talitha and Ruth, all in the public schools. While a Republican in political views, Rev. Gisler has given his sup- port to men and measures that most closely approximated his political and social ideals. He has always been a working advocate of the temperance cause. He is consecrated to his work of helping humanity, whether through his own congregation or in the broader field of the whole community. Public spir- ited, he has been ready to serve any good cause. He has had a successful ministry, and through all his work his most efficient helper has been his loyal wife, whose Chris- tian spirit and sound judgment have smoothed out many of the rough places in a pastoral career.
WILLIAM C. MCDONALD, of Alhambra, is one of the representative business men of that place, as well as a public-spirited citizen of high official standing. His Scotch ancestry assures him a substantial and definitely-di- rected character, and his American birth and training make him adaptable and popular. He is, therefore, finely equipped for permanent progress in an intelligent community of a great state.
Mr. McDonald is a native of Gillespie, Ma- coupin county, Illinois, where he was born in 1870, a son of William and Della McDonald, both of Scotland. The mother died when the son was only four years of age, leaving the widower with four children-Charles, Stella, Fannie and William (of this sketch). The father wedded again, his wife being Miss Liz- zie Dixon, who bore him three children-An-
drew, Jennie and Essic-and passed away in 1905, surviving the husband for five years.
The McDonald children received their edu- cation at the Hoxey school in Alhambra township and developed into intelligent and
useful men and women. Charles married Miss Anna Hulett, and, with his wife, resides near Hamel, where he is in the employ of the Interurban Street Car Company ; Stella mar- ried Alfred Trolliet, a farmer of Alhambra township; and Jennie became the wife of Thomas Campbell, a citizen of St. Louis, Mis- souri. Andrew McDonald wedded Miss Daisy Dugger and is connected with the police force of Madison, while Fannie is now Mrs. Charles Gibson, also of St. Louis.
William C. McDonald learned the barber's trade in his earlier manhood, but for a number of years past, with his good, capable and tal- ented wife, has operated the well known Mc- Donald Hotel of Alhambra. Their cheerful and genial personalities give it a homelike at- mosphere, and as everything about the hostelry is neat and first-class it is one of the substan- tial attractions of the place. In addition to his hotel, Mr. McDonald conducts a large and modern livery, his partner in that enter- prise being Charles Wetzel. The barn which they have built for the accommodation of their growing business is fifty-two by one hundred feet in dimensions, and it shelters a fine col- lection of horses, buggies, surreys and other livery appurtenances which never fail to please the most fastidious.
Mr. McDonald has the full confidence of the Alhambra people, who evince their feel- ing toward him not only in their business deal- ings, but in the bestowal of public responsibil- ities upon him. He has discharged, in a most satisfactory manner, the functions of such offices as town trustee and constable, and no- tary public, and altogether stands for a good and moral municipality. In politics he is a firm Democrat.
In 1893 William C. McDonald married Miss Eva . McMichael, a daughter of W. A. and Elsie ( Harris) McMichael, of Alhambra. Af- ter only eight months of wedded life the young wife died, and in 1896 he married as his second wife Miss Matilda H. Jageman. Mrs. McDonald's father, William Jageman, was born in Furth Odenwahl, Hessen Darm- stadt, Germany, on the 17th of June, 1831. At the conclusion of his school days he was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and at the age of seventeen came to the United States with his parents and settled at Tren- ton, New Jersey. In 1855 he married Miss Jane Copely, whose death occurred some years afterward.
At the outbreak of the Civil war Mr. Jage- man was a resident of Illinois, and he saw
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nearly three years of hard and adventurous Union service as a member of the Tenth Cav- alry, Company F. His narrowest escape from death occurred July 19, 1863. While riding alone that day he was captured by seven Con- federates, who took him from his horse, pro- nounced him a spy, bound him to a tree and then cast lots as to whom should be his execu- tioner. Being a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Mr. Jageman gave the sign of distress ; whereupon one of the captors, who was a member of the order, ordered the Confederate who had been chosen as execu- tioner to put down his gun. The Illinois cav- alryman was tested as an Odd Fellow by his brother Confederate, found to be in posses- sion of the secrets of the order, and held him- self responsible for Mr. Jageman's exchange as a prisoner of war. Under these circumn- stances he returned to his home in Illinois, and on February 5. 1863 (while on furlough). was wedded to Miss Barbara Knapp, of St. Louis.
In April, 1863. Mr. Jageman bade his bride of two months adieu and rejoined his com- mand, with which he remained until his hon- orable discharge in December of that year. Eight children were born of this second union-the daughters being now Mrs. W. Wambsganzs, of Olathe, Colorado; Mrs. L. G. Schien, of Clinton, Illinois; Mrs. R. C. Vanden Broeck and Mrs. William McDonald, the last two residing in Alhambra. The brave, faithful and good father of this family died in September, 1910, his worthy widow surviving him as an honored resident of that place.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Jagemail were well educated, both intellectually and morally, the daughter of Matilda graduating with special honors. Afterward she fitted herself for teaching and was at first placed in the Wider Range school near Alhambra. Her work as an educator was so satisfactory that the Alhambra School Board engaged her as a regular teacher in the city schools, where she was most satisfactorily employed for three years. After her marriage Mrs. McDonald continued to reside in Alhambra, and as wife, mother and social factor of the place formed a wide and warm circle of friends and ad- mirers.
Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald. The first two were twins, Juanita. and Leto, born on the 3d of July, 1899, and they had the distinction of being unique of their kind here for a period of fif-
ty-two years. Naturally their advent into the world caused much local excitement, and for several days the twins and their parents acted as a continuous reception committee to the hundred villagers who called to pay their re- spects to the happy father and mother and the unresponsive pair of little ones who were be- ing thus honored. Since then, however, the twins have "done themselves proud." Both Juanita and Leto are well advanced in their studies and show decided musical talents-the latter playing the violin and the former, the piano; and their duets on these instruments are highly appreciated by the townspeople. The third child, Hazel, was born on the 26th of January, 1907.
For twenty years Mrs. McDonald has faithfully served as correspondent for various Alhambra newspapers, and Juanita, young as she is, assists her mother in this work in con- nection with the Highland Union and Leader. With the assistance of Mrs. Nora Wetzel, she was lately instrumental in securing for the Baptist church one of the four premium pianos given by the Edwardsville Intelligencer; and this is but one of her many acts of energy and self-devotion for the good of the com- munity. In every way both Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Donald are useful, moral and elevating fac- tors in the life of Alhambra.
EDWARD L. MAHER. The large and rapid growth of Granite City as an industrial cen- ter has attracted many men of high ability to its professional and business activities, and many of the foremost representatives of the county's citizenship are to be found there. One of the leading lawyers and men of affairs is Mr. Edward L. Maher, who has been identi- fied with the city since 1904.
Mr. Maher is one of the younger citizens of Granite City, having been born January 8, 1872, at Butler, Montgomery county, Illinois. His parents were Thomas and Bridget (Kelly) Maher, both of whom were natives of Ire- land, the father coming to America in 1848 and the mother in 1849. Thomas Maher came to this country by way of New Orleans, thence to St. Louis and to Butler, Illinois. He was one of the most extensive farmers and land owners of Montgomery county, and at one time was owner of twenty-seven hundred acres in that county. He died at Raymond, November 22. 1882, and his wife passed away on the old farm home, March 12, 1899. They had a large family of boys and girls, whom they provided with substantial means for start- ing life. The children were as follows: Philip,
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a farmer; Richard, a merchant of East St. States when a young man. For many years Louis; Thomas, also in business in East St. Louis; John W., a merchant ; Edward L., James T., a resident of Springfield, who is an auditor for the International Harvester Com- pany; Mrs. Eliza Miller, of Raymond; Mrs. Catherine Sullivan, of Visalia, California ; Mrs. Mary Duncan, of East St. Louis; and Mrs. Anna Pohlmann, of Gillespie, Illinois.
Mr. Maher had liberal opportunities for an education during his youth. He attended the graded and high school at Raymond in his na- tive county, then attended school in Teutop- olis, and from there entered Washington Uni- versity at St. Louis, where he was graduated from the law department in 1904. In the same year he opened his office for a general law practice at Granite City, and is one of the re- liable and successful attorneys. He is owner of valuable city property and also has four or five hundred acres of farm lands.
In politics he is a stanch Democrat, but has not taken time from his business and profes- sional career to take part in practical politics. He is a charter member of the East St. Louis Knights of Columbus, and he and his wife are active members of St. Joseph's Catholic church of Granite City. He married, January 24, 1905, Miss Agatha Dufner, of Nilwood, Illi- nois. They have no children. Mr. Maher is a member of the Madison County Bar Asso- ciation.
JESSE GRANT DELICATE is one of the pros- perous grocers in Edwardsville, Madison county, Illinois. He takes a pride in his busi- ness, and has brought into it system, order, organization, decency and intelligence. Many grocers fail to make a success of their stores because they permit themselves to be cajoled into buying new brands which they are unable to sell. Mr. Delicate, while up-to-date in every respect, is possessed of that soundness of judgment by means of which he instinct- ively knows when an article is apt to become a good seller, and he has rarely been caught with a quantity of unsalable goods on hand. Perhaps another cause of his success is his attentive, but not obsequious demeanor. It is very much easier to be waited upon than to wait upon others, and to serve humanity well, gracefully and effectually is a fine art, which Mr. Delicate appears to have mastered.
The birth of Mr. Delicate occurred on the 22nd day of January, 1872, at New Liberty, Wayne county, Illinois. His father, the Rev. Henry Delicate, was an Englishman, born in Berkshire, England, and he came to the United
he was a well known Methodist Episcopal minister in the Southern Illinois conference ; his charges were at different towns in the state of Illinois, his demise occurring at Wanda, that commonwealth, in 1882. Mrs. Henry Delicate, whose maiden name was Ilar- riet Bunny, was likewise of English birth, she having come to the United States when she was a child. She was a widow exactly twen- ty-two years, since her demise occurred in 1902, at Nebraska City, Nebraska. The Rev. and Mrs. Delicate became the parents of five children, all of whom are living,-Thomas, Annie, Jesse Grant, Catherine and Ernest A.
Inasmuch as the Rev. Henry Grant moved about from place to place, the education of his children was necessarily obtained in dif- ferent towns. Jesse Grant Delicate went to school in Illinois and also in Nebraska, and on terminating his educational training he began to clerk in a grocery store in Nebraska City, Nebraska. During the ensuing seven years he remained in the same store, obtaining such in- sight into commercial methods as has enabled him to successfully conduct his own business. In the year 1892 he came to Edwardsville, where for three years he and O. F. Kendall were the proprietors of a grocery store. Sev- ering his connection with Mr. Kendall, he formed a partnership alliance with James M. Winter and for two years the new firm pros- pered. Mr. Delicate then bought out the in- terest of his partner, and during the past four- teen years he has been sole proprietor of the store that is so well known to the residents of Edwardsville.
In 1898 Mr. Delicate was united in marriage to Miss Lizzie Brinkmann, daughter of Henry and Martha (Tindall) Brinkmann, honored residents of Edwardsville. Mr. and Mrs. Delicate have one son living .- Henry B. An- other son was born to them, but he is now deceased.
Mr. Delicate is greatly interested in educa- tional matters, and for five years he was a member of the school board, and its most ef- ficient secretary ; for the past four years he has held the positions of secretary and treas- urer. His fraternal affiliation is with the Modern Woodmen of America, and in a re- ligious connection he has adhered to the faith in which he was trained by his father, he and his wife both taking an active part in the work of the Methodist Episcopal church of Edwardsville. Mr. Delicate is a member of its official board and the superintendent of its
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Sunday-school. He is very popular with the young people and is no less esteemed by his older friends; young and old take pleasure in visiting him at his pleasant home at 228 Clay street, where they are most hospitably re- ceived by Mr. and Mrs. Delicate.
FREDERICK EDWIN TULLEY, M. D. The medical profession of Madison county is rep- resented by some of the most skilled and learned men of this calling to be found in the state. They have devoted themselves, their time, energy and lives to the preservation of public health and the alleviation of human ills. Theirs is no easy task, nor is it always re- munerated as befits their high standing and un- doubted great work, and yet they cheerfully accept the disadvantages, make the countless sacrifices asked of them, content to feel con- tent in well doing. Their training is excep- tionally rigid, and embraces not only a college course but months in hospitals as well, so that when they begin their practice they are really better fitted for their work than the old-time physician was after a lifetime of endeavor. One of the representative physicians of Gran- ite City, whose sympathy as well as knowl- edge has made him beloved among his patients, is Dr. Frederick Edwin Tulley, of Granite City, Illinois, and a man who has been prominent in the professional, political and social life of the city. Dr. Tulley was born at Oswego, New York, May 19, 1868, a son of John and Jennie ( Monahan) Tulley.
John Tulley was born at Oswego, New York, in 1832, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and was there married in July, 1861, to Miss Jennie Monahan, who was born in Baldwins- ville, New York. Mr. Tulley was engaged in the hardware business at the time of the out- break of the Civil war, and in 1862 he enlisted in the Union army as a member of the One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was mustered out in 1865, having been promoted to the rank of captain for brave and meritorious service, and in 1874 went to Black Hills, Dakota, where he was in partnership with Seth Bullock, who later became well-known for his personal friendship with ex-president Roosevelt. Sub- sequently Mr. Tulley went to Billings, Mon- tana, where he became the first mayor of that city, and he was also Indian agent for the United States Government, in 1882, at Lame- deer, Montana. Returning to Granite City with his wife and children, he passed away here, ten days after the death of his wife. Both were members of the Episcopal church,
and took a great interest in all of its work, Mrs. Tulley being an active member of the Ladies' Guild and the Ladies' Coterie. They were taken back to their old home in Oswego, New York, by their son and there buried.
Frederick Edwin Tulley was given the ad- vantages of an excellent educational training, and graduated from the first high school in Oswego when he was seventeen years of age. Being desirous of engaging in a profession, he entered the medical department of the St. Louis University, from which he was grad- uated in 1894, and immediately thereafter lo- cated in Granite City, where he was engaged actively in a large and lucrative practice until 1906, at which time he practically retired. He arrived in this city at a time when there was much to do in developing the new locality, and bore his full share of the hard work connected therewith, associating himself with all move- ments pertaining to the civic welfare here and giving each his enthusiastic support and hearty co-operation. Politically a Republican, he has been active in the ranks of his party, and has served as president of the board of education and a member of the board of health. For some time he acted as president of the Madison County Medical Association. He was a delegate to the head camp of the Modern Woodmen, at Milwaukee, and repre- sented the Royal Arcanum in the Grand Coun- cil. He was the organizer of the Granite City Lodge of I. O. O. F. He also held member- ship in the Red Men and the Elks, and is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Temp- lar and a Shriner, belonging to Medina Temple of Chicago. For fifteen years he has been active in conventions of the Republican party, and in 1910 was honored by the Re- publican nomination for the office of State Senator. He is president of the Commercial Club of Granite City.
Dr. Tulley was for fourteen years a resi- dent of the West, and there he developed a love for hunting and all out-of-door sports. He is never happier than when out with his dogs and his gun, and is also an enthusiastic automobilist, having made a number of trips through both the East and the West, visiting all the important cities and covering some ten thousand miles.
On August 25, 1898, Dr. Tulley was married to Miss Emily Lukins Pettingill, sister of Oliver, Daniel, Florence and Jessie Pettingill, and daughter of Oliver and Maria (Sippey) Pettingill, representatives of two of the oldest and most highly esteemed families, in this part
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of the state. Mrs. Tulley is an active worker in the Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal church, and was one of the first members of the Ladies' Coterie of Granite City and organizer of the Women's Club. She was presented with a diamond-studded medal as first worthy matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and is president of the Twenty-second District Illi- nois Federated Women's Clubs, in addition to being a member of Cornelia Green Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Dr. and Mrs. Tulley have been prominent in everything that has tended to advance Granite City in a social, educational or religious way, and their charities are many. The comfort- able family residence is situated at Nineteenth and State streets.
JOSEPH WILLIAM CARY. Among Alton's representative business men and citizens is Joseph William Cary, who is engaged in the wholesale watch materials and jewelers' sup- ply business in St. Louis, conducting the same under the name of J. W. Cary & Company, but who maintains his residence in Alton. Ile established his St. Louis business in 1885. and previous to that, from 1870 to 1885, was in the jeweler's business in Alton. His ancestors were sea-faring men and New Englanders, he. in truth, being a representative of one of the old and honored families of New England, the cradle of so much of our national history. Mr. Cary was born in Portland, Connecticut, January 16, 1838, the son of Joseph B. and Lucy ( Hodge) Cary. Joseph B. Cary fol- lowed the sea all his life. He was born at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, in 1811, and passed away in 1890, at the age of seventy- nine years. He was a son of Bigelow and Olive (Williams) Cary, the former of whom was born at Middle Haddam, Connecticut, and died in 1865, when eighty years of age. He, too, followed the sea, voyaging to the West Indies. His wife was born in Portland, Connecticut, and spent part of her girlhood in the state of New York, dying when a very young woman. She, like her husband, came of a sea-faring family and had a brother, Charles Hodge, who commanded a vessel in the West Indian trade. Another of hier brothers; James by name, was one of the Argo- nauts of 1849, who went in an early day to California, there. after diverse fortunes, oc- curring his demise. Joseph B. Cary reared three children, as follows: Matilda (Ibbot- son), who made her home in Brooklyn, New York; Laura, who died at the early age of twenty-five years; and the subject of this re-
view. The Carys trace their genealogy back to the Chapman family, one of the most dis- tinguished of Colonial families.
Joseph W. Cary received his early educa- tion in the schools of Ellington, Connecticut, and in a private boarding academy, where he attended for three years. When a young man he sailed the seas on his father's vessel as a cook and sailor at sixteen dollars a month, beginning this career when sixteen years of age. Ilis first modest capital was, in fact, the savings of six months on the "bounding main." In 1855 Mr. Cary came west to ac- cept a position with his uncle, W. W. Cary, who owned a jewelry store in Alton, and he remained with that gentleman for fifteen years, or until 1870. Under his uncle's excel- lent tutelage he learned the jewelry business in all its details and was so pleased with it that he determined to adopt it for his own life work. In course of time his uncle sold out to him and the elder man went to California. W. W. Cary, still well and favorably remem- bered by the older generation, had been in business in Alton since 1836 and was one of the early merchant jewelers. After living in California for a decade he returned to the east of his birth and located on Long Island, where lie died. He was a very remarkable, eccen- tric man and self-made, his success being en- tirely the result of his own efforts. He was reared in Portland, Connecticut, but came to AAlton in early youth and had much to do with its early history. His birth occurred in Middle Haddam, Connecticut, in 1806, and he died at Flushing, Long Island in 1895.
As previously mentioned, Mr. Cary con- ducted his jewelry business in Alton from 1870 until 1885 and met with great success. Desiring a wider field. in the year last men- tined he removed his business to St. Louis and engaged in the wholesale watch material and jewelers' manufacturing business in that city. At the present time his trade territory extends over the entire territory tributary to the city of St. Louis and is experiencing constantly in- creasing growth. It is one of the best known concerns of its nature in this section of the United States. His establishment is located in the Globe-Democrat building, at the corner of Pine and Sixth streets.
Mr. Cary was married in 1865, the lady to become his wife being Anna Fay, of Alton, daughter of Thomas and Phoebe ( Fairchild) Fay, old residents of the city, to which they were among the early comers. Mrs. Cary, an admirable woman, died in the spring of
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1902, deeply regretted by all who had come within the sphere of her gentle influence. Their union was blessed by the birth of two daughters : Ellie, who died at the age of ten years ; and Lucy, wife of W. B. Robinson, and now resident with her father, There is one grandchild, Cary Waples. Mr. Cary main- tains his residence in Alton and is honored as one of its most valuable and respected citizens.
WILLIAM SUHRE is a citizen who has spent over half of his life in the public offices of Madison county, having served in various ca- pacities continuously since he was twenty-one years of age and also having celebrated his fiftieth birthday on October 4, 1911. He is one of the five children of Ernst and Mary Steinkuhler Suhre, natives of Germany, from which country they immigrated before their marriage. They settled in Madison county and were married here. The names of their children were Henry, Herman, Frederick and William and Mary. Ernst Suhre died at the age of thirty-five and his widow married Wil- liam Hinke, a farmer. Three sons and one daughter were born of this union: Sophia, Edward, Otto and Gustave.
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