Centennial history of Madison County, Illinois, and its people, 1812 to 1912, Volume II, Part 44

Author: Norton, Wilbur T., 1844- , ed; Flagg, Norman Gershom, 1867-, ed; Hoerner, John Simon, 1846- , ed
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 868

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William Suhre went to school at Alhambra. When he was a boy he suffered from an at- tack of rheumatism which made it impossible for him to work for three years. He em- ployed the time in attending the West district school. Later he went to St. Louis and for three years was employed there. At the age of twenty-four he was married to Theodosia Pearce, the daughter of Dr. F. M. and Salina Cherry Pearce. Dr. F. M. Pearce was born March 18, 1830, near Grant Fork, Illinois. He was graduated from the St. Louis Medical College when quite young and was a great favorite in his profession. He was a member of the legislature in 1887, was the first presi- dent of the village board of Alhambra, which position he held almost constantly until his death, March 23, 1889, at the age of fifty-nine years and five days. He was a Mason and was buried by that order, New Douglas, Staun- ton and Edwardsville lodges participating. His loss was greatly felt throughout the com- munity, as he was one of nature's noblemen. Eight children were born to William and The- odosia Suhre, four of whom died in infancy. The others are Mamie E., Theodosia, Earl W. and Pearce Eugene, the latter bearing his mother's maiden name and also that of the family physician, Dr. C. E. Harnsberger, of Alhambra.

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of homes of their own, but before being mar- ried they were engaged in teaching in the county schools. Miss Mamie taught first at the Grove district school in Ft. Russell town- ship. Later she was employed in the Central school in Nameoki township and for two terms at Sylvan Hall in Pin Oak township. Theodosia taught the Suhre district school in Alhambra township, then the I. X. L. or Union school in Leef township and in 1911, in the graded schools of Livingston in Olive township. Their work was successful and a genuine contribution to the advance of edu- cation. Mamie E. and Theodosia Suhre were married August 27, 1911, at the parsonage of Rev. H. Rahn at Edwardsville, Illinois. Mamie was married to William Mindrup, who is engaged in the butcher business at New Douglas, where they now reside. Dosia was married to Leto A. Talleur, of Marine, where they reside and where he is engaged in the milling business. The sons of Mr. and Mrs. Suhre are still in school. Earl has completed the eighth grade and Eugene has finished his first term.

After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Suhre took up their residence in Alhambra, where for three years Mr. Suhre was engaged in the mercantile business. After this he went into contracting and building and put up some of finest of Madison county's country homes. For seven years he was engaged in the under- taking and embalming business for Mrs. S. Hackmann, of Alhambra. In 1910 he pur- chased two and a half acres of land outside of the corporation and built his present com- modious dwelling house upon it. Mr. and Mrs. Suhre are members of the Methodist church, South and are numbered among its most earnest workers. Their interest in all that pertains to the county's welfare as well as their many excellencies of personal char- acter place them among the people whom it is our pride to call representatives of the best type of our Middle-Western citizenship.

The Democratic party had always been the one to which Mr. Suhre has given his support. He has repeatedly been chosen to fill offices of responsibility, having served as assessor, col- lector, township clerk, supervisor and justice of peace. In Alhambra he has been presi- dent of the village board, clerk, trustee and magistrate.

GEORGE D. HAYDEN, who was born in Alton October 7, 1836, is one of the oldest native residents of the city, and represents a name that has been honorably identified with Alton

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for eighty years. The Haydens originated in England, whence the family was trans- planted to America in the seventeenth cen- tury by Enoch Hayden. Another ancestor was a member of the Thayer family, one of the earliest in Massachusetts colony, and John Alden was also related to one of the carlier branches.

Nathaniel Hayden, grandfather of George D., was a native and lifelong resident of Mass- achusetts, and he rests in a cemetery at Dor- chester, where his last years were spent. Will- iam Hayden, son of Nathaniel, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, and during his youth served a five years' apprenticeship to the car- penter's trade under his brother Isaac, at Marlboro. After following his trade in Bos- ton a few years, in 1831, accompanied by his family, he started for the west. A sailing vessel brought him to New Orleans, and thence he came up the river to Alton. AAlton was then a village, though already of consid- crable importance as a center of trade and travel, most of the land adjacent was still in government ownership, and the days of the Indian and wild game were not yet passed.

In May, 1831, William Hayden began bus- iness as a carpenter and builder, and soon formed a partnership with Samuel Wade, as Hayden & Wade. After a few years he en- gaged in the lumber business, which he con- tinued until his retirement in 1870. For part of the time the firm was Hayden, Pierson & Company, dealers in lumber and building ma- terial of all kinds. He was a public-spirited citizen and was one of the typical men of the time who made Alton conspicuous both in business and citizenship. William Hayden died in 1881. His wife was Ann Robinson, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and her nephew, David Robinson, has been mayor of that city and is now treasurer of Essex county. There were three children: William H., a retired citizen of Springfield; George D .; and Charles A., an Episcopal clergyman now resident of Buffalo, New York. The parents were both Baptists and brought their children up in that faith.

The old Hayden home was one of the liouses that once stood on the hill at the pres- ent site of the postoffice, and it was there that George D. Hayden was born and spent his early years. He is one of the few citizens who remember the high waters of '44, when the river reached the highest point in the history of the city, and as a venturesome lad of eight years he was nearly drowned while walking

along the improvised sidewalks on Second street. After attending school until he was fifteen, he entered an apprenticeship to the machinist trade. At the end of five years in the shops of Nathaniel Hanson he was em- ployed for a time as a journeyman in the same shop, and then worked for the Chicago & Alton railroad. Leaving that he was engaged in the lumber business with his father until 1869, when he established the machine shop which has been conducted under his name for over forty years. The walls of his shop on Second street are part of one of the oldest business structures in the city, the old Man- ning & Glover's dry-goods store having once been located there.

Mr. Hayden has witnessed the growth of the Alton business district from the time Pi- asa creek ran uncovered to the river, when wooden bridges spanned it at Second street, and flat-boats loaded with cordwood came up its current ; when most of the frame build- ings on both sides were built on piles, and when most of the area north of Second street was open and marshy ground. A keen ob- server of the changes of time, his memory is stored with interesting details of carly Alton, and on local history he is an authority. The Indian remains and traditions have also been carefully studied by him, and he has many interesting specimens of the aboriginal occu- pation.

Fraternally he is a member of Piasa Lodge, No. 27. A. F. & A. M., Alton Chapter No. 8, R. A. M .. Belvidere Commandery No. 2, K. T .; also Fleur de Lis Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and the Knights of Honor.

In 1857 Mr. Hayden married Miss Sarah Shelly. She was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of David and Bar- bara Shelly, Pennslyvanians of German an- cestry.

GOTTLIEB KLEMM, a hardware merchant at Bethalto, has had a notable career. When we consider the achievements of a. man of his prominence we are driven to make a compari- son between his condition and that of other men who commenced their business life with just as great educational advantages and just as much outside help, yet many of them eke out a bare existence, while Mr. Klemm is re- garded as a wealthy man. Circumstances have a great effect on one's career, yet it is due to Mr. Klemm to say that the successful man generally makes his own circumstances. or at least he must be so constituted that he can take advantage of the opportunities which

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present themselves. Mr. Klemm's success is largely to be attributed to his shrewd judg- ment, which has shown him what to accept and what to reject.

A native of Switzerland, Mr. Klemm's birth occurred on the 25th day of March, 1851. He is a son of Christian and Rosa (Von der Flue) Klemm, both born in Swit- zerland, where the father passed his entire life, and after his death the mother came to America. Gottlieb, their son, remained in his mountain home the first twenty years of his life, during which period he received an education and then was apprenticed to a black- smith, under whom the young man developed into a skilled workman. In 1871 he deter- mined to leave Switzerland and try his for- tunes in the United States, so bidding farewell to the friends of his boyhood and youth he scraped together barely enough money to pay his passage to New York and embarked on a vessel for the New World. On his arrival in New York, he found himself possessed of but one cent in cash-a stranger with no know- ledge of either the language or the customs of the people amongst whom he had come. He was, however, possessed of an unbounded amount of enthusiasm and hopefulness and that capital he has retained intact throughout his career thus far. He immediately sought and found work and for two years' he re- mained in New York city, plying his trade. In 1876 he came to Bethalto, where he is now engaged in the hardware business, and is the owner of considerable property, besides his store. He is a stockholder in the First Bank and Trust Company of Alton.

In the year 1879 Mr. Klemm was united in marriage to Miss Tedda Aylets, who had come from Germany a short time before. To this marriage five children were born,- Rosa, now the wife of John Carp; Lena, married to Walter Cook; George, residing in St. Louis; Gottlieb, who married Louisa Dietz, and they live in East St. Louis; and Tillie, who also lives in East St. Louis. In a religious way Mr. Klemm has remained true to the faith in which he was carefully. trained by his mother, and is a member of the Lutheran church; in fraternal connection he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past grand; his political allegiance has ever been unfalteringly ten- dered to the Republican party, who have recognized his abilities to aid them by electing him to the office of alderman, in which ca- pacity he has served with good results to the

town. There is no resident of Fort Russell township who is not willing to give credit to the man who has attained the position of prominence which Mr. Klemm enjoys in their appreciation of the courage which has assisted him to carve his career.

JOSEPH ADAMS HIRSCH, M. D., one of the leading members of his profession in Ed- wardsville, has been engaged in successful practice here since February 1, 1900. He was born in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, March 6, 1873, a son of John Frederick and Elizabeth (Curts) Hirsch. The father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1818, came to America in 1830, and in 1840 moved from Ohio to Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, where he was engaged in farming until his death in 1885. He was a man of liberal education and attended the Lutheran church. His wife, nee Elizabeth Curts, a native of New York, died in ·1888 and was the mother of eight children. She was interested in charity work and was affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal church. Dr. Hirsch was graduated from the Plymouth high school at Plymouth, Wisconsin, in 1892. He taught a district school three years and then began his professional duties in the office of a Plymouth physician. He entered the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, in St. Louis, and was graduated from that insti- tution in 1899. Before coming to Edwards- ville he successfully passed a competitive ex- amination for the position of resident physi- cian to the St. Louis Children's Hospital, and was appointed to that position, serving in that institution one year,

Dr. Hirsch is a member of the county and state medical societies and of the American Medical Association and takes an active in- terest in other organizations, being a member of the Edwardsville Commercial Club, the Re- tail Merchants' Association of Edwardsville and is affiliated with Edwardsville Lodge No. 99, A. F. & A. M., Chapter No. 146, R. A. M .; with the Knights of Pythias, Modern Macca- bees, the Redmen and the Elks. He is also examiner for several life insurance companies. He is a valued and original contributor to medical journals, his article on "Diet in Ty- phoid Fever" which appeared in the Illinois Medical Journal having received most favor- able comment, as did that on "Pneumonia" which. appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Dr. Hirsch was married in July, 1904, to Miss Tyne Servoss, a native of Edwardsville. She is a daughter of John Henry and Anna

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(Brown) Servoss, the former a native of New York and the latter a native of Vermont.

H. D. DAUDERMANN, a retired farmer and stockman, at present engaged in the livery business at Alhambra, is known throughout the county as a lover of horses. In spite of the increasing prevalence of the automobile, there are still to be found men who take a pride in their horses, and notable among this number is Mr. Daudermann, the owner of some of the finest breeds of liorseflesh in the county. He trains his horses to do his bid- ding and delights in the feeling that he can master the proudest, most spirited steed. In- stinctively the horse feels that in Mr. Dauder- mann he has met his superior.

The birth of H. D. Daudermann occurred on the 21st day of June, 1862, at Alhambra, Madison county, Illinois. He is a son of Henry and Elizabeth Daudermann, natives of Germany. Father Daudermann immigrated from that fine old Fatherland when he was a young man; when he arrived in America he had no money, but he was very industrious and enterprising, obtaining work wherever he could find honest employment. At one time lie worked for a few cents a day splitting rails, and at the time of his death he was regarded as one of the most prosperous farmers in Al- hambra. Mrs. Daudermann died August 14, 1883, and her busband, bereft of his life com- panion, made his home with his son, H. D. Daudermann. Loving hearts and hands antic- ipated his every wish and his last days were comforted by the tender solicitude of the daughter-in-law, who endeavored in a con- scientious manner to discharge the duties of. a daughter. His death occurred three days after Christmas, 1899, and for him the new country began in another sphere. Of the six children who were born to Father and Mother Dauder- mann, two died in infancy and the names of those who grew to maturity are,-Charles, Mary, Emma (deceased) and Henry.

In the year 1908 H. D. Daudermann left the parental roof, where he had lived while he gained his schooling and where he had farmed in his later life, and he took up his residence in the town of Alhambra, where he engaged in the livery business and he has, by his genial manners and his sound principles of commer- cial integrity, succeeded in establishing a very fine trade. In 1907 he erected for himself and family a house (situated on the main street of Alhambra), which is one of the show places of the town. Not only is the building of impos-

ing appearance, but it bears evidence that it is in every sense of the word a home.

From his boyhood Mr. Daudermann has loved horses and has been able to train and raise them successfully. He has owned and sold some of the finest matched teams that ever went out of this part of the country ; he was the owner of "Penny," a fine French Perche- ron, which Mr. Daudermann imported and for which he paid fourteen hundred dollars. At one time he sold about five thousand dollars worth of horses; then he disposed of his two- hundred acre farm and at the same time sold some more of his horses, for which he re- ceived thirty-five hundred dollars. In 1909 one of his teams took the first prize at the Highland, Madison county, fair, as being the best matched pole team in the county.

On December 30, 1884, Mr. Daudermann was united in marriage to Miss Amanda Kauf- mann, a daughter of Gustave and Mary (Jehle) Kaufmann, the father a native of Germany and the mother of St. Louis birth. Mr. Kauf- mann was but eleven years old when he accom- panied his family to America ; they settled on a twenty-acre tract of land, built a log cabin and proceeded to farm. Gustave A. Kauf- mann later became a man of wealth and influ- ence ; was one of the founders of the town of Kaufmann and he became the owner of one thousand acres of land. His demise occurred in 1910. He was the father of seven children, one of whom died in infancy, while Albert, William, Bertha, Augusta, George and Amanda (whose birth occurred in 1864), lived to maturity. The Kaufmann children were all educated at the West District School and George also took a business course in a St. Louis business college. Mr. and Mrs. Dauder- mann commenced their wedded life on the old homestead where Father Daudermann had lived years before; at the time of their mar- riage the farm contained one hundred and sixty acres, and Mr. Daudermann added to this from time to time until he had over two hun- dred acres, as before mentioned. Four daugh- ters and one son were born to Mr. and Mrs. Daudermann, - Matilda, Adaline, Tarcie, Frances and Henry Gustave, who in his name continued the cognomens of both grandpar- ents, according to an old German custom of perpetuating family names. The children were sent to the West District School and to the Al- hambra graded school and the three young ladies have fitted themselves for one of the most noble callings in life, that of imparting

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knowledge to others, Miss Matilda was the proud possessor of her first school certificate before she had attained her seventeenth year ; commencing her teaching at the Butler district school, where she taught for one year, she next was one of Hamel's teachers for two years, and subsequently she put in six years of suc- cessful teaching at Venice, where her work was so eminently satisfactory that she is em- ployed at the same place for the year 1912. The Venice school, though a district school, employs eight teachers and has eight grades. Miss Adaline's initial teaching experience was obtained at the Hoxsey district school; she taught there for one year, then taught the Wide Range school for one year, was next at Glen Carbon for four years, as primary teacher, and is now engaged at the Woodriver high school as primary teacher. Miss Tarcie's experience, though more brief, is every whit as important as that of her sisters. She was at Pleasant Ridge one year, then two years at Maryville as second grade teacher, and is now engaged as a second primary teacher at the Woodriver high school. The two younger girls are interested students of music; Miss Adaline has chosen the violin as the instru- ment on which she would excel, while Miss Tarcie is an accomplished pianiste; the two young ladies delight their friends by their per- formances on piano and violin. Miss Frances is taking piano lessons and is thus following the musical lead given by her older sisters. The whole Daudermann family are enthusias- tic admirers of good horses; the team that took the first prize at the county fair at High- land are owned by Miss Matilda and Miss Adaline ; their brother, Henry G., at the age of nine years, is the proud possessor of a fine Shetland pony, "Dewey," and the time that is not occupied by his school work-his studies for the third grade -- and his piano practice, is for the most part spent in gallopng about the country on the back of "Dewey."

Mr. and Mrs. Daudermann have hosts of friends not only at Alhambra, but all over the county, and those who are fortunate enough to be counted in this class of intimates are always sure of a welcome to the pleasant home in Al- hambra, which is presided over by Mrs. Dau- dermann and her attractive daughters, who vie with Mr. Daudermann in their warm-hearted, generous hospitality.

WILLIAM C. KRIEGE, one of the principal merchants and business men of Edwardsville, began his career as a clerk and has built up a business that ranks among the best in his city.

He was born in Edwardsville township, in April, 1862. His father, William F. Kriege, was born and educated in Germany and came to America in 1854, landing at Baltimore and continuing directly to Madison county. His career as a farmer began on a place of forty acres, which his industry increased to one hun- dred and ten acres, and there he lived and reared his family until his death, in November, 1910, at the age of ninety-four. He was one of the organizers of the German Methodist Epis- copal church at Edwardsville, was a class leader and to the close of his life remained one of its liberal supporters. He married Miss Mary Hilgen, whose death occurred in Feb- ruary, 1900. Their four children were: Ma- tilda, deceased; Louis W., a farmer; Henry W., a physician in St. Louis ; and William C.

William C. Kriege began his education in the country schools and later attended the Wesleyan College at Warrenton, Missouri. After a brief experience as clerk in a store, he represented a St. Louis hardware and cutlery house as traveling salesman six years. He and A. A. Suppiger then opened a business in Ed- wardsville, the firm of Kriege & Suppiger con- tinuing several years, when the firm became Kriege & McKittrick. The latter's interest was then sold to F. J. Rinkel at which time the business of W. C. Kriege & Company was or- ganized and Mr. Rinkel has since sold his in- terest to W. C. Kriege. The place of business is a two-story brick building, fifty-six by one hundred feet, on South Main street, and the stock includes a large line of hardware, farm machinery, stoves, tinware, buggies, wagons, harness and groceries.

Mr. Kriege is a trustee and the treasurer of the Edwardsville German Methodist Episco- pal church. Fraternally he is a member of Edwardsville Lodge, No. 99, A. F. & A. M., and he is a Republican in politics. He mar- ried. in 1902, Miss Clara C. Smith, daughter of C. P. Smith, an old resident of this county. They have two children, Lenora F. and Ade- line M. The family reside in a handsome sub- urban home one mile south of Edwardsville.

DR. D. F. DUGGAN. There is no higher call- ing that men may follow than that of the physi- cian, for in him must be brought together a deep and sincere interest in the myriad facts of science, an unfaltering skill of hand and mind alike, and, above all, a devotion and sympathy for all of suffering humanity. Money must not tempt him, grinding hours and effort must not appall him. At every hour of the day and night he must be ready to lend his

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strength, skill and loving service, at the call of pain. Such talents as these are those that have wrought for success in the life of D. F. Dug- gan, M. D., of Alton, Illinois. A large practice know from experience of his work and patience as physician and surgeon.

Dr. Duggan was born at Cairo, Illinois, in 1873, a son of Michael and Ellen Duggan. His parents were both natives of Ireland, who had immigrated to this country in 1853, and made their new home at Cairo, Illinois. Both have since passed to their eternal reward. Dr. Duggan received his early education in the public schools of his native town, and later, after attending the high school, went to St. Mary's College, at St. Mary's, Kansas, and graduated from that institution with the class of 1897. He then began the study of medi- cine in St. Louis and graduated from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 1902. In that same year he began the active practice of his profession at Jerseyville, Jersey county, Illinois, and for the next four years built up a large and successful practice in that place. But in 1906, feeling that Jerseyville was too narrow a field, he removed to Alton, and now has offices in the Commercial building and does general practitioner and surgeon's work, and has already taken his place as one of the leading members of the medical profession in the county. Genial, whole-souled and sincere, he has a large circle of loyal and devoted friends. His interest in his profession has led him to keep up with the changes in medical views that scientific research is daily bringing about, and he is carefully cognizant of all that happens in the medical world. He is a mem- ber of the County, State and American Medi- cal Associations.

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Centennial history of Madison County, Illinois, and its people, 1812 to 1912, Volume II, Part 44

Author: Norton, Wilbur T., 1844- , ed; Flagg, Norman Gershom, 1867-, ed; Hoerner, John Simon, 1846- , ed Publication date: 1912 Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 868

Author: Norton, Wilbur T., 1844- , ed; Flagg, Norman Gershom, 1867-, ed; Hoerner, John Simon, 1846- , ed
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 868