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USA > Illinois > Randolph County > Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois . With illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers > Part 82
USA > Illinois > Monroe County > Combined history of Randolph, Monroe and Perry counties, Illinois . With illustrations descriptive of their scenery and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers > Part 82
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John Huggins, No. 45 13.00
Wm. Brown & Jas. Crain, No. 43 . 26.50
David Pyle, No 17 8.001/4
No. 44. . 16.00
Elijah Wells, No. 31 20 00
Gabriel Jones, No. 16 . . 12.5616
Robert Caldwell, No. 30. 20.00
William Garner, No. 28 . 22.1216
Berry Anderson, No. 15 . 9.00
William C. Murphy, No. 37. . . 26.00 William Johnson, No. 14. . 5,00 Matthew Vann, No 39 17.50 David Baldridge, Nos. 26, 27, 33 . 37.47
There were twenty-four lots sold, and one thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty-eight and one- half cents realized from the sale.
The first dry goods store in this city was kept by Charles Glover in 1827. His store-room was a small log building which occupied the lot where Jacob Kunz's blacksmith shop now stands on the north side of the public square.
As most of the historical facts connected with the city are given in the foregoing pages of the precinct history we will not repeat them here.
No organization was ever had until March 17, 1857, when an election was held at the court house for the purpose of voting upon the question of incorporation. Lewis Hanmack was chosen president of the election and William MeEwing clerk. The vote was almost unanimous in favor of incor- poration, there being thirty-nine votes in favor and only two opposed. On the twenty-sixth of the same month an election was held, and John Baird, J. L. Mann, S. M. Carter, Philip Gruner and A. D. Gosney were elected trustees. On the 30th of September, 1872, an election was held as to the adoption of the general law, and was carried by a vote of thirty-four in favor to sixteen opposed.
The first steam mill in the town as well as the county, was built during the years 1854 to 1856. It was erected by a corporation known as the Pinckneyville Mill Company, at a cost of $20,000. The company was organized on the 22d day of September, 1854, and John Baird as President, Humphrey B. Jones as Secretary, Hawkins S. Osburn, Joel Rushing and Fergus M. Milligan were the first trustees. A three story brick building, sixty by forty feet, with a stone basement, was erected nearly north of the present public school building. The capital stock was $15,000 divided into three hundred shares. A good steam engine furnished the motive power, while a saw and three run of burrs, with a capacity of fifty barrels a day, comprised the machinery. The mill never paid its owners, and was totally destroyed by fire in 1860.
Besides the handsome and substantial county building, there are numerous large and commodious brick business houses, almost surrounding the public square; and many handsome and costly private residences in the town. The education of the children is well cared for in a handsome two-story six-room brick building. Five churches care for the moral and spiritual welfare of the community. The Methodist Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran and Roman Catholic congregations have handsome brick church edifices, while that of the German Methodists is a neat frame. The streets of the village are wide, and the sidewalks are kept in good repair. The street surrounding the public square has just been well macadamized at a heavy expense; and many feet
of tile sewering is now being laid. The railroad facilities of the town are of the most beneficial character, as the Cairo Short Line Railroad enters the precinct at the north west corner, passing across it, and through the village in a dia- gonal direction, and passes out at the southeast corner. The Chester and Tamaroa railroad passes through Pinckneyville and across the entire precinct from southwest to northeast; while the St. Louis Coal Railroad has its northern terminus at Pinckneyville, connecting it with Murphysboro. Few towns are more favorably situated for manufacturing, as a supply of water, coal and timber are found in abundance.
PRESENT BUSINESS.
Pinckneyville Coal Mining Company .- The certificate of incorporation of this company is dated October 7th, 1874, and names S. J. Gillis, Alanson Edwards, and M. C. Edwards, as commissioners, to open subscription books. The company was to exist for ninety-nine years, and have its office at Pinckneyville. The capital stock was $15,000, divided into one hundred and fifty shares. The share- holders were John R Jones, who held twenty-seven shares ; Alanson Edwards, six shares; S. J. Gillis, twenty five shares ; B. W. Jones, five shares, and George W. Gillis eighty-seven shares. At an election for Directors, held October 1st, 1874, John R. Jones was elected for one year, Alanson Edwards, two years, and S. J. Gillis for three years. The following spring a shaft was sunk, and a five and one-half foot vein of good coal reached, at a depth of thirty feet. The works are operated by steam, and employ twenty men, who dig from four to five car-loads daily. The mines now belong to Hon. William K. Murphy, and are operated by Barwell & Carter.
Plow Factory .- This industry was established in 1868, by Enoch C. Eaton. The building is a one-story frame, one hundred and thirty by forty feet. Four forges are in con- stant use. The motive power is furnished by a twenty-four horse power engine. The establishment employs ten hauds in the manufacturing of Eaton's sulky and walking plows, which have an extensive sale. Other agricultural imple- ments are also manufactured. About ten thousand dollars are invested in the business.
('ity Flouring Mills .- These mills were built in 1871, by John H. Schulze & Son, at a cost of twenty-six thousand dollars. The building is a three-story brick, seventy-five by forty-five feet, with a brick engine room; in which there is a sixty horse-power engine. The mill is furnished with four run of burrs, and many of the late improvements. The capacity of the mill is one hundred and twenty-five barrels, much of which find a ready market in New Orleans and St. Louis. Ten men find employment in the mill, and seven iu the cooper shop. The present owners and opera- tors are Nolle, Standing & Co. This firm ships about one hundred thousand bushels of wheat annually.
" O. K." Mill .- Henry Bohn built this mill in 1874, at a cost of eight thousand dollars. It is now owned by Sawyer & McCracken, of Nashville, and operated by A. Duckworth, manager. The building is a frame, forty by thirty feet, three stories high, with a warehouse, twelve feet
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wide, the entire length of the building. The machinery is moved by an engine of sixty-horse power. There are three setts of burrs in the mill, whose capacity is seventy-five barrels a day. The business is principally custom. Four hands are employed in the mill. There is a cooper shop attached, in which three hands are employed. About eighty thousand bushels of wheat are shipped annually.
Fallon Mills .-- The owner and present proprietor, Robert V. Fallon, erected this mill in 1874, at a cost of $5,000. The building is a two-story frame, forty by twenty-four feet, with a wing twenty four feet square. It is supplied with a thirty-horse power engine, a wheat, a corn, and a middling burr. Its capacity is thirty-five barrels. This is a strictly custom mill. A saw-mill is also attached. Four men find employment in this establishment.
Banking House of Murphy, Wall & Co .- Friend Smith and Robert Rushing, cashiers.
General Stores .- G. R. Hincke & Bro., Lewis Weingarth, C. H. Gieser & Co., J. P. Cowens, Henry Driemeyer, J. W. Bischof & Bros., O. S. Butler.
Druggists .- Campbell & McNeil, Prudence E. Smith.
Grocers .- W. R. Schember, R. H. Eaton.
Confectionery and Restaurant .- J G. Hepp. R. H. Eaton, Alexander MeCants, Edward Smidt.
Jeweler .- Charles Geumalley.
Millinery and Fancy Goods .- Wilson & Christian.
Physicians .- William L. McCandless, George S. Smith, R. S. Peyton, Guy Morrison, Thomas Holman.
Insurance .- Mortimer C. Edwards & Bro, Ralph G. Wil- liams. Hardware .- Jacob M. Kunz.
House Furnishing and Tinner .- Philip Gruner.
Boots and Shoes .- Fred. Beck.
Saddler and Harness Maker .- Charles A. Hoffman.
Blacksmiths and Wagon Makers .- Slimpert & MeDonald, Driemeyer & Schoch, J. M. Kunz.
Real Estate .- Kane & Bischof. Clothing and Notions .- A. Haas, Joel M. Sullivan.
Merchant Tailors .- Lutz & Brey.
Sewing Machines .- Fred. Beek.
Furniture and Undertakers .- Robert Q. Thompson, Adam Yung.
Books .- Robert Q. Thompson.
Grain Dealers .- J. L. Murphy, Lewis Yung.
Lumber and Builders' Material .- Wangelin & Co. Carpenters and Contractors. - William G. Wilson, Adams Gieser & Son, Joseph Schilling, Martin Schneider.
Butchers .- Henry Kaiser, Henry Meehlhausen.
Shoemaker .- William Dunn.
Brick Mason .- John Gruver.
Stonemasons .- Herman Mueske.
Milliners and Dressmakers .- Miss Sophia Schrader, Miss Lena Hoffman.
Dressmaker .- Mrs. Wallace.
Barbers .- Charles Geumalley, Edward C. Hayes.
Cigar Manufactory and Tobacconist .- William Klotz.
Agricultural Implements .- Kane, Son & Bischof, John J Bischof. Livery Stable .- Peter Lec.
Hotels .- Sullivan House, Joel M. Sullivan ; City Hotel,
Joseph Bischof; Broadway House, Alexander Grosney ; Rule House, Mrs. Belle Osborn.
Postmaster .- Robert Q. Thompson.
Saloons .- Frederick Mueller, Joseph Bischof, Jolın J. Bisehof, Isodore Bout, N. E. Orton, Charles Eisfelder.
Lime, Cement and Builders' Material .- Lewis Yung.
Beaucoup Lodge, No. 159, I. O. O. F .- This Lodge was instituted by B. J. F. IIauna, special deputy, assisted by Brothers Gorsuch, of Sparta, and C. Was-el and W. C. JJones of Chester September 20th, 1854. James G. N. Anderson, David W. Sanders, Wilson McQuaid, Samuel Eaton and J. M. Montague were the charter members. J.G. N. Ander- son, N. G., E. J. Dickerson, V. G. and Samuel Eaton secretary, were the first officers. During the war the lodge ceased to exist, but was re-chartered December 15, 1865. The present officers are William E. Gladson, N. G. : George Clark, V. G .; James W. Trover, recording secretary ; Henry Sehroeder, permanent secretary, and John Burke, treasurer, are the present officers. The present membership numbers thirty-five. The financial condition is good. The lodge meets every Wednesday night in their hall in J. L. Mur- phy's building.
Mitchell Lodge No 85, A. F. and .I. M .-- The lodge was chartered October 8, A. L. 5×50, with W. C. Hoff, E. R. Roe, J. T. Linsey and James Keyes as charter members. The present membership numbers forty-seven.
Beaucoup Mines .- This town is situated one mile north- west of Pinckneyville, on the Cairo Short Line railroad. It was laid out by the Beaucoup coal company, George W. Wall president and William K. Murphy secretary, and was surveyed and platted by D. L. Benson, deputy county sur- veyor, March 17, 1873. It is located on the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section fourteen ; and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of seetion fifteen, and in town five, south range three. The only business enterprise at this place is the
Beaucoup Coul Mining Company .- This company was organized August 12 1870, for a period of thirty years. Its operations were to be confined to mining and selling coal and making and selling coke. The capital stock was $20,000, divided into two hundred shares. The original directors and stockholders were Edward F. Lconard, Wil- liam G. Broughton, George W. Wall, William K Murphy. and George W. Parker. In 1872 a shaft was sunk to a depth of one hundred and eighty feet, when a vein of coal six feet thick was reached. Forty men are now employed at these works, which are operated by steam, and have a capacity varying from five to eight cars daily. As many as forty cars have been taken in one day. The present owners and operators are Donk Bros & Co.
Holt's Prairie PO .- This post office is four and one-half miles east of Pinckneyville in Pinckneyville township.
Postmaster and General Store -J II. Harris
Four Mile P O. (formerly Pennyville) -This post office is situated in Four Mile prairie, and is five miles south of Pinekneyville.
Postmaster. W. J. M. Elliott.
Physician .-- H. P. Huntsinger.
BIOGRAPHIES.
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LITTLE
Edwin A Lemen
6. le Jemen.
EDWIN HOGAN LEMEN, eldest child and son of Isaac and Caroline née Hogan, Lemen, was born near Collinsville, Mad- ison county, Ill., Nov. 9, 1844. The earliest history extant of Mr. Lemen's paternal ancestry gives the family of Swiss origin. In the fourteenth century, wheu the tyranny of the Austrian conquerors had desolated Switzerland, the family migrated to Russia, and at a later period some of them be- came soldiers in the European armies in the wars of the Continental powers with England, and after their campaigns through England and Scotland finally settled in the latter country.
In the seventeenth century, during Cromwell's reign, the family emigrated from Scotland to the north of Ireland, and in the early part of the eighteenth century three of their family, brothers, came to America and settled in Virginia, where they married and reared families. Nicholas Lemen, a son of one of these, was the father of James Lemen, the founder of the family in Illinois. James Lemen was born in Berkeley county, Va., November 20, 1760, and was a sol- dier in the war of Independence, being present at the sur-
render of the allies at Yorktown. He married Catharine Ogle in 1782, and settled in Monroe county, Ill., in 1786, where they reared a large family. Their first child and son, Robert, was born in Berkeley county, Va., September 25, 1783, before they removed to Illinois.
Robert Lemeu married Hester Tolin in Monroe county in 1805, and they settled in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair county, Ill , where they reared a large family and accumulated a good competence in a home and fine farm. He was a leader in the early times of Illinois, being United States marshal for the State under John Quincy Adams. In religion Rob- ert Lemen and his wife were of the Baptist faith, as were also his father and mother. They lived to a good old age, but have long since passed to that rest which awaits the faithful Christian, and now sleep side by side in the ceme- tery of Bethel Church in St. Clair county, which church they aided to organize nearly three quarters of a century ago.
Among the large family reared by Robert and Hester Lemen was Isaac Lemen, the father of the subject of this
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sketch. Isaac Lemen was born at the old homestead in St. Clair county, February 2, 1815. He grew to manhood under the parental roof and care, and married Caroline E. Hogan, January 19, 1843. His wife was born November 2, 1821, at the homestead of her parents, Patrick and Nancy Ann Hogan, in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair county, Ill. Her maternal grandparents were the Rev. John Simpson and Nancy Ann, née Ryder, both of English birth, the family of the latter belonging to the nobility of England Rev. John Simpson was born near London, England, was a Bap- tist of learning, eminent piety and usefulness, and with his wife emigrated to America in 1780 and settled in Kentucky. At a somewhat later period they moved to Monroe county, Ill., and were among the early pioneer settlers of that State. Among their children were Gideon and Nancy. Gideon Simpson became a Baptist minister, and Nancy, after her first marriage to John Best, who died after an issue of two children, married Patrick Hogan ; there were issue of the last marriage, but only one of the family is now living- Caroline E Lemen. As issue of the marriage of the latter to Isaac Lemen the subject of this sketch, Edwin H. and Frederick, Clara, Oscar, and Lillie are yet living, two chil- dren having died in infancy. The father, Isaae Lemen, was a man of good practical information, aud highly esteemed for his excellent qualities as a neighbor and citizen. He was a successful farmer, and purchased and paid for the large fine farm, the old homestead of his parents, in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair county, and placed substantial improve- ments upon it. He died at his home January 31, 1874, aged 59 years. His widow and two children are yet resid- ing at the homestead.
Edwin H. Lemen was reared to the occupation of farm- ing. He had received a liberal common school education while quite young, and having received a certificate, he taught school very acceptably at eighteen years of age. He afterwards attended school at Shurtleff College, and subse- quently attended the course at the law department of Mich- igan University, at Ann Arbor, and received his diploma. Having thus thoroughly prepared himself for the practice of the law, he received his license and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1868. He located in Pinckneyville, and for some two years in connection with his first practice of the law his time was partially occupied in school teaching and journalism. On September 24, 1871, at Bethel Baptist Church, the Rev. Dr. l'ost officiating, Mr Lemen was united in marriage with the companion of his early child- hood, and youthful schoolmate, Miss Cynthia Cornelia Be- gole, youngest daughter and child of Joshua and Mary Begole, of Ridge Prairie, St. Clair county. As a result of this union there were two children ; the first, Maud Parepa, was born March 2, 1875, and is now an intelligent and charming little girl ; the second child, a son, born December 15, 1876, and died in infancy. Mr. Lemen and his wife purchased themselves a good home and farm adjoining Pinckneyville, a part of which is included in its corporate limits.
While Mr. Lemen's religion and politics were matters of deliberate reason and careful choice after the mature judg-
ment of manhood, it so happened in these important matters there is no conflict between them and those of his ancestors for a century back. While his ancestors were in religion Baptists, and in polities Whigs, of the anti-slavery and Re- publican faith, so also is the subject of this sketch. He united with the Bethel Baptist Church in St. Clair county, in the winter of 1871, and uniformly contributes his influ- ence for the support of his church, though not narrowly sectarian in his respect for, and confidence in, the other Christian churches. Mr. Lemen transferred his member- ship by letter from Bethel Church to the First Baptist Church at Pinckneyville, in which church he has ever since been a prominent member and supporter, contributing to the church as well as to the other religions and eleemosyn- ary purposes such aid as his means will justify.
In the rational gradation of duty next perhaps to a man's religion is his humanitarian impulses toward his race. For the aristoeraey of men of shoddy wealth Mr. Lemen has no veneration ; but the toilers of the country, whether in the department of mental activity or of manual labor, he holds in perpetual esteem and honor : and with the latter his sym- pathy is not theoretical, but experimental, as his labors in every department of farming duty qualified him to respect toil. The toilers of the age are the men who are bearing the banners of our civilization upward and onward, and he respects them. In the application by the government of the great questions of political economy he favors such ad- justments as will reduce the burdens of taxation on the laboring masses, while at the same time protecting them from the too overpowering competition of the products of foreign labor.
In politics a Repblican by virtue of inheritance, reason and right, Mr. Lemen is less a partisan than a patriot. He would carry forward the principles of his party by making them conserve the highest public interests; but the prostitu- tion of the party to mere individual ends seldom if ever of any advantage to the public, and often corrupt and dishon- orable, he opposes. He favors the complete elimination of the so-called spoils system from the domain of partisan poli- ties, and the consequent suppression of that intense and arrogant phase of bossism which permits the perpetuation of individual power, often weak and frequently venal, at the expense of the public interest and good. In the acceptance of office he holds that an intelligent conception of the peo- ple's rights and interests should be the cardinal idea, and that cliques and personal ends are not to be conserved there- by. Of the people and for the people, Mr. Lemen is by no means oblivious to a consciousness of the compliments im- plied when the people tender a position ; but for the means frequently employed by the craft and intrigue of politicians to secure preferment and place, he has no sympathy or re- spect. Being a man of strong convictions and uncompro- mising views of duty and honesty, as well in politics as in the business relations of life, he holds that the sanctity of integrity and honesty should obtain and control in that sphere as well as in every other calling.
The mere facts and data in biographical history are readily compiled, and in this case the author trusts that the
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subject of this sketch with the readers generally will here find them accurately given ; but in delineating those factors of character, temperament, and mental attributes which so largely enter in to make men and mankind what they are, the task is far more delicate and difficult. An unbending conscience, a resolute will, and a discerning judgment form a combination which is the augury of success. Possessed of this triple alliance of subjective forces in a large measure, the subject of this sketch is pressing to the front ranks of the legal profession. The possession of those intellectual forces which make it possible for him to deliver a speech before a jury or an audience with such marked effect and impassioned feeling as generally characterize his efforts, has justly won for him the popular good will and esteem which such qualities merit. As a writer of merit and force he is recognized by the journalists throughout the State, and through this avenue the line to success and distinction is open to him if he should elect to accept it. Naturally rapid and forcible in the delivery of thought, Mr. Lemen is of an impetuous and positive temperament, and though quick to resent an indignity, he always holds himself open- and amenable to the convictions of right. Such characteristics of course will create a few opponents, but hosts of friends ; and such is Mr. Lemen's social status. In the practice of the law he is scrupulously observant of that professional comity and courtesy due his legal associates, the court, and witnesses, and to all whom it is his duty to defend or oppose. From the proceeds of his practice, with those received from their farm, Mr. Lemen and his family derive a fair compe- tence and support at their home in the suburbs of Pinck- neyville, where they now reside.
In addition to our sketch here of Mr. Lemen the author will add a brief sketch of his wife. A community is what its men aud women make it, and the aims and ends of his- tory are not fully conserved unless it reflect in some degree the antecedents of both. Cynthia Cornelia Begole, twelfth and youngest child of Joshua and Mary Begole, was born at the old homestead, in Ridge Prairie, St. Clair county, Illinois, December 12th, 1850. The family are of French origin, emigrating from France toward the close of the seventeenth century, having, by reason of belonging to the Huguenots, been expelled from the realm as a result of the revocation of the celebrated edict of Nantes, about the year 1685, whenee they settled in America. About the year 1805, her paternal grandfather removed with his family from the state of Maryland, and settled in Livingston county, New York.
Joshua Begole, her father, was born in Washington county, Maryland, March 25th, 1792. In the spring of 1819, prompted no doubt by that spirit of adventure so characteristic of the young man of perseverance and enter- prise, Mr. Begole, after many trials and adventures, cal- culated to overcome a less determined spirit, came to St. Clair county, Ills., via Detroit, Cincinnati and St. Louis, rich in nothing, save a vigorous manhood, industrious dis position and a will to win his own way in life. On March 2nd, 1824, he was united in marriage, by the Rev. John M. Peck, to Mary Terry, the daughter of George Terry and
Sallie, nee Linton, natives of Virginia who had removed and settled in the American Bottom. The mother of the subject of this sketch, was born May 15th, 1808, and at the age of three years, her father having died and her mother remar- ried, the family removed to Ridge Prairie, where Miss Terry resided at the time of their marriage
In 1826 they began the battle of life in earnest, by the purchase of a home of 80 acres of land, in Ridge Prairie, near the present site of O'Fallon, St. Clair county, Ills., to which, by industry and economy, they added several hun- dred acres of the best and most valuable lands in that farm- ing district, as the result of their united labor and effort. Mr. Begole was a leading citizen ; for many years a justice of the peace, his good judgment, practical common sense and unswerving predisposition to the right inspiring his fellow citizens with the utmost confidence in him as an officer and man. In 1857 he purchased the large farm, two miles south- east of Collinsville, to which he removed and where he re- sided until his death, which transpired March 2nd, 1874- fifty years to a day from date of his marriage, at the ripe old age of 82 years, beloved and respected by all who knew him, his last resting place being the cemetery adjoining the Bethel church, where his membership had been placed near a half century before. His life having been that of the con- sistent devoted Christian, his rest is that of the saint. He united with the Bethel Baptist Church, August the 4th, 1827, his wife united with the Church, Oct. 6th, 1827, and with a liberal hand and sincere purpose, trusting in the blessed promises of Heaven for their reward, for well nigh fifty years, they sought to keep the way of life together ! Ilis amiable companion who still survives him, resides with her son at the old homestead. The issue of the marriage was twelve children, four of whom are dead, the others ex- cept Mrs. Lemen, reside in St. Clair county in this state, most estimable and well-to-do citizens.
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