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 83

Author: McDonough, J.L., & Co., Philadelphia
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.L. McDonough & Co
Number of Pages: 578


USA > Illinois > Perry 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 83
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Mrs. Lemen's childhood was at the old home, being about seven years old when the family removed to their place near Collinsville. Here she passed her girlhood days and entered the years of womanhood. Her opportunities and advantages for intellectual culture, training and refinement were neither wanting nor neglected. With a naturally vig- orous mind, having made the best use of these advantages at the schools at home, she visited New York and there underwent a thorough training in the schools of music ; bringing back to her home the honors of her classes, which merit, and not favoritism had conferred.


At the early age of thirteen years, she embraced religion, was baptized by the Rev. D. P. French, and united with the Bethel Baptist church in St. Clair county. Here she re- mained a member until her membership with that of ber husband was transferred to the Fist Baptist church at Pinek- neyville, where her efforts and influence are devoted to the interests of the church, being an active laborer in the Sab- bath-school and in other church work. At home Mrs. Lemen is truly the good wife the comfort and happiness of husband and child, being her joy and ambition, and the pride of her every day life. In society she counts her friends by scores. The standard by which she selects her


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daily associates, friends and companions being merit, rather than the easte, which position or fortune may create, with- out regard to those nobler attributes, which beautify the heart and soul.


JAMES J. PENNY.


THE present editor and publisher of the Democrat is a native of Benton Franklin county, Illinois, and was born No- vember 2, 1856. Ile is the youngest son of J. A. and Mar- tha A. (Patton) Penny. His parents were natives of Middle Tennessee and immigrated to Illinois about 1845 aud settled in Franklin county, where the father died in 1856. IFis wife and mother of James J. still survives him, and is a resi- dent of Benton. The subject of this sketch received a good English education in the public schools of his native county. While yet young he entered as an apprentice in the office of the Johnson County Journal at Vienna and learned the printer's trade, and subsequently became the publisher and continued its publication for eighteen mouths, after which he worked in the Union office in Anna, Illinois. In 1877 he went to Cairo and was foreman in the Bulletin and Argus offices at different times and continued there until Novem- ber, 1881, when he came to Pinckneyville and purchased the office of the Perry County Democrat, and has edited and conducted its publication to the present. Mr. Penny is a practical printer of industrious habits and plenty of energy, and it will be no fault of his if he fails to give the people of Perry county a good live newspaper. He was reared a Democrat and votes that tieket. On the 4th of July, 1882, he was united in marriage to Miss Bertha A., daughter of Joseph M. and Mary (Baxter) Sullivan, of Pinekneyville. Mrs. Penny is a member of the M. E. Church.


J. K. P. RAGLAND.


THE subject of this sketch is on the maternal side descended from one of the pioneer families of Illinois. The Raglands on the paternal side are of Scotch ancestry. Members of the family originally settled in South Carolina, and during the Revolution fought on the side of the patriots. Benjamin Ragland, the grandfather, came to Kentucky soon after the State was admitted to the Union. John B. Ragland, his son, and father of J. K. P was born in Allen county, Ky., August 27, 1823. He came to Illinois in 1832, and lived the first six months of his residence here in a Sugar Camp on Rushing branch in Grand Cote prairie, and then settled on a place now owned by Robert C. Rushing, and there fol- lowed farming until the Mexicau war, when he enlisted in Co. K of the 2d Regt. Ills. Vols. He took part with his command in the desperate battle of Buena Vista, and was wounded in the engagement, which wound finally caused his death July 5th, 1863. Ile married Miss Martha J. Haggins October 23, 1844. She was a daughter of John Huggins, Sr., a resident yet of Lost Prairie and a native of South Carolina. He came to what is now Perry county in 1802, and is the oldest settler in the county, and if we mistake not the oldest settler livingin Illinois. The Huggins were from the Abbeyville Distriet in South Carolina. Robert IInggins


the grandfather of Mrs. Ragland came to Illinois in 1802, and stopped at Menard Springs opposite Kaskaskia in Ran- dolph county. He married Catharine Lively, sister of John Lively, who together with his family were murdered by the Indians at a settlement on Crooked creek north of Nashville in Washington county, Illinois.


The union of John B. and Martha Ragland was blessed, with but one child-the subject of this sketch. He was born on Lost Prairie, Perry county, Illinois, December 27, 1>45. He was educated in the public schools of l'erry county. At the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of law in the office of Messrs. Youngblood & Barr, attorneys of Ben- ton, Franklin county, Illineis, and also attended the law school in same place, under the management of Judge A. D. Duff, and was admitted to the bar in 1869. In 1871 he moved to Pinckneyville and commeneed to practice. In June 1873 he was appointed one of the Justices of the Peace of the County Court. In November of the same year he was elected to the same position, and in 1881 was re-elect- ed and is now holling that position Politically he has uniformly voted the Democratic ticket. He is a member of the Baptist church, and regularly ordained as a minister in that Christian organization.


WILLIAM E. GLADSON


Was born in Sullivan county, Tennessee, January 25, 1849. His father was a native of North Carolina, and moved to Tennessee, where he remained until 1854, when he came to Illinois, and settled in Perry county, where he at present re- sides. He learned the carpenter trade, and followed that and farming. He married Mary J. Doggette, whose mother was of English birth, and of the name of Brimmer. She was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. By the marriage of W. L. and Mary J. Gladson, there were seven children, four sons and three daughters, and three sons and one daughter are yet jiving. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of the ehil- dren. He was but five years of age when his parents came to the State. Here in Perry county he was reared, and re- ceived a good English education in the public schools of Pinckneyville and surrounding country. He learned the trade of carpenter, and worked at that, and later engaged in farming, which has been his principal avocation for a num- ber of years. On the 1st of January, 1875, he was appointed, by the Board of County Commissioners, Superintendent of the Poor Farm, and reappointed each year afterward, and is now serving his fifth year in that capacity. He is a care- ful and competent man for that position, and has been com- plemented by F. HI. Wines, Sec'y of the State Board of Pub- lie Charities, for the excellent manner in which he conducts his business and on his reports. On the 9th of October, 1871, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary, daughter of Wil- liam and Margaret Owens. She was born in Kilmarnock, on the Frith of Forth, Scotland. By that union there are four children living, whose names are Robert Lindsey, Geo. Andrew, Arthur William, and Sarah Ethel Gladson. Politi- eally, Mr. Gladson is a Demoerat. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and at the present time is N. G. of Beaucoup Lodge No. 159.


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N. K. Innychy


THE Murphy family of Perry County are of Irish extrac- tion, the ancestors of whom emigrated to America, prior to the Revolutionary war. John Murphy the grandfather was a native of the North of Ireland and was a soldier of the revolution and fought on the side of the patriots at Kings Mountain and in other battles in the South. Soon after the war he removed to Tennessee and in 1818 came to Illinois and settled on the edge of Lost Prairie, in Perry county. There he remained until his death. He was a stone mason by trade but also engaged in tilling the soil. He married in North Carolina and was the father of five sous and five daughters. Of those sons, was Richard G., father of William K. Murphy. William C. another son was a prominent man in the early history of Illinois. He was for many years door-keeper in the State Senate and House while the capital was at Vandalia, and after it was removed to Springfield, upon the organization of Perry county iu 1827, he was appointed Sheriff and held that and other county offices for a number of years. His name was honored and kept in memory by the naming of Murphysboro, the county seat of Jackson county.


Richard G. Murphy was born in Smith county, Tennessee, January 4th, 1801, and was the youngest of the family, and


but a youth of seventeen years when the family came to Illinois. Here in Perry county he grew to manhood and became a conspicuous and prominent man in southern Illi- nois. In 1831-32, during the Black Hawk war, both he and his brother, William C., volunteered and were present at the battle of " Bad Axe" where the latter was severly wounded.


In 1832 Richard J. was a candidate for the Legislature, and was opposed by the late Judge Breese. He was elected and served ten consecutive years in that body. In 1847 during Polk's administration, Mr. Murphy was appointed agent for the Sioux Indians, who were upon their reserva. tion in Minnesota. He repaired there in 1847 and entered upon his duties. In 1850 he was again elected to the Illi- nois legislature and at that session was made chairman of the committee on railroads which incorporated the Illinois Central railroad. He moved his family to Minnesota in 1854 and there made his home until his death, which occurred in 1874. He was president of the first senate of Minnesota, the same year the state was admitted to the Union. Mr. Murphy, being an earnest friend and supporter of Stephen A. Douglas, thereby incurred the displeasure of the administration of James Buchanan and was removed from


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his agency on account of political differences. During the remainder of his life he devoted himself to farming, stock- raising and developing the country.


In 1834 he married Miss Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Kinney) Lemen. She was a niece of Governor Kin- ney of Belleville, Illinois. She died October 28th, 1846. He subsequently married Mrs. Nancy Wier nee Glore, who was a native of Kentucky, but at the time of her marriage a resident of Randolph county, Illinois. By the first marriage there were five children whose names are, Mary, wife of Richard A. Huntsman, Joseph L., Benton P., George W. and the subject of this sketch.


William Kinney Murphy was born in Perry county, Illi- nois, July 20th, 1835. He was reared upon the farm, and like farmers' boys of forty years ago, enjoyed but few oppor- tunities of receiving an education. Ile attended the sub. scription schools of his neighborhood, received private instruction and was for a short time under the tutelage of B. G. Roots, a veteran educator of Perry county. That was the sum total of his edueational training. But from these facts it must not be inferred that he is without education, but instead of receiving it in schools, it has been mainly attained by self-culture. Being gifted with a strong natural mind and possessed of a good retentive memory and perceptive faculties of a high order, he has been able to sup- ply the lack of educational training. He remained on the farm until 1859, when he concluded wisely, to adopt the profession of law as the business of his life. With that idea in view he entered the law office of William H. McKee, a brilliant young attorney of Pinckneyville, now deceased, and commenced the study. He made rapid progress in his studies and at the fall term of the circuit court held in Pinckneyville in 1859, applied for and received admission to the bar. He commenced the practice in connection with his preceptor. The dissolution of the partnership took place soon after. In 1866 he formed a law partnership with Hon. John Boyd, which continued until 1876, when Thomas Boyd was admitted to the firm. The firm of Murphy & Boyd Bros. continued until 1882 when it was dissolved by mutual consent. Mr. Murphy was appointed Master in Chancery, and held that office until 1868, when increasing business compelled his resignation. Soon after the breaking out of the late war Mr. Murphy assisted in raising a company of men for the service. When the company was organized he was elected captain. It was known as company H of the 110th Regiment of Illinois, Volunteer Infantry. The date of muster in, was August 15th, 1862. Captain Murphy remained in the service until April, 1863, when continued ill health compelled his resignation. He returned home and resumed his practice. It would perhaps be proper to say that Mr. Murphy has been the most successful resident lawyer of Perry county. In the years gone by the firm of which he was the head enjoyed a wide reputation as sound and able lawyers, and built up a practice which in extent and volume was second to none in southern Illinois. The records of the court show, that for many years they were retained as counsel on one side or the other of every impor- tant case tried in the courts of this and surrounding counties.


We say this in no boastful spirit but merely to show what may be accomplished by a boy or man, who has the right kind of stuff in him, and courage and energy to acquire a name and reputation for himself no matter what his surroundings may be.


Politically Mr. Murphy comes from an old Democratic family, and from them we have no doubt imbibed more or less of his political ideas. Education has much to do in forming our opinions and to some extent gives the hent and shape to them in after years. His first presidential vote was cast in 1856. In 1860 he voted for Douglas, and in all sub- sequent general elections voted the Democratic ticket. He has been frequently honored by his fellow citizens with positions of honor and trust. In 1864 he was elected a member of the 24th, and in 1866 of the 25th General Assem- by of the state for the district comprising the counties of Perry, Randolph and Monroe. In 1872 he represented the same district in the State senate, and in the session of 1880- 81 in the lower House. During his term in these bodies he was a member of the Judiciary, revenues and railroad com- mittees. He also originated and was the author of several important bills, which subsequently were enacted aod became laws of the State. His course throughout was marked by an earnest desire to enact such legislation as would be in the interests, not only of his constituents but the entire State. In the exciting campaign of 1882 he became the Democratic standard bearer in the Twentieth Congressional District, but was defeated by the present incumbent, by a majority of only 280 votes in the District, which gave in 1880, two years prior, a republican majority of 1840 votes. In Perry county where Mr. Murphy was born and raised, and where people know him hest, he received a majority of 452 votes. The county in 1880 gave a republican majority of 179. Mr. Mur. phy's majority indicates a change of 625 votes, or nearly one- fourth of the entire vote cast in the county. Ilis frequent elections to the legeslative bodies of the State and the mag- nificent and highly complimentary vote in this Congressional District, show the kind and manner of man he is, and attest in the strongest manner possible, his standing, ability and worth as a man and citizen.


In November, 1874, he in connection with other capitalists of Perry county, originated and started the banking house of Murphy, Wall & Co., in Pinekneyville.


On the 18th of April, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss Penina Ozborn, daughter of Hawkins S. and Mahala (Reese) Ozburn. She was born in Perry county. Iler parents were natives of Tennessee, but came to Illinois at an early day and settled in Jackson county. Hawkins S. Ozburn was a captain of a company in the second Illinois Regiment, in the Mexican war. He was also at one time a member of the State senate.


Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Murphy, two of whom are living, whose names are Hawkins O. and Sarah V. Murphy He is an honored member of the A. F. & A. M. order, and holds membership with Mitchell Lodge No. 85 of Pinckneyville.


This in brief is an outline sketch of one of Perry county's native born citizens. That he is one of her successful men


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will not be doubted. Starting in life poor, with a limited education, no influential friends to aid him, but alone backed by indomitable energy, business tact and a determi- nation to succeed, he has won his way step by step to his present honorable position. To accomplish what he has, requires unceasing labor, mental force, rigid economy, and superior business tact and judgment, all of which are characteristics of Mr. Murphy. Matters pertaining to enterprises that have for their object the material increase or prosperity of the town or county, find in him a liberal friend and one who always gives substantial aid.


HON. JOHN BOYD.


THE subject of the following sketch is of Scotch and Eng- lish ancestry. William Boyd, the great-grand-father of the present family, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to America during the Revolutionary war. He espoused the cause of the patriots, joined the army under Washington, and fought for the independence of his adopted country. After the war closed he married and settled in Georgia, where his son John, the grand-father of the subject of this sketch, was born. John Boyd remained in Georgia until 1818, then moved to North Carolina, from there to Ten- nessee, and in 1823, came to Illinois, and stopped in Wash- ington county for a short time, went to Randolph county, and settled in Heacock's Prairie, now known as Dutch Hill Prairie, which is located in the northern part of the county, and there remained until his death, which occurred about 1837. During the war of 1812 with Great Britain, he en- listed and was in the Southern army, commanded by Gen. Jackson. His son William was born in Georgia, in 1806, and was in his seventeenth year when the family came to Illinois. He married Isabel Douglass, who was born in Scotland,but was a resident of Randolph county, Illinois, at the time of her marriage. Her father, Launcy Lat. Doug- lass, was a native of Jedboro, Scotland, and emigrated to America in the year 1830. William Boyd died in 1854. His wife survived him and died in 1880. By that union there were eight children, five of whom are yet living. John Boyd is the eldest of the family. He was born in Randolph county near the village of Preston, June 30th, 1833. IIe was raised upon the farm, working during the summer months and attending the District school in the win- ter. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked at the business for four or five years, by which time he became convinced that there were other avenues open to wealth, or at least a competency, that promised equally well and more inviting than the trade of carpenter. In 1860, he came to Pinckneyville, and commenced the study of law in the office of Lewis Hammack. After two years study he applied for admission to the bar, which was granted after a thorough examination as to his qualifications. He commenced the practice in connection with his preceptor, which partnership continned for one year, after which he practiced alone until 1866, when the law firm of Murphy & Boyd were formed, and it continued until the summer of 1882, when it was dissolved by mutual agreement. The law firm of Murphy


& Boyd was well known, not only in Perry county, but in Southern Illinois. It took front rank at the bar of Perry county. The records of the court disclose the fact that they were retained on one side or the other of nearly, if not all the important cases tried in the courts of the county. Mr. Boyd is a careful, pains-taking and studious lawyer, a good pleader, logical reasoner and considerable of an advocate. He has confined himself to the legitimate practice of law.


Politically he has been a life-long Democrat. In 1876, he was nominated and elected by his party to represent the District in the Legislature. While a member of that body in the session of 1877, he was a member of the judiciary and other important committees, and earned the reputation of a careful, able and prudent representative. On the 26th of January, 1866, he married Mrs. Emeline Osborne, nee Phelps. She died October 26, of the same year. On the 26th of March, 1868, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. daughter of William G. Brown of Perry county, Illinois. By the latter marriage there are five children, whose names in the order of their birth are: Elizabeth I., Mary E., William W., Florence and Marrilla Boyd. Mr. Boyd is a member of the ancient and honorable order of A. F. and A. M, and a member of Mitchell Lodge, No. 85, Pinckneyville, Illinois.


WILLIAM M. BREESE,


THE family is of Welsh descent on the paternal side and English on the maternal. Sidney Breese was a Welsh gen- tleman who, after some years of service in the royal army, came to America and settled in New York, in 1756, and died, leaving one son. This son, Samuel, lived in New Jersey, and his son, Arthur Breese, was born in that State. He graduated at Princeton, adopted the law as a profession, and in 1793 moved into the wilderness of Western New York, and settled at Whitestown, now in Oneida county. Here he married Catherine, danghter of Henry Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, who had served as a major in the Revolu- tionary army. Sidney Breese, the father of William M., was the second son of this marriage. We copy from his biographer: " In 1808 the family having removed to Utica, Mrs. Breese died, leaving nine children. At twelve years young Breese was placed in the care of Rev. Jesse Townsend, a Presbyterian minister near ' Madison Four Corners,' where he was fitted for college. At fourteen years of age he en- tered Hamilton College, as freshman. In 1816 he was trans- ferred to Union College, at whose head was the celebrated Dr. Nott, entering in the junior year. He graduated in 1818, the youngest of his class, and took the third honor, George W. Doane, afterwards bishop of New Jersey, the second, and Alonzo Potter, bishop of Pennsylvania, the first. He had, while yet a boy, a strong personal friend in Elias Kent Kaue, who graduated at Yale College in 1814. The latter settled in Kaskaskia, in the same year, there opened a law office, and soon rose to distinction, was Secretary of the State under Shadrach Bond, and United States' Senator for nearly twelve years. He wrote to young Breese to come


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west. He complied with his request, and on the 24th of December, 1818, he reached Kaskaskia. He commenced reading law in the office of Mr. Kane, and at the same time assisting him in the business of the office of Secretary of State. He was a close student and had an able preceptor, and soon was admitted to practice. He chose Brownsville, in Jackson county, Illinois, as the place to begin. He opened an office, aud the first term brought thirty suits. His first appearance in court and before a jury was such a de- cided failure that in his chagrin he resolved to abandon the profession, and was only prevented by the earnest appeals of Conrad Will, then the most prominent man in the county. In 1820 he followed the State Capital from Kaskaskia to Vandalia, and there opened an office. In 1821 he returned to Kaskaskia, and resumed his profession. Soou after he was appointed postmaster of the town. In 1822 he was ap- pointed Circuit Attorney, by Governor Bond, and was reap- pointed by Governor Cole, and held the office for four years, when he was removed by Governor Edwards. The same year of his removal President Adams appointed him United States Attorney for the State of Illinois.


In 1831 he proposed to the Judges of the Supreme Court to report all their decisions. The result was ' Breese's Re- ports,' printed at Kaskaskia, in 1831, and which was the first hook printed in Illinois. The printer was Robert Fleming. In 1832 he volunteered as a private in the Black Hawk war, and when the battalion met at Beardstown was elected Major. Theophilus W. Smith, a Justice of the Supreme Court, was elected Lieutenant Colonel. The latter resigned, and Major Breese succeeded to the coloneley of the battalion. The following year he was leading counsel for Judge Smith, of the Supreme bench, who had been im peached by the House of Representatives for misdemeanors in office. In 1835, on the establishment of the Circuit Courts, Mr. Breese was elected Judge of the Second Circuit. Iu 1839 the Supreme Court was reorganized, and Mr. Breese was appointed to a position on the Supreme bench. In 1842 he resigned to accept the position of United States Senator, from Illinois, and remained a distinguished member of that body for six years. Among the special bills that he iutro- duced and urged their adoption was the report of a grant of land to the State, for the construction of a railroad from the termination of the Illinois and Michigan canal to the mouth of the Ohio river. This was the original plan of the Illinois Central. He also made a long and exhaustive re- port in favor of a grant of land for a railroad from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. This was the first public recognition of the importance of that work. Ile was, while in the Senate, chairman of the committee on Public Land. He favored the annexation of Texas, and was one of the few Senators who maintained the American title up to the Rus- sian line 54°, 40', thereby excluding England from any part of the Pacific coast. Upon his return from the Senate he retired to his farm, in Clinton county, and there made his home until his death. In the fall of 1850 he was elected without opposition, to the Legislature, and was made speaker of' that body. At this session the Aet incorporating the Illinois Central Railroad Company was passed. In 1855 he




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