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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 99
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John Layne, a Tennesseean, settled near Steelesville in 1816, where he died. Emanuel Canaday settled in the precinct in 1816. He afterward went to the Bradley settle- ment near Shiloh Hill. Colonel Gabriel Jones with a family from Adair county, Kentucky, arrived in 1817. He settled about a mile west of Steelesville, on what become known as the " old Colonel Jones place." He was a man of talent, energy and activity, and took a lively interest in the affairs of the community in which he lived. He repre- sented the county in the General Assembly, and held other positions of trust. He was made a colonel in the Black Hawk war, and was a gallant soldier. About 1859, he was mayor of the city of Chester, to which place he had pre- viously removed, where his son Gabriel now : resides. His brother, Dr. Ashby Jones, practiced medicine in the precinct at an early day. John Thomason was from Georgia. He came by pack horses about 1816 or 1817, with his family, consisting of his wife, a son, George, a step- son, David Simmons, and three daughters, Nancy, Letitia and Elizabeth. He settled on section twenty-three.
Eli Short, came to the county from Kentucky in 1819, and settled on section eleven in the prairie that still bears his name. His means of conveyance to the county were wagon and horses, by which he brought his wife, Betsy Sanders, and his children, viz. Polly with her husband, William Thraelkeld, and Dennard with his wife, Mary Ann Ireland, and Juliet, Ann, John T., Thomas Jefferson and Betsy. John T. donated the land on which the village of Percy now stands. Thomas J., while a young man, was killed in the Black Hawk war, in Wisconsin, July 21, 1832. Mr. Short was, in many respects, a remarkable man. His influence in the community in which he lived was wide- spread, and in favor of industry and morality. He was the pioneer settler in the beautiful prairie which he adopted
as the place of his activities and labors, and the first resident minister in the precinct, and among the first in the county. As a minister he belonged to the denomination of regular Baptists, and in the early part of his career, held to the doctrine of election with unswerving tenacity. He was a man of strong common sense and of good powers of argu- ment, and these added to a gift of language made him an effective preacher and a wily adversary iu defense of the doctrines of his faith, an attack upon which his love of argument sometimes induced him to invite. From the narrow tenet of election, he turned to the broad doctrine of universalism. An educated clergy he did not believe in, holding that the true ministry were called not educated to their office. He preached to the early settlers in his own house, which he dedicated as a church, by arranging a little platform or rest in the stair-case. He had a cider press on his farm, and on meeting occasions dispensed cider as well as gospel. In the course of one of his sermons, a question arose in some way concerning the prophet Daniel. Daniel Malone was in the audience, and according to a custom quite common in those days of informally referring questions, occasionally, to those present, it was addressed to him. " What do you think about it, Daniel ?" thundered Mr. Short. " Well, I think I would like to have some cider," was the reply amid much audible smiling. Mr. Short's associate in ministerial labor was Rev. Silas Chrisler. At this early day there was also a traveling missionary of the Dunkard faith, who preached occasionally. Mr. Short was severely wounded in the knee in the battle of the Thames. He carried the buck shot there received all his life. He and his commander, Col. Johnson, were riding together, and both were wounded in the same volley. Short fell from his horse and Johnson's rushed wildly into the presence of Tecumseh, whom his rider shot dead. Thomas J. Short now wears the watch his grandfather carried in that battle. A comparatively early settler was Cornelius Adkins. He brought with him his wife and children, Robert, Nancy, Sarah, Vina, Harriett, Gabriel, Jacob, Martin and Burd. He settled on section twenty-two.
Daniel Malone was a native of Tennessee. He settled first in Four Mile Prairie, Perry county, in 1829. In 1835, he settled on section 11, Randolph county, now the David Brown property. He married Mary G., daughter of Samuel Brown, now Mrs. Holloman of Wine Hill precinct. J. M. Malone of Steelesville, was born in Perry county, and came to Randolph in 1833. David Brown, an enterprising farmer, mine owner and grain dealer of Percy, is the son of Mr. Brown, an early pioneer living in Sparta precinct, and was born in the county in 1828. Among the earlier arrivals in the county now living in the precinct, are G. W. Suesberry, a merchant of Steelesville, who was born in Kentucky, and came to the county in 1838; Robert Mor- rison, a farmer of section two, a native of Ireland, who came in 1840; Sarah Jay, a native of Ohio, who is en- gaged in farming on section eighteen, and who came to the county in 1838, and Rev. H. S. Gordon, of section ten, a native of Pennsylvania, who came here from Missouri in 1838. The first school-house in the precinct was built of
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round logs as early as 1820, and called Jones. It stood on the N. E. } of the N. W. } of section seventeen. The seats were made of round poles and the desks of puncheons. Here began, as early as 1831, the Union Sabbath-school, still in existence. What was known as the Georgetown school-house, was a hewed log building put up at a later day. It was used as a free·for-all mceting-house, and was the parent of the first churches in the precinct. An early schoolmaster was Benjamin Wham, an eastern man and an excellent teacher. Steele's cemetery is the oldest burial place in the precinct. The Bowerman, Short and Jones graveyards were of an early date. The marriage of William Robbison and a daughter of Jacob Bowerman, was a very early marriage, and probably the first in the precinct. Squire Durett Oliver was an early justice of the peace. Eli Short had a five acre apple orchard set out as early as 1825.
A distillery for making apple brandy, was established in 1834 or '35. The blockhouse in which the neighborhood took refuge from the Kickapoos during the Indian troubles, was built in 1812 and stood within the present corporate limits of Steelesville, on the Shawneetown road, about a quarter of a mile east of the west boundary line of section sixteen. An old well now marks its site. During an entire season the people lived in this blockhonse, never leaving to go far away without their guns. We subjoin a few of the early land entries :
September 30th, 1841, John Steele entered S. } section 28, 320 acres; same date, James White entered the W. } sec- tion 17, 320 acres; January 20th, 1817, Jacob Bowerman, entered N. E. { section 5, 175188 acres ; November 3d, 1817, Richard Robinson entered W. } of N. W. # section 6 10% acres April 29th, 1815.
VILLAGE OF STEELESVILLE.
In 1810 George Steele located where the village now stands, and made a small farm. In 1825 he laid the foun- dation of the town, by erecting a mill. It was the first mill in the precinct, and was a very rude affair. The power was supplied by the weight of oxen on an in- clined wheel. The roof was formed by hooking clap-boards through which wooden pins had been driven over the lathes. It had one set of burrs, and wheat was ground one day in the week, and corn the balance. It was widely known and largely patronized till 1842, when it was abandoned, and superseded by another built near its site. In 1827 Col. Gabriel Jones opened a store, and sold the first goods. The post-office, called Steele's Mills, was established, with Mr. Jones as postmaster, in the same year. The village was origi- nally called Georgetown, which name the older portion of the town yet popularly bears. The newer portion is famil- iarly called Alma. The name was changed to Steelesville by act of the Legislature. The village was laid out by Mr. Steele, and surveyed and platted February 16, 1836, by James Thompson, county surveyor, and the plat recorded in the office of the Circuit Clerk August 5, of the same year. Town lots were offered for sale, and Capt. Rogers, Col. Jones, Dr. Ashby Jones, Robert Jones, and Tanner Briggs, were among the purchasers. In 1838-9 Mr. Steele built a brick 54
dwelling, the first of the kind in the precinct. The first church in the precinct was organized here in 1834, by Rev. Eli Short. After some years the organization was abandoned. The first permanent church organization was established by Rev. J. B. Alcott, a Baptist minister. In 1848 the congre- gation built a frame church-house, the first one erected in the precinct. In 1859 the town had a flouring mill, a saw mill, four dry goods' stores, one wagon shop, one cooper shop, one blacksmith shop, one tailor shop, one hotel, and two physicians. The growth of the town has not been rapid, but bas been of a substantial character. The population census of 1880, was four hundred and forty. There are five churches. The German Methodist, a frame structure, was built in 1863 or '64. The Methodist, a brick building, was completed in 1871, at a cost of about $2,000. The Presby- teriaos built a brick church in 1875, at a cost of $5,500. St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran, was erected in 1879, at a cost of $1,500 The Baptists completed their frame church in 1882. The school-house, erected in 1874, crowns an abrupt elevation, and is a commodious and ornamental brick, two- story, four-room, basement building. It cost, including fur- niture and heating apparatus, the sum of $7,000.
PRESENT BUSINESS.
Alma Flouring Mill was built in 1859 or '60, by S. Parker and company, at a cost of $1,100. In 1867 it was sold to Pickles and Guiguon, who, in 1869, parted with it to Robert Elickiss. In 1870 it was purchased by J. M. Allen, who owned it till 1876, when it was bought by E. F. Stinde and company, who are now operating it. Its dimensions are, main building, 36x44; engine-room, 14x36; office-room, 12x16. Its capacity ranges from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and sixty barrels a day. It has three run of burrs, and eight bolting reels, and employs twelve hands. The cooper shop, attached, finds work for six or eight men.
Alma Woolen Mills, a three-story brick building, was put np in 1866, at a cost, including machinery, of $18,000, by Shalberg, Theis & Co., and is owned and operated by J. HI. Thies, who manufactures flannels, blankets, jeans, etc.
Physicians .- C. Davis, Jacob Keller, Martin Laird, H. G. Armbrewster.
General Merchants .- G. W. Shrewsberry, Stahlenburg & Eagle, L. Dudenbostel & Bro.
Grocery Merchants .- Mrs. Elizabeth Elickiss, William Sake.
Fancy Dry Goods Merchants. - James and Lewis Edwards
Drugs, Groceries, and General Merchandise .- J. M. Malone.
Hotel Keepers-Lewis Smith, Dr. C. Davis.
Livery Stable Keeper .-- H. Fiene.
Boarding House Keepers .- J. M. Malone, H. Bullinger,
C. Vesper, Mrs A. Harris.
Butchers -August and Ilenry Beisner.
Blacksmiths .- Theodore Dorl, James M. Gray, S. W. Weibusch.
Wheelwright .- G. J. Knapp, H. Trieftc.
Furniture Store .- William Nolte.
Stoves and Tinware .- Edward Cornelson.
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Milliners and Dressmakers .- Miriam Malone, Emma Eagle, Mrs. Lucy Davis.
Saddle and Harness Shop .- F. Maaberg, Herman Jostman. Barber .- William Lake.
Tailor .- Charles Palmer.
Justices of the Peace .- Daniel Shaeffer, Charles Palmer.
Village Attorney .- W. W. Edwards. Grain Dealer .- Charles Dennis. Lumber Yard .- James Pikett. Lumber Agent .- L. M. Smith. Shoemaker & Shoestore .- Henry Luchsinger.
Shoemaker. - Philip Kann.
Painter .- Lewis Ruffing. Carpenters .- William Henry, John Brusch. Plasterer and Briek Mason .- William O'Brien.
Cooper .- Henry Schwab.
Saloon Keepers .- Charles Vesper, Henry Bollinger. Saw Mill .- William M. Blair.
Brick Yard .- A. Frey.
SOCIETIES.
Steelesville Lodge No. 528, I. O. O. F., was organized Octo- ber 14, 1873. It has a present membership of about twenty- five, and meets in J. M. Malone's hall. It has about $320 in the treasury.
Alma Lodge No. 497, A. F. and A. M., was chartered October, 1866. It has a membership of fifty-two, and meets in Masonic Hall. Its finances are in goed shape.
Banner Council R. T. T. No. 54, was organized May 16, 1880. Its membership numbers thirteen.
The Raudolph county Historical and Library Association, was chartered by the State Legislature, in 1866. It has a membership of about twenty-five, and owns about two hun- dred volumes .
PERCY.
The town of Percy was laid out by the Cairo and St. Louis Railroad, on the S. E. } of section 11, and platted and surveyed by R. W. Clark, Railroad Surveyor. The plat was recorded in the office of the Circuit Clerk, July 3, 1863. The laud was donated to the company by John T. Short, reserving alternate lots. The place is characterized by life and activity, and is in the midst of a fine agricultural country. The traius on the Cairo and St Louis, and Wabash, Chester and Western Railroad, stop for mneals at the popular hotel of Mr. Griffin, who also runs a general store. The physician of the place, is R. W. Steele. Drugs and groceries are sold by William Moulic, who is also the postmaster. David Browu deals in grain. James Higgins runs a hotel, and Francis Harris the saw mill.
BIOGRAPHIES.
REV. H. S. GORDON.
THERE are few citizens in Randolph county more deserv- ing of honorable mention in a work of this character than Rev. Henry S. Gordon. He was boru in Franklin county Pa., June 19th, 1816. When four years of age, his parents (George and Nancy Gordon) came west and located in St. Louis county, Missouri, where the family resided until 1838, then moving to Randolph county, Illinois, settled on a farm near Georgetown.
Mr. Gordon attended the common schools near his home in Missouri, and in 1841 entered Shurtleff College at Upper Alton, and, upon completing his course of study, was or- dained a minister of the Baptist Church. Ten years later a difficulty arose between Rev. Gordon and his congregation regarding communion, he, believing in free communion, was excommunicated. Immediately afterward he organized a Freewill Baptist Church, in accordance with his own views, and has been the pastor of the society ever since.
Ju 1834 he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Young, by whom four children were born. She died in 1848, and the following year he married Mrs. Nancy Hill, and five children have been born. Rev. Gordon has always been engaged in the pursuit of farming, reared a large and intelligent family, and is one of the useful and influential men of the county, evincing an interest in all enterprises that tend to improve both the property and morals of the com- munity.
REV. GEORGE A. GORDON
Is the son of Rev. Heury S. and Rebecca Gordon. He was born in the city of Alton, Illinois, April 14, 1842, and when at the age of six months, his parents moved to Randolph county and settled on a farm in section 11, near the present village of Percy. His early years were spent on the farm with his parents, and attending the schools of the neighhor- hood, subsequently attending the mathematical and classical Institution at - , where he completed his education, and for some time afterward employed his time in teaching school and farming. In 1860 he married Miss Harriet Glore, daughter of Jeptha and Margaret Glore; she is a native of Randolph county, Ill., born near Shiloh Hill, in 1846.
In 1872 he embarked in the drug business in Percy, where he continued for three years, then removing to Campbell Hill in Jackson county, Illinois; here he con- tinued engaged in a very successful mercantile business. In August, 1868, he was ordained minister of the Free-will Baptist church. In 1865 he made a six months' tour of Europe, visiting many places of interest, and acquiring a store of useful information.
While Rev. and Mrs. Gordon have not been blessed with offspring, their house has ever been an asylum to poor and unfortunate orphans, who there receive kind and true Christian benevolence. Few have done more for suffering humanity than they, and none are more honored and re- spected in the community.
HISTORY OF RANDOLPH, MONROE AND PERRY COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
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Lame Ludenbastel
No more industrious, earnest people ; no more loyal, pa- triotic citizens come to our American shores from foreign lands, than those who recognize Germany as their father- land. Thousands of their number have here found welcome -a welcome heartily reciprocated upon their part, and which they most keenly appreciate.
Randolph county has within her boundaries a goodly number of German people, many of whom are recognized leaders in different lines of business or in public capacity. None are deserving of more honorable mention than the present affable and capable county clerk, Louis Dudenbostel. He was born in Germany March 29, 1836. In his native land he acquired a fair education. In 1860 he came to this country, locating first in the city of Chester, Randolph county, Illinois, where he attended the common sehools, and acquired the English language sufficiently for the transac- tion of business. He opened a general store, which he kept successfully for a period of three years, and then sold his property, and located iu Evansville in the same eouuty. He remained at this place, in the same business, for a like period of time, when he parted with his stock of merchan- dise, and engaged in the sale of farming implements for a short time. January 1, 1870, he received the appointment of deputy county clerk under Hon. John R. Shannon, aud remained in that position during the unexpired term of that official. He received a similar appointment at the hands of
John T. MeBride after his eleetion to the office of county clerk, and continued to perform its duties until the summer of 1875, when he moved to Steclesville, and again engaged in the general mercantile business, which he has successfully carried on to the present time. In 1877 he was the nominee of the Democratic party for county clerk, but was defeated at the election by a small vote. In the fall of 1882 he again beeame a candidate for this office, and was this time success- ful, being eleeted by a handsome majority.
April 25, 1870, Mr. Dudenbostel was married to Miss Mary C. Knapp, daughter of John J. and Elizabeth Kuapp. Mrs. Dudenbostel was born in Chester in 1849. Five ehil- dren have been boru to them, viz. Elizabeth, Edmond, Na- omi, Alma, who died in infaney, and Louis. Mr. Duden- bostel is a democrat of the Jeffersonian type. He has always been held in high esteem by the community in which he has lived, as a moral and useful eitizen, and has many warm and confidential friends, all of whom he is proud to honor. In his management of the affairs of the county elerk's office he is making hosts of friends, and is proving his genuine worth in the position. Affable and courteous in his demea- nor, correet and accurate in his clerical work, he is being recognized, even by those whose political affiliations lead them to cast their ballots for his opponent, as being the " right man in the right place."
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JAMES PICKETT.
MR. Pickett was born in Kenton county, Ky., July 22,1833. When he was about eight years old he moved with his pa- rents to Illinois, and settled in Randolph county, where his father, William Pickett, in March, 1840, purchased land and began farming, continuing there until his death. James remained at home and labored for his father until August, 1852, when he engaged with H. C. Cole, of Chester, as clerk and book-keeper in his flouring mill. This position he re- tained until 1857, when he opened a general store at Shiloh Hill, and continued there for a period of twelve years, and then engaged in the lumber business at Steelesville, where he has since remained. February 17, 1863, he married Miss Martha Ann, daughter of William and Rachel Jay, who immigrated from South Carolina to the territory of Illinois at a very early day. Mrs. Pickett was born in Randolph county in 1831, and received her education at the common schools. At the age of nineteen Mr. Pickett entered col- lege at Lebanon, Illinois, where he remained during the Freshman and Sophomore years. He has been esteemed as one of the live and useful citizens of the county in which he has lived, and has done his full share to improve and build up Steelesville, where he is blessed with many warm friends.
JAMES M. MALONE,
A NATIVE of Perry county, Illinois, was born April 3, 1833. Soon after this date his parents moved to Randolph county and settled in section eleven, where the village of Percy now stands. When he was eight years old his father died, and his mother subsequently married E. Holloman. James re- mained on the farm with his mother and attended the com- mon schools till the age of twenty-one, when he embarked in business for himself. For several years he clerked in stores, taught school, became a partner in the flouring mill at Steeles- ville, now owned by E. F. Stinde & Co., and for fourteen years engaged in merchandising. In the late conflict be- tween the States he volunteered and was elected orderly ser- geant of Co. F one hundred and fifty-fourth Illinois Infantry, and was mustered out at the close of his term of service as First Lieutenant. In 1870 he was appointed Postmaster of Steelesville, which position he still holds.
On the 19th of April, 1855, he was married to Miss Mary S. Johnson. By this union there are seven living, in-
telligent children, viz .: Frank, Willis, James, Clarence, Cora, Belle and Grace. In religion Mr. and Mrs. Malone are both firm believers in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Malone is elder of his church and superintendent of the Sunday School. In politics he has been a Republican since 1860. Perhaps there are few if any citizens in the community that have done more to improve the morals and support good society than Mr. and Mrs. Malone; they are both blessed with many warm friends, and are held in bigh esteem by all good citizens of their acquaintance.
JOHN H. THIES
WAS born in Germany, January 10th, 1824, where he received his early education, and worked at farming until he was about nineteen years old, when he joined the eleventh regiment of cavalry, in the regular army of Prussia, and served for three years, being honorably discharged in March, 1849. Soon afterward he emigrated to the United States, landing at New Orleans, where be remained but a few days, taking passage to St. Louis, Mo., where he immediately engaged as a sutler, in which he continued till 1856. He married Miss H. F. Stalberg in 1856, and immediately afterward moved to Randolph county, Illinois, and pur- chased land, where he was successfully engaged in farming pursuits until 1866. Desirous of changing his avocation in life, he bought land in Steelesville, and with his two brothers- in-law, Charles and William Stalberg, built a large and convenient building, and commenced the manufacturing of woolen goods in first-class grades and styles, in which capa- city they cooperated until 1879, when Mr. Thies bought the interest of his partner, and has successfully carried on the business ever since.
Mr. and Mrs. Thies are now the parents of six intelligent children, two sons and four daughters. They are both firm believers in the Christian religion, and consistent members of the M. E. church. Mr. Thies has frequently been called upon by his fellow-citizens to accept many important offices of his precinct, in which he has in all instances rendered full satisfaction to his constituents and credit to himself. He has always been held in high estimation for his true merits and good citizenship. He is always willing to aid and support all moral and useful enterprises that have a tendency to develop and improve the country.
GRAND COTE.
PERRY COUNTY.
ITUATED in the extreme northwestern portion of the county, lies Graud Cote Precinct. It is bounded on the north by Washington county, on the east by Beaucoup, on the south by Cutler, and on the west by Randolph county. Much of the surface, which is level, was for- merly covered with timber. The only prairie is that bearing the same name as the precinct. Much of the timber remains undisturbed. The Cairo Short Line Railroad enters at section 36, passing through the precinct in a northwesterly direction, and passes out at section 7. This precinct has no water-courses. It comprises all of congressional town four south, range four, and two tiers of sections in the northern part of town five, range four. The soil is fertile and productive. Agriculture is the principal occupation of its inhabitants. The population, according to the census of 1880, was nine hundred and forty- one.
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