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The following-named gentlemen have represented Jonathan creek in the county board of supervisors : Benjamin Freeman, elected in 1867; L. R. Jones in 1868 ; M. H. Warren in 1869, and served until 1872; S. Miller in 1872, P. P. Miller in 1873; Levi Seass in 1874, re-elected in 1875 ; A. J. Buxton in 1876 ; S. Miller in 1877, served till 1880. Frank McDonald is the present incumbent.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
JOHN F. McDONALD,
HE present supervisor from Jonathan Creek township, was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, April 16th, 1836. His grandfather, James McDonald, came to West Virginia from the eastern part of the state. Mr. McDonald's father, James McDonald, was born in Taylor county, West Virginia. John F. McDonald was the second son of three children, all boys. He was raised in Harrison county on a farm, and obtained his education in the ordinary district schools. He came to Illinois in 1859 to look after some land which had been purchased by his father. At that time he had no definite intention of remaining in the state. He was living
in Jonathan Creek during the war. He was married October 18th, 1865, to Sarah Elizabeth Powell, daughter of John Powell, who was born in Moultrie county a mile south-east of Sullivan. After his marriage he settled on his present farm. He is one of the active and energetic farmers of the township, and owns 626 acres of land, of which 619 lie in one body. He has also been engaged in raising cattle and trading in stock. Mr. and Mrs. McDonald have five children :- Eva B., Minnie M., John J., Victor H., and Charles Henry. In his politics, his father was an Old Line Whig, and Mr. McDonald began life in sympathy with that organization, but on the dissolution of the Whig party became a Democrat, and voted first for Breckenridge in 1860. In local elections he very frequently votes for the man whom he considers best fitted for the office. He was elected supervisor in the spring of 1880.
TOWER HILL TOWNSHIP.
(SHELBY COUNTY.)
S six miles square and situated on the west side of the county. It is bounded on the north by Rural, on the south by Cold Spring, on the east by Rosc township, and on the west by Christian connty. It is mostly a high rolling prairie, slightly timbered in the north-east and south- west corners. This township has a more diver. sified and beautiful landscape, than probably any other section of the county, made so by the chain of mounds, (or as the old settlers term them knobs), which extends to the greater part of the northern and central portions of the township. To the eye of the traveler, when passing through the township, they have the appearance somewhat of the billowy ocean, rendering the view of the surrounding country one of exceeding beauty. There is one thing somewhat peculiar in reference to these mounds ; they are productive to their very summits, and regarded as the best of wheat land. Some of the mounds are continuous and some isolated.
Burrell Massey was the first settler in the knobs, in consequence of which they took his name. He settled here in about 1830 or 31, on scction three. where R. Pugh now lives.
Daniel Agles also settled on the same section, about the same time.
James Abbott settled the place, whicre Samuel Smith now lives, about 1830. John May afterwards bought the land and lived here. Samuel Smith, who came to Rose township with his mother, Mary Smith, in 1831, has lived on the place since 1849.
John Neil settled on section three in 1834. Franklin Hudson . settled on section four in 1832, now the Nelson Neil place. He here made the first land entry in the township, September 18, 1832, by en- tering one hundred and thirty-four acres in the north-east corner of the above section. The next entry was made by John May, No- vember 23d, 1833; he entered the north-east quarter of the south- east quarter section four ; nearly three years elapsed, when he made the third entry in the township, Jan. 27th, 1836, by entering the west eighty acres of the north-west quarter, section ten.
Abraham Middlesworth, sr., entered a large tract of land in the north part of the township in an early day. 'This land was after- wards settled by his sons, Abraham and Ner.
Daniel Puckett, from Ohio, came into the township in 1837, and broke up a small patch of ground, now on the place of Washbourn Wade, where he intended to put in corn. He had the misfortune to lose one of his horses by lightning : this left him without a team. He then moved up into the Sangamon river timber, where lie rc- mained about three years, spending the most of his time in hunting. Returning to this township in 1840, he settled permanently in the
south part, where his son, Nathan Puckett, now lives. He madc this place his residence until his death.
Benjamin Hobson settled in the extreme south-west corner of the township as early as 1838 or '39. He was from Indiana, and died a number of years ago. Thomas May settled the Weller placc about 1840 ; he sold his improvements to Joseph Hall of Tennessee. May went to Oregon, and Hall afterwards moved to Texas.
Garrett Horrace settled the Jester place about 1837; he sold to Stephen Jester in 1841. Jester was from Pickaway county, Ohio; had lived in Shelby county since 1838. He died in 1877.
Waslıbourn Wade, a native of Ohio, entered the land where he now lives in 1837, and then returned to Ohio, where he remained until 1844, when he came out the second time, and began the improve- ment of his place, where he has since resided. John Sharrock, a native of Ohio, came to Christian county in 1835 ; ten years later he came to this township, and settled the north east quarter of sec- tion twenty-eight. At the time Mr. Sharrock settled here, there were only five families living in the south part of the township, as follows : Stephen Jester, Jonathan Riley, Washbourn Wade, Tho- mas May, and William Wirey. In the west part of the township, on Beck's creek, there was here and there a "squatter," but as the country settled they left for better hunting grounds.
WV. W. Peek, now living on section thirteen, has lived in the township for the past twenty years. His father, William Peek, a native of Tennessee, came to Shelbyville in the fall of 1834. Iu the fall of 1837, hic settled in Rose township, where he resided until his death in 1856.
John and Robert Pugh, now living on sections ten and fifteen, are the two eldest settlers now living in Shelby county, (see history of Cold Spring township.) The north-west part of this township was not settled uutil comparatively late years.
Early Schools .- The first school-honse in the township was a hickory log cabin, and stood near the centre of section three. It was called " Old Hickory." James McCabe was among the first teachers.
The first preaching was at the residence of John Neil, by the Baptist denomination. They held meetings here regularly for a number of years. Willis Whitfield was one of the first preachers.
WESTMINSTER
Was laid off by Washbourn Wade, on a part of his farm, north-west corner of section thirty-three, in 1848. The town was first called Manyawper, and so recorded on the records, and afterwards changed. William Collins built the first house, in which he put
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a general stock of goods. The second business house was erected by Everard Sharrock, who also brought on a general stock of goods. Sharrock afterwards sold out to his son, John Sharrock. A blacksmith shop was carried on by John Mattox, and four or five residences were erected here. The post-office received mail twice a week, as the village was on the direct route between Shelbyville and Hillsboro, and gave promise of becoming a town of some ini- portance. The construction of the Indianapolis and St. Louis rail- road proved a death-blow to the prosperity of the town; as Tower Hill was laid out on the line of this road, within three miles of Westminster, the place was disbanded, and all the buildings but two removed.
TOWER HILL
Was surveyed by Elias Smith, county surveyor, June, 1857, for P. C. Huggins and Simeon Ryder, proprietors of the town. The · town is built within a half mile of the centre of the township, on the south side and at the base of one of the largest knobs in the township, originally known as Pilot Knob, and commands a beauti- ful view of the country around.
Elick Hunter bought Sharrock's business house in Westminster and moved it to Tower Hill, and this was the first business house in the place. Hunter put in a general stock of goods.
The second merchant was Edward Bolins, of Pana, Illinois ; he sold goods in a small house that stood where the depot now stands. Corley & Moore were the third firm. A. V. Harper bought out Moore, and the fourth firm was Corley & Harper. Neil & Moses afterwards came in and built the house now occupied by John Shar- rock, and opened up a general store of goods.
Thomas Craddick was the first post-master: he kept the office in the first store. He was also the first justice of the peace here and first station agent. The first hotel or boarding-house was moved here from the head of Massey's Knobs, by John Faro, now used for a dwelling. The present hotel in part was erected also by Jolin Faro, in 1855.
The mill was built in 1863, by Dr. Martin Oliver : it is a good substantial mill of three run of burrs, now owned and run by James Warner.
Tower Hill is one of the best grain markets in the county, having the advantage of two railroads for shipping purposes. There are two steam elevators situated on the I. & St. L. R. R., and operated by Bullard & Miller and John S. Cooper, and one situated on the O. & M. R. R., operated by Brownback Bros. : the latter firm also handle grain at other points on this road.
There are here two neat and comfortable churches, Methodist and Presbyterian. Three other churches in the township-Metho- dist and Baptist on section three, and United Brethren on section twenty-nine. The town has a substantial brick school-house, where three teachers are employed.
The following list comprises the business houses of Tower Hill .
Clothing, Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes and general store .-- A. M. Craddick, John Sharrock.
Groceries .- Gross & Co., Jester & Leighty.
Drugs .-- L Higginbotham, John Morgan.
Physicians -G. W. Fringer, Jolin Morgan, John Shelten, J. L. Brown.
Hardware and Lumber-dcaler .- R. E. Cannon.
Hardware and Undertaker .- H. E. Duenweg.
Post-master .- H. K. Baines.
Boots and Shoes .- B. W. F. Corley.
Millinery, Dress Maker and Fancy Goods .- Mrs. A. Jones.
Millinery and Dress Maker .- Miss Mary Baines.
Harness .- I. K. Story.
Boot and Shoe Maker .- George Bowers.
Butchers .- Robinson & Leighty.
Barber .- William Whitfield.
Groceries and Restaurant .- A. J. Reed.
Restaurant .- G. J. Conrad. .
Blacksmith-shops .- Wm. Camfield, J. L. Cannon, Freeze & Mc- Cullough.
Wagon Maker and Undertaker .- Fred. Stumpf.
Wagon Maker. Elick Pritchett.
Hay Press. - Morgan Bro's.
Livery .- James Morgan.
Hotel .- Joseph Gross.
True Democrat .- Mit A. Bates.
Tower Hill Lodge, No. 493, A. F. and A. M., received its char- ter October 3d, 1866, with the following charter members : E. Brownback, W. M .; A. V. Harper, S. W .; John Gunnie, J. W. ; W. A. Clements, M. Hanson, A. Higginbotham, L. W. Jester, I. W. Munsill, Ner Middlesworth, P. M. Oliver, J. L. Morten.
The present officers are: John Ward, W. M .; C. A. Conrad. S. W .; Mike Gunnie, J. W .; G. W. Fringer, Treas'r ; H. M. Craddick, Sec. ; A. V. Harper, S. D. ; Thomas Bowen, J. D .; Jas. K. P. Mccullough, Tyler.
Chromo Lodge, No. 512, Independent Order of Odd Fellows was organized May 8th, 1873.
Charter members .- James Morgan, Geo. Aicle, Gilbert Scovill, John Crook, Wm. Morgan, E. B. Whitehead, J. L. Cannon.
Present Officers .- Geo. Bowers, Noble Grand ; James A. Jones, Vice Grand ; J. L. Cannon, Secretary ; Samuel Fugate, Treasurer ; Representative to the Grand Lodge : Samuel Fugate; Trustees : Jas. Morgan, Samuel Fugate, John T. Killam, Mike Woods, Wade Morganl.
Knobs Lodge, No. 70, Ancient Order of United Workmen was or- ganized March 31st, 1877.
Charter members .- G. W. Fringer, Jas. Rhodes, Till Weekly, David Brownback, Geo. M. Branden, John Hall, Thomas Bowen, J. L Brown, Jas. P. McCullough, S. C. Walden.
Present Officers .- S. W. Dutton, Past Master Workman ; W. A. Camfield, Master Workman ; John Hast, General Forcman ; Dr. John Morgan, Overseer; Jas. P. Mccullough, Recorder ; N. W. Lane, Receiver ; J. M. Griss, Financier ; J. S. Evey, Guide ; John Wyands, I. Watchman ; J. R. Tilly, O. Watchman ; Trus- tees : L. Warren, L. Wigginbotham, E. Lyford ; I. K. Story, Representative to Grand Lodge. Present membership, 28.
Supervisors since township organization .- John R. Warren, elected in 1860, re-elected in 1861; J. Thomas, elected in 1862 ; Levi W. Minsel, elected in 1863 ; C. Eiler, clected in 1864; B. W. F. Corley, clected in 1865, who was elected for 1866 ; R. H. Pugh, elected in 1867 ; C. Eiler, elected in 1868; J. R. Warren, elected in 1869, re-elected in 1870-71; R. H. Pugh, clected in 1872; B. W. F. Corley, elected in 1873, re-elected in 1874, 1875 and 1876; N. Neil, elected in 1877 ; J. E. Lane, elccted in 1878; N. Neil, elected in 1879, re-elected in 1880, and is the present incumbent
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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JAMES A. ANDES.
R. ANDES, who is now engaged in the grain business at Tower Hill, is a native of the county, and was born in Windsor township, on the 5th of March, 1841. On his father's side he is of Gerinan descent, though the family has lived in this township for several genera- tions. His great-grandfather emigrated from Germany to America, and settled in the State of Pennsylvania. His grandfather was born in Pennsylvania, and at an carly period emigrated to East Tennessee, where Allen Andes, father of the subject of this sketch, was born. In the year 1837, Allen Andes, then a young man, came to Illinois and settled in Shelby county. In 1838, he married Elizabeth Davis, who was born in Greenbrier county, Virginia. He began farming on Sand Creek, in Windsor township. James A. Andes was the third of a family of twelve children. His mother died in Windsor towuship, and his father in Tower Hill township. He was married in Windsor township, and his home was in that part of the county till he was twenty-five years of age. The educational advantages existing in his boyhood were comparatively limited. The schools were held in log school-houses, and had by no means reached their present state of efficiency. He improved his opportunities as best he could, aud partly in study by himself acquired the elements of a good education. At the age of eighteen he began teaching on Upper Sand Creek, in Windsor township. Many of his pupils were older and larger than himself. He taught three winters, aud then for two terms attended the old seminary at Shelbyville, under C. W. Jerome. He afterwards taught school several years. He has taught in the county twelve winters altogether, in Windsor, Okaw, Tower Hill and Big Spring townships. His marriage took place on the 14th of March, 1865, to Sarah E. Selby, daughter of James M. and Lydia M. Selby. Mrs. Andes was born in Okaw township, and her parents were among the early settlers of that part of the county. Her grandfather came to this county fron Kentucky. Her father was born in Kentucky, and was a boy when the family be- came residents of Shelby county. Her mother, Lydia M. Skeen, was a native of the state, and was born in Effingham county.
In the fall of 1865, Mr. Andes purchased a farm in Tower Hill township, and has since been a resident of that part of the county. In 1872, he began the grain business at Tower Hill, which he has since carried on. His residence is in the village of Tower Hill, though he owns a farm adjoining the town. In his political belief he was originally a Republican. By his first vote for President, cast in 1864, he assisted to elect Lincoln to his second terni. He continued a Republican till 1874, when he became convinced that
the legislation of the country was conducted in favor of capital and to the injury of the laboring and productive classes, and he then joined the Greenback party. He was one of the first members of that political organization in his part of the county, and has re- mained steadfast in his adherence to its principles. He is known as a man of strict personal integrity and business capacity. At different times he has filled the office of assessor, collector and clerk of Tower Hill township. He has two children, Luella and Minnie Andes. For a number of years he has been connected with the Methodist Church. He is a man of liberal opinions and progressive views, and is popular as a business man.
DR. G. W. FRINGER.
DR. FRINGER, who for the last fifteen years has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Tower Hill, is a native of Carroll coun- ty, Maryland, and was born on the 24th of March, 1834. His an- cestry is traced back to Germany, His grandfather, Nicholas Fringer, emigrated from Germany to America about the time of the Revolutionary war. George Fringer, the father of the subject of this biography, was born in Carroll county, Maryland ; was raised there, and in the same county married Susan Null, also a native of Carroll county. George Fringer was a miller by occupa- tior, and for a long number of years rau a flouring and saw mill on Piney creek, in Carroll county. After giving up the mill he retired to a farm two miles and a half distant where he died. Dr. G. W. Fringer was the third of a family of nine children. His birth- place was the old mill site on Piney creek, and the first thirteen years of his life were spent in the same neighborhood. After his father's death he left home and began the struggle of life cn Lis own account. He was obliged to rely mostly on his own cfforts for an education. In the subscription schools then in existence in Maryland, tuition cost something, and he ouly had ordinary advan tages for attending school. For a time he attended the seminary at Taneytown, Maryland, in the ncighborhood of which place the family resided. In after years a more comprehensive cducation was gained by reading and self-study. He first came West in the year 1851 when seventeen, and was in several different States, in- cluding Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois aud Missouri, but re- turned to Maryland. After growing up he worked for some time at the carpenter's trade. When only twenty-two he was offered a position in charge of a distillery at Emmittsburg, Frederick county, Maryland. He accepted the offer and conducted the distillery success- fully four years, receiving for those days very liberal wages. From Emmittsburg he went to Baltimore to superintend a similar estab- lishment in that city, but the firm by whom he was employed be-
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coming financially embarrassed he came West with the intention of starting a rectifying house at St. Joseph, Missouri. This wasin 1860. He only remained two weeks in St. Joseph. Becoming dissat- isfied with the distilling business he determined to have nothing more to do with it, and came to Shelbyville where he worked at the carpentering business till 1862. In August of that year he en- listed in the One Hundred and Fifteenth regiment, Illinois Volun- teers. At Camp Butler, three or four weeks after his enlistment, he was taken sick and returned to Shelbyville, where he was in bad health and unable to work for nearly a year. About six months after his enlistment he was honorably dischargel from the service.
His marriage had taken place on the 13th of February, 1862, to Martlia V. Cover, daughter of Jacob Cover, who was born near Gettysburg, in Adams county, Pennsylvania. His long sickness had contributed to place him in a discouraging financial condition, and the fact that he was unable to endure any physical labor rendered the prospect rather gloomy for the future. In the midst of these discouragements, through the generosity of some friends at Shelby- ville who had confidence in his business ability, he was given an opportunity to go into the drug business at Shelbyville. He car- ried on this business successfully from the start, and the first year (at the expiration of which time he sold the store) cleared nearly two thousand dollars. He applied himself to business closely, and at the same time found leisure to read medicine, the study of which he had resolved upon. His preliminary medical studies were car- ried on under the direction of Dr. E. E. Waggoner, of Shelbyville. He attended his first course of lectures during the winter of 1834-65 at the St. Louis Medical College. In the winter of 1865-6 he attended lectures at the Rush Medical College. at Chicago. In the spring of 1866 he located at Tower Hill, and began his profes- sional practice. He graduated from the Missouri Medical Col- lege in March, 1869. Hc has three children: William R., Mary V., and Effie S. Fringer. His political convictions liave always attached him to the democratic party. He has taken an active interest in politics, and indeed, in all respects has been an active and public-spirited citizen. His attention has been closely devoted to the practice of his profession, and he has never cared to occupy any public position. During his residence in Shelby coun- ty he has made many friends, and is well liked both for his person- al qualities as a gentleman and for his abilities as a physician. Hc is a member of the Presbyterian church. He is a firm friend of ed- ncation and of every enterprise calculated to advance the best inter- ests of the community. His record as a successful physician is well known to the people of the county.
JOHN II. HALL.
JOHN H. HALL, a view of whose farm residence in Tower Hill township may be seen on another page, is a native of Shelby county, and was born near Tower Hill on the 19th of February, 1858. His grandfather, William Hall, was one of the early settlers of Shelby county. He was born in Kentucky, and settled in the neighborhood of Shelbyville, when the residents of that city were very few in number. He died in Rose township, within four miles of Shelbyville. Asbury Hall, the fatlier of the subject of this sketch, was born and raised near Shelbyville, and married Ardeliza Amlin, a native of Ohio, and daughter of John Amlin. After their marriage they settled on a farm a mile and a half south of Tower Hill. The milk sickness then prevailed greatly throughont that part of the county ; and six months after the birth of their only child, John H. Hall, bothi were taken sick and died,- Mr. Hall's mother dying on the day succeeding the death of his father. This was in the fall of 1858. They were buried in one
grave. Their nnfortunate death left Mr. Hall an orphan at the age of six months. Till he was ten years of age his home was with his grandmother Hall in Rose township, and after her death he went to live with his father's brother, Anson Hall, in Ridge township. He lived in Ridge township nine years, and in the schools of that part of the county obtained the rudiments of a good education. In the spring of 1877, when he was nineteen, he moved on the old farm which belonged to his father, in section 27 of Tower Hill township. Hc resided there two years, and in the spring of 1879 lie moved to his present farm, where he has since lived. He was married on the 30thi of April, 1879, to Miss Mary Elliott, daughter of Dixon D. Elliott. She was born a short distance south-east of Pana, in Christian county, and was raised mostly in Tower Hill township. Mr. Hall is known as one of the enterprising farmers of the township, and is the owner of two hundred and ninety acres of land. In politics he is a republican. By his vote in 188) he contributed to the election of Garfield. He has considera- ble energy and enterprise, and his name is worthy of a place among the rising young men of Shelby county.
A. M. CRADDICK,
Or Tower Hill, one of the most enterprising business men of Shelby county, was born in Tower Hill township a mile and a half south-west of Tower Hill, on the 16th of July, 1844. His father, Thos. W. Craddick, was of Irish descent, and was born in Montgomery county, Maryland. He married Susan Livers, a native of the D's. trict of Columbia. She was of German origin. A few days af.c .: his marriage, Thomas W. Craddick emigrated to Illinois, and settled in Shelby county. This was in 1836; he was one of the early settlers of the county. Soon after he came lie built a saw- mill on Robinson creek, the first in that part of the county. He subsequently settled in Tower Hill township, and died on the 21st of January, 1868. For a long number of years he was justice of the peace, filling that office the most of the time he resided in the county. He was a man highly esteenied for his fairness and honesty, and had many friends among the old residents of the county. Mr. Craddick's mother died at Tower Hill in June, 1874.
The subject of this sketch was the ninth of a family of eleven children. He was raised in the neighborhood of Tower Hill; hc attended the common-schools in the vicinity, and after growing up, worked on the Indianapolis & St. Lonis R. R., and with the money thus obtained attended the Shelbyville Seminary two terms, and thns secured a more thorough education. Early in the spring of 1869 he went to Windsor, and was learning the telegraph business at that place, when he was called home by his father's sickness. After his father's death he received the appointment as station agent on the I. & St. L. R. R. at Tower Hill, and was also made express agent and post-master. In November, 1868, he married Annie E. Moore, daughter of John F. Moore, of Tower Hill. She was a native of Kentucky. Soon after his marriage he began the mercantile business. In this he found his true vocation, and he has since carried it on with success. In partnership with Mr. Moore, he opened a small grocery store, to which he attended in connection with his duties as express agent. The business was gra- dually enlarged ; other articles were added, till the stock of goods became of a general character. After continuing in business withı his father in-law about two years, lie bought his interest and en- barked in business on his own account. At the same time he pur- chased his present store-one of the best business properties in Tower Hill. With the exception of about ten months, he has been carrying on thic mercantile business ever since, and his name is familiar to the
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