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ACOB BUDD, a prominent farmer, land own- er and substantial business man of Kendall County, was born November 11, 1811, in Fishkill Township, Dutchess Co., N. Y. His parents, Elijah and Abigail (Sebring) Budd, had a family of ten children, of whom Jacob is the fourth son. He was reared on a farm; in 1850 came west, and for four years engaged in mer- chandising at Newark, in Big Grove Township. After selling out. he came to Fox Township and purchased two hundred and thirty acres of land in Section 10, paying $12 an acre therefor. Since then he has at different times added to his orig- inal purchase, until now he owns nearly 1,200
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acres, and takes rank among the most successful agriculturists. In the early history of the town- ship he was engaged in various enterprises, among which may be mentioned manufacturing and oper- ating an elevator; and has also served his township officially as postmaster and supervisor. He was the founder and owner of the town of Millbrook, which was laid out on his land; was instrumental in having the depot established there, and organized several business enterprises in the place, but sub- sequently sold out his individual interest to others wishing to embark in the same line. Of late years lie has devoted himself exclusively to the manage- ment of his farm and to the raising of stock, in which he is extensively engaged. March 29, 1855, Mr. Budd was united in marriage with Mary Ann Greenfield, who was born August 26, 1833, near Detroit, Mich., the only daughter of Samuel and Fanny (Levitt) Greenfield. Seven children were born to this union: Jacob S., Amelia A., Robert E., Maggie E., Mary E., Sherman J. and Frankie, all at home. Mr. Budd is not a member of any church, but contributes to the maintenance of all. Politically, he is a Republican.
M ARSHALL BAGWILL. Among the rep- resentative farmers of Fox Township, Kendall County, is this well-known gen- tleman. He was born in Mission Town- ship, La Salle Co., Ill., June 4, 1842, the third son and fourth child born to William and Almira S. (Neff) Bagwill, now of Boone County, Iowa. The father was born in Charleston, S. C., March 15, 1813, and when about one year old was taken by his parents to the south part of Indiana, where he grew to manhood. He there married Miss Almira S. Neff, a native of New York, born Feb- ruary 8, 1818, daughter of Ebenezer Neff, and soon thereafter, May 3, 1835, Mr. Bagwill located in Mission Grove, La Salle Co., Ill., taking up a claim in Mission Township, La Salle County, which claim he sold soon after, and then took up another one, which is now the farm of Thomas J. Phillips, located on the county line of La Salle and Kendall. This claim Mr. Bagwill improved; but in 1851 he sold out, and moved to near Mis-
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sion Point, where he purchased a farm, on which he lived until the spring of 1875, when he re- moved to Boone County, Iowa, where he has since resided. His wife, whom he married De- cember, 23, 1834, at Leesville, Lawrence Co., Ind., died March 26, 1882. They reared eight children: Orange, Francis, Euretta, Marshall, Isabella E .. John H., Daniel W. and Emily; all except Mar- shall are residents of Iowa; Orange is in Sac Coun- ty; Francis, Euretta, John H. and Emily are in Boone County (Euretta's last husband's name is Kenison); Ellen is the wife of Benjamin Tread, and lives in Story County, Iowa: Emily is unmar- ried, and keeps house for her father, in Boone.
Marshall Bagwill remained under the paternal roof until he was twenty years of age, when he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, August 17, 1862. During the earlier part of his service he was in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was present at the capture of Hartsville, Tenn. He served under Buell, and afterward under Rosecrans, and was at- tached to the First Brigade, First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps; was with Sherman in the march to the sea, and served till the close of the war. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, and twice at Mission Ridge, in shoul- der and left knee, up to which time he had never been absent from duty. These last wounds, however, disabled him from regular service, and he was con- sequently placed on detail duty, yet keeping with his old regiment. Finally, he went with the army to Washington, received his discharge June 6, 1865, and was paid off in Chicago on the 17th of the same month.
Upon his return home Mr. Bagwill went to school two terms at the Faber Institute, Newark, taught one term of school in La Salle County, near where he had taught anterior to the war, and in 1867 he commenced farming. May 9, 1867, he married L. Cornelia Whitney, who was born in Mission Township, La Salle Co., Ill., December 29, 1847, daughter of James H. and Lucy M. (Southworth) Whitney. By this union are four children: Ash- ley M., Edith, Earnest C. and William J. After marriage Mr. Bagwill located on a farm in Mis- sion Township and there lived two years; then sold
and purchased another farm, where he resided until February, 1872, when he came to Fox Town- ship and bought the property he now owns, known best as the "Bell Farm," situated in Sections 29 and 30, comprising 362 acres, all under cultiva- tion, and on which is a handsome barn and brick residence. Mr. Bagwill is a Republican; the fanı- ily attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.
R ICHARD RUSSELL GREENFIELD. Cotemporaneous with the early settlers of Fox Township, Kendall County, are the Greenfield family, of whom the eldest male representative now living is the gentleman whose name heads this memoir. He was born in the town of Swinefeet, thirty miles from Hull, in York- shire, England, July 29, 1823, to Samuel and Fannie (Russell) Greenfield, the former of whom, a son of William Greenfield, was born June 9, 1800; the latter was a daughter of Richard Russell.
The Greenfield family set sail from their native land April 1, 1833, and landed at Detroit, Mich., June 9, following, coming by way of the river St. Lawrence and the lower lakes. They then located on the county line of Oakland and Wayne, Mich., where the father purchased eighty acres of timber land, thirty of which he cleared, and there resided until the fall of 1838, when Mr. Greenfield, Sr., sold his farm and came with his family to Illinois. Here he purchased a claim on Section 4, in what is now Fox Township, Kendall County, of Thomas Pike, for $1,000, which claim finally surveyed out 230 acres, with no improvements on it save a small log house, 14x16, and no crop had yet been grown thereon. He remained on this farm until about the year 1860, when he removed to Sand- wich, and there lived until coming to Bristol Township, where he died in 1880. His wife had preceded him to the grave April 26, 1876. They had five children, four sons and one daughter, viz. : Richard R., William, George, Samuel and Mary Ann (twins), and of these, George and Samuel re- side in Sandwich, Ill .; William is in Jasper Coun- ty, Iowa, and Mary Ann is the wife of Jacob Budd, of Millbrook, Ill.
Richard R. remained with his parents until
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twenty-seven years of age, and was reared to farm- ing pursuits. March 6, 1851, he married Ann E., a native of Cape May County, N. J., daughter of James and Mary (Whitehead) Springer, and to them were born six children, four sons, and two daughters: George W., in business in Millbrook, Ill. ; Mary Ann, married to Charles Page, and re- siding in Monument, Kas .: John W., a farmer in Fox Township, Kendall County; Florence E., in Little Rock Township, the wife of Seymour Toombs; Oliver W., on the home farm; James L., a mem- ber of the firm of Page & Greenfield, dealers in coal and lumber, Monument, Kas. After his mar- riage, Mr. R. R. Greenfield located on the farm he now owns, situated on Section 5, Fox Town- ship, comprising 194 acres, with but few improve- ments. Now it is one of the best farms in the township, with good substantial buildings thereon. Mr. Greenfield is a Republican, and has filled several township offices.
EORGE W. GREENFIELD, a native and one of the enterprising young business men of Fox Township, Kendall County, and a descendant of early settlers of the locality, was born on the homestead farm June 22, 1852, the eldest in the family born to R. R. and Ann E. (Springer) Greenfield. The father, a native of Yorkshire, England, came to this country in 1833, first locating in Michigan, whence he moved in 1838 to Fox Township, Kendall Co., Ill.
George W. was reared on the home farm, re- ceived a fair common school education, and there remained until of age. For a time he was in the employ, as a laborer, of the Plano Manufacturing Company; then worked by the month on the farm, and taught school several terms. February 22, 1875, he married Julia A., second daughter of Enoch and Eliza (Springer) Darnell, and by her had two children: Jennie E. and Roy E. After marriage Mr. Greenfield rented land in Section 8, Fox Township, and here resided until 1882, in the spring of which year he came to Millbrook, where he commenced business in the hardware, agricul- tural implement, coal and lumber trade.
Mr. Greenfield was elected town clerk in the
spring of 1875, and held the position until 1877; was then elected assessor in 1878, which incumben- cy he filled until 1882, from which year until the present time he has been supervisor. In 1886 he was appointed postmaster, which office he yet fills. He is at present a member of the building com- mittee on the erection of a courthouse. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., of the Select Knights, and has been twice a delegate to the Grand Lodge; is also a member of the Legion of Select Knights, No. 40, at Sandwich; in politics he is a Republican.
W ILLIAM WHITFIELD, one of the re- tired, active business men of Fox Town- ship, where he has resided for the past forty years, is a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was born November 13, 1814, son of Edward and Nancy (Veasey) Whitfield, the former a miller by trade, the latter a daughter of Thomas Veasey. . William learned the trade of his father in his native country, and, on attaining his major- ity, immigrated, in 1836, to this country, landing in New York. His first occupation in the New World was that of miller in Merritt & Loveland's mill, at Troy, N. Y. Then he worked for a few months on a Hudson River mill, above Troy, after which he went by canal to Rochester, where he re- mained for several months engaged in one of the large mills of the place; then went by lake to De- troit, from which city he walked to Chicago (then a mere village), and thence, still afoot, proceeded to Dayton, La Salle Co., Ill. There he worked in a mill from the year of his arrival (1837) until 1845, in the spring of which latter year he came to Fox Township, Kendall County, where, having saved some money, he purchased, for $1,800, 132 acres of land on Section 9, upon which stood a small mill, located on Hollenback's Run. A por- tion of this land had been laid out for a town named, or to be named, Wilkesbarre, and several buildings were put up; but the embryo city was not destined to become a second Chicago, for a heavy wind-storm came upon it, tumbling the few scattered buildings upside down, and otherwise disarranging matters. This unexpected collapse discouraged the projectors of the place, so Mr.
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Whitfield sold off what was left of the buildings, and the land was utilized for farming purposes. The mill on this place he operated until its days of usefulness were gone, and he then devoted his attention exclusively to farming pursuits. Then, selling the entire property, Mr. Whitfield bought, for $2,000, the 156-acre place where he now re- sides, on Sections 10 and 15, forty acres of which were "broken" land, with a small farm-house and barn thereon. To this purchase he has since add- ed, until he has now about 1,100 acres, divided into several farms, all in Fox Township, except one of 281 acres in Bristol Township; and all this fine property has been accumulated by his own exertions. Mr. Whitfield has retired from active labor since the death of his wife, and is now spend- ing the evening of his life in peaceful quietude.
Mr. Whitfield was married June 26, 1845, to Jane Evans, who was born in Huron County, Ohio, August 3, 1826, daughter of Francis and Mary (Pyatt) Evans. She died January 2, 1882. To Mr. and Mrs. Whitfield were born eight children, seven of whom lived to be grown: George, Susan, William, Francis, Charles, John and Martha, all residents of Fox Township, Kendall County, ex- cept William, who lives in Bristol Township. Susan married Ward Shaw. Mr. Whitfield first voted for Van Buren, and has ever since been a stanch Democrat.
LARK HOLLENBACK, a veteran of the War of the Rebellion, and one of the rep- resentative farmers of Kendall County, is the eldest in his father's family, born June 11, 1820, in Jackson Township, Muskingum Co., Ohio. He remained under the parental roof until 1847, in which year he commenced farming for his own account, locating on a portion of his father's place, where he lived about eleven years. In 1829 he came to Illinois. and settled on the farm in the northeast quarter of Section 23, Fox Township, Kendall Co., comprising 172 acres which he had purchased in 1854 at $12 per acre. The improve- ments on it at that time were seventy acres fenced and broken, a small farm house, a board stable, and a double log crib.
August 14, 1862, Mr. Hollenback enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving to the close of the war. He participated in the following named battles or engagements: In 1862, Chickasaw Bayou; in 1863, Deer Creek, Champion Hills, assault on Vicksburg (during which, on May 19, 1863, he was wounded and compelled to be absent from his regiment until December 21, following, when he rejoined it at Bridgeport); in 1864, Resaca, Dallas, the charge of Kenesaw Mountain, and on July 22, in front of Atlanta; after Sherman had started on his memorable " March to the Sea." Mr. Hollen- back, together with the other disabled soldiers, was sent to the rear to Nashville, and afterward he rejoined his regiment at Chicago, where he was mustered out in June, 1865, and discharged on the 17th of the same month. He returned home to his farm, in Fox Township, where he has since been engaged in the pursuits of agriculture.
Mr. Hollenback has been twice married. His first wife, with whom he was united September 23, 1847, was Miss Eleanor M. Clark, a native of Richland (now Ashland) County, Ohio, a daughter of Bethuel and Jane (Ford) Clark. who came to Fox Township, Kendall County, in 1836. The children born to this union were George, a resident of White Lake, Dak. ; Alice, wife of Henry Shafer, in Fayette County, Iowa; Sophia married George B. Underwood, and died in May, 1883; Nelson, deceased when one year old; William, residing at North Yorkville. The mother of these children dying August 2, 1867, Mr. Hollenback married for his second wife, September 15, 1868, Mrs. Mary E. Osborne, born December 1, 1833, in Dutchess County, N. Y., daughter of Stephen and Susan H. (Smith) Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. Hollenback have an adopted daughter, named Louie L. Wright, whom they are caring for as their own. They are members of the regular Baptist Church. Mrs. Hollenback came to Kendall County to keep house for her brothers, George and John, who had come out here in 1854. Mr. Hollenback is a Democrat, and has served as collector three terms.
In the fall of 1887, while digging or boring for water on Mr. Hollenback's farm, a six foot vein of coal was struck, which, on being tested, proved to
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be of excellent quality. A company, now chartered by the State, was formed to operate same, the chief officers of which are George M. Hollenback, Milton Cornell, A. D. Newton, G. M. Johnson and A. Hallock, president.
C. Hollenback was driven from where he now lives by the Indians in the year 1832, at the time of the Black Hawk War.
M ATTHEW BUDD, of Fox Township. The Budd family came from Dutchess County, N. Y., to this State. The paternal pro- genitor was an Englishman, who married a French lady, and, at the time of the persecution of the French Huguenots desired to emigrate to this country. At first he could not obtain permission of the king unless his wife should leave her child as a pledge that they would return; later, however, through the interposition of the queen, they were permitted to go and take their child with them. On arriving in America, about 200 years ago, they settled in what is now Westchester County, N. Y. The name of this pioneer cannot now be recalled, but he is supposed to be the great- great grandfather of our subject. Gilbert, the grandfather of Matthew, had a family of six sons, viz. : Underhill, Selah, William, John, Gilbert and Elijah. Of this number, Selah, Elijah, Gil- bert and Underhill settled in Dutchess County; John in Columbia County, and William in Putnam County, New York State. Four of them died at the age of ninety years, the others also lived to be old. Elijah was the father of Matthew, and mar- ried Abigail Sebring, a daughter of Isaac Sebring and Catherine Van Benscaten, a Hollander. Eli- jah was a farmer, a native of Dutchess County, and there died. He reared a family of ten chil- dren, viz. : Isaac S., Van Benscaten, Jacob, Tunis, Matthew, Margaret, Maria, Amelia, Underhill and Edward. Of this number Margaret came to Illi- nois in 1846, married Rev. H. R. Smith in 1848, and moved to Western New York; the others set- tled in Dutchess County, N. Y., except Matthew, Tunis, Jacob and Edward, who came to Illinois.
Tunis G. Budd, the earliest settler of the fam- ily in Illinois, left his home in Fishkill, Dutchess
Co., N. Y., in the fall of 1837 for the then far off West, traveling by steamer, by canal and by stage until he reached Marietta, Ohio, where he taught school until the following spring, then went to tlie landing on the Ohio River to take the steamer for St. Louis. The first that landed was the Moselle; her decks were so crowded with emi- grants that he concluded to wait for the next steamer on which he took passage. On arriving at the second or third landing below Marietta they beheld a heart-rending scene. The steamer Moselle had blown up, was a complete wreck, and had killed and wounded three hundred or more passengers- fathers and mothers looking for their children, and children for their parents, husbands for wives, and wives for husbands; " Rachel mourning for her children, and would not be comforted because they were not." On arriving at St. Louis he found a company bound for the Chippewa River, Wiscon- sin, with a steamer loaded with all the necessary apparatus for starting a sawmill in that then densely wooded wilderness, and provisions suffi- cient to last until the next summer. He engaged to assist the company in erecting their mills and to get them ready for work, and worked with them until mid-winter of 1838-39. Unfortunately, at that time, a tribe of Chippewa Indians, living near them, fell short of provisions, were in a state of starvation, and demanded one-half of the com- pany's, and, as "might makes right," they had to hand it over, and the consequence was that a portion of the company had to leave to find sub- sistence down the river, among the settlements. Tunis was with those that left, and they started with sleighs on their tedious and dreary journey down the Chippewa and Mississippi Rivers, on the ice through an uninhabited country; camped at niglit on the shore in the snow, around a rous- ing big camp fire, and so on until they arrived at Galena, Ill. From thence Tunis came across the country (then almost uninhabited) until he reached Pappoose Grove, the then residence of Thomas Serrine, in the valley of the Fox River, in the summer of 1839.
Here he purchased land in Section 21. Subse- quently he added more land to his first purchase, buying out Stephen and Harvey Bates, and also
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buying from Isaac Groover, and had at the time of his death, July 10, 1852, about 700 acres.
Matthew Budd was born in Fishkill Township, Dutchess County, N. Y., March 26, 1817. In June, 1846, he came west to this place, and soon after purchased land here, buying from his brother Tunis, about 200 acres, at $7 per acre, on Section 16, where he has since resided. The place was partly improved, a good barn, however, being the only substantial building on it. He has since added 200 acres to his original purchase, making 400 acres in all. He has given his attention to farming and stock raising, and is one of the sub- stantial and highly esteemed citizens of Kendall County. June 3, 1847, he was united in mar- riage with Cornelia S. Van Voorhis, a native of Fishkill Township, Dutchess Co., N. Y., and a daughter of John and Cornelia (Montross) Van Voorhis.
Mr. John Van Voorhis, father of Mrs. M. Budd, was the great-great-great-grandson of Stephen Coerte Van Voorhis, who emigrated from Hol- land in 1660, and settled in Flatlands, Long Island, and whose grandson, Johannes Coerte Van Voorhis, purchased June 20, 1730, 2,790 acres of land of the Verplanck patent, in the town of Fish- kill, and settled on the same, one mile north of Fishkill, on the Hudson, in a dwelling that H. D. B. Bailey, a local historian of Fishkill, figures out to have been built about 240 years ago, has been occupied by five generations of the Van Voorhis family, and now owned by the fifth William H. Van Voorhis (whose sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Van Am- burgh, settled in North Carolina), Mrs. Adelia Du Bois and Charles Van Voorhis (in Yates County, N. Y.,) and Mrs. Cornelia S. Budd (in Fox Town- ship, Kendall Co., Ill.). The old house had to suc- cumb to the ravages of time, and was pulled down about two years since. Mrs. Budd died February 3, 1872, the mother of ten children, viz. : Sebring, Montross, Tunis G., Maria M., Seward, Annie, Charles, John, Isaac and an infant. Sebring was a soldier in the Rebellion, having enlisted in the Third Michigan Cavalry, at the age of fifteen years; was taken prisoner in 1864, and was never afterward heard of; Tunis G. works on the home farm; Maria M. resides in Livingston County, Ill.,
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the wife of A. C. Pees, a farmer; Seward and Charles died of diphtheria within a few days of each other; Annie resides at home; John died of scarlet fever; Isaac resides in McAllister, Logan Co., Kas., where he is engaged in business. Mr. Budd's present wife was Emily Du Bois, a daughter of Henry Du Bois, and a native of Yates County, N. Y. Mr. Budd has been a Republican since the formation of that party, and was one of its leading men in this place at the time of its organization. He has been for several years a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his handsome residence, which is beautifully located, Mr. Budd is spend- ing the sunset of a busy life surrounded by the fruits of his labor, and in the enjoyment of the respect of his many friends, and he says that in all these years of prairie life he has purchased but two glasses of alcholic drinks, and those about forty years ago, and has not as much as tasted of lager beer in all that time; and yet he supposes that were he to come up for a presidential nomina- tion he would be denounced as a whiskyite; at least such would be possible.
H ENRY COLMAN MYERS is one of Ken- dall's successful farmers, who started in life, as he expresses it, "as poor as a man possibly could be," and has acquired, un- der great difficulties, a good farm and a compe- tency. He was born October 25, 1811, in Orange County, N. Y., the sixth of a family of thirteen children, who grew to manhood and womanhood, all of whom married except a brother, Dorastus B. James Myers, his father, married Mary Darrow, daughter of James Darrow, whose wife was a Davis. When six years of age Henry C. moved, with his parents, to Tioga County, where they re- mained for a time, then moved to Bradford County, Penn., but finally returned to Tioga County, where his grandfather, John Myers, had made a settlement. There he grew to manhood, was reared to farming, and received a common-school education. The family was a large one, and in early life he was thrown on his own resources, but, with strong hands and a willing mind, he set about the task of self-maintenance. He worked hard,
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and was always ready to accept employment at such wages as might be tendered him, and though many times the compensation was very small, yet he accepted it, rather than remain idle. April 13, 1837, he married Harriet Sanders, who was born March 11, 1817, in Barton Township, Tioga Co., N. Y. She was one of thirteen children born to Jabez Sanders and his wife, Betsey Lott. The Sanders family are of English stock, and trace their ancestry back for several generations.
After Mr. Myers' marriage he farmed on his own account, and after several years of unremitting labor, assisted by his faithful companion (an in- valid for many years, walking with the aid of a crutch), succeeded in saving up some money; re- moved to Kane County, Ill., and located near Geneva, where Mr. Myers purchased forty acres of land, but three years later sold it and purchased 150 acres of Mr. Vernon, of Fox Township, at $25 an acre, paying what he could on the land and the remainder in installments. There were no buildings of any importance on the place at the place at the time, and but some land broken and partially fenced. Here he settled and by industry and careful management succeeded in paying for his land, to which he has since added until he and his son, A. E., have now 260 acres, well improved, having good farin buildings thereon. The home residence is handsomely located, on a beautiful eminence, with yard in front sloping down to the road, and is situated about a mile and a half north of Millbrook. Mr. Myers is now partially retired, but is actively employed in looking after his home interests. He is also interested in fish-culture, to which he is giving considerable attention, having two nice ponds, well stocked with choice fish. He has but one child, Alexander E., who was born April 11, 1843, in Bradford County, Penn., and February 3, 1869, married Caroline F. Carns, born June 19, 1845, daughter of Robert W. Carns, who came to Kendall County in 1834, and died in Newark, February 23, 1869. Alexander E. is car- rying on the farm, and is an energetic, intelligent and progressive citizen; is Republican in politics, and is often selected to fill positions of public trust. He has two children living: Dorastus B. and Har- riet A., and one deceased, Lottie, who died of
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