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In September. 1-55 the ceremony of breaking ground was per- formed. A dinner was spread on the public square at Toulon, and the 850,000 donation to the enterprise promised a twenty-fold return. Work on this division of the W. A. L. railroad prior to May, 1556, rep- resented 95,400 yards of excavation and embankment, and during that month 21.000 yards were completed. W. II. Greenwood was engineer. At this time the road was graded from the south side of O. Whitaker's field to C. L. Eastman's farm. Then the shock came. The embank- ment was there. but beyond this there were no signs of completing the work. Interest coupons were presented and payment refused. On September 15, 1858, one Olaf Johnson sned the county for the amount of interest due on such bonds; but a judgment by the circuit court dismissed the suit: which was renewed. as stated, by the supreme court ; and in March. 1862, the same victorious Olaf Johnson presented for payment sixty-five coupons : Claudius Jones, forty-one coupons: O. Whitaker, two coupons, and T. F. Hurd. five coupons --- all of which the supervisors ordered to be paid.
On July 6, 1865, Win. Lowman, of Toulon, was elected treasurer.
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and Wm. F. Thomas, of Wyoming, a director of the new board of the Americal Central R. R. Those men knowing that $700,000 worth of work was done, and 80 miles of road-bed made ready for the rails, determined not to consent to the abandonment of the enterprise; but their efforts were not attended with success, the county lost $50,000 and a fountam of patience equal to as much more.
The Peoria & Rock Island R. R. Co. was chartered March 7, 1867. The first railroad meeting held at Toulon was that of Aug. 26, 1867. in re the Peoria and Rock Island R. R. project. Chas. Myers presided with Oliver White secretary. M. Shallenberger. A. B. Gould and O. E. Page, of Cambridge, were the principal speakers. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the scheme, and a committee comprising M. Shallen- berger, Oliver Whitaker. P. M. Blair, Davis Lowman and Benjamin Turner was appointed to further the project. On Nov. 9, a second meeting was held, presided over by C. M. S. Lyon, with J. M. Brown, secretary. Resolutions were adopted pledging the township to sub- scribe 850,000, and appointing Miles A. Fuller, Davis Lowman and Martin Shallenberger a committee to take charge of raising this snb- seription. On Nov. 12, 1867, directors were elected, and on the same day W. R. Hamilton was chosen president and Patrick M. Blair, vice- president. A year or two later one of the local papers, noticing this election, stated : "It is through Mr. Blair's effort, to a great extent, that the work has been pushed forward so speedily in this county.' On Nov. 22, 1867, citizens of Toulon, Penn, Essex, and valley town- ships assembled at Wyoming to consider the question of granting a bonus to the P. & R. I. R. R. H. A. Holst presided, with AI. C. Cope- stake, secretary. A committee comprising A. G. Hammond and C. Il. Butler, of Essex ; John Wrigley and Isaac Thomas, of Toulon ; Chas. Holgate and George Nicholas, of Penn ; and Elisha Dixon and Thomas Crone, of Valley, was appointed to draft resolutions. Their report was adopted, and cach township pledged to subscribe $50,000. A sec- ond committee to confer with the directors was appointed. Isaac Thomas, Winfield Seott. S. K. Conover and James M. Rogers wore the members. The voting on this question JJan. 27. 1868. resulted as fol- lows: Toulon, for 254, contra 155, majority 129; Goshen, for 120, con- tra 116, majority 4; Essex, for 115, contra 120, majority 5; Valley voted 830,000. The free holders were wary this time, and surrounded their bonds with such conditions that default on the part of the com- pany was out of the question. In Dec .. 1867, the surveyors arrived at Tonlon, having run the line from Princeville to Toulon via Wyom- ing. In JJuly, 1868, the road was permanently located on this route (in preference to the route via Brimfield ), striking the old grade of the America Central at Wyoming, and following that to Toulon. In Aug- ust. 1869, the work of repairing the grade of the " American Central." or W. A. L. R. R., was entered upon just west of Toulon. the consider- ation to the old defaulting company being about 827,000. The road was so far completed by 1871 that in June of that year a construction train steamed into Toulon, the event being celebrated by a dinner spread in Judge Ogles grove. On July 8, 1871, the first regular train passed over the road.
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In October, 1869, the Peoria & Rock Island Railroad Co. was con- solidated with the Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, thus uniting the Coal Valley Railroad and completing one of the best short lines in the state. During the quarter century of its existence, several accidents on this road have been recorded, the death of young Fuller near the depot being one of the saddest. On January 10, 1881, a coach attached to the freight went over the embankment on the Rock Island & Peoria near Indian creek. Conductor Samuel Grant was killed. The thermometer stood 28º below zero, so that the survivors were almost frozen when rescued. In January, 1882, William Allen, a well-known cattle-dealer, was killed by a train while crossing the Rock Island & Peoria track near Robt. Mitchell's house. The Rock Island & Peoria is assessed $198,755 for its 19 miles and 469 feet of main track, 1 mile and 2,420 feet of side track; buildings valued at $1,500 and rolling- stock at $11,055 within Stark county.
The Rushville Branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail- road brings one back to 1855, when the Jacksonville & Savannah rail- road projeet was agitated and the Peoria & Hannibal railroad project became pretentious. In 1861, James Il. Stipp and Judge Henry L. Bryant, the central figures of the two corporations, gave a perpetual lease of the two roads to James F. Joy and E. B. Ward, agents of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the conditions being that the roads would be completed and operated regularly by the greater corpora- tion. In 1862 the road was completed to Canton, May 2, and to Lew- iston in June, 1862, and to Rushville in 1869, and early the same year the question of subsidy was mooted in Valley, Essex, Penn and Osce- ola townships, as related in the several chapters devoted to those The branch was then known as the Peoria, Dixon & Hannibal rail- road. Being very liberally subsidized, the builders completed the 443 miles- Buda to Elmwood-in 100 days, and thus defeated the efforts of the Rock Island & Peoria people to claim the pioneer rail- road of the county. Dr. Alfred Castle, an old resident of Wyoming, was one of the leading spirits in pushing forward this enterprise ; and it is related that for a time the new road was generally called " The Castle Flax-road," the sobriquet of the doctor being "Old Flax." Through his influence the depot was placed in the new town, a distance from the business center, round which North Wyoming has since grown up.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad is assessed $192,641 for its 20 miles and 4,892 feet of main track, 1 mile and 4,624 feet of side track. together with buildings valned at 82,721, and rolling-stock at 827,668, all within Stark county.
The Havana, Toulon & Fulton City Railroad Co. was projected in 1869 and subscriptions asked for.
In 1880 it was reported that a branch of the Hannibal & St. Joe railroad was to be built from Quincy to Chicago ria Wyoming. At this time, also, the Peoria & Northwestern railroad projeet came up, providing for a route ria Wyoming and Toulon to Dubuque.
In July, 1881, articles of incorporation were filed at Toulon by the Indiana, Illinois & lowa Railroad Co. It promised a third railroad to Stark county. but the scheme did not materialize. A meeting to
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foster the building of this road was held at the county seat in March, 1882. John M. Brown presided, with A. P. Miller, sceretary. Smith, of Keithsburg, gave the history of the enterprise, and a committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions to the capital stock. E. A. Burge, J. H. Miller. Win. Nowlan, W. II. Winans, James II. Quinn, Major Merriman. Harrison Miner, John O'Neil and Samuel Burge were appointed ; but the time was inopportune, and so the project is allowed to sleep.
The Atchison, Santa Fe & Chicago Railroad Company, a south- western people are now seeking direct communication with Chicago. Surveyers have been through this country. and the probability is that within a short time Stark county will have a main line instead of the branches which allliet her with their variable time-tables and total ab- sence of a desire to connect their trains for the convenience of the public.
The Great Southern & Canadian Underground Railroad. noticed in the old settler's chapter, has long since passed away. The division of Stark witnessed many a weary slave pass forward on the road to C'anada and freedom - a criminal in his own land.
CHAPTER XV.
MILITARY HISTORY.
HIE beginnings of Illinois Territory were made in war. ... ...... Hamilton, the British sealp-buyer, his troops and Indian allies, were subjected to all those in glorious defeats recorded in British as well as American history. In 1832, Black Hawk's Indians renewed the war, but were subjected and planted beyond the Mississippi. In May, 1846, 8,370 citi- zens of Illinois answered the eall for troops to serve in the war against Mexico. Of this number, 3, 720 were accepted, forming the first six regiments of Illinois militia. The vol- unteers won signal honors at Passo de Ovegas, August 10. 1847: National Ridge, Angust 12 : Cerro Gordo, August 15: Las Ani- mas, August 19 ; the siege of Puebla, September 15 to October 12 : Atlixico, October 19; Tlascala, November 10 ; Matamoras and Pass- Galajara, November 23 and 24 ; Guerrila Ranch, December 5 ; Napal- onean, December 10. 1847 ; at St. Martins, February 17, 1848 : Cholula. March 26: Matacordera, February 19: Segnalteplan, February 15. this division did magnificent service. The affairs of Vera Cruz. Chur- ubusco, Chepultepec and Mexico City will forever be identified with the names of the troops of Illinois, and her citizen-general, James Shields. This war cost $66,000,000, and defended for the I'nion the Lone Star State.
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The war of 1861 65 cost the United States about $4,000,000,000, and was the direct cause of the loss of about 1,000,000 of men to the whole country. The manner in which Illinois responded to the call of the President. April 14, 1861, is told in the following simple record. The record of volunteer troops organized within the state, and sent to the field, commencing April, 1861, and ending December, 31, 1865, with number of regiment, name of original commanding officer, date of organization and muster into United States service, place of muster. and the aggregate strength of each organization, have been prepared with great care, and forms in itself a concise record of Illinois in the war for the Union. It is said that only one organized company was given by " the North " to the armies of the Confederacy. That com- pany was raised in southern Illinois by Captain Thorndyke Brooks. lle had ninety splendid fellows to share with him his bold enterprise.
A recapitulation of the rosters shows: Infantry, 185,941 : Cavalry. 32.082 ; Artillery. 7,277: or a grand total of 225,300.
The actual number of enlistments in Illinois from 1861 to 1865 was 259,147, which includes reenlistments in veteran reserve corps, and ordi- nary reënlistments. This number, however, does not include 20,000 or 30,- 000 citizens of Illinois, found in various branches of the army and navy and in the volunteer regiments of other states. The conduct of the troops, from the day they took possession of Cairo to the close of the war, was one magnificent testimony to the worth of citizen soldiery.
The War of the Revolution and that of 1812 are connected with the history of the county only so far as the names of a few actual par- tieipants, and of the sons of revolutionary soldiers are connected with the settlement of the county. Among the old soldiers of 1812, present at a meeting held at Toulon, November 24, 1860, were Sylvester Sweet, William Winter, Louis Lasure, Dunn, Jackson, George Rose, Jacob Jamison and few others whose names are found in the township histories. This meeting was called just six months after the Scotch or new Americans of Ehnira township had organized a company for defense. The writer's research at Hennepin did not bring to fight the name of more than one pioneer of Stark county, Thomas Essex, con- neeted with the Black Hawk squabble. There is no doubt, however. that many of the men whose names are connected with the history of Stark fifty-five years ago, notably those mentioned as jurors in 1831, were ready to defend their territory.
During the Black Hawk War it is related that one of the early German settlers of Spoon river precinct remained at home to protect his sick wife, after his neighbors had Hled. Excitement, however. overcame love and duty, and he addressed the invalid thus: " Katrina we vas all scallupped by the Injines, ov I don't go away so quick as never vas. I get on my pony and go under der fort. You don't be afraid. Dey not hurt you." Saying this the chivalrie settler set off. but the wife, driven to desperation. bridled another horse, and reached the fort before her lord.
A reference to the history of the townships and pages devoted to biography discloses the fact that a few citizens of Stark served in the Mexican War.
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The first war meeting was held at Toulon, April 15, 1861. The report of this meeting as published in the Chicago Tribune is as fol- lows: "Elihu N. Powell was called to the chair, and James A. IIen- derson was appointed Secretary .- Judge Powell on taking the chair. briefly stated that the object of the meeting was to consider the pres- ent state of the country - to renew our devotion to the glorious insti- tution, and to pledge our lives in the maintenance and defence of the government and the constitution, and the union as it is .- Honorable J. H. Howe. G. A. Clifford, Dr. Wm. Chamberlain, Thomas .I. Hen- derson, Levi North, and Alex. McCoy were successively called upon and responded. Resolutions were adopted. one of which reads as fol- lows: "That in the present crisis of our country, we will ignore all mere party considerations, and uphold the administration in enforcing the laws north and south, and in putting down rebellion wherever it may arise. And to that end we invoke the entire power of the govern- ment, and we hereby adopt as our motto those memorable words uttered long since on a similar occasion by a patriot now in his grave. " Liberty and Union now and forever, one and inseparable."
The first officers of the Home Guards were: Jacob Jamieson, eapt .; T. J. Henderson, first lieut .; 1]. M. Ilall, second lieut .; George Green, third lieut .; O. Whitaker, orderly. Oliver Whitaker presided at this organization May 18, 1861. The Stark county volunteers organized May 19, 1861, with David Dewolf. capt .; S. S. Kaysbier, first Jieut .; Ingh B. Creighton, second lient .; J. II. Chaddock, first sergt .: Joel Dixon, second sergt .; Harry Pierce, third sergt .; Charles E. Shinn, fourth sergt .; William Dixon, first eorpl .; Richard Alderman, second corpl .; Jefferson Ellis, third corpl., and A. P. Finley, fourth corpl. On June 22, 1861. a meeting was held at Osceola village to provide for expenses incurred in fitting out the " Elmira Rifles." Like all such meetings in this township, this was a success.
In July. 1861, Dr. Thomas Hall and Davis Lowman were appointed a committee to publish in the Stark county News directions for pre- paring bandages and lint. The following ladies were appointed a com- mittee for procuring bandages and lint : Elmira-Mrs. E. C. Spencer, Miss C. Brace. Mrs. Oliver Smith. Osceola-Mrs. Mark Blanchard. Mrs. R. Chamberlain, Mrs. S. M. Hill. Valley-Mrs. J. M. Rogers, Mrs. C. A. Fox, Mrs. P. Blood. Toulon-Mrs. O. Whitaker, Mrs. Dr. Chamberlain, Mrs. P. M. Blair. Goshen-Mrs. Jacob Jamison, Mrs. J. W. Rogers, Mrs. T. F. Hurd. West Jersey-Mrs. C. M. S. Lyons, Mrs. James Hulsizer, Mrs. JJ. H. Anthony. Essex-Mrs. J. Dennis. Mrs. Wm. F. Thomas, Mrs. Henry Holst. Penn-Mrs. Virgil Pike, Mrs. John Snare.
The Soldiers' Relief Cirele of Toulon organized November 12, 1861, with Mrs. O. Whitaker, president ; Mrs. O. Gardner, vice-president ; Mrs. C. Eastman. treasurer: Miss E. Marvin, secretary ; Mrs. P. M. Blair, Mrs. S. S. Kaysbier, Mrs. M. A. Fuller and Miss R. White, com- mittee on supplies. Mrs. J. Shinn was appointed treasurer in March, 1862, up to which time $42 were collected. 'The supervisors on June 10, 1861, adopted resolutions for the appointment of a committee to disburse military and relief funds, and that such funds be raised by
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special tax of twenty cents per $100. The uses specified were, first. for the support of sokliers' families, and secondly, for equipping and uniforming Stark county soldiers. The first report of the committee was made in 1862. The appeal of the Home Guards, which led to this legislation, was signed by G. A. Clifford, chairman, Jacob Jamison, T. 1. Ilenderson, Oliver Whitaker, Charles Myers and Amos P. Gill, a committee appointed by the guards. The Military Disbursing Com- mittee of Stark county, appointed in June, 1861, comprised David MeCance, Davis Lowman and Oliver Whitaker. They disbursed $633 to Capt. Stuart's Elmira Rifles of 105 men : $456 to Capt. Dickenson's Lafayette Rifles of 76 men. and $462 to Capt. Jamieson's Stark County Rifles of 77 men. To soldiers' families in Toulon township, $76.62 were given : in Goshen. $106.87; in Valley. 812: in Penn, $20.71; in Osceola, 89, and in Elmira, 886. or. $311.98 to soldiers' families and $1,548 to volunteers from June to December 2, 1861.
In February, 1862. what purported to be a complete list of Stark county soldiers who had died up to that date, was published, viz., Rob- ert Charles Reed. William V. Perry, William Nicholson, Wallace Hughes, John A. Perry, all of Company B, Thirty-seventh Infantry ; George Comstock, Nineteenth Infantry : George W. Ellis, C. W. Drummond, John Cox (Peoria Artillery). Company K. Forty-seventh Infantry ; William II. Packer and Murray Hotelkiss, Thirty-third Infantry : James S. Taylor, Company B, Forty-second Infantry ; James T. Marshall, Company D, Forty-seventh Infantry, and Perry Kent, Company B. Forty-seventh Infantry. Sylvester F. Otman was appointed by the relief committee of Wyoming, in March, 1862, to visit the Forty-seventh Infantry in the field. The relief committee of Ehira selected T. J. Henderson to visit the Elmira company in the field, in March, 1852. Dr. Pierce, representing the Toulon Aid Society, visited the troops in the field in March, 1862.
The officers of the Wyoming Soldiers Relief Society in April, 1862. were Mrs. M. A. Holst, president ; Mrs. A. G. Hammond, secretary ; Miss Lncy Butler, treasurer. The committee on collections comprised Madams Isaac Thomas, B F. Foster, W. B. Armstrong. P. Pettit, Mary Butler, J. Wrigley, J. B. Lashels and J. Matthews. S. F. Otman is mentioned as an aid of the ladies committee. On June 5, 1863, a meeting was held in the Presbyterian church. Elmira, with a view of helping along the objeets of the Soldiers' Aid Society. 8151 in cash, a firkin of butter, five barrels of potatoes, together with other supplies were subscribed. In Osceola village $90 was subscribed, making $235 for the township under this call. On July 8, 1863. the fall of Vicks- burg was celebrated throughout the county. A company called the " Bloody Marines" brought out the gun and fired a salte. Some days before this, after the battle of Gettysburg, the Union flag was hoisted on the court house. The Women's Loval League of Penn township, was organized July 27, 1863, with forty members. Mrs. J. M. Rieker presided, with Mrs. S. S. Sockwell secretary. In August 1862, Provost-Marshal White visited Bradford to arrest two young men named Terwilliger, on the charge of desertion. The father tried to aid in the escape of the boys. White learned the game and cautioned
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the old gentleman against repeating it, and told him that should he not place the young men in custody within two days, himself would be arrested. The delivery was not made and the marshal revisited Bradford and asked the old gentleman to come along under arrest, but he responded that he should not go unless he went dead. " As you prefer about that." said the marshal, " but I think you better go alive." The old man then attacked him with the bay fork, but White pushed the weapon aside and hit the prisoner on the head with a heavy eane, cutting a deep wound. Terwilliger surrendered, was taken to Dr. Little's and patched up, but was not imprisoned at that time.
Lient. C. W. Brown, of the One-hundred-and-twelfth Ilinois In- fantry, with Sergeants William Doyle, John Lane and Henry Graves, opened a recruiting station in the ITolst building. at Wyoming, in JJan- nary, 1864. Oliver White, recruiting agent for Stark county, made a call on the county to furnish its quota in February, 1864. His address contains the following paragraph: " Fathers and mothers encourage your sons to rally once more around the old flag, and the day is ours almost without a struggle, for the blind giant of rebellion already reels and falters. The work of finishing his troubled existence will be sharp and short. The enormous government bounties- $302 for new reeruits and $402 for veterans - are still offered. * * * Board and transportation furnished to reeruits for any Illinois regiment in the field." Jacob Galley, of Toulon, was killed at Franklin, Tenn., in 1864, while holding the flag. Ilis body was brought here and interred. Springer Galley was wounded there, and Wright Oziah was reported wounded.
The number of men to be drafted in the county in August, 1864, was 154, divided as follows: Toulon and Essex, 34; Elmira and Osce- ola, 36; Valley and Penn, 53; Goshen and West Jersey, 31. J. W. Hewitt was president and T. Bacmeister secretary of the Toulon and Essex Draft Association in 1864.
The county central aid committee received in September, 1864, $146 from Osceola and $19 from Elmira. The Osceola subscription com- prised $47 through Mrs. Riley Chamberlain, 878.85 through the Brad- ford soldiers' aid society, $14.75 from individuals at Bradford, and $6 from Lodge 131, I. O. G. T. Alfred Foster, Mrs. Riley Chamberlain and Mrs. Dr. Little formed the committee in Osceola. At this time W. II. Butler raised $27 in Essex.
On August 24, 1864, Rev. R. C. Dnnn delivered his celebrated funeral diseourse in the Methodist church at Toulon. After noticing the organization of the One-hundred and-twelfth Regiment he says: "Of these have been killed : W. W. Wright, its Captain ; W. P. Finley. its second Lieutenant ; William C. Bell, Aaron Ridle, John Kendall, Olaus Fors, Elmore Barnhill, J. Il. Lane, A. G. Pike, R. M. Dewey, G. W. Rhodes, John W. Whitten, and Henry C. Hall -14. Died of dis- ease : R. C. Westfall, J. L. Adams, William Creighton, George Miller, J. D. Madden, John F. Negus, G. W. Oziah-7. Homer Leeke, re- eruit, died on his way to the regiment. Thomas F. White was drowned in Clinch river. Two have been discharged on account of wounds, N. Crabtree and .J. F. Rhodes. Four are prisoners, Edwin Butler, Z. Il.
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Newton, Joseph Hoppock and .1. 11. Burwick. Five have been dis- charged on account of disease. A large number have been wounded. On the sixth of the present month an order was given to charge a part of the enemy's works before Atlanta. The ill advised attempt had to be abandoned ; and there fell on that day five noble men, James Essex, John 11. Lane. Andrew G. Pike, George W. Rhodes, and Robert Dewey. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. On the following day John W. Whitten was killed. These deaths have called this large as. semblage together today." The last named was the son of Theodore Whitten, of West Jersey ; James Essex was the son of Joseph Essex, of Penn township; Joseph Lane was born in Somerset county, New Jersey, July 27, 1836; Andrew G. Pike, born in Pennsylvania in Jan- mary, 1836. came to this county with his parents the following winter ; George W. Rhodes, like Sergeant Pike, was an only son, born to Mrs. N. W. Rhodes at Nauvoo. Ill., November 6. 1543: Robert M. Dewey was born at Canaan, New Hampshire. May 31. [>36, came with his father to Illinois in 1850, and settled here in 1851.
The following report was made to the supervisors' board in Septem- ber, 1864, by Miles A. Fuller : The undersigned, having at the solicita- tion of persons interested therein, visited Springfield for the purpose of ascertaining the quota of Stark County in the coming draft, and also to ascertain whether any mistakes have been made in the credits for men from this county who have volunteered into the military ser- viee of the United States, would make the following report :
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