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Mrs. Dorcas, wife of the late B. S. Foster, died at Little River, Kan., April 28, 1883. aged seventy-four years. She came from Maine to Illinois thirty-five years prior to 1883.
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Henry Bradford Dorrance, deceased, was the son of Lemuel Smith and Mahala (Fuller) Dorrance. He was born in what is now Penn township. August 30, 1836. Lemmel was descended from one of the old Dutch families of Pennsylvania, while his wife, daughter of Orange and Hepsey (Munroe) Fuller, was born in York state, the ancestors of her father being some of the " Mayflower" immigrants, as related in the history of the Fuller family in this chapter. Henry B. was edu- cated in the schools here and at Galesburg. On August 1, 1858, he married Miss Mary E., daughter of John R. and Lucretia (Hallaw- bangh) Powell. Her father was a native of New Jersey, where his Welsh ancestors settled, and her mother of Pennsylvania, where her German ancestors made a home. Mary (Powell) Dorrance was born July 4. 1842, at Milwaukee, Wis., but was brought to this county when a child, and here was edneated. In 1858, with her husband, she took up her residence on his fifty-acre farm in Penn township, and moved with him to Toulon township, where he purchased one hundred acres. Their children are, Effie L., wife of E. P. Engle. Cowly county, Kan .. and Lemmel S. attending school at Brooklyn, lowa. Mr. Dor- rance was a farmer during his whole life. In polities he was decidedly republican, in school matters ever interested and in business upright. ITis death occurred in March, 1885.
John Deinnin, born in Ireland in 1812, came to Canada in 1832, to the United States in 1834; was a contractor on the Erie railroad ; married Miss Acker at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1840; moved to Toulon town- ship in 1844, where he died September 16, 1881. Father Moynihan conducted the service of the dead. Joseph Drinmin, a Stark county man. was elected sheriff of Platte county, Neb .. in 1885.
Luther Driscoll, whose name is identified with the early history of Stark, was born in Connecticut, May 14, 1791, died April 5. 1855. ITis wife was Mary Neal, born in Pennsylvania, December 28, 1809. died July 30, 1876. Their son, G. (. Driscoll, resides near Lafayette.
Mrs. Mary Etta Dugan, one of the very old settlers, died May 10. 1881, aged sixty-five years.
William Dunn, a soldier of the war of 1812, died January 23, 1863, aged eighty-seven years. at the house of his son-in-law, Seth Johnson, at Toulon. He was a native of York state.
Rec. R. (. Dunn, born in Georgia, like his brother Angustus, was in his youth a school teacher in Georgia. On moving to Ohio with the family in 1831. he studied at Cincinnati, and on coming to this county in 1836, left nothing undone to acquire practical knowledge. In 1840 he attended the Galesburg Academy, working for his board and tuition; in 1843 he entered college there, and in 1547 was one of three who graduated with the second class graduated from Knox Col- lege. In 1850 he received the diploma of Master of Arts, having mean- time traveled and taught school in several places. On October 31, 1850, be married Miss Sarah A. Marvin, then cast aside his law studies, and in November, 1850, entered the Union Theological Seminary, of New York, studied there for three years, preached for one year in Western New York, then came to Peoria, where he filled the pulpit of the Congregational church for three months, and in January, 1855,
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succeeded Rev. S. G. Wright, as minister at Toulon, as related in the history of the Congregational church there. In 1867 he was called to Oneida, Knox county, and there died May, 24, 1868, and in 1869 his remains were moved to Tonlon. In the history of Toulon, the school chapter and political chapter, full references are made to this distin- gnished pioneer.
Otis T. Dyer and family left Wyoming for San Francisco in July, 1880.
William M. Engelston, born at Albany, N. Y., April 15, 1819, is the son of John T. and Mary (Charles) Eagelston. Father was a native of Philadelphia, and son of James Eagelston. a seafaring man and captain in the United States Mercantile Marine, who served with dis- tinction in the war of 1812, and died of his wounds in Bellevue Hospi- tal. New York. He was one of seven brothers, who came to America from Yorkshire. England, but little of whom is known. John T. was a rope and sail maker by trade, and the only child of Captain James Eagleston. He married at Albany, N. Y., Miss Mary Charles, a native of Oxfordshire, England, by whom he had three sons and three daughters, all of whom became the heads of families, namely : William M .: James, a farmer of Texas, who settled there before the war; Thomas is a farmer of Penn township; Maria is widow of Pier- son Shepherd, of Peoria county; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Soper, of Kansas, and Ellen, widow of the late Mr. Ribby, of Illinois. William M. spent his boyhood at Albany, and came with his parents to Illinois in 1833, who settled at what is now Kickapoo town. Peoria county, Ill., where William grew to manhood and married Miss Emiline Fargo, a native of Ashtabula county. O., whose parents. Thomas and Mabel (Bidwell) Fargo, removed to Peoria county, III., in 1835. They have five sons and four daughters-Harriet Ann, deceased wife of Allen Ticknor, of Iowa, she died in Penn township, leaving one son now deceased ; John is a farmer of Penn township, and parent of one son and one daughter; William is a farmer of Osceola township and has three sons and two daughters: George D. is a farmer of Pen township. has four sons ; Charles, a farmer of Penn, has two daughters ; Jennie, wife of J. C. Bloomer, real estate and money dealer of Kansas City ; Fannie. wife of S. H. Smith, a merchant of Ottawa, Kan .; James, a farmer, and Abbie. Upon coming to this county in 1852, Mr. Eagelston took np land in Penn, purchased 160 acres which he improved and meantime added property aggregating 640 acres of choice land. improving during his time the making of four large and well improved farms. In 1873 he removed to Wyoming. Has served on the school board of the township, and has taken a full part in all matters relating to public well-being. Ile has given considerable at- tention to stock-growing and horse-breeding as well as agriculture. Thomas Fargo was born in Saundersfield, Mass., and of a long line of ancestry of that state. His mother was born in Lichfield, Conn. Thomas Fargo was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mr. Eagelston is a member of the Masonic order with three of his sons. He is a member of the Royal Arch, while Mrs Eagelston is a member of Eastern Star Lodge, with two of her daughters, Jennie and Abbie.
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Calvin Livermore Eastman, son of Stephen and Sarah (Emmons) Eastman, was born at Bridgewater. N. Il., January 21. 1814, of which state his parents and grandparents were natives. Stephen was the son of Thomas Eastman, jr., who was a soklier in the War of Inde- pendence, and was engaged in the battles of Bunker Hill, Monmouth, Stillwater (where he was severely wounded) and Saratoga. Stephen's family consisted of five sons and two daughters, of whom only three sons are now living -Calvin L. and Stephen W., who reside at Toulon, Ill., and Luther D., who resides at Bloomington, IN. The daughters married, and both died on the old homestead in Bridgewater. The mother of these children died on the old homestead, in December, 1824, and the family was then broken up and the children separated. Calvin L., then about eleven years of age, was bound to a paper maker at Holderness. now Ashland, N. H., where he remained three and one-half years, and then returned to his home. and remained until the spring of 1830, when he went to Plymouth, N. H., and apprenticed himself to a blacksmith at $30 a year. Ile left Plymouth late in the fall of 1834, and went to Newton, Mass., where he readily found en- ployment at his trade of blacksmith, at $15 per month. He remained at Newton until April, 1838, working at his trade. attending school there and at New Ilampton, N. H., and teaching school. On the 13th of April, 1835. he left Boston for the west, and arrived at Hennepin, Ill., about the 1st of May. From Hennepin he came, by the way of Indiantown (now Tiskilwa) and Providence, to what is now Stark county. and located near Cox's Mill, on Indian Creek, where he estab- lished a blacksmith shop about the Ist of August, 1838. Here he was joined by his brother Stephen W., late in December of the same year, and they worked together at blacksmithing until the following spring, when they erected a shop in the then village of Moulton, where they continued the business until the spring of 1843, when they dissolved partnership, and Calvin L. moved the shop upon an adjoining quarter section of land (N. W. 10), which he had purchased, and there con- tinued to work at his trade while improving his land. Mr. Eastman sold this larm, with other lands which he had purchased. in the fall of 1851, and removed to Toulon, and in the following year built the dwelling house where he now resides, where he has lived most of the time since. Mr. Eastman was married at Princeville, Peoria county, Ill., January 30, 1844, to Miss Ehuina. daughter of Stephen French. Esq., of Prince's Grove, who settled there in 182s-the first white family that settled in that vicinity. Mrs. Eastman was the third child of eleven children born to Mr. and Mrs. French, all but one of whom are now dead. Mrs. Eastman died at Toulon, July 3, 1886, after hay- ing been many years an invalid. The children of Mr. and Mrs. East- man are Charles W., a prominent merchant of Winterset, Iowa : Frank F., a graduate of West Point, now a lieutenant in the Four- teenth Regiment, United States Infantry, stationed at Vancouver Bar- rack. Washington Territory; Fred. A., four years sheriff of Ida county, Ia .. and at present an extensive dealer in lands and live stock in that county, and Miss Sarah L. Eastman, who lives at home and keeps house for her father. Stark county adopted the system of town-
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ship organization in 1852, and Mr. Eastman, Henry Breese and Theo- dore F. Ilurd were appointed commissioners to divide the county into towns and name them. They met at Toulon, January 3, 1853, and divided the county into eight towns identical with the congressional townships, and gave them the names they now bear. Mr. Eastman was elected the first supervisor of Toulon, in April, 1853. In 1>56, Mr. Eastman and John T. Lindsay of Peoria were nominated by the republicans to represent the legislative district composed of Stark and Peoria counties, in the General Assembly. and were elected ; but in one town in Peoria county 150 votes were cast for Calvin M. East- man instead of Calvin L. Eastman, and upon this flimsy pretext he was refused a certificate and his competitor was seated. Upon a con- test in the house Mr. Eastman was denied the seat to which he had been rightfully elected by a tie vote. In 1862 Mr. Eastman was again nominated, with Enoch Emery of Peoria, for the General Assembly ; and both received a large majority in republican Stark, but were de- feated by the heavy democratic vote in Peoria county, and their com- petitors, Judge William Holgate of Stark, and W. W. O'Brien of Peoria, were elected. After Mr. Eastman removed to Toulon he purchased, improved and sold two large farms in Stark county, and has always been considered a model farmer. In 1876 he bought and improved, and erected good substantial buildings upon, a section of lan i in Ida county, Iowa. A railroad was built through, and a station located upon it, which greatly enhanced its value, and in 1882 he sold out and quit farming, but purchased another section which he now owns. No man in the community has done more to improve the country, enhance the value of property, and add to the comfort of man and beast by the erection of substantial buildings, than Mr. Eastman. It has been his greatest pleasure to convert raw, uncultivated land into beautiful farms, with productive fields and comfortable homes. In his private life Mr. Eastman has always been an active, enterprising citi- zen, taking an active part and working faithfully for the advancement of good morals, good society and good government ; and in his busi- ness and social relations doing unto others as he would have them do unto him.
Stephen W. Eastman, the third son of Stephen and Sarah ( Emmons) Eastman, was born at Bridgewater, N. H., November 15, 1815. His brothers were Luther D., Calvin L .. Albert F. and John E .; his sisters were Sarah E. and Hattie A. His mother died in December, 1824, and the family being broken up, he lived at different places in the vicinity of Bridgewater until the spring of 1834, when he went to learn the blacksmith's trade at Wentworth, N. II. Hle remained there about two years, and then moved to Charlestown. Mass., where he remained and worked at his trade until the fall of 1838, except while attending two terms of school at Newton, Mass., and two terms at New Hamp- ton, N. IL., with his brother Calvin. Late in December. 1838, he emi- grated from Massachusetts to Illinois, and joined his brother, Calvin L., at Moulton village on Indian creek in Stark county. The brothers carried on their trade, blacksmithing, in partnership until the spring of 1843. when the partnerhip was dissolved, and Stephen proceeded to
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Chicago, IH., where he remained until the fall of the same year. Ile then returned to Stark county, and engaged in blacksmithing at Toulon on his own account. Mr. Eastman was married May 23, 1845, to Susan M. Gill, daughter of Elder Elisha Gill. Two daughters were born to them-Celestia J. and Eliza. The former married Solomon Fields, now of Shenandoah, Page county, Iowa, and the latter E. B. Cox, now of Odel. Neb. Both are the mothers of large families. Mr. Eastman was elected probate judge in 1847, but resigned the office in the spring of 1849, to join the army of gokl-seekers who flocked to the California diggings that year. He remained absent two years, and then returned, as most of the gold hunters did, no better off than when he started. On his return Mr. Eastman found that his wife had died on December 9, 1850. She was the first person buried in the new Toulon cemetery. He went to work improving the farm he still owns. situated about three miles east of Toulon, and to which he has added from time to time until he now owns 380 acres of valuable land. On January 16, 1855, he married Mrs. Martha Merchant, of this county, and they at once went to house-keeping on the farm. Mr. Eastman now ceased working at his trade, and devoted his whole time and attention to farming, and soon became an extensive and successful farmer. Three children were born by his second wife-Stephen Melber, Ilattie Luella and John E. The first two are dead. Mr. East- man became an active member of the first Baptist church of Toulon in 1854, and was soon afterward appointed or chosen deacon. This position he has held ever since, and has always been one of the most liberal supporters of his church. By reason of his age and infirmities he has retired from the farm and farming, and now lives at Toulon, where he will probably spend the rest of his days. Mr. Eastman and all of his brothers were and are Republicans in politics. The East- mans have never made much use of strong drink ; and for more than one hundred and fifty years only one member of the family has ever used tobacco in any form.
Emory J. Edwards, born in Essex county. New Jersey, April 7. 1839, is the son of William H. and Deborah (Aldrich) Edwards. Hle was son of Rev. John Edwards, a native of Connecticut, and a meth- odist minister. William II. and wife moved to Luzerne county, Penn- sylvania, where Emory J. Edwards was reared and educated. In 1865 he moved to Illinois, located in Osceola township, and carried on farming there for several years. In 1873 he left the farm, and settling at Wyoming, engaged in the hotel business. but a few years after re- sied farming in Essex township. In 1883 he returned to Wyoming, and engaged in the hardware business, which he conducted until 1884. since which time he has devoted his attention to his two farms. Ilis daughter, Mary, is the wife of Marion Beall, now of Nebraska. She was the daughter of Mrs. Lizzie S. Brace, niece of Myrtle Brace, and wife of Mr. Edwards, who died in 1880, and is buried at Wyoming. She had been a worthy member for eighteen years of the M. E. church. Mr. Edwards married Mrs. Mandana Harwood, noe Merrill. They have one daughter, Alizina Harwood, and one son and daughter mar- ried-Nelson, a merchant of Bradford, and Ruhama, the wife of Will-
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iam Phoenix. He has been a consistent member of the M. E. Church since boyhood. As stated in the history of the Central Agricultural Society, in the histories of the townships and in that of Wyoming. he has been identified with the social, agricultural and commercial prog- ress of the county for over twenty years.
B. F. Edwards, who died in January, 1881, at Peoria, came from Virginia to Toulon about 1840, and for many years was a resident of this county. Ilis son, 1. C. Edwards, is a Peoria lawyer.
John G. Emery, born September 24, 1839, in West Jersey town- ship, where his parents, Frederick and Hannah (Gaffney) Emery set- tled. moved to Henry county in 1860, and to Knox county in 1866. Ile married Miss Ruth A. Friend in 1872.
-Joseph Essex, who came in 1831 (a brother of Isaac B. Essex), and in 1841 established the first blacksmith shop at Toulon, was stricken with paralysis in 1876, and died that year.
Cupt. Artemus Ewers, who served in the war and was wounded. died from the result of bullet wounds inflicted by himself, October 4, 1879. Ile wrote a letter to William Holgate on September 25, and also left some instructions with his wife, but the coroner's jury re- turned a verdict of accidental shooting.
Spencer Falconer, born at Culpepper, Va., seventy-seven years ago, died at Thomas Falconer's house, north of Wyoming. May 22, 1886.
Ducis Fast died in Barton county, Mo., January 25, 1882, at the age of ninety years. For fifty years he was a member of the Masonic society. Mrs. Elizabeth Fast, Sr., died in July, 1881, in her 92d year.
John Finley died February 28, 1883, aged eighty-one years. Ile was born in Fayette county, Pa .. in 1802; moved to Richland, O., in 1×11; married Rebecca Gaffney in 1828 ; settled in Illinois in 1834, and in Stark county in 1838. In 1856 his first wife died. In 1861 he mar- ried Mrs. Sarah Adams.
Rer. J. J. Flcharty, born at Jacksonville, Ill., February 5, 1835, died at Tampa, Fla., May 2, 1884. From 1858 to the time of his death he was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, serving in this county a portion of the time.
Benjamin C. Follett, son of Benjamin and Emily (Culbertson) Fol- lett, was born in Ohio, March 18, 1844. This family is one of the oldest in Ohio, and in every generation has contributed to Ohio one or more useful and distinguished citizens. Ilis father died in 1862, leav- ing young Follett the possessor of a sound common-school education. At this time he entered mercantile life at Chillicothe; was book-keeper there, and for seven years supported his mother and sister. Toward the close of the war he enlisted in Company A., One-hundred-and-forty- ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and after the cessation of hostilities canne to Tonlon. where his uncle, John Culbertson, was the leading merchant. He entered business with him as a partner, and for eighteen years was one of the most prominent merchants in the county. Sub- sequently he purchased the large hotel on Washington street, which he now owns and condnets. He married Miss Helen M. Rhodes, a daughter of one of the county's pioneers and prominent citizens. They are the parents of three children, namely : Miss Emma, Miss Plessie and John ; each one filling a place in the economy of home, and the ladies of the
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family prominent in woman's work of the town. Mr. Follett has served in the council, as corresponding secretary of the County Agri- cultural Society, and is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges of Toulon. The family name, sometimes written Ffolliott, Fol- liette and Folliott, is of French origin, dating back to the earlier years of our history.
Mrs. Pleasant (Bateman-Culbertson) Follett was born near Chilli- cothe. O., Inne 22, 1803: moved to Richmond, O., with her husband. in 1522: in 1841 came to Stark county, where her husband opened a small general store, on the sonthwest corner of the northwest-quarter of section 24 in Goshen township. just west of Indian creek, on the north side of the publie road from Toulon to Lafayette. A little later this business was moved to Toulon and carried on where is now the Methodist parsonage. She married her second husband, Lodowick Follett. April 16, 1872. He died in 1879, aged sixty-seven years. Mrs. Follett, herself, died November 12, 1886, leaving all her property to Dr. James Culbertson, the only legal heir. The will provided a farm for Mrs. B. C. Follett, her adopted daughter; but this valuable traet was sold prior to her death. thus, it is said, invalidating this section of the document. Miles A. Fuller and Samuel Burge were named as trustees of the estate.
Sarah E. (Moler) Foglesong, born in Maryland in 1834, married Henry Foglesong in 1851, came to Stark county two years before her death.
William Fuller, born in Luzerne county, Pa., in 1819, settled where Modena now is in 1836, was married first in 1849, secondly in 1858, died in September, 1879.
Judge Miles very Fuller, son of Orange and Hepseh (Monroe Fuller, was born in Luzerne Co. Penn. April 25, 1822. His father was a native of Stockbridge, Mass., his mother, of New York : but both old settlers of Pennsylvania. In 1836 Orange Fuller and family of six sons came from their old home in the east and settled in Penn township where they engaged in farming and saw mill building. One danghter. Mrs. Lemuel S. Dorranee, married in Pennsylvania, came to this con- ty in 1834. Miles A. Fuller engaged in agriculture and milling until His 31st year, he and a brother building the Modena Mills. In 1853 he was elected County Clerk on the Whig ticket by twenty-two votes over his Democratic friend, Milton Warren, and reflected in 1857, 1861 and 1865 without opposition on the Republican ticket. During his official terms he read law, was admitted to practice in 1862, and since 1869 has continuously practiced here. In 1875 he was commissioned Notary Public, which position he has since filled. In 1869 he was chosen delegate to the Constitutional Convention, with Henry W. Wells over Henry Grove and Martin Shallenberger, the Democratic candi- dates. In 1870 he was elected representative in the State Legislature over James M. Rogers, and filled local offices of trust as related in the history of Toulon. He was a very active and useful supporter of the I'nion during the war. and was commissioner from Stark at Spring- field, to inquire into the Military credits and debits of this county incon- nection with the county's quotas of men. Mr. Fuller married Miss
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Anna, daughter of Zebulon and Mary (Smith) Avery, pioneers of this county. to whom was born Delia, now Mrs. Cross, of Rich Hill. Bates county, Mo. Mrs. Fuller died in 1848. In later years he married Miss Elizabeth Walker. They were the parents of three sons and two daughters, viz., Frank Fuller, a merchant : Vietor, attorney at law, Tonlon : Ada, now Mrs. Henry C. Fuller, of Peoria, and Miss Lizzie and Ernest, deceased. Mrs. Fuller is a member of the Baptist society, but ever ready to extend aid to other denominations. A reference to the chapters of the general and local history will point out minutely the various enterprises in which he has been engaged, and his recent elec- tion as county judge.
Ernest C. Fuller, while en route to Peoria, July 24. 1881, fell from the freight train under the wheels and was so mangled that death end- ed his sufferings on the 26th. He was the son of Miles A. Fuller, born at Toulon, June 9. 1859. No event in the history of the town cast a deeper shadow of sorrow, than did the death of this young merchant.
Andrew Galbraith, son of Hugh and Ann ( Wilson) Galbraith. natives of Ireland, whose family history is given in the sketch of Goshen township, was born at Philadelphia, Pa .. Angust 18. 1838, and there received his education. In 1859 he accompanied his parents to this county, and resided with them until August. 1862, when he enlisted in the New York Marine Artillery, served six months, when he was discharged at Newbern. N. C., on account of irregularity in form of enlistment. Ile at once reënlisted at Newbern, N. C., in the United States Navy ; served on the gunboat Delaware until discharged at Baltimore. February, 1864. During the following twelve months he was engaged at home. In February, 1865, he enlisted in Company 1. One-hundred-and-fifty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was elected second lieutenant, and in July following was promoted first lieutenant, and served with this rank until February. 1866. when the command was nmstered out. On returning, he established a meat-market at Toulon and dealt in live stock, and until 1875 was extensively engaged in this business. In 1875, he was elected constable and appointed deputy-sheriff, which position he held until 1882, when he was nomi- nated by the Republicans and elected sheriff of Stark county, tilling the office with rare ability until December, 1886, when, under the new state law relating to tenure of office, he was succeeded by James Mon- tooth. A reference to the sketches of the Odd Fellows society, Grand Army Post, and other organizations of the town and county will point ont his social relations here. In religious matters, he supports the Congregational church, of which two of his children are members, Cora B. and Ilarry A. In 1866. Mr. Galbraith married Miss Hannah R., daughter of the late Owen W. Thomas, whose family history appears in this chapter. Their children are Cora B., born March, 1867, a school-teacher here; Harry A., born in 1868, clerk in Messrs. Star- rett's store at Toulon : Andrew. born July 3. 1874. attending school, and Clyta, born in April, 1886. Whether we search in the records of any of the three branches of the United States army in which he served during the war, we learn of an excellent soldier, and in home records of an energetic and useful citizen.
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