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On leaving college, in 1864, he was called to the Principalship of Royalton Academy, Royalton, Vermont, in which position he remained for two years. In 1866 he re- turned to his native county in New York, and was shortly after elected, on the Re- publican ticket, to the office of School Commissioner for Essex county, which position he held for three consecutive years. In the fall of 1869 he assumed the principalship and superintendence of the public schools of Keeseville, New York. He remained in this position five years and until his election as Principal of the Jacksonville Female Academy, in 1874.
Prof. Bullard is now completing the eleventh year of his management of the Academy, already a longer term than any of his predecessors remained in the posi- tion. By his judicious management and rare executive ability, he has placed the institution upon an independent basis and raised it to a rank second to none in the West, in its standards of disciplize and scholarship.
Professor Bullard is a widower, having one child, a daughter, who has made her home from infancy with her grand parents, in Burlington, Vermont. He has attained high rank as an educator and as a business man. He is a gentleman of literary tastes and scholarly attainments, loyal in his friendships, active in good works and a public spirited citizen. His familiar features are given by our artist. For fur- ther reference to his life and work in Jacksonville, see pages 195, 199, 206, 219,
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Thomas
DR. WIELE LIAM MUNROE,
OF RUSHVILLE, SCHUYLER COUNTY, ILL.
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THOMAS MUNROE, M. D .- The pro- priety of introducing some faces and names not, at first, recalled by younger readers of this work may be questioned ; but it must be remembered that history treats rather of the past than of to day ; that things done, instead of doing, are re- corded by the historian.
The subject of this sketch, "Doctor Mun- roe," as he was known to many of our old- est and best citizens, needs only naming to place an honorable man, an honored citizen and a Christian gentleman before the recollecting mind.
Although many years have passed since Dr. Munroe left Jacksonville as a resi- dence, yet we doubt if any of the earlier settlers are recalled with pleasanter thoughts than he, by those who had the good fortune to know him. As a physi- cian here, his practice must have brought him into tender ties with many families before the writer of these words had come upon the scene of action. At this time a wealthy resident of Rushville, this State, the doctor has revisited our city occasion- ally of late years, and was present, last, at the Commencement of Illinois College, in 1882, when his youngest son, William was graduated.
But, to proceed to the biographical sketch : Thomas Munroe, son of John and Ann Munroe, was born in Annapolis, Ma- ryland, January 4, 1807. His grandfather, William Munroe, was one of 135.men, re- siding in and near Annapolis, who, in 1774, signed a protest against certain acts of the Colonial Government, then under British rule, and when the war broke out, the next year, he espoused the cause of the Colonies against King George. 1
Dr. Munroe was educated at St. John's College, Annapolis, taking the full clas- sical course, finishing in 1826; he studied medicine at that place, attended lectures at the University of Maryland, at Balti- more; received his medical degree in 1829, practiced at Baltimore several years. He came to this State in December, 1835, practiced at Jacksonville until 1843, and then settled in Rushville. Here (Rush- ville) he was in steady practice till 1862, when he was appointed Surgeon of the 119th Regt. Ill. Vols., which was attached
to the 16th Army Corps, and he remained in the service until June, 1864, when his health broke down in the Red River Expe- dition, and he resigned.
Dr. Munroe was married, in 1841, to Miss Annie Hinman, of Utica, New York, daugliter of Major Benjamin Hinman, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War and some time aid to Gen. Greene. They have six children: Thomas, edu. cated at Bloomington (III.) University, is successfully engaged in the lumber busi- ness, at Muskegon, Michigan; James Ed- ward, a graduate of Illinois College, is practicing law in Chicago; Mary E., Hinman, Charles G., and William, also a graduate of Illinois College, are residing in Rushville.
James E. Munroe, referred to above, was graduated from Illinois College, with the highest record of his class, in 1868, and was married, in 1876, to Miss Kate B. Smith, daughter of the late D. A. Smith, of Jacksonville.
In 1875 Dr. Munroe was appointed United States Examining Surgeon for Pensions.
Soon after his location in Jacksonville, in 1835, he formed a professional partner- ship with Dr. Shirley and subsequently with Dr. English.
John J. Hardin, Stephen A. Douglas, Wm. Thomas, Wm. Brown, Joseph Dun- can, Richard Yates, and Murray McCon- nel were leading men, some in politics and some in law.
About the spring of 1836 Douglas re- turned from teaching a school at Win- chester, and soon outran all competitors in the Democratic county convention and was nominated and elected to the Legis- lature. This was the beginning of his political career.
Hon. Richard Yates was a young man during the time of Dr. Munroe's residence here, and at Mr. Yates's marriage, his friend, the doctor, was a groomsman.
Dr. Munroe is a member of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, in which he is greatly respected, and has been the con- tinued recipient of trust and honor at the hands of his co-religionists.
Our portrait, made from a very striking likeness just taken, places before the
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younger citizens a man whom those acquainted with love and respect; a man whose silvered hair, whitened by over three score and ten years, is emblem- atic of the purity of his life, and whose later years show that the end of a man who follows a Christian life " is peace."
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HON.SAMUEL DRAKE LOCKWOOD was born in Poundridge, Westchester coun- ty, New York, on the second day of Au- gust, 1789.
When he was ten years old his father died, and his mother was left with three small children, and with but slender means for their support. By this event his plans for a liberal education were broken up and he was thrown very much upon his own resources.
In 1803 he went to Waterford, New York, to live with his uncle, Francis Drake, a lawyer in that place, and re- mnined in his family ns errand boy and law.student until February, 1811, when he was licensed to practice law, and opened an office in Batavia, New York. The next year he removed to Auburn, and continued in the practice of law there till the fall of 1818, holding during a part of that time the office of Master in Chancery.
At that time his constitution (never very strong) seemed so broken down by dis- ease and constant application to business that his physician advised him to give up his profession and engage in some out- door employment as the only way of re- gaining even his former degree of health.
This advice, together with the glow. ing accounts of the great "far West" then prevalent, induced him to change his resi- dence and seek his future home in the new State of Illinois. On October 19th of that year, in company with the late William H. Brown and others, he started on his Western trip.
At Olean Point, New York, they pur- chased a flat-boat, on which they floated down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Shawneetown, reaching that place on De- cember 15th, and making the trip in fifty- seven days.
After remaining a few days in Shaw- neetown. Lockwood and Brown started for Kaskaskia on foot, a walk of 120 miles. The next year Mr. Brown was appointed Clerk of the United States District Court, and their arrangement for a law partner- ship being thus broken up, Mr Lock wood removed to Carmi as a more favorable point for the practice of his profession.
At the second session of the Illinois Legislature, which was held at Vandalia in 1821, Mr. Lockwood was elected Attor- ney General of the State, and his accept- ance of this office rendering another change of residence necessary, he chose Edwardsville for his future home.
In 1828 he was, very unexpectedly to himself, nominated by Gov. Cole to the office of Secretary of State, but soon after accepting that office he was greatly sur. prised by receiving from President Mon. roe a commission appointing him Receiv- er of Public Monies at the land office in Edwardsville. This commission was, in itself, as undesired as it was unsought, but the Secretary of State's salary was small and payable in depreciated currency, while that of Receiver was liberal and payable in gold, and had attached to it a percent- age on receipts. These considerations induced him to resign the office of Secre- tary and accept that of Receiver.
At the next session of the State Legis-
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lature, 1824-'85, he was, against his ex- pressed wishes, elected Judge of the Su- preme Court, which office he accepted and held until the State constitution of 1848 went into operation, under which new judges were elected by the people.
In 1826 he was married to Miss Mary Virginia Nash, of St. Louis county, Mis- souri, the amiable and excellent wife who survived him a few years and whom all friends so long loved and admired.
In 1829 he removed from Edwardsville to Jacksonville, and in 1853 from that place to Batavia, Kane county, where he died. He was sent from Morgan county to the Constitutional Convention of 1848, and in that convention was Chairman of the Committee on Executive. To him is due the recognition of Deity in the pre- amble of the constitution adopted by this convention.
In 1851 he was appointed, by the Legis- lature, Trustee of the Land Department of the Illinois Central Railroad, which office he held at the time of his death.
The position which he held in the his- tory of our State is indicated by the offices which were conferred upon him. Having a natural distaste for everything like office-seeking, and never putting himself forward for official position, still he was kept in offices of high position and trust for over fifty years.
In the anti-slavery controversy over the question of a State Convention, in 1823, he took an active part and contributed materially to the support and editorial efficiency of the Edwardsville Spectator, one of the two papers that took decided ground for freedom in this State.
Though never an active partisan, he was fully identified with the Whig party till 1855, when he, with most of that party, helped to form the Republican party. Many of the offices which he held were conferred upon him by administrations with which he was not in political sym- pathy.
In Governor Ford's history of Illinois are found the following notices of Judge Lockwood: "In 1820 was fought the first and last duel in Illinois. One of the par- ties fell, mortally wounded ; the other was tried and convicted of murder, and suf-
ferred the extreme penalty of the law by hanging. Judge Lockwood was then the attorney of the State and prosecuted in the case. To his talents and success as a prosecutor the people are indebted for this early precedent and example, which did more than is generally known to pre- vent the barbarous practice of dueling from being introduced into the State."
" In 1826-7 Judges Lock wood and Smith presented to the Legislature a revision of the laws of the State, prepared by them in accordance with the instructions of the preceding Legislature, and these laws have been standard laws in every revision since."
In his chapter on a somewhat bitter controversy that occurred between the executive and judicial departments of the State in 1840, Governor Ford says: "It is due to truth to say that Judges Wilson and Lockwood were in every respect ami- able and accomplished gentlemen, and commanded the esteem and respect of all good men for the purity of their con- duct and their probity in official station,"
"Judge Lockwood was an excellent law- yer, a man of sound judgment, and his face indicated uncommon purity, modesty and intelligence, together with energy and strong determination. His face was the true index of his character."
Any account of Judge Lockwood's ser- vices to the State which should fail to no- tice his connection with its educational, benevolent and religious interests would come far short of doing him justice. As early as his residence in Auburn, he was so identified with the religious interests there as to be appointed one of the trust- ees of the Presbyterian Church.
In 1815 was formed the Cayuga County Bible Society, the first organized in the State of New York, two years before the organization of the American Bible Soci- ety, and Judge Lockwood's name appeared as one of the originators and directors of that organization. Of the twenty-four first directors of that society, he was the last survivor. The stand he thus took, as illustrated by these incidents, he main- tained through life.
Ilis influence and liberality were ex- tended toward promoting the scheme
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which resulted in the establishment of Illinois College, and it is believed that without his labors in Jacksonville's be- half, the institution would have been lo- cated elsewhere-in all probability in Southern Illinois. Most of the settlers of the State were then in that section. Judge Lockwood was one of the first in the State to propose and advocate such an institu- tution, and he advised those who were in- terested with him in the matter not to decide until they had seen some of the beautiful country around Jacksonville ; and on this advice, Revs. Thomas Lippin- cott and John M. Ellis were sent to spy out the country, Judge Lockwood furnish- ing a horse, and paying the traveling ex- penses of one of the party. The result was, the location of the college on the tract of land he had a few months before secured for his own homestead. Judge Lockwood was one of the Trustees of this institution from its organization until 1868, when he resigned, as his failing health would not allow his attending the meetings of the Board. A part of the time he was President of the Board. So, too, he was always a staunch friend and promoter of the interests of the Jacksonville Female Academy, at one time, with a few others, saving it from suspension by liberality and personal exer- tions. He presided at the first meeting held to establish it, and was an honored member of the first Board of Trustees, holding the same connection until his death in 1874
Judge Lockwood took an active part in organizing and locating the State Asylums for the Deaf and Dumb, the Blind and the Insane-and was on the first Board of Trustees of each.
In every place where he resided in the State his influence was indeed a strong, steady and reliable power for good, always on the side of freedom, temperance, mor- ality, and the mainspring of them all- Christianity.
For the last twenty-one years of his life Judge Lockwood resided in Batavia, in honored old age enjoying his quiet home on the banks of the Fox river, and re- joicing in everything tending to advance the material or moral prosperity of the
State he had loved so long and served so faithfully.
On the 23d of April, 1874, he passed away in a death as quiet and peaceful as his life had been.
For further reference to his life and labors, see pages 18, 40, 47, 53, 55, 56, 69, 110, 118, 120, 123, 126, 127, 138, 261.
JUDGE EDWARD P. KIRBY was born October 28, 1834, in Putnam county, Illinois, and is the eldest son of the late Rev. William and Hannah (Wol- cott) Kirby. Rev. William Kirby was one of the founders and first professors of Illi- nois College ; but owing to failing health, he was obliged to relinquish the latter position. He died December 20, 1852, leaving a family of six children, the care and support of whom devolved on the oldest son.
Judge Kirby was educated at Illinois College, and graduated therefrom in 1854.
In the autumn of that year he went to St. Louis, where he taught a private school for three years. On his return to Jacksonville, he became the successor of Hon. Newton Bateman in the principal- ship of the West Jacksonville District School.
He commenced the study of law in 1863, and was admitted to practice in the following year. In 1865 he commenced the compilation of the Land Titles of Morgan County, Ill., which he subse- quently completed and still owns.
In 1873 he was elected Judge of the County Court of Morgan county, by the Republicans, for with that party he has been identified ever since its formation.
He was married in 1862 to Julia S., daughter of the late Governor Duncan, of Jacksonville.
lle is now in partnership with the Ion. William Brown, in the practice of law and the abstract-of-titles business, with a large and remunerative patronage.
Mr. Kirby has also filled the honorary positions of Trustees of Illinois College and Ilinois Central Hospital for the Insane.
See pages 126, 144, 156, 176, 181, 185, 195, 203, 214, 226, 266, 267.
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DR. HENRY F. CARRIEL,
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
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DR. HENRY F. CARRIEL, now Su- perintendent of the Illinois Central Hos- pital for the Insane, was born in Charles- town, N. II. He passed his boyhood chiefly upon his father's farm, but his father dying when he was nine and his mother when he was sixteen years of age, he was thus early thrown upon his own resources.
His education was obtained at the dis- trict school, at Marlow Academy, N. H., and Wesleyan Seminary, Vt. After pre- paring for the Sophomore year in college, failing health compelled him to relinquish study, and this circumstance probably turned his attention to medicine.
In the year 1853 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. E. A. Knight, of Springfield, Vt. He attended his first course of medical lectures at Woodstock, Vt. ; his second course at Pittsfield, Mass,, and his last course at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York city, where he graduated in the spring of 1857.
In April, 1857, he accepted the appoint- ment of Assistant Physician in the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, which posi- tion he filled until 1870, a period of thir- teen years.
Dr. Carriel, in 1860, feeling the need of rest and recreation and being desirous of informing himself of the mode of man- agement of the insane in other countries, went to Europe and visited some thirty hospitals and asylums for the insane in England, Scotland, Ireland and France; observing particularly the per capita costs for buildings, mode of care and gen- eral management.
In June 1870 he received, unsolicited, the appointment of Superintendent of the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, and on the morning of July 1st arrived in Jacksonville to enter upon the duties of his position. Since that to the present time, he has applied himself assiduously to the duties of his position, and his ad- ministration is justly receiving the cordial support, commendation and approval of the people of the State.
During the time Dr. Carriel has been in charge, the institution has been doubled in capacity, and the entire builling has been renovated, ventilated and vastly im-
proved till to-day it will compare favora- bly with any institution in the country for conveniences, home-like comforts and medical appliances. As an organizer le has few equals and no superiors; every- thing under his care moves with the pre- cision of machinery ; he has shown marked ability in planning and erecting hospital buildings. and the State has good reason to be proud of the results of his attention to the smallest details of work committed to his care.
He was married May 6, 1862, to Miss Mary C., only daughter of Dr. II. A. Buttolph; married his second wife, Miss Mary L., only daughter of Prof. J. B. Turner, May 6th 1875.
Dr. Carriel has seven children-six sons and one daughter.
See pages 176, 177, 194, 223, 253.
WILLIAM FLETCHER SHORT, D. D., was born in Butler county, Ohio, No- vember 9, 1829. His father, Rev. Daniel Short, came, with his family, to Morgan county, in 1834. He was widely known and greatly respected as an earnest, able and useful preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church through Central Illinois.
Dr. Short was brought up on a farm, where he experienced all the privations and hardships of those early times.
At about the age of twenty, feeling him- self called to the ministry, he determined to seek a collegiate education. He ac- cordingly entered McKendree College, and pursued the course of study to the senior year. He then entered the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington and graduated in 1854. Before his graduation he accepted a call to the charge of the Missouri Conference Seminary, located at Jackson. At the end of two and a half years he resigned, to enter the active pas- torate in this State. The several charges filled were: Island Grove, two years; Williamsville, two years; Waverly, two years; Winchester, two years; Carlinville, three years; Hillsboro, one year; Grace Church, three years; Presiding Elder of Jacksonville District four years.
In July of 1875 he was elected Presi- ilent of Illinois Female College, which position he still hohls.
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His administration of affairs as head of this important and flourishing educational institution has been marked by a wise Christian policy, an elevation of the standard of scholarship, the establish- ment of home-like government and the employment of a higher grade of talent in the art and musical departments. The re- sult, of course, has shown itself in in- creased patronage and a broadened and higher reputation for the school.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by Ohio Wesleyan University.
As a citizen, Dr. Short has always been public-spirited, and a favorite in social and religious circles and holds high rank in the Masonic organization.
In August, 1854 he was married to Miss Sarah B. Laning, of Petersburg. Three daughters and one son are living; one son having died while Dr. Short was pastor of Grace Church.
HON. RICHARD YATES, Lawyer, War Governor of Illinois, and United States Senator, was born in Warsaw, Gallatin county, Illinois, January 18th, 1818, and when thirteen years of age re- moved with his father to Springfield, in the same state. His preliminary education was obtained in Illinois College, at Jack- sonville, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1838.
He afterward studied law under the in- structions of Colonel J. J. Hardin, who fell in the war with Mexico. Entering upon the practice of his profession, became a successful participant in political affairs, and from 1842 to 1849 represented his district in the Illinois Legislature. In 1850 he received the congressional nomin- ation at the Whig convention, was elected a member of the Thirty-second Congress, and on taking his seat in that body was found to be its youngest member. At the next election, notwithstanding the politi- cal change in his district at the county elections, he was again chosen as a mem- ber of the Thirty-third Congress, but two years subsequently failed to secure a re- election. While a member of the House he became an earnest opponent of the slave power and of the repeal of the Mis-
souri Compromise; evinced great ability and entire fearlessness in his words and actions, and in numerous ways was import_ antly instrumental in advancing the in- terests of the anti-slavery cause. In 1860 he was nominated by the Republican party as a candidate for Governor, and after a very exciting canvass was triumphantly elected. During the war of the rebellion he was an efficient and indefatigable sup- porter of the United States government, and, by his well directed energy and activ- ity in providing fresh relays of needed troops, acquired an enviable position in the ranks of the "War Governors."
April 23d, 1861, he issued a proclama- tion to convene the Legislature at Spring- field for the purpose of enacting such laws and adopting such measures as were deemed necessary for the organization and equipment of the militia of the state, and also for the raising of such money and other means as were required to pre serve the Union and enforce the laws.
In May, 1861, he conferred upon Ulysses S. Grant, then engaged at Springfield in the organization of the volunteer troops of Illinois, the Colonelcy of the 21st Regi- ment Illinois Infantry.
May 20th, 1862, he issued a proclama- tion calling for recruits to fill up the vol- unteer regiments from Illinois, and on the following July 11th published a letter to the President of the United States urging the employment of all available means to crush the rebellion and prevent the over- turning of the constitution. On one occa- sion he paid an unusual, but merited, com- pliment to Mrs. Reynolds, wife of Lieut. Reynolds, of Company A. of the 17th Illi- nois Regiment, of Peoria. She had ac- companied her husband through the greater part of the campaign in which that regiment had participated, and was present at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, where she ministered with tireless heroism to the wants of the dying and wounded. Upon hearing of her praiseworthy conduct he presented her with a commission as major in the army, the document confer- ring the honor being made out with all due formality, and having attached to it the great seal of the state.
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