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of the party, even when aware of the hopeless- ness of present victory. Many of those who op. posed him in this work years ago, are now Ins stanchest friends. His career as a Prohibition- ist has offered a striking illustration of that . independence and moral stamina which are at the foundation of superior American citizenship.
Mr. Vancil was born in Woodstock Township, Schuyler County, on January 19, 1861. the son of Tobias and Caroline Howe) Vancil. the father being reared iu Tazewell County, 111 .. and the mother a native of Ohio. The Vaneil family are of German descent, while the ancestry of the Ilowes is Scotch. The mother of Benjamin F. Vancil came to Illinois with her parents and was married in Tazewell County, afterward set- thing in Woodstock and Birmingham Townships. After the death of the wife and mother, in the latter township. Mr. Vancil's father removed to Colchester, MeDonough County, Ill., which re- mained the family home for some years and which was the scene of his death at the age of eighty-four. Four sons and five daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Vancil, namely ; Amanda, now the wife of Charles Bell, a farmer of Rushville Township. Selmyler County : Eu- maria, deceased; Jobn M., a farmer located in Bainbridge Township: James Edward. who is a brickmason of Plymouth, Ill .; Laura E., wife of Oliver Davis, who lives near Bushnell. Ill. ; Benjamin F. ; Sarah. Mrs. Washington Smith, of Colchester. 111 .; Agnes, now the wife of Charles Riddings, of Macomb. Ill .; and Dora, deceased. Both of the parents were devout members of the old Methodist Episcopal Church. The father was a man of unassuming character, but had a natural genius as a mechanic, and was therefore peculiarly useful in a pioneer community. As he was also very accommodating. old residents of Schuyler County remember with pleasure how he was equally skilful in building a house, shap- ing a plow, running a sawmill, or shoeing a horse.
When the family moved to Bainbridge Town- ship, Benjamin was but a lad, and in this sec- tion of the county he attended the district school and grew to manhood, working for his father until be had attained his majority. On Decem- ber 26, 1851, shortly before this iniportant epoch in his life. he was married to Rosanna Kelly, who was born in that township, a daughter of James and Nancy (Smith) Kelly. Her father was a native of Kentucky. (For details of the Smith family. the reader is referred to the biog- raphy of Joseph H. Smith). After their mar- riage, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Vancil located on the farm of Joseph H. Smith, which the bus- band has rented for the past twenty-six years. and in the operation of which he has been re- markably successful. On December 24. 1906. Mr. Vaneil bought 157 agres of land in Sertion 18. Bainbridge Township. which was known as the William Kuhn farne which. added to the place rented of Mr. Smith, places him in control of 394 acres of fine land devoted partly to gen- eral farming and partly to stock-raising.
Mr. Vaneil's eleven children were all born on the Smith farm. and are all livite at home, namely : Grover C., Jammary 10, IS; James J' .. August IS, ISNG; Robert 11 .. . ity 12. 18; Joseph F., April 20. 100; Noah .A., August 4, 1892; Ida May, August 25. 394; MirR O., June 24. 1897 ; George W., February 20, 1 ** ); Bouja- min Franklin. June 22. 10: Nan . J., Or- tober 31. 1905; and WinMart V., February 16. INS. A large share of the good fortune and prosperity which has att nded this far dy is due to the unremitting care and wise management of Mrs. Vaneil, to whom her Insuat gives due credit both for the rearing of his el hdren and his success as a man of affairs.
Both Me. and Mrs. Vaned are parnest and in- fluential members of the Union Baptist Church, and are leaders in high-mind A sociability and morality. As stated. he is a prominent Prohibi- tionist, and has always been active in educa- tional work, having for nine years past heen one of the School Directors of the Hazel Dell Dis- triet No. TS.
VANDIVER, William L .- The attention of the most casual observer in passing through Brook- lyn Township. Schyler County, is attracted to the farm owned and operated by Mr. Vandiver, its thrifty appearance stampin : the owner as a man of more than ordinary ability along the lines of agriculture. It was in the Lol: 1899 that he located in Brooklyn Township and pur- chased his present farm of 15% deres on Section 29. Bringing with him the experience of many years in other localities, he came well qualified to cope with the crude conditions which he here found. and be it said to his credit that every foot of his land is now in a toliabe condition.
As far back as the records can in traced. the Vandiver family is of Southern origs. atal it is believed that the grandfather Vandiver died in Kentucky. Ilis wife dled some years pre- vious, and at the time of his death. his two children, John and Edward atwitch, were lett to the care of friends. A kind fate panel them in charge of a bachelor neighbor. James Worth- ington, who became greatly attached to them. and in later years, when he left Konto ky aml came to Illinois, he brought the boys with him. Settling in Sebuyler County. Mr. Worthington purchased considerable land in the vicinity of Brooklyn, and became one of the largest land- owners in this part of Schuyler County. Joha and Edward Vandiver continued to make thei. home with their uncle, attending the schools at Brooklyn, and when they reached maturity each received forty acres of land from their benfie- tor. Edward Vandiver finally rem Ned to Kansas, where he and his wife both died. their family still residing in that State. About the time of his marriage. John Var live feld N'a torty. arre traet which Mr. Wirmu_ta him for a farm on Se00080. B. ship, and here he created a he ena the home of the family for many years- in Lien, all of his children being born in the print tive
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dwelling. In addition to managing his farm he worked at the carpenter's trade, and many of the dwellings that are pow seen in this vicinity are the work of his hands.
The marriage of John Vandiver united bim with Angeline Graham, a native of Ohio, and of the twelve children born to them mention is made of the following: The eklest child. Nel- son, is a resident of Charterville. Mo. : during the Civil War enlisted his services in Company A. Seventy-eighth illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving three years. John was also a member of the same company, with his regiment passing through all of the hard-fought battles and expe- rieneing many fatiguing marches; he is now a resident of Carthage. ID. Henry. also a mem- ber of Company, A. Seventy-eighth Ilinois, was killed at the battle of Jonesboro. Ga. Edward died in infancy. Edward ithe second child of that name) grew to maturity and served one year in the cause of his country as a member of the one Hundred and Thirty-seventh Infantry ; he now makes his home in Charterville. Mo. James is a resident of Atchison. Kan. Margaret. of Cummings. Kan., is the wife of Emery Andre. Louisa, the widow of Clark Quint. makes her home in Charterville, Mo. William L. is the next child in order of birth. Lizzie. of Cum- mings. Kan .. is the widow of Robert Wright. Taylor died in Brooklyn. Sebuyler County, when twelve years of age. The parents of these chil- dren both passed away in Cummings, Kan., the mother in ISSt, and the father in 101. Both were stanch adherents of the Presbyterian faith and Mr. Vandiver was a strong believer in Re- publican principles. During the early days of his residence in Illinois he filled many town- ship offires within the gift of its citizens.
Born on the family homestead on Section 20. Brooklyn Township, Schuyler County, May 12. 1859. William L. Vandiver passed his boyhood in that vicinity. there being nothing out of the ordinary to distinguish bis life from that of other farmer lads of his acquaintance. Up to the age of twenty-two he worked on the home farm, having in the meantime attended the dis- triet school. but after arriving at his maturity he started life independently by hiring out as a farm hand, at first receiving for his services $14 per month. Two years later, at the age of twenty-four. he assumed domestic responsibili- ties by his marriage, which occurred October 25. . 1883. and united him with Miss Mary Wells. who was born in Brooklyn Township, the daugh- ter of Herbert Wells. The latter, now deceased. was one of the early pioneers of Schuyler County. Following his marriage Mr. Vandiver worked by the month on the farm of Charles Worthing- ton. but two years later rented the old hom- farm of his mother-in-law. continuing its culti- vation until settling upon land of his own. This was in 1599, at which time he purchased 110 acres of land in Brooklyn Township. Two years later he sold this property and removed to Web- ster County. Neh .. there purchasing 200 acres. After disposing of that property he bought 160
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aeres in Phelps County. that State, but renting the property in 1899, returned to Schuyler County and entered the stock business with Charles Worthington, his former employer. in Rushville. This association lasted five months when. in the fall of is99. he purchased his present farm on Section 29. where, as previously noted. he now resides.
Six children were born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Vandiver. namely : Preddie, who died in infancy; Mabel. at home; Herbert and John, twins, the latter dying in infancy, and the former being now a student in Dison Col- lege; Hally, at home; and Everett, a student in the public schools. In taking a resinne of the life of Mr. Vandiver one is impressed with what he has accomplished : Starting in young man- hood with nothing but an indomitable will and a determination to become a successful farmer. be at first worked as a farm hand for $14 per month. By carefully saving his earnings he was soon enabled to make investments in land, pur- chasing two farms in Nebraska, and by selling at att advance over the purchase price, he has realized handsomely on his original investment. Shire locating on his present farm his industry has been even more liberally rewarded. the re- sult being that he has one of the most productive farms in his section of Schuyler County. It is his belief that the best stock obtainable is the only kind to handle, a policy which he adheres to and on his farm may be seen superior specimens or imported Shire and road horses.
Not all of Mr. Vandiver's time is absorbed in looking after his own private interests, being in addition an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party. In 1906 he was nominated by that party for the office of Supervisor and elected by a good majority over one of the strongest opponents in the Democratic party. Socially he is a member of the Odd Fellows and the Mo I- ern Woodmen of America. both of Brooklyn. With his wife he is a member of the Presbyle- rian Church, both supporting its charities with a liberal hand, and both are held in high esteem by their many friends and acquaintances.
VAUGHAN, Silas Bruce .- The Vaughans. closely identified with the agricultural progress of Schuyler County, Il .. for more than half a century, are of an old Virginia family who mi- grated to Kentucky in the early 'forties. Silas B. Vanghan was but sixteen when he came with his parents to the county, and two years later bogan living on the farm which has ever since been his home, a period of more than fifty years. As youth and man, for these many years he has industriously. faithfully and ably performed the duties which have come to him, and now, at the age of nearly seventy years. he has reached a position of substantial comfort and the still more enviable station in life in which Fortid once i his honor is firmly grounded on his past. Old age can have ho greater comfort thin to look back at real achievement. and see in the present the reverence and affection which constitute a vindieation of the past.
HISTORY OF SCHUYLER COUNTY.
Mr. Vaughan is a native of Culpepper County. Va. born pari, 18, INSA. a son of Henry and Jael (Jones) Vaughan, both of the comfy mell- tioned. The original Vaughans were Welshinen, and the Joneses, Irish and German. The grand- fathers. Venom Vaughan and Robert Jones, both died in Culpepper county. in ist Henry Vanghan, the father, migrated from the Old Pho- minion to Boone County. ha .. and in 14 enne by steamboat from Cineamati, down the Ohio and up the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Schuyler Commy, On the 14th day of March, of that year. the family located on a farm in Bain- bridge Township, how owned by Milton Chlap Dell, where they remained for two years, in 1856 settling on the tract of 120 deres in Section 1, Balubridge Township, which was for twenty-one years the family hons stead and which afterward became the home of the son. Sias B. At that time, when he was righte m years of age, it was covered with heavy timber and quite unimproved, and his father. with the assistance of his sons, first built a hewed log house for the family residence (sixteen by twenty foot) and then commeneed to tell the trees and roll away or burn the logs. In a few years the wild forest was con- verted into tillable land. and the log cabin was made more comfortable for the shelter of the growing family. Here the mother died July 12. IS6S. and the father, luiwe 11. ISTT. Of their ten children. four died in infancy, and the fol- lowing reached maturity : Robert. now living in Oklahoma with a danghter: William, who is a farmer of Lemoine Township. MeDonough County, Ill. : Elizabeth, who married, first. J. D. Rouse, and after his death. Samuel Stover, both of whom are deceased: Silas B. : Susan A., who married James T. Broadhead, a farmer. also of Lemoine Township. McDonough County: and Christopher C. Vanghan, who was last located in Omaha. Neh., but whose whereabouts have been unknown for forty years.
During his youth. Silas B. Vanghan attended the common schools of Boone County, Ky .. and Bainbridge Township. Schuyler County. On No- vember 24. 1567. he was married to Miss Mary A. Orr, born in County Fermanagh, Ireland. in August, 1939, and whose parents came to Sehuy- ler County in the fall of that year. (For biogra- phy of Mrs. Vaughan's father. Joseph Orr. sep personal sketch elsewhere in this work. ) At half past six, on the morning following their wed- ding day, they came to the old home farm, which has ever since been their abode, and here their four children were born: The first, who died in infancy ; lona, born July 18, ISTO, and mar- ried as his first wife Miss Jessie Lawler, who died January 2. 1898, and as his second. Miss Mary Dean. by whom he has had one child ( Mary Lonisa ), the husband now farming on the old place: Otho, born September 30, 1972. and who died May 4. 1873: and Ida, who was born . March 31. 1874, and is still living at home. A granddaughter. Gladys Juanita, is also making her home at the old homestead.
Mr. Vaughan now owns 170 apres i Section
landa, Bain Bridge Township. It is .Il well ine proved, Jon cores Faving men under cultivation for fifty-this. Years, and the hash ul is alta. gether one of the most amatori del :brut ive In its section. Mr. Van than is Then patient his political tendencies, but inchmol o be lib- eral in his views, has ieither hed for sought office.
WARD, Apoilus @low: sed. durad hus Ffe at widely known and honored pioneer of Sehyier County. Il. was born a. Hamilton County. Ohio. Any 24 1, 5 0 0; [2 ] Wnd. : or mer resident of the State of New Jersey and of English ancestry. The father, [' Ward, Wps born February S. 1765, and the gramorather, Jo- seph Wand. was bom Mat IN THE Py Ward came from New Jersey to the vicinity of Cincinnati at an early day, remain'ne a ino ber of years, when he removed with his family .o Union County. Ind., and there spour the re- mainder of his life. In 199 Spolus Wird par- chased a warrant for I deres Bounty Land. :- sued to a soblies of the War of IS12, ul bearing the signature of President James Monroe in IST. He did not see the land. however, mill the spring of 1 32, when he came to Schuster County for the first time. This being the year of the Black Hawk War. he tendered his services to the Government and. for about six weeks, was connected ych the company under command of C'apt. Peter Vance, but saw no fighting.
Returning to Indiana, after a period of illness. be remained there until IS35, when he married Jane Bramble, a year later coming to Illinois with his wife and an infant son. A portion of the last year. before coming west, appears to have Tween spent at Columbus, where their oldest son, Major Andrew, was born in 1836. Mrs. Ward also being a native of that State. On arriving in Schuyler County in September, 1536, he found things in a primitive state. his land located in Section 11 of what is now Bainbridge Township. being covered with timber. hazel brush and other wild shrubbery. requiring much labor in prepair- ing for cultivation. His first business was the erer- tion of a log cabin with stick chimney and pun- cheon floor, and furnished in the back-Words style of those days. Here he continued to reside for a period of more than forty years, with the aid of his sons, whose biographies are given on the following pages of this volume, improving and developing his property. His death oc- curred here March 14, ISTS, his wife surviving him until July 14. 1896.
Mr. and Mrs. Apollos Ward reared a family of nine children. all except the eldest being born in Illinois. These children were Major Andrew, born August 9. 1835, married Miss Emily J. Davis, and died March 9. 1900, leaving a fandly of nine children : Henry M. horn April 19, IST's. and twice married. Laving one child Is the first wife, and Your by the sound; Jalo. Mader. born May 25, 1-10, married Eliza I. Taylor 21 1873 and lives on the paternal farm -- >
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son; Edwin Marion, bora Janvary 7, 1813, in 1867 married as his second wife Lydia J. Bridge- man. who bore him four children; Mary married William Achison, and resides in Rushville : Pris- cilla J., wife of George I tier, of Frederick Township, Schuyler County; tra I. married Mary J. Taylor, by whom he has had four chil- dren and lives on a tarm adjoining the home place ; Emily J., dereased wife of Thomas Dodge, a farmer of Bainbridge Township, to whom she bore seven children ; and Jackson, born Febri- ary 19, 1556, married Miss Martha A. Dodds in 1878, has had five children and lives in Bail- bridge Township.
Apollus Wardt was of the sturdy type of pio- hvers in Schuyler County who did much by his industry and enterprise to develop that region. lle was a Democrat in politics and a member of the Methodist Church, South, and his influence is perpemated in the high reputation enjoyed by his descendants.
WARD, Edward Marion .- Schuyler County has no more interesting landmark than the farm in Section 11. Bainbridge Township. where Edward Marion Ward was born on a cold winter's day, January 7, 1843. Mr. Ward, who is now a farmer in the section adjoining that in which his childhood was passed, and who is the owner of seventy acres of land in Section 10, represents a family continously identified with Schuyler County since the early 'thirtir . and monorously scattered over lands radiating from the old place for a distance of eight miles. Apollos Ward ve- cupies a prominent place among the pioneers of this section. It was he who bought a colt at a sale in Indiana, and later traded the colt and $150 for the 160 acres of land now recognized as the center of Ward occupancy in Schuyler County. lle himself arrived to look over his land in 1832. and he found conditions lively enough to Mitisfy even the most exacting and adventurous. Black Hawk then was on the war path, and Governor Reynolds, issuing a call for volunteers, Mr. Ward tendered his services, becoming a member of the company of Captain Peter Vance. After the Indians had been driven from the State. Mr. Ward returned to his farm in Bainbridge Township, Imt being taken ill went back to Indiana, where he re- gained his health and married Jane Bramble in 1835. In 1836, accompanied by his wife and son, Major A., he came back to Schuyler County. lo- cated on the land he had acquired through ex- change, and remained there for the balance of his life. For more extended family history see sketch of James M. Ward.
Farm development in the early days was nec- essarily much slower than at present, and when Edward Marion Ward had attained years of use- fulness, there still remained much of the hard grind of land clearing, which precedes actual enl- tivation. Ho helped to cut down trees and divest the land of underbrush, attending the district schools during the winter season, and sharing in such diversions as broke the monotony of the
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hard working population of Bainbridge Town- ship. February 21, 1565. he was united in mar- riage to Margaret Ballwin, daughter of James W. Baldwin, a native of Ohio, and early settler of Mason County, Ill. Later Mr. Baldwin move 1 to Schuyler County, and during the summer of 1563 located in Section 10, Bainbridge Town- ship. which then boasted a small log cabin and an abundance of heavy timber. In the spring of 1867 he lost his first wife, and in September of the same year, married Lydia J. Bridgeman, daughter of Martin and Ruth ( Caywood) Bridge- man, Southerners by birth, and pioneers of Schuyler County. Mr. Bridgeman became a wid- ower in later Efe, and eventually went to Kan- sas, where he died at an advanced age. He was bred to the lazy, unambitions life of the South, and for a time was a slave owner, but his bat- ural energy finally found its fitting place in the larger opportmities of the Central West. Mr. and Mrs. Ward had the following children. all of whom were born in a hewed-log cabin: Mar- tin, Augustus, Rozzie and Edgar. Martin mar- ried Lena Nelson, who died March 26. 1906. leaving six children- Elmer. Roy, Don, Lulu, Stella and Edna; Augustus married Nellie Don alison : Rozzie married Bessie Ballou, February 26. 1908, moving to Butler County, Kan., near Eldorado: and Edgar was killed July 11, 1904. by lightning. at the age of twenty years.
Mr. Ward bought his property soon after his matri :_ e. it having formerly Loon owned by his maternal grandfather. Mr. Bramble. At first it was owned by Edward and Henry Ward, but the former soon after bought the interest of his brother, and since has devoted it to general farm- ing and stock-raising. To his first thirty-tive aeres he has added as many more, and now all but eighteen acres have been cleared of the for- mer growth of black oak and walnut. Mr. Ward was a member of the Southern Methodist Church at Mount Carmel, and has been a generous con- tributor to its work for many years. He has been an interested and helpful observer of the many great changes which have taken place dur- ing the sixty-five years of his life, and he de- lights in recalling the conditions in which his youth was set. especially well rememberel be- ing the deer trail across the old homestead. Great flocks of wild turkeys darkened the air at times, and both turkeys and door were readily available for food for the settlers. Since its formation. Mr. Ward has been an ardent if non- active supporter of the Democratic party.
WARD, Henry M .- During the summer of 1536 the sparsely settled part of Schuyler Comy, Ill., now known as Bainbridge Township, clai ned a new arrival in Apollos Ward, who, with his wife. Jane ( Bramble) Ward, took up Govern- ment land in Section 11. In the conventional log cabin he began the struggle for existence among the hardest and least encouraging of conditions. and here. April 19, 1838, his son. . Henry M. Ward. now a resident of Section 10, in the same township, was born. The lad grew strong in the
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outdoor life of the prairies, and when the dut'es of the home place permitted, attended the sub- seription school which had been erected on his father's farm, and which was then known as the Ward School. now the Mount Carmel School.
In his youth Henry M. Ward spent many days in grubbing stmaps and chopping trees, and he became familiar with every kind of work to be found around the old place. lle took naturally to tilling the soil, always has respected his call- ing, and naturally has succeeded at what he has found congenial and profitable. His fortunes took a different turn at the time of his mar- riage, March 10, 1859, to Mary Am Bridgewater, daughter of William and Eleanor (Donohue) Bridgewater, natives of Indiana, and pioneers of Bainbridge Township. It was a small farm of forty-five acres that Mt. Ward first considered his own property, and it was located in Section 10, Bainbridge Township. It had a log cabin that his brother. Major A. Ward, had erected, and which continued to be the latter's home until he moved in 1858 to the farm where his death occurred in 1900, When Henry M. succeeded to his brother's farm directly after his marriage, he found but two acres cleared of timber, and many weeks and months were required ere an appreciable change was noted. All went well in the rude home until the death of the mother in September. 184. There were three children of the union, of whom two died in infancy, white Elias Leander, the only survivor, who is a tarmer in Rushville Township, was married and be- came the father of two sons and two daughters. February 2. 1565, Mr. Ward married Mary E. Buckels, who was born in Scott County. Ind., August 7. 1518, a daughter of James and Rebec- ca (Parker) Buekels, who came in 1856 to Schuyler County, settling in Bainbridge Town- ship, where Mr. Buckels died September 9, 1900, his wife having pre-deceased him April 13, 1853. There were four children in the Buckels family, Mrs. Ward being the second oldest, Elisha Buck- els was a soldier in the One Hundred and Fit- teenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was taken sick and died at the battle of Lookout Mountain: Am S. is the wife of John Jackson. a farmer living five and a half muiles southwest of Neodesha, Kans .: and James is a farmer. After the marriage ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Ward got into a wagon and drove over and took possession of their present farm, which con- tains ninety-five acres. Mr. Ward is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and has a very profitable and pleasant farm. He has cleared eighty-nine acres, considerable of which is devoted to stock.
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