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In December, 1838, Mr. Dodson married Miss Anna Hess, a daughter of Abraham and Ellen Hess, and two children were born of this union, namely: Margaret Ellen and Harry. Mrs. Dodson died and Mr. Dodson later mar-
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ried Miss Elizabeth McGee, a daughter of John and Ellen McGee, and to them two chil- dren were born: Ira H. and Edward S.
The parents of Mr. Dodson were William and Margaret (Whiting) Dodson, both of whom were natives of Virginia. They moved from that State about the year 1812, traveling all the way to Ohio on horseback. Mr. Dodson was drafted for service in the war of 1812, but was prevented from going to the front on ac- count of illness.
WILLIAM DODSON (deceased), who was one of the oldest and most honored of the retired pioneer farmers of Champaign County, Ill., was born near Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, July 8, 1820, a son of William and Mar- garet (Wikel) Dodson, natives of Virginia.
The family was established in Ohio about 1800, and Mr. Dodson left there in 1838, when eighteen years old, settling in Tippecanoe County, Ind. In 1863 he located in Champaign County, Ill., and, after being engaged in the grocery business for a quarter of a century, he retired to his home, at No. 406 North State Street.
For his first wife, Mr. Dodson married, in 1856, Hannah Young, a daughter of William and Sarah Young, to whom three children were born-Joseph, John, and Eleanor-all of whom are deceased. Mrs. Dodson died in 1859, and in 1867, Mr. Dodson married Sophia Kingsbury, daughter of Benjamin and Johanna (Jennings) Kingsbury. The subject of this sketch passed away February 11, 1905, and his departure was deeply lamented throughout the community.
OLIVER KINSEY DONEY, a minister and lawyer, of Urbana, Ill., was born in Deerfield, Mo., November 30, 1873, the son of Lysander and Cynthia A. (Hill) Doney. The former was a veteran of the Civil War whose first enlist- ment for a period of three months so inspired him with zeal, that at the expiration of this term, he immediately reenlisted for the entire war. At the Battle of Chickamauga he was twice wounded, and although he bravely kept on, he was at length compelled to fall out of line at Atlanta, in the famous "March to the Sea." The mother was, in her youth, a some- what gifted singer, and to her son she trans- mitted not alone her contour of features, but a natural musical ability. Of the large family belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Lysander Doney, all
are dead save Jennie Belle, Isaac Elvin, and Oliver Kinsey, the subject of this sketch. Anna May (deceased) was but two years Oliver's junior, and a constant companion of his youth- ful days. The children had no opportunity to attend school until 1885, when the family re- moved to Tolono, Ill., but here the two started in the same grade graduating together from the high school in 1893. Then came a separation hard to bear, since the brother and sister were like twins, for in the fall of that year the lad entered the University of Illinois, the sister's
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ill-health detaining her at home. Mr. Doney spent two years at this institution of learning, taught school for a term, and then decided to study law. In March, 1899, he was admitted to the bar. He then reentered the university and graduated with the class of 1900, receiving the degree of LL. B. Since then he has practiced law, specializing as an abstractor. He is an earnest advocate of the cause of prohibition, declaring that every voter at every election should cast his vote to destroy the liquor traffic. His ambition had been, since his boyhood, to become a minister-not a mere preacher, but a minister. With this end in view he made a special study of the gospels, and was ordained
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April 5, 1903, not as a minister of any special denomination, but of the Church Universal- the Church of Christ. To his mind denomina- tionalism is unscriptural, and hence his plea is for a union of all God's people under one banner, "For Christ and the Church" to be inscribed thereon, under one leader, who shall be the Lord of Heaven. He insists that if one applies the rule, "The Creator is always greater than the thing created," it naturally follows that men's dogmas and rules of faith cannot be one whit greater than the men who formu- lated them, but instead, if one takes the will of the Master and his testament for guides, there is no boundary nor limitation, and that the fundamentals of salvation as expressed in Christ's will, which was turned over to the Apostles, as executors thereof, are questions upon which all fair-minded students, and Christ's followers, may agree.
On August 17, 1899, Mr. Doney was married to Hattie Myrtle, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shuck, of Urbana, Ill. Mr. Shuck is a veteran of the Civil War. Since May, 1903, Mr. Doney has been preaching with marked success at Homer, Ill.
JOHN DORSEY, farmer, Ogden Township, Champaign County, Ill., was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, May 15, 1840, the son of Patrick and Anna (Clair) Dorsey. Patrick Dor- sey alld wife were the parents of three chil- dren; two sons-James and John (the latter being the youngest in the family), and one daughter, Mary. The mother died when John was three years of age, and shortly afterwards the father, with his three children, came to America and located in Bucks County, Pa., where they lived until the fall of 1856. Mr. Patrick Dorsey died at Fort Scott, Kans, aged sixty-eight years; the daughter, Mary, died in Colorado about 1886. In November, 1856 (the evening after the election of James Buchanan to the Presidency), John Dorsey, in company with James Nulty, the husband of his sister Mary, left their home in Pennsylvania for the West, spending the following winter in Chi- cago. In the spring of 1857 he located in Ma- coupin County, where he resided until 1865, and in 1867 came to Champaign County, where he has since resided.
In February, 1865, Mr. Dorsey was married to Miss Margaret Ward, born June 24, 1845, the daughter of Peter and Catherine (White)
Ward, and they became the parents of twelve children: Mary (Mrs. John Delaney), born January 30, 1866; Margaret (Mrs. Chris Bean), born July 19, 1867; John William, born Novem- ber 18, 1869, married Margaret Marran; James Henry, born September 19, 1871, married Han- nah Connors; George, born October 15, 1873, died in 1890; Ella (Mrs. James McQuinn) and Alta (Mrs. William Foutch), were twins, born October 15, 1878; Isabella (Mrs. John Fleming), born January 30, 1881; Katherine E., born De- cember 9, 1883; Thomas H., born November 11, 1885; Elizabeth, born March 23, 1887, died when two years of age. Mrs. Dorsey passed away August 28, 1904, aged fifty-nine years. Mr. Dorsey has acquired a fine estate, owning 250 acres of land valued at $150. per acre, in the management of which he has the assistance of his two sons, Frank and Thomas, and his daughter, Katherine E., who are. married and reside at home. In politics Mr. Dorsey is a Democrat, and in religious faith a Roman Catholic.
PATRICK WILLIAM DOWNS was born March 20, 1861, at LaSalle Ill., where he was educated in the public schools. His parents were Michael and Mary (O'Brien) Downs, both natives of County Clare, Ireland. The paternal grandfather, Thomas Downs, and the maternal grandfather, James O'Brien, were also born in Ireland. The subject of this sketch learned to be a telegraph operator at Emington, Liv- ingston County, Ill., when only nineteen years of age, and when twenty-one, in 1882, secured a position with the Wabash Railroad, doing extra work. In 1884 he located permanently at Osman, Ill., where he remained until June 20, 1887, at which time he was transferred to Foosland. where he has been ever since. He is one of the oldest agents in service in the employ of the Wabash Railroad Co., and has from thirty-five to forty trains daily under his care, his hours being from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. In 1891 he purchased a farm of 167 acres, lo- cated in Brown Township, and which he rents out. In politics he is a Republican, and soci- ally is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America. In re- ligious views he is a Catholic. On September 19, 1888, Mr. Downs was united in marriage to Nellie E. Summers, a native of Belleflower, Ill. She was educated in the public schools of Champaign and Dewitt Counties. Two children
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have been born to them, Edyth W. and George M. Mr. Downs also belongs to the Wabash Vet- eran Corps, of St. Louis, an organization of the oldest employes of the Wabash Railroad.
ANDREW SLOAN DRAPER, third President of the University of Ilinois, was born at West- ford, Otsego County, N. Y., June 21, 1848, the son of Sylvester Bigelow and Jane (Sloan) Draper, and a descendant of James Draper, "The Puritan," and his wife, Miriam Stansfield, who emigrated from Yorkshire, England, and settled at Roxbury, Mass., in 1647. In 1855 his parents moved to Albany, N. Y., where he at- tended the public schools until 1863, when he won a prize scholarship in the Albany Acad- emy, from which he was graduated in 1866. He was an instructor in the Albany Academy and principal of a graded school through the next four years, reading law in the meantime, and graduating from the Albany Law School, the School of Law of Union University, with the degree of LL. B., and being admitted to the bar in the summer of 1871. He was then en- gaged in practice at Albany, in partnership with Alden Chester, now (1904) a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, under the firm name of Draper & Chester, until 1887. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1881 with membership in the Standing Committees on Ways and Means, Judiciary, Public Education and Printing, and on Special Committees to entertain Gerenal Grant, to investigate the Elmira Reformatory, and to investigate charges of bribery against a Senator. He was Chair- man of the Albany County Republican Commit- tee, 1880-82; member of the State Committee, 1882-85; delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1884, and Chairman of the Execu- tive Committee of the Republican State Com- mittee through the Presidential Campaign which followed, during which he accompanied Mr. Blaine on his two famous journeys through ยท the State.
In 1882 Mr. Draper was tendered the posi- tion .of Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, but de- clined. In 1884 he was nominated by Presi- dent Arthur to be one of the Judges of the United States Court of Alabama Claims, and served until the conclusion of the work of that court.
Always interested in education, Mr. Draper was a member of the Board of Education in
Albany in 1878-81, and again in 1890-92. He was in 1882 appointed a member of the Board in charge of the State Normal School at Al- bany, and immediately secured appropriations for a new site and buildings for the institution; and mainly through his activity the name was changed to that of the State Normal College, and only students of collegiate grade were ad- mitted. In 1886 he was elected by the Legis- lature State Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion, and in 1889 was re-elected. His adminis- tration is commonly referred to as one of the very strongest in the history of the State. In 1889-91 he was President of the National Asso- ciation of School Superintendents. In 1892 he was named Superintendent of Cleveland (Ohio) public schools, and organized the system for that city on wholly new lines. He resigned this position in 1894 to accept the Presidency of the University of Illinois, which he retained up to 1904. At the time President Draper went to the University of Illinois, the institution had five buildings, a faculty of ninety, and a student body of seven hundred and fifty. Now it has twenty-six buildings, with four hundred in the faculties, and a student body of quite three thousand six hundred. It consists of seven col- leges, and half a-score of other schools, and with a complete and symmetrical university organization, the University stands as high as sixth in point of numbers among the univer- sities of the United States.
In 1889 President Draper received the degree of LL.D. from the Colgate University, and in 1903 the same from Columbia University. In 1898 he was elected the first Superintendent of Schools of Greater New York, but declined. In 1902 he was made a member of the United States Board of Indian Commissioners by Pres- ident Roosevelt, and in 1903 was chosen Presi- dent of the North Central Association of Col- leges and Secondary Schools. He is an hon- orary member of the Chicago Historical Soci- ety and of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Dr. Draper has made addresses on educa- tional subjects in practically every State of the Union. His publications are numerous, among them being: "How to Improve the Country Schools;" "School Administration in Large Cities;" "Powers and Obligation of Teachers;" "History of the New York Common School Sys- tem;" "The Indian Problem in the State of New York;" "Legal Status of the Public Schools;" "American Schools and American
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Citizenship;" "The Spirit of the Teacher;" "Science in the Elementary Schools;" "The Pilgrims and Their Share in the National Life;" "American Universities and the National Life;" "The Illinois Life and the Presidency of Lincoln;" "The Rescue of Cuba;" "Bankers and the Community Life;' "John Marshall and the March of the Constitution;" "Memorial of Pres- ident Mckinley;" "Co-education in America;" "The Personal Equation in the Medical Profes- sion;" "The Authority of the State in Educa- tion;" "A Teaching Profession;" "The Recov- ery of the law;" "The University's Return to the State;" "The Element of Inspiration in the Schools;" "Educational Tendencies, Desirable and Otherwise;" "University Questions Con- cerning the Common Schools;" "The Organiza- tion and Administration of the American Edu- cational System" (Silver Medal, Paris Exposi- tion, 1900).
Dr. Draper was married in 1872 to Abbie Louise Lyon, of New Britain, Connecticut, and they have two children, Charlotte Leland, and Edwin Lyon. He is a member of the Presby- terian Church, is fond of driving and boating, and an enthusiastic supporter of all- out-of-door sports.
In 1904 Dr. Draper was appointed Superin- tendent of Education for the State of New York, which position-having resigned the Presidency of the University of Illinois after a successful administration of ten years-he now occupies.
GEORGE L. DRISKELL, farmer, in Kerr Township, Champaign County, Ill., is a native of the Hoosier State, being born in Covington, Fountain County, May 2, 1842. His father, Hiram Driskell, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1815, came to Sugar Grove, Champaign Coun- ty, in 1851, investing his earnings in a tract of 800 acres at five dollars per acre. This land is now worth $150 per acre, was tilled by him for many years, netting him the substantial for- tune divided among his heirs after his death. Hiram Driskell was twice married, the first time in April, 1838, to Anna Black, who was born in 1818. George' L. was third in order of birth of the six children of this union, the others being as follows: Rowland, born March 13, 1839, and died at the age of thirty-two; an infant, deceased; William, born September 17, 1844; Julia Ann, born February 15, 1847, died March 10, 1894; Hannah, born in January, 1849,
and now the wife of Columbus V. Wilson, a re- tired farmer. Mrs. Driskell died in 1853, and July 28, 1854, Mr. Driskell married Mrs. Eliza Anderson, who was born in Virginia in 1814, and died in 1900, leaving a son, Ephraim, born March 19, 1858.
Reared to farming and profiting by a practi- cal common-school education, George L. Dris- kell ably followed in his father's footsteps, and since has improved upon the work of his immediate ancestors. From the standpoint of comfort and advantage his rural home is the equal of those within the boundaries of the town, and modern improvements and ideas have penetrated every department of his large enterprise. He wields a practical influence in local affairs, is highly esteemed by his fellow agriculturists, and represents the all around successful and prosperous farmer of this fav- ored State.
Mr. Driskell married Miss Samantha Ann Mercer, daughter of Aaron and Mary (Cecil) Mercer, and who was born in Ohio in 1852. The Mercer family are early settlers of Illinois, Mr. Mercer having settled here soon after his arrival from Scotland, his death, and that of his wife, occurring here at an advanced age. He had a family of eight children-five sons and three daughters-namely: Martha; Solomon; William; Nancy, wife of Silas Wright, who, with her husband, died in the spring of 1886; James, a resident of Kokomo, Ind .; Joseph, who with his wife and child, died in 1871; Henry, a soldier of the Civil War, who died at Camp Butler, Ill., April 1, 1865; and Samantha Ann. Mr. and Mrs. Driskell have no children.
ISAAC EVERETT DUNCAN, general tinner, residing at North Race Street, Urbana, was born in Champaign County, Ill., August 2, 1875, the son of Ira M. and Martha G. (Clements) Duncan, the former born in Illinois, August 25, 1840, and the latter in Kentucky, Jaunary 29, 1850. In 1861 the father enlisted for one year, and was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term. He re-enlisted for three years in 1862 in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Vol- unteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war. He participated in twenty-two bat- tles as well as many skirmishes, was seriously wounded a number of times. He was in the hospital for three months with typhoid fever, having recovered from which he re-entered the service and was discharged in August, 1865,
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having served four years, six months, and nine- teen days. After the close of the war he en- gaged in farming, and later took up contracting and building, which he followed until his death, March 18, 1896. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and his wife, who survives him, is a highly esteemed resident of Urbana. Her parents, Isaac and Sarah Clem- ents, who died at the ages of thirty-five and sixty-eight years, respectively, are survived by six of the eight children that were born to them.
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Isaac Everett Duncan, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the public schools of Urbana and learned the trade of tinner with Hubbard & Sons, in whose employ he remained for four years. For seven years he was with J. D. Green, one year with Lindley & Co., and three years with F. C. Chenworth, all of Urbana. In May, 1904, he started in busi- ness for himself and has been very successful. Socially he is a member of the Modern Wood- men of America, and Champion Drill Team of the County. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church. On April 26, 1898, he was married to Anna E. Feely, a native of Champaign County, and daughter of James and Mary (White) Feely, who are highly respected residents of St. Joseph, Champaign County. To Mr. and Mrs. Duncan two children have been born, namely: Harry Leonard and Mary Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Duncan are members of the Christian Church.
JAMES EDWARDS was born in Shropshire, England, January 31, 1840, a son of George and Ann (Hollis) Edwards, the former of whom died in Peoria County in 1894; the mother's death occurred in Iowa. Mr. George Edwards was a farmer and coal operator in Peoria County, owning, at the time of his death, fifty-eight acres of land.
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James Edwards, when three years old, came to America with his parents, who located at New Orleans. He worked on the Mississippi River, finally locating in Iowa. After his mother's death his father moved to Peoria County, Ill., where James received his early education in the public schools during the winter months. The first school house in which he studied was an old log cabin having puncheon floors and furnished with slab seats and desks. After leaving school he engaged in farming, working for others until his mar-
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riage, when he started out for himself on Section 18, Philo Township, and there lived
HANNAH A. EDWARDS.
until 1902. In that year he moved to Cham- paign, having purchased a handsome and com- modious residence on Park Street in that city,
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where he now resides, devoting his time and attention to general farming.
On September 12, 1882, Mr. Edwards was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Albina Combs, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Platter) Combs. They have an adopted boy, Jay Henry. In his religious faith he supports the Church of Christ. Politically he is a stanch Democrat and has served as School Director in his home town.
CHARLES EICHHOSST was born in Cham- paign, Ill., July 22, 1860, son of Frederick and Hannah (Nofftz) Eichhosst, both natives of Germany. When the subject of this sketch was twelve years of age his parents moved to Sadorus, Champaign County, Ill., and settled on a farm. He remained on the home farm until he attained his twenty-second year, when he rented a farm near Pesotum and lived on it one year, and then removed to Nebraska, where he remained for two years on a farm. In 1902 he returned to Pesotum Township and purchased a farm comprising 116 1-2 acres, situated a quarter of a mile north of Pesotum, where he now resides.
In politics Mr. Eichhosst is a Democrat, and in religion, is connected with St. Peter's Luth- eran Church. On January 1, 1884, he was mar- ried to Matilda Balaschki, who was born in 1867, at Sadorus, Ill., where she was reared and educated.
CHARLES ENNIS, Supervisor of Tracks, Urbana, Ill., was born in Circleville, Ohio, December 9, 1872, the son of David and Mary Ennis, natives of America. After completing a public school education in September, 1895, Mr. Ennis began to work for the Peoria & Eastern Railroad, as section foreman at Ogden, being advanced to the position of Supervisor of Tracks between Urbana and Pekin, his work consisting in repairing and maintaining the roads and tracks covering the distance between these two points. His position gives him gen- eral supervision of the construction of new tracks and the repairing of old ones between points named.
|On 25th day of November, 1896, Mr. Ennis was married to Claudie Householder, of Ogden, and of this union two children have been born: Edward W. and May Blanche. In his political views, Mr. Ennis is a Republican. He
belongs to the Modern Woodmen, the Court of Honor and the Eagle fraternities.
J. W. EPPERSON was born in Tippecanoe County, Ind., August 30, 1852, the son of C. T. and Mary Ann (Laiton) Epperson, both of whom were natives of Indiana. They moved to Champaign County in 1857, and engaged in farming near Rantoul. The mother died in 1867, and the father, in 1885. J. W. Epperson was educated in the district schools of Cham- paign County, and later took up the vocation of farming, which he has since followed. He rents 212 acres of land, and for a number of years, had an active interest in a threshing machine and corn sheller.
Politically, Mr. Epperson is a Republican, has served as School Director for eight years, and was Road Commissioner for two years. In social affiliation he is a member of the Masonic Order. He and his family are consistent members of the Christian Church.
Mr. Epperson was married March 29, 1879, to Miss Nancy I. Job, whose parents were early settlers of Champaign County. To Mr. and Mrs. Epperson five children have been born, namely; Mary Ann, the wife of Joseph Hudson, a farmer; Edward F., who assists his father on the farm; William R., Clarence Cecil, and Irving Albert.
FREDERICK E. EUBELING .- No one can be named among Urbana people, who is looked upon as more interested in the welfare of the town and city, than is the subject of this sketch. For many years he has been influen- tial in the political and financial affairs of the township, particularly in connection with the office of Supervisor, which he has held for many years. While in no sense a sectional representative, where the interests of the county are involved, he never forgets the people who favor him with their confidence, nor is he unfaithful to any trust reposed in him.
Urbana has been Mr. Eubeling's home since 1853, when, as a lad of less than twelve years, he came with his father's family from the Kingdom of Germany. He was born near Lau- enburg, Prussia, November 18, 1841, whence the family emigrated to the United States. When they reached Champaign County, none of them understood a word of the English language. They had before them not only a strange
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land, but a strange language to be learned, but success attended them. One brother and two sisters, with their mother, constituted the family of Alexander Eubeling, the father of the subject of this sketch. They first took up their residence in a rude plank dwelling, upon what is now known as the Eubeling lot, on South Race street, Urbana. Here the father, a shoemaker by trade, not only housed his family, but set up his business, and con- tinued here to reside until prosperity enabled him to build upon the same lot, a more com- fortable home, where his wife passed away, and where he spent the remainder of his days. The father, by his industry and econ- omy, accumulated considerable property, and at his death was the owner of a busi- ness house on Main Street, where he had car- ried on his work as a shoemaker, and had developed into a general dealer in boots and shoes. Of the original family of Alexander Eubeling, the subject of this sketch is now the sole survivor.
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