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CHARLES F. GREEN was born in Schles- wig-Holstein, Germany, April 20, 1845, a son of Frederick and Magdalena Green. He re- ceived a good education in the German schools, and in 1872 emigrated to America, making
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Broadlands, Champaign County, Ill., his ob- jective point. He at first farmed the Culbert- son estate, and, in 1887, made his first purchase of land, consisting of eighty acres near Broad- lands. This he sold later and bought 190 acres in Homer Township, which he also dis- posed of. He then purchased his present farm, consisting of 218 acres of very valuable land on Section 19, Homer Township. On this he has erected a commodious residence, together with necessary outbuildings, and has all the modern machinery for conducting an up to date farm. In politics he is a Republican and has served as School Director. In religion he is a member of the German Lutheran Church.
In 1879 Mr. Green was united in marriage to Louisa Brubu, and to them six children have been born: Edward, William, Amiel, Theodore, Laura, and Elmar. Edward is en- gaged in farming on his own account. He married Miss Rosa Treese, and they have one son, Lyal, and a daughter named Pearl.
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JOHN GREIN (deceased) was born in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, June 27, 1835. and was educated in the public schools of his native town. In 1851 he came to America witli his parents, locating at Buffalo; N. Y., and six years later moved to Champaign County, III., taking up his residence in the city of Cham- paign, where he lived for twenty-four years, being in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. Early in life he learned the boat-building trade. In 1886 Mr. Grein rented land for farming, and in 1888 he pur- chased 200 acres of Dr. Samuel Birney, and added to his possessions until he had 725 acres, 360 of which are located in Urbana Township, 225 in Philo Township, and 140 in Champaign Township. Mr. Grein made a study of agricul- ture, and was one of the scientific farmers of Champaign County. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Cham- paign, and held all the offices in the subordi- nate lodge. Politically, he supported the Re- publican party. In his religious faith he was affiliated with St. Peter's Evangelical Church in Champaign, in which he was a trustee, and one of its earliest secretaries, having been the first to begin keeping the church records.
Mr. Grein was married October 20, 1857, to Miss Ann Mary, a daughter of Adam Hoffman, and they were the parents of the following
eleven children: Mary (Mrs. Charles Guldenf- fenning); Elizabeth, who died at the age of twenty years; John, a carpenter, of Cham- paign; William, railroad-bridge carpenter; Lottie (Mrs. Herman Ahrens), who lives on Fred Pellis' place; George and Fritz, at home; Carrie (Mrs. George Myers), of Philo, who re- sides on the father's farm; Henry and Charley, also at home; and Annie (Mrs. Frank Dill- man), of Savoy, Ill.
The parents of Mr. Grein were Conrad and Katherine (Greb) Grein, the former of whom died two years after arriving in Buffalo. The mother died in 1876, about the age of seventy- six years; both of them are buried in Buffalo. A sister, Mary Elizabeth, was married to Henry Lang, a wagon-maker, who is deceased. A brother, Christ Grein, resides in Arkansas.
John Grein died April 16, 1905, and was buried April 19, 1905, at Mount Hope Cemetery, Champaign, Ill. At the time of his death he was sixty-nine years, nine months and nine- teen days old.
S. D. GRESHAM, superintendent of the power plant at Urbana, Champaign County, Ill., is a native of Gentryville, Ind., and was born in 1855. Mr. Gresham was apprenticed to Robinson & Burr, machinists, in 1879, and in 1885, became a contracting electrician in Champaign. In March, 1903, he took charge of the plant at Urbana, and since then has in- stalled electrical power, supplying a sufficient amount of machinery and lights in shops and depots. His machine is a "Buckeye "of 400 horse- power, with six boilers of 100 horse-power each. The twenty-odd motors range from three to sixty horse-power, each, and the plant has its own water works, operating the coal chute, water pumping, and turn-table. Mr. Gresham controls the day run, and there are nine assistants. On May 4, 1882, Mr. Gresham married Myra Wilson, in Champaign, Ill., and they have one daughter, Nina Vivian. Mr. Gresham is a member of the Knights of Pythias.
WILLIAM GRIFFITH (deceased), who was formerly engaged in business in Champaign, Ill., was born in Ohio, March 17, 1831. He was first married to Mattie Bain, and of this union there was one child-Frank, who lives in Mis- souri. On October 6, 1885, Mr. Griffith was united in marriage to Martha (Calloway)
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Brownfield, a daughter of John and Lucinda (Low) Calloway, who had previously been married to Sylvester Brownfield, a native of Kentucky, by whom she had one child, Blanche, who lives with her mother. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Griffith resulted in four children, namely: Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Mullenline) ; William, Orpha (Mrs. Frank Blandow), and one who died in infancy.
Mrs. Griffith was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 4, 1846, and was brought to Champaign County by her parents when seven years old. Thence she went to Broadlands, Edgar County, Ill., and lived with a family there until she was married. Her mother died when Mrs. Griffith was three weeks old, and her fatlier in 1883, aged 65 years. His second wife was Clara Savers, who bore him eleven children, three of whom died in infancy.
J. O. GRINDLEY was born in Indiana, in 1856, and received his early mental training in the common schools of Champaign County, Ill. He followed farming with his father until he was twenty years old. In 1888 he started out for himself, and purchased 108 acres of land on Sections 20 and 26, in Mahomet Township. Besides this he owns eight lots and houses in Mahomet. His parents were John and Ann (Evans) Grindley, both of whom were natives of England. The father followed the vocation of a merchant for eight or ten years; and was a steward in the Methodist Church.
The wife of Mr. Grindley was formerly Miss Ella Mills, of Champaign, Ill.
DR. C. D. GULICK, physician and surgeon, No. 108 Race Street, Urbana, Ill., was born in Champaign City, November 27, 1876, a son of Jesse R. and Louisa Lusetta (Everett) Gulick, natives respectively of Ohio and Kentucky, both now being residents of Champaign. Tlie father is a retired attorney and is well and favorably known in Eastern Illinois. He has acceptably held public offices and has for many years been an active member of the Cham- paign County Bar. At this writing he is sixty- four years old and his wife fifty-six.
Dr. Gulick is one of seven children, of whom five are living He was educated in the country public schools, the high school of Champaign and the University of Illinois, where he re- ceived the degree of B. S. in 1897. He later studied medicine in a doctor's office for one
year, then taught one year, following which he attended a medical college for three years, being graduated 'in 1902 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Chicago, which is the department of medicine of the University of Illinois. From February to September, 1902, he served as Assistant Surgeon in the Hospi- tal at Wauwatosa, Wis. On November 17, 1902, Dr. Gulick commenced to practice regularly in Urbana, and has succeeded in his profession beyond his expectations. He is the examining physician for the Knights of the Maccabees, and is a Director of the American Friendly Society, of Champaign County. He is a member of the Champaign County Medical Society, of the State Medical Society, and the American Medical As- sociation. Socially he is a Mason and affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Urbana,
Dr. Gulick was married June 24, 1903, to Grace J. Alward, a native of Canton, III., and a daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Holcomb) Alward, The father is deceased, but the mother is an honored resident of Canton, III. In religion Dr. and Mrs. Gulick are members of the Baptist Church
CHARLES A. HAINES was born at Philadel- phia, Pa., August 8, 1835, and there attended the public schools. He is a son of Charles W. and Hannah A. (Bolt) Haines, also natives of . Philadelphia. The father was well educated, and for a number of years taught school in the Quaker City, where he was also employed as a bookkeeper. In 1857 he moved to Peoria, Ill., and was employed in the census office until 1861. He came to Champaign in 1871, and here his death occurred the following year. Of. his family of nine children, but two, Charles A. and James B., survive; the latter resides in Chicago. Their brother, Theodore, died in Andersonville Prison.
Charles A. Haines served an apprenticeship of five years in Philadelphia, where he learned the Brittania metal-ware trade. When twenty- two years of age he moved to Stark County, Ill., and from there to Peoria, where he was em- ployed for three years in a general merchan- dise store. In 1871 he purchased a farm in Compromise Township, where he also opened a general store, and served as Postmaster for sixteen years, having been first appointed to that position by President Grant. He operated his farm, and added to his land until he owned
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400 acres. He rented his lands in 1892, and bought 157 acres on Section 13, Champaign Township, where he has since been engaged in the dairy business, in which he has been unusu- ally successful. Politically, he is an ardent Re- publican.
Mr. Haines was united in marriage in 1863, to Miss Amelia Taylor, a native of Peoria County, Ill. Her parents came to that city from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1836. The father's death occurred in Peoria County in 1854; the mother died in 1885. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Haines, as follows: John B., Charles A., Jr., Frank B., Carrie A., Fred A., Isaac and Mary.
ALBERT T. HALL was born in Susquehanna County, Pa., June 27, 1835, and received his early mental training in the public schools of Waverly, N. Y. He is one of five children born to Heman and Rachel (Bates) Hill. The names of the others are as follows: Amanda L .; Lucy A., who married Henry Hay; Electa E., now Mrs. A. R. Hay; and Alma C., who became the wife of Jesse Burt. Mr. Hall's pa- ternal grandfather served through the Revo- lutionary War, and spent most of his life on a farm in Connecticut, his latter days, how- ever, being passed in Pennsylvania. Heman Hall located on the Susquehanna River while a young man, and there married Miss Bates. He and his wife were natives of Connecticut. When Albert T., was about six years old his father moved to Waverly, Tioga County, N. Y., and there followed the trade of blacksmithing, also conducting a hotel. He died at Ellistown, in January, 1851. He was widely known, and held many positions of trust. In 1853, Mrs. Hall and her family came to Champaign County, Ill., where she died in September, 1865. She was the first person interred in Mt. Hope Cemetery. She and her husband were earnest members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
After the death of his father, Albert T. Hall entered the employ of the New York & Erie Railroad Company, and in the spring of 1856, purchased from the Illinois Central Railroad Company, 120 acres of land in Colfax Township. At that time most of the land was composed of swamps, and that part of the country was in- fested with wolves, which made night hideous with their howls. Notwithstanding all these adverse conditions and their attendant hard-
ships, Mr. Hall and his two sisters lived there until the outbreak of the Civil War.
Soon after the first gun was fired at Fort Sumter, the subject of this sketch offered his services in the cause of his country, and en- listed in April, 1861, in Company I, Second Illinois Cavalry. They were not accepted, however, until the following August, when the company was mustered in for three years. He joined the company as an Orderly, was later commissioned Lieutenant, and finally promoted to the rank of Captain. His health failed, and he resigned in the spring of 1863, while sta- tioned above Vicksburg, and returned to Illi- nois, where he resumed farming. In 1869 he moved to Champaign, and at first engaged in the, fruit business. Subsequently, he opened a grocery store at the corner of Church and Neil Streets, which he successfully conducted until 1881, when he sold it. During the time he was in the grocery business, he resided 011 his fruit farm. He then accepted a position as traveling salesman for Franklin McVeagh & Co., of Chicago, and traveled for that firm through Central Illinois for nine years. He then returned to Champaign, and was engaged in the furniture and shoe business, on Main Street, until 1891, when he retired from active life. He still has large and profitable interests in Chicago and Champaign.
On August 1, 1893, Mr. Hall platted the A. T. Hall Addition to Champaign, which contained 12 1-2 acres. The first lot was sold for $200, later sales being made at $1,400. Mr. Hall be- longs to the Colonel Nodine Post, G. A. R., and to the B. P. O. E.
On December 29, 1864, Mr. Hall was married to Callie, a daughter of Jonathan Gilbert, of Greenville, Ohio. She died in October, 1879, and of the five children born to them, but one, Winfield Bates Hall, survives. Mr. Hall's sec- ond marriage was' to Mrs. Almira Roberts, of Roberts, Ill., a daughter of David Stateler, who was an old settler of Marshall County. By her first marriage Mrs. Hall had one child, Charles J. Roberts, of Champaign. Mr. Hall is an attendant upon services at the Presby- terian Church, of which his wife is a member. He has an attractive residence at the corner of Church and Randolph Streets.
JUSTIN S. HALL, retired farmer and educa- tor, Urbana, Champaign County, Ill., was born in Piscataquis County, Maine, in 1840, and re-
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moved with his parents to La Salle County, Ill., in 1848. He attended the district schools and a private school in La Salle County, and after a year spent at the Chicago University, taught school the winter before the outbreak of the Civil War. On August 7, 1862, he en- listed in Company B, One Hundred and Fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and at the end of seven months, was captured by John Morgan at the battle of Hartsville, one-tenth of his regiment having been killed or wounded in battle. He was paroled after a short time, and at the end of three months, was exchanged. Returning to his home, he taught school four years in La Salle County, two years in Liv- ingston County, and for the following six years, taught school during the winter and farmed during the summer, in Vermilion County. He came to Champaign County in 1892, and has since lived retired at No. 905 South Busey Street, Urbana.
As a Republican, Mr. Hall has taken a prom- inent part in the local campaigns of his party, wherever he has made his home, and he has served continuously in the City Council for nine years, to which he was again elected in 1904. He was also a member of the Board of Supervisors in Livingston and Vermilion Coun- ties.
Mr. Hall is a Baptist of long standing; he was Superintendent of the Sunday school while in Vermilion County, and holds the same position in Urbana. On January 28, 1869, he was married to Sarah M. Stanford, a daughter of Emery and Mary (Elliott) Stanford, and of this union four children have been born, namely: Emery S., a graduate of the Univer- sity of Illinois, and now an architect in Chi- cago; Elbridge J., who died at the age of three years; Ralph E., who died at the age of five years; and Grace Evalyn, a student in the University of Illinois.
FRED HAMMEL, retired farmer, was born in Prussia, Germany, April 27, 1850, a son of Fred and Amelia Hammel, who emigrated with their family to America in 1868 and settled in Jefferson County, Wis., in the fall of that year. Fred, Jr., moved to Champaign County, Ill., in 1871 and obtained employment in the con- struction' work of the Wabash Railroad, near the present village of Sidney. For some time he worked for various farmers, later, rented land in Tolono Township for six years, and in
1886, bought 80 acres of land in Ayers Town- ship. He now owns 320 acres of fine land in Homer Township, and each of his farms is well improved, and has upon it a good house, barns and other outhouses. The farms are rented to three of his sons, who carry on general farm- ing, as did Mr. Hammel before he retired from active life.
In politics, Mr. Hammel is a Democrat; has served six years as School Director in his Township, and was a member of the Drainage Commission on the Little Vermilion. He and his family are members of the German Luth- ern Church. He is one of the most intelligent and progressive German farmers of the com- munity.
Mr. Hammel was married January 16, 1875, to Miss Minnie Hartbauk, a daughter of Chris- topher Hartbauk, a native of Germany, who came to America in 1871. Of the sixteen chil- dren born to Mr. and Mrs. Hammel, twelve survive, namely: Augusta, wife of Charles Johns; William, a farmer of Homer Town- ship; Herman, a farmer; Bertha, wife of M. L. Hoover, a farmer of Indiana; Frederick, a farmer; Minnie, who married Carl Puiske, a farmer of Indiana; Lucy, the wife of Thomas Lucas, a farmer; Mary and Hattie, who live at home; and Charles, Lewis and Martin. Mr. Hammel erected the pleasant home in which he now resides in 1903.
HERMAN HAMMEL was born at Tolono, Ill., September 24, 1876, the son of Frederick and Minnie (Hartbauk) Hammel, both natives of Germany. They came to Illinois in 1871 and settled near Tolono, where for a time the father was engaged in railroad work. Later he took up farming, which he has since most successfully followed, and now owns 327 acres of very rich land. To him and his wife were born fifteen children, eleven of whom survive, Herman being the third member of the family in order of birth.
Herman Hammel, in his youth, attended the public schools of Champaign County, and sub- sequently began operating 100 acres of his father's farm, on Section 32, Homer Town- ship. Under his able and intelligent manage- ment the farm is highly cultivated and pro- duces excellent crops annually. He is a mem- ber of the Lutheran Church, and socially is affiliated with the
Modern Woodmen of America.
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On September 10, 1902, Mr. Hammel was married to Matilda Euhling, of Afton, Wis., and they have one child, Casper. Mrs. Hammel has a daughter, Emma Vehling, by a former marriage.
JOHN L. HARDESTY, editor and manager, and part owner, of the "Rantoul Weekly Press," was born in Elkhart, Ill., June 25. 1869, and was educated in the public schools of Bloomington, and at the Illinois State Nor- mal School.
Mr. Hardesty learned the printing busi- ness in Bloomington, and for the follow- ing eight years was employed by the Pan- tagraph Printing and Stationery Company. For two years he was engaged on the University Press, connected with Wesleyan University, and in 1902, assumed the position he now oc- cupies. In 1894 Mr. Hardesty was married to Maud B. Keller, of Bloomington, Ill.
WILBUR F. HARDY, engaged in the coal, seed and agricultural implement business, No. 36 East University Avenue, Champaign, was born in Waldo County, Maine, August 24, 1835, the son of Orley and Sylvia (Stearns) Hardy. His parents were both natives of New Hamp- shire, where the father followed the trade of cabinet-making until 1837, when with his fam- ily he moved to New York State, remaining there until 1843, and then removing to Clark County, Ky. While residing in the latter State Wilbur F. carried the mail on horseback from Kiddville to Richmond for four years-1851 to 1855. In the latter year he went to Erie County, Ohio, and there attended school during the winter months, worked one summer on a farm, and then returned to Kentucky, where he worked in a cabinet shop with his father. The following summer he again engaged in farming, and in April, 1858, he came to Cham- paign County, Ill., where he has since been a resident. He first engaged in farming, but owing to illness was obliged to abandon it, and then taught school for two years. In 1875 he began his present business in which he is one of the pioneers. During his residence in Cham- paign he has seen some wonderful changes. He was one of the Aldermen of the city for six years.
Mr. Hardy was first married in 1860, to Lucretia J. Berkshire, a native of Kentucky and daughter of Greenbury and Elizabeth
(Basket) Berkshire, both of whom are de- ceased. Of this marriage was born one child, Sylvia, now Mrs. George Sendeburgh, who assists her father in his store. She has one child, Edith. Mrs. Hardy died three years after her marriage, at the age of twenty-one years. Fifteen years later Mr. Hardy was married on February 23, 1879, to Mary Chapin, a native of Ohio, who was born February 22, 1842, and died October 26, 1900, at the age of fifty-eight years. She was a member of the Congregational Church, President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, one of the Directors of the Hospital Board, a Director of the Library Association, and an active worker in the Dorcas Society and the Kinder- garten school. She was deeply interested in all affairs and enterprises of the town which were for the betterment of the community, and her good influences are still felt in this vicin- ity.
W. F. Hardy was one of a family of six children, namely: Manlius, a farmer in Ken- tucky; Wilbur F .; Eliza, who married William A. Hampton and died at the age of fifty years; Eunice, who was unmarried and died when twenty-three years old; Eldad, who served in the Seventy-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and died in 1877; Isaiah, who resides in Ur- bana, where he is employed in the Big Four shops. Mr. Hardy has been fairly successful in business, owns 565 acres of land and two dwellings, besides his business house in Cham- paign, and owes no man a dollar.
DELLE E. HARRIS, who is engaged in the confectionery business at No. 61 Neil Street, Champaign, Ill., is a native of Normal, Ill., where he was born June 16, 1870. His parents, Zera W. and Julia A. Harris, were also born in Illinois, and his maternal grandmother, Mary A. Dyke, was born in Kentucky. After com- pleting his education in the public schools of Decatur, Ill., Mr. Harris embarked in the con- fectionery business in the same town in June, 1887, continuing the enterprise until January, 1891. On July 4, 1891, he opened his present business in Champaign, attaining to the suc- cess justified by his energy and good business judgment. Mr. Harris married Fannie E. Roberts, who was born in Illinois and edu- cated in Champaign County, the ceremony tak- ing place December 8, 1898. Politically a Re- publican, he is fraternally connected with the
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Benevolent Protective Order of Eiks, and the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Harris has never held or desired public office, and he has cause for gratitude in a strong constitution and in the fact that he has never suffered any serious ailment or accident in his life.
DR. WILLIAM PATRICK HARTFORD, oste- opathist physician, was born in Henderson County, Ill., December 6, 1856, a son of Win- field Scott Hartford and Lucetta Rebecca (Thomas) Hartford. His great-great grand- father, Patrick Hartford, came from Belfast, Ireland, about the year 1740, when he was a mere boy and afterwards served as a British officer during the French-Indian War in 1763. He had four sons: John, Robert, George and Thomas Hartford, who participated in the Revolutionary War. William Patrick Hart- ford, son of John Hartford (Dr. Hartford's grandfather), served in the War of 1812 under General Winfield Scott, and fought at the battle of Lundy's Lane. Isaac James Hartford, son of William Patrick Hartford and an uncle of the Doctor, was a soldier and veteran of the Civil War, and A. J. Hartford, a brother of the Doctor, served in the Spanish-American War. The Hartfords are of Scotch-Irish origin.
Dr. Hartford's father, Winfield S. Hartford, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio. At the early age of seven years, his father, William Patrick Hartford, removed to Union County, Ohio, where he was raised, and married Lu- cetta R. Thomas in October, 1846. He imme- diately came to Henderson County, Ill., and lived on a farm where the Doctor was born. At the close of the Civil War, the Doctor's father removed from Henderson County, Ill., to Adair County, Mo., where the Doctor grew to manhood and was trained to agricultural pursuits. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Adair County, was grad- uated from the State Normal School at Kirks- ville, Mo., and later, from the Kirksville Mer- cantile College. After completing his studies he taught in the high school for three years, and was elected County Superintendent of Schools of Adair County. At the close of his term of office, he accepted the position of Superintendent of City Schools in St. Edward, Neb., which he filled for two years. He was then elected for the third year, and was also nominated by the Republicans for County Su- perintendent of Schools in Boone County, Neb.,
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