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CHRISTOPHER HUDSON.
Texas, July 22, 1865, the document being de- livered to him at Chicago, Ill., at the close of the war. He was with his command and took part in all its movements and battles, except. while furloughed home for sixty days. He per- formed gallant service for the Government and the Nation, achieving a record to be proud of, both on the march and on fields of battle.
On April 18, 1875, Mr. Hudson was united in marriage to Mrs. Mary E. (Ditto) Umbanhower, of Urbana, and to them were born the following named children: Joseph, Allen and Effie May (twins), John W., Cecil Franklin, Gracie May (deceased), and two sons who died in infancy unnamed. Mr. Hudson at one time filled the
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office of School Director in Urbana, and was one of the most highly respected citizens of the county. His death occurred March 24, 1904.
Besides his widow the deceased leaves a daughter, Effie May, who resides in Urbana, and two sons, Joseph, of Urbana, and John, who is in the United States army at Fort Miles, near San Francisco, Cal.
PHILIP HUMMEL was born in Hessen- Darmstadt, Germany, June 13, 1815. His father, Peter Hummel, was a native of Germany. His
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grandfather on the paternal side was Matthias Hummel, the maternal granfather being Wen- dell Braun, both of whom were born in Ger- many. Philip Hummel was a pupil in the pub- lic schools of his native land, and worked with his father on a farm there until 1853, when he emigrated to America. He located in Kane County, Ill., where for two years, he worked as a laborer. He bought land in Kaneville, re- maining there until 1859, when he purchased 120 acres in East Bend Township, of which he was one of the early settlers. He has always been politically prominent as a Republican. As a citizen he is public spirited and is ever will-
ing to do anything in his power to advance the interests of his community. He contributed $1,000 towards securing a narrow-gauge rail- road through Champaign County, and, with a few of his fellow citizens, erected a school house.
In 1843 Mr. Hummel was married to Miss Lizzie Kill, a native of Germany, and they are the parents of two children,-Philip and Mary, -the latter being the wife of F. Bush. Mrs. Hummel died in 1848. Mr. Hummel's second wife was Miss Kate Bloss, also a native of Germany, by whom he had two children, Henry and Dora. The second Mrs. Hummel died in 1872. The present wife of Mr. Hummel was, formerly Mrs. Amelia Herzberg, who was born in Prussia, and is a daughter of Frederick Rusch. Her first husband was Herman Herz- berg, who died in 1870. Two children were born of Mr. Hummel's third union-Frank and Hannah.
DR. CHARLES ALEXANDER HUNT was a native of Trenton, N. J., where he was born April 15, 1819, and where he continued to reside until he was thrown upon the world by the death of his father, at the tender age of thirteen years. Then in company with some of the older members of his father's family, he migrated to Ohio, where, through the aid of friends and a determination and perseverance that knew no such thing as fail, he succeeded in obtaining a fine English and classical education. When he became of age he entered the office of Dr. Gil- lett, of Springfield, Ohio. His medical studies were completed at the Ohio College of Medi- cine, Cincinnati, where he graduated with high honors, March 6, 1845. He did not cease study upon his graduation, through all his life being a close student and extensive reader.
In 1847 Dr. Hunt was married to Isabella Hopkins and removed to the Wabash valley, where he resided and practiced his profession both in Indiana and Illinois until he and his family removed to Urbana in 1855. Here he entered into the drug business, which, as a member of the firms of Hunt, Sim & Lindley, and later of Hunt & Sim, he continued until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion. Although warmly attached to his profession, and ardently loving the scientific pursuits akin thereto, he in fact contracted a dislike for the details of medical practice. Abandoning the
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profession for a time, he did not, however, abandon his studies and investigations con- nected with medicine and surgery, but was constantly engaged, when he had leisure to do so, in reading or writing upon topics pertaining thereto. He often published in the medical journals and local papers his theses showing great learning and original research. He also left among his papers many manuscripts writ- ten upon scientific and political topics. He was a Corresponding Secretary of the Chicago Academy of Natural Science.
The first guns fired upon Fort Sumter, in 1861, stirred within him a patriotic fervor which determined his future. As soon as his business could be closed and an opportunity for his serv- ices offered, he entered the military service of the Government as Surgeon of the One Hun- dred and Twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteers. Here, by his faithfulness to the sick under his charge and his knowledge of the healing art, he warmly attached to himself the officers and soldiers of the regiment. Always conscientious in the discharge of duty he neither knew nor desired to know any other way to faithfully stand at his post of duty here, let it lead where it might. The eventful siege of Vicksburg drew his regiment, and with it its Surgeon, to the post of danger. His hospital was located at Haines' Bluff, on the Yazoo, that point so re- nowned for its miasma and bad water, where he spent several months in constant personal- care of the sick and wounded, during the sum- mer of 1863. This continued until, worn out by disease, hardships and incessant profes- sional labors, he started for his home and fam- ily, where he might recuperate his depleted system, or, if need be, die among friends; but the hope of again meeting the little ones at home and his faithful, loyal wife was never realized. Those in charge of the hospital boat which brought him north were compelled to leave him at the General Hospital at Mound City, on the 29th of July, in charge of Doctor Wardner, where he expired Sunday, August 2, 1863, only a few hours after the arrival of his wife, who, upon hearing of his illness, had hur- ried to his side. His neighbors at home were shocked by an unexpected dispatch from Mrs. Hunt announcing his death and the hour of her arrival with the remains. Sadly they met her at the north-bound train and bore the body of their esteemed friend to the home he so
much loved, and so much desired and expected to again visit.
His letters to his wife and friends, while in the service, breathed the most ardent attach- ment to home, family and friends, and often counted on the time when, duty fully done, he would turn his face homeward and again re- unite family ties and engage in the privileges and duties of citizenship. But, alas! this was not to be; and he peacefully yielded up his life, as did so many others, that his country might be saved. Sorrowfully were his remains laid to rest by admiring and sorrowing friends amid surroundings so much loved by him in life.
His wife, Mrs. Isabella Hunt, after a widow- hood of forty-two years, still survives him. His sons, Joseph E. and Cory A., both popular drug- gists, of Urbana, it will be remembered, died some years since in Urbana, greatly regretted. An only daughter, Sarah M., followed her father to the grave in 1865. One son, Lindley, alone survives.
Dr. Hunt was eminent in every sense. In the social circle, by his wit, his wisdom and his guileless attachment to his friends and asso- ciates, he warmed all hearts towards him. In the language of a prominent member of the medical staff, who was thrown much in his society, "He had no enemies and he deserved none." He was a leader in society, so far as taking the front in every movement for its ele- vation was concerned. In him the infant schools of the country had a faithful and very useful friend. The presence in the grounds of the Oregon Street School, Urbana, of so many fine shade-trees, is due to a movement started and fostered by Dr. Hunt, in the spring of 1860.
Dr. Hunt was an early friend of the slave and entered warmly into the movement for the for- mation of a party unfriendly to the extension of slavery. He served two terms as Mayor of Ur- bana. Upon political topics he wrote and pub- lished much, always in the most logical and convincing style. As a neighbor and a friend he was warm-hearted, obliging and sincere. We can do no better than to close with a quota- tion from an obituary notice published in a local paper of that day: "He was deeply learn- ed in his profession, an elaborate and profound thinker and writer. In all those qualities which go to make up the good and honored citizen,
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his life and character were rich; and in those qualities of heart and mind which endeared him strongly to his neighbors and friends, he abounded superlatively."
JEFFERSON HUSS .- The records of Cham- paign County show that in 1831, Mr. Huss entered lands in the Township of St. Joseph, about two miles north of what is now the vil- lage of Sidney. After building a home thereon and making some improvements, Mr. Huss yielded to his love for his childhood home, and in order to escape the rigors of the Illinois climate, returned to Kentucky, where he was born, and there spent several years. He then came back to Champaign County, and took up his permanent residence upon the lands which he entered, and which were among the earliest entries upon the Salt Fork.
In 1838, Mr. Huss was chosen as one of the three County Commissioners first elected by the people, his term of office being for three years. Again, in 1842, he was elected to the same office, and in which he served, in all, six years, greatly to the satisfaction of his constituency, then not very large.
Shortly after conting to this county Mr. Huss was married to Miss Street. He died in 1848, at the early age of forty-one years, at his home in the Salt Fork timber, leaving two sons, Wil- liam W. and James R., both of whom now re- side in Urbana. Some years after the death of Mr. Huss, his widow was married to F. W. Mattox, of Moultrie County, Ill. Mrs. Mattox died in 1863, at her home in Moultrie County. Soon thereafter her sons, having reached ma- turity, returned to Champaign County, and took possession of the land which their father had entered in 1831. This they have cultivated and improved for many years, until their farms are now among the most highly improved in the county.
Jefferson Huss and his two sons will long be remembered for their early labors in Cham- paign County, and for the prominent part taken by them in its local affairs.
GEORGE F. HYDE, postmaster and merchant, Rising Station, was born in Hensley Township, Champaign County, Ill., March 17, 1871, a son of Samuel A. and Catherine (Montgomery) Hyde, the former a native of Vigo County, Ind.,
and the latter of New Jersey. George F. Hyde's early education was acquired in the public schools, supplemented by a course in the Quincy Business College. His youth was spent on a farm where he remained until 1898. In that year he moved to Rising Station, where he opened a store with a stock of merchandise valued at $1,000, and he has since been success- fully engaged in that line of business. In poli- tics Mr. Hyde is a Republican, and in 1899 was appointed Postmaster of Rising Station, a posi- tion which he still holds. Socially he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
In, 1903 Mr. Hyde was married to Miss Mary Ada Mowry, who was born in Tazewell County, Ill., and educated in the public schools and the State University and Normal School.
SAMUEL A. HYDE was born in Vigo County, Ind., November 21, 1836, and received a com- mon-school education. His paternal grand- parents were Walter and Naomi (Popleton) Hyde, natives of Vermont. On the maternal side his grandparents were Benjamin and Eliza- beth (Nun) Franklin, who were born in New York. His parents, Samuel and Olive {Frank- lin) Hyde, were natives, respectively, of Ver- mont and New York. They were married in Vigo County, Ind., and resided there until 1844, when they moved to Vermilion County, Ill., and to Champaign in 1849, settling in Hensley town- ship.
At the outbreak of the war, in 1861, Samuel A. Hyde enlisted as a private and served three years and three months. Since then he has been a resident of Hensley Township, and has assisted in changing that part of the county from a wilderness to one of the most attractive agricultural districts in the country. Mr. Hyde purchased the farm on which he now lives, consisting of eighty acres, in 1859, and later added to his original purchase, until now he owns 219 acres, on which he raises corn and stock. Politically he is a Republican, and in his religious views, a Methodist.
Mr. Hyde was united in marriage January 21, 1865, to Miss Catherine Montgomery, a native of New Jersey, who received a common-school education in that State. To Mr. and Mrs. Hyde were born twelve children. Of these, Oren, George, Charles, Harry, Rosa, and Wilber are still living. Five died in infancy, and Lizzie died at the age of twenty-four years.
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JAMES K. ICE, druggist, Gifford, Ill., for the past eighteen years engaged in farming and stock-raising in Champaign County, is a native of Marion County, W. Va., where he was born April 8, 1844. On both sides of his family, Mr. Ice claimed pre-Revolutionary ancestry, and on the paternal side, longevity is a noticeable char- acteristic. His great-great-grandfather, Freder- ick Ice, who came from Prussia, Germany, long before the colonists began to rebel against English rule, brought with him a family, every member of which was killed by the Indians. This remote ancestor married, for his second wife, Mary Livingston, and he was 100 years old when Adam, the next in line of succession, was born. Frederick Ice lived to be 124 years old.
Adam Ice married Phoebe Bailes, and their son, Rawley, married Rachel Hayes. Oliver P. Ice, a son of Rawley, and the father of James K., was born in Marion County, W. Va., and married Sarah Ann Dent, a native of that county.
Sarah Ann Dent, the mother of James K., was the daughter of Dudley E. and Mahala (Berk- shire) Dent, natives of Monongalia County, W. Va. Dudley E. Dent was the son of Captain John Dent, of Revolutionary fame, who, with other members of his company, in 1784, built a block-house camp at Morgantown, W. Va., where he spent the remainder of his life. His wife was Margaret, daughter of Col. John Ev- ans, the latter being colonel of Dent's regiment during the Revolution. Dudley E. Dent served in the War of 1812. Major James B. Dent, of Augusta, Ark., is the second cousin of James K. Ice. Sarah Ann (Dent) Ice died when her son, James K., was eight years old, and there- after Oliver P. Ice married Martina Cunning- ham, who died June 29, 1894, at the age of seventy-nine years. Oliver P. Ice still lives, and is eighty-four years old.
James K. Ice received his mental training in the public schools of West Virginia, and ac- companied his father and step-mother to Illi- nois in 1860, settling on a farm in Champaign County, which was his home for years. On September 20, 1863, he was married, in Urbana, Ill., to Nancy J. Butcher, who was born in Monongalia County, W. Va., July 11, 1846, a daughter of William J. and Marinda (Ullom) Butcher. Of this union thirteen children have been born, three of whom died in infancy. Wil-
liam H. died at the age of nine years and David W. and Oliver Sterling each at the age of nine- teen years; Hortense is the wife of Rush Carley, of Piper City, Ill., Principal of City schools; Meldora, unmarried, an architect re- siding in Seattle, Wash., was the only woman graduate from the architectural department of the University of Illinois, in a class of 35, and was valedictorian of her class in 1897; Marinda, the wife of Earl Middleton, of Decatur, Ill., and is a graduate of the literary department of the University of Illinois, class of 1897; Laura Frances spent three years in the same institu- tion, and is now a teacher in the public schools of Butte, Mont .; Nellie Gertrude, a graduate of the Conservatory of Music, of Chicago, class of 1903, is a teacher of music and harmony in Seattle, Wash .; Constance is a graduate of the high school at Decatur, Ill., and is living at home; and Noel Carlyle is a graduate of the high school at Clifford, Champaign County, IIl.
Mr. Ice and his family are members of the Christian Church, and he is politically a Demo- crat. No better proof of his high aims and loyalty to the best traditions of his family, and to society and the home, need be forthcoming, than the training which Mr. Ice has accorded his children, or the positions of trust and re- sponsibility which their character and attain- ments enable them to fill. As a business man and farmer, his standing in the community is an enviable one, based upon ability, integrity, and perseverance.
WILLIAM J. ICKES was born in Adams County, Pa., May 31, 1839, the son of Jacob and Mary Ann (Mclaughlin) Ickes. The father was a millwright by trade, and in the early 'forties moved with his family to Massillon, Ohio, where he owned and operated a mill for ten years. There the subject of this sketch obtained his mental training in the public schools. The family moved to Knoxville, Knox County, Ill., then to Peoria County, Ill., whence, in 1868, William J. Ickes came to Champaign County, his father and family following in 1869. Jacob Ickes bought 160 acres on Section 29. Crittenden Township, which he sold later, and purchased ninety-seven acres near Tolono; and on that farm, both parents resided until their death.
William J. Ickes remained with his parents until 1865, when he bought eighty acres of land
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in Raymond Township. This he later sold, and purchased the 160 acre farm, on Section 22, Crittenden Township, upon which he now lives and follows general farming. Mr. Ickes en- listed in Company M, Eleventh Illinois Volun- teer Cavalry early in 1865, and served until the close of the war, his regiment being disbanded at Memphis, Tenn. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and has served as School Director. Socially, he is a member of the G. A. R.
Mr. Ickes was married June 27, 1865, to Annie Holten, and they are the parents of the fol- lowing named children: James; Jacob; Emma, wife of T. Burns; Nellie, who married James O'Neil; Charles; Frank; Daisy; Mary, who is a teacher in the public school; Harry, Susie and Frank. The two last named died in infancy.
AUGUSTUS IUNGERICH was born in Perry County, Pa., August 3, 1844, a son of Michael and Barbara Iungerich, the former a native of Germany, and the latter of Pennsylvania. The father died in 1866 at the age of eighty-seven years, the mother's death occurring in 1884. They were the parents of eight children, Augustus being the youngest.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Pennsylvania, and later was apprenticed to the cabinet-making and carpenter's trade. Although not of legal age at the outbreak of the Civil War, he offered his services and enlisted August 6, 1862, in Com- pany D, One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry, but on reaching Harris- burg was rejected on account of his youth. He soon after enlisted for nine months' service in Company I, One Hundred and Thirty-third Regi- ment Pennsylvania Infantry, re-enlisting in the spring of 1865, and serving until mustered out under general orders at the close of the war. Among the principal engagements in which he participated were the first battle of Fredericks- burg, and the battle of Chancellorsville. He passed through all the battles uninjured, and a the close of hostilities, returned to Pennsyl- vania.
In the fall of 1869 Mr. Iungerich moved to Champaign County, and for a time worked by the month on a farm, later renting land near Bondville. In 1883 he bought his present home- stead, consisting of 160 acres, located in Ran- toul Township, Champaign County, in the north- east quarter of Section 22. For this land he
paid $31.25 per acre, and has since refused $160 per acre. It took twenty years of hard and incessant work to bring his property to its present condition, all the improvements on the place, including a commodious residence, with barns and other out-buildings, having been made by himself or under his instructions; for its size, the farm is equal to any in the town- ship. 'He served as a member of the School Board for nine years. Socially he is a member of Seaver Post, No. 253, G. A. R., Rantoul.
Mr. Iungerich was married February 15, 1866, at Belleville, Mifflin County, Pa., to Elizabeth F., a daughter of John S. Young, and of this union four children have been born, namely: William, who is married and is engaged in sheep farming near Fort Morgan, Colo .; George, who is a farmer in Rantoul Township; Ella, wife of Harry Jarvis, of Pana, Ill., and Harry, who resides at home.
The father of Mrs. Iungerich was a Sergeant in the Forty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teer Infantry during the Civil War; was made a prisoner, and remained for nine months in Andersonville Prison. He was a carpenter by trade.
CHARLES R. IUNGERICH, Attorney, with offices over No. 10 Main Street, Champaign, was born in Perry County, Pa. His parents were Jacob and Elmira J. (Cox) Iungerich, both being natives of Pennsylvania where the father followed farming. Both parents were prominent members of the Lutheran Church. Jacob Iun- gerich died August 22, 1883, at the age of forty- eight years. His father, Michael Iungerich, was born near Amsterdam, Holland, but in the lat- ter part of the eighteenth century he came to America on account of the freedom to be en- joyed in this country, and settled in Pennsyl- vania. He lived to the advanced age of ninety- eight years, and his wife, whose maiden name was Barbara Tressler, died when over ninety years of age. They reared a large family, of whom but two are deceased. Mrs. Iungerich, the mother of the subject of this sketch, some three years after the death of Jacob Iungerich, intermarried with August Pfisterer in Indian- apolis, Ind., and they are now honored residents of Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs. Pfisterer is now past sixty-seven years of age and a member of the Lutheran Church. Her parents were Col. Wil- liam and Christina (Rider) Cox. who died at
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the ages of eighty-four and eighty-three years, respectively. They reared a large family of whom all but one are yet living. Charles R. is one of five children, namely; Anna B., now intermarried with Dr. Lyman Hall of Des Moines, Iowa; Cary T., a prominent farmer near Champaign, Ill., who married Miss Minnie Shafer of Mahomet, Ill., and they have two children, Eva and Mazie; Olive May, who died during the diphtheria epidemic of 1891 at the age of twelve years; and an unnamed infant who died in infancy.
Charles R. Iungerich was educated at the University of Illinois. He finished his law course in the office of Capt. Thomas J. Smith, of Champaign, was admitted to the bar Oc- tober 4, 1899, thereafter remaining with Capt. Smith for about one year. In the summer of 1900 he opened an office of his own and has there since followed his profession in which he has been very successful, having been en- gaged in many of the important cases that have come before the courts of his own county as well as adjoining counties. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and a communicant of the Lutheran Church. In politics Mr. Iunger- ich is a stanch Republican and has always taken an active part in politics both in the councils of the party and on the stump.
Mr. Iungerich was married in 1898 to Miss Ada B. Hays, a native of Iowa and a daughter of William and Amanda C. (Earle) Hays, and to Mr. and Mrs. Iungerich have been born two children, Viola and Hazel Eldora. Mrs. Iungerich is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church.
WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON, retired farm- er, Urbana, and early resident of Champaign County, is a native of Portsmouth City, Scioto County, Ohio, where he was born Oc- tober 21, 1852. His parents, John and Eliza- beth (Styles) Jackson, were born in Pennsyl- vania and Virginia, respectively, and the latter died in 1867. John Jackson was born in 1801, and died at the age of eighty-one years. In youth he learned the carpenter's trade in Ports- mouth, Ohio, and came with his family to Cham- paign County in 1854, when his son, William Henry, was two years old. After farming for a few years he moved to Urbana and worked at his trade, becoming, in time, a builder and con- tractor of note. He had few of the advantages
enjoyed by the builders of today, all work be- ing accomplished by hand, and requiring far more skill and patience. He was one of the builders of the old Methodist Episcopal church, to which denomination he and his wife belonged. During the Civil War (in 1863), he was em- ployed by the Government in Tennessee. First a Whig, and later a Republican, he transmitted his principles to his three sons, William Henry, James A. and Thomas E.
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