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children of the Grant family. She grew up in Ohio, but many years of her life have been passed in Champaign, where she still resides. Since her husband's death, she has traveled extensively, both in this country and in Europe, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Mattie Kin- caid Weston. She has also found much pleas- ure and profit in the study of the occult sciences, and her home has been a center of cultivated thought and research in this field of investigation. Her only surviving child is Mrs. Weston, also a student of the occult sciences, who is thoroughly in harmony with her mother in taste and thought. From childhood up, Mrs. Kincaid's tastes were artistic, and in early life, she executed some rare designs in wood carving. One of these, which evidences re- markable skill as a wood worker, is a facsimile of a famous piece of wood-carving in Hampton Court Palace, London, England. Mrs. Kincaid graduated from the Chautauqua Circle at Lake Chautauqua, when the late President Garfield and other distinguished personages were in at- tendance there, and her studies since have cov- ered a wide range in art and literature. She and her daughter have been collectors of curios and historical relics for many years, and have In their possession a veritable museum of quaint, interesting and beautiful things.
Mrs. Kincaid and her daughter, Mrs. Weston, are members of the National Society of Daugh- ยท ters of the American Revolution, of Washing- ton, D. C., and of the Vermont Society of Colo- nial Dames. They are entitled to membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants, which they are intending to join. They have continued their research along ancestral lines, to England, using the Winslow coat-of-arms as used by Governor Winslow, of Massachusetts. They have considered the Winslow arms of suf- ficient importance to have them reproduced in heraldic colors upon canvass, surrounded by an ebony frame of a special antique pattern, much used for arms a hundred and fifty to two hun- dred years ago.
Mrs. Weston's musical advantages, both vocal and instrumental, have been of quite a marked character. One of her vocal teachers was Sig- nor Elidoro de Campi, the noted operatic in- structor, at one time at the head of the National Conservatory of Music of New York City. A sufficient guarantee of the correctness of his training is the fact that his pupils are received
by the renowned maestro, Saniovanni of the Milan Conservatory (Italy) without further technical studies.
Charles Weston, Mrs. Weston's husband, graduated from the University of Illinois with the Class of '76, acting as its president. In later life, he was elected to the office of Audi- tor of State of Nebraska.
HARRY KING, a dealer in coal and feed, at No. 413 North Neil Street, Champaign, Ill., was born in Suffolk County, England, May 14, 1845, the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Borham) King.
The parents were natives of England, and both died there. The father was a blacksmith by trade, but followed the occupation of farm- ing for fifteen years before he retired. He died in 1900, at the age of eighty-two years, his wife's death having occurred in 1896, when she was about seventy-eight years old. Both were members of the Established Church.
Harry King is the eldest of three children; the others being Bessie (Mrs. J. L. Clover), who resides in England, and Walter, a clerk in the American Car & Foundry Company, in St. Louis, Mo. The subject of this sketch received his education in St. John's College, England. Later he taught in two private schools in Eng- land, and also prepared students for Rugby College. In 1866 he came to the United States, and secured a position as steward in the Erie Hotel, at Dunkirk, N. Y., where he remained for six months, then moving to Xenia, Ill., where he engaged in house painting. He next went to Rantoul, Ill., continuing in the same trade, and then removed to Gibson City, where he was engaged in the grain business for three or four years. From there he went to Farmer City, where he married. Later he went to Indianapolis, Ind., and from there, in 1886, to Champaign, where he has since remained.
In. 1886, Mr. King entered the employ of Fred P. Rush & Co., and remained with them for fifteen years. Their old elevator was torn down in 1889. On August 7, 1900, he engaged in his present business, dealing exclusively in coal and feed, and has been very successful.
In politics Mr. King is a Republican, and socially he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having passed all the chairs; has also been a member of the Encamp- ment and of the Patriarchs Militant, and has served five times as representative in the Grand
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Lodge of Illinois. In religion he is a Presby- terian, his wife being a member of the Lutheran Church.
Mr. King was first married July 4, 1878, to Elvira Jane Gibson, a native of Illinois, and daughter of John and Mary Gibson, both of whom are deceased. Two children were born of this union-Charles W., who assists his father in business, and Henry H., who died when two years old. Mrs. King, who was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church, died January 31, 1888, aged thirty-three years. On December 23, 1891, Mr. King took, as his second wife, Mary Lavina Weidlein, a native of Henry County, Ill., and a daughter of Andrew and Sarah Weidlein, who reside in Geneseo, Ill. Of this union five children have been born, namely: Jessie May, Nellie Hazel, Laura Ivy, Florence Myrtle and Henry Weidlein.
WESLEY EDWARD KING, attorney, with offices at 13 Main Street, Champaign, Ill., was born in Kinmundy, Marion County, Ill., May 4, 1876. His parents were William Lovejoy and Harriet S. (Forshee) King, the former of whom was born and reared at Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio., and whose father and mother were respectively of German and Scotch extraction. Wesley Edward King's father followed the occupation of a farmer and merchant in Kinmundy until 1892, when he re- tired from active life and moved to Champaign, dying there August 22, 1900, at the age of sixty- two years. He was one of six brothers who enlisted in the Union Army in response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers in April, 1861. Of the six brothers there is one survivor. They all passed safely through the war, with the exception of one who was severely wounded in battle. The five who have since died had their lives shortened by the hardships and exposure incident to army life. None was taken prisoner. William L. served as a cavalryman four years and three months. After the close of the war he settled in Marion County, Ill., and there married Harriet Salada Forshee, daughter of Colonel Thomas Wesley Forshee, M. D., who served as staff officer under General Rosecrans, and who, as a captain, was the first drill-master at Camp Chase, Colum- bus, Ohio, having previously served as a caval- ryman in the Mexican War. He married Har-
riet Hoar, a first cousin of the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. The subject's mother was born in Indiana and reared in Yellow Springs and Urbana, Ohio. She is fifty-five years of age. The death of Colonel Forshee occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. King, in Champaign, Ill., February 11, 1903, when seventy-eight years old. The father of our subject at his death left a widow and five children, namely: His widow, Harriet S. King; and children-Sarah A., who married L. C. Rohrbough; Charles W .; Wesley E .; Louis B., and Ethyl M.
Wesley E. King attended the common and high schools at Kinmundy, and then entered the University of Illinois. In the meantime having spent a year in the West, in 1897 he was grad- uated from the University with the degree of A. B. After leaving college he engaged in newspaper work, being connected with the "Daily Express," at Defiance, Ohio, as assistant editor, until April, 1898, when he resigned to recruit a company of volunteers, of which he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, O. N. G., by Governor Bushnell. He was mustered into the United States service at Camp Bushnell, Ohio., July 2, 1898, and served as Battalion Adjutant and Assistant Quartermaster at Chickamaugua, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn. He was then sent to Washington, later to New York, and subsequently to Havana, Cuba, where he served as Acting Regimental Adjutant under Lieutenant Colonel Bulger at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Returning to Defiance, Ohio, in May, 1899, he continued to do newspaper work for awhile, and then entered the law office of Captain T. J. Smith, at Champaign, in September, 1899. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1902, receiv- ing the degree of B. L. in the law department of the University of Illinois in June, 1902. On June 15, 1902, he began the practice of law in Champaign, where he has since contiued suc- cessfully to follow his profession.
Mr. King was married September 11, 1902, to Wilhelmina Marie Groweg, at Defiance, Ohio. She is a daughter of Adolph and Wilhelmina (Wattenberg) Groweg, both of whom were born and reared in Baden, Germany, and now reside in Defiance, Ohio. Mr. King is affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellows Orders, is a mem- ber of Alpha Tau Omega Greek Fraternity, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyter-
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ian Church, Champaign, residing at No. 17 Davidson Place.
JOHN C. KIRKPATRICK (deceased) was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, October 5, 1825, a son of James and Jane (Porter) Kirk- patrick, and a grandson of Benjamin Kirk- patrick, who was one of the earliest settlers in that State. James Kirkpatrick moved from Ohio to Indiana in 1843, and for many years was a large farmer and stock-raiser. The lat- ter years of his life were passed in Champaign County, Ill., and he died in St. Joseph Town- ship in 1872.
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John Kirkpatrick was trained to farming in his boyhood, and as a young man became in- terested with his father, who was then exten- sively engaged in buying and shipping cattle. In the winter of 1849 he purchased a large number of cattle which had been raised on the prairies of Western Illinois and Missouri, and following a custom which prevailed in those days, brought them to the rich corn-growing region of Champaign County to feed and fit them for the eastern market. These cattle were fed on the farm of the noted pioneer, Col. M. W. Busey, and while looking after
these interests, Mr. Kirkpatrick met Miss Mary C. Busey, a daughter of Colonel Busey, who" became his wife in October, 1849. During the following year they made their home in Indiana, but in the autumn of 1850 returned to Illinois and established their home on a 160-acre farm on which part of the city of Champaign has since been located. He built the first frame house in Champaign, shortly before the advent of the Illinois Central Railroad, and was one of the founders of the city. In all he laid out 100 acres in city lots, and sold to the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad Company the land on which the original town site was laid out. He was one of the remarkably successful agriculturists of this portion of Illinois in early days, being not only one of the largest landowners in this region, but one who was noted for the high state of cultivation of his farms and the super- ior quality of his cattle, horses, and other live stock.
During the earlier part of his life in Illinois Mr. Kirkpatrick resided in Champaign, after- wards living for twenty years on one of his farms in St. Joseph Township, and then re- turning to Champaign. Still later his home was in Urbana, where he died January 17, 1899. He was identified for a time with the merchandiz- ing interests of Urbana, but throughout his life his chief work was in the development of the agricultural welfare of this portion of the State, to which he largely contributed. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick were among the founders of the First Methodist Church of Urbana, in which he was a member and official to the end of his life. Mrs. Kirkpatrick's membership in the church at the present time has covered a period of fifty-two years. All of their children, eight in number, were baptized in this church, as were also several orphan children who had been reared and educated by them.
The following are the living children of this couple: Marion F., of Frankfort, Ind .; Albert J., living near Sellers, Champaign County; Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, of St. Joseph Township, Champaign County; Mrs. Hattie Barrickcow, of Frankfort, Ind .; Samuel A., of Urbana; Jesse, of St. Joseph, Champaign County; and Mrs. Fannie Dunseth, of Urbana. Another son, Dr. Charles S., died in Penfield, Ill., in 1890. His widow now resides in Urbana, and his son, John C., is being educated at the University
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of Illinois, preparatory to following the profes- sion formerly practiced by his father.
CHARLES O. KLEISS, merchant, Pesotum, Ill., was born in 1869, in Indiana, the son of George and Dora (Acker) Kleiss, natives of Alsace-Lorraine, France (now Germany). When he was three years old his parents moved to Crittenden Township, Champaign County, Ill., where his early mental training was obtained in the public schools. He remained at home until he reached his twenty-third year, and then went to Quaker Ridge, Douglas County, Ill., where he resided for three years, and then re- turned to Crittenden Township, where he spent the following three years in farming. At the end of that period he went to Pesotum, and was engaged in the implement business for two years, when he sold out and entered the livery business, in which he continued for one year. Disposing of this, he purchased from Gardner & Davis their lumber and implement concern, which he later sold to Julius Heinz. He then opened a grocery and meat market, which he has since successfully conducted, and is also extensively engaged in buying and selling Texas and North Dakota land.
In politics Mr. Kleiss is a Democrat and in religious opinion an adherent of the Catholic faith. In 1892 he was married to Rosa Behl, who was born in Woodford County, Ill., and received her schooling at Lourds, Ill. To Mr. and Mrs. Kleiss have been born the following named children: Clara, Bertha, Gertrude, Her- man, Francis and Henry.
WILLIAM KLEISS, grain dealer, Pesotum, Ill., was born in 1855, in Morris, Ripley County, Ind., where he received a common school edu- cation. His parents were George and Dora (Acker) Kleiss, natives of Alsace-Lorraine, France. In 1870, Mr. Kleiss moved with his parents from Indiana to Pesotum Township, Champaign County, Ill., where they settled on a farm near the town of Pesotum, and there remained for twenty-nine years. He then moved to Pesotum, where he engaged in the grain business, the firm name being Condon & Kleiss. Selling out his interest in the firm on March 1, 1905, together with his son-in-law, he pur- chased the elevator owned by J. E. Davis, and
now conducts the grain business under the firm name of Kleiss & Ludwig.
In politics, Mr. Kleiss is a Republican, and socially, belongs to the Yeomen of America. In Church membership he is a Catholic.
Mr. Kleiss was married in 1876 to Margaretta Behl, who was born in Germany, but received her mental training in Woodford County, Ill. Four children resulted from this union, namely: Margaretta Ludwig, Rosa Hettinger, Christina and Julia. Mrs. Kleiss died September 26, 1904.
EVERETT M. KNOWLTON, merchant, Ur- bana, Ill., was born in Stratton, Windham County, Vt., May 5, 1852. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the Leland and Gray Seminary at Townshend, Vt. He was subsequently employed for a time in the noted Estey organ factory, at Brattleboro, Vt. He came to Illinois in the fall of 1877 and estab- lished his home in Urbana, entering the employ of E. H. Cushman & Co., druggists. In 1885 he purchased this business, and two years later his brother-in-law, George M. Bennett, became associated with him in its conduct and manage- ment, as an equal partner. Since then the firm of Knowlton & Bennett has been among the leading ones in Champaign and is now (1904) one of the oldest business houses in the city.
Mr. Knowlton is a Baptist churchman, and for twenty years has been treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Urbana. In politics, he is a Republican. He is a member of the Ma- sonic order, affiliating with Urbana Command- ery No. 16, Knights Templar; Urbana Chapter No. 80, Royal Arch Masons; Urbana Council of Royal and Select Masters, and Urbana Lodge No. 157, of Master Masons. He was married in 1890 to Miss Hattie Bennett, a daughter of the pioneer, Aaron Bennett, mentioned elsewhere in these volumes. Their children are Miriam and Beth.
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN KONKEY was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and acquired his education in the public schools of his native city. In 1878 he came to America, and in 1890 located in Champaign, Ill., where he engaged in the cement contracting business, building cement walks and pavements, abutments for bridges, engine foundations, and everything in
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the line of cement construction. He has pur- chased machinery for building a factory, to be located in Champaign or Urbana, Ill., and will erect cement houses and buildings of all de- scriptions.
Mr. Konkey is a member of the Royal Arca- num, which he joined in Champaign, in 1904. The subject of this sketch is the father of three children,-Hans Christian, Ellen Amelia and William Joarchin,-all of whom reside at home. The two boys are working with their father, the eldest holding the position of foreman in the factory.
SAMUEL KOOGLER, who now resides at No. 719 West University Avenue, Champaign, Ill., in the enjoyment of a vigorous old age, was born February 14, 1826, in Greene County, Ohio, which at that time was mostly unsettled and afforded scanty facilities for schooling. He was a pupil in a log school house with puncheon floors, slab benches and greased paper windows. His early training well fitted him for pioneer life in Champaign County, where he settled in the year 1852. On his arrival here he shared in the hardships incident to the primitive condi- tion of the country. For the first four years, Mr. Koogler rented land but about the year 1856, availing himself of the offers made by the Illinois Central Railroad Company, he pur- chased land in Section 8, Scott Township, to which he subsequently added other tracts near by. Here he lived and worked out his fortune until about the year 1891, when he came to Champaign, where he has resided ever since.
Mr. Koogler has been married three times: the first time, to Miss Lucy Van Lilberg, who died in 1868 at their home in Scott Township, leaving three children,-Ellen, Belle and Lizzie.
The subject of this sketch has long been a member of the Methodis". Episcopal Church, both in Scott Township, and also in connection with the First Methodist Episcopal Church, of Champaign. He has been an active member and a liberal contributor to all the work of the church. For several years, he represented his township on the Board of Supervisors of Cham- paign County, and was considered a very use- ful and influential member. In politics, Mr. Koogler has always been connected with the Republican party.
JOSEPH KUHN was born on the Rhine, in Germany, April 19, 1837, and underwent his schooling in his native town. He is a son of Isaac and Sarah (Schriesheim) Kuhn, who were also natives of Germany. The father suc- cumbed to heat prostration at the age of forty- five years, the mother surviving until she was eighty-five years of age. Isaac Kuhn followed the vocation of a farmer and stock dealer. The grandfather, A. Kuhn, lived to the ripe old age of ninety-three years, while the grand- mother died at ninety-two years of age.
When Joseph Kuhn was still a young man he visited the large cities of Germany, and on wit- nessing the abuse of recruits in the German army, he resolved never to submit to such tyranny. Therefore, at the age of nineteen years, he emigrated to America, landing in Mis- sissippi, where he had a sister living. There he worked for his brother-in-law from 1857 to 1862, and during the latter year, was drafted into the Confederate army, with which he served about thirteen months. He then took "French leave" and, reaching a Federal outpost, he took the oath of allegiance, and. was shortly afterwards sent to New Orleans.
In 1863, Mr. Kuhn went to Lafayette, Ind., where he worked for a year and a half, and in the latter part of 1864, came to Champaign County. Here, in 1865, he opened a store on University Avenue, where the Walls Lumber Company is now situated. Two years later, he bought the building in which he is at pres- ent located, and has since carried on a retail business in gentlemen's clothing at No. 45 Main Street. He has fitted up another building, next door, which has doubled the capacity of his store, and has also purchased a third building, which he has remodeled, to make room for his rapidly increasing trade.
Mr. Kuhn was married, in 1865, to Miss Lena Loeb, of Cincinnati, who was also born on the Rhine, in Germany. Seven children have been born to them, as follows: Isaac, who is in partnership with his father, and relieves the latter of much of the business responsibility; Arthur, who is in business in Alabama; Sarah (Mrs. Morris Kaufman), who resides in North Dakota; Lida (Mrs. Charles G. Wolf), who lives in Ohio; Rudolph, a traveling salesman; Ro- sette (Mrs. A. Victor), of Marion, Ind., and Leo- pold, a resident of Portland, Oregon.
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In politics Mr. Kuhn advocates the principles of the Democratic party. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Mutual Aid, and the Society of P. B. L., for orphans. In religion he is a consistent member of the Jewish Church.
ANDREW J. LAMB (deceased) was born April 18, 1833, near Syracuse, N. Y., the son of Dudley and Lucy (Lull) Lamb, both natives of New York State. His father served witli distinc- tion in the Revolutionary Army, and died in 1834. The mother's death occurred in 1846. Andrew J., having received a meager education, was thrown on his own resources after the
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death of his parents. Taking up the industry of farming he followed that vocation until his marriage at Oswego, N. Y., on September 18, 1859, to Amanda J. Gillette, daughter of Eph- raim and Lydia (Slawson) Gillette, and two children were born to them. Florence, the older child, married a Mr. Smith, and her husband having died, in July, 1899, she married Isaiah Chamberlin, a butcher, and they became the parents of two children, Fred and Neva. George, the only son of the subject of this sketch, resides in Chicago.
In the fall of 1869 Mr. Lamb moved to Ver- mont, Fulton County, Ill., where he followed farming and bridge building, being employed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, from 1870 to 1883. On April 11, 1883, he came to Champaign County and purchased a farm of eighty acres in Brown Township, which he con- ducted very successfully until November, 1900, when he retired and moved to Fisher, Ill., where he resided until his death, which oc- curred May 29, 1903. He is interred in Willow Brook Cemetery, at Fisher, Ill. In politics Mr. Lamb was a Republican, and was Commissioner of Highways for twelve years. Socially he was a member of the I. O. O. F. and A. F. & A. M.
ERNEST H. LANGE, a well-known resident of Champaign, Ill., who is successfully engaged in the wholesale grocery business, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, November 2, 1858. He is & son of Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Lange, his father being a native of Hanover, Germany, and a farmer by occupation, who located in the edge of Hensley Township, Champaign County, in 1864. He first bought forty acres of land, to which he made additions, and carried on farm- ing until he moved to St. Louis, where he died at the age of 67 years.
Ernest H. Lange was deprived of the advan- tages of the public schools by an attack of sick- ness which lasted two years, and left him too much enfeebled to apply himself to study. In early manhood he came to Champaign, and con- ducted a cornsheller and threshing-machine. In 1889 he entered the employ of W. W. Walls, and had charge of that gentleman's lumber trade for three years. He then started in the gro- cery line at No. 114 North First Street, where he remained about four years. In 1898 he pur- chased a lot and erected the building in which he now carries on the wholesale grocery and commission business.
In September, 1882, Mr. Lange was married to Annie Minning, of Cleveland, Ohio. The children resulting from this union are: Martin, Hugo, Alma, Bennie G. and Mamie Lange. Religiously the family are members of the Ger- man Lutheran Church. Politically, Mr. Lange is a Republican.
The subject of this sketch is a man of super- ior business capacity, gives close attention to
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the affairs of his concern, and has acquired a good patronage.
BARNEY LAYTON, owner and proprietor of the Monarch Saloon & Billiard Hall, at 67 Mar- ket Street, Champaign, Ill., is a native of Greencastle, Ind., where he was born in 1853. His education was received in the public schools. He lived in Urbana from 1890 until 1904, but previous to the former date lived at Sullivan, Ill. Since 1904 he has lived in Cham- paign. He is interested also in the breeding, purchase and sale of high-grade horses. Mr. Layton is one of the old-time Odd-Fellows of this State, having joined the order at Loving- ton, Ill., as early as 1876, and is also identified with the Order of the Eagles. August 1, 1877, he was united in marriage to Ella Hamilton, of Lovington, Ill., and of this union there are two daughters: Maude Belle, now Mrs. Blue; and Jessie. Mr. Layton's residence is at 205 East White Street, Champaign.
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