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On September 9, 1875, Mr. Wright was mar- ried to Miss Elizabethi C. Head of Bainbridge, Ohio, and they have three children, namely : Mamie, who is Mrs. John H. Mitchell of Salt Lake City, Utah: Leta, who is Mrs. James C. Hunter of Taylorville, who has a daughter, Helen ; and Verna, who is Mrs. Lyle E. Thomp- son of Mattoon, Ill., has a son, Lyle Wright. Mrs. Wright is a daughter of Doctor and Coluni- bia (Jones) Head. Doctor Head was a physi- cian at Macomb who died when Mrs. Wright was a child. Mr. Wright is a Democrat and served as a member of the city council of Tay- lorville for several years. In the Masonic fra- ternity, he is a member of the Mystic Shrine, belongs to the order of the Knights of Pythias and was a prime mover at the installation of the Pythian Orphan Home at Decatur, Ill., and is still a member of the board of control. He also belongs to the order of Elks, Moose, Cari- bon, and Knights of Khorassan, and was for sev- eral years major of the first battalion of the Second Illinois Regiment of the Uniform Ranks of the Knights of Pythias.
WURL, Ernest M., a dealer in hardware and plumbing supplies, and an undertaker of Mt. Auburn. is one of the substantial and reliable men of his community. He was born at Buffalo. N. Y., February 27, 1866, a son of William and Minnie (Vent) Wurl, natives of New York. The father conducted ferry boats and on one of his trips fell overboard and was drowned when Ernest M. Wurl was only five years old. After his death the mother moved to Altamont, Effing- ham County. Ill. There the grandfather died in 1878. following which event Ernest M. Wurl went to Logan County, Ill .. and worked on a farm for three years. He then began learning the carpenter trade at which he worked for four years at Altamont. Ill., and left that place for Springfield, Ill., where he worked at his trade for a year longer. Illiopolis, Ill., was his next place of location, and there he was en- gaged in a contracting business until 1903. In the meanwhile, in 1900, he had gone into an undertaking business. In 1903, Mr. Wnrl came to Mt. Auburn and embarked in a furniture and undertaking business and in 1905 added
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the handling of hardware, and in 19 tv added his plumbing and heating branch, and now owns the store building in which his business is lo- cated as well as several other pieces of city property.
On October 22. 1891, Mr. Wurl was married near Mt. Auburn to Amy Thaxton, who died that same year after two months of married life. On April 13. 1893, Mr. Wurl was married (sec- ond) to Caroline Schmidt, in Farina, Ill., where she was born February 11. 1873. They became the parents of five sons and one daughter, namely : Frederick, born March 20, 1894; Amy. born November 15, 1896: Arthur, born Decem- ber 13, 1899; Glenn, born October 26, 1902; Carl, born September 4, 1904: Elmer, born November 1, 1907. Amy was married to Jesse Augur of Mt. Auburn, on November 26, 1914. Mr. Wurl belongs to the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows and the Encampment, the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Circle, the Yeomen of America, and the Bankers and Merchants As- sociation. He is insured in the John Hancock Life Insurance Company, the Ridgely Accident Insurance Company, and the Peoria Life In- surance Company. Both Mr. and Mrs. Wurl are consistent members of the Christian Church. Mr. Wurl is a Democrat.
YEAMAN, Alvey, manager of the Roby Grain Company, at Roby, Ill., of which he was one of the organizers, is a man who has risen to his present standing in his community through his own merits, and well deserves the success which is attending him. In addition to capably attend- ing to the duties of his position with the above company, he operates 108 acres of land in San- gamon County, so his time is fully occupied. He was born in Sangamon County, January 27, 1858, a son of Albert and Katherine Yeaman. The father was a carpenter by trade.
Alvey Yeaman attended the common schools of his neighborhood, and worked as a farm hand until he was thirty-five years old, when he be- gan renting land in Sangamon Connty, later bnying his present farm of 108 acres, which he has since conducted. In 1913 he became man- ager of the Roby Elevator Company, of which he is also a director and stockholder. This com- pany is one of the sound institutions of its kind in the county. The elevator has a capacity of 12,000 bushels, and from November 1, 1915, to November 1. 1916, the company handled about 80,000 bushels of corn, 17,000 bushels of oats, and 6,000 bushels of wheat. When Mr. Yeaman took charge of this company, its affairs were in a tangle, as the liabilities totaled $3,000, but he has been able to put it on a paying basis, and pay good dividends to the stockholders.
In 1878 Mr. Yeaman was married in Missouri to Caroline Gensler, and they have the following children : William, who married Lola Coppell ; Nellie, who married J. H. Bullock as her first husband, was left at his death with two children, Helen and Ray. She married (second) Leslie Jacobs and they have two children, Alice and Mary ; Addie, who married William Sample, has
three children, Lloyd, Mabel and Incille ; Albert, who married Iva Hale, has four children, Albert, Milo, Eva and Lewis ; Frank, who married Maud Barnes, has a daughter, Alice; Alvey, Jr., wlio married Fern Barber, has four children, Lester, Ruth, Carrie and Lawrence; and Mary, who married Arthur Kaylor. Mr. Yeaman is a Repub- lican, and has served as supervisor, collector and assessor of Cooper Township, in Sangamon County, and is now judge of election. When he was married Mr. Yeaman had but $2.55 cash, and of it he gave the officiating clergyman $2, so he and his bride began their married life with a cash capital of fifty-five cents, but they had health, good spirits and faith in each other, and their expectations have been fully realized.
YOUNG, Hiram, division superintendent of the Peabody Coal Company of Taylorville, is one of the best instances this section affords of the selt made man. Ile was born at Mt. Joy, Pa .. October 31, 1868, a son of Amos K. and Barbara (Meckley) Young. The father was born near Mt. Joy. Pa., and the mother near Harrisburg. Pa. After his marriage the father engaged in truck farming on a large scale in his native state, and then moved to Girard County, Ill .. and buying land, continued to raise garden truck. Later he engaged in mining, so continu- ing until his death, August 8. 1904, at the age of fifty-eight years. The mother survives and makes her home at Pawnee, Ill.
Hiram Young spent his boyhood at Girard. Ill., and attended its schools. Until 1900, he was with his father in the office of the Girard Coal Company, and became its secretary and treas- urer. On January 1, 1900, however, he severed nis connections with that company to become superintendent of the Victor Coal Company at Pawnee, Ill., and held that position until 1905, when the Peabody Coal Company bought the Victor Coal Company, when Mr. Young was re- appointed superintendent, and so continued until 1908. In that year he went to Jewett, Texas, and opened up mining property at that point, organizing what was known as the Bear Gross Coal Company, of which he was treasurer and superintendent for eighteen months. He then sold and returned to the Peabody Coal Company and was vice-president for two years, when he was transferred to Pawnee, Ill., as superintend- ent of mines, and after a year was sent to Kin- caid and sunk and equipped No. 7 and S mines, and is now division superintendent of the mines at Pawnee and Nos. 7 and S at Kincaid, and the Christian County mine at Taylorville.
On November 10. 1895, Mr. Young was mar- ried to Miss Catherine Sedentop, a daughter of Lonis and Nora (Leonard) Sedentop, natives of Germany and Dublin, Ireland. Mrs. Young was born at Farmersville, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Young became the parents of seven children, as fol- iows: Ruth, Aldis. Glenn, Lester, Louis, Joseph- ine and Margaret. Fraternally Mr. Young is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. His political convictions make him a Republican. Not only is he experienced in his handling of mining prop-
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erties, but he is a well informed man on general topics, and a desirable addition to any commu- nity.
YOUNG, J. Garret, one of the retired farmers of Edinburg who give the city its prestige, was born in South Fork Township, November 21, 1841, a son of John and Cynthia ( Richardson) Young. The parents were born in Christian County, Ky., but came to Illinois at a very early day, locating in Taylorville Township, where they took up government land, improved it, and developed it into a valuable property. They made the trip to Illinois overland from Ken- tucky, and on this land the paternal grandpar- ents died. The father's initial land entry was 120 acres of land in South Fork Township, and on it the mother and three of the children passed away, but later the father married a second time, and died three years afterwards. In poli- tics he was a Whig, and in religious matters he was a Methodist.
J. Garret Young attended the schools of his native township, and spent his youth assisting his father on the farm. When the father died, he bought out the other heirs, and lived upon the homestead until 1904, when he moved to Edinburg. He still owns his 218 acre farm in South Fork Township. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and the Methodist Church holds his men- bership. In addition to his farm, Mr. Young owns a comfortable home in Edinburg, and sev- eral other residences and lots in this city.
On October 17, 1861, Mr. Young was married to Miss Elizabetli Council, a daughter of Acquilla and Sarah (Malugin) Council, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, who be- came early settlers of South Fork Township. The father died in this township in 1852, but the mother survived until she was eighty six years old. A further history of the Council family, one of the old ones of Christian County, is found elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Young had the following children: Anna, who married Millard Haines, a son of Fletcher IIaines of Bear Creek Township; and Luella, who married Benjamin Wolliver, and he died . August 30, 190S. Mrs. Haines has the follow - ing children : Dwight is deceased ; Glenn married Elsie Wanack and has a son. Laverne; Lyman married Chloe Redmond and they have a danglı- ter, Anna M. Mrs. Young died April 23, 1905, at the Young residence at Edinburg, when she was sixty-four years, eleven months and fourteen days old.
YOUNG, Lucian H., a progressive farmer of Taylorville Township, and one who has mate- rially assisted in raising the agricultural stand- ard in the county, was born in South Fork Township, six miles west of his present farm. February 28, 1846. a son of John and Cynthia ( Richardson) Young. The father was born in Kentucky, and the mother in Ohio, the former coming to Taylorville Township when a boy with his parents. Settlement was made near the South Fork Township line, on rented land, but
later removal was made over this line into South Fork Township, where 120 acres were bought. Here the father died at the age of forty-five years. The mother was brought by her parents from Ohio to South Fork Township, where she was married. She died in this town- ship when forty years old. The father was a Democrat, and both he and the mother were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
After completing his schooling, Lucian II. Young operated his father's farm until 1871, in which year he moved to his present property of 237 acres, which he had purchased some time before. Here he has since resided, and has made his farm one of the most valuable in the county.
On October 15, 1870, Mr. Young was married in South Fork Township to Miss Mary Margaret Goad, daughter of James Madison and Rebecca (Fisher) Goad, natives of Little Rock, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Young became the parents of four chil- dren, namely : Mrs. Ettie Gardner, Lucian M., Henry W. and Laverne Y., of Taylor- ville Township, who has the following children : Charles; Dessie, who died at the age of 2 years, and Grace. Mrs. Young died January 22, 1914, aged sixty-six years. In politics Mr. Young is a Republican. The Methodist Church holds his membership. In addition to his Christian County property, Mr. Young owns 160 acres of land in Meade County, Kan. He is a real Amer- ican and he takes great pride in the fact that his ancestors took part in the Revolutionary War.
YOUNG, OTTO F., manager of the Farmers Elevator Company of Osbornville, and formerly supervisor of Mt. Auburn Township, is one of the representative men of Christian County. He was born in Macon County, Ill., October 5, 1887. a son of Landaline and Augusta (Putsch) Young, both of whom were farming people of Christian County, but now deceased.
Otto F. Young attended the public schools of his neighborhood, and taught school for one year in District 81, Christian County, during 1905 and 1906. Mr. Young then became manager of the National Elevator Company of Indianapolis at Mt. Auburn, and held that position for eighteen months, coming to Osbornville in Sep- tember, 1908, to embark in a merchandise busi- ness. This he conducted very successfully until February 1, 1913, when he was made manager of the Osbornville Farmers Elevator Company. Since he has been identified with this company. its business has increased in a wonderful degree. Prior to his taking charge of it, there had been no dividends, but these are now paid promptly and yield a satisfactory return to the investors.
In politics a Democrat, Mr. Young was elected township clerk in the spring of 1909, and re- elected and served for two terms, when he was elected supervisor, to which office he was re- elected, and refused to stand for the third term. During the time he held office, his record was such that his constituents were loath to part with him, and urged him very strongly to accept
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the nomination, knowing that he would be elected, he always running far ahead of the ticket, but he felt that his private affairs needed all his care, and so refused. Mr. Young is ad- mittedly one of the ablest public men Christian County has produced, and his advice is often sought in matters political.
On June 26, 1912, Mr. Young was married in this county to Freda Furstenberg, a native of the county, and a daughter of Christopher and Mary Furstenberg. Mr. and Mrs. Young have two children : Velira R., who was born May 20, 1913; and Pauline N., who was born March 15, 1916. . Mr. Young belongs to Blue Mound Lodge 310, M. W. A., and Decatur Lodge No. 401, B. P. O. E. He is a member of the Catholic Church. Sound and reliable, Mr. Young has brought to bear common sense in the conduct of his business, just as he did in managing the affairs of office, and has succeeded in all he has undertaken.
ZAPF, John, a retired farmer of Edinburg, who formerly was extensively engaged in agricul- tural activities, was born at St. Louis, Mo., March 10, 1849, a son of John G. and Susan (Rapp) Zapf. The father was born near Baden, Germany, where the mother was also born, and there they were married. The father was a tailor by trade, having learned that calling in Germany, and after coming to the new world, worked at his trade for a num- ber of years at St. Louis, and later at Spring- field, where he went into business as a mier- chant tailor. Still later he sold his establish- ment and worked for Hall & Herrick for some
years, when he retired on account of increas- ing years. He survives although ninety years old. The mother died at Springfield in 1896. In politics the father was a Democrat, and he belonged to the German Lutheran Church.
Until he was five years old, John Zapf lived at St. Louis and then the family removal took him to Springfield, Ill., where he attended the schools of that city. Later he began working in a brick yard, and was also with a meat packer. In the meanwhile he learned the blacksmithing trade at Springfield under his uncle, Henry Van Horn, and worked at it for a time, when he came to May Township and worked at locksmithing for eight years. Mr. Zapf then traded his shop for eighty acres of land, and added to it forty acres and made many improvements, living on it until 1894, when he sold and bought his present farm of 146 acres in Buckhart Township, on which he lived until 1904, in which year he bought his present house and moved into Edinburg. The German Lutheran Church holds his member- ship.
In 1869 Mr. Zapf was married to Liddie Kryder, a daughter of Jonas and Mary (Ever- hart) Kryder, natives of Pennsylvania, who moved to Ohio, and later to Buckhart Town- ship, Christian County, where they bought land Subsequently removal was made to Springfield, Ill. After the death of the father, the mother was married to Joseph Baughman. Mr. and Mrs. Zapf have had the following children : John George. Adolph, Mary Eliza, Tilly, Catherine, Alva N., Letitia, Ernest and Frank M.
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