Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Hancock County, Volume II, Part 31

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897. cn; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913. cn; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928. 4n; Scofield, Charles J. (Charles Josiah), 1853- 4n
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1174

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The directors are: J. U. Vaughn, Suffield Blender, James Babcock, James H. Vass, Fred B. Miller, C. A. Eckles, Harry S. Rand, Ruth Maynard and S. G. Rowe. The bank has made a steady growth and is a sound and reliable banking institution.

The report of the condition of this bank, made on June 30, 1920, shows total resources of $399,906.37, made up of the following items: capital stock, $25,000; surplus, $20,000; un- divided profits (net), $1,167.29; interest col- lected and not earned, $400; deposits, $231,139,- OS ; bills payable and rediscounts, $40,000; U. S. Bonds, deposit account, $82,200.

BASCO STATE BANK

This bank was organized as a private bank on Nov. 4, 1904, by A. P. Gay, G. F. Warner, Otho N. Gay, L. S. Crossland and Leo C. Crossland. On August 15, 1905, the above named parties sold the bank to local parties, namely, Joseph V. Manussier, Albert Naegelin, Wm. Rankin, M. D., L. S. Crossland, L. C. Crossland and E. B. Simmons. The bank continued under this last copartnership until about the first of May, 1907, when the Crosslands sold their interest and F. J. Reu became a partner.

On August 1, 1909, the bank was sold to the stockholders of The Dime Savings Bank of Carthage, Ill., and continued business as a pri- vate bank up to Dec. 11, 1919, when the bank was reorganized and incorporated as a State Bank, and was given the name of Basco State Bank. When the bank was first organized as a private bank it had a capital of $10,000; the present capital stock is $25,000.

The officers of the first organization were:

A. P. Gay, president, and L. S. Crossland, cash- ier. After the local people bought the bank J. V. Manussier was made president, Albert Naege- lin, cashier, and F. J. Reu, assistant cashier. When the Carthage people bought the bank John W. Lane was made president, John Duffie, vice- president, Albert Naegelin, cashier, and F. J. Reu, assistant cashier. The present officers of the bank are as follows : O. F. Berry, president, R. W. Saer, vice-president, M. P. Berry, cashier, Albert Naegelin, assistant cashier, and Roscoe Arthur, bookkeeper.

HARMONY STATE BANK OF DENVER

This bank was originally organized as a private bank on December 17, 1909, and was named Harmony· Bank of Denver. Its origina- tors were the stockholders of The Dime Savings Bank at Carthage, Illinois. J. W. Shepherd was elected its first president, and Jas. I. Hen- dricks, its vice-president and they continued to serve as such officers until the bank was reor- ganized as a State Bank. G. B. Miller was elected cashier, and served for a number of years, when he came to Carthage, and Walter A. Klippert was elected cashier and held that office until the bank was reorganized.

In 1919 the bank was reorganized as a state bank, and named Harmony State Bank. The present capital of the bank is $25,000, and its deposits are a little over $100,000. The present stockholders of the bank are practically the same as those of the private bank. O. F. Berry was elected president; R. W. Saer, vice-presi- dent ; M. P. Berry, cashier ; and Walter A. Klip- pert, assistant cashier. These are its present officers. Mr. Klippert, as its assistant cashier, has the active management of the bank.

This bank was organized at the urgent request of a large number of citizens of Denver and vicinity, who felt that they needed and who wanted a bank in their little city. It has al- ways been anxious to help its patrons, and has built up a good business along those lines, and stands for all that is needed in Denver and vicinity.

FARMERS STATE BANK OF WARSAW

This bank was originally organized as the Farmers National Bank of Warsaw, and opened its doors as such for business on the morning

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of Feb. 11, 1911, and continued to transact busi- ness as a national bank until Oct. 11, 1919. when the bank, having been converted into a state bank, began business under its present name of Farmers State Bank of Warsaw. At the time of the first organization J. C. McMahan was elected president, Jacob Schmitz, first vice- president, J. S. Prosser, second vice-president, and John M. Hungate, cashier. John M. Hun- gate is a son of John H. Hungate of La Harpe, president of the First National Bank of La Harpe.

The present officers of the bank are J. C. Crawford, president, Jacob Schmitz, vice-presi- dent, Fred Schildman, cashier, Henry Zobel, as- sistant cashier, and Harry Nelson, teller. The present directors are J. C. Crawford, Jacob Schmitz, Fred Schildman, Henry Zobel, Harry Nelson, W. H. Gray and J. W. Kirkpatrick. Arthur Paar is bookkeeper and Grace Crenshaw is stenographer.

The capital is $25,000, which is the same as the original capital, but the surplus of $2,500 has been increased to $10,000 by setting aside part of the earnings of the bank. The bank now has deposits exceeding $400,000, and re- sources exceeding $453,700. A fine building is to be erected by this bank for its permanent home.

FARMERS BANK OF STILLWELL

This bank was organized in the spring of 1911, and commenced business on Sept. 1 of that year in the old post-office building. . When the large concrete building of the Stillwell Improve- ment Company was completed in July, 1912, the bank occupied the room on the first floor at the north end of the building, which room had been especially designed and built for the bank. This room is still occupied by the bank.

The Farmers Bank is a branch of the Farmers Bank of Bowen, and has always been operated as such, and the officers of the two banks have been the same, with the exception of the cashier and assistant. William Crear has been cashier at all times. H. Glen Tanner has acted as as- sistant cashier, but has not been with the bank all the time until the last year. The people of the community have shown by a liberal patron- age their appreciation of this effort to supply one of the community's needs.

FARMERS EXCHANGE BANK OF ELVASTON

This bank was organized as a private bank on March 12, 1912, with a capital of $10,000, and with the following officers : J. L. Baldon, presi- dent, George M. Thomas, vice-president, J. W. Cochran, cashier. The bank began doing busi- ness on July 18, 1912, in a new building which had been erected for that purpose. W. L. Price was elected vice-president in Jan., 1913. In April, 1918, J. W. Cochran resigned as cashier, and G. S. Reese was elected cashier and served until July, 1918, when he resigned to accept a position at Hamilton. Thereupon C. B. Garard was elected cashier, and he still holds that office in the bank.

The bank was reorganized as a state bank on May 1, 1919, with a capital of $25,000 and surplus of $5,000, and with the following offi- cers : J. L. Baldon, president, W. L. Price, vice- president, C. B. Garard, cashier, and Z. M. Cald- well, assistant cashier. The report of May 4, 1920, showed deposits of $150,544.04 and total resources of $185,102.09.

FARMERS STATE BANK OF WEST POINT 1

The Farmers State Bank was organized dur- ing the winter months of 1918-19, and began the transaction of business on April 7, 1919, with a paid up capital of $30,000. In the sale of the three hundred shares of capital stock at the time of the organization of the bank one hun- dred of the farmers and business men of West Point and vicinity became purchasers of stock.

This bank, although in business for a little more than one year only, has made commendable progress in a business way, enjoying a steady gain in deposits and a broadening of its busi- ness friendships.

The officers are the following : Milo McMillan, president, W. G. Barnard and Fred Haas, vice- presidents, V. A. Tripp, cashier, and W. R. Markley, assistant cashier. The directors are Johnson Nelson, H. W. Mensendick, E. E. Short, L. E. Simmons, E. L. Charpentier and William Rupp, Jr.

STATE BANK OF COLUSA

In pursuance of a general desire of the people of Colusa and vicinity for a banking institution of their own, George W. Singleton and C. F.

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Bross were instructed to solicit subscriptions for stock for a bank to be known as the State Bank of Colusa, and in a short time the whole of the $25,000 of capital stock had been sub- scribed.

At a meeting of the stockholders on June 2, 1919, the following directors were elected': George W. Singleton, Jesse Lionberger, Jacob Zimmerlin, W. J. Singleton, F. N. Casburn, Wil- liam Davis, J. M. Fisher, C. F. Bross and O. T. Pettit.

The board of directors elected the following officers : George W. Singleton, president, Jesse Lionberger, vice-president, and O. T. Pettit, cashier.

Thereupon it became necessary to erect a suit- able building for the bank, and a committee was appointed for that purpose. There were un- avoidable delays in procuring material. It had been intended to open the bank for business on Sept. 1, 1919, but the building was not ready for occupancy until Dec. 22 of that year, at which time the doors of the bank were open for business. The bank building is a two-story structure, built of brick and trimmed in Bedford stone. It is a substantial building and presents an attractive appearance. This bank received the loyal sup- port of the community from the beginning. On June 10, 1920, the resources of the bank amounted to $SS,614.04, and there were indi- vidual deposits of $62,833.11 and a cash reserve of $28,459.97.

MARINE TRUST COMPANY OF CARTHAGE

It was through the conception and efforts of Hon. William H. Hartzell of Carthage, that the Marine Trust Company was organized. Through his solicitation Charles R. Martin, S. D. Stoner, L. M. Loomis, D. B. Brumback, W. W. Lawless, R. W. Ferris and John T. Thornber applied to the auditor for authority to organize this trust company, and the auditor granted the desired permission on Aug. 4, 1919. Mr. Hartzell was active in securing subscriptions for the capital stock of $100,000 consisting of 1,000 shares of $100 each. By Sept. 3, 1919, the stock was fully subscribed, and a meeting of the stockholders was held at Carthage, for the election of di- rectors to serve for one year and until their successors should be elected. At this meeting L. M. Loomis, R. W. Ferris, W. W. Lawless, S. D. Stoner, Charles R. Martin, J. A. Thompson

and D. B. Brumback were elected as such di- rectors, and at this meeting of the stockholders it was determined that there should be created a surplus of $25,000, by each stockholder paying $25 additional for each share of stock subscribed by him. After the adjournment of the stock- holders' meeting, the directors convened and pro- ceeded to organize and elected S. D. Stoner of Burnside, president, C. R. Martin of Carthage, vice-president, and Leo L. Helfrich, of Carthage, formerly assistant cashier of the Exchange Bank of Cherrill, Sholl and Company, cashier. The seven men who constitute the first board of directors have spent practically all their lives in Hancock County, and have shown themselves successful business men, and a successful future for this bank is indicated in their leadership.

Owing to the delay in obtaining building ma- terial for the new building located on the south- west corner of the court house square, in the City of Carthage, the bank was unable to open its doors for business until April 1, 1920. In the meantime Bertus J. Ufkes, a returned sol- dier from overseas, was selected as the assistant cashier of the bank. On the opening day, the new institution was visited by many people from the county, as well as residents of the City of Carthage. Thirty days from the date of the opening of the bank for business, it had deposits of more than $120,000. The stock was taken by more than 100 residents of the City of Carthage and of Hancock County, the principal portion thereof being distributed throughout the county generally. The institution is not merely local, but is rapidly growing and attracting the atten- tion of financial interests throughout the county.

This bank does a general commercial banking business, as well as a farm mortgage loan busi- ness, and is authorized to qualify in a trust capacity.

STATE BANK OF ADRIAN

This bank was organized in Sept., 1919, with J. D. Whitcomb as president, Charles Anguish as vice-president, A. C. Booz as cashier and Ed- gar E. Rahn as assistant cashier. These are also the present officers of the bank. The di- rectors are the following : J. D. Whitcomb, J. A. Whitcomb, Charles Anguish, Frank Anguish, A. C. Booz, Lee Siegfried, T. G. Kelley, M. G. Lambert, J. W. Williams, Fred Salm, Jr., and J. C. Wolfenbarger.

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The capital stock is $35,000. The statement of June 30, 1920, shows deposits of approxi- mately $109,000 and bills payable to the amount of $24,000. This makes the total liabilities about $168,000. The same report shows loans and discounts approximating $134,000, bank building valued at $18,000, and cash and amounts due from other banks aggregating $16,000, making total resources of about $168,000.

This bank owns its building, which was erected at an expense of about $18,000. It is a one-story building, and, although not the largest banking building in the county, it is one of the most complete and is thoroughly equipped for the banking business. This bank serves one of the best farming communities in the county and is in the hands of competent and conservative men.

NIOTA STATE BANK

This bank was chartered on Feb. 20, 1920, and was opened for business on the 23d. It has en- joyed a steady growth during the brief period of its existence, and is filling the need of a home bank for Appanoose and Pontoosuc townships.

The officers and directors are successful farm- ers, practical business men and experienced bankers. John Jackson is president, J. M. Fisher, vice-president, and J. H. Mann, cashier, and in addition to these there are other di- rectors as follows : J. A. Hutson, Herman Juet- temeyer, Herman Pollmiller, W. J. Singleton and A. J. Schneider.

The report of July 1, 1920, shows deposits of $27,997.45, and resources of $50,571.64. On the letter-head of the bank, the sum of $20,000 is given as capital and surplus.

CHAPTER VIII

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

IMPORTANCE OF THE PROFESSION-ITS AGE-THE CHARACTER OF ITS MEMBERS-ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCE-MODES OF TRAVEL OF PHYSI- CIANS THEN AND NOW-LIST OF EARLY DOCTORS-

SHORT SKETCHES-LIST OF REGISTERED PHYSI- CIANS-PRESENT PHYSICIANS-THE MEDICAL SO- CIETY-ETC.

CONCERNING THE PROFESSION

Without doubt, among the most important and useful professions known to the human race is that of Medicine-its science and ap- plication to men and women everywhere. Through its aid man comes into the world, and his passage through the world is rendered toler- able by its ministrations, and his leaving it made easier. Through this profession the sani- tation of the world is established and main- tained. The earlier periods of secular history show that representatives of this profession practiced the science of medicine and a primi- tive surgery, and holy writ contains many references to physicians, aside from those rela- tive to St. Luke. Every savage tribe has its "Medicine Man," who is generally more power- ful than the ruler.

In the last half century the Science of Medi- cine has made wonderful advance toward the better treatment of human ailments. No one school of medicine can claim all of the ad- vancement, for in all the schools of medicine extant there are superior points over the prac- tice of a few decades ago. The great Medi- cal Colleges have advanced this science in a large degree. Old diseases are being treated by new methods and new diseases are being scien- tifically studied as never before. Through these achievements man's life is being prolonged. The achievements in surgery are indeed more strik- ing than in medicine. Things a few years ago considered an impossibility have come to be easy to understand and successfully performed, and that without pain.

The old-time doctor had to travel on his cir- cuit by day and by night, on horse-back, with his "saddle-bags" thrown over his faithful horse's back, with remedies generally hand- mixed and folded in papers, or in odd-sized bottles. It was next to impossible for some temperaments and for children to take these nauseating compounds, but today the bad-tast- ing remedies are concealed in neat, tasteless tablets.

In olden times the streams had to be forded,

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as but few bridges then existed. The sum- mer's heat and the wintry blasts had to be contended with by the good "family doctor" who seldom refused a call, though he had rea- son to think the patient was too poor to com- pensate him for his long, uncomfortable drives. Tens of thousands of dollars of unpaid doc- tors' bills may be found in the various old homesteads of any country-bills that the doc- tors long years ago gave up as worthless, and they are kept as curiosities for younger genera- tions.

Today the automobile rolls swiftly over well- worked roads, and bridges are found every- where. The auto and the telephone have brought the patient in close touch with the doctor, whether by day or night.

It is an easy matter when one enjoys good health to speak lightly of the doctor, but when the fevered brow and short breath threaten life or health, then it is that the sick one hur- riedly calls for the educated and trusty Physi- cian-who is then regarded as a necessary and trusted friend.

Hancock county attracted many a strong man in this profession in the pioneer times and it is but just and right that their names should find prominent place in the annals of the county, lest they should be forgotten !

While it is not possible to give the date of the coming of the first physicians to Hancock county, the following facts concerning the early and later physicians will throw much light on the history of the profession here. This chap- ter will be especially interesting not only to the medical men of today, but to the most elderly of the men and women of the several townships of the county.

1837-M. C. Pocock, who practiced at Breck- enridge, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1817; graduated at both Cincinnati and New Orleans with high honors; and came to Adams county, Illinois, in 1837, and began the practice of medicine.

1837-Dr. H. P. Griswold, a native of Herki- mer county, New York, entered Union College at the age of eighteen years and then studied medicine with a Dr. Brown of his home county. He settled at Plymouthi, this county, in 1837, where he practiced medicine for thirteen years. In 1850 he bought a farm in Wythe township, farmed and continued his medical practice, and later located at Hamilton. He had been quite a nurseryman at Plymouth as early as 1841.

Most of the early orchards in the neighbor- hood of St. Mary's and Plymouth came from his stock. He retired from medical practice upon going to Hamilton, having accumulated a competency and preferring to be with na- ture-the flowers and trees-and to look after his fruit interests. He is remembered by pioneers as a man of genial, considerate man- ners, and a "friend of man."

1846-Dr. A. J. Griffith was born in High- land county, Ohio, 1822, and came with his parents' family to Illinois in 1842, locating in Fulton county, where he resided until 1856, when he removed to Hancock county, settling in Fountain Green where his father worked at the wagon-making trade. He began the study of medicine with P. S. Secon at Foun- tain Green; was educated at Missouri Medical College, attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; and in 1846 commenced practice at Fountain Green. He crossed the Western Plains in 1850, and remained in Cali- fornia two years. Four years later he settled at Carthage, this county, where he retired from practice in 1865, when he became associated with the Hancock County National Bank of which he was elected vice-president, and in which he was a large stock-holder. He was also at one time largely interested in the Carthage Republican of Carthage.

1847-Dr. S. A. Thompson, a native of Ten- nessee, was born in 1812, the son of a Revo- lutionary soldier, who was present at the sur- render of Cornwallis. In 1832 he went to Ala- bama, spent a year, and returned to Tennessee. He was an eye-witness to the "great star-fall of 1833." He moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, but later settled in Hancock county, Illinois, in 1847. He practiced medicine liere on the Eclec- tic school plan of treating diseases. Politically, he was first a Democrat and later a Green- backer.

1850-Dr. Peter Reimbold became the leading physician at Nauvoo, this county, about 1850, and practiced there until his death in 1861.

1852~Dr. David Ellis, physician and surgeon, was born in Kentucky in 1826; located in this county in 1852, at Augusta; commenced the study of medicine in 1847, and graduated in 1852. He owned a fine farm, was married and had several children.

1852-Dr. W. H. Githens was reared and educated in his native state, Ohio, where he commenced the study of medicine in 1847;

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in 1850 came to Keokuk, Iowa, where he fin- ished his medical course; in 1852 he came to Hancock county to practice his profession. He was a surgeon in the Sixteenth Illinois regi- ment when he came to Keokuk, Iowa, where he spent one year in the Government hospital.

1853-Dr. William S. Linn, who practiced medicine at Bowen, this county, was born in Olio in 1829; received a common school educa- tion in Adams county, Illinois, and his medical education at the Iowa State University, gradu- ating in 1852; practiced one year in Adams county, then located at Chili, this county. He owned two hundred and thirty acres of land in section 21, Chili township. Politically he was a Republican and in religious faith a Pres- byterian.

1854-L. W. Landaker was born in the Dis- trict of Columbia in 1820; lived there until 1838; went to Virginia, where he commenced the study of medicine the following year; in 1840 emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, and engaged in medical practice, having Dr. Eggle- son for his associate in practice; located in Hancock county, Illinois, in 1854, purchasing land in Dallas township; and in 1856 moved his family here. He at once opened an office as a physician and surgeon at Dallas City, where he was a pioneer among pioneers and had a large medical practice.

1854-Dr. Thomas Boude, a pioneer settler in Hancock county, was born in Kentucky in 1800 of French extraction. He was educated in the public schools of Ohio and at the Chilli- cothe Academy of that State. At the age of twenty-one years he commenced his medical studies at Augusta, Kentucky; also attended medical school one year in Philadelphia. In 1826 he moved to Felicity, Ohio, where he prac- ticed medicine for fifteen years. In April, 1854, he located in Hancock county, Illinois, settling on a farm in section 14, Prairie township, where he purchased four hundred and eighty acres of land, most of which he later divided with his children. One season the doctor raised 1,800 pounds of honey, and in many ways proved his interest in the great world about him. He was accounted one of the strong char- acters of the county.

1854-Dr. John Zingree, physician and sur- geon of Appanoose, was born in Switzerland in 1830; was educated in the Military Academy of Berne; served with one of Napoleon's gen-

erals; came to this country in 1851; in 1852 began the study of medicine at Cleveland, Ohio ; in the spring of 1854 graduated at the Western Missouri Medical College; came to Nauvoo, this county, where he commenced the practice of his chosen profession; in 1856 purchased a farm opposite Ft. Madison, Iowa, and moved to it, where he cultivated the land and at the same time practiced medicine. At one time in the early eighties he owned two thousand acres of land in Illinois and Iowa.

1855-Dr. Morris Crump was reared in Phila- delphia, where he attended public school and entered Philadelphia College of Medicine, gradu- ating in 1854. He came to Hancock county, Illinois, in 1855, settling in the village of Foun- tain Green.

1856-Dr. V. B. Corey was born in 1828 in New York. When fourteen years of age he left home and mastered the blacksmith's trade. He followed this honorable calling till twenty-two years of age, but at the age of twenty com- menced the study of medicine, having the use of the library of Dr. Andrew F. Oliver. In 1854 he came west, visited several states, and located at Quincy, Illinois, where he read medi- cine in the office of Dr. John Parson for two years, then located at West Point. He was a radical Union man in time of the Civil War, and enlisted in August, 1862, as a private in Company C, One Hundred and Eighteenth regi- ment Illinois volunteer infantry, to serve three years. He served as Hospital Steward of his regiment. In 1863 at the battle of Champion Hills, Mississippi, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon and served till discharged in 1865. After the war ended he resumed the medical practice he had left at West Point.

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Hancock County, Volume II, Part 31

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897. cn; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913. cn; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928. 4n; Scofield, Charles J. (Charles Josiah), 1853- 4n Publication date: 1921 Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1174

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897. cn; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913. cn; Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928. 4n; Scofield, Charles J. (Charles Josiah), 1853- 4n
Publication date: 1921
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1174