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attempts to enter this jail or molest the prisoner, will be shot down, and only over my dead body will the order of the governor be interfered with." But the prisoner feeling that he was going to be mobbed, hung himself in the jail, and when this announcement was made the crowd quietly dispersed to their homes, and an impending theatened disgrace was averted.
ANOTHER CRIME.
Doctor Mayfield and a man by the name of Hardy had been enemies for a number of years, and the former took occasion to insult the latter whenever they chanced to meet. One day com- ing together on the highroad, as usual Mayfield
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threw out some of his tauuts, which provoked several spirited replies from Hardy, whereupou the former alighted from his buggy and gave Hardy a sound horse whipping. A few days house and commanded Mr. Hardy to halt as he was passing the hotel, he was told to mind his own business. This so exasperated Doctor Mayfield that he drew a revolver and fired, some contending directly at Hardy, and others being equally positive that the shot was only fired for the purpose of frighteuiug Mr. Hardy. Hardy stepped around the corner of the hotel, drew out an old fashioned horse pistol with which he had armed himself, came back, and fired directly at Doctor Mayfield, the shot enter- ing his side. Doctor Mayfield returned with two shots, neither of which took effect, aud then fell to the ground. He was carried into the hotel, and died withiu a short time. Hardy was arrested, tried and acquitted on the ground of self defeuse. These events took place in 1852.
later when Doctor Mayfield came out of the . part of Montgomery County, with the exceptions
ZANESVILLE.
The towu of Zanesville is numbered among the abandoued communities of Montgomery County, although not far from the original town site there has been established a statiou on the railroad bearing the name of Zauesville, so far this is little more than a railroad switch- ing statiou. Uutil 1869, Zanesville was a very important community, but with the building of the Wabash Railroad two and one-half miles "An inn, where man and beast were housed and fed and refreshed, was erected, and is today one of the few remaining structures on the old townsite. Of the early inhabitants but little is known by this generation. I do know, from family tradition, that Doctor Mayfield and Major Burke, both long since numbered with the dead, were prominent citizens in an early day. Their descendants have for many years been prominent resideuts of Carlinville. The remains of Major Burke were interred in the old Zanesville Cemetery, adjoining the town on west of the town, and the growing importance of Litchfield, Zanesville began to decline and now a cornfield covers its former site. Wheu it was at the height of its prosperity there were four large stores, one grocery, three blacksmith shops, two wagonshops, two hotels, a cooper- shop, and two saloons. Among the merchants and other business men who were connected with its history may be mentioned: Harvey Madison, Joseph Vignos, William Street, Joseph Booth, James Little, John McNiel, John Hamil- ton and Son, Emert and Son. The physicians of the south, and now known to but few people, the place were : Drs. George Mayfield, J. W. Wheeler, G. W. Caldwell.
OLD ZANESVILLE.
The following sketch of old Zauesville, written by Hon. S. W. Kessinger, is so com-
plete aud interesting that we are pleased to give it place :
"Human nature will probably go changeless throughout the ages. Iu 1837, the northern of occasional siuall streams, the banks of which were studded with trees, was one wide expanse of prairie and swamp. At that time the nearest towns to Hillsboro, with the possible exception of Butler, were Vandalia, Edwardsville, Staun- tou and Carlinville. The old state road from Vandalia wended its way to Hillsboro and on to Springfield, passing the eastern limits of the present village of Raymond. Six miles to the west was the old Edwardsville trail, passing diagoually through the present city of Litch- field, from the southeast to the northwest, and on through what was town 10 north, range 5 west of the third principal meridian. The plat was for twenty-five blocks in five tiers of five each. Block 13, the center block, was named the 'Public Square,' and was dedicated to the use of the public forever. How rapidly the town grew I cannot say, but two years later the n .- w. 1/4 n.w. 14 of section S, lying just east of the village of Leesburg, was platted in the same manner, the central block being named 'Washington Square,' as Middle Leesburg. And a little later, the n.e. 14 n .- w. 14 of section S was platted in the same manner, as East Lees- burg. The dream had been enlarged, and the visions of wealth and power must have been sweet to the dreamer.
its very identity being obscured by tree and bush. It is claimed, not without reason, that many prominent personages, iucludiug Lincoln and Douglas, and Yates, were guests of the Leesburg inn on many occasious. The stage coach plying between Springfield, Edwardsville and St. Louis made regular stops there with
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mail and passengers. It is also stated by the few remaining old-timers that a murder was committed at the inn during the Civil. War. In the early fifties, Dr. J. D. Wheeler, Dr. G. W. Caldwell, Thomas G. Kessinger, Abram D. Atterbury, and others whom I can not recall, located in the town, which had by that time assumed the name of Zanesville.
"The building of the Chicago & Alton Rail- road, several miles to the west, probably did not hurt the town much. In the late sixties several surveys were made for the Decatur & East St. Louis Railroad, now the Wabash, one of which was through the village of Zanesville. The residents of that place, whether through carelessness or inability to raise funds, I do not know, failed to secure the road. There was one man, however, who had another dream of wealth. Alva Sharp, with the aid of kindred spirits, erected one of the most modern mills of the period, believing the railroad would come his way. The railroad did not come. The towns of Honey Bend, Raymond, Harvel and Morrisonville sprang up, and much of the former trade oť Zanesville was diverted to other channels. In the meanwhile the mill was operated, changing hands frequently, and breaking or crippling every man who touched it. The last effort towards operation was by William Haarstick, a practical miller, during the early summer of 1886. From that time on the structure and its contents went into decay. It was finally sold by the Spencer Smitherman estate to the promoters of the Raymond coal mine, and the engine again became the motive power for a hopeless cause. The building was wrecked and only the site, now a cornfield, remains as evidence of other and brighter days.
"In 1881, the Jacksonville & Southeastern Railway was extended from Virden to Litch- field, passing Zanesville one and one-half miles to the west. The few remaining residents of the town did not possess the nerve to give the road the right of way. Atwater sprang up in a night. The few remaining stores at Zanesville, with one exception, were mounted on wheels and moved to Atwater. The post office was abandoned, and 'Uncle' Johnny Hamilton, who had carried the mail from Litchfield for years, found himself out of a job. Dr. J. D. Wheeler, mentioned herein, moved to Raymond in 1871, upon the completion of the Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad, and was one of the most prominent physicians of that community until
1880, when he moved to Decatur. He has been dead for several years. Thomas G. Kessinger and Abram D. Atterbury moved to Litchfield, and were among the early settlers there. They, too, are numbered with the dead. Dr. G. W. Caldwell remained at Zanesville until all signs of a town had departed, and in 1899 moved to Waggoner, where he is spending his declining years. Newton White, now probably sixty years of age, is the only remaining old timer. Mrs. Bailey May has resided there since the early eighties. There are but few houses and less than half a dozen families on the old townsite. The only noises that disturb the quietude of a once thrifty village is the peal of the church bell or the sound of a locomotive whistle at Atwater, one and one-half miles west, on the road leading across Macoupin Creek and on to Carlinville. Gen. John M. Palmer, afterwards governor and United States senator, but for years a prominent lawyer of Carlinville ; George John I. Rinaker, Hon. C. A. Walker and Samuel Pitman of Carlinville, E. Southworth, still liv- ing at Litchfield, and Maj. Robert McWilliams and George L. Zink, both of Litchfield and now deceased, frequently transacted business in the now departed town of Leesburg, or Zanesville."
TOWNSILIP OFFICIALS.
Zanesville has had the following town clerks : Joseph Vignos, 1874 to 1879; G. W. Crane, 1879 to 1SSO: S. H. Allen, 1880 to 1890; A. J. Phil- lips, 1890 to 1892; Jerome McElfresh, 1892 to 1894; C. H. Bowles, 1894 to 1896; Martin Bray, 1896 to 1898; George Williams, 1898 to 1900; D. S. Bennett, 1900 to 1902; Walter Adkinson, 1902 to 1906; William J. King, 1906 to 1908; E. A. Echoff, 1908 to 1914; A. R. Williams, 1914 to 1916.
Zanesville Precinct and Township have had the following justices of the peace: James Pitchford, 1843; T. D. Christian, 1846; Hiram Bridges, 1857 ; L. G. Miller, 1857 to 1861; Joseph Vignos, 1865; H. K. Watkins, 1873 to 1881; John Rummens, 1873 to 1877; William C. Draper, 1873 to 1876; John Skaggs, 1877 to 1880; William C. Galbraith, 1878 to 1893; Isaac Eledge. 1881 to 1885; Smith Parish, 1882 to 1897; Harry Fitzjerrell, 1896 to 1900; Stephen D. Price, 1897 to 1908 ; S. H. Allen, 1899 to 1913 ; F. S. Nash, 1911 to 1914; William B. Potts, 1913 to 1917.
The following have served Zanesville as con-
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stables : 1859 to 1863, Edward Hutchinson ; 1861 to 1865, Cullen Crisswell; 1861 to 1865, George M. Bandy ; 1865 to 1869, Robert R. Criss- well; 1864 to 1870, C. P. Karnes; 1867 to 1871, Patrick Greer; 1867 to 1871, John Swafford; 1869 to 1873, James E. Bellamy; 1873 to 1877, Daniel F. Adams; 1874 to 1886, Daniel Black- well; 1876 to 1881, Prior D. Bunch; 1877 to 1881, Bazzle Evans; 1880 to 1884, John A. Snider; 1881 to 1885, Arthur V. McArney; 1881 to 1885, John H. Fite; 1884 to 1889, George C. Bandy ; 1887 to 1891, William H. Wallis; 1889 to 1893, Adam Heffley ; 1891 to 1895, William B. May; 1892 to 1898, Thomas Parrish; 1900 to 1905, D. C. Williams ; 1901 to 1905, Thomas W. Ray ; 1911 to 1915, A. R. Miller. C. H. Wallis is at present the assessor, C. H. May is the col- lector, O. Sutherland is highway commissioner, and Frank Striplin is the last elected school trustee.
Zanesville Township, being strongly Dem- ocratic, can and does keep deserving men in position frequently as long as the common good seems to feel the need of them. Daniel C. Rogers and James D. Kendall served on the county board six years each, and L. G. Miller five years, while Perry Martin, R. J. Potts, Cyrus Fitzjerrell and Wm. H. Wallis each served four years. The township was honored by Daniel C. Rogers who was chairman of the board for one year. Those who have served as supervisors have been : Daniel C. Rogers, 1873, 1874, 1875, 1885, 1886 and 1887; Lemuel G. Miller, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879 and 1880; Perry Martin, 1881, 1882, 1883 and 1884; William R. Blackwelder, 1888 and 1889; Oscar B. Cain, 1890 and 1891: James D. Kendall, 1892, 1893, 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1905; Cyrus Fitzjerrell, 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897 ; O. K. Rummons, 1898 and 1899; H. A. Martin, 1903; Ira Blackwelder, 1904; M. F. Bandy, 1906 and 1907; R. J. Potts, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911; William H. Wallis, 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915; Martin Bray, 1916.
SUMMARY.
With the closing of the history of Zanesville Township ends the history of Montgomery
County, although considerable attention will be paid to the individual history of the people who have made this county what it is, in the follow- ing section devoted to biographical mention.
The lack of space has made it necessary to touch but lightly on many incidents that in themselves are deserving of much longer men- tion. In many cases where conditions were similar in several townships, the historian has contented himself with stating them but once, and making brief reference to them in a suc- ceeding chapter. To make a brief summary of the history of this county, the following may be interesting: The county was organized in 1821, with less than 500 people. It now has a population of over 35,000. It was then a wilder- ness of wild growths and swamps. It now ranks as one of the best agricultural counties. The county then was the habitat of the Indians. To-day its people are a cosmopolitan mixture of the best bloods, are educated, loyal, moral and progressive. The county was then hundreds of miles from civilized communities. To-day we live in the midst of railroads, telephones, standard schools, improved farms, and high- ways, and enjoy a high state of education and ethical culture. In other words, from the organization of Montgomery County, in 1821, its people have been industrious, in the main, law abiding, and the majority have become prosperous. They have built and maintained schools and churches, borne their part in the defense of the nation when occasion demanded, contributed not a little to the progress of the age, and opened up and cultivated some of the finest farming land in the state.
From Montgomery County have gone forth men of high character and marked ability to take their place in the world's work, and accompanying them the county has sent forth women as fair and virtuous as any in the land. A half dozen lines of railroads cross our county on which are located some sixteen large and small towns and cities. Every year marks a growth in business and population, not of the mushroom variety, but one with every evidence of permanency.
BIOGRAPHICAL
CHAPTER XXXIX.
THE PART OF BIOGRAPHY IN GENERAL HISTORY- CITIZENS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND OUT- LINES OF PERSONAL HISTORY - PERSONAL SKETCHES ARRANGED IN ENCYCLOPEDIC ORDER.
The verdict of mankind has awarded to the Muse of History the highest place among the Classic Nine. The extent of her office, however, appears to be, by mauy miuds, but imperfectly understood. The task of the historiau is com- prehensive aud exactiug. True history reaches beyond the doings of court or camp, beyond the issue of battles or the effects of treaties, and records the trials and the triumphs, the fail- ures aud the successes of the men who make history. It is but an imperfect conception of the philosophy of events that fails to accord to portraiture aud biography its rightful positiou as a part-and no unimportant part-of historic narrative. Beyoud and beneath the activities of outward life the motive power lies out of sight, just as the furnace fires that work the piston and keep the ponderous screw revolving dowu in the darkness of the hold. So, the impulsive power which shapes the course of communities may be found in the molding in- fluences which form its citizens.
It is no mere idle curiosity that prompts men to wish to learn the private, as well as the public, lives of their fellows. Rather it is true that such desire tends to prove universal broth- erhood ; and the interest in personality aud biography is not confined to men of any partic- ular caste or vocation.
The list of those to whose lot it falls to play a conspicuous part in the great drama of life, is comparatively short ; yet communities are made up of individuals and the aggregate of achieve- meut-uo less than the sum total of humau hap- piness-is made up of the deeds of those men and women whose primary aim, through life, is faithfully to perform the duty that comes near- est to hand. Individual influences upon humau affairs will be considered potent or insignifi- cant, according to the standpoint from which it is viewed. To him who, standing upon the sea- shore, notes the ebb and flow of the tides and listens to the sullen roar of the waves, as they
break upon the beach in seething foam, seem- ingly chafing at their limitations, the ocean appears so vast as to need no tributaries. Yet, without the smallest rill that helps to swell the "Father of Waters," the mighty torreut of the Mississippi would be lessened, aud the beuefi- ceut influence of the Gulf Stream diminished. Countless streams, currents aud counter cur- rents-sometimes mingling, sometimes counter- acting each other-collectively combine to give motiou to the accumulated mass of waters. So is it-and so must it ever be-in the oceau of human action, which is formed by the blending aud repulsion of currents of thought, of influ- ence and of life, yet more numerous aud more tortuous than those which form the "fountains of the deep." The acts and characters of men, like the several faces that compose a composite picture, are wrought together into a compact or heterogeneous whole. History is condensed bi- ography; "Biography is History teaching by example."
It is both interestiug and instructive to rise above the generalization of history and trace, in the personality and careers of the men from whom it sprang. the principles and influences. the impulses and ambitions, the labors, strug- gles and triumphs that engross their lives.
Here are recorded the careers and achieve- meuts of pioneers who, "when the fullness of time had come." came from widely separated sources, some from beyond the sea, impelled by divers motives, little conscious of the import of their acts. and but dimly anticipating the har- vest which would spring from the sowing. They built their primitive homes, toiling for a present subsistence while laying the foundations of pri- vate fortunes and future advancement.
Most of these have passed away, but not before they beheld a development of business and population surpassing the wildest dreams of fancy or expectation. A few yet remain whose years have passed the allotted three-score aud teu, and who love to recouut, among the cherished memories of their lives, their remi- niscences of early days.
[ The following items of personal and family his- tory, having been arranged in encyclopedie (or alpha- betical) order as to names of the individual subjects, no special index to this part of the work will be found necessary. ]
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ABBOT, William, a lawyer of more than ordi- nary ability, and a public-spirited citizen of Hillsboro, is numbered and deservedly so, among the leading men of Montgomery County, He was born at Hillsboro, February 25, 1845, a son of Stephen and Martha Miranda ( Gutterson ) Abbot, natives of Milford, N. H., and Andover, Mass., respectively. They had seven children, as follows : Abiel, who died at the age of twenty years; Morton, who died at the age of twenty- three years; Mrs. Maria McEwen, of Litchfield, Ill .; William, who lives at Hillsboro; Hattie L. Fisher, who lives at Hillsboro; and two who died in childhood.
Stephen Abbot was reared in his native town, and learned the carpenter trade, coming to Hills- boro in the early thirties, thus becoming one of its pioneers, and a builder of some of its early residences. His death occurred at Hillsboro in 1876, when he was seventy-eight years old. His wife died in 1800, aged fifty-four years. They at- tended the Congregational Church. The pater- nal grandfather, Isaac Abbot, was married to Ruth Ames of Wilmington, Mass. They had a large family, among whom were the following children : Stephen, Robert, Walter, William, Franklin, Dolly and others. The paternal great- grandfather was Isaac Abbot, a soldier in the American Revolution. The founder of this branch of the Abbot family, was George Abbot, who came to Andover, Mass., from England in 1643. Unfortunately the history of the mater- mal branch of William Abbot's family is not known to him.
William Abbot was reared at Hillsboro, being born and brought up in his present residence. After attending the Hillsboro public schools, and Hillsboro Academy, he went to West Point in 1868, and was graduated therefrom in 1872, then becoming a second lieutenant in the Ninth United States Infantry, and as such did duty on the plains until 1876, when he resigned and re- turned to Hillsboro, where he took up the prac- tice of law in which he has since continued. Prior to entering West Point, he had had mili- tary service during the Civil War, and was first sergeant of Company C, Seventieth Illinois In- fantry from June, 1862, to October of that year.
On September 24, 1872, Mr. Abbot was mar- ried to Miss Elise Burghalter, a daughter of Bernard and Julia (Gildemeister) Burghalter. Mr, and Mrs. Abbot became the parents of four children, namely: Elise, Henry, Stephen and William. Elise was married to Charles J. Cole, and they now reside at Niagara Falls, N. Y., and have two children, Abbot and William.
Henry was graduated from West Point in 1897, and died at Fort Bliss, Tex., December 23, 1898, unmarried. Stephen was graduated from West Point in 1902 and is now a captain of coast artillery, on the retired list, and living near Randlett, Utah. He was married to Helene Black, a daughter of Gen. John C. Black. They have one child, Helene. William died when about five years old.
William Abbot belongs to F. D. Hubbel Post, No. 403. G. A. R., Department of Illinois, and has been commander of the post for a number
of years. In politics he is a Democrat. In addi- tion to his professional interests, Mr. Abbot is a director of the Hillsboro National Bank and the Coffeen National Bank. Mrs. Abbot was born near Koenigsburg, East Prussia, in 1847. her parents were natives of Germany who came to the United States about 1848, and located first at Washington, D. C., from which city they moved to Bunker Hill, Ill. Mrs. Abbot was their only child that lived to maturity. The Gil- demeister family is a prominent one in Ger- many.
ADKISSON, Walter R., one of the aggressive young business men of Hillsboro, whose asso- ciation with the insurance business is of such a character as to make him a forceful factor in that line of endeavor, was born in this city, August 11, 1891, a son of George and Amanda (McLain) Adkisson, natives of Fayette and Montgomery counties, respectively. Each had been married prior to their union. The father was a farmer and died January 6, 1899. The mother lives at Hillsboro.
Walter R. Adkisson attended the grammar and high schools of Hillsboro, and lived upon his father's farm until he was twenty years old when he began teaching school, being so en- gaged for two years. He then began handling Clover Leaf Accident and Health Insurance, and wrote enough policies to justify him in branching out into a general line of insurance, he now handling fire, life and accident insur- ance. On February 10, 1914, he was made as- sistant secretary of the Hillsboro Commercial Club, and on February 21, 1916, was elected its secretary, and still holds that office. In re- ligious faith he is a Methodist. For some time he has been president and secretary of the Loyal Sons of Litchfield, and he also belongs to the Loyal American Association and the Lincoln Fraternal Union. Politically he is a Republican. Well versed in his special line, he is qualified to give reliable and expert service, and his business shows a healthy and desirable annual increase.
ALLEN, George N., for many years a farmer, and for the past thirty-four years a stock buyer and shipper, owns and operates land in East Fork Township, although he is a resident of Donnellson. He was born in East Fork Town- ship, April 29. 1858, a son of Robert S. and Harriet (Ohmart) Allen, a sketch of whom ap- pears elsewhere in this work.
George N. Allen was reared on the homestead of his father and attended the local schools, re- maining at home until his marriage which oc- curred November 12, 1882, when he was united with Zilpha A. Wilson, born on a farm west of Donnellson, in Grisham Township, Montgomery County. When she was eight years old her par- ents, George W. and Jane (Cox) Wilson, brought her to East Fork Township, where she was reared, she and her future husband being play- mates in childhood. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Allen lived on the Allen homestead for three years, and then moved one mile north of
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Donnelson, where they resided until 1890, when they returned to the Allen farm, and had charge of it while living on another property. In 1904 Mr. Allen located at Donnellson where he has since resided, although he still conducts his farm which he has increased until it now contains 416 acres of very valuable land, and on it he is carrying on stockraising. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have had seven children born to them, namely : Oran K., who was graduated from the Coffeen high school, taught school for two years, married Mary Laws, and is now on the home place; Cullen F., who went to Towner, N. Dak., where he was for two years cashier of a bank, but is now engaged in the insurance business and has a large collection agency which operates in the entire northwest; Robert W., M. D., who was graduated from the St. Louis Medical College, a physician and surgeon, formerly was in prac- tice at Donnellson, Ill., is now at Towner, N. Dak .; William F., who is a druggist of Don- nellson ; Charlotte, who is a graduate of the Towner, N. Dak., city schools and of the Charles- ton Normal school, is engaged in teaching ; Mary, who was graduated from the Donnellson High school, is at home; and Dorothy, who is attending Towney, N. Dak., High school, is in the class of 1918. Mr. Allen belongs to Mt. Moriah Lodge No. 51, A. F. & A. M. ; Mississippi Valley Consistory, and Ainad Shrine, the last two of St. Louis, Mo. He is a Democrat in pol- itics, and has served as assessor of East Fork Township. In addition to his land interests, Mr. Allen is a stockholder and director of the Hillsboro National Bank with which he has been connected for fifteen years, and he is one of the incorporators of the Farmers Mutual Insurance Company, and a director for many years of this concern.
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