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"Thomas Reynolds we believe came from one of the eastern states. He was a prominent judge and man in Illinois for some years, and after- wards removed to Missouri, where he became also very prominent, and attained to the governorship of Missouri, and finally committed suicide in St. Louis some twenty years ago. Whether the recent Governor Reynolds of Missouri is a con-
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nection or not we do not know. Joel Wright was the sheriff and Jarvis Forehand was the coroner, and Hiram Rountree was clerk.
Hon. Samuel McRoberts held the courts in 1825 and 1826. He was not only a fine judge, but a very popular man. He lived and died in the eastern part of the state. In 1826 Maj. John H. Rountree was elected sheriff in the county. He was a brother of Hiramu Rountree, a black- smith by trade. He held the office until 1828, when the lead mining fever broke out, and he left for the mines about Galena, and engaged in mining on Fever River, in what is now Grant County in Wisconsin. It must be now said that of all the public officers of the county up to 1836, Maj. John Rountree alone survives ; James Isaacs was coroner for some years, perhaps from 1826 to 1830.
"In 1826, Judge Theophilus W. Smith was judge and he continued to hold the courts until 1834. He was a man of marked ability. He re- sided at Edwardsville. Dr. Levi D. Boone mar- ried one of his daughters, and all moved after- wards to Chicago.
"Maj. James Wilson, was elected sheriff in 1828, and served two terms. He was one of General Jackson's old soldiers, and came to this state in a very early day. He settled the place now known as the File farm north of town, he raised a large family of whom one daughter, Mrs. Hustis of Irving, and one son, Lusk, near Litchfield, are all who reside in our county. Rev. J. Wilson, his oldest son resides we be- lieve in Menard County. Joel Wilson resides in DeWitt and Jas. N. Wilson now resides in Springfield, but did live in Litchfield. Another son, Hiram, did reside about Irving, but we are not posted as to his present residence. Major Wilson, like Captain McDavid, volunteered and served one campaign in the Black Hawk War. He was a genial companionable man with strong sense, and good conversational powers, and was a useful man in his day. He served our county in other capacities, once or twice as county com- missioner and perhaps twice he took the census. He was also constable in his later years. He could interest a crowd by his war stories and keep them in a merry mood with his anecdotes. In 1829, there were no courts held.
"In 1830. Dr. Levi D. Boone, was coroner, otherwise the officers were the same. Dr. Boone was not the earliest but was one of our early resident physicians, a very intelligent man, of old Daniel Boone stock, and personally so
popular that many of our present citizens were named for him. He led a company for our county to the Black Hawk War, and served one campaign. He removed to Chicago where he was elected mayor, by the KnowNothings. He ar- rived at wealth and prominence, was bank presi- dent, etc. In our Civil War one of his sons became conspicuous as a soldier. While the good heart of the doctor got him into trouble with the federal authorities, and he was imprisoned for a time in Camp Douglas, because he would insist upon providing comforts for the Con- federate prisoners, who were imprisoned in that military prison, many of them being the sons of his old Kentucky friends and kindred. When- ever a battle had taken place he hastened to the scene to render the sick and wounded soldiers of both armies his professional services. He is, we learn, in robust health.
"In 1831 and 1832, the same officers were in the courts, except that in August, 1832, Austin Whitten was elected sheriff, and George White, coroner.
"Austin Whitten settled on the East Fork, and raised a large family. He afterwards was county commissioner. Several of his sons now reside in our county, Levi, Eaton, John, Samuel, and Austin, while his youngest son, Dr. Tom Whitten is making quite a reputation as physi- cian at Irving, all are good energetic, and useful citizens. We believe he has no daughters liv- ing. The Whittens were old Kentuckians. There were Eaton, Elisha, Josiah, and Austin, all brothers, of whom Uncle Si also survives, and he is as spry and full of anecdotes as ever. He is a surveyor, and even in his advanced age can run a pretty good line.
"George White, was a physician, and removed to Carlinville and there died early.
"In 1834, John Kirkpatrick, became the sheriff. He held the office of sheriff till 1844.
"In 1825, our courts were held by Hon. Thomas Ford, who was elected governor in 1842, and who afterward became the historian of Illi- nois. He is now dead, a good man and died poor.
"In the fall of 1835, Hon. Sidney Breese, held our courts and continued to hold our courts till 1843, when he became U. S. Senator. He is now on the supreme bench, a hale old man, with his mind as clear as ever. In 1837, Josiah Fisk be- came our first resident lawyer. He became jus- tice of the peace, and was elected to the Legis- lature, a very small but energetic young man
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who afterward removed to Texas where he mar- ried the widow of Mr. Austin, the great pioneer of Texas and who gave the name to the city of Austin. During our Civil War he took the Union side, and removed to New Orleans, where he re- sided till the war was over, when he returned to Texas where if living he now resides.
"It is worthy to remark, that until 1840, poli- tics had little or nothing to do with the election of county officers. It is true that the officers were mostly of Jackson Democracy ; still fitness and capability were the chief motives, while per- sonal popularity gave us more officers who were unfit, than politics; but even then the officers were usually good men."
TOWNS QUIESCENT.
Death of any kind is saddening. With the death of an individual, especially in youth, hopes are blighted, ambitions thwarted, and ideals crushed. This is no less true when communities or towns sink into desuetude. With the plat- ting of a town, are born great expectations ; and the expectants represent the builders of the world's progress. Many of the world's celebri- ties have been founders as well as discoverers. It is not to funeralize, that we mention the towns that have ccased to exist in Montgomery County ; but rather to answer the question of the epitaph found on a child's grave stone, "Since so early I am done for, I wonder what I was begun for."
HAMILTON.
When some five or six hundred people con- cluded that the county should have a county seat of government, our representative, in the Legislature secured authority to locate a suit- able site, and IIamilton was selected. The land was platted, lots sold, a store opened up for business by John Tillson and for a time hopes and expectations ran high, but the Hurricane settlement, then the most numerous settlement in the county, opposed the location, and were not idle. The matter was again forced on the at- tention of the Legislature and a new set of com- missioners appointed, and an elegant point, on the St. Louis road selected, which, from its hilly character, was named Hillsboro. John Tillson's store was moved to Hillsboro, the logs hauled out to be used in a courthouse, in Hamilton,
were allowed to rot on the ground and Hamilton was numbered with the dead.
WOODSBORO.
William Woods, an enterprising early settler, opened a store some three miles further south- west of Hamilton, and failing to attract other stores or businesses to the location, and finding that the main roads from Springfield to Green- ville, and from Hillsboro to St. Louis, formed a junction just south of the Hamilton location, concluded that the travel on these roads made a public house a necessity there, and proceeded to lay out the town of Woodsboro. His store was moved to the new location, a public house was opened, a wagon shop, tin shop, blacksmith- shop, cooper shop, post office, saw-mill and grist- mill were opened for business and for a time the denizens thought that Woodsboro would eclipse Hillsboro. About that time the Alton and Terre Haute Railroad was built to Butler and on to Hillsboro. Then it was seen that the public interest was all being directed to the railroad locations. As quite a community of good peo- ple had settled around the site of Butler, Mr. Woods moved his storc to Butler, and other en- terprises either moved or shut down and Woods- boro was buried alongside the decayed body of Hamilton.
LEESBURG.
About 1824, Robert Palmer opened up a public house in section 7 of town 10, north, range 5, and the name of Leesburg was given the loca- tion. It was on the Springfield and Vandalia road, and for awhile enjoyed the patronage of many prominent people on their travels from the state capital, at Vandalia to the thriving city and, later new capital, of Springfield. Stores were opened, residences built, and other enter- prises including a large mill, were established. A little later George Brewer formally laid out the town and secured the post office under the name of Zanesville, and Leesburg, with its memories of Robert E. Lee, for whom it was named by a St. Louis man, who helped material- ly in starting the town, was allowed to be for- gotten. Zanesville grew, more stores were opened and houses built, a schoolhouse opened, and snch interest taken that it became the second town to Hillsboro only, and one of the leading towns
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in the county. Now a corn field marks its rest- ing place.
HARDENSBURG.
James Cunningham a few years before Litch- field was ever thought of, opened a public house and also a store in section 7, township 8 north, range 5, which was named Hardensburg after General Harden. This location was thought to be ideal, being on the main road from Hillsboro to Alton, and attracted the enterprising men of the country to it. A post office was secured, stores opened, shops established, a drug store began business, a doctor hung out a shingle, but unfortunately for the town, the railroad survey from Bunker Hill east missed the town, and a few men seeing their opportunity, began the building of Litchfield, only two miles away, but on the railroad; and from the move Hardens- burg was doomed.
AUDUBON.
The acme of high aspirations was manifested when a colony of educated and refined emigrants came to. the county from Massachusetts and undertook the building of a city in section 27, township 10, north, range 1. This was about 1834, and although Hillsboro had then a fair start and a courthouse had been built, yet these good people thought they could outstrip the adopted county seat, and become the leading city of the county. The town of Audubon was laid out. lots sold, stores opened by Sam Patch, M. S. Cushman, and others, a mill erected by Hiram Holmes, and a large fine hotel or public house built by St. Louis capitalists, and then an effort made to secure the county seat. Yes, and the colonists went far enough to build a courthouse as the seat of justice but the people refused to aid their well meant efforts and the men who had invested largely soon discovered that they were losing money, and dissolution became a dominant factor in the town's course. Thus an- other bunch of enthusiasts were caused to suffer defeat of their hopes and ambitions, but these efforts were not without good results. Other towns, with more favorable surroundings, have succeeded, and partly from the efforts of these same people. The spirit of progress is never en- tirely crushed, and is the natural antipode of anarchy and pessimism, which retards and de- stroys as far as possible, the noble impulses
that should be used for upbuilding a community in every material and ethical way. After all, the spirit of these towns continued to live ; Ham- ilton and Woodsboro became Hillsboro ; Hardens- burg became Litchfield; Zanesville merged into Raymond, Atwater and Girard; and Audubon became Nokomis. Progress as much as Truth, "when crushed to earth will rise again."
THE OLD LOG CABIN.
In 1882, under the leadership of Jacob Cress, Thomas Phillips and Solomon Harkey, plans were adopted and carried out to erect a memo- rial log cabin, on the Old Fair grounds, each of the old settlers to prepare a log, to go into the cabin, on the smooth outside of which was to be painted the name of the contributor, the date of his birth or entrance into the county or state. We have no list made at the time of the build- ing, and at this time the names are too dim from age to read, with any certainty. But in 1903, twenty-one years after its building the following inscriptions were taken from the logs, which are approximately correct :
Martin A. Ludewick, born in North Carolina, December 9, 1825, came to Illinois December 3, 1831; David McEwan, born in North Carolina in 1807, came to Illinois in 1831; Jasper Clark, born in Massachusetts in 1802, came to Illinois in 1821 ; Henry Phillips, born in Randolph Coun- ty, Ill., in 1821; T. J. Rutledge, born in Hills- boro July S, 1828, and was the first child born in Hillsboro; John T. Maddox, born April 5, 1833, in Greenville, Ill., came to this county in 1836; Levi Hill, born in Montgomery County July 17, 1826; Peter Cress, born in North Caro- lina in 1SOS, came to Illinois in 1823; William Walcott, born in 1820; George L. Warren, born . in 1837, came to Illinois in 1838: H. N. Pope, born in Fayette County. Ill., in 1844; J. M.
Berry, born in Kentucky 1811, came
to Illinois in 182S; William Bowles, born in Kentucky in 1836; John T. Whitledge, born in 1830, came to Illinois in 1831; Jacob Bost, born in North Carolina in 1794, came to Illinois in 1836: Joseph T. Eccles, born in Kentucky, came to Illinois in 1832; William Brewer, born in Kentucky, came to Illinois in 1834; W. S. Clotfelter, born in North Carolina in 1817, came to Illinois in 1833; Solomon Har- key, born in North Carolina in 1806. came to Illinois in 1829; J. A. Cress, born in Montgom- ery County in 1829, this log was hewn in 1831
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by Peter and Joseph Cress; G. V. Brockman, born in Missouri in 1811, came to Illinois in 1833; J. J. Phillips, born in Hillsboro in 1837; James Clotfelter, born in North Carolina in 1826, came to Illinois in 1833; J. T. Williamson, born in 1818; Peter Berrie, born in Pennsylvania July 28, 1811, came to Illinois in 1837; John H. Scherer, born in North Carolina May 1, 1831, came to Illinois in 1837; John T. McDavid, born in Montgomery County in 1818; M. S. Barry, born in Barren County, Ky., in 1818, came to Illinois in 1831; E. B. Hubbel, born in Vermont in 18190, came to Illinois in 1833; Dan Lingo- felter, born in Canton, Ohio, in 1828, came to Illinois in 1836; John D. Williamson, born in Nodaway County, Va., Dec. 13, 1814, came to this county in 1834; William Young, born in Ten- nessee, Oct. 5, 1810, came to Illinois in 1830; A. B. Smith, born in Ohio November 4, 1821, came to Illinois in 1834; Edward Crawford, born in Tennessee in 1812, came to Illinois in 1833; David Gregory, born in North Carolina Decem- ber 1, 1809, came to Illinois in 1831.
Subsequent to erecting the cabin, the follow- ing deaths were engraved thereon :
John Williamson, died January 9, 1885; Levi Whitten died September 4, 1885 ; David McEwan died October 4, 1884; Jacob Bost died October 7, 1884; Noah Lipe died October 9, 1884; Wil- liam Brewer died October 31, 1883; Peter Cress died October 1, 1885; Thomas J. Rutledge died March 18, 1885; William Watson died January 17, 1885.
Besides those whose names were engraved on the cabin, there were quite a number of old set- tlers who were associated with these at about this time or a little later, a partial list of whom we add: James Cannady, Litchfield, born in Kentucky in 1831, came to county in 1834; Mrs. William Bowles, Hillsboro, born in the county in 1827; William Abbot, Hillsboro, born in Hills- boro in 1845; Mrs. Dora Brown Freeland, Hills- boro, born in Montgomery County in 1850; M. A. Moore, Raymond. born in Montgomery County in 1859; R. H. Mann, Hillsboro, born in Mont- gomery County in 1831; Mrs. R. H. Mann, Hills- boro, born in county in 1837; J. Q. Bost, Fill- more, born in North Carolina in 1836, came to county when one year old ; M. D. Holmes, Hills- boro, born in Montgomery County in 1848; Wil- liam A. Lewey, Hillsboro, born in Kentucky in 1839, came to Montgomery County in 1855; Mrs. J. C. Edwards, Litchfield, born in Switzerland in 1847, came to this county in 1858; Mrs. A. C.
Williams, Hillsboro, born in the county in 1837; Prof. A. C. Williams, Hillsboro, born in New Jersey in 1830, came to Montgomery County in 1856; J. N. Neisler, Litchfield, born in Mont- gomery County in 1821; William Bowles, Hills- boro, born in North Carolina in 1828, came to the county in 1840; Dexter W. Mack, born in New Hampshire in 1838, came to Montgomery County when quite young; Norris Crane, Ray- mond, born in Ohio in 1834, came to the county in 1846; Chas. W. Bliss, Hillsboro, was born in the county in 1846; Stephen White, Coffeen, was born in Montgomery County in 1823; E. T. Grisham, Hillsboro, born in Kentucky in 1825, came to Montgomery County in 1870; Joseph R. Chapman, Raymond, born in Greene County, Ill.,. in 1843, came to this county in 1852; Sam A. Crawford, Honey Bend, came to this county in 1848 ; E. W. Moore, Litchfield, born in St. Louis, Mo., 1858, came to this county in 1861; George D. Campbell, Hillsboro, born in Tennessee in 1843, came to this county in 1871; Sheldon H. Allen, Barnett, born in Macoupin County in 1837, came to this county in the year of his birth ; Mrs. Unity Seward, Butler, born in this county in 1828, died in Butler in 1914; Abner Moore, Hillsboro, born in Pennsylvania in 1840, came to this county in 1874; Dow H. Strider, Ray- mond, born in Virginia, came to this county in 1856; Sarah Chambers, now the oldest woman in the county, was born in Montgomery County ; John E. Knight, Irving, born in this county in 1833; W. H. Cook, Coffeen, born in Kentucky in 1834, came to Montgomery County in 1861; J. L. Sanders, Fillmore, born in this county in 1843; E. J. File, Hillsboro, born in Bond County in 1832, came to Montgomery County in 1854; Moses E. Berry, Butler, born in Ohio in 1854, came to Montgomery County in 1855; John C. Short, Hillsboro, born in Missouri in 1854, came to Montgomery County in 1857; W. F. Hick- man, Hillsboro, born in Kentucky in 1838, came to Montgomery County in 1855; Thomas Chumley, Hillsboro, born in this county in 1845 ; B. W. Masters, Butler, born in Kentucky in 1845, came to county in 1855; Frank Winchester, Hillsboro, born in Missouri in 1845, came to county in 1867 ; William Oberlee, Nokomis, born in Germany in 1839, came to this county in 1868 ; Burrill Cundiff, Coffeen, born in this coun- ty in 1834; Chas. H. Hoes, Butler, born in Mary- land in 1845, came to county in 1856; A. C. Jor- dan, Harvel, born in Ohio in 1841, came to this county in 1854; Bluford Bandy, Litchfield, born
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in Tennessee in 1849, came to county in 1854; D. M. Starr, born in county in 1833; Dr. J. B. Cary, Donnellson, born in Bond County in 1843, came to county in 1857; A. F. McEwan, Litch- field, born in Montgomery County in 1842; S. M. Grubbs, Litchfield, born in Montgomery County in 1845; John W. Holliday, Litchfield, born in Montgomery County in 1849.
THE OLD SETTLERS' ASSOCIATION.
The Old Settlers' Association was organized and the first meeting held in Hillsboro July 2, 1873, partly to commemorate the fiftieth anni- versary of the founding of Hillsboro in 1823. While Hillsboro had inhabitants prior to that date, yet the plat and final papers establishing the town were accepted by the county commis- sioners on July 2, 1823. At that, the first "Old Settlers" meeting. Peter B. Hill was made the chairman and Henry W. Hyatt and George W. Paisley, secretaries. The work of organizing had been done chiefly by A. H. H. Rountree, and after listening to a vast amount of, early history of the early settlers as prepared by him, the meet- ing passed a resolution thanking him for the efforts he had made in organizing the society and collecting data for its information. It was arranged for the society to hold annual meetings each year in the month of October at the Old Fair grounds. With some changes in the date, the meetings have since then been regularly held, with an attendance often reaching many thou- sands, and an interest seldom attained by sim- ilar organizations, many coming hundreds of miles to spend the day with old friends. Mr. Brewer, who owned the grounds, appreciated the meetings so much that he made provisions that the right of the Old Settlers should be perpetual on the Old Fair grounds; hence, when the ground was bought by the school authorities, it was understood and agreed that the school grounds might be used by the association for its annual meetings. Early in the history of the association the meetings were largely of a remi- niscent character, but during the last few years they have assumed more the character of a sporting caravan, and while the attendance is still large, there is some complaint that the orig- inal intention of the association has been over- looked to a regretable extent.
We give a partial list of those who have served the association as officers during some of the
more recent years: In 18SS we find the presi- dent was Solomon Harkey. In 1890 Jacob Whitehead was president and William K. Jack- son, secretary. Other early data is not at hand. In 1906, John Clotfelter was president and James L. McDavid, secretary ; in 1907 L. V. Hill was president and George Seward was secre- tary ; in 190S L. V. Hill was president and Edgar E. Sawyer was secretary; in 1909 Jesse O. Brown was president and E. B. Strange was secretary ; in 1910 E. B. Strange was president and Harry Hargrave was secretary; in 1911 Frank McLean was president and Harry Har- grave was secretary; in 1912 Isaac Hill was president and Carl Weber was secretary; in 1913 John L. Dryer was president and Carl Weber was secretary; in 1914 the officers were the same as in 1913; in 1915 Thomas M. Jett was president and Carl Weber was secretary ; in 1916 Carl Weber was secretary.
A careful inspection of the list of members enrolled during the first two years of the so- ciety, a list of about two hundred names, shows, so far as the writer knows, less than twenty that are now still with us. It seems but a short tinie since in 1883 and 1SS4 when the list of thirty-year residents was made up. How rap- idly indeed do the sands of time almost imper- ceptibly pass away. Since 1SS4 many hundreds of names of thirty-year residents have been added to the rolls, and as they pass away, others take their place, and the work continues to shed a halo of remembrance over heroes of the early days.
THE OLD SETTLERS.
By the Pagan Pastor of the Montgomery News. Sept. 3d, 1915.
"Within the memory of scores of the men and women who are now holding their reunion in Hillsboro, some of the most stupendous changes have taken place and the most wonderful events have happened that were ever witnessed in the history of the world. There are men and women in Hillsboro today attending the reunion who can remember the time when the first telegraph message was sent. It has not been quite eighty years since Samuel Morse made the first public exhibition of his wonderful invention. NOW there is a net work of wires all over the civilized world, flashing messages from one end of the
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world to the other, and we know this morning what happened in the remotest parts of the earth a few hours ago. The telegraph has made us neighbors to China, Japan and farther India. We can read a speech made in the English par- liament, the German reichstag, taking the dif- ference of time into consideration before it is ยท uttered. The middled aged who are present at this time can remember when the telephone was invented, for it was only fifty-five years ago, and tbat it has come into general use as an effective means of communication even within the mem- ory of some of the comparatively young men of today. Now it is a public necessity and the men of New York can talk with the men of San Francisco as easily as they can converse if in the same room. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in telegraph and tele- phone lines and they are today among the big enterprises of the world, and before long, if tbe world continues to move as it has in the past few years we can sit in our offices and call up our business agents or our friends in London, Paris, Berlin, Petrograd or Peking.
"Those who are present at this reunion have certainly lived in a wonderful age. They have witnessed the practicable application of electric- ity to serve the needs of mankind in a thousand mechanical devices. They have seen it pull the horseless trolley cars across a continent ; they have seen it transmitted over wires hundreds of miles and made to furnish power to run elabo- rate machinery many miles from where it was generated; they have seen it converted into light and have witnessed the astounding miracle of changing night into day in every city and town all over the civilized world. And they realize that the possibilities of electricity are only in their infancy. While it runs our cars, operates our coal mines, carries our messages around the world, lights our houses and our streets, furnishes us with heat in winter and fans our fevered brows in summer, runs our sewing machines, keeps the factories humming, does our cooking and much other domestic work. and in a thousand ways acts as the servants of man, yet the wildest imagination cannot picture the possibilities as to what use it may be put in the future. Those who are present at this reunion have witnessed the invention of the deadly submarine and seen it do its murderous work, terrorizing the world and paralyzing the commerce of the seas. They have seen the in-
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