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in the grocery business at Kirkwood, where he was Postmaster under Cleveland's first admini- istration. Removing to Monmouth, he con- ducted a restaurant there three years, until he became Marshal and Chief of Police of the city, which offices he filled most creditably for twelve years. He was three years Vice-Presi- dent of the Chief of Police Union of Illinois. He was a Democrat until the first free silver campaign in 1896, and since then he has cast his influence with the Republican party. At Monmouth, February 21, 1878, he married Mary Cooper, a native of Warren County, and a daughter of James and Jennie (Newbanks) Cooper, wbo were pioneers in this part of the State. Mr. and Mrs. Holliday are the parents of five children: Sabina Maud, Effie J., Bessie, Frank C. and James Alexander.
HOLLIDAY, WILLIAM S., M. D .; physician and surgeon; Monmouth; was born in Sciota County, Ohio, December 4, 1850, a son of Alex- ander and Nancy (Mitchell) Holliday, natives of Ireland. His maternal grandparents, Matthew and Mary Mitchell, were both natives of Scotland. Dr. Holliday's education was be- gun in the public schools of Ohio. At the age of sixteen years he came to Monmouth, residing with his brother Matthew until he attained maturity. After attending Monmouth College for two years, he read medicine with Drs. Web- ster and Crawford, and, in 1872, entered the Louisville Medical School at Louisville, Ky., from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1874, receiving Clinical Surgery prize and Anatomical prize. Since May of that year he has practiced his profession continu- ously in Monmouth. He served as County Phy- sician from 1876 to 1882, and, in 1881, was elected Coroner of Warren County, filling that office from December of that year to December, 1883. He was a member of the Board of Alder- men of the city of Monmouth (1884-86), and for twenty-five years has been a member of the executive committee of the Warren County Ag- ricultural Society. He is a member of the Baptist Church, of which he has been a trustee since 1882. He is a stockholder in the Warren County Driving Park Association. Is vice pres- ident of the Monmouth Homestead and Loan Association and was a director in the Warren County Publishing Co. He was received
as an Entered Apprentice, passed the
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Fellow Craft Degree and
was raised to the sublime degree
of Master Mason in Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M .; in 1872 he took the degree of Capitular Masonry, and was exalted to the august degree of Royal Arch Mason in Warren Chapter, No. 30, R. A. M .; also took the degrees of Chival- ric Masonry and was constituted, dubbed and created a Knight Templar in Galesburg Com- mandery, No. 8. K. T. Dr. Holiday married Emma Jewell at Monmouth, April 29, 1875. She died in 1890, leaving four children: Jessie Mabel, Alexander G., Charles Jewell and Emma Evaline. May 19, 1892, he married Lynette Bald- win. They have three children: Robert Bald- win, Stanley Matthews and Marion Lewis.
HOOD, JOHN A .; gardener; Monmouth; a man of thrift and enterprise who is making a marked success in his chosen calling and is not only well known at Monmouth, but is regarded as one of the county's representative men. He was born in Jefferson County, Ind., in 1830, a son of William and Sarah B. (Bain) Hood. His father was born in North Carolina in 1806, was brought to Indiana by his parents when he was twelve years old and became a farmer in that State. Sarah B. Bain was born in North Caro- lina in 1808. They removed in 1874 to Mon- mouth, where they died, of their eight children leaving five, as follows: John A .; James, who lives in Nebraska; Sarah, living in Monmouth; William, of LaPorte County, Ind .; and Thomas A., of Colorado. John A. Hood was reared a farmer in Jefferson County, Ind., and attended the public schools there until he was sixteen years old, when he went to LaPorte County, Ind., where he farmed until 1873, when he came to Monmouth, where for some years he was en- gaged in teaming and where, for some time past, he has been a prosperous gardener. He married in Michigan, Mary J. Crozier, born in Jefferson County, Ind., a daughter of James and Mary (Woods) Crozier, natives of Ire- land, who came to LaPorte County, Ind., in 1853 and in 1856 removed to Kankakee County, Ill., where they died. John A. and Mary J. (Crozier) Hood have eight children named as follows: Mrs. Emma Allen, of Warren County; James Calvin; Mrs. Lizzie Foster, of Mon- mouth; William, Algernon, Sarah, John and Albert. Mr. and Mrs. Hood are members of the Second United Presbyterian Church, of Mon- mouth.
HOON, SAM P .; paperhanger and painter; Monmouth; is a native of that city and a rep- resentative of one of its early families. He was born near the intersection of West Broad- way and B Street, April 10, 1850, a son of John and Margaret (Donnely) Hoon, who were married in Monmouth. John Hoon was a native of Pennsylvania who, in the early for- ties, settled on Fourth Avenue, Monmouth, and became a manufacturer of shingles and furni- ture. His wife died in 1851 and is buried in the old cemetery, and he died in 1893. Sam P. Hoon was their only child, but, by a pre- vious marriage, Mrs. Hoon had three children: Lemuel Surgart; Mrs. Matilda Arnold, Water- loo, Neb .; and Mrs. Jane Vincent, Mount Ayr, Neb. Mr. Hoon was reared in Monmouth, and was educated at the East Ward School, now known as the Central School, and afterward served an apprenticeship to the trades of paper- hanger, painter and carpenter. As a Republi- can he takes an active interest in politics. He is a member of the order of Mystic Workers and of the Bankers' Life Association. He pur- chased his residence in the Fifth Ward in 1885. At Knoxville, Ill., July 25, 1883, he married Phoebe Ellen Huffman, who was born in that village, a daughter of William and Harriet ( Lowther) Huffman. Wiliam Huffman was born in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Huffman three miles from Knoxville, a daughter of Albert and Susie (Smith) Lowther. Albert Lowther was born in Ireland, and his wife was of Scotch- Irish ancestry. He was a pioneer in Knox County, and died there in his one hundredth year. William Huffman was a miller at Abing- don, Ill. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in the Civil War, and died at Akron, Ohio, in 1866, from the effects of a wound received in battle. His widow, who now lives at Wiliamsfield, Ill., married Lt. George J. Swingle, who died at Davenport, Iowa, in 1876. By her first marriage she had children named as follows: Isabelle, Benjamin, George, Susan, Phoebe Ellen and Frank, all of whom are dead except Mrs. Hoon and George. The latter lives at Williamsfield, Ill. By her sec- ond marriage Mrs. Swingle had three children: Mrs. Josephine Story, of California; Mrs. Eliz- abeth Snedeker, of Monmouth; and Charles Bailey Swingle, of Monmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Hoon have sons named Douglas LeRoy and Linn Charles Hoon.
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HOY, CHARLES H .; contractor and builder and grocery merchant; Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois; is one of the prominent well known men of that city, is an active Republican and as such has been elected Supervisor and has represented the fifth ward in the City Council and is a trustee, a deacon and a mem- ber of the finance committee of the Baptist Church, of which he and Mrs. Hoy have long been members. Mr. Hoy was born in Washing- ton County, Michigan, in 1851, a son of George W. and Sarah L. (Root) Hoy, natives res- pectively of Connecticut and New York. George W. Hoy located in Michigan in his young man- hood and married there, where he entered upon a successful career as contractor and builder, and whence he came to Monmouth in 1885, where he is now living in retirement. His child- ren are named as follows: Charles H .; W. G., of Monmouth; F. A., a contractor, of Mon- mouth; Frank, of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Bert, of Chicago; and Emma, of Chicago. George died in Monmouth, June 4, 1885, Charles H. Hoy was reared and educated in Michigan and there learned the carpenter's trade. His first work in Monmouth was done in 1875, on the Woods building, on the south side of the pub- lic square; in 1876 he helped to erect the col- lege building. He began contracting in 1887, with his brother, the firm being Hoy Brothers, and since 1899 has operated independently. His planing mill was put in operation in 1880. He has erected many fine residences at and near Monmouth. He built the Baptist church and an addition to Graham Company's store, remodeled the west ward school, and has done much other important work in his line, and gives employment to six to twenty-five men, He went to Cozad, Boston County, Nebraska, from his old home in Michigan, in 1874, and from Cozard came to Monmouth in 1875, where at first he was employed by Dunn & Stephens and later by W. S. Emert until 1885. In 1900 he engaged in the grocery business, in which he is meeting with success. He married Miss Lit- tle J. Johnston, of Oquawka, who has borne. him children named Nettie, Minnie, Frank, Clarence, Fred and Charles. Mrs. Hoy is a daughter of Henry and Jane Johnston, who were pioneers in Henderson County, coming from Ohio in 1851. Mr. Johnston died at Mon- . mouth in 1889, and his widow is still living there.
HUEY, JOHN D .; Justice of the Peace and real estate and loan agent; Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois; is of that virile Scotch-Irish blood which has raised to itself a monument of success and of good citizenship in the United States of which thoughtful Americans are just- ly proud. He was born in West Alexandria, Washington County, Penn., April 1, 1830, a son of Virgil and Ruth (Gilmore) Huey, natives respectively of Washington County, Penn., and Ohio County, Virginia. His father was a son of John and Rebecca ( Harvey) Huey. John Huey was born in the north of Ireland, a son of the Rev. Robert Huey, a Presbyterian min- ister, and came to Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, in 1773, and died there. Virgil Huey learned the wagon-maker's trade in Pennsyl- vania, and in 1849 came to Peoria County, Illi- nois. He died at Elmwood, Illinois, in 1872; his wife died in 1880. They had eight children, named as follows: Rebecca, William, John D., Sarah, Webster, Lydia, James and Edward. James was Second Lieutenant of Company A, Seventeenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer In- fantry. Edward was a Corporal in the same company, and they both gave their lives in the defense of their country in the Civil War. John D. Huey was reared and educated in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and came to Illinois in 1849, locating in Peoria County, where he engaged in farming. In 1863 he re- moved to Yates City, Knox County, and thence came in 1876 to Warren County. For some years he was in the insurance business, but now gives his attention to real estate and loans. He is the oldest Justice of the Peace in Warren County, having served in that office by repeated re-election since 1880. Formerly a Whig and a member of the Liberty party, he has been a Re- publican since Republicanism first took organic form. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He married at Henry, Illinois, Eliz- abeth McCoy, who died leaving three children -- Virgil W., of Chicago; Eva M., of Muskogee, Indian Territory; and Mrs. Ruth Reed, of Chariton, Iowa. His present wife was Lucy J. Wasson, whom he married at Yates City, Illi- nois, and who has borne him a son, Clinton M. Huey, who is a member of the Monmouth law firm of Peacock & Huey.
JAMIESON, THE REV. J. F .; pastor of the Ninth Avenue United Presbyterian Church, Monmouth; took charge of his congrega-
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tion in September, 1894, about eight
organization of the months before the
church of which he has been the only pas- tor. He was born in Scott County, Iowa, in 1864, a son of Joel O. and Mary (Pattison) Jamieson. Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson are natives of Ohio, and were pioneers in Iowa, where Mr. Jamieson was a farmer until 1889, when they removed to Monmouth. The Rev. J. F. Jamie- son attended school in Scott County, Iowa, and in 1880 entered Monmouth College, graduating in 1886 with the degree of A. B. He then stud- ied in the Theological School at Xenia, Ohio, and at the Allegheny, Penn., Theological School graduating from the latter institution in 1889. The same year he was ordained to the ministry of the United Presbyterian Church in Scott County, Iowa, and became pastor of a church at Castroville, Calif., where he remained until 1894, when he began his work at Monmouth. He married, in Alexis, Warren County, Jennie Belle Stewart, daughter of David B. and Sarah (Pilkington) Stewart, and she has borne him a son named Joel Stewart. The Ninth Avenue United Presbyterian Church, an outgrowth of the Second United Presbyterian Church, was organized April 24, 1895, with 110 mem- bers. It membership now is one hundred and ninety, and a live Sunday School is sustained, the average attendance of which, for the year ending April 1, 1901, was two hundred and six, one of the largest in the county .. The original elders of the church were James Nesbit, Calvin E. Hogue and William H. Woods, who, with Kirk G. Phelps, William Robertson and David L. McBride, constitute the present board of eld- ers. The original trustees were William H. Woods, John Johnson, William Robertson and Margaret Campbell, and the present trustees are Margaret Campbell, Edward Miller, William H. Woods, John Johnson and Clarence M. Glass. The mission was supplied first by Herbert E. Espey for about four months. The first service was held in a small building owned by the Pres- bytery, in which a mission Sunday School had been sustained for some years. The present frame house of worship, which covers a ground space of fifty by ninety feet, was erected in 1896 at a cost of $7,500.
JEWELL, W. H .; American School of Mag- netic Healing; Monmouth; is a civil war vet- eran and is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church and of the local body of the Modern
Woodmen of America. He was born in Lenox Township, April 12, 1844, a son of Jacob and Julia Ann (Brooks) Jewell. His father was born in New York, a son of Lemuel and Jane (Cole) Jewell, natives of that State, who were pioneers in Lenox Township and died there. Jacob Jewell was reared in New York, came to Lenox Township in 1839, and bought wild land which he set about improving. He be- came prominent as a farmer, and died in Mon- mouth in 1898, aged eighty-three years. His wife, whom he married in Warren County in 1843, and who bore him six children, is living at Monmouth. Their children were named as follows: W. H .; Charles, who was accidentally killed; Henry L., who lives on the Jewell home- stead in Lenox Township; Mrs. Olive Black- burn, of Monmouth; Dudley, of Oklahoma; Emily J., who married .W. S. Holliday, of Mon- mouth. W. H. Jewell began his education in the public schools in Lenox Township, and was two years a student in the Ward School, Monmouth. He then engaged in farming and lived for sev- eral years in Gage County, Neb. After that he farmed in Missouri till he entered the college of the American School of Magnetic Healing, at Nevada, Mo., from which institution he was graduated in 1898. In 1899 he established and incorporated the American School of Magnetic Healing at Monmouth. He married December, 1867, in Warren County, Emma Wonderly, who was born in Pennsylvania, a daughter of John and Margaret (Zugg) Wonderly, natives of that commonwealth, who settled early in Warren County, and now live at Monmouth. He enlist- ed at Monmouth, in 1864, in Company C, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred days, and at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and St. Louis and Springfield, Mo., did garrison duty and guarded bridges until discharged in 1864.
JOSS, GEORGE L., stationary engineer in the employ of the Monmouth Pottery Company, is a member of a family who have long been held high in respect in this county, is active an in- fluential as a Republican, is a member of the Ancient Order of the United Workmen, and has long been responsibly identified with prominent manufacturing interests of Monmouth, where he was born July 18, 1848, a son of R. S. and Mary (Norcross) Joss. His grandfather Joss, . native of Scotland, settled in Maine, where he reared a family and died. His father, R. S.
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Joss, was born at Biddeford and there received a good practical education. In 1842 he came to Monmouth and bought a carding mill on Archer Avenue, between Third and Fifth Streets, which was burned in 1843. Later, in partnership with Mr. Grant, he built a mill on First Avenue, of which he eventually became sole proprietor, and which he operated for many years. He bought the Paxton Woolen Mills at Eleanor, and later, in association with Mr. Milliken, es- tablished a woolen mill at Monmouth, which he long managed successfully. He was in every way prominent in Monmouth and was a mem- ber of the first Board of Aldermen of the city. He married there in 1844, Maria Norcross, who was born in Erie County, Penn., a daughter of John and Maria Norcross, natives of that State, who came to Monmouth in 1843. Mr. Norcross, who was a farmer, died in Monmouth Town- ship. R. S. Joss died in Monmouth in 1895, his wife in 1881. They had seven children, of whom five are living: Mrs. A. P. Babcock, of Galesburg; George L .; Mrs. Sarah Montgom- ery, of Chicago; Sewall, of Chicago, and Mrs. R. A. Wilson, of Monmouth. George L. Joss was reared and educated in Monmouth, and was for years employed in the woolen mills. For seven years he was the engineer for the city water works; for eleven years and a half he was in the employ of the Weir Plow Com- pany, and for the past two years he has been in the service of the Monmouth Pottery Com- pany. He married in Monmouth, in 1869, Ag- nes Snider, who was born in Cumberland Coun- ty, Penn., a daughter of Christopher and Mary Snider, natives of that commonwealth, who set- tled in Warren County in 1848. Mrs. Snider is dead; Mr. Snider lives with his daughter, Mrs. Joss, who has borne her husband children named: John, Eva and Harry.
KILGORE, JAHIEL C., M. D .; physician and surgeon; Monmouth, Warren County, Illi- nois; was born in Holmes County, Ohio, May 11, 1840, a son of Alexander and Jane ( Barn- hill) Kilgore, from Westmoreland County, Penn. The family is of Scotch extraction. The founder of the family in America was James Kilgore, grandfather of Daniel Kilgore,. the great-grandfather of the doctor. His son James was born in Pennsylvania and married Margaret Mckinney, also a native of that State, and they became the parents of Alexander Kil- gore, who was born December 29, 1802. About
1805 they removed to Wayne County, Ohio, where their son Alexander was reared. The latter devoted his life to farming in that State, where his death occurred in 1889. Dr. Kilgore's maternal grandfather, Gabriel Barnhill, married Nancy McCurdy. Both were natives of Penn- sylvania. Dr. J. C. Kilgore was reared on his father's farm and attended school in Haysville, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Com- pany G, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served with that command until October 30, 1864, when he was mustered out of the service at Columbus, Ohio. He was taken prisoner at Chickasaw Bluffs, December 29 1862, and con- fined for three months in the Confederate pris- ons at Vicksburg and Jackson, Miss. At the close of the war he returned to his home in Ohio. January 4, 1866, he removed to Mon- mouth. where for three years he read medicine under the preceptorship of Drs. J. R. Webster and S. K. Crawford. In the spring of 1869 he was graduated from Rush Medical College, Chi- cago, and at once entered upon his professional work at Little York, Warren County, where he enjoyed a successful practice until January 18, 1875, when he located in Monmouth as the partner of Dr. J. R. Webster. Since 1885 he has conducted an independent practice in which he has been very successful. There is probably no physician in Warren County who more nearly realizes the popular ideal of the family doctor. He keeps fully abreast of the most advanced thought of his science, and ex- hibits a hearty interest in the work of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, and the Military Tract Medical Society, of which he is a member. Fra- ternally he is a Mason, and, politically, a Re- publican. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. October 25, 1870, Dr. Kilgore married Emeline A. Brownlee, of Little York, Warren County. Mrs. Kilgore dates her paternal an- cestry back five generations to the Laird of Torfoot, who was identified with the Reforma- tion in Scotland. He was in the battles of Drumclog and Bothwell Bridge in 1679. Archi- bald and Margaret Hamilton Brownlee, of this family, came to America in 1752. She also traces her lineage to Ephraim McDowell, who was connected with the siege of Londonderry, as " one of the thirteen apprentices who held the gates." Nathaniel McDowell emigrated from the County of Down, Ireland, in 1758, and settled in Washington County, Penn. In
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the maternal line Mrs. Kilgore is a descend- ant of Elijah Mason and Lucretia Green, who emigrated to this country in 1619 from Salis- bury, England, settling at Lebanon, Conn. The Paine family were also natives of England, coming to this country in 1638. General Ed- ward Paine settled in Ohio in Territorial days, where he owned the site of the city of Paines- ville, which has perpetuated his name. Mrs. Kilgore's four great-grandfathers served dur- ing the Revolution in the ranks of the Conti- nental army. Her grandparents were pioneers in Warren County, Hamilton Brownlee coming from Washington County, Penn., in the year 1833, while Charles Henry Paine came from Painesville, Ohio, in the year 1836-both fam- ilies living near Little York on farms which were taken as government land. Mrs. Kilgore's father was Nathaniel Brownlee, born April 11, 1813, and married Emily Paine November 26,
1846. Mr. Brownlee died of Cholera August 11, 1873; Mrs. Brownlee died of fatty degenera- tion of the heart, June 8, 1887. They are re- membered in this county as earnest helpers in all good work. Mrs. Kilgore has spent her life in Warren County. She is one of the twelve founders of the Pi Beta Phi fraternity, and was graduated from Monmouth College in 1868. She is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
KIDDER, ALMON-As a lawyer, a magis- trate, a financier and as a friend of popular education, Almon Kidder has, during all his active years, been closely and prominently con- nected with the development and prosperity of Monmouth and Warren County. Mr. Kidder was born in Warren County February 27, 1838. His parents were Larned and Mary A. (Hois- ington) Kidder. His father was born at Mans- field, Conn., which was the birthplace of his paternal ancestors in direct line from his great- grandfather down.
His great-great-grand- father was Nathaniel Kidder. His great-grand- father, also Nathaniel Kidder, married Mary Cross, and his grandfather, Nathaniel Kidder, married Speedy Whitmore. His great-grand- mother and his grandmother in the Kidder line were both born in Mansfield, Conn. Mary A. Hoisington, his mother, was a native of Wind- sor, Vt., a daughter of Abisha and Lucinda (Hastings) Hoisington. Her father was born at Windsor, Vt., and her mother at Hardwich, Mass. Mr. Kidder's great-great-grandfather in the maternal line, was Ebenezer Hoisington,
a native of Southington, Conn., who married Elizabeth Miller, who was born at the same place, and his great-great-grandfather was John Hoisington, also a native of Southington. Mr. Kidder was educated at Lombard College, and was admitted to the bar of Warren County October 20, 1862, since which time he has prac- ticed his profession in the county continuously. In 1870 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and served several years. For fifteen years he has been President of the Monmouth Loan Association, and, from 1871 to 1879, he held the office of School Director. In politics he is a Republican. He was married at Moline, Rock Island County, Ill., October 18, 1883, to Lucy E. Mapes, by whom he has a son named Max, aged fifteen years. Nina, his daughter by a former marriage, married Lieutenant Harry L. James, of the United States army. They a now located at Manila, Philippine Islands.
LAHANN, REIMER-Much has been writ- ten concerning the value of the German char- acter as a factor in American citizenship, and it is only necessary to observe the success which has attended the efforts of such thrifty, honor- able and enterprising German-Americans as Reimer Lahann, of Monmouth, Ill., to fully real- ize the truth of it all. Mr. Lahann was born in Holstein, Germany, October 8, 1842, a son of Hans and Ida (Koehl) Lahann, both natives of the Fatherland, where Mr. Lahann's grand- father, Hans Lahann, was born. His fore- fathers for many generations were French. Mr. Lahann received a practical education in his native land, and May 9, 1861, several months before he was nineteen years old, land- ed at Castle Garden, New York, whence he went to Troy, N. Y. For a time he worked on a farm at West Troy, and in 1862-63 was em- ployed in a paper mill at Troy. In the spring of 1863 he began working as a cabinet-maker, but after three months he became a substitute for his brother Henry in the New York State Mili- tia and as such took part in quelling the draft riots in New York city. He was released from service at the expiration of three years and, May 1, 1866, arrived at Quincy, Ill., where he remained until November 6th, following, when he came to Monmouth, where, as the head of the firm of Lahann & Jones, he began to manu- facture cigars. At the end of three months he succeeded to Mr. Jones' interest in the business, of which he remained sole proprietor until his
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