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retirement in February, 1899, when he sold his business to the Maple City Cigar Company, and in 1901, upon the organization of the Mon- mouth Telephone Company, with which he be- came identified, was elected to its management. Mr. Lahann allied himself with the Republi- can party when he became a citizen of the United States. In 1893 he was elected School Director, but resigned the office after a few months because of an error in his naturaliza- tion papers, which he had rectified as soon as discovered. In 1895 he was elected Mayor of the city of Monmouth, which office he filled creditably for two years. He was a member of Warren Lodge, No. 160, I. O. O. F., from 1868 to 1875, when he withdrew and was one of the organizers and a charter member of Monmouth Lodge No. 577, I. O. O. F. He was re- ccived as an Entered Apprentice, passed the Fellow Craft degree and was raised to the sub- lime degree of Master Mason in Trinity Lodge, No. 561, A. F. & A. M., in 1870, and since that lodge went out of existence has affiliated with Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., of which he was Worshipful Master for two years. He took the Master's degree in Capitulary Masonry and was exalted to the august degree of Royal Arch Mason in Warren Chapter, No. 30, R. A. M., of which degree he became a mem- ber July 3, 1876. He took the degrees of Chiv- alric Masonry and was constituted, dubbed and created a Knight Templar in Galesburg Com- mandery No. 8, K.T. His membership dates from March 16, 1885. He joined the Medinah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in 1892, and withdrew from it to become a charter member of Ma- homet Temple at Peoria. Mr. Lahann married Catharine M. Fongard, at Troy, N. Y., January 24, 1865, and has three children: Ida Cathar- ine Johannah, who married Fred T. Hayden; Andrew Reimer, who married Minnie R. Ran- kin; Nina Mary, who married Wilfred Arnold.
LOGAN, JOHN M .; contractor and builder; Monmouth; has been active in his branch of industry in Monmouth for a longer period than any one else, and has watched the growth of the city while its population has more than doubled. Politically he is active and influen- tial as a Republican, casting his vote for John C. Fremont for President in 1856, and "voted with the Chicago residents and Rock Island for Congressmen in 1856," 1858 and 1860. He was
born in Allegheny County, Penn., August 25, 1829, a son of James and Mary (Caldwell) Lo- gan. James Logan, a son of Alexander Logan, was born in Logan's Ferry, Allegheny County, Penn., in 1787. Alexander and his wife, natives of the north of Ireland, settled at an early day at Logan's Ferry, on the Allegheny River, where he became a farmer, and where they both lived out their days. James Logan was prominent in Allegheny County as a farmer and otherwise and, when he died in 1839, was filling the office of Prothonotary. His wife, who died there in 1877, bore him ten children whom they named as follows: Theodocia, who is dead; Robert Fulton, who died in Pennsylvania; Alexander, who died of Cholera in Chicago in 1854; James H., who is dead; Lucinda Sampson, who died in Philadelphia in 1876; Eliza, who is dead; Sampson; Mary Jane and Matilda, who live in Pennsylvania; and John M., who is the subject of this sketch. John M. Logan grew up in his native country, and was there educated, learned his trade and began his career as a carpenter. In 1854 he emigrated from Pitts- burg to Rock Island, Ill., where he remained until 1869-70 and, in 1870, located in Mon- mouth. He was employed at his trade in several ways until 1883, when he began con- tracting and building. He superintended the crection of the First and Second United Pres- byterian churches and other notable structures, and built the Patton Block and other land marks in and about Monmouth. ] He married in Westmoreland County, Penn., February 14, 1856, Elizabeth Hawk, who was born there in 1828. a daughter of Elizabeth and Joseph Hawk, who were born and lived out their days in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Logan have an adopted daughter. . They are communicants of the First United Presbyterian church.
LORD, EUGENE ADDISON; founder and manager of the E. A. Lord Fuel and Ice Com- pany, Monmouth; is the only resident of that city who is a member of the society of Sons of the American Revolution. He was born at Pleasant Green, Warren County, September 2, 1860, a son of William Henry and Mary ( Bake) Lord. His father was born at New Berlin, Che- nango County, N. Y., January 18, 1835; his mother in Butler County, Ohio. Harry Green Lord, father of William Henry Lord and grandfather of Eugene Addison Lord, was born at Norwich, Conn., a son of William and Jane
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(Green) Lord, natives of that town, and was able to trace his ancestry to William the Con- queror, of England. He married Maria Beebe, who was born at Unadilla, N. Y. Thomas Lord, the first American ancestor of the fam- ily, settled at Hartford, Conn., in 1635, and Mr. Lord's genealogical line descends from him through William Lord, of Saybrook, Conn., who died in 1678; Benjamin Lord, of Saybrook, who died in 1713; the Rev. Benjamin Lord, for sixty-seven years pastor of the Norwich
( Conn.) Congregational church, who died in 1783; Ebenezer Lord; William Lord; William Lord (second), who emigrated from Connecti- cut to Chenango County, N. Y., where the family were farmers and hotel-keepers until 1853. In that year William Lord (second), Harry Green Lord and William Henry Lord- father, grandfather and great-grandfather of Eugene Addison Lord-settled on a farm near Pleasant Green, Warren County, Ill. Mr. Lord's great-grandfather and grandfather are buried at Pleasant Green, and his father at Monmouth, where the latter died August 20, 1893. William Henry Lord was prominent in his township and county, held several import- ant township offices and was a member of the City Council of Monmouth for two years. His wife, Mary Bake, was a daughter of Jeremiah Bake, an early settler in Henderson County, where, from 1835, he was largely interested in lumbering and milling, and became the owner of a considerable tract of land. Eugene Addi- son Lord attended the district school and worked on his father's farm until he was eigh- teen years old. He then began teaching and was so employed two years until he accepted a position as bookkeeper in the Monmouth National Bank, which he filled for five years until he became treasurer of the Monmouth Mining and Manufacturing Company, in 1885, which office he resigned in 1894, in order to devote his energies entirely to the coal and wood business of Lord & Son, which he had established in 1888 and which, since 1894, has been conducted under the name of the E. A. Lord Fuel and Ice Company, doing a large wholesale and retail trade in coal, wood, ice, lime, cement, sand, brick, stone and masons' and builders' materials. Mr. Lord married, September 9, 1886, Nannie Thompson, who died May 10, 1895, leaving three daughters: Margaret, born June 3, 1888; Josephine, born
May 28, 1890; and Mary, born October 1, 1892. July 11, 1899, Mr. Lord married Ida Shoe- maker, of Monmouth, and they live in a fine residence at No. 310 South Third Street, which he built in 1898. While not an active politician, Mr. Lord has, as a Republican, al- ways taken a keen interest in political ques- tions of national and local bearing. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, of Mon- mouth Lodge No. 302, Knights of Pythias, and of Monmouth Lodge No. 397, of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks.
MARSHALL, DR. H .; physician and sur- geon; Monmouth; began the practice of his profession in Cold Brook Township, Warren County, in 1852, and was located at Cameron from the completion of the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy Railroad until 1872, when he removed to Monmouth. He was born in South Carolina, December 15, 1825, a son of Alexan- der and Mary (McMillan) Marshall. His par- ents, natives of South Carolina, were reared and married there and in 1839 emigrated to Henderson County, Ill., where Mr. Marshall ac- quired land and was a successful farmer, and where he and his wife died. They had seven children: Robert, Jane, David, John, James H., and William. James and William are dead; John and Robert and Jane (who is Mrs. Brook), live in Henderson County; David lives in Burlington, Iowa. Doctor Marshall was fourteen years old when his parents came to Henderson County. He attended public schools in the two states mentioned and was reared to a farm life. After reading medicine under the preceptorship of Doctor McMillan, he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated in the class of 1852. He is one of the oldest physicians in the county, has been President of the Military Tract Medical Society, was a member of the Illinois State Medical Society and is active in the Warren County Medical Society. As a Democrat he was elected to the office of County Coroner, which he filled with ability and fidelity. He married at Monmouth in 1872 Catherine Brewer, who was born in Maryland, a daughter of John Brewer, a na- tive of that state, who came to Knoxville, Ill., and thence to Monmouth, where he was a dry- goods merchant and where he and his wife died-he in 1900. Dr. and Catherine (Brewer) Marshall have a son named Hugh.
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MATTHEWS, REV. ROBERT C., for thirty years pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Monmouth, was the son of Rev. John Matthews of Virginia and was born April 1, 1822. He was graduated at Hanover College, Indiana, in 1839, studied law and practiced at Fairfield, Iowa, for a short time, taught for several years in Mississippi and then studied theology at New Albany, Ind.
He began to preach to the Presbyterian church of Monmouth in 1851, and remained its devoted and beloved pastor till his death, No- vember 15, 1881. Suddenly he entered into his ever-glorious rest, having preached twice on the previous Sabbath.
Dr. Matthews held in this community posi- tions of public trust as College trustee, Li- brary trustee and Public school director. He was heartily identified with the building up there educational agencies. His service there- in was highly esteemed by every one.
Away from Monmouth he was widely known and honored. He received calls again and again to the pastorates of churches in larger cities, which invitations he quietly declined, to continue his work here. For many years he was one of the directors of the McCormick Theological Seminary at Chicago. Everywhere recognized as one of the foremost clergymen of the State, his best loved work was at Mon- mouth and for Monmouth.
No man was ever more free from narrow views of his high calling. The unselfish work and the benign influence of this liberal earnest worker were not restricted by church bound- aries. For thirty years he was the recognized standard-bearer of truth, righteousness and godliness in this community.
No one was ever more free from self-seeking. The simple and powerful eloquence of his words was made mightier by the constant force of a character, pure, strong and lovely. Thus he was known and read of all men, whether they heard him preach or not. Among the pastorates of this county, his was the one which has done most to elevate, purify, com- fort and guide all classes and conditions of men.
MCCLANAHAN, THOMAS S .; County Sur- veyor of Warren County and City Engineer of Monmouth, Ill., was one of the engineers who laid out and constructed the Peoria and Farm- ington (now the Iowa Central) Railroad and
has done surveying on every quarter section in Warren County. He was born in Adams County, Ohio, August 14, 1827, a son of John and Margaret B. ( Wright) McClanahan. John McClanahan was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1795, a son of Robert and Isabelle Mc- Clanahan, who were born in the North of Ire- land, of Scotch-Irish ancestors. Robert Mc- Clanahan settled in Virginia in 1794 and re- moved in 1800 to Ohio, where he died. John McClanahan came to Warren County in 1855, and was a farmer and miller until 1862, when he enlisted in the Eighty-third Illinois Volun- teer Infantry. He was killed at Fort Donel- son, February, 1863, and the Monmouth Post of the Grand Army of the Republic is named in his honor. His widow died in Spring Grove Township, in 1873. Thomas S. McClanahan, who was reared and educated in Ohio, came to Peoria, Ill., in 1854, and, in 1855, to Hale Town- ship, where he bought a grain tract which he improved into a fine farm which he still owns. For years he was Town Clerk of Hale Town- ship. In 1865 he came to Monmouth and aided in establishing the Warren County Insurance and Banking Company, of which he was Vice- President, afterwards returning to Hale Town- ship he remained until 1889, since when he has lived at Monmouth. His first election to the office of County Surveyor was in 1858, and he has been many times re-elected and, for more than twenty-six years, has held the office continuously. He was first elected City Engineer in 1889 and re-elected in 1901. In the period succeeding 1892 he had charge of paving the city and installing its sewerage sys- tem besides other modern improvements. Mr. McClanahan was for thirty-one years a teacher in Warren County and taught civil engineering and surveying in Monmouth College for twenty years. He and his wife are members of the First United Presbyterian Church of Mon- mouth. He married, at Georgetown, Ohio, September 26, 1848, Mary J. Martin, who has borne him eleven children, two of whom died young and nine of whom were named as fol- lows: J. M., physician and surgeon, Kirkwood; J. F., who died at the age of eight years; Charles L. of Eleanor; W. S., physician and surgeon, Woodhull, Henry County, Ill .; A. I., of Idaho; Cora A .; Nettie M., who is dead; A. C., physician and surgeon, Chicago; T. N., who lives on his father's farm in Hale Town- ship. Mrs. Mary J. McClanahan died January
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10, 1902. In politics Mr. McClanahan is a Re- publican. His father's family was evenly di- vided on political questions, the father and four sons having been Democrats, and five sons Republicans. To John and Margaret B. (Wright) McClanahan were born seventeen children, among whom are Mary Ann, of Cherry Fork, Ohio; Robert, of Cincinnati, Ohio; the Rev. A. W., of the United Presby- terian Church, who died in Ohio; Samuel, who died at Monmouth, in 1893, and of this large family there are nine dead and eight living, among whom are the two oldest, thus the seventh, the subject of this sketch, then the ninth, tenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and the seventeenth, the oldest of whom is eighty-three years old and the youngest fifty-eight years.
McCLEARY, R. B .; physician and surgeon; Monmouth; has practiced his profession in the county since 1865, was Coroner in 1869-80, is a member of the Illinois Medical Society, is a prominent Republican and a veteran of the civil war, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. He was born in Wabash County, Ill., January 3, 1833, a son of James and Sophia (Ellis) Mc- Cleary, natives respectively of Ohio and Ken. tucky. John McCleary, his grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and, in 1815, located in Wabash County, where he was a farmer until his death. James Mc- Cleary was fifteen years old when his father set- tled in Wabash County. He was reared on a farm, but for many years was a pilot and was on the Mississippi River. He died in Wayne County in, 1873, his wife in 1889, aged 82 years. Nine of their children grew to maturity: Har- riet, deceased; John D., a soldier in the civil war and now living in Iowa; R. B., the subject of this sketch; Mary, Sarah, Angeline, Isabelle, and Josephine. Dr. McCleary grew up and was educated in Wabash County, studied medicine in St. Louis and Chicago, graduated from Hah- nemann Medical College, and in 1857 began the practice of medicine in Fulton County. In 1865 he located at Young America (now Kirkwood), whence he removed to Monmouth in 1868. He married in Fulton County, Esther Mariner, who was born in New York, a daughter of John Mar- iner, a native of that State, who settled in Ful- ton County in 1835, and died there. Mrs. Mc- Cleary has borne her husband three daughters: Virginia Antoinette, wife of Doctor Taylor, of Watertown, Ill., but formerly prominent in
Monmouth; Mrs. Minnie Garrison and Mrs. Laura Greenleaf, of Monmouth. Dr. McCleary enlisted at St. Louis, July 27, 1861, in the First Missouri Engineer Corps, for three years or during the war, and served with the Army of the West in Mississippi and Tennessee until honorably discharged at Louisville, Ky., Aug- ust 18, 1864, taking part in the battle of Cor- inth and in other important engagements. He is a member of Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., of Warren Chapter, No. 30, R. A. M., and of Galesburg Commandery, No. 8, K. T. Mrs. McCleary is a member of the Methodist church.
MCLAUGHLIN, C. A., was born at Montgom- ery, Ohio, October 4, 1841, a son of James M. and Hursa (Holmes) Mclaughlin. His father was a native of Ohio, his mother of Westmore- land County, Penn. His paternal grandfather, John Mclaughlin, and his maternal grand- father, Samuel Holmes, were both natives of Scotland, as were also Susan Daniels, whom John Mclaughlin married, and Sarah Hosick, who became the wife of Samuel Holmes. Early in life C. A. Mclaughlin was taken by his par- ents to Kentucky, where his father became a professor in a female college at Falmouth, where he died in 1845. The subject of this sketch was an infant in arms when his parents went to Kentucky, and remained there until after the beginning of the civil war. July 3, 1861, he enlisted in Company K, Fourth Regi- ment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, which was afterward mounted and equipped as a cavalry regiment. His first experience of actual battle was at Mill Springs, after that he was in the two days' fight at Shiloh, participated in the Tullahoma campaign and in the fighting at Chickamauga, also took part in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, and in the Atlanta campaign. He fought at Frank- lin and at Nashville, Tenn., and was with Ma- jor-General Wilson in his cavalry ride to relieve Mobile, and has vivid recollections of having been in line when Jefferson was captured. He began his service as Quartermaster-Sergeant and was promoted to the Captaincy of his com- pany. He was mustered out of the service August 17, 1865. Politically Mr. Mclaughlin is a Republican. He is liberal in his religious views, and has always been generous in his support of public worship. He has been twice married; first to Mary L. Sinnock, of Missouri,
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March 31, 1866, who bore him a son, Samuel M. Mclaughlin. His present wife, to whom he was married at Knox City, Mo., March 29, 1878, was Miss Rosa E. Huffman.
MCCLOSKEY, ROBERT H., painter, Mon- mouth; is a veteran of the civil war and has been Commander of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, and as a Re- publican he was elected to the office of Consta- ble, which he fills with much ability. He was born in Davenport, Iowa, September 9, 1848, a son of Anthony and Elizabeth (Pollock) Mc- Loskey. His father was born in Indiana and came to Davenport a young man. He was a pioneer there and had a successful career as a cabinet-maker until his death. Elizabeth Pol- lock was born at Columbus, Ohio, a daughter of Robert Pollock, a pioneer, who kept, at North Henderson, the first postoffice between Mon- mouth and Rock Island. She is living at Alexis, Warren County, and her four children are named as follows: Charles, who served three years in the civil war, in the Fourteenth Reg- iment lowa Volunteer Infantry; Robert H .; George, of Peoria County; Mrs. Mary Boggs, of Alexis. Robert H. McCloskey was reared and educated at Davenport, Iowa, and at the age of fifteen years he enlisted at Davenport, May 11, 1864, for one hundred days, in Company K, Forty-fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infant- ry, which was stationed at Franklin, Tenn., and with which he served four months. He was honorably discharged from the service at Springfield, Ill., and enlisted March 14, 1865, in Company B, Eighty-third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for one year unless sooner discharged. He did service in the mounted infantry in operations against guerillas until he was transferred to Sixty- the first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He received his final discharge at Springfield in 1865 and returned to Davenport. Eventually he located at Monmouth, where he has lived since, except for a time when in the livery busi- ness in Page County, Iowa. He married, in Mercer County, in 1873, Nancy Lafferty, who was born in Mercer County, a daughter of John and Gizella (Stewart) Lafferty, who came to that county early from Ohio. Mrs. McLoskey has borne her husband five children, four of whom are living: Harry, John, Vera and Ella. Harry enlisted in Company H, Sixth Regiment. United States Volunteers, and served in the
Spanish-American war, in the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns, until the war closed. He was honorably discharged in Springfield, Ill.
MERRIDITH, C. C .; Secretary and Treasurer of the Monmouth Mining and Manufacturing Company, Monmouth, is a son of a merchant long prominent at Monmouth, and is himself one of the leading business men of that city. He was born at Oxford, Ohio, in 1861, and his parents were Joseph H. and Amanda (Clark) Merridith, natives of Ohio, who grew up, were educated and married there, In 1864, when the subject of this sketch was three years old, his father settled in Monmouth and, for many years,conductedan extensive dry-goods business in the old Opera House block, and was a leader in all important local affairs until he returned to Ohio, whence he removed to Indiana. He had five children named as follows: Fannie, who lives in Indiana: Elizabeth, who is Mrs. J. R. Hanna, of Monmouth; Mary; C. C. and J. Frank, of Monmouth. C. C. Merridith was edu- cated at Monmouth and at Burlington, Iowa. His connection with the Monmouth Mining and Manufacturing Company dates from January, 1884, when he became its Secretary. He was made superintendent of the plant in 1897, and now holds the dual office of Secretary and Treasurer. The business was established in 1871 by several promoters, but did not assume large proportions until it was bought by Wil- liam Hanna in 1883. Mr. Hanna was succeeded by the present management in 1884, and the plant was enlarged in 1885 and again in 1890. The company manufactures vitrified clay sewer pipe, of double strength and standard thick- ness, in all sizes from three to twenty-four inches in diameter. Most of the cities of the United States use this kind of pipe exclusively for sewers, it being cheaper and better than brick and better than cement pipe, and the clay pipe of this concern, having a smooth and uniform surface, offers less obstruction to the current and is less liable to become filled with sediment than any other. The business of this company is an important factor in the indus- trial development of Monmouth, whose citizens regard Mr. Merridith as a man of great public spirit. He married, at Monmouth, in 1886, Anna Alexander, who was born there, a daugh- ter of John E. and Mary ( Reichard) Alexander, natives of Maryland. Mr. Alexander, who came early to Warren County, and for a time was
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agent for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, founded the town of Alexis. He was a successful lawyer and, for a time, was a member of the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Alexander. He died at Monmouth, January 17. 1901, and his widow is a resident of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Merridith have daughters named Margery and Catharine. They are helpful members of the Presbyterian Church.
MERRIDITH, J. F., Secretary and Treas- urer of the Maple City Soap Factory, was born in Monmouth, October 27, 1864, son of Joseph and Amanda (Parker) Merridith. The father was born in Ohio, October 25, 1825, was reared educated and married in the same State, and came to Monmouth in 1860, where he engaged in the general dry-goods business on South Main Street. He and his brother erected part of the building now occupied by E. B. Colwell & Co. He was in general business for many years, and then returned to Ohio, and now re- sides in Indiana. Both Mr. and Mrs. Merridith are living. To them have been born four child- ren: Mrs. J. R. Hanna, of Monmouth; Mary; C. C., of Monmouth; J. F., the subject of this sketch. J. F. Merridith was educated in Mon- mouth and in Ohio. He engaged in mercantile business for himself, and later became Secre- tary and Treasurer of the Maple City Soap Fac- tory. The business was established in 1885 on North B Street, and the present plant, built in 1900, was occupied April 1, 1901-a good brick building, 156x226 feet, three stories in height, with basement. It gives employment to fifty- eight employes in the shop, besides eighteen traveling salesmen. The concern was incor- porated in 1900, and Mr. Merridith has been connected with it ever since. He was married in Monmouth, in 1895, to Miss Edna Phares, and they have one son, Robert Phares. Mr. Merri- dith is a member of the Presbyterian Church and is one of the active business men of Mon- mouth.
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