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PRESSLY WILLIAM P., was born near Abbeville, S. C., March 17, 1811. He was for a time, while a boy, a student at Miami Uni- versity, Ohio. Then he engaged in farming and afterwards in business at Hamilton, Ohio. He came to Monmouth in 1859, and, after farming for one year, became for the remainder of his active life a merchant. For many years his store was the favorite shopping place of Mon- mouth, especially for people from the country. He was a very successful business man of the highest standing. His credit and his charac- ter were never blemished. Mr. Pressly was married to Mary Gilmore, of Ohio, in 1833. She died in 1836. His second wife, Mary Miller, of Virginia, died in 1885. His son, Henry, a young man of fine ability and character, gave his life for his country in the Civil War. He had three daughters, Virginia, Sarah and Mary, each died in early womanhood. Thus left childless, Mr. Pressly determined to become his own execu- tor. In 1863 he gave to Monmouth College 700 acres of choice farming lands in Iowa. Dur- ing 1870 and subsequent years he gave to the Warren County Library over $20,000.00, thus founding a library for popular use, erecting and donating the first building ever given for
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such a purpose in the State of Illinois. An ac- count of this gift and Mr. Pressly's intentions therein can be found in the sketch of the library, contained in this volume. The liberal and sensible plans of the founder have brought to this institution constantly increasing pros- perity and enlarging usefulness. It has been managed exactly in accordance with his wishes. A twin object of Mr. Pressly's practi- cal and liberal care has been the building and endowing of Mission Schools for native Chris- tians in Egypt. For this purpose he has, also, given over $20,000.00. These schools have had excellent management. They have had remark- able success. The engraving accompanying this sketch is taken from a portrait painted thirty years ago. Mr. Pressly lives to enjoy the good which he has done. He has seen his gifts applied as he intended. He has won the respect and gratitude of thousands. His prac- tical benevolence and his Christian character give him an abiding remembrance in this our land of the future as well as in the ancient land of the pyramids. His name will endure as the name of a helper of his fellowmen.
QUINBY, THE HONORABLE IVORY, was born July 14th, 1817, in Buxton, Maine, and died at Monmouth, Ill., October 23, 1869. He received a college education at Waterville Col- lege, Maine, and after studying law, came to Monmouth in 1837. He practiced law in Mon- mouth, engaged for a short time in business at Berwick and was elected Judge of the County Court of Warren County in 1853. He was prom- inently connected with the most important early business enterprises of this locality-with its banks, with its first railroad and with the building up and enlargement of Monmouth. Coming to this State almost without a dollar, by years of patient business activity and far- seeing enterprise, he became one of the wealth- iest men of the city. His was the best type of conservative, trustworthy, courteous, liberal, unassuming character. It was the testimony of the lawyers of this county "That his dispas- sionate judgment and consistent uprightness of character rendered him an ornament to the profession." The ministers of the city knew him as a Christian man of unostentatious char- ity and piety. Conscientiously and silently help was given where help was most needed. His public spirit and remarkable good judg- ment in respect to men and measures were im-
portant factors in the history of Monmouth. No man, living here during the early formative years of this community, did more than he to- ward its advancement. He was pre-eminently foremost in aiding the benevolent and educa- tional institutions of his own city. Monmouth College found him a most liberal and active friend and supporter. As a member of its board of trustees, his wise guidance of its early development was exceedingly valuable. He gave to the college over $8,000. During the first thirty years of its history, it had only one other equally liberal helper. It never had a more judicious counsellor. For several years before his death he had in mind the project of a Public Library for the city of Monmouth. In the year 1868 he brought about the opening of the Reading Room, well supplied with peri- odicals for the use of the public, and gave it the use of a hall for two years. This was the starting point of what is now "The Warren County Library and Reading Room Associa- tion." Judge Quinby did not live to see its assured success, but with excellent judgment he moulded its beginnings. He wrote its consti- tution and helped to select the first members of a corporation, carefully organized for the purpose of holding and managing library prop- erty. This was his last work for the public. It is to such men that communities owe char- acter and prosperity. Monmouth is far better because this wise, helpful and upright life was lived in its midst.
QUINBY, IVORY .- From a long line of New England ancestors the subject of this sketch has inherited those qualities which have made him a good business man and a patriotic and public-spirited citizen and those social quali- ties which have made him popular with his fellow citizens in his home city of Monmouth. Ivory Quinby, who is prominently connected with the insurance interests of Warren County, was born at Monmouth, April 20, 1865, a son of Ivory Quinby, a native of Maine, and his wife, Mary E. (Pearce) Quinby, a native of Ohio. His grandfather Quinby was a man of charac- ter and standing in New Hampshire, and his wife Mehitabel, was one of those good women of the old school who sent descendants as pioneers to the settlements in Western New York and Pennsylvania, and thence to Ohio and further west. Mr. Quinby was educated in the public school at Monmouth, and at Monmouth
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College, and is a Prohibitionist in politics, and is a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1890 he was elected a director of the National Bank of Monmouth, and his in- surance agency, one of the most successful in Warren County, dates from 1891. He was for three years a member of the School Board of the city of Monmouth and, since 1899, has been a trustee of Monmouth College. Mr. Quin- by married Inez Jewell at Phelps, Warren County, October 10, 1895, and has two children. Ivory, the third of his name in direct line, and Margaret Quinby.
RANKIN, GEORGE CREATH, Monmouth, Editor of the Republican-Atlas, was born in Monmouth, August 29, 1850, a son of Nathaniel A. and Martha ( Holloway) Rankin. After his graduation from Monmouth College in 1872, he became City Editor of the Council Bluffs Daily Tribune, but a few months later took a posi- tion on the Atlas of Monmouth, with which paper he has been more or less closely identi- fied continuously since 1873. That year also marks the beginning of his active interest in Republican politics in Illinois. He was ap- pointed City Clerk in 1876 and again in 1879; was Clerk of the Circuit Court from 1880 to 1891; Postmaster of Monmouth from 1891 to 1895, under appointment by President Harri- son; was elected as Representative to the Forty-first General Assembly in 1898, and re- elected in 1900; and, on January 1, 1902, re- ceived an appointment as. Receiver of National Banks, with headquarters at Washington, D. C. In the Forty-first General Assembly he served as Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and in the Forty-second was chosen Speaker pro-tem, also served as Chairman of the joint Republican Senatorial Caucus, and as Chairman of the Committee on General Appro- priations.
Besides filling these various offices Col. Rankin has been active in the executive work of the Republican party, and is now Secretary of the Republican Congressional Committee of the Fourteenth District. Since 1895 he has devoted much of his time to the editorial man- agement of the Republican-Atlas, which has taken rank among the strongest and most in- fluential Republican weekly journals of the State. He is secretary of the Republican Press Association of Illinois, and for four years served on the executive committee of the
National Editorial Association. Col. Rankin has also been prominently identified with mili- tary affairs in the State. April 29, 1881, upon the reorganization of Company C of the Fourth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard (now H of the Sixth), he enlisted as a private, sub- sequently becoming Captain of his company. In 1889 Governor Fifer commissioned him As- sistant Adjutant-General of the State with the rank of Colonel, in which office he continued until the change of administration. He was one of the organizers and incorporators of the Illinois Bankers' Life Association, of which he is President; was Secretary of the Warren County Agricultural Society from 1876 to 1901; was Treasurer and Secretary of the Business Men's Association of Monmouth for several years; was Secretary of the Association of Circuit Clerks of Illinois from its organiza- tion to 1891; has served as General Secretary for the United States of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and editor of the fraternity maga- zine; in Masonry is a member of the Mon- mouth Lodge and Chapter, of the Galesburg Commandery and of Medinah Temple, N. M. S .; is a member of the I. O. O. F., served as Grand Master of the State in 1896 and 1897, and for four years was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home; and is connected with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.
REDMOND, THOMAS; miner of coal; Mon- mouth; is a member of the firm of Murphy and Redmond, owners of a coal mine, which lies within the limits of the city. He was born in Will County, Ill., February 22, 1867, a son of John and Ellen (Russell) Redmond, na- tives of Ireland who settled early in Illinois. His father, a miner, worked for a time in the mines at Braidwood, whence he removed to Fort Scott, Kan:, and thence to Parsons, Kan. In 1876 he came to Monmouth, where he died in 1880, his wife in 1879. They had seven children: Edward, engineer at the Clay Mine for the Monmouth Mining and Manufacturing Company; John, of California; Frederick, who is manufacturing sewer-pipe near Los Angeles, Cal .; William, Frank and Thomas, of Monmouth, and Mrs. Ellen Holgate, Ormonde, Warren County. Thomas Redmond was reared and educated in Kansas and Illinois and has been familiar with coal-mining from his boy- hood. With Mr. Murphy he opened his present
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mine in 1898. They have made excavations to a depth of fifty-five feet and, from a vein two to four feet in thickness, are taking out daily on an average of twelve tons of the best steam coal of Illinois. During the busy season the mine gives employment to eight or twelve men. In 1890, Mr. Redmond married Mary Foley, born in Ireland, November 1, 1867, a daughter of John and Bridget (Burns) Foley. Mr. Foley died in Ireland, his wife in Monmouth, about 1880. Mrs. Redmond died November 15, 1901. She bore her husband children named: Maggie Leah, Frederick and Mary, the last of whom died young. Mr. Redmond is a member of the Roman Catholic church of which Mrs. Redmond was also a member, and he affiliates with the Order of Foresters. The coal from his mine is widely known in the market, and his firm is furnishing it to the city of Monmouth and other extensive buyers.
ROADHOUSE, COLIN; engineer for the Weir Pottery Company; Monmouth; has been a resident of the city twenty-seven years and was Waterworks Superintendent from May 7, 1895, to May 7, 1900. He was born in Erin Township, Wellington, Canada, July 9, 1851, a son of William and Christina (Campbell) Roadhouse. His father was born in England, came in childhood to South Carolina, whence he emigrated to Canada at eleven years of age. He received a scanty education near his home in Yorkshire and learned the trade of a stone- mason and plasterer. After spending some years as a sailor on Lake Michigan, he eventu- ally located on a farm in Dakota. He and his wife both died at Pembina, N. D., in 1899. The latter, a native of Scotland and daughter of Colin Campbell, bore eleven children named as follows: Henry and Elizabeth, live in Ohio; Levi, superintendent of the Thompson Plow Company at Beloit, Wis .; Mary Ann, died at the age of three years; Isaac, died in Michi- gan; Colin; George, a farmer in Dakota; Joseph; William, at Seattle, Wash .; Isabelle, died at Grand Forks, N. D .; and Thomas, who lives at Pembina, N. D. Colin Roadhouse at- tended school in a log school house near his home in Canada until he went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he worked as a puddler until 1873, when he located at Galesburg and became a fireman on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. After passing two years as an en- gineer he was for two years a brakeman and
then became night engineer in the works of the Weir Plow Company at Monmouth. Later, after living a year at Fort Madison, he was employed in the machine shop of the Weir Flow Factory and became engineer of that concern and later of the Weir Pottery Works, having been in the employ of Mr. Weir about eighteen years. He is a Re- publican and member of a Monmouth Lodge, No. 577, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled the office of Noble Grand. He married, at Monmouth, March 29, 1883, Mary L. Stedman, a native of that city, who has borne him five children: Mary Isabelle, Nellie Elizabeth, Anna Chris- tina, Edward . William and Colin Stedman. Edward William was drowned at the age of twenty-three months. Facts concerning the family of Mrs. Roadhouse will be found in a sketch in this work which deals with Stedman biography and genealogy.
ROBERTS, PEYTON, was born at Fountain Green, Hancock County, Ill., January 21, 1839, was educated at Hedding College, Abingdon, Illinois.
The Roberts family were from Wales, and left that country in the Fifteenth Century on account of religious persecution. They settled in Switzerland, where James Roberts was born in 1754. He and his brother settled in Wythe County, Va., in 1775. John enlisted in the English Army and was never heard of after- wards. James entered the Continental Army, and was wounded in the Battle of King's Moun- tain in October, 1780; recovered and continued in the army, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
His great-grandfather, James Roberts, mar- ried Nancy McKelvey, a native of Ireland. They moved to Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1814 and to Breckenridge County, Ky., in 1827, and came to Hancock County, Illinois, in 1837.
Peyton Roberts married Lizzie K. Cox, May 8, 1866. They have two daughters; Emma, now the wife of Levi J. Hubble of Indianapolis, Ind., and Corinne, now the wife of Charles L. Miller of Monmouth, Il1.
The Cox family were descendants from the Anglo-Saxon race, and were high in authority in the days of the Feudal System of Govern- ment. At the time that William the Con- queror superseded that system with the four great Earldoms, the severity of the laws under
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the new government against the participants in the abandoned rule was such that it be- came necessary for many to find homes in other counties. One branch of the Cox fam- ily settled in Switzerland where Friend Cox was born in 1720. He came to America, and settled in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Nancy Schuck in 1746. Their son John Cox, was born in 1747. John married Miss Polly Collins in 1770. Their son Benjamin married Miss Elizabeth Metcalf. Their son Ralph E. Cox, married Miss Emily A. Paine, who were the parents of Mrs. Rob- erts.
Mr. Roberts came to Monmouth, January 4, 1864, and made it his headquarters during the two years he was special agent for an insur- ance company, since which time he has been engaged in the insurance, land and loan busi- ness and has occupied continuously his present office since April 3, 1866. He has been one of the active Republicans of the County and State, having served thirty years on the County Cen- tial Committee and six years on the State Cen- tral Committee. He is a stockholder in the Monmouth Mining and Manufacturing Com- pany, Monmouth Plow Company, Second Na- tional Bank of Monmouth, and the National Bank of the Republic, Chicago. He is a mem- ber of Monmouth Lodge No. 37, A. F. & A. Masons, Monmouth Lodge No. 577, I. O. O. F., Monmouth Lodge No. 397 Elks, Monmouth Lodge Knights of Pythias, Galesburg Com- mandery No. 8, Knight Templars, and the Medinah Temple Mystic Shrine Lodge, and Oriental Consistory Lodge of Chicago.
ROGERS, PROF. THOMAS H., was born at Banares, India, September 2, 1836. His par- ents were among the early missionaries sent out by the Presbyterian Church to that coun- try. His father, Rev. William S. Rogers, of Chio, and his mother, Julia Ann (Riley) Rog- ers, of New York, were married at Crawfords- ville, Indiana, where Miss Riley had charge of a Girls' School. Eight years of missionary life amidst the heat of India broke down her health and the family returned to America and took up its residence at Oxford, Ohio, the seat of Miami University. At that school Thomas H. Rogers was educated. This was then the most famed institution in the Mississippi Valley. It counted among its students many men who have since achieved national reputation. Ben-
jamin Harrison, Whitelaw Reid, John S. Bil- lings, David Swing and others of like standing were there. No college of the West at that time had a better or more broadening influence in education. After graduation in 1856, Gen. A. C. Harding made a large gift of money to Mon- mouth College, and in consequence a member of the Presbyterian Church was elected a mem- ber of the faculty. In this way, Mr. Rogers became connected with Monmouth College. He. taught there for thirty-four laborious and pleas- ant years, first as Principal of the Preparatory Department, and then as Professor of Mathe- matics. At the close of the college year of 1898, he resigned his professorship, in order to have greater freedom in the command of his time for other work. From its small beginning in 1868, for thirty-four years Mr. Rogers has been, and now is, the secretary and superin- tendent of the Warren County Library. The overzight of a growing, successful public lib rary during its formative years, with all that such libraries are now endeavoring to do, has required much careful attention and labor. Prof. Rogers was married at Lincoln, Ill., Octo- ber 24, 1862, to Miss Lucinda R. Brainerd, of Ohio. She died October 29, 1878. From 1864 to 1868 she was instructor in Latin in Mon- mouth College. The connection of Prof. Rog- ers with this History of Warren County has been to a great extent advisory. He recog- nized the need and importance of the work and the high qualifications of Mr. Hugh R. Moffet to accomplish it. Such aid as he could give was gladly given, in the assured confidence that this will be, for many years, the recognized authority on matters of our local history. And with it he is glad to have his name associated.
RULON, H. M .; engineer at Pattee Plow Works; Monmouth; is a progressive, well-to- do citizen who has long taken an interest in church and temperance work, and who organ- ized two Good Templar Lodges before he was twenty-three years old. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has been helpfully associated with the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. He is a member of Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., and of Warren Chapter No. 30, R. A. M. As a veteran of the Civil War he holds membership in McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, of which he has been Commander; as a Republican has been
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active in local affairs and been member of the City Council. Born in Washington County, Ind., in 1840, he is a son of David and Eunice Ann (Hotchkiss) Rulon. His father was born in New York, and early located in Indiana, where he married and whence, in 1850, he re- moved to Clayton County, Iowa. Later he came to Monmouth, but died at DeKalb, Ill., No- vember 4, 1893. He is buried at Monmouth beside his wife, who died there May 30, 1887. Eunice Ann (Hotchkiss) Rulon, who was born in Indiana, a daughter of Captain Peter Hotch- kiss, a pioneer who commanded a company in the War of 1812, bore her husband four sons and a daughter: H. M .; William L., was a member of Company C, Thirteenth Regiment United States Regulars in the Civil War, died at Monmouth in 1868; J. F. lives in Clayton
County, Iowa; D. G. in Delaware County, Iowa, and Mrs. Arminta J. Roadhouse, of Beloit, Wis. H. M. Rulon was ten years old when his father, who was a farmer and a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, removed to Clayton County, Iowa, and he was educated there and in Illinois and served an apprentice- ship to the engineer's trade at Vandalia, Il1. January 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Thirteenth Regiment, United States Regulars, and soon received wounds in service in con- sequence of which he was honorably discharged at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, before the close of the year. He came to Monmouth in 1864 and in August of that year entered Mr. Pattee's employ as engineer in his flouring- mill. For about twenty-four years he has been engineer at the Fattee Plow Works. He mar- ried, at Salem, Ill., in 1863, Elvira Bryan, who was born near Shiloh Church, Tenn., and reared there and at Pittsburg Landing-two points famous in the history of the Civil war. Mrs. Rulon is a daughter of Willis H. Bryan, who emigrated to Illinois and died there, has borne her husband ten children: Jesse Alfred, deceased: Mrs. Laura May Crandall, of Mon- mouth; H. M., Jr., who was drowned in 1892, just before his expected graduation in medi- cine from the medical college at Keokuk, Iowa; Jennie Alice and Hettie Caroline, who are dead; Joseph L., who is married; Charles A .; Matilda Ann, Eva Jane, and Clara Pearl.
RUSH, ROSS; formerly constable of Mon- mouth and Deputy Sheriff of Warren County, is a progressive citizen, and a son of a sol-
dier of the Civil war, and is himself a civil war veteran. He was born in Somerset County, Penn., August 10, 1844, a son of Will- iam K. and Jane (Tedrow) Rush, who were born, reared and married there, and who in 1852, emigrated to Agency, Wapello County, Iowa, where Mr. Rush became a farmer and where, in 1863, he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Volunteer In- fantry, with which he served gallantly until he died at Vicksburg, in 1863. Mrs. Rush who died at Dalton, Wayne County, Ohio, bore her husband six children as follows: Ross, Mary, Eston, Jennie, William and Sarah. Ross Rush was eight years old when his parents moved to Iowa. He grew up there and was educated in the public schools near his home. He served from August 17, 1861, to August 18, 1864, in the First Iowa Artillery, which was included in the Army of the West, and participated in the fighting in Springfield, Mo., Pea Ridge, Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, Jackson, Black River and in the siege of Vicks- burg, where he received a wound in conse- Quence of a premature dicharge of a cannon. He was sent disabled to Keokuk, Iowa, and thence to Davenport, where he was discharged. He came to Warren County in 1869, and was employed fourteen years in the factories of Monmouth, where he was elected constable, and where, for four years, he was Deputy Sheriff. He married in Warren County, in 1869, Me- lissa Mills, daughter of John Mills, a pioneer of Oquawka. He is a member of George Crook Post, No. 81, Grand Army of the Republic, of Kirkwood, Ill.
SAWYER, W. A., Mayor of the city of Mon- mouth, Ill., and Secretary of the Illinois Bank- ers' Life Association, is a native of Noble County, Ind., born September 23, 1857, and edu- cated in the common schools. On June 24, 1884, Mr. Sawyer was married in the city of Monmouth, to Louise A. Pillsbury, and they have had five children, as follows: Edith, aged seventeen years; George, aged fourteen; Henry, aged eleven; Arthur, aged five, and Louise, aged three. In political opinions Mr. Sawyer is a zealous Democrat, and is now serving his second term as Mayor of Mon- mouth, having been elected first in 1900 and re-elected in 1901, his present term expiring in 1903. His repeated election to the highest municipal office in the gift of the people of his
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city affords evidence of the estimate placed upon his personal character and executive ability by the community whom he is serving in this important position.
SCOTT, LEROY S .; lawyer; Monmouth, War- ren County, Ill .; came to Roseville in 1882 from Petersburg, Menard County, and practiced law and handled real estate there until Septem- ber, 1899, when he located at Monmouth and became a member of the law firm of McLaugh- lin and Scott. He was born in Newton, Indi- ana, March 22, 1849, a son of Major P. S. and Amanda (Sphar) Scott, natives respectively of Virginia and Arkansas. His father enlisted in 1862, in the Eighty-fifth Regiment Illinois Vol- unteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war and was mustered out with the rank of Major. His wife died in Indiana and he has been a resident of Petersburg since 1856 and was formerly a mail contractor and long held the office of Justice of the Peace. July 1, 1863, when he was in his fifteenth year, the subject of this sketch enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment, Indi- ana Volunteer Infantry, for six months. He was mustered into the service at Lafayette, and his regiment was included in the Army of the Cumberland. In November, 1863, near Knoxville, Tennessee, he was made a prisoner of war and taken to Libby prison, whence he was transferred to Andersonville prison, where he was confined from March to September, 1864. From that date until December 13, 1864, he was held at Milan, Georgia. At the date last mentioned he was exchanged and honor- ably discharged from the service. He has been commander of General A. C. Harding Post, No. 127, Grand Army of the Republic, of Roseville. He read law and in 1872 was ad- mitted to practice in Indiana. In 1874, he went to Batesville, Arkansas, where he prac- ticed his profession until 1876, when he re- moved to Petersburg, 111., where he had as a law partner, Hardin W. Masters now of Lew- iston, Illinois, and whence hc removed to Roseville, thence to Monmouth. He married at Roseville in 1886, Mrs. Elizabeth ( Stillwell) Leacock, a native of Kentucky, whose parents were pioneers of Illinois. LeRoy S. and Eliza- beth (Stillwell) Leacock Scott have children named Florence and Greta.
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