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TORRANCE, THOMAS, engineer at the city pumping station; Monmouth; is active in local politics as a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. As a tool-dresser he was long in the employ of the Weir Plow Company, and for four or five years had charge of the machinery at the Mon- mouth Mining and Manufacturing Company. He has been a city employe since May, 1900. He was born in Scotland in 1850, a son of Wil- liam and Margaret (Patterson) Torrance. Their
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son Thomas grew up and was educated in Muhlenburg County, Ky., and there became a stationary engineer. He has lived in Mon- mouth since 1879 and married, in Knox County, in 1887, Julia Irene Child, daughter of Erastus and Rachel Child, natives of New York, who were pioneers of Knox County, Ill., and. now live in Iowa. They have one child, Mabel Irene Torrance, born August 29, 1890.
TORRANCE, J. M., long connected with plan- ing-mill interests at Monmouth, was elected a member of the Monmouth City Council in 1900, was re-elected in 1902, and is Chairman of the Sewer Committee, is an active Presbyterian, and a representative citizen of much public spirit. He was born in Scotland in 1844, a son of William and Margaret (Patterson) Torrance, who emigrated to New York in 1850, and thence to Kentucky, where his father, who was a mach- inist, died in 1882. His mother came to Mon- mouth in 1888, and died there in 1892. J. M. Torrance was scarcely more than a child when his parents took him to Kentucky, where he was educated and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1877 he came to Monmouth and was so suc- cessful as a carpenter that in 1889, as the head of the firm of J. M. Torrance & Company, he established a planing mill. Later, as a member of the firm of Torrance & McIntosh, he put a foundry and machine shop in operation and eventually sold all his manufacturing interests to Mr. McIntosh. As a Republican, he has been influential in local affairs and has advanced the interests of Monmouth to the extent of his ability. He is now a stockholder in the Mon- mouth Plow Company, and has charge of the wood-work department. Mr. Torrance was mar- ried, in Kentucky, in 1870, to Elizabeth Hamil- ton, who has borne him six children: Isabelle; William, Robert (deceased), Margaret, Cathar- ine and Charles (deceased).
TURNBULL, DAVID; Undertaker and Liv- eryman, Monmouth; was born at Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, February 4, 1857, a son of John and Margaret (Allen) Turnbull. John Turn- bull,. who was born at Nashville, Tenn., was a son of William and Margaret ( Marshall) Turn- bull, the first a native of Scotland, the last a native of Virginia. Margaret Allen, who was born at Springboro, Ohio, was in the maternal line, at least, of Irish extraction. Mr. Turn- bull was educated at Xenia and in 1883 began
business as a furniture dealer and undertaker in Ohio. He located at Monmouth in January, 1884, where he conducts an undertaking bus- iness and a livery stable, and where, by sheer force of character, he has put himself in the front rank of men of affairs. He was elected Sheriff of Warren County in 1890, and again in 1898, and is one of only two Democrats who have been elected to that office since 1860. From 1895 to 1899 he was a member of the Board of Aldermen of the city of Monmouth. David Turnbull married Ada Stevenson at Xenia, Ohio, November 26, 1884, and they have had three children named Robert S., who died Janu- ary 1, 1902; J. Maxwell, and Lois Turnbull. Mr. and Mrs. Turnbull are members of the First United Presbyterian church, of Monmouth, and are liberal contributors to its various interests. In many ways, during his successful business career there, Mr. Turnbull has shown that he is a man of much public spirit who has at heart the welfare of the people of his city and county.
TURNBULL, JOHN M., of Monmouth, was born at Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, July 23, 1833, a son of David and Nancy (Mitchell) Turnbull, natives respectively of Ohio and of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, William Turnbull, a native of Scotland, mar- ried a member of the Marshall family of Ten- nessee. His grandmother in the maternal line was a native of Sweden and of the family of Springer. Mr. Turnbull was educated in the schools at Monmouth and began life as a farmer on the Turnbull homestead six miles northwest of Monmouth. In August, 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he took the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was promoted First Lieutenant in 1862, after the battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., and afterwards for two months in which the engagements at Perryville, Ky., Stone River and Murfreesboro, Tenn., were fought, he was in command of his company. He was detailed for duty on the staff of General W. H. Lytle and was in that service at the time of the General's death at Chickamauga. Lieutenant Turnbull participated in the Atlanta campaign, where his command was under fire almost con- stantly for thirty days, and in a night skirm- ish at Dallas, Ga., May 24, 1864, he was woun- ded. He participated in the historic battle of Mission Ridge, and in later engagements, but
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resigned his commission in October, 1864, and was discharged from the service and returned to Monmouth in time to vote at the November election of that year. He was appointed Post- master at Monmouth by President Lincoln, his commission being signed by President John- son, who later attempted to remove him for political reasons. The Senate witheld its ap- proval of the President's action, and Mr. Turn- bull held the office until 1887. At the time of his suspension by President Johnson, Mr. Turn- bull was fillng the office of Mayor of Monmouth. Politically Mr. Turnbull is an enthusiastic Re- publican. He and his family are members of the First United Presbyterian Church. As a real estate and insurance agent he ranks with the leading men in his line in Warren County. Mr. Turnbull married
at Washington, Iowa, to Miss Anna P. Orr, in October, 1854. His first wife having died, he was married in the city of Chicago, in September, 1892, to Miss Hattie A. Edwards. By his first marriage he has four daughters: Mary E., Clara O., Nancy J. and Jennie R. By his second marriage he has one son, John M. Turnbull, Jr.
VAN STEENWYK, JOHN; plaster contrac- tor; Monmouth; is one of the most enterprising citizens of the city mentioned, and enjoys a wide acquaintance, especially in the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. He was born at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1867, a son of William and Caroline (VanGravlan) Van Steenwyk, natives of Holland, who married in Iowa. His father was a son of William Van Steenwyk, who was an early settler at Pella, Iowa. He located in the early 'forties at Keokuk, which then con- sisted of only a few log houses, and which is his home at the present time. John VanSteen- wyk was educated and instructed in his trade at Keokuk, and came to Monmouth in 1891, and has become popular as a citizen and has prospered as a business man. He was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen, represent- ing the Third Ward, in 1899, and served two years in that office, during a portion of which time he was Chairman of the Gas and Electric Light Committee and of the Committee on Buildings and Public Grounds. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, of the Fra- ternal Tribune and of Monmouth Lodge, No. 577, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Of the body last mentioned he is one of the trus- tees and, in 1900, was elected representative to
the Grand Lodge. He married, at Burlington, Iowa, in 1893, Myrtle L. Johnson, daughter of Joseph E. Johnson, a pioneer at Council Bluffs, Iowa, who removed thence to Burlington. Mrs. Van Steewyk has borne her husband two children whose names are Glenn Elton John and Melvin.
WALLACE, DAVID A., D. D., LL. D., (de- ceased), educator and founder of Monmouth College, was born of Scotch-Irish ancestry near Fairview, Ohio, June 16, 1826. In 1846 he grad- uated at Miami University, in his native State, and was in succession the devoted pastor of the United Presbyterian churches at Fall River and Boston, Mass .; at Monmouth and Sugar Tree Grove, Warren County, Ill. In this State his pastoral labors were performed while he was doing his remarkable work in the cause of Christian education. Before going east to preach he was engaged for a time in teaching in Ohio. In 1856 he came from Boston to found Monmouth College, and for twenty-one years was its head and its heart. He directed its course of study, raised funds, superintended the erection of buildings, traveled widely to gather students, taught much in the class room, conducted the correspondence, wrote for the press, lectured and preached. Personal guid- ance and help were constantly given to all con- nected with the school. He was always among the first in every movement for the good of the city. The College attained great success during his wise and energetic administration. Few men ever had the influence over students that he possessed. The earnestness, enthusiasm and religious convictions of the President were im- parted to the institution. Dr. Wallace's emin- ent ability made him widely known. From the pulpit or from the platform his words had power over any audience. January 1, 1878, broken down with immense over-work, he with- drew from the College. The last days of this noble life, useful to the end, were spent in min- isterial work at Wooster, Ohio, where he died, October 21, 1883. His wife, Mrs. Martha (Find- ley) Wallace, resides at Wooster. Their child- ren are: John Findley Wallace, Assistant .Gen- eral Manager Illinois Central R. R., Chicago, Ill .; Mrs. Lizzie Wallace Taggart, wife of Judge Taggart, Wooster, Ohio; Rev. McClanahan H. Wallace, Eugene, Ore .; Rev. William Wallace, Hawarden, Iowa; and Lieut. Charles Wallace, U. S. A. Signal Corps, Philippine Islands.
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WALL, L. L., manager of the Monmouth Brick Company, Monmouth, is one of the most enterprising and progressive brick manufactur- ers in his vicinity, and one of the best known and most highly respected business men in his city. He was born in Logansport, Ind., in 1850, a son of Andrew and Hanna (Bradgman) Wall, natives of Germany, who were brought in their childhood to Ohio, where they married. Andrew Wall became a brick-maker, and was in that line of manufacture at Logansport and Delphia, Ind. He died in Logansport in 1873. His wife, who lives at Delphia, bore him two children: Andrew, who is a brick contractor at Ham- mond, Ind., and L. L., the subject of this sketch. The latter was educated in Indiana, grew up in the brick manufacturing business and eventu- ally engaged in the manufacture of drain-tile in his native State, which business he con- tinued for ten years. In 1895 he bought an in- terest in the Monmouth Brick Company, whose business had begun three years before. Mr. Wall began the work of improving the plant, which involved the building of new kilns, the putting in of a new engine, and the erection of sheds, the lumber for which alone cost $2,000. "Under his management the business of the com- pany has been developed until it ranked as one of the most important of its kind in Warren and near-by counties. The concern is finishing the brick for the government building at Mon- mouth, and is fulfilling other large contracts. Mr. Wall married in Pulaski County, Ind., in 1882, Anna Kelley, and they have five children: Myrtle, a book-keeper in the Monmouth Brick Company; Lulu, a teacher of music; Minnie; Fred; Anna and Don. Mr. Wall is a member of Maple City Lodge, No. 302, Knights of Pyth- ias.
WEBSTER, JOHN RANDOLPH, M. D., phy- sician and surgeon, Monmouth, was born in Penn Hill Township, Lancaster County, Penn., July 18, 1835, a son of Samuel and Deborah (Kirk) Webster, both natives of Lancaster County and of Scotch ancestry. His father, Dr. Samuel Webster, was graduated in medi- cine from Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia, in 1837, and located for practice in Mon- mouth in the same year, and almost immedi- ately took rank as the leader of his profession in Warren County, a position in which he stood unrivaled during his long and successful career. He was an ardent Whig and as such was elect-
ed to the Illinois State Senate in 1850, serving in the Seventeenth General Assembly. His death occurred at Superior City, Wisconsin, in 1858. Dr. John R. Webster received his liter- ary education at Macomb, Ill., and at Juniata Academy, in Perry County, Penn. After read- ing medicine with Dr. D. B. Rice, of Monmouth, he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he graduated in 1858. After prac- ticing for a few years in Monmouth, he took a course in Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia, which conferred upon him the degree of M. D. in 1864. Since that time he has practiced continuously in Monmouth. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Illi- nois State Medical Society, the Military Tract Medical Association (of which he has been Pres- ident), and of the local professional organiza- tions. He has had a laborious and extensive practice, accompanied by unvarying success. In 1862 he was commissioned Assistant Sur- geon of the Eighty-third Illinois Volunteer In- fantry, but was taken ill at Cairo, Ill., before his regiment entered into active service, and was compelled to return to his home. Dr. Web- ster affiliates with the Republican party, but has never sought nor consented to fill public of- fice. He was one of the organizers of the Sec- ond National Bank of Monmouth, in 1875, of which he has been Vice-President since 1877. He was married in Monmouth, September 20, 1858, to Susan I. Nye, daughter of Elisha Nye. They have had three children: Harry B., As- sistant Cashier of the Second National Bank of Monmouth; Frank, deceased; and Ralph W., a practicing physician of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Rush Medical Col- lege and Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry in the University of Chicago.
WEIR, WILLIAM S., inventor, manufac- turer and banker, Monmouth, Ill., was born at Yellow Springs, Greene County, Ohio, July 2, 1835, and died in Monmouth November 14, 1901. He was a son of William S. and Frances (Brown) Weir, natives respectively of Pennsyl- vania and Kentucky, and of Scotch descent. His father was born in Philadelphia, where he married. His death occurred when his son, William S. Weir, was sixteen years of age. The father learned the trade of wool-card- ing and cloth-dressing, removed to Ohio while yet a young man, and, at the age of twenty, turned his attention to farming. In 1834 he
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married Frances Brown, a daughter of James and Mary (Stewart) Brown, of Kentucky, and to them were born five children: William S., subject of this sketch, James B., Frances M., John B. and Pauline. In 1839 the senior Weir brought his family to Little York, Warren County, Ill., where he engaged in the manu- facture of cloth, a business which he conducted for twenty years. At Little York the subject of this memoir grew to manhood. He received a limited education in the district schools of Sumner Township, voluntarily undertaking his own support when he reached the age of eleven years. Until 1862 he worked upon a farm. In the latter year he patented the Weir two-horse Cultivator, an implement covering all the im- portant principles employed in every walking cultivator manufactured in the country up to this time, and yet not all protected by his pat- ent. As Mr. Weir had been a plain farmer, knowing little of the patent laws and less of their scope in application, he was compelled to rely upon the attorneys in obtaining letters patent, which would secure for him his rights. Then, as now, the business of a patent attorney was in securing patents, and if one valuable in- vention embodied a dozen indispensable princi- ples and the attorney could satisfy the appli- cant, or hoodwink him into accepting letters protecting but one, of course eleven remaining features would be left open for so many appli- cants, thereby increasing largely the business, or chances of business, for the attorney. This may not state just the experience of Mr. Weir, but it fully illustrates the practice that let in the other manufacturers, who employed import- ant features of his invention that should have been protected by his patent of 1862. But his first experience taught him a lesson, and from that time forward the duplicity of no patent attorney operated to close his eyes against the salient points of his inventions. In 1863, with a capital of $200, he came to Monmouth and had made for him, under contract, 120 cultivators. In the following year 500 more were made, and in 1865 he erected a small shop from which he turned out 800. In 1866, with increased capital, he put upon the market 1,200 cultivators, but in the winter of 1866-67 his entire plant was des- troyed by fire. Rebuilding the plant at once, he put out 2,000 implements, and in the fall of 1867 organized the Weir Plow Company, with a capital stock of $25,000.00, and himself as President, the other members of the company
being William Hanna, W. B. Boyd and Joseph Stevenson. In 1886 he sold his interest to Wil- liam Hanna, who became President and re- mained in control until 1892, when a majority of the stock was sold to Martin Kingman and associates, of Peoria. Mr. Weir had various other interests in Warren County. He was one of the organizers of the People's National Bank of Monmouth, and served as its President from 1890 to the time of his death. In 1897 he or- organized the banks of Alexis and Little York, of both of which he was President. In the fall of 1899 he organized the Weir Pottery Company in order to manufacture a fruit jar which was one of his inventions. In that year the company erected a
plant covering three acres and now gives employment to 160 persons. The main building is eighty feet square, and four stories high. There are other buildings, including the kilns. The output in 1901 was over 2,000,000 fruit jars. For many years Mr. Weir served as a trustee of Monmouth College. He was an elder in the First United Presbyterian Church of Mon- mouth. He was married in Hale Township, Warren County, October 13, 1859, to Fidelia J., daughter of Thomas and Ann Boyd. She died" February 1, 1884, leaving four children: Ella, Jessie O., William B., and Amy J., all of Mon- mouth. A daughter named Mary was deceased. The name of Mr. Weir is suggestive of much that is interesting and well worthy of preserva- tion in local history and in the history of the development of agricultural machinery in the United States. The product of his inventive genius became well . known and popular throughout the agricultural world. Personally he was a man of high character, deeply religi- ous, kindly disposed to those less fortunate than he, possessed of public spirit, and always not only ready but anxious to assist in the pro- motion of those projects whose aim was the advancement of the material welfare of Mon- mouth. His name is indissolubly associated with the best interest of Monmouth and Warren County, to which his death, after a brief ill- ness, was a distinct loss.
WELLS, WILLIAM; contractor and builder; Monmouth; has had an eventful career, a full history of which would be most interesting. He was born in Norfolk, England, May 26, 1827, a son of Joshua and Sarah Wells, who emigrated to Hamilton, Canada, in 1836, and were farm-
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ers there during the balance of their lives. Mr. Wells was nine years old when his parents brought him to Canada. He remembers that the voyage consumed seven weeks and that the family landed at Montreal, and after five years the family removed to Michigan, where they stayed four years, in which time James K. Polk was elected. They then returned to Ham- ilton, where William Wells was reared and edu- cated and learned the carpenter's trade, and where his mother died in 1868, his father in 1889, aged eighty-seven years. In 1849, in Can- ada, Mr. Wells married Almeda S. Convis, who was born in New York, a daughter of Colonel Convis, a patriot officer in the Revolutionary War. Mrs. Wells died August 27, 1885, having borne her husband children as follows: George, born January 20, 1850, is dead; Sarah Jane, born March 2, 1851, who lives in Canada; Wil- liam Joshua, born April 25, 1854; Mary Ann, born Janary 24, 1857, who died in girlhood; Willis Edward, born June 8, 1858; Alvin Edgar, born December 30, 1860; Charlotte Leona Al- meda, born November 27, 1863; Alice Ella, born September 25, 1866; Helen Emma, born December 7, 1869; Anna Bella, born April 21, 1872; Victoria Adeline Estella, born August 18, 1875; and George Alfred Convis, born August 12, 1878. Mr. Wells became prominent as a con- tractor at Hamilton, Canada, where he built three churches and many residences, and was for a time a gardener and a fruit-grower, and is still the owner of a good 15-acre truck farm near that city. In 1877 he enlisted in the Can- adian service in the Seventy-seventh Regulars, under Lord Dufferin, and was promoted from private to Ensign of Company Six, then to Lieutenant, and in 1880, under the Marquis of Lorne, to Captain. He saw active service at the time of Riel's rebellion and of the Fenian Raid, and served in the army of Canada for thirty-five years. He was offered a commission to go to South Africa to participate in the Boer War. Among his possessions are two uniforms which he wore while in the service. He is a member of the Church of England.
WILCOX, O. D .; stone contractor; Mon- mouth; is a veteran of the civil war and, as a Democrat, takes an active interest in local af- fairs. In 1899 and 1900 he represented the Third Ward in the City Council, and was a member of the Fire Committee, the Electric Light Committee and the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, being Chairman of the first named. He has been for twenty-one years a member of the Monmouth Fire Department, and, in 1899, was elected President of the Illi- nois Firemen's Association. He was Deputy Sheriff, 1870-72, and City Marshal, 1874-75 and 1880-83. He is one of the four children of Charles and Eliza (Lee) Wilcox, the following facts concerning whom will be of interest: Charles, who lives in North Dakota, served three years in the civil war as a member of Company H, Seventy-Fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry; Theodore lives at Mon- mouth; Melissa married Joseph Grier, of Mon- mouth. O. D. Wilcox was reared and educated in New York, and came to Canton, Ill., in 1861. In 1864, in Fulton County, he enlisted for one hundred days in the One Hundred and Thirty- second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered into the service at Chicago as a member of Company E, and was stationed at Paducah, Ky., until October 27, 1864, when he was honorably dscharged from the service and returned to Fulton County. In 1866 he came to Monmouth and learned the stone mason's trade, and for many years has been one of the leading contractors in his line, doing much notable work and employing many workmen. He married in Monmouth, in 1868, Sarah Fran- ces Hayes, who was born in Iowa, a daughter of Anson and Ann Hayes, who were respectively of Scotch-Irish and English ancestry, and who settled early at Monmouth and died there. Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox have had six children: Joseph T. A., Harry, O. D., John and Mary. Mr. Wil- cox is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Masonic order. He was Wor- shipful Master of the local lodge of A. F. & A. M., and affiliates with the Chicago Consistory of the Scottish Rite Masons. His parents, Charles and Eliza (Lee) Wilcox, were born in Massachusetts and eventually settled in Onon- daga County, N. Y., where Mr. Wilcox was born, April 17, 1846. They removed with their children to Fulton County, Ill., in 1861, and came from there to Monmouth in 1870. Charles Wilcox died in 1883; his wife in 1880.
WILLIAMS, D. H., Monmouth, is a veteran of the civil war, a leading Republican, a popu- lar Grand Army man, and a public spirited cit- izen. He was for three years a member of the city police force. He was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y., February 9, 1844, a son of Ros-
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well and Christina (Newcomb) Willams, nat- ives of that county. His father was a farmer who located in Mercer County in 1849, and died there. His mother died at Ellicottville, N. Y. The following facts concerning their children will be of interest: James L. enlisted May, 1862, in the Thirty-seventh Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, re-enlisted in Company K, Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, and died at Vicks- burg November, 1864; D. H. is the immediate subject of this sketch; Electa Christina died in 1846. Roswell Williams' second wife, Han- nah Brinkerhoff, who died in Ohio, bore her husband three children. One of her daughters is Mrs. Mary O. Young, of Ohio; another is Mrs. Hattie B. Wagoner. D. H. Williams attended the common schools and was brought up to the hard but useful life of a farmer in Mercer County. November 6, 1861, he enlisted in Com- pany K, Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, and was mustered into the service of the United States at Camp Lyon, Peoria, under Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, February 22, 1862. The regiment was included in the Army of the Tennessee, and, after being stationed successively at Benton Barracks and at Pittsburg Landing, Mr. Wil- liams took part in the battles of Shiloh, Cor- inth, Memphis, Williamsburg, Jackson, Grand Junction and in minor engagements, then went to Memphis, and thence to Vicksburg. He was made a prisoner of war at Lexington, Tenn., was paroled and returned to Benton Barracks. After being exchanged he went to Vicksburg and fought under Sherman in the Meridian campaign. He re-enlisted in his old company at Vicksburg December 20, 1863, and saw serv- ice in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, fighting at Brandon, Meridian, Par- ker's Cross Roads, Champion Hills, and at Egypt Station, where eight hundred Confeder- ates were captured in a stockade, and at Can- ton, where he and his companions were obliged to guard that number of prisoners and at the same time do battle with the enemy. He was honorably discharged from the service at Memphis, Tenn., September 20, 1865, and re- turned to Mercer County. In 1867 he removed to Monmouth, where, during that year, he mar- ried Melissa Bunker, who was born there Feb- ruary 15, 1844, a daughter of James M. and Pol- ly (Love) Bunker, natives respectively of Cat- taraugus County, N. Y., and of Ohio. Mr. Bun- ker came to Monmouth some time after 1830, and married in Mercer County. In 1840 he open-
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