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MOWER, JONAS; farmer and superintendent of the Warren County Poor Farm; Lenox Town- ship; was born in Ulster County, N. Y., Sep- tember 19, 1844, a son of Leonard and Chris tina (Emerick) Mower, natives of that State, where the father was a farmer and where the parents both died. Mr. Mower was educated in his native county and married there January 3, 1866, Miss Elsie Maria Merritt, who was born there, a daughter of William and Elsie (Van Dyke) Merritt, of New York birth, who settled in Floyd Township in 1869, where Mr. Merritt bought a tract of land and became prominent as a farmer, and where he died Oc- tober 12, 1870; his wife dying December 14, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Merritt had ten children, three of whom are now living; Della J. lives at Denver, Colo .; Charles, who married Hattie Riley December 25, 1878, died in Floyd Town- ship, January 21, 1883; Sabra (Mrs. Beebe) lives in Alabama: Albert. who was a conductor
on the Texas & Waco Railroad, died March 7, 1886, as the result of an accident; Martha and Caroline are dead; another child died in in- fancy; and Mrs. Mower lives in Lenox Town- ship. Mrs. Mower has borne her husband four children: Elsie, married Lincoln Grooms, of Lenox Township and has children named Alice and Jonas LeRoy; Charles L. married Tena Lehman, of Lenox Township and has a daugh- ter named Mina; Wilhelmina B. died Decem- ber 20, 1883 ,aged sixteen years; Florence Maud is a member of her parents' household. Mr. and Mrs. Mower were members of the Lutheran Church in New York, and Mr. Mower was ac- tive in Sunday School work and was, early in life, an instructor in vocal music. He began farming in Lenox Township in 1869, which he continued with much success until 1889, when he succeeded E. H. Crandall as superintend- ent of the Warren County Poor Farm, in Lenox Township, which has been in existence as such since December 28. 1858. It consists of 120 acres of land, formerly known as the Dixon farm, all of it tillable and in good pro- ductive condition. The main building is a forty by forty-two foot frame structure, and the barn and other outbuildings are ample and modern. Among the improvements since Mr. Mower took charge are a thirty-four by twenty- four foot hog house, a twelve by twenty foot hen house, a twelve by fourteen foot engine house, which contains a gasoline engine which cost $135, a tank house twelve feet square, a fourteen by twenty-four foot coal house, a twelve by twenty-four foot wash-house and a fifteen-room addition to the insane department with a kitchen addition to the main building. all of which has been built since the present superintendent has been in charge of the county farm. When Mr. Mower became superintend- ent of the institution it had twenty-eight in- mates and it now has forty. The greatest nun- ber of inmates at one time was sixty-three. Mr. Mower is a Democrat in politics and exerts considerable influence in local affairs, and is a progressive and up-to-date citizen who well deserves his success in life. Mrs. Sabra Van Dyke, the grandmother of Mrs. Mower in the maternal line, was born in Connecticut, came to Warren County in 1869 and died there October 7, 1870, aged ninety-two years.
NESBIT, ADDISON H .; farmer and stock- raiser; Lenox Township (postoffice Phelps) ; is
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a popular and progressive citizen, who has filled the offices of Town Clerk, Collector and School Treasurer and is in his third year's service as Supervisor. He was born in Perry County, Penn., September 13, 1854, and was educated in the high school at Carlisle, in that State. He was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian Church and the principles of the Republican party. His parents are John A. and Hattie M. (Hemp) Nesbit, and his father was born in Cumberland County, Penn., in May, 1824, his mother, February, 1825, a daughter of Adam Hemp. John A. Nesbit brought his family to Warren County in October, 1869, and bought 120 acres of land in Section 11, Lenox Town- ship, where he farmed until 1895, when he bought a residence at Monmouth, where he has since lived. He is active in public affairs in Lenox and has filled the office of school director. Adam Hemp, Mrs. Nesbit's father, moved from Pennsylvania to Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life. Addison H. Nesbit be- gan farming independently in his twenty-fifth year. In 1891 he bought 156 acres of land in Section 14, Lenox Township, where he now re- sides. While giving attention to miscellaneous crops he has attained prominence as a stockman. At the present time he is Chairman of the Alms- house Committee. He married at Monmouth, March 11, 1879, Harriet G. Weakley, who was born in Monmouth Township, April 12, 1856, a daughter of Thomas and Lavinia (Kauffman) Weakley, who came from Cumberland County, Penn., in 1854, and settled on a farm east of Monmouth, whence they removed to Lenox Township in 1864. Mrs. Weakley died Septem- ber 24, 1888. Mr. Nesbit has several times vis- ited his native State.
NEWELL, SHARON C .; physician and sur- geon; Larchland; has practiced his profession continuously for twenty-one years, is physician to the Warren County Poor Farm, and a leader in public affairs. He was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, February 16, 1856, a son of G. W. and Matilda (Moore) Newell. His father was born in Brown County, Ohio, November 10, 1812; his mother in Adams County, same State, December, 1812, and they were reared in Ohio and married near Lafayette, Ind., whence they removed to Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1839. G. W. Newell, who was a merchant at Birming- ham, Iowa, enlisted in 1861, in Company H, Third Regiment Iowa Volunter Cavalry, and
served three years in the Quartermaster's De- partment. After the war he kept a hotel at Birmingham, where he died, January, 1882; his wife, November, 1883. Of their children, the following facts are stated: Leonidas served three and a half years in the civil war in the cavalry company of which his father was a member, and is a resident of Wymore, Neb .; Mrs. Smith lives at Cripple Creek, Colo .; William, also a member of Company H, Third Iowa Cavalry, was, for four and a half months, a prisoner at Andersonville-now lives at Lin- coln, Neb .; Perry, who was for four years reg- imental bugler of the same regiment, was killed at Cardonelet, Mo., while on his way home after the close of the war; Ann is the wife of ex-State Senator Bainum, of Mapleton, Kans .; Jane mar- ried P. H. Walker, of Fairfield, lowa, who was Major of the Third Iowa Cavalry; Josie (Mrs. Pleasant) lives at Birmingham, Iowa; and John M. at North Bend, Neb. Doctor Newell was reared and educated at Birmingham, Iowa, was graduated from the Medical College at Colum- bus, Ohio, in 1880, and immediately afterwards began the practice of his profession at Franklin, Lee County, Iowa. From there he removed to Hedrick, Iowa, and thence ,in September, 1892, to Larchland, where he has a large and grow- ing patronage. He was formerly a member of the County Medical Society, Keokuk, Iowa, and is identified with Warren Lodge, No. 160, I. O. O. F., and with Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M. He was married at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1881, to Margaret Dollery, a native of that city, and a daughter of John Dollery, an English- man, who was a pioneer and became a contrac tor and builder at Keokuk, where he died in 1883. Mrs. Newell has borne her husband three children: Sharon, Nell and Margaret.
PATTERSON, HUGH C .; farmer; Lenox Township; deserves much credit for having, in 1864, when he was a mere boy, enlisted in Com- pany E, One Hundred and Third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in the Army of the Cumberland until honorably discharged in July, 1865, because of an injury which he had received while on duty. He took part in the battles of Hatchie Run and in other engagements, guarded prisoners at Newburn, N. C., and did garrison duty at More- head City, same State. This young soldier was born in Ontario County, New York, November 22, 1851, a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Stew-
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art) Patterson, natives of York County, Penn. Robert Patterson, a farmer and blacksmith, re- moved to Ontario County and remained there some years, returning eventually to York Coun- ty, whence, in 1867, he emigrated to Henderson County, Ill., where he engaged in blacksmithing and farming and where he died. His wife, who died at Monmouth in 1892, bore him six child- ren: Reta R. (Mrs. Bennett) ; Mary E. (Mrs. Wixon), of Kelly Township; Sarah (Mrs. Gibbs), of Adair County, Iowa; Hugh C .; Belle F. (Mrs. Wixon), of Monmouth; Hattie S., who married William Clayton, of Lenox Township. Hugh C. Patterson was educated in Pennsylvania and in Henderson County, and farmed in the latter until February, 1884, when he settled in Lenox Township. He married ,in 1877, Miss Eliza Riggs, a native of Berwick Township, and a daughter of Jesse and Harriet (Ray) Riggs. Jesse Riggs was born in Tennes- see, January 13, 1808, a son of Reuben and Cath- arine (Sailing) Riggs, natives of North Caro- lina, who, in 1818, moved from Tennessee to Missouri, where they farmed ten years on 160 acres of land, which they sold to remove to Morgan County, where they remained until they came to Warren County to live with their son Jesse. They are buried in Berwick Ceme- tery. Of their twelve children, eleven grew to manhood and womanhood: Henry, who saw service as a soldier in the Black Hawk war and is now more than ninety years old, lives in Morgan County; John died in Kansas; Cathar- ine (Mrs. Bollinger) in Hancock County, Ill .; Willis in Knox County; Jonathan in Oregon; Jesse, the father of Mrs. Patterson; Nancy (Mrs. Patterson) died in Missouri; Reuben, a surveyor, was frozen to death in Kansas some years ago; Peter died in Missouri, Isaiah in Monmouth and Calvin in Kansas. The latter formerly lived in Roseville Township and was elected Sheriff in Warren County in 1863. Jesse Riggs, father of Mrs. Patterson, came to the county in 1831, and lived in Berwick and, later, in Roseville Township, and in 1863 was appointed Deputy Sheriff. He was married three times, and his first wife bore him three children: Mrs. Elizabeth Lauymon, of Okla- homa; John T, of Kansas; and Jonathan P., of Warren County. Harriet Ray, his second wife, bore him four children: James O., of Kirkwood; Mrs. Mary Lusk, of Monmouth; Henry H., of Lenox Township; and Eliza, who married Mr. Patterson. Emeline Vandeveer,
his third wife, whom he married in 1865, bore him children as follows: Frank, of California; Mrs. Florence H. Steele, of Berwick Township; Mrs. Bertie Ewing of Lenox Township, and Wil- lis, of Roseville Township. Mr. Riggs was a Democrat and, as such, was elected to the of- fice of Assessor and Supervisor. In his early life he did farm work, split rails, and gladly ac- cepted such other employment as helped him to make a living, and early evinced his patriotism by volunteering as a soldier in the Black Hawk War. He died in Roseville Township in 1891; Harriet Ray, his second wife, died at Monmouth October 1, 1865. They were members of the Baptist church, with which Mr. and Mrs. Pat- terson are also identified.
RAY, HENRY; farmer and stock-raiser; Len- ox Township; was born in that township in 1852, was there educated and reared as a farmer and stock-raiser, and has lived there all his life-since 1879 on his present farm. He is a son of M. B. and Nancy C. (Ray) Ray. His father, a native of Kentucky and a son of Gar- land Ray, was born February 6, 1828, and was brought to Lenox Township in 1837, after the family had made a short stay in Roseville Township. Garland Ray bought land in Sec- tion 35 and improved a fine farm, on which he and his wife died-the former in 1881. They had four children named as follows in the order of their birth, all of whom are living: M. B., father of the subject of this sketch; Clarinda Jane (Mrs. Pickard), of Berwick; Julia A., wife of Jacob Shawler, of Lenox Township; Su- san (Mrs. Butler), of Oregon. M. B. Ray was nine years old when his father located in Lenox Township, there being at that time only two houses between Monmouth and Garland Ray's home, and here he was reared, educated and married, where he and his good wife are now living. He has been Supervisor and Road Com- missioner of the township (the latter for more than twenty years), and owns twelve hundred acres of land. His wife has borne him ten children, eight of whom are living: Henry, the subject of this sketch; Emeline, Mrs. Rose, of' Monmouth; Laura, Mrs. Chapman, of Lenox Township; Letitia, Mrs. Cain, of Iowa; John L., of Lenox Township; Hiram Edwards, of Lenox Township: Mary, Mrs. Jones, of Swan Township; Harriet, Mrs. Landon, of Roseville Township. Mrs. Parish, died in Lenox Town- ship. Henry Ray was educated in Lenox Town-
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ship and instructed in the hard but useful la- bor of a farmer, and farming and stock-raising have been his life-long business. He was mar- ried, in Berwick Township, to Miss Lettie Lan- don, a native of that township and a daughter of John and Charlotte (Charles) Landon, New Yorkers by birth. Mr. Landon, who was a pioneer and farmer in Berwick Township, died there in 1886; his widow lives at Abingdon, Ill. Henry and Lettie (Landon) Ray have had children as follows: Elynora, Ezra, Oliver, Lydia, Jordan and George. Elynora married a Mr. Hiett, and lives in Berwick Township. Mr. Ray, who is one of the well known and prom- inent men of Warren County, is an influential Democrat and has served his fellow-citizens as member of the School Board. In the intervals of farming he gives attention to drilling wells, and has put down many in the country round about his home.
RAY, JOHN L .; farmer; Lenox Township; is a descendant of a pioneer family of this county, and is active and influential as a citi- zen and a Democrat. He was born in Lenox Township, March 1, 1860, a son of M. B. and Nancy C. (Ray) Ray. His father was born in Kentucky in 1828, a son of Garland Ray, and, in 1837, was brought to Lenox Township and became a farmer on the place which is now the homestead of the subject of this sketch. When Garland Ray came to this locality there were only two houses between the Ray homestead and Monmouth. He and his wife both died on the Ray farm, he in 1881. They had ten child- ren, four of whom are living: M. B., father of the subject of this sketch; Clarinda Jane (Mrs. Pickard), of Berwick; Julia A., wife of Jacob Shawler, of Lenox Township; Susan (Mrs. Butler), of Oregon. M. B. Ray, who was nine years old when his father removed to Lenox Township, was reared and married there, where he and his wife are both living. He is known as a successful farmer and land-owner, his holdings aggregating 1200 acres of well im- proved land. He has filled the offices of Super- visor and Road Commissioner, the latter for more than twenty years. To Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Ray have been born ten children, eight of whom are living: Henry, of Lenox Township; Emaline (Mrs. Rose), of Monmouth; Laura (Mrs. Chapman), of Lenox Township; Letitia (Mrs. Cain), of Iowa; John L .; Mary (Mrs. Jones), of Swan Township; Hiram Edwards,
of Lenox Township; Harriet (Mrs. Landon), of Roseville Township. John L. Ray was edu- cated in the public schools of Lenox Township and reared to the life of a practical farmer and, from his youth, has been engaged in farming and stock-raising. The farm where he resides consists of 320 acres, well improved and well equipped for successful farming and stock- raising. Mr. Ray was married in Sumner Township, in 1888, to Dora E. Carr, who was born in Warren County, a daughter of James and Martha ( Warner) Carr, natives of Ken- tucky, who settled early in Berwick. Mr. Carr died in Henderson County, and Mrs. Carr lives in Berwick. Mrs. Ray has borne her husband four children named as follows: Ora, Anna, Ona and Mary. November 20, 1901, Mr. Ray was married to his present wife, who was Eliza- beth Eaton, of Warren County.
RIGGS, HENRY H .; farmer; Lenox Town- ship; is a prominent Democrat, and politically and otherwise is an influential citizen. He was born in Lenox Township, September 3, 1851, a son of Jesse and Harriet (Ray) Riggs, natives respectively of Tennessee and Kentucky. Jesse Riggs was a son of Reuben and Catharine (Sail- ing) Riggs, North Carolinans, who in 1818, when Jesse was ten years old, removed to Mis- souri, where they bought 160 acres of land and lived ten years, when they sold their property to remove to Morgan County, Ill., where they remained until their removal to Warren County to make their home with their son Jesse. To these worthy pioneers, who are buried in Berwick Cemetery, were born children as fol- lows: Henry, who served in the Black Hawk War and at the age of ninety years, is still liv- ing in Morgan County; John, who died in Kan- sas; Catharine (Mrs. Bollinger), who died in Hancock County, Ill .; Willis, who died in Knox County; Jonathan, who died in Oregon: Jesse, father of the subject of this sketch; Nancy (Mrs. Patterson), who died in Missouri; Isaiah, who died in Monmouth; Calvin, formerly of Roseville Township, who was elected Sheriff of Warren County in 1863 and died in Kansas. Jesse Riggs entered land in Warren County and was successful as a farmer and stockman. He was appointed Deputy Sheriff in 1863, and was otherwise prominent in public affairs. He died in Roseville Township, January, 1901. His first wife was a Miss Reed, and she died in Warren County; his second was the mother of
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the subject of this sketch. Mr. Riggs was reared in Berwick Township and finished his education at Monmouth, and has devoted himself success- fully to farming and stock-raising during all his active years. He has lived on his present 120-acre farm since 1885. In Hale Township, in 1883, he married Mary Ellen Byers, who was born there, a daughter of Solomon and Sarah (Bitner) Byers, and who has borne him child- ren as follows: Levi Carl, who is married and lives in Roseville Township; Effie G. (Mrs. Wells), of Lenox Township; Irene; Ralph Le- Roy, Nellie, and Chester. Mr. and Mrs. By- ers, natives of Pennsylvania, settled in Hale Township, where Mr. Byers bought and im- proved 240 acres of land. In 1877 he removed to Monmouth, where he was in the boot and
shoe trade on South Main Street, and later, un- til his death, on the southwest side of the pub- lic square. He died in 1885; his wife in Octo- ber, 1877. They had fifteen children, ten of whom, named as follows, grew to maturity: Amanda (Mrs. Gibson), who died, November, 1887; Neresa (Mrs. Gwin), of Hale Township; Henrietta (Mrs. Bowlby), of Hale Township; Jacob, of Monmouth; W. S., of Iowa; Sarah, of Monmouth; Mary Ellen, who married Mr. Riggs; Avola (Mrs. Mackey), of Lenox Town- ship; W. L., of Hale Township; Carrie (Mrs. Zimmerman), of Lenox Township; During his residence in Hale Township, Mr. Byers was a leader in public affairs and filled important of- ficial positions. Mr. and Mrs. Riggs are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Riggs is an influential Democrat.
RUSSELL, CHARLES E .; farmer, stock- raiser and dealer in agricultural implements; Lenox Township (postoffice Phelps); is des- cended from ancestors who settled early in New York, and is a leader in all important affairs in his part of the county. Elisha Russell, his great- grandfather, who was born in Scotland, was the original pioneer of the family in America, and his son and grandson, Mr. Russell's ancestors, were born in Onondaga County, N. Y. Mr. Rus sell's grandfather, Thomas Russell, married Abbie Nicholls, also a native of Onondaga County, and their son, Jonathan Russell, mar- ried Lydia A. Evans, a native of Warren Coun- ty, Penn., a daughter of William· S. and Han- nah (Gallup) Evans, and a granddaughter of Eber and Elsie (Parker) Gallup, all of whom were born in Otsego County, N. Y. Charles E.
Russell was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., August 28, 1859, and was given a good common school education in Warren County, Ill., where his father settled, with his family, in 1860, mak- ing the long journey from New York by wagon. Jonathan Russell's first wife, Amanda Lyons, bore him four children, and his second wife six. Of these Josephine married A. T. Lewis, manager of a department store at Denver, Colo., Thomas is farming at Crete, Neb .; Mary mar- ried R. L. McReynolds, a merchant at Rose- ville; J. B. is a farmer at Roseville; Amanda married J. R. Ewan, a Missouri farmer; Myra L. married O. H. Ewan, farmer, Missouri; Charles E. is the immediate subject of this sketch; William D., a member of the Sixty- sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, died at Resaca, Ga., during the campaign preparatory to Sherman's march to the sea; Emma J. died at the age of nine months, and John at the age of two years. Charles E. Russell married, at Monmouth, September 4, 1884, Louie L. Shaw, who has borne him children named Earl J. and Abbie L. Mrs. Russell is one of the three children of Clarkson and Melissa J. (Codding- ton) Shaw, and she has a brother, but lost a sister by death. Her father was brought while a boy from New York State to Warren County, and her mother came with her parents from Kentucky. Mr. Russell votes the Republican ticket, has been Supervisor of his township and filled the office of Assessor four years; was School Director for twelve years and served during that time as Clerk of the Board. He gives special attention to stock, and is the only breeder of polled Durham cattle in the town- ship. He handles standard bred horses and one driving horse, raised by him, sold in New York for $3,000. He has quite a large trade in farm- ing implements and buggies. His homestead is well improved, well stocked and well cul- tivated, and his fine residence is the only brick house in Lenox Township.
SHAWLER, JACOB; farmer and stockman; Lenox Township; was a pioneer and is a lead- ing stock-feeder in his vicinity. He was born December 16, 1826, in Ednionson County, Ky., a son of James B. and Eva (Duvall) Shawler, natives of that State, where his mother died and where his father remarried. By his first marriage James B. Shawler had five children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood, but all of whom are dead except the subject of
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this sketch. By his second marriage he had six children. He settled in Floyd Township in 1847, and from there removed to Swan Township, where he lived out his days. Jacob Shawler came with John Ray to Warren County when he was in his twenty-first year, driving a team all the way from Kentucky, and lived in Floyd Township three years, improving a farm which he sold in order to buy another in Section 12, Lenox Township, where he has since lived and been successful as a farmer and stock-raiser. His buildings are among the best in the town- ship, and his farm is supplied with every appli- ance for profitable cultivation. He is an inde- pendent voter and he and his wife are members of the Baptist church. He married in Lenox Township, March 1, 1852, Julia A. Ray, who was born in Kentucky, June 30, 1833, and who has borne him children as follows: Thompson B., who is married and lives in Lenox Town- ship; John O .; Algernon S. H., who lives in Ness County, Kans .; Philemon, lives in Swan Township, and Jesse a resident of Des Moines, Iowa. Mr. Shawler came to the township com- paratively poor, and is one of the self-made men of the county, owning in Warren County 557 acres, besides land in Kansas.
SHORES, F. R .; farmer and stock-raiser; Lenox Township; is a representative of old New England families and is the only member of his father's immediate family now living in Warren County, where he is known as a proni- inent and successful citizen. He was born in Greenbush Township, July 27, 1854, a son of William and Margaret (Buzan) Shores. His father was born in Massachusetts, November 12, 1826, a son of John Shores, also a native of the Bay State, who was a pioneer in Knox Coun- ty, Ill., about 1838. John Shores became a farmer and stage-driver, and had an extensive acquaintance throughout Knox and Henderson Counties. He died at Keokuk, Iowa, and his wife died, aged seventy-five years, in 1878, in Greenbush Township. They had children named as follows: George, of Swan Creek; Wil- liam, father of the subject of this sketch; and the late Mrs. Dr. Thomas Lester, of Galesburg, William was about twelve years old when his father located in Knox County, and his early years were spent there, in Henderson County, and in Greenbush Township, Warren County. He enlisted in 1862, in Company H, Eighty- third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as
a private, and was soon promoted to the office of First Lieutenant, and served in the Commis- sary Department until the close of the war. He farmed in Greenbush Township until 1872, when he removed to Lenox Township, where he was successful as a farmer and stock-raiser until he removed to Monmouth, where he lived many years, and where he died March 31, 1901. He filled several public offices, among them that of Treasurer of Warren County. His wife, who died in Roseville Township in 1865, bore him children as follows: F. R .; Laura, who died in Warren County at the age of sixteen years; and Sumner P., who died at Watertown, Rock Island County, March, 1901, his funeral being held on the same day as that of his father and George, who died in infancy. F. R. Shores was reared and educated in Warren County, and has devoted all his active years to farming and stock-raising and, since 1876, has lived on the Shores homestead of 520 acres, 160 acres of which he is the owner. He married, in Lenox Township, in 1887, Mary E. Overfelt, who was born in Monmouth Township, a daughter of John and Susan (Haybes) Overfelt, who have recently removed to Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Shores have had two children, Frank Glen and Charles Thomas Shores.
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