Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Warren County, Volume II, Part 74

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913; Church, Charles A., 1857-
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 620

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bought a farm adjoining the City of Mon- mouth, on which was a log house which he re- placed with a roomy and substantial residence. He lived there until his death in 1898, and it is now the home of his widow. As a Republican he was a leader in township affairs, and long held the office of Commissioner of Highways and Justice of the Peace. He had four chil- dren: W. B .; Anson, who lives with his moth- er; Mrs. Lizzie Heberer ,of Monmouth Town- ship; Frank T., of Monmouth. W. B. Downer was reared on his father's farm and educated at Monmouth. From a farmer he developed into a prominent dairyman and now does a wholesale business in dairy products, milking twenty or more cows and giving much atten- tion to breeding and improving stock. He is an active Republican and has demonstrated his public spirit in many ways. He married, in Monmouth, in 1875. Mary Louisa Holbrook, who was born in Indiana, a daughter of Ben- jamin S. and Susan (Clark) Holbrook, who settled in Warren County and later removed to Blackfoot. Idaho, where Mr. Holbrook died and where his widow lives. Mr. and Mrs. Downer have had children as follows: Avery L., Coral, L. Susie, Leslie L., Mabel A., Nyrum O. and Major G. B.

HEWITT, THOMAS; English thrift and in- dustry have been potent factors in promoting advancement everywhere in America. Illinois has gladly welcomed settlers from the mother country ,and one of the best known English- born citizens of Warren County is Thomas Hewitt, of Monmouth, who has achieved a no- table success as a florist and a gardener. Thom- as Hewitt was born at Tuxford, Nottingham- shire, Eng., August 31, 1841, a son of William and Sarah (Rustin) Hewitt. His father was a native of Flebro, Nottinghamshire, and his mother was born at Fiskiten, Lincolnshire, Eng- land. His grandfather in the paternal line was Robert Hewitt, who was born and died in Eng- land. His mother's father, Robert Rustin, of English birth, married a woman of Scotch family of Crawford. Mr. Hewitt was educated in the common schools of his native land and there became a florist and a market gardener. He came to America and located in Chicago in February, 1867. In 1875 he removed from Chi- cago to Monmonth, where he engaged in mar- ket gardening, and five years later branched out as a florist. When he began gardening at

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Monmouth there were only a few gardeners there and, in 1900, he was the oldest gardener in the vicinity. ilis principal place of business was at North Main street and Harlem Avenue, where he made his business beginning, and he has a store on East Broadway. He has been a frequent exhibitor at county fairs, and has taken more premiums than any other man in his line in Monmouth, and annually, for four years, he has given chrysanthemum exhibits at his establishment, which have been well re- ceived by the public. His green houses are larger than any other in the vicinity. Mr. Hewitt is a Republican in politics and a con- sistent member of the Presbyterian church. He is helpful to all movements for the benefit of the people of Monmouth and of Warren County and, in 1887 was elected school di- rector for the Northern District of Monmouth Township, and filled the office with great abil- ity and credit. Mr. Hewitt married at Hanover Chapel, Sheffield, England, November 26, 1864, to Alice Rimmer, of Magul, Lancashire, Eng- land, and of this marriage three children were born: Katie (now Mrs. Powell), Mary Emma (now Mrs. Hanson) and Willie, who died in in- fancy. Mrs. Hewitt died in Chicago, September 24, 1870, and Mr. Hewitt married a second time on December 25, 1871, to Kate Powell, of Chi- cago, who has borne him seven children: · Phoebe, deceased; John, who died in childhood; Thomas, Jr., who is now twenty-eight years old; Annie; Alice, now Mrs. Felt; Charles and Robbie.

HONSMAN, H. C .; farmer, Monmouth Town- ship, Warren County, Illinois; is active in Re- publican and Grand Army circles and is a leader in all progressive work in his vicinity. He was born in Cumberland County, Pennsyl- vania, in 1844, a son of David and Barbara (Lucas) Honsman. His father was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, became a farm- er, and, in 1864, settled in Monmouth Township, where he bought the farm where the subject of this sketch lives. Barbara Lucas, who be- came his wife, was born in Cumberland Coun- ty, Pennsylvania, and is living at the Honsman homestead in Monmouth Township. She bore her husband four children: Samuel, who served one year in the Civil War in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- teer Infantry, and lives at Baltimore, Md .; Dav- id, of Monmouth Township; Anna, who married

James Young, of Monmouth Township. H. C. Honsman was reared and educated in Cum- berland County, Pennsylvania, and enlisted in 1861, in Company I, Ninth Regiment, Pennsyl- vania Volunteer Cavalry, which was mustered into the service at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was included in the Army of the Tennessee. He took part in scouting expeditions in Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia and was in battle at Murfreesboro and Ridgeville and in numer- ous minor engagements. In 1865 he was honor- ably discharged from the service at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and came that year to Warren County and has since been one of the up-to-date farmers of Monmouth Township. He is a mem- ber of McClanahan post No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic.

HOPPER, WILLIAM (deceased), one of the pioneers of Warren County, was born in Bour- bon County, Ky. Being an opponent of slavery, he freed his slaves and removed to Warren County, Ill., and located in Monmouth Township in 1837. In Kentucky he followed the trade of a tanner, but upon coming to Illinois he bought land and improved the farm now occupied by Lafayette Marks. Among his household effects, upon his arrival in Warren County, was a cook stove which is believed to have been the first in the county. In Todd County, Ky., he mar- ried Miss Edith Harrison, of Rockingham County, Va. She was a cousin of General William Henry Harrison. Mr. Hopper died on his farm in Warren County, May 10, 1877, while his wife passed away December 11, 1865.

LAW, SAMUEL, farmer, Ohio Grove, Mercer County, is a prominent, successful and influential citizen, born in 1854 on the farm in Monmouth Township, Warren County, on which he lived until 1902, a son of James and Mary (Skinner) Law, natives respectively of Washington County, Penn., and of Ohio. James Law emigrated early in life to Ohio, married there, and, in 1849, drove to Warren County, Ill., and bought land in Monmouth Township of Gen. A. C. Harding, who had bought it from a man who had pre-empted it. He improved a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he died in 1884, his wife in 1889. He had previously entered another piece of land which he had sold. A man of good abilities, he was a leader in local affairs and an active member of the First United Pres-

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byterian church of Monmouth. His wife bore him ten children: Helen, who married C. P. Avenell, of Monmouth Township; Robert, of Ringgold, Iowa; Mary, who married Dr. Horne, of Mt. Ayr, Iowa; Sarah, of Mon- mouth; Samuel; William, of Monmouth; and Charles, Marcia, Lucy and James, all of whom died in Monmouth Township. Samuel Law at- tended the public school near his home in Monmouth Township, took a commercial course in Monmouth, and settled down to the con- tented and profitable life of a farmer who loves the land and knows how to make it yield abund- antly. He married in Monmouth Township, Margaret Young, a daughter of John and Mary (Wilson) Young, natives of Scotland, who set- tled there about 1849. Mr. Young, who was a farmer, died there in 1888; his widow lives in Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Law are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and are prom- inent in all good work in their vicinity. They have five children-Ivan, Lola, Wilba, Helen and Harold. In 1902 Mr. Law bought a farm of 200 acres in Ohio Grove Township, Mercer County, where he now resides.

MARKS, LAFAYETTE; farmer and stock- breeder; Monmouth Township, Warren County, Illinois; has an interesting personal and family history, the outlines of which it will be at- tempted here to give. He was born in Han- cock County, West Virginia, in 1863, a son of A. B. and Elizabeth (Newell) Marks, who had five children named as follows: The Rev. Sam- uel F., pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Tid- ionte, Penn .; Harriet, who married F. E. Reb- let, of Fort Wayne, Ind .; J. M., of Laramie, Wy., who is employed by the Union Pacific Railway Company as a conductor; George G., who is connected with the interests of the Stan- dard Oil Company at Titusville, Penn .; La- fayette. The mother of these children died in West Virginia in 1871, and their father mar- ried Miss Patterson, who bore him children named Harvey B. and Alpha, who live near their mother in Beaver County, Penn. A. B. Marks, who was a planter, died in Hancock County, W. Va., in 1888. Lafayette Marks who was reared and educated in West Virginia, went to Colorado in 1881, and for a time was engag- ed in ranching, later in lumbering, and at dif- ferent times he lived at Central City and Denver, Col., and at Laramie, Wyo. Jan- uary, 1893, he came to Monmouth and

for year a was a manufacturer there.

He then began farming and stock-feed- ing, and feeds from fifty to one hun- dred head of marketable cattle each year. Pol- itically he is a Republican, and while he was in Colorado he was for a time clerk of the State Legislature. He is a member of Gerlaw Lodge, No. 6415, Modern Woodmen of America. He married, in Warren County, June 19, 1889, Eunice M. Owens, who was born in Monmouth Township, a daughter of James F. and Mary T. ( Hopper) Owens. They have four children, James A., Harriet E., Margaret and Louis S.

MAUCK, H. W .; retired farmer; Monmouth; has a creditable and interesting war record, has filled the offices of Justice of the Peace and Postmaster, is an influential Democrat, is a comrade of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, and is a member of Monmouth Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., and of the local chapter of Royal Arch Masons. He was born in Harrison County, Ind., June 14, 1830, a son of David and Elizabeth (Snyder) Mauck. His father was born in Shenandoah County, Va., and settled in Indiana before it was a State. There he prospered as a farmer and there he and his wife died. They had seven children: Philip and Jonathan, who died aged thirty-two and seventy years respectively; J. J. and Isaac, of Corydon, Ind .; Jacob; also Mrs. Elizabeth ' Cunningham, of Pawnee, Oklahoma Territory. H. W. Mauck was reared and educated in Indi- ana. In 1854 he bought land in Mercer County, Ill., and improved a farm, on which he lived until 1892, when he came to Monmouth. He enlisted in Mercer County, August 7, 1862, in Company E, One Hundred and Second Regi- ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which was in- cluded in the First Brigade of the Fortieth Army Corps, which opposed the advance of Bragg, took part in the battles of Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, Burnt Hickory, Kennesaw Moun- tain and Atlanta, marched with Sherman to the sea, fought at Savannah, and later in South Carolina and North Carolina at Averyville, Smithfield and Raleigh, and participated in the grand review at Washington, where Mr. Mauck was discharged, as corporal, June, 1865. He married in Mercer County, in 1871, Lydia A. Smith, who was born in Warren County, a daughter of Stephen and Mary A. (Ragland) Smith, natives of Kentucky, who settled in Monmouth Township in 1830, both of whom

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died in Warren County. Mr. and Mrs. Mauck have five children: David B. and Fred B., both deceased; Alta May and Ora Belle (twins), and W. T. Mauck.

MILNE, H. A., of Milne Bros., proprietors of the Sunnyside Shetland Pony Farm, Mon- mouth, is a prominent citizen well known throughout the county, and devotes his time exclusively to the management of the unique enterprise above mentioned, of which he is superintendent. Mr. Milne was born in Jones County, Iowa, in 1860, a son of James and Helen (Hunter) Milne, natives of Scotland, who came to Canada at the ages of seventeen and three years respectively, were married in Montreal, and, in 1854, emigrated to Jones County, Iowa, where James Milne took up public land which he improved into a fine farm on which he lived until 1894, when he removed to Monmouth. Iowa, in 1868, and in 1870 Mr. Milne married Elizabeth Barr. By his first marriage he had children as follows: J. J., of Monmouth; Eliz- Helen (Hunter) Milne died in Jones County, abeth, who died at the age of twenty years; James, who died at the age of three months; and H. A., who is the immediate subject of this sketch. By his second marriage he has four children: Mrs. Helen Bray, of Jones County, Iowa, who died September 10, 1902; Agnes Blanche; James W. and Edna Jane. H. A. Mline was reared and educated in Jones Coun- ty, Iowa, and in connection with farming en- gaged extensively in the dairy business. The Sunnyside Shetland Pony farm was estab- lished at Scotch Grove, Jones County, Iowa, in 1890, and removed to Monmouth in 1894. The present farm consists of 156 acres, on which an artificial lake, covering an area of an acre and a half, has been constructed by damming a stream. The Milne Brothers usually have from one hundred and twenty-five to two hundred pure Shetland ponies, and can furnish ponies of any desired size. Mr. Milne gives his person- al attention to the training of the beautiful ani- mals. He married in Jones County, Ia, in 1880, Rachel Caroline Niblo, who was born in Cas- cade, Iowa, a daughter of Thomas Niblo, a pioneer in Jones County, and they have an adopted daughter.

MISENER, CHARLES O .; mine opeartor and real estate dealer, Monmouth; has long held a responsible position in connection with the

prominent industry in that city, and is now managing important business in Colorado. He was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, and of Penn. His father was reared, learned the wagonmaker's trade and was married in Ohio, and eventually located in Peru, Ind, where he died in 1871. His wife, who is living in Bur- lington, Iowa, bore him six children-Charles O., Monmouth; Frank, of Kansas; Hattie, who died in Peru, Ind .; John, who is farming near Burlington, Iowa; Thomas, who died in Color- ado; and Mrs. Martha Bell, of Peru, Ind. Charles O. Misener gained his education and learned the moulder's trade at Peru, Ind., and from 1883 to 1892 had charge of the foundry of the W. S. Weir Plow Company, of Monmouth. In the year last mentioned he began mining for copper and silver in the Gunnison Valley, Colo., where he has a concentrating plant in opera- tion. He is also buying and selling and renting real estate in Monmouth. He married in Mon- mouth, in 1880, Rachel C. Nichols, who was born in Warren County, a daughter of Rev. Wilson and Rachel (Barr) Nichols, natives of Ohio. Mr. Nichols, who was a minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, died in Warren Coun- ty, and his widow died in Mason City, Ia. Charles O. and Rachel C. (Nichols) Misener have daughters named Lena and Gertrude, and are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Monmouth, of which Mr. Misener is a trustee. He is a member of the Warren Lodge No. 160, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of Acme Lodge, No. 192, Ancient Order of United Work- men.

OWENS, JAMES F., deceased, was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 8, 1829, a son of John Owens, who was born in Conway Castle, Wales. March 8, 1793, and who, when he was six weeks old, was brought to America by his parents, who stopped for a time in New York and then settled at Cincinnati, where they lived until 1838, when they came to Davenport, Iowa. John Owens became a shoemaker and worked in the east until the beginning of the war of 1812, during which he served his adopted coun- try as a private soldier. After the war he made the journey on foot over the Alleghenies to Cincinnati, where in 1816 he again took to his trade. Later he married Mrs. Eunice (Kent) Meeker, a native of New Jersey and a descen- dant of Anneke Jans, who bore him four sons and four daughters, of whom James F. was

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the fifth, previous to 1838, in which year the family removed to Davenport, Iowa, where John became a successful merchant and finan- cier and where he died September 24, 1876, aged eighty-four years, his wife, July 8, 1884, aged ninety-one years. James F. Owens was educated in the public schools of Davenport and in early life assisted his father in his store. August 22, 1855, he married Mary T. Hopper, born July 20, 1834, a daughter of William and Edith (Harrison) Hopper, and a cousin of General William Henry Harrison. Mrs. Owens, who was only an infant when her parents settled in Warren County, was educated at Galesburg and Eureka and is now living at the Owens homestead, "Thorndale Farm." With the exception of 1859-60, when James F. Owen was in the "Rockies," he and his wife lived on the Hopper farm until his death January 31, 1891. He was a Republican and was elected supervisor and road commissioner of Mon- mouth Township. His wife bore him children as follows: Minnie, who married H. M. Cham- berlain, of Denver, Colorado; Anna B .; Mrs. A. M. Hinckley, of Hinsdale, Ill .; Edith; Mrs. T. B. Rankin, of Tarkio, Mo .; Mrs. Lafayette Marks, of Monmouth Township: Charles, who lives in Tennessee; and Margaret, who died September 26, 1896.

PATTERSON, WILLIAM J .; fruitgrower; Monmouth Township; a pioneer settler and sol- dier in the Civil War, was acting Commander of McClanahan Post, No. 330, Grand Army of the Republic, in 1898, and was elected to the same office in January, 1900. He was born in York County, Penn., June 5, 1830, a son of James and Ruth (Allen) Patterson, natives of the same State. His father, who was a farmer and bell-maker, died January 4, 1833, and his mother having married John W. Post, in 1843 emigrated to Morgan County, Ill., where she died May 12, 1862. She had three children by her first marriage: Robert, who served in a Pennsylvania Regiment during the Civil War, became a surveyor and located in Minnesota; Mrs. Ruth Ann Wharton, of Morgan County, Ill., and William J. The latter was reared and educated in his native county in Pennsylvania, whence he removed to Karthaus, Clearfield County. In May, 1857, he located near Chapin, Morgan County, Ill., where he Iarmed and work- ed as a carpenter until 1900, when he bought a farm just outside the corporate limits of Mon-

mouth and engaged successfully in fruit cul- ture. At Karthaus, Pennsylvania, in 1853, he married Isabelle Yothers, a native of that county and daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ryder) Yothers, who were born and passed their lives there. William J. and Isabelle (Yothers) Patterson have had eleven children of whom the following are living: Mrs. Mary Filson, of Morgan County; Ella, who is matron of the Old Ladies' Home at Jacksonville, Ill .; Mrs. Clara Brockhouse, who lives near Kansas City, Mo .; Mrs. Cora Halpin, of Springfield, Ill .; Mrs. Hattie Burton, of Canton, Mo .; Ger- trude and William Edgar, who are members of their parents' household. Mr. Patterson en- listed at Jacksonville, August 13, 1862, in Com- pany B, One Hundred and First Regiment, Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry, and took part in the battles of Jackson, Lumpkin Mills and Cham- pion Hill and in the siege of vicksburg. Later he was stationed at Chattanooga, then at Knox- ville, and was with Sherman in the March to the Sea. He participated in the Savannah cam- paign, and at Pine Mountain received a shell wound in the right breast. His last two battles were those at Bentonville and Averysville. He was elected First Lieutenant of his company January 3, 1864, and Captain, July 20, 1864, marched in the grand review at Washington, where he had command of a division, and was honorably discharged from the service at Springfield, Ill., June 27, 1865. He is one of the most active members of the local Post of the Grand Army, and Mrs. Patterson is vice- president of the Woman's Relief Corps. He is also a member of the Masonic order.

QUINN, PERRY C .; farmer, Monmouth Township; an honored pioneer of Warren County and veteran of the Civil War; was born in Green county, Ohio, in 1838, the son of Sam- uel and Sarah (Hopping) Quinn, natives of Ohio, who settled in Spring Grove Township, Warren County, in 1847, but afterwards sold his property and moved to Monmouth where he died in 1867. Mrs. Samuel Quinn, who finally died in Nebraska, bore her husband children as follows: Mrs. Elizabeth Crawford, of Missouri; Mrs. Mary Laird, Spring Grove Township, War- ren County; Mrs. Matilda Hogue, died in Iowa; Samuel B., died in Henderson County, Ill .; Elias, of Nebraska, who served through the Civil War in the Fiftieth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry; Mrs. Rebecca Wallace, of

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Nebraska; Perry C. (the subject of this sketch) of Monmouth Township; David H., Mrs. Sarah Wright and James Henry-the last three being residents of Nebraska. Perry C. Quinn was reared and educated in Warren County, where he followed the business of a farmer until 1861, when he enlisted in Company I, Fiftieth Regi- ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving in the Army of the Cumberland and taking part in many hard-fought engagements, including those of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka, Resaca, Altoona and Nashville. Having received a gunshot wound in the service, he spent some time in the hospital at Nashville and Louis- ville, but at the expiration of his term of ser- vice in 1864, rc-enlisted in the same company, serving until after the close of the war and receiving his discharge at Davenport, Iowa, July, 1865. Then returning to Warren County, he was employed for ninc years at the Weir Plow Works and, for five years, by the Mon- mouth Mining factory. Mr. Quinn is the owner of a six-acre truck farm just outside the lim- its of the city of Monmouth, which he is con- ducting successfully. In religious belief Mr. Quinn is a Methodist, and associated politically with the Prohibitionist party. Mr. Quinn was married at Metamora, Ill., to Miss Jane S. Thompson, a native of Russellville, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. John and Nancy (Bayne) Thompson, who settled in Warren County, Ill., in 1857. Dr. Thompson was born in Thomp- sontown, Penn., in 1779. He was married twice, first to Isabella Johnson, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and to them were born six children as follows: William, now of Waco, Texas; Fredonia, de- ceased; Rufus A., of Colorado Springs, Colo .; Nathaniel J., of Denver, Colo .; Mrs. Elizabeth (Thompson) Curran, of Sandusky, Ohio; Inez deceased-all natives of Chillicothe, Ohio. Dr. Thompson removed to Russellville, in 1836, where his wife died during the following year. In 1839 he married Nancy Bayne, of Brown County, Ohio, and or this second marriage six children were born, viz .: Silas P., who en- listed in the Seventy-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers, and died in the service in the spring of 1863; Isabella T. Hogue, of Topeka, Kans .; Jane S., wife of Perry C. Quinn, of Monmouth, Ill .; Miss Ella and Mrs. Agnes (Thompson) Johnson, both of Metamora, Ill .; Julia Ann, deceased; and John G., of Gerlaw, Ill., all natives of Russellville, Brown County, Ohio. In 1857 he removed to Spring Grove

Township, Warren County, Ill., where he en- gaged in the practice of medicine for two years, but died in 1859, while on a visit to Waco, Tex. Mrs. Thompson died in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Perry C. Quinn have had five children-three sons and two daughters: Mrs. Rosa E. Dunn, of Monmouth, Ill .; John T., of Oklahoma; Mitchell, of Monmouth, Ill., and Sarah and Albert who died in infancy.

RUSE, HENRY; farmer; Monmouth Town- ship; is a native of England, who has lived in this county forty-seven years and is honored, not only as a pioneer but as one who has made a worthy success in life . He was born in Coun- ty Suffolk, February, 1834, a son of James and Esther (Walker) Ruse, who were born and died there and had children as follows: Will- iam, John and Harriet, who died in England; Ephraim, who died in Missouri; Robert and Alfred, who live in England; David, who lives in Mercer County, Ill .; James, who lives in Missouri, and Henry, the subject of this sketch. The father of these children was a butcher and a man of good business ability. Henry Ruse was reared and educated in his native land and, in the fall of 1855 came to Connect- icut. In the spring of 1856 he came to Mon- mouth and entered the employ of Claycomb & Dixon, liverymen. Later he worked for the livery firm of Feather & Brown, and afterward for five years conducted a livery stable of his own. Then, after having been sixteen years connected with the livery business at Mon- mouth, he engaged in farming in Cold Brook Township. Later he farmed in Floyd Town- ship and for twenty years ne has farmed and raised stock in Monmouth township. He married, in Monmouth Township, Sarah McCreedy, a native of Ireland, whose father died there and whose mother, Mrs. Nancy McCreedy, died at Monmouth. Mr. and Mrs. Ruse have four children: Mrs. Effie Earp, of Monmouth; Mrs. Lois K. Oswald, of Mon- mouth Township, and Harry A. and Carl, who are members of their parents' household. Mr. Ruse is a Republican and he and the members of his family are communicants of the Presby- terian Church of Monmouth.

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Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and history of Warren County, Volume II, Part 74

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913; Church, Charles A., 1857- Publication date: 1916 Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 620

Author: Bateman, Newton, 1822-1897; Selby, Paul, 1825-1913; Church, Charles A., 1857-
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Chicago : Munsell Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 620