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WATSON, BENJAMIN T; contractor and builder and fruit grower; Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois; is of English birth and pos- sesses many of those characteristics which
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causes Englishmen to rank among our best cit- izens. He was born in Yorkshire in 1844, a son of Thomas and Jane (Bently) Watson, natives of England, who came to Peoria, Ill., in 1856, and thence to Monmouth in 1861. Thomas Watson, who was a tailor, was for a time em- ployed by Warren Wright, and later engaged in business for himself. He and his wife, who both died in Monmouth (he in 1898), had child- ren named as follows: Richard T., Charles W., Benjamin T., Mrs. Elizabeth Bell, Mrs. Annie Wilson, all of Monmouth Township, and Mrs. Thomas Holgate, of Corning, Iowa. Benjamin T. Watson was brought to Illinois by his par- ents when he was twelve years old. He attend- ed school at Peoria until he was seventeen, when the family located in Monmouth, where he learned the carpenter's trade, and where for some years he has been engaged in contracting and building. Soon after he located in Mon- mouth he bought four and one-half acres partly improved land, which he has since developed into a successful fruit farm. He married in Monmouth, July, 1865, Caroline E. Beach, who came there from Ohio, in 1859, and who has born him children named Frank, Kate and Jennie.
WHITE, JOSEPH MARPLE (deceased) ; farmer and stock-raiser; Monmouth; nearly forty-five years, was connected with important business interests, and by his geniality and helpfulness won many warm friends among his fellow citizens of the last generation and of the present. He was born at Honey Creek, Chester County, Penn., February 12, 1834, a son of Thomas and Catharine (Marple) White, and died in Monmouth, June 22, 1902. His father was born in Pennsylvania, January 31, 1805, was for many years a blacksmith, and, in middle life, became a farmer. He had four brothers and one sister, and was the third child of his parents in order of birth. He died in Pennsyl- vania, in 1868. Catharine Marple, who became his wife, was born in Chester County, Penn., was her father's only daughter by his first mar- riage, and had three brothers. Of her father's second marriage two children were born. She bore her husband two children: Joseph M., of Warren County; and Mary J., who married George Brown, a merchant of Fayette County, Penn. Thomas White removed to Fayette County when Joseph M. White was two years old, and the boy was educated in public schools
there and at the Meadville Seminary, in Craw- ford County, Penn. After leaving school he di- vided his time between farming and teaching for a time, and, on becoming of age, devoted attention to farming exclusively. He married in Fayette County, March 18, 1858, Sarah J. Rankin, daughter of James and Rachel (Hill) Rankin, who were born in Pennsylvania, of Irish extraction and American parentage. Mrs. White was the second of their seven children, was born there November 20, 1834, finished her education at the college at Waynesburg, Penn., and became a teacher. Her parents died in Pennsylvania, her father about 1875. She has borne her husband three children: Thomas and Lucian, of Monmouth Township, and Roxalena, who died August 26, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. White in the fall of 1858, located on a partially im- proved farm of 101 acres in Monmouth Town- ship, upon which he erected a residence, and he devoted the remainder of his life to general farming and stock-raising. For twenty-two years he gave his attention largely to the cat- the business, in the growth and development of which he has always taken a keen interest. In politics he was an ardent Republican. He and his wife were active members of the Methodist Church at Monmouth, and he was long one of its trustees until 1899, when he resigned the office on account of failing health. When the present house of worship was erected he was chairman of the board of trustees. In 1869, with A. M. Black, he leased 1400 acres of land in Monmouth Township, on a part of which the plant of the Monmouth Mining and Manufac- turing Company now stands. At an expense of one thousand dollars they prospected for coal and found a vein only two feet thick, but they discovered a three-foot vein of fire clay and, beneath it, a second vein of better quality eight to ten feet thick. They abandoned the idea of mining coal and planned to utilize the fire clay, organizing a stock company to man- ufacture sewer pipe and similar products. Originally the capital stock of the com- pany was fifty thousand dollars, but later it was doubled. Mr. White, who was a mem- ber of the first board of directors, re- tained his interest in the company until 1884. The concern has developed until it is one of the leading sewer pipe factories in the United States, and much of its success is due to the energy displayed by Mr. White dur- ing his connection with the business.
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WHITMER, M. B., farmer, Monmouth Town- ship, was formerly a carpenter and is now a well-to-do stock-raiser. He was born in Bote- tourt County, Va., in 1850, a son of David and Mary (Flaharty) Whitmer, natives of that State. His father, who was a planter, died there in 1866, his mother in 1851. Mr. Whitmer has a sister, Mrs. McClure, in Virginia. His father married a second wife, who bore him children
as follows: Mrs. Heittner L. Sampson, of West Virginia, and John L., M. O., Alfred, Da- vid and Mrs. Anna Vines, of Virginia. M. B. Whitmer was reared and educated in Virginia and, as a boy, heard more than once the boom- ing of cannon fired in battles of the Civil War, and later observed the effects of the war on the country round about his home. After leav- ing school he learned the carpenter's trade, at which he was employed in Virginia until 1895, when he came to Hale Township, Warren County, and engaged in farming. In 1898 he bought his present farm of 320 acres in Mon- mouth Township, and engaged in stock-raising in connection with general farming. He mar- ried, in Virginia, in 1876, Anna Hutson, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Reynolds) Hutson, planters of that State, and she has borne him children named as follows: Caroline R., Ira D., Ivy, Herbert, Itly and Mrs. Mary S. Crosby, the last mentioned of whom lives at Kewanee, Ill. Mr. Whitmer has done some work as a carpenter since he came to Illinois. He is active and influential as a Republican, and he and his wife are helpful members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Reed, Hen- derson County.
WILSON, GEORGE R .; dairy farmer; Mon- mouth Township; is the proprietor of the Lom- bardy Lawn Dairy Farm, which was established as such by Dr. Felix Regnier, more than twen- ty-two years ago, and which has been operated as a dairy farm continuously to the present time. Mr. Wilson was born in Winterset Coun- ty, Iowa, in 1855, a son of R. C. and Jane (Gil- christ) Wilson, natives of Indiana. R. C. Wil- son settled in Warren County in 1853, and soon removed to Winterset County, Iowa. In 1856 he relocated in Monmouth, where he prospered as a harness maker, became prominent as a cit- izen, and died in 1864. His wife, who died at Monmouth March 27, 1902, bore him eight child- ren, as follows: Mamie, who is dead; William, who died in Nebraska in 1900; Mrs. Edith
'Hood, Marshalltown, Ia .; Mrs. Harriet Geer, of Livingston, Mont .; George R .; Van L., who is a grocer at Monmouth; Mrs. Inez Huber, of Stonewall, Colo .; Mrs. Carrie Johnson, of St. Mary, Iowa. George R. Wilson was reared and educated at Monmouth and was a salesman in a store until he engaged in the dairy busi- ness. He bought the Lombardy Dairy Farm in 1898, owns a herd of thirty-five cattle and has an established milk and butter route in Mon- mouth. He married, in Monmouth, in 1876, Calista Boggs, daughter of James Boggs, of DesMoines, Iowa, who has borne him the fol- lowing named children: Fred L., of Meeke, Colo .; Mrs. Edith Geer, of Livingston, Mont .; Claude; Bernice; Reuben and Clifford. Mr. Wilson is a member of Monmouth Lodge, No. 577, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ben Hur Insurance Order, and Monmouth Tent, No. 24, K. O. T. M.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
POINT PLEASANT TOWNSHIP.
(Township 8 North, Range 3 West.)
This township is in the extreme southwest- ern corner of Warren County. It is all rolling prairie, except Sections 12, 13 and 14, which are somewhat broken. The soil is rich and the township ranks among the foremost in the pro- duction of corn and the smaller grains. The raising of hogs is also an important feature. The land is drained from the east and south- east part by the middle and south branches of Nigger creek, which convey the water into the Illinois river. The other part of the township is drained by Ellison and Honey creeks, which empty into the Mississippi. The 16th section is on the divide between the two rivers. There are no railroads in the township, and no vil- lages or trading points, but for all that it is well named, being a pleasant place in which to live, and having many comfortable and beau- tiful homes. The township was organized April 4, 1854. There were few settlers then,
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and only ten votes were cast. Albert Mitchell was moderator of the meeting, and J. D. Conk- ling was clerk. The officers chosen were: Su- pervisor, Warren Park; town clerk, Andrew Livermore; assessor and collector, E. J. Haz- leton; highway commissioners, Thomas Boyd, Franklin Booth, and Andrew Livermore; over- seers of the poor, Warren Park and Lucius Watson. The present officers of the township (1902) are: Supervisor, W. T. Livermore; clerk, William Moore; assessor, A. E. Davis; collector, George Lee; highway commissioners, Benjamin Lee, John L. Jones, E. M. Bycroft; Justice of the peace, E. M. Rycroft; constable, J. D. Piper. Those who have served the town- ship as supervisor up to the present time are: Warren Park, 1854; Albert Mitchell, 1855-57; R. T. King, 1858-59; Leonard Connell, 1860; Al- bert Mitchell, 1861; George W. Stice, 1862-63; R. T. King, 1864-67; George W. Stice, 1868; James M. Humes, 1869-70; R. T. King, 1871-72; A. S. Smith, 1873-76; Thomas Pennington, 1877; A. S. Smith, 1878-80; W. T. Boyd, 1881-83; A. S. Smith, 1884-86; W. T. Boyd, 1887; A. S. Smith, 1888; W. T. Boyd, 1889-96; W. T. Liv- ermore, 1897-1901.
Point Pleasant was about the last township in the county to be settled. The first comers were David Sovereign and Abraham Belding, who located on Section 13 in 1835. Mr. Sov- ereign removed to California in a few years, and Mr. Belding to Missouri. William Park- hurst came next, from New England, settling on Section 24. He afterwards removed to Min- nesota. In 1849 came Lucius and Isaac Wat- son, James Owen and John A. Waugh, the Wat- sons locating on Section 1.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church of Point Pleasant township, was organized by the Rev. William McCamy in June, 1864. There were eighteen charter members, viz .: Josiah Kirkpatrick, Lucinda Hindman, Mary Hughen, Eliza Hindman, W. R. Hindman, Amanda J. Johnston, Haney M. Ratekin, John B. O'Neil, Mary Dixson, Mary E. Dixson, Elizabeth Hughen, Esther Hughen, Susan F. Dean, Mary Dean, J. M. O'Neall, Maloney O'Neall, and Eliz- abeth Curtis. The first elders were Josiah Kirkpatrick, John B. O'Neil and W. R. Hind- man, and the first pastor was Rev. John Craw- ford. He served ten years, and was followed by Revs. J. D. Foster, J. H. Morgan, J. T. Mur- ray, C. A. King, F. P. Lawyer, S. P. Bixler, E. L. Latham, R. W. Norris, J. E. Blair, J. M.
Bell, T. D. Harris. J. L. Crawford, Jr., the present pastor, has served eight years. The present membership is twenty-six, and the elders are A. J. Johnston, Emma J. Boyd, and A. J. Ratekin. Sabbath school is maintained nine months of the year, with a membership of thirty-five. The church building was erected by the Methodists and Presbyterians jointly in 1867, and dedicated January 5, 1868. It was bought from the Methodist society a few years later for $500.
The Methodist society of Point Pleasant Township was organized in the year 1853 at the home of Burrell Booth on the southeast quarter of Section 12. Rev. Harry Preston was the first circuit preacher, and Rev. Rich- ard Haney the first presiding elder. In 1854 a school house was built on the northeast quar- ter of Section 12, and meetings were held there until December, 1867, when a church was built at a cost of $2,000 on the southwest quarter of Section 12. Here the society worshiped until 1875 when the church was sold to the Cum- berland Presbyterians for $500. At this time part of the members went to Swan Creek, and the rest, with other new members, formed the Colfax Methodist Church near the center of the township, building a church in 1875. The charter members of the original society were Burrell Booth and wife, Frank Booth and wife, Zadoc Stephens and wife, Nathan Steph- ens and wife and James D. Conklin and wife. The society had regular preaching service every two weeks, and Sabbath school most of the the time. Much labor was bestowed upon the community by both pastors and members dur- ing these years, and the membership was fifty when the society separated.
The Colfax Methodist Church was organized at Center school house in the spring of 1875, the members being David and Jennie Van- Gilder, E. F. and L. A. Dehart, J. A. Williams, J. M. and Rhoda Chapman, Charles and Cath- erine Gunn, M. B. and C. B. Torrence, Eliza J. Altman, W. H. Dehart, John R. Conklin and Sarah J. Morey. The church was built in the same year the society was organized, 1875. at a cost of $1,700.
The first school house was built in 1849, and the first school opened January 27, 1850, with Eunice Belding as teacher. The second school was taught by Ruby L. Stice, commencing July 15, 1850, in a school house near the east side of the township, and known as the Emrich
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school house. The figures on file with the County Superintendent show that there are now nine school districts, all with frame buildings; one male teacher receiving $45 a month, and eleven females receiving from $25 to $40 a month; 105 males and 103 females of school age in the township, of whom 90 males and 88 females are enrolled in the schools. There are three school libraries, with forty volumes, valued at $90. The tax levy for school purposes is $2,852; value of school property, $3,500; value of school apparatus, $225; and bonded debt for schools, $200.
The assessment for 1901 shows 871 horses, 1871 cattle, 46 mules and asses, 108 sheep, and 3,999 hogs in the township. The total value of personal property of every description was $207,825, and the assessed valuation $41,565; assessed valuation of lands, $257,070.
The population of the township, according to the census of 1900, was 718, against 812 in 1890.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
BOOTH, FERGUSON; farmer; Point Pleas- ant Township, (postoffice Swan Creek); is a representative of two old West Virginia and Ohio families, the Booths and Van Vleets. His grandfather and grandmother in the paternal line were Ferguson and Lucy (Perdue) Booth and his father was Burwell Booth, all natives of West Virginia. His grandparents in the maternal line were Peter and Hannah Van Vleet, and Cornelia Van Vleet, his mother, was born near Cincinnati, Ohio. Burwell Booth was brought early in life to Knox County, 111., by his parents, and, after his marriage he bought a farm in Swan Township, which he sold in or- der to purchase another in Point Pleasant Township. Eventually he sold the farm last mentioned and bought a farm in Guthrie Coun- ty, Iowa, on which he lived for some years. He then removed to Buena Vista County, Iowa. Ferguson Booth began farming for himself on 80 acres of Section 27, Point Pleasant Township, and has given attention to general crops and to breeding hogs and horses. He is a Repub- lican and has filled the office of Road Commis- sioner, and for twelve years has been School Director. He married in Roseville in 1881, Myrtie Kirby, who was born there in 1865, daughter of Washington and Martha (Talley) Kirby, who now lives in Point Pleasant Town-
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ship. By his marriage he has three children, named: Bertha, Gertrude and Leo. He was previously married to Zoe Worden, who was born in Swain Township, a daughter of George Worden, a native of New York, who bore him one child that died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Booth are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
BROWN, MARY J .; widow of Andrew T. Brown; Point Pleasant Township, (postoffice Swan Creek); is a woman of property and so- cial standing, who has been selected as only few of her sex for representation in this work. Mrs. Brown was born in Wabash County, Ind., Octo- ber 15, 1846, a daughter of Jesse and Susan (Stoner) Arbogast. Her, father was born in Pendleton County, West Virginia, and her moth- er in Maryland. Her grandparents in the paternal line were Peter and Sophia Arbogast, natives of West Virginia, and her mother's parents were Henry and Sarah (Rogan) Stoner, who were born in Maryland, her father in Frederick County. Miss Arbogast married Andrew T. Brown, in McDonough County, Ill., March 3, 1872, and bore him children named as follows: Ralph B., Carl I., Ethel C., Edith N., Amy, Lois I., Beatrice E., Mertice L. and Birdie. Andrew T. Brown was born in West Virginia, December, 1844, a son of Thomas and Jane Brown, natives of that State. He purchased a farm of 160 acres in Section 27, Point Pleasant Township, where he died Sep- tember, 1891. He wielded considerable influ- ence in local affairs and was called to the of- fices of Road Commissioner and School Com- missioner. Early in the Civil War Mr. Brown enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until trans- ferred to the Ninth Regiment West Virginia Militia. For fifteen months he was a prisoner of war, confined in the Libby, Belle Isle and Andersonville prisons. Mrs. Brown's daughter Ethel C. has been a teacher, and all her chil- dren were educated to a degree that fits them, not only for society, but for the practical duties of life.
DAVIS, IRA W., Point Pleasant Township, Warren County, Ill., (postoffice Swan Creek), farmer and stockraiser, has been as truly the architect of his own fortune as any man in his part of the State, and his
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career is one which may be emulated with advantage by strivers for worthy worldly success. Born in Mahoning County, Ohio, June 13, 1831, he is a son of Reuben H. and Annie (Barclay) Davis. His father, who was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., was a son of John Davis, of Maryland birth, and his mother, born in Mahoning County, Ohio, was a daughter of Francis Barclay, a native of Penn- sylvania, whose wife was a Mrs. Wilson. Ira W. Davis was reared in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1855 he came to Roseville Town- ship, Warren County, Ill., where, for eight years, he conducted a farm on rented land. He then bought forty acres of land in Point Pleas- ant Township, and by subsequent purchases, came to own 365 acres. His home farm is equipped with good buildings and with every facility for successful cultivation. He is a sup- porter of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and an independent Democrat and wields a rec- ognized influence in township affairs. He has filled the office of school director for several years, been Assessor three years and been elected Highway Commissioner three times.
Mr. Davis has been twice married. His first wife was Sarah J. Amon, who was born in 1830, the daughter of George and Sarah Amon, who were natives of, and lived out their days in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. By that mar- riage he had children as follows: George W., Mary Amelia, Reuben A., Addison E., Priscilla A., Ida J., Emma M., Charles B., Ella S. and Ira W., Jr., another son of the same name as the one last mentioned died March 14, 1866; Priscilla A., died June 24, 1882, and Mary Amelia, October 14, 1882. Mrs. Davis died May 28, 1878. On December 7, 1884, Mr. Davis was married in Roseville Township, to Nellie Dun- can, who was born in Wisconsin, December 25, 1849, a daughter of David and Catharine (Briggs) Duncan. Mr. Duncan, who was a tailor, moved from Rochester, New York, to Ohio, thence to Wisconsin and then to Mis- souri, where he and his wife both died.
GALBREATH, WILLIAM, farmer, Point Pleasant Township (postoffice Swan Creek) ; is one of the most prominent stockmen in his vicinity, and in everything that pertains to good farming has few superiors in his part of the State. He was born near Gladstone, Henderson County, Ill., January 24, 1852, a son of William and Sarah Ann (Harland) Gal-
breath and a grandson of of Thomas Gal- breath, who married a Mrs. White. William Galbreath was born in Rowe County, Tenn., and died June 30, 1883; his wife was born in Frederick County, in 1814, and died October 10, 1899, triumphant in the faith of the Chris- tian Church of which she had long been a mem- ber. They emigrated to Morgan County, Ill., in 1829, and in 1834 settled in Henderson County. There was at that time only one house between Media and Monmouth. In 1857 they removed to Warren County, where they re- mained the remainder of their lives. They were married in 1836 and had ten children: Newton, Margaret, May, Thomas, Martha, Sophia, Jane, William, Daniel and Clara. William remained with his father until after he attained his ma- jority. In 1892 he bought 240 acres of land in Section 21, Point Pleasant Township, which he has developed into a fine agricultural prop- erty. He was married in Warren County Sep- tember 9, 1885, to Florence Seymour, who was born in Tompkins Township, in 1864, a daugh- ter of A. G. and Mary (Abdil) Seymour, na- tives respectively of New York and Steuben- ville, Ohio. Mr. Seymour is a son 'of Rudolph Seymour, who came west from New York at a comparatively early day, and he and his good wife are living near Gravity, Iowa. William and Florence (Seymour) Galbreath have had children named Edna May, Elsie C., Okle Wil- liam and Mildred Letha. Mr. Galbreath is a Democrat.
HENRY, GEORGE W., farmer, Point Pleas- ant Township (postoffice Raritan), has made a notable success as a stockraiser, has long filled the office of Justice of the Peace and lias, for eighteen years, during most of which time he has been clerk of the board, been a school direc- tor. He was born in Berrien County, Mich., August 30, 1852, and was given a common school education. His parents were Jacob and Caroline R. (Conradt) Henry. His father was born near Miamisburg, Ohio, March 13, 1818, and his mother in Germany September 18, 1833, a daughter of Andrew and Fredericka (Hagle) Conradt. Elizabeth Henry, his grandmother, was a native of Pennsylvania. Jacob Henry emigrated from Ohio to Indiana, thence to Michigan, and thence, in the spring of 1865, to Illinois. He farmed in Henderson County ten years, and then went overland to California and devoted himself to farming and fruit-rais-
Dra. W. Davis
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ing in Yolo County. George W. Henry began life for himself at the age of twenty-one years, and in 1880 bought his present farm in Sec- tion 30, Point Pleasant Township, on which he has resided since the spring of 1882. He married, in Henderson County, March 15, 1874, Carrie Milliken, who was born in Dearborn County, Ind., December 29, 1851, a daughter of Wesley and Catharine (Powell) Milliken, nat- ives of that State, who came to Illinois in 1865, and have since lived in Henderson County, where they are farmers. Mr. and Mrs. Henry have had children as follows: Edith E., who married George E. Patch; Robert D. O., who married Alice Lahey; Mervin P .; Wesley J .; Greeley M. and Orville B. E. Mr. Henry is a Republican, and is not only influential in his party, but is a man of much liberality and pub- lic spirit.
LEE, MAXWELL POTTER; farmer, Point Pleasant Township (postoffice Smithshire) ; is descended from two families that, for gener- ations, have been prominent in West Virginia, where all of his ancestors who are mentioned here were born. Samuel E., his father, was a son of John and Eunice (Ferguson) Lee, and he married Hannah Potter, a daughter of Max- well and Clara Potter. Mr. Lee was born in Sul- livan County, Ind., April 29, 1823. There his father, who had moved from West Virginia to Ohio and thence to Indiana, died; his mother died in Butler County, Ohio. In 1851 he came to Illinois and, after stopping for a time in Ful- ton County, bought 160 acres of land in Sec- tion 4, Point Pleasant Township, which he still owns, together with 160 acres in Ellison Township, and some woodland, which tracts he purchased later. He has been successful as a farmer, and has for years been a leader in af- fairs in his township, having long held the office of Highway Commissioner and, for thirty-five years, that of School Director. He married Mar- garet Moore, who was born in New Jersey, a daughter of Abraham and Grace Moore, and who died in 1877, leaving three children: Phoebe Grace (deceased), Benjamin and Eliz- abeth (deceased). At Champaign, Ill., March 25, 1880, he married Catharine Woods, who was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 2, 1836, a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Anderson) Kritzer, natives of Wurtemburg, Germany, who came to the United States in 1821 and located in Ohio, where Mr. Kritzer died when Mrs. Lee
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