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gress and prosperity. He was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 11, 1843, received a com- mon school education and was brought up a Methodist and a Republican. His parents were William and Martha (Rucsk) Stinemates; his father born in Pennsylvania, a son of Chris- topher Stinemates, a native of the same state, and his mother in Ohio, a daughter of James Rucsk, who was also of Ohio nativity. Chris- tian Stinemates removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio, when his son, William, was compara- tively young, and the latter was married in Knox County, that state, and there his children were born. William Stinemates brought his family to Tompkins Township, Warren Coun- ty, Ill., in 1853, and settled on a quarter-sec- tion of land, where he farmed until 1872, when he went to Montgomery County, Iowa, where he prospered as a farmer, and where he and his wife live at this time. He was born February 12, 1818; Mrs. Stinemates, in 1821. They have four sons and a daughter: John T. Stinemates, of Tompkins Township; Leander Stinemates, farmer, Montgomery County, Iowa; S. L. Stinemates, farmer, Pierce Coun- ty, Neb .; Mrs. Ella Ashbaugh, of Grant, Mont- gomery County, Iowa; and James, farmer, of Iowa. In 1862 the subject of this sketch went to Iowa and enlisted in Company E, Sixteenth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in the Seventeenth Army Corps until the close of the war. At Atlanta, Ga., July 2, 1864, immediately after the tragic death of General McPherson, he was made a prisoner of war, and he was held as such for nine months, most of the time at Andersonville. After the war he returned to Tompkins Township and managed his father's farm until 1872, when he bought his present farm of two hundred and sixty acres. He has always taken an active interest in township affairs, and, for twenty years, has held the office of School Director. He married, in Tompkins Township, November 14, 1872, Emma Lanphere, daughter of Wash- ington Lanphere, now dead, who was long a prominent farmer. Mrs. Stinemates has borne him two children: Herbert Otis, born January 29, 1876, and Clyde, born November 29, 1878.
THOMPSON, HENRY JOHN, farmer and stock-raiser, Tompkins Township (postoffice address, Ponemah), has an interesting fam- ily history, which so far as it can be given here begins in Ireland, with his grandfather, John
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Thompson, who married there and, in 1854, brought his family to New York. His son, John W. Thompson, and the latter's wife, Han- nah Crofton, were both born on the Emerald Isle. From New York, John Thompson moved west in 1859 to Spring Grove Township, War- ren County, Ill., where he settled on a farm. John W. Thompson was a successful farmer, died on the Thompson homestead, September 7, 1892, aged sixty-five years, and his widow died at Alexis January 29, 1895, she having re- moved to that place after the death of her hus- band. They had ten sons and two daughters, concerning whom the following information has been obtained: William is farming near Burlington, Iowa; Richard is a farmer in Spring Grove Township; John, who was a farmer, died in 1894; Edgar is farming in Mer- cer County, Ill .; Charles, next in order of birth, is next older than the subject of this sketch; Mary and George live in Spring Grove Township; Ellen married Thomas Burns, a farmer of that township; Joseph, by ten years' successful practice, has attained prominence as a lawyer at Bloomington. Henry John Thompson has farmed successfully at his pres- ent location since December 10, 1895. He is influential in the Catholic church, and is a Democrat; was married at Raritan, Hender- son County, February 24, 1892, to Kate Slater, who has borne him seven children named as follows in the order of their birth: Harold, 1893; Cecil, 1894; Loretta, 1896; Joseph, 1898; Gilburtas, 1899; Catharine,
, 1900; Monica, 1901. Joseph died in 1899.
THOMSON, JAMES F., farmer and stock- raiser, Tompkins Township ( postoffice, Kirk- wood), is one of the prominent men of his township, and is held in high esteem not only for his admirable character and his good cit- izenship, but for his patriotic service as a soldier in the civil war. Hugh Thomson, his grandfather, a native of Carlisle, Penn., moved from that State to Ohio about 1810, and John Thomson, father of James F. Thomson, was born on his father's farm in Jefferson County, Ohio, and married Rachel Francis, who was born in the same county, a daughter of James Francis, a native of Ireland. Both his par- ents were born in 1816. They came to Warren County in 1867, and their son, James F., located in the same year in Henderson. In 1870 Mr. Thomson came to Warren from Henderson
County, where for three years he had farmed during the spring, summer and autumn, and taught district schools during the winter months, and he established a home in Tomp- kins Township. His father died in July, 1888. His widow still resides on the homestead in Tompkins Township. Until 1881, James F. Thomson and his brother, Hugh R. Thomson, owned and operated a farm a mile east of Mr. Thomson's present farm, which he bought in the year mentioned. September 23, 1873, in Tompkins Township, Mr. Thomson married Mary E. Norcross, whose father, H. R. Nor- cross, died some years ago, and whose mother, Mrs. Clarinda Norcross, is living, with her son, George Norcross. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson have three children: Carl, born September 24, 1876; Frank N., born October 3, 1879; and Fern, born September 23, 1881. Carl works his father's farm, and Frank N. las a responsible position in a bank at Roseville. Fern is a student at Monmouth College. Mr. Thomson is a member of the United Presbyterian church; in politics he is a Republican, and as such has served as Assessor six years and as School Director eigh- teen years. He has a war record of which his family are justly proud, having enlisted, May 2, 1864, in Company H, One Hundred and Fif- ty-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until late in the autumn of 1864. His brothers, William E. and John A. Thomson, are in the stock business in Kan- sas, and his brother, Hugh R. Thomson, is living in retirement at Monmouth, Ill.
TUBBS, DR. HENRY, (deceased), banker, Kirkwood, Warren County, Ill., was born at Watervliet Albany County, N. Y., December 12, 1822, and died at Kirkwood, July 17, 1899. His father, Lemuel Tubbs, who was born at Scho- dack, Rensselaer County, N. Y., in 1786, and died at Kirkwood in 1865, was a son of Israel and Betsy (Lewis) Tubbs, natives of the same town. Dr. Tubbs' mother, Lydia Millious, was a daughter of George and Gertrude Millious, the former of whom was born in 1759 and died in 1838, and the latter born in 1759 and died in 1849. Both generations of his ancestors were farmers. The Tubbs family is of English descent, and the Millious family of German descent.
The boyhood days of Dr. Tubbs were spent on a farm. He attended the district school at intervals, but his best efforts were usually re-
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quired to assist in the support of the family, and it was by pursuing his studies alone after the labors of the day were done that the rudi- ments of his education were mostly acquired. At the age of nineteen he left the farm and began his career as the teacher of a country school. This vocation afforded him means and leisure for further study, and he continued in it for several years. In 1844 he began the study of medicine, and three years later en- tered upon its practice at Hartford, Conn., Becoming imbued with the spirit of the time, he moved westward in 1849, locating in Cleve- land, Ohio, where he practiced medicine for ten years. Failing health having compelled him to abandon his professional labors, during the autumn of 1859, he again moved westward, locating this time in Warren County, Ill., near Kirkwood (then Young America), in which lo- cality the members of his father's family had settled several years previously. In 1863 he became a member of the hardware firm of Tubbs & Sofield, in Young America. This con- nection was maintained until 1874, when he opened a private bank, which two years later was resolved into the First National Bank of Kirkwood, of which he was made president. He was elected president of the National Bank of Monmouth in 1884, and of the First National Bank of Alexis in 1894, and remained at the head of all these institutions to the time of his death.
During his entire business career he dealt largely in farming lands and took as keen an interest in agricultural as in financial condi- tions. Though not a politician in the usual sense, Dr. Tubbs also exhibited a deep and patriotic interest in the welfare of our politi- cal institutions. In 1864, and for several years thereafter, he was a member and chair- man of the Board of Supervisors of Warren County; he was a member of the Illinois Con- stitutional Convention of 1869-70; of the Re- publican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872, and of the Republican National Con- vention at Chicago in 1880; from 1882 to 1886 he was a member of the Illinois Senate: dur- ing the session of 1883 was chairman of the Committee on Banks and Banking, and, dur- ing the session of 1885, chairman of the Com- mittee on Appropriations. He never became a member of a religious organization, but was always in close sympathy with religious move- ments; was a trustee of the Methodist Episco-
pal church of Kirkwood, and was closely iden- tified with that body from the time of its or- ganization in 1865 until his death. He was one of the charter members of the Warren County Library Association, and one of its trustees for thirty years. He helped largely to make it a success by a prudent and progressive over- sight of its finances. Such guidance is one of the most valuable assets such an institution can possess.
On December 31, 1868, Dr. Tubbs married Miss Emily Underhill, of Young America (Kirkwood), Ill. To them were born three children: Henry Rolla (deceased), Myra Em- ily and George Shirley. Emily Underhill was born near Rome, in Oneida County, N. Y., in 1834, the daughter of Samuel and Jemima (Pease) Underhill, and granddaughter of James and Deborah (Sutherland) Underhill. Her immediate ancestors were natives of New York. More remotely she is of Scotch and English descent. The reader is referred to biographical sketches of George Shirley Tubbs and Willard C. Tubbs, of Kirkwood, which are given place elsewhere in this volume.
TUBBS, WILLARD C., Banker, Kirkwood, is a man of affairs who exerts an influence for development and progress upon the communi- ties with which he has been identified. He was born in Troy, N. Y., August 26, 1851, a son of the Rev. James Tubbs and Mary A. (Barton) Tubbs. His father was born at Saratoga, N. Y., and died at Kirkwood, June 25, 1892; his moth- er, born at Schenectady, N .Y., May 12, 1817, died at Kirkwood September 9, 1887. His
grandfather, Lemuel Tubbs, born March 17, 1786, married Lydia Millious, who was born July 12, 1789. He died October 30, 1865; she, October 9, 1885. His great-grandfather, Lewis M. Tubbs, married Betsy Lewis. His great- grandparents were all born in Schodack, Rensselaer County, N. Y. His mother was a daughter of Joseph G. and Ann Barton, who were born the same year (1793), he February 9, and she February 18.
The Rev. James Tubbs began his ministry while he was yet quite a young man, and after being stationed at Troy, Schenectady, Amster- dam and various other points in New York, in 1858 came to Kirkwood, where he organized the First Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was the first pastor. Later he was stationed as pastor of Methodist churches at Monmouth,
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Yates City, Peoria, and other towns in Illi- nois, until 1876, when he removed to Philadel- phia, Penn., where he lived until 1887, when he returned to Kirkwood. He died June 25, 1892.
Willard C. Tubbs attended the common schools near Kirkwood, the college at Abing- don, and the University at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and in 1871 began his business career at Galesburg as baggage and ticket agent for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, which position he retained until 1874. Upon the organization of the First Nat- ional Bank at Kirkwood he was elected cashier of that institution. In 1899 he was elected President of the First National Bank at Kirk- wood and cashier of the National Bank of Monmouth. He was active in the organization of the Stronghurst State Bank, at Stronghurst, Ill., in 1891, and was elected its Vice Presi- dent; also organized the Farmers' State Bank at Berwick, Ill., and was elected its President. All of the responsible positions mentioned he has held continuously until the present time. In politics Mr. Tubbs is a Republican, and as such has always taken a prominent part in public affairs. He was elected President of the Board of Village Trustees of Kirkwood three years in succession, and was president of the local Board of Education from 1898 till 1901. Decem- ber 24, 1888, he was married at Kirkwood, to Miss Emma Smith, and they have had six children, named as follows, in the order of their birth: James A., Albert R., Lelah M., Ruth, Mary G. (who died February 9, 1896), and Henry W. Among the men of the present generation Mr. Tubbs has come to be regarded as one of the ablest financiers in Warren County. In every sense a self-made man, he has risen step by step from a daily performance of minor clerical duties to a position where, as the result of an unbroken line of successes, he is probably consulted more frequently than any other man in the county by persons desir- ing to make investments of capital. His sa-
gacity in business affairs and his unquestioned familiarity with the principles underlying a successful career in banking, as attested by his own record, have combined to render his position as a man of affairs unassailable. The confidence reposed in his judgment and his integrity is evidenced by the fact that the man- agement of many large estates in Warren County and elsewhere in Illinois has been in- trusted to him from time to time. His duties as trustee and administrator consume a large portion of his time and are being performed to the complete satisfaction of those directly interested.
TUBBS, GEORGE SHIRLEY, banker, Kirk- wood, Warren County, Ilinois, was born at Kirkwood January 9, 1874, and is a son of Dr. Henry Tubbs, a biographical sketch of whom appears in this work. Mr. Tubbs was educated in the schools of his native town and in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illi- nois. On his return home he accepted a posi- tion in the First National Bank of Kirkwood, and has continued to be intimately associated with that institution up to the present time. In 1902 he was elected President of the Nat- ional Bank of Monmouth, and during the same year he was made President of the First Nat- ional Bank of Alexis, Ill. Mr. Tubbs is iden- tified with large agricultural interests in War- ren and Henderson Counties, and gives much attention to investments of this class. He is a member of the Warren County Library Asso- ciation, and takes an active interest in that worthy institution. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, of Kirkwood, and serves as trustee of that organization. Mr. Tubbs was married September 6, 1899, to Leonora May Shaffer, of Carthage, Ill. The reader of this sketch is referred to biographies of Dr. Henry Tubbs and Willard C. Tubbs which appear in these pages.
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