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Andrew J. Hunter, D
Paris.
State-at-large. 1893-95
Ninth 1893-95.
Benjamin F. Funk. R.
Bloomington
Fourteenth
1893-95 ..
Hugh R. Belknap, R.
Chicago
Edward D. Cooke. R
Seventh 1895-1903.
Streator.
Sixteenth .. 1895-97.
John I. Rinaker, R Wm. H. Hinrichsen, D.
Springfield
Effingham
Daniel W. Mills, R Chicago
McLeanshoro.
Fourth
1893-95.
Chicago
Eleventh
A. P. Forsythe, G. B
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NAME.
RESIDENCE.
DIST.
TERM.
REMARKS.
James R. Williams, D.
Carmi.
Twentieth.
1899-1903.
Jehu Baker, Pop ..
Belleville
Twenty-first
1897-99.
Wm. A. Rodenberg, R.
East St. Louis.
Twenty-first.
1899-1901.
Fred J. Kern, D.
Belleville.
Twenty-first
1901-03
John J. Feeley, D.
Chicago.
Second
1901-03.
James McAndrews, D.
Chicago.
Fourth
1901-03
W'm. F. Mahoney, D.
Chicago.
Fiftlı. .
1901-03
J. Ross Mickey, D.
Macomb.
Fifteenth.
1901-03.
Thos. Jefferson Selby, D.
Hardin.
Sixteenth
1901-03.
Martin Emerich. D.
Chicago.
First ..
1903-05.
Martin B. Madden, R
Chicago.
First.
1905-11.
James R. Mann, R ..
Chicago
Second.
1903-11.
W'm. Warfield Wilson, R.
Chicago.
Third.
1903-11
Geo. P. Foster, D.
Chicago
Fourth.
1903-05
Charles S. Wharton, D.
Chicago.
Fourth.
1905-07
James T. McDermott. D.
Chicago
Fourth
1907-11.
James McAndrews, D.
Chicago.
Fifth.
1903-05
Anthony Meichalek, R
Chicago.
Fifth.
1905-07.
Adolph J. Sabath, D.
Chicago.
Fitth.
1907-11.
William Lorimer. R.
Chicago.
Sixth ..
1903-09.
Resigned to enter U. S. Senate. Vice Wm. Lorimer
Wm, J. Moxley, R .. Philip Knopf, R ..
Chicago.
Seventh.
1903-09
Fred Lundin, R ..
Chicago.
Seventh
1909-11.
Wm. F. Mahoney, D.
Chicago.
Eighth.
1903-05.
Charles McGavin, R
Chicago.
Eighth.
1905-09
Thomas Gallagher, D
Chicago.
Eighth.
1909-11.
Henry S. Boutell. R.
Chicago.
Ninth.
1903-11
Geo. Edmund Foss, R
Chicago
Tenth.
1903-11.
Howard N. Snapp, R
Joliet.
Eleventh
1903-11.
Charles E. Fuller, R ..
Belvidere
Twelfth.
1903-11.
Robert R. Hitt, R ...
Mt. Morris
Thirteenth.
1903-06.
Died Sept. 20. 1906.
Frank O. Lowden, R
Oregon .
Thirteenth.
1906-11.
Vice R. R. Hitt.
Benj. F. Marsh. R
Warsaw
Fourteenth
1903-05.
Died June 2. 1905.
James McKinney, I
Aledo
Fourteenth.
1905-11.
Vice B. F. Marsh.
Geo. W. Prince, R.
Galesburg
Fifteenth.
1903-11
Joseph V. Graff, R ..
Peoria.
Sixteenth.
1903-11
John A. Sterling, R.
Bloomington
Seventeenth.
1903-11.
Joseph G. Cannon, R
Danville
Eighteenth.
1903-11.
Vespasian Warner, R.
Clinton.
Nineteenth.
1903-05.
W'm. B. Mckinley, R
Champaign
Nineteenth
1905-11.
Henry T. Rainey. D.
Carrollton
Twentieth
1903-11
Benj. F. Caldwell, D.
Chatham
Twenty-first
Zeno S. Rives, R ....
Litchfield.
Twenty-first
Benj. F. Caldwell, D.
Chatham
Twenty-first
James M. Graham, D.
Springfield
Twenty-first
1909-11.
W'm. A. Rodenberg. R.
East St. Louis
Twenty-second.
1903-11
Joseph B. Crowley, D
Robinson.
Twenty-third.
1903-05
Frank L. Dickson, R
Ramsey
Twenty-third.
1905-07
Martin D. Foster, D.
Olney
Twenty-third.
1907-11
James R. Williams, D.
Carmi.
Twenty-fourth
1903-05.
Pleasant T. Chapman, R
Vienna.
Twenty-fourth ..
1905-11.
Geo. W. Smith, R ..
Murphysboro
Twenty-fifth.
1903-07.
Died Nov. 30, 1907.
N. B. Thistlewood, R.
Cairo.
Twenty-fifth
1908-11.
Vice G. W. Smith.
REPRESENTATIVES IN SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
11.
Ira C. Copley. R.
.. Aurora
12. Charles E. Fuller, R ..
. Belvidere
13.
John C. Mckenzie. R.
Elizabeth
14. James Mckinney, R ..
Aledo
15.
Geo. W. Prince, R.
Galesburg
1. Martin B. Madden. R
Chicago
2. James R. Mann, R
.Chicago
18.
Joseph G. Cannon. R.
.. Danville
4. James T. McDermott, D
Chicago
19.
William B. Mckinley, R
. Champaign
5. Adolph J. Sahath. D.
.Chicago
20.
Henry T. Rainey, D ..
Carrollton
6. Edmund J. Stack, D.
Chicago
21. James M. Graham, D.
.Springfield
7. Frank Buchanan, D.
Chicago
22. William A. Rodenberg, R
. East St. Louis
8. Thomas Gallagher. D.
Chicago
23. Martin D. Foster, D
. . Olney
9. Lynden Evans, D.
Chicago
24. H. Robert Fowler. D.
Elizabethtown
10. George E. Foss, R.
Chicago
25. N. B. Thistlewood, R
. Cairo
16. Claude U. Stone, D.
Peoria
17. John A Sterling. R.
.Bloomington
3. William Warfield Wilson, R. .Chicago
Elected Speaker 1903
1903-05.
1905-07
1907-09.
Chicago
Sixth.
1909-11
HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS.
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The following is a list of Representatives in the Sixty-second (1911-1913) Congress. as chosen at the November election, 1910:
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BOARD OF CIVIL SERVICE. The State Board of Civil Service, consisting of three members, was created by act of the General Assembly in 1905. With the exception of the Superintendent, Chief Clerk, Treasurer and stenographer, in each State charitable institution, all appointments to subordinate positions in the same are made after examination of applicants on the basis of qualifi- cations and merit, and removals are made only on the ground of incompetency, disobedience or other reasonable cause. Political assessments upon employes are also prohibited.
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION, organized under act of the General Assembly, approved March 8, 1867; after various changes now (1911) consists of 25 members chosen by popular vote-one from each Congressional District-with the State Auditor as ex-officio member and Chairman. It meets annually on the first Tuesday after August 10th, its duty then being to examine abstracts of assessments from the several counties and equalize the same in order that equal rates may be imposed upon property according to value in all parts of the State. For this purpose property is divided into five classes, viz .: Personal property; town and city lots; land other than town lots; railroad, telegraph and tele- phone stock and property; and capital stock of franchise corporations. Separate committees are appointed to deal with these classes, besides a com- mittee of general equalization. Each member receives a salary of $5 per day while in session, and the Board chooses its Secretary, the necessary number of clerks and other employes, and provides for printing and distribution of copies of proceed- ings after each session. The most difficult problem the Board has to meet is the equitable assessment upon capital stock and franchises of corporations. After the work of the Board is completed, the Governor, Auditor and State Treasurer fix the rate of taxation requisite to meet the appropriations made by the General Assembly.
BOARD OF HEALTH, created by act of the Legislature in 1877, with supervision of measures for protection of the health and lives of the people, matters pertaining to quarantine, and investigation of the sanitary condition of hotels and lodging houses in cities having over 100,000 inhabitants. In 1899 its jurisdiction was extended over the examination and licensing of surgeons and physi cians, reporting the standing of medical colleges, and, by a later act, it is required to keep a record of all births and deaths within the State; is also charged with the examination, licensing and regis- tration of embalmers, the appointment of agents for .the distribution of diphtheria antitoxins, is
empowered to investigate the water of cities having a population of 2,000 or over, to supervise measures for the prevention and restriction of consumption, investigate fraudulent medical colleges and other- wise protect the public health.
BOARD OF PHARMACY, created by an act of 1881,' is composed of five members, registered pharmacists of at least ten years' experience, empowered to examine all applicants and issue certificates to the same when entitled to receive them, and to prosecute violations of the pharmacy act. The Board is required to hold meetings for the examination of applicants for registration, and is empowered to issue three grades of certificates- to apprentices, assistant and registered pharmacists.
BOARD OF PARDONS. This Board was created by act of the Legislature on recommenda- tion of Governor Tanner in 1897, under provision of the Constitution (Art. 5, Sec. 13) empowering the Governor to "grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after convictions, for all offenses . . . subject to such regulations as may be provided by law"-the object being to reduce the personal labor of the Governor in this department. All applications for pardon are required to be presented to the Board, and, after investigation, reports are submitted to the Governor, with such recommenda- tions as may be agreed upon by a majority of the Board. Before the adoption of this policy, all petitions were submitted to the Governor. The Board is non-partisan, consisting of three appointive members, of whom only two may belong to the same party. Regular sessions of the Board are held quarterly, but in case of emergency, special meet- ings may be held under call of the Governor or Chairman. The duty of administering the parole law is also imposed upon the Board. The present Board (1911) consists of G. De F. Kinney, Charles G. Eckhart and Ethan Allan Snively (Chairman). The Board visits each penitentiary once each month for the purpose of investigating the records of prisoners petitioning for parole.
STATE PURE FOOD COMMISSION. The act establishing the State Food Commission went into effect July 1, 1899, Alfred H. Jones, of Robinson, Ill., being then appointed Commissioner and hold- ing office to the present time (1911). An act passed May 14, 1807, enlarged the powers of the Com- mission, authorizing the appointment of an Assistant Commissioner, a State Analyst, an Attorney and a Chief Clerk, besides several chemists, inspectors and other employes, whose duty it is to investigate and report upon the condition of raw material and manufactured food products to prevent adultera- tion and protect the consumer from fraud.
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REYNOLDS, John, Justice of Supreme Court and fourth Governor of Illinois, was born of Irish ancestry, in Montgomery County, Pa., Feb. 26, . 1789, and brought by his parents to Kaskaskia, Ill., in 1800, spending the first nine years of his life in Illinois on a farm. After receiving a com- mon school education, and a two years' course of study in a college at Knoxville, Tenn., he studied law and began practice. In 1812-13 he served as a scout in the campaigns against the Indians, winning for himself the title, in after life, of "The Old Ranger." Afterwards he removed to Cahokia, where he began the practice of law, and, in 1818, became Associate Justice of the first Supreme Court of the new State. Retiring from the bench in 1825, he served two terms in the Legislature, and was elected Governor in 1830, in 1832 personally commanding the State volunteers called for service in the Black Hawk War. Two weeks before the expiration of his term (1834), he resigned to accept a seat in Con- gress, to which he had been elected as the suc- cessor of Charles Slade, who had died in office, and was again elected in 1838, always as a Demo- crat. He also served as Representative in the Fifteenth General Assembly, and again in the Eighteenth (1852-54), being chosen Speaker of the latter. In 1858 he was the administration (or Buchanan) Democratic candidate for State Su- perintendent of Public Instruction, as opposed to the Republican and regular (or Douglas) Demo- cratic candidates. For some years he edited a daily paper called "The Eagle," which was pub- lished at Belleville. While Governor Reynolds acquired some reputation as a "classical scholar," from the time spent in a Tennessee College at that early day, this was not sustained by either his colloquial or written style. He was an ardent champion of slavery, and, in the early days of the Rebellion, gained unfavorable notori- ety in consequence of a letter written to Jefferson Davis expressing sympathy with the cause of "secession." Nevertheless, in spite of intense prejudice and bitter partisanship on some ques- tions, he possessed many amiable qualities, as shown by his devotion to .temperance, and his popularity among persons of opposite political opinions. Although at times crude in style, and not always reliable in his statement of historical facts and events, Governor Reynolds has rendered a valuable service to posterity by his writings relating to the early history of the State, espe- cially those connected with his own times. His best known works are: "Pioneer History of Illi- nois" (Belleville, 1848); "A Glance at the Crystal
Palace, and Sketches of Travel" (1854); and "My Life and Times" (1855). His death occurred at Belleville, May 8, 1865.
REYNOLDS, John Parker, Secretary and President of State Board of Agriculture, was born at Lebanon, Ohio, March 1, 1820, and graduated from the Miami University at the age of 18. In 1840 he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School, and soon afterward began practice. He removed to Illinois in 1854, settling first in Win- nebago County, later, successively in Marion County, in Springfield and in Chicago. From 1860 to 1870 he was Secretary of the State Agri- cultural Society, and, upon the creation of the State Board of Agriculture in 1871, was elected its President, filling that position until 1888, when he resigned. He has also occupied numer- ous other posts of honor and of trust of a public or semi-public character, having been President of the Illinois State Sanitary Commission during the War of the Rebellion, a Commissioner to the Paris Exposition of 1867, Chief Grain Inspector from 1878 to 1882, and Secretary of the Inter- State Industrial Exposition Company of Chicago, from the date of its organization (1873) until its final dissolution. His most important public service, in recent years, was rendered as Director- in-Chief of the Illinois exhibit in the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
REYNOLDS, Joseph Smith, soldier and legis- lator, was born at New Lenox, Ill., Dec. 3, 1839; at 17 years of age went to Chicago, was educated in the high school there, within a month after graduation enlisting as a private in the Sixty- fourth Illinois Volunteers. From the ranks he rose to a colonelcy through the gradations of Second-Lieutenant and Captain, and, in July, 1865, was brevetted Brigadier-General. He was a gallant soldier, and was thrice wounded. On his return home after nearly four years' service, he entered the law department of the Chicago University, graduating therefrom and beginning practice in 1866. General Reynolds has been prominent in public life, having served as a member of both branches of the General Assem- bly, and having been a State Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition of 1873. He is a member of the G. A. R., and, in 1875, was elected Senior Vice-Commander of the order for the United States.
REYNOLDS, William Morton, clergyman, was born in Fayette County, Pa., March 4, 1812; after graduating at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1832, was connected with various institutions in that State, as well as President of Capital University at
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Columbus, Ohio,; then, coming to Illinois, was President of the Illinois State University at Springfield, 1857-60, after which he became Prin- cipal of a female seminary in Chicago. Previ- ously a Lutheran, he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1864, and served several parislies until his death. In his early life he founded, and, for a time, conducted several reli- gious publications at Gettysburg, Pa., besides issuing a number of printed addresses and other published works. Died at Oak Park, near Chi- cago, Sept. 5, 1876.
RHOADS, (Col.) Franklin Lawrence, soldier and steamboat captain, was born in Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 11, 1824; brought to Pekin, Tazewell County, Ill., in 1836, where he learned the print- er's trade, and, on the breaking out of the Mexican War, enlisted, serving to the close. Returning home he engaged in the river trade, and, for fifteen years, commanded steamboats on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. In April, 1861. he was commissioned Captain of a company of three months' men attached to the Eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and, on the reorganization of the regiment for the three- years' service, was commissioned Lieutenant- Colonel, soon after being promoted to the colo- nelcy, as successor to Col. Richard J. Oglesby, who had been promoted Brigadier-General. After serving through the spring campaign of 1862 in Western Kentucky and Tennessee, he was com- pelled by rapidly declining health to resign, when he located in Shawneetown, retiring in 1874 to his farm near that city. During the latter years of his life he was a confirmed invalid, dying at Shawneetown, Jan. 6, 1879.
RHOADS, Joshua, M.D., A.M., physician and educator, was born in Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1806; studied medicine and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of M.D., also receiving the degree of A.M., from Princeton; after several years spent in practice as a physician, and as Principal in some of the public schools of Philadelphia, in 1839 he was elected Principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, and, in 1850, took charge of the State Institution for the Blind at Jacksonville, Ill., then in its infancy. Here he remained until 1874, when he retired. Died, February 1, 1876.
RICE, Edward Y., lawyer and jurist, born in Logan County, Ky., Feb. 8, 1820, was educated in the common schools and at Shurtleff College, after which he read law with John M. Palmer at Carlinville, and was admitted to practice, in 1845, at Hillsboro; in 1847 was elected County Recorder
of Montgomery County, and, in 1848, to the Six- teenth General Assembly, serving one term. Later he was elected County Judge of Montgom- ery County, was Master in Chancery from 1853 to 1857, and the latter year was elected Judge of the Eighteenth Circuit, being re-elected in 1861 and again in 1867. He was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1869-70, and, at the election of the latter year, was chosen Repre- sentative in the Forty-second Congress as a Democrat. Died, April 16, 1883.
RICE, John B., theatrical manager, Mayor of Chicago, and Congressman, was born at Easton, Md., in 1809. By profession he was an actor, and, coming to Chicago in 1847, built and opened there the first theater. In 1857 he retired from the stage, and, in 1865, was elected Mayor of Chicago, the city of his adoption, and re-elected in 1867. He was also prominent in the early stages of the Civil War in the measures taken to raise troops in Chicago. In 1872 he was elected to the Forty-third Congress as a Republican, but, before the expiration of his term, died, at Nor- folk, Va., on Dec. 6, 1874. At a special election to fill the vacancy, Bernard G. Caulfield was chosen to succeed him.
RICHARDSON, William A., lawyer and poli- tician, born in Fayette County, Ky., Oct. 11, 1811, was educated at Transylvania University, came to the bar at 19, and settled in Schuyler County, Ill., becoming State's Attorney in 1835; was elected to the lower branch of the Legislature in 1836, to the Senate in 1838, and to the House again in 1844, from Adams County-the latter year being also chosen Presidential Elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket, and, at the succeeding session of the General Assembly, serving as Speaker of the House. He entered the Mexican War as Captain, and won a Majority through gallantry at Buena Vista. From 1847 to 1856 (when he resigned to become a candidate for Governor), he was a Democratic Representative in Congress from the Quincy District; re-entered Congress in 1861, and, in 1863, was chosen United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of Stephen A. Douglas. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention of 1868, but after that retired to private life, acting, for a short time, as editor of "The Quincy Herald." Died, at Quincy, Dec. 27, 1875.
RICHLAND COUNTY, situated in the south- east quarter of the State, and has an area of 380 square miles. It was organized from Edwards County in 1841. Among the early pioneers may be mentioned the Evans brothers, Thaddeus
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Morehouse, Hugh Calhoun and son, Thomas Gardner, James Parker, Cornelius De Long, James Gilmore and Elijah Nelson. In 1820 there were but thirty families in the district. The first frame houses-the Nelson and More- house homesteads-were built in 1821, and, some years later, James Laws erected the first brick house. The pioneers traded at Vincennes, but, in 1825, a store was opened at Stringtown by Jacob May ; and the same year the first school was opened at Watertown, taught by Isaac Chaun- cey. The first church was erected by the Bap- tists in 1822, and services were conducted by William Martin, a Kentuckian. For a long time the mails were carried on horseback by Louis and James Beard, but, in 1824, Mills and Whet- sell established a line of four-horse stages. The principal road, known as the "trace road," lead- ing from Louisville to Cahokia, followed a buffalo and Indian trail about where the main street of Olney now is. Olney was selected as the county-seat upon the organization of the county, and a Mr. Lilly built the first house there. The chief branches of industry followed by the inhabitants are agriculture and fruit- growing. Population (1880), 15,545; (1890), 15,019; (1900), 16,391; (1910), 15,970.
RICHMOND, a village of McHenry County, on the Chicago & North Western R R., 60 miles north- west of Chicago; a grain and live-stock region; has a bank and one weekly paper. Pop. (1910), 554.
RIDGE FARM, a village of Vermilion County, at junction of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis and the Toledo, St. Louis & Western Rail- roads, 174 miles northeast of St. Louis; has electric light plant, planing mill, elevators, bank and one weekly paper. Pop. (1900), 933; (1910), 967.
RIDGELY, Charles, manufacturer and capi- talist, born in Springfield, Ill., Jan. 17, 1836; was educated in private schools and at Illinois Col- lege; after leaving college spent some time as a clerk in his father's bank at Springfield, finally becoming a member of the firm and successively Cashier and Vice-President. In 1870 he was Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, but later was affiliated with the Republican party. About 1872 he became identified with the Spring- field Iron Company, of which he served as President for many years; had also been President of the Co.1- solidated Coal Company of St. Louis and, for some time, was a Director of the Wabash Railroad. Mr. Ridgely served some time as a Trustee of Illinois College. Died Aug. 11, 1910.
RIDGELY, Nicholas H., early banker, was born in Baltimore, Md., April 27, 1800; after
leaving school was engaged, for a time, in the dry-goods trade, but, in 1829, came to St. Louis to assume a clerkship in the branch of the United States Bank just organized there. In 1835 a branch of the State Bank of Illinois was established at Springfield, and Mr. Ridgely became its cashier, and, when it went into liqui- dation, was appointed one of the trustees to wind up its affairs. He subsequently became Presi- dent of the Clark's Exchange Bank in that city, but this having gone into liquidation a few years later, he went into the private banking business as head of the "Ridgely Bank," which, in 1866, became the "Ridgely National Bank," one of the strongest financial institutions in the State out- side of Chicago. After the collapse of the inter- nal improvement scheme, Mr. Ridgely became one of the purchasers of the "Northern Cross Railroad" (now that part of the Wabash system extending from the Illinois river to Springfield), when it was sold by the State in 1847, paying therefor $21,100. He was also one of the Spring- field bankers to tender a loan to the State at the beginning of the war in 1861. He was one of the builders and principal owner of the Springfield gas-light system. His business career was an eminently successful one, leaving an estate at his death, Jan. 31, 1888, valued at over $2,000,000.
RIDGWAY, a village of Gallatin County, on the Shawneetown Division of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway, 12 miles northwest of Shawneetown; has a bank and one newspaper. Pop. (1910), 1,054.
RIDGWAY, Thomas S., merchant, banker and politician, was born at Carmi, Ill., August 30, 1826. His father having died when he was but 4 years old and his mother when he was 14, his education was largely acquired through contact with the world, apart from such as he received from his mother and during a year's attendance at a private school. When he was 6 years of age the family removed to Shawneetown, where he ever afterwards made his home. In 1845 he em- barked in business as a merchant, and the firm of Peeples & Ridgway soon became one of the most prominent in Southern Illinois. In 1865 the partners closed out their business and organized the first National Bank of Shawneetown, of which, after the death of Mr. Peeples in 1875, Mr. Ridgway was President. He was one of the projectors of the Springfield & Illinois South- eastern Railway, now a part of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern system, and, from 1867 to. 1874, served as its President. He was an ardent and active Republican, and served as a delegate.
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