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PROSPERITY MINE, Carterville, Il1.
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SOUVENIR OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
G. B. RUSSELL, Photographer, Herrin, Il1.
of the Illinois Christian Missionary Society in the fall of 1903.
His vigorous and faithful work is evidenced by the fact that since the middle of November, 1896, he has held 26 protracted meetings and has missed but seven Sundays from the pulpit.
His marriage took place Septem- ber 15, 1897, to Miss Evalina Mor- row, of Clinton, Ill., by whom he has had three children, two boys and one girl, all living.
The membership of the church is now about 175 and the house will seat about 300.
The following are its officers:
F. L. Davis, pastor; J. A. Lander, clerk: J. D. Winning, W. J. Wheat- ley, J. C. Davis, I. M .Brown. el- ders: Grant Elders, I. A. Lauder, J. V. Walker, Joseph Stock, deacons; I. D. Winning, Jeff Cox, J. A. Lau- der. Trustees. Choir. J. A. Lauder, leader: J. C. Davis, assistant leader and tenor; Miss Lilly D. Holland, or- ganist ; Clyde Davis, William Be- vard, tenors; Clyde Hunter, Thos. Philips, T. B. Zimmerman. Robert Bandy, bass: Mrs. L. C. Holland, Miss Pearl Stone, Miss Minnie Pittz, Miss Electa Stone. Miss Mable Car- ney. Miss Murial Hall, Miss Grace Crowell, Harry Jackson. Miss Sada Campbell , sopranos; Miss Rhea Walker, Miss Mattie Lewis and Miss Lilly Holland, altos.
Christian Endeavor, membership, 55: Robert Banly, president: Miss Rhea Walker, secretary.
Sunday School, membership 140; J. W. Wheatley, Suptreintendent ; Jeff Cox, Assistant Superintendent : Robert Bandy, secretary; Miss Rhea Walker, Assistant Secretary.
WILLARD PEYTON, Manager Carterville Store Co., Car- terville, Ill.
REV. I. H. ALLEN. Pastor of Missionary Baptist Church at Carterville.
Was born
near MeLeansboro, Hamilton County, 111., April 1, 1860. His youth was spent on a farm, and his early education acquired at our common schools. He married young, selecting his life's partner when but 18 years old. This was Miss Louisa Goodwin, to whom he was united September 4, 1878, and of whom has been born seven children, five of whom are living.
He began to preach when 32 years old, was ordained and entered the regular ministry of the Missionary Baptist church. Soon after his or- dination, however, feeling the need of a better preparation for his chosen work, he entered Ewing College, where he pursued his studies for four years, preaching the meanwhile as opportunity presented.
At the end of that period, how- ever, he took hold of the regular work and served churches at Union, Middle Creek and Benton, in Ham- ilton and Franklin Counties. After serving these churches about four years successfully, he enlarged his sphere of usefulness by evangelistic and pastoral work in Hamilton. Jeff- erson. St. Clair and White Counties until 1899, when he was chosen as Missionary by the Board of the Nine Mile Missionary Association, which he served for two years, adding be- tween 400 and 500 members to the various churches, among whom he labored. In October. 1901, he ac- cepted his present pastorate in Car- terville, to which he has added abont 130 since he assumed its control. The church has prospered in all re- spects from the start.
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JOE E. KELLEY, Carterville, Illinois.
A large Sunday School, under the management of Mr. Raymond Jones, its Superintendent, evidences the growing interest of the young peo- ple in the cause of religion and gives promise of the permanence and pros- perity of the church to which it be- longs. The Society boasts of the finest choir in Southern Illinois. It has an orchestra of eleven pieces and twenty-two additional singers. Un- der the able and scientific leadership of Dr. J. H. Brooks and his assist- ant. Will Peebles, finer church mu- sic has never been produced in the state than the people of Carterville are favored with every Sunday. The following comprises a complete list of the orchestra and choir as at present constituted :
Dr. J. H. Brooks, leader and so- prano: Will Peebles, assistant and 1st cornet: Arthur Baker, 1st cor- net: Vern Allen, 2nd cornet: Miss Lucy Jones, Ist violin: David Crow- der, 2nd violin: Sam Hodges, flute: Raymond .Jones, flute: Lloyd Walk- er. trombone: Lacy Peyton, trom- bone: George Pressley, bass cello: Miş: Bessie Iones, organist.
Choir-Mrs. Will Peebles, Mrs.
Maud Clarida, Mrs. Ruth Bracy, Miss Minnie Carr. Miss Nellie Arnold. Miss Ethel Culp, Miss Lu Jones, Miss Lu Baker, Mrs. Arthur King, Miss Myrtle Smith, Mrs. L. L. Jones, Miss Stella Culp, sopranos; Mrs. J. H. Brooks, Miss Zetta Jones, Miss Lena Chapman, altos: L. L. Jones, George Crowder, Holly Sizemore, tenors: 1. E. Harris, P. R. Baker, U. L. Walker. Grant Peterson, bass.
The following is the Official Board of the church: Rev. J. H. Allen. pas- tor: Fred C. Guthrie, clerk; Ray- mond Jones. S. S. Superintendent : Dr. J. H. Brooks, P. R. Baker. J. E.
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JUDGE H. F. WHITAKER. Creal Springs.
MRS. MARY ANN WHITAKER, Creal Springs.
B. H. GREER, P. M. Creal Springs.
Harris, Warren Walker, Willis C. McNeill, Hardy Walker, deacons; W. L. Walker, Arthur Baker, J. E. Har- ris, trustees.
REV. WM. M. MAXTON. Pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Carterville.
Rev. Wm. M. Maxton is a native of Perthshire, Scotland, where he was born December 21, 18GS. His pa- rents were James and Catharine Maxton. His mother is still living, but his father died in Scotland at an advanced age. He was educated at Monzie and Glasgow and came to America when 21 years old. After taking a course in Moody's Bible In- stitution in Chicago, he was licensed as a minister of the gospel by the Alton Presbytery of the Presbyterian church of U. S. A., in September. 1893. His ordination followed in October of the same year, and he was called to the charge of the churches of Blair and Steelville in Randolph County. After closing his work there he spent two years with the church in Lyons, Kansas. which was followed by a two years' pastorate in the St. Louis Presby- tery. In May, 1900, he came to Car- terville and took charge of the church at that place, where he still labors.
His first wife was Miss Margaret Wilson, of Randolph County, who died in giving birth to her first and only child in January, 1894. She took her mother's name, and is now a promising daughter of nine years. His second marriage took place Aug- ust 12, 1903, to Miss Helen Burns Watson.
The church which Mr. Maxton serves has a membership of 100, and the building a seating capacity of
300. It is a fine structure for the size of the city.
The following is the official roll of the church:
W'm. M. Maxton, Pastor; Hugh M. Richard, Jas. Barr, A. K. Elles and Rufus Peterson, Elders: Fred W. Richard, James Watson and Fred Nichol, Deacons: Ed. Elles, Hugh M. Richard and A. C. Hope, Trustees.
The officers of the Sunday School are: A. K. Elles, Supt .; Grace Hal- stead, Asst. Supt .; Bessie Barr, Sec. and Treas. It has a membership of 150.
The church has a flourishing Christian Endeavor Society of 45. Kiah Hodges, president: Anna Ban-
dy, vice president: Hattie Nichol, recording secretary; Grace Halstead, corresponding secretary; Belle Lock- ie, treasurer; Alice Kennedy, choris- ter. The Junior C. E. numbers 40. Its officers are: Ella Bandy, Supt .; Mima Banly, Asst. Supt .; Ed Elles, Treas .: Clara Nichol, Sec. Its choir consists of the following per- sons: sopranos-Clara Perry, (also organist ); Roberta Watson, Grace Halstead, Alice Kennedy, Anna Ban- dy and Ella Bandy. altos-Mrs. W. M. Maxton, Lillian Bandy, Caudia Watson: tenor Kiah Hodges: bass -James Watson, Geo. Lockie, Fred Bevard, Everett Anderson and Fred W. Richard.
MR. AND MRS. CHAS. F. STARRICK, Carterville, Ill. Retired Farmer and Blind.
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MRS. E. A. CHADWELL, Corinth, Illinois.
REV. JOSEPH DEROSETT, Pastor of the Creal Springs M. E. Church.
J. L. ROBERTS, Corinth, Ilinois.
LUTHER E. ROBERTSON, Attorney at Law. Editor and Propri- etor of the Carterville Herald.
The subject of this sketch was born at Frankfort, Franklin County, Illinois, March 14th, 1866. He re- ceived a common school education and taught for ten years before tak- ing up the study of law. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1896, and the following year, June 30, 1897, mar- ried Miss Lucy E. Martin, a native of Jackson County.
He is democratic in politics and began the publication of the Carter- ville Herald in the interest of his party Angust 24th, 1899. He was elected Justice of the Peace on that ticket in November, 1901, and his commission still obtains.
He has two children, Marian and Marie.
J. L. GALLIMORE, Attorney at Law.
J. L. Gallimore was born in Polk County, Illinois, October 11, 1867. After a thorough training at the High School of Golconda, he taught for five years, and then took up the study of law, in the fall of 1888. He was admitted to the bar February 24, 1×92, at Mt. Vernon, and began the practice of his profession at Gol- conda. After one year's practice there he came to Carterville, March 1st, 1893, and the following April was appointed City Attorney to fill a vacancy of one year. At the expira- tion of his term of office he was clect- ed on the Democratic ticket for a full term of two years. He was out for two years, but re-elected in 1898, and has held the same office ever since.
He was married February 24, 1895, to Miss Osee Canaday, a native of Vermillion County, by whom he has had three children, Hal G., Zula and J. Otis.
J. A. SEIDLA,
Hoisting Engineer Culp Coal Mine.
J. A. Seidla was born at Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, April 11, 1853. His father, John Adam Seidla, was a native of Wittunburg, Germany, where he was born in 1822 and emigrated to America in 1833. He was a successful stock raiser and dealer, and is still living on the old place in Tippecanoe Co.
He tried to raise his son to his own occupation, but kept him on the farm only until he was fifteen, when he gave it up as a bad job and let him follow his own inclination to work with tools and machinery.
He built and ran several saw mills in Southern Illinois for more than 20 years. With the exception of two years in Southeast Missouri, where he erected and run a saw-mill for John Culp in the heavy timber of the Mississippi bottom, his work has been done in Southern Illinois. Hav- ing had the benefit of only a com- mon school education, he took a course as Hoisting Engineer in the Scranton International Correspond-
OZARK PARK, CREAL SPRINGS. (C. E. Jenkins). "I think I'll rest a while, right here."
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CREAL SPRINGS COLLEGE, Mrs. G. B. Murrat, Principal.
ence School in 1904, and received his certificate from the examiners at Springfield. He immediately took charge of the engine at the Culp mine, which he still runs.
FRANK SIZEMORE, Musician.
This well-known musician, the or- ganizer and leader of the concert band bearing his name, is a Carter- ville boy from his birth. He was born on a farm contiguous to the corporation January 17. 1869. three years and a month before the village was surveyed in February, 1872. His rearing, fortunately for his physique, was on the farm, and his education at the common school. He took up the study of music when but 19 years old, and has studied har- mony and composition under such masters as Dr. Palmer, of Chicago; A. J. Goodrich, of Philadelphia, and Charles T. Howe, of Columbus, Ohio. He is a composer of no mean talent, and is the author of several pieces of high merit.
March 29, 1894, he was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Hayes. They have no children. He is a mu- sician, not a politician, and by trade a barber.
CHARLES CRAIG. J. P. Real Estate and Insurance.
Charles Craig, J. P., was born four miles south of Carterville July, 1866. He was reared on a farm and is indebted to our incomparable com-
mon school system for his education. He came to Carterville in November, 1893, and spent two years in the grocery and restaurant business, but in 1898 took up real estate and in- surance, in which he is still engaged.
In 1897 he was elected constable and served a full term of four years. He was then elected to the common council, and is still alderman. He
was elected Justice of the Peace in 1901, and is still discharging the du- ties of that office. He is a republi- can in politics.
He has been married twice. His first wife was Laura E. Cole, to whom he was united May 16, 1886. and by whom he has had one child, Ollie Ethel. June 6, 1900, he mar- ried Miss Leona Kisner, of Vienna, by whom he has one child. Opal.
POST OFFICE AT CARTERVILLE.
This office was first established in 1871. with George McNeill as the first Postmaster. He was succeeded by John Bandy, and these in turn by the following incumbents, in the or- der named: Curtis Scott, B. F. Tran- barger, John Herrin, R. H. H. Hamp- ton. Albert K. Elles, G. W. Duncan, C. E. Owen, Dr. W. H. Perry, Mrs. E. N. Sprague, Miss Maggie Thompson. D. P. McFadden, H. W. Cann, and last of all by the present incumbent, I. A. Lauder.
It was made a Presidential office July 1, 1895, with the salary placed at $1,000 a year. Since then there have been five advances of $100 each year, till the office commands
$1500, beginning July 1, 1905. It was the first office in the County to secure Rural Free Delivery, and now has three routes with the following carriers: Richard Stover, Route 1: John W. Hestand, Route 2; Roscoe North, Route 3. The present office force, besides the Postmaster, is Miss Pearl Robinson, Assistant Post- master: Anna MeCutcheon, Clerk.
The office is quite a distributing center for the surrounding towns, handling the Blairsville, North Bend and Clifford mails, about half of Dewmain and Fordville and more than a fourth of Herrin in transit. The total receipts of the office the last year, from April to April, was $3,656.14. It handled 4,838 domes- tic and 203 foreign money orders.
J. A. LAUDER, Postmaster.
Was born in Pittston, Pa., August 9, 1×69, and came when a child with his parents to Carterville. The country was at that time mostly a wilderness, and the family had all the hardships and privations of pioneer life. The elder Lauder, Alexander Lauder, had experience in mining in Pittston, in the California gold fields, in Rasclare lead mines, and naturally took to coal mining, when he went to Murphysboro in 1866. He sunk the first coal shaft in this field and followed the busi- ness for some years.
When the subject of this sketch became a man he, too, went to min- ing, where he worked till about 20 years old. After a course in the
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SOUVENIR OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
OCEAN
BANK OF JOHNSON CITY AT JOHNSON CITY, ILLINOIS. Mr. M. Ozment, Cashier, in the Window.
Brown's Business College at Peoria, he clerked for some time and fol- lowed various other occupations un- til he was appointed Postmaster, June 1, 1898. He was a strong Re- publican and active and efficient in practical politics, and secured his ap- pointment without much opposition. He is a member of the County Cen- tral Committee and also of the Con- gressional Committee for this Coun- ty. He has been an active member of the Christian Church since 1888 and the leader of the choir. His mu- sical talent has made him of much use to his neighbors and brought him into constant request, both in the city and county, in leading the music at funerals and other gather- ings.
As a breeder of Single Comb Black Minorcas, he has won a reputation over the whole country. He is a member of the Black Minorca Poul- try Club of America, and his fowls and eggs are sent to all parts of the United States. His birds invariably win the blue ribbons wherever ex- hihited, rarely scoring less than 93 1-2 to 95 points.
His marriage took place Septem- ber 14, 1893 to Lena Zimmerman, of South St. Louis, Mo. Five children were the fruits of this union: Neva, Helen, Ruth, Don C. and Junia. He is a member of Williamson Lodge, No. 802, A. F. and A. M., and also a Modern Woodman.
ALEXANDER LAUDER, Deceased.
Alexander Lauder, son of Thos. and Agnes Lauder, was born in Kirk- cudbrightshire, Scotland, July 3, 1834, died October 9, 1904, at 12 o'clock, noon. His death was caused by apoplexy, being ill only a very brief time.
Mr. Lander came to this country
in 1857, locating at Pittston, Pa., re- maining there a short time and then removed to the gold fields of Cali- fornia, Nevada and Washington, be- ing engaged in the various vocations in and around the gold mines for about seven years, returning to Pennsylvania, from whence he went to Rosiclare, Ill., working in the lead mines.
He went to Murphysboro, Ill., in 1866, and had charge of the sinking and managing of some of the first coal mines in that locality. While there he arranged to meet his future wife, Elizabeth Jones, of Pittston, Pa., in Chicago, Ill., she coming from her home in Pennsylvania, when they were married in October, 1867. To this marriage were born
six children, James, Minnie, Dick, Maggie, Frank and Alexander, Jr., all of whom are living except Alex- ander, Jr.
Mr. Lauder was the eldest of seven brothers and one sister, Rob- ert, James, Peter, Thomas, John, Samnel and Agnes. All are dead ex- cept Peter, Thomas and John.
He located in Carterville, Illinois, in 1872, assuming charge of the mines of the Carbondale Coal and Coke Company.
He became a member of the Masonic Order at Herrin's Prai- rie Lodge, No. 693, in 1873; was also a charter member of Williamson Lodge No. 802 A. F. and A. M., at Carterville, 1]]., and a member of the United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, Local No. 1146.
He was elected one of the Village trustees of the Village of Carterville under its first organization in 1873; elected President of the Board of Trustees in 1874: re-elected to the same office in 1875 and 1876; in 1877 was elected Treasurer of the Village; in 1878 he was asked by a number of his friends to once more serve the people of our little village, but his answer was no, for the rea- son that so much of his time was taken up by his duties at the mines, and also feeling that others should take the responsibility of the man- agement of the village now, the third largest city in Williamson Co.
At the time Mr. Lauder took charge of the Carterville Coal and Coke Co's. property it was the only shipping mine in Williamson County. At this time the county has some- thing over forty coal openings. Mr. Lauder has seen the great coal in- dustry of Williamson County grow from the little slope, situated on the
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CARTERVILLE SCHOOL BUILDING, Carterville, Illinois.
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SOUVENIR OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
DR. J. H. BROOKS, Mayor of Carterville, Elected in 1905.
Laban Carter estate, about one-half mile east of Division street, to one of the most noted coal fields of America.
The funeral services were held Tuesday, October 11, at 2 p. m., from the family residence, conducted by Rev. F. L. Davis, pastor of the Christian Church, assisted hy Rev. W. W. Weedon and Rev. J. J. Harris, both of Marion. Interment in the Oakwood cemetery by the Free Ma- sons and Miners Union Local.
J. H. BROOKS, M. D. Mayor of Carterville.
Dr. Brooks is a vivid example of what ambition, pluck and hard work will do for a young American boy of good principles and average intelli- gence. His youth was spent on a farm in the states of Mississippi and Illinois, where the main burden of the family's support fell on his shoulders, on account of an invalid father. His father, M. C. Brooks, was a native of Cobden, Union Co., Ill., where the Dr. was also born, April 4, 1818. His mother was Elizabeth Neel, a native of Missis- sippi, and very much attached to the South. After their marriage her in- fluence took her back to Mississippi. and her husband and young son with her, where she died in 1874. The family then returned to Cobden, Ill., where the father still lives.
The common school system, which has done so much for the nation, again showed its value in giving the
young man the necessary foundation for the education he so greatly de- sired. But his poverty and the delicacy of his father's health were a serious hanuicap during all of his early life, and consequently his edu- cation was secured only at intervals of severe toil summers and working nights and Saturdays in the winter until he passed the County Superin- tendent's examination and secured the coveted certificate. He then se-
cured the Sitter School, near Sara- toga, Ill., where he made a record unsurpassed by any. It had the reputation of being a hard school to manage, but he taught it for two years successfully. Three of his pu- pils received certificates at the end of his two years' labor and went to teaching. On closing his school there he went to Mississippi and taught one term in that state and then returned to Illinois.
After an incomplete course at the State Normal at Carbondale, he chose medicine as a profession, and took a course in the University at Louisville, Kentucky, graduating in 1891. He then returned to Union County and began to practice, but the next year went to Blairsville, where he remained nineteen months. He then stuck out his shingle in Car- terville, where he has since re- mained. This was in 1894, and in 1899 he supplemented his medical education by a post graduate course at Chicago. The Doctor was one of the first to recognize the value of the X-Ray in medicine, and is one of the few experts in that line. His laboratory is fully equipped with all up-to-date machines for full electric and X-Ray treatment, in which he is eminently successful.
The Doctor is normally a Demo- crat, but at the last election in Car- terville he enthusiastically support- ed the reform movement, and was elected Mayor of the city on the Prohibition ticket.
His wife was Alice Reynolds, who was born in Carterville in 1872. They were married August 1, 1895, and have one child. Colleen Brooks. They are both members of the 1st Baptist Church. He is a K. of P. and Modern Woodman.
CARTERVILLE DISTRICT COAL MINE NEAR WHITE ASH, ILL.
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NORTH SIDE SCHOOL, Herrin, Illinois.
CHARLES M. CASH, Insurance.
Mr. Cash, who, after various vicis- situdes, has settled down to the suc- cessful management of the Southern Illinois district of the Modern American, one of the most popular liberal and safe of the Fraternal Or- ders, though born in Hardin County, Kentucky, of Kentucky heritage, prides himself on being a thorough- going Williamson County man, as he came to Marion with his parents in 1865, when but 16 years old, and has been a resident of the County ever since. He was born April 7, 1849, of Jeremiah Cash and Amanda Melvina Williams. His mother died in 1884 at the age of 62, and his father is still living in Marion at the age of 81.
He was married October 27, 1872, when 24 years old, to Miss Mattie Walker, who died March 8, 1890, af- ter giving birth to eight children, seven of whom are living. He fol- lowed his father's occupation of farming in the vicinity of Marion un- til 1881, when he moved his family to Carterville, where he has since re- sided. Two years afterwards he went into the grocery business and later drifted into general merchan- dise. After five years' experience in that line he sold out and began clerking for Zimmerman Brothers in Carterville. He remained with them eleven years, and then built the Park Hotel, which he sold to J. W. Wheatly, after running it for six years. Wheatly sold to Roy E. Cash, the only remaining son of the sub- ject of this sketch, in the winter of 1904 and 1905.
In April of last year, 1904, Mr. Cash became interested in Insurance, and took the general agency for Southern Illinois of the Modern
American, with the Supreme Lodge at Effingham. This is under the general management of Hon. George M. LeCrone, and seems to be rapidly forging to the very front in its line.
For his second wife Mr. Cash mar- ried Mrs. Sarah Donihoo, in 1894. Two years later she died, and in August, 1898, he took Mrs. Lizzie Powell, a widow with five grown children, all of whom, but two, are settled in the County. Their names are in the order of their ages, Ran- som Powell, conductor on the Illinois Central Ry., residing at Golconda; Libbie, the wife of Noah Payne, a Drygoods merchant at Marion; Kate, the wife of Oscar Peyton, of Carter- ville: Sherman Powell, a newspaper
and magazine cartoonist in Califor- nia, and Frank, the youngest, who is clerking for D. B. Bracy, a Drygoods merchant of Marion. Mr. Cash's children are Cora, the wife of Rev. R. D. McKinnis, a Baptist preacher in Southeast Missouri; Marian, wife of W. B. Keith, a farmer of Du- Quoin; R. E. Cash, before men- tioned, living at Carterville and en- gaged in railroad contracting; Evan- geline, the wife of George H. North, a lumber merchant at Carterville; Ruth, wite of Frank Bracy, a hard- ware dealer in Carterville; Zelda, the wife of Anthony DuPrett, a tailor at Carterville, and Zonna, the young- est. who is single and lives with her parents in Carterville. One son died in infancy. Mr. Cash and his wife are both members of the Missionary Baptist Church, and politically he is a Democrat.
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