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Ill., where he remained until March, 1873, when he came to Litchfield and took charge of the ticket and express office of the Indian- apolis & St. Louis Railroad, under Mr. Keeler, continuing three and a half years; he then entered the employ of the Litchfield Car Com- pany as assistant book-keeper, holding that position a year. when, learning that none of the applicants for the post office were success- ful in receiving appointment to the same, he made application for it, and, fifteen days later, was appointed by President Hayes, his term beginning on June 15, 1877; in January, 1882, he was re-appointed for four years, after a severe contest for the position. In 1869, he married Miss Sarah J. Orcutt, of Carlinville; they have had four children -- Lelia Rose, Essie Orcutt, Lucy and Grace. Mr. Campbell is an efficient and obliging Postmaster and an estimable citizen.
F. W. CROUCH, druggist, Litchfield, came to Litchfield in March, 1881, and formed a partnership with Dr. J. B. Adelsberger, and, under the firm name of Adelsberger & Crouch, bought the drug store of J. W. Steen, and they have since conducted a prosperous busi- ness on State street. In June, 1881, they opened a branch store at Mt. Olive, and en- larged it, in September of the same year, by purchasing and adding to it the drug house of Flint Bros. He was appointed a member of the School Board in June, 1881. Mr. Crouch was born in Washington County, Tenn., on January 1, 1846, and in 1857 came with his father to Greene County, Ill., where he lived a short time, and, in 1858, moved to Macoupin County, where he received his edu- cation during the winter months, and did farm work the remainder of the time, until 1866. when he entered a select school at Seott- ville, under Prof. J. H. Woodel, continuing three summer terms, and teaching during the winters of the same years; after this, he adopt-
ed teaching as a profession, and followed it in the county until 1877. when he was elected by popular majority the Superin- tendent of Schools for Macoupin County, serv- ing until June 16, 1881, resigning a few months before the expiration of his term, in order to engage in mereantile pursuits. He has been an active member of the County Normal since 1872.
JOHN A. CRABTREE, deceased, born in Kentucky May 9, 1809: the youngest child of John and Mrs. (Harkins) Crabtree. His mother died when he was three years old. When eleven years of age, he eame to Illi- nois with his sister, Mrs. William Jordan, and her husband. With this sister he lived until his marriage, in 1831, to Ann Griffith, a native of Montgomery County, who bore him twelve children, viz .: William (de- ceased), Margaret (deceased), James (de- ceased), Nancy, Francis, Job, Phoebe (de- ceased), John, Louisa, Mary, and Charles and Isaac (twins). He worked at farm labor for others prior to his marriage. after which he entered a tract of land in South Litchfield, on which was a small cabin. During his life, he put about 360 acres of wild prairie land under cultivation, and had acquired in all over seven hundred aeres of land by hard work and unceasing industry. He made most of his estate before the war by raising grain and stock for the St. Louis market; he served in the Black Hawk war; donated the land to what is now known as the Crabtree Grave- yard. He died March 15, 1874. Although uneducated, Mr. Crabtree had one of the brightest intellects of his county. In business, he was shrewd and successful; in social life, generons and hospitable. He was an adher- ent of the Democratic party.
JOHN CORLEW was born in Rockcastle County, Ky., in January, 1813, son of Philip and Anna (Kincaid) Corlew, he, a native of
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North Carolina, came to Kentucky when a lad; followed farming during his life; he and his wife died a few years previous to the breaking-out of the late war, aged respectively eighty and sixty-eight years; they were the parents of nine children. only four of whom are living, viz .: John, David, W. M. and Jane (now Mrs. Israel Fogleman). The sub- ject of this sketch removed to Missouri with his parents in the spring of 1817, who, after a short sojourn in St. Louis, moved to St. Charles, and remained in Missouri until 1819. when they moved to Madison County. Ill. : here his father took a lease in timber land on Mississippi River bottoms, cleared the place and raised four small crops; in the winter of 1822 23. moved to Montgomery County with his wife and family of seven children, and located in what is now Hillsboro Township on the place now ocenpied by C. H. Missi- more, entering eighty acres on the edge of the timber. John's first teacher was Peter Long, who is still living in Bond Connty; the school which he attended was about one and a half miles from his home, the schoolhouse being a split-log building, 14x14, with stick chimney. puncheon seats and floor, a long crack in the wall covered with greased paper serving the purpose of a window. After at- tending one term at this school, he went to the Clear Spring Baptist Church School, two miles distant from his home. He enlisted in Capt. Hiram Rountree's company and went ont in the campaign of 1832, serving in the Black Hawk war. About the year 1835, he, with his brother Lindsey, who died soon afterward, made his first entry of 160 acres of land where he now resides; he worked on his farm till the opening of the Mexican war, when he enlisted in Company C, Third Illi- nois Infantry, under Capt. McAdams, and participated in the battles of Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo: was promoted to the rank of
Second Lieutenant, and returned home in 1847 and resumed farming. In 1850, he was elected Sheriff of Montgomery County; served two years, and, after an interim of two years, was re-elected. and again served a two-years' term. He has steadily acquired property until he now owns abont two thousand acres in Montgomery County, one- third of which is under cultivation; he has bought and sold largely in real estate. In 1856, he married Mrs. Eliza J. Jett, widow of Wesley Jett; from this union five children were born, still living, viz .: Alice, wife of Douglass Simp- son; John Martin, who lives near San Fran- cisco, Cal .; Lucy J., wife of Charles Barry: E. R. and Rosanna, at home. Mr. Corlew is a Democrat; was elected Sheriff by that party; he has held several positions of trust in his township.
JACOB CLEARWATER, physician, Litch- field, was born in December, 1821, in High- land County, Ohio, and, at the age of two years, with his parents, left his native home, and lived successively in several different counties of Indiana until 1831, when they removed to McLean County, Ill., where our subject was raised and educated. At the age of sixteen years. he began reading medicine with Dr. Moran, then of Leroy, but afterward a distinguished physician of Springfield. He finished his medical studies with Dr. Zera Wakefield, of De Witt Connty, Ill., after which, for a period of four years, he practiced with Dr. James A. Lemon, of De Witt; he located then at Mt. Pleasant, now Farmers' City. De Witt County, and there practiced eight years. In 1854, he came to Maconpin County, and at Clyde and Gillespie practiced his chosen profession until 1861, when he came to Litchfield, at which place he had had patients as early as 1854. Dr. Clearwater has built np a large and Incrative practice, in the eclectic school, in this place; he is a mem-
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ber of the Medical Association of Montgomery County, and of the State Medical Association; he has been Treasurer and Vice President of the former.
JOHN D. COLT. physician, Litchfield, was born in 1839, in Mahoning County, Ohio, at Berlin, where he passed his youth and re- ceived his early education; he attended an academy at Ellsworth, Ohio, and, at the age of seventeen years, began the study of medi- cine with Dr. George W. Brooke, of Ells- worth; he subsequently continued his studies with Joseph Wagner, of Deerfield, Portage Co., Ohio, to which place his parents had re- moved in the meantime. He entered upon a course of study in the Western Reserve Col- lege (now the Medical Department of West- ern Reserve University), and was at the same time under the private direction of Dr. Proc- tor Thayer until IS61, when he joined the United States Navy as able-bodied seaman, and was assigned to gunboat service; he was on the Ohio River for a time, but was finally transferred to Admiral Porter's command. Soon after entering the navy, he ceased to do sea service, and was employed as Assistant Surgeon, and, after an examination by the Fleet Surgeon in 1862. was transferred to the hospital boat Red River; he acted in this ca- pacity without commission until 1863, when he was taken sick, and, in July, returned home. He attended a second session of the Western Reserve Medical College, and grad- nated in the spring of 1864. and at once came to Litchfield, where he has since enjoyed an excellent practice. He has a membership in the Montgomery Medical Society, and one also in the State Medical Society.
BARNARD W. COOPER, machinist, Litcl- field, is the son of William and Jemima (Kel- land) Cooper, the former of whom was a Sergeant in the Royal Marine Artillery, and died in Barbadoes, West Indies, on January
1, 1862, and was there buried. Barnard W. Cooper was born in Portsmouth, England, on January 27, 1857; he was educated in the Royal Naval School at Greenwich. At the age of fifteen years, he began to learn the machinist's trade, serving two years' appren- ticeship. He came to the United States, reaching Litchfield in June, 1874, where he worked at various employments until August, 1875, when he entered the employ of the Litchfield Car Manufacturing Company, and there completed his trade in three years; he has continued in their employ ever since, ex- cept for a period of six months, when he en- gaged his services at Elkhart, Ind., as machin- ist in the shops of the Lake Shore & Michi- gan Southern Railroad. On January 1, 1882. he became foreman of the machine shops of the Litchfield Car and Machine Company, a position he still holds; his department has in its employ twenty-two men.
JOSEPH F. DOLLAR, Litchfield, was born in Baden, Germany, in the town of Portsheim, in December, 1853, and came to the United States when eighteen months old, with his parents, who settled in Marion County, Ohio, on a farm, where he lived until 1865, in which year he moved to Terre Haute, Ind., where he began the blacksmith's trade at the age of eighteen years, with Ceith & Hagar, car-builders, serving three years' ap- prenticeship, and continuing with them seven years as journeyman. He spent the next eighteen months in the M., K. & T. R. R. shops at Parsons, Kan .; the following year he spent in farming. He returned to Terre Hante and worked for Ceith & Hagar three months, at the expiration of which period he came to Litchfield, Ill., and worked in the forge department of the car and machine shops about eighteen months. In the fall of 1880, he was made foreman of the blacksmith department, of which he has had charge ever
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since: in busy seasons, it employs thirty-five hands. In 1870, at Terre Haute, Ind., he married Miss Susannah M. Garner, who died on August 9, 1871, leaving one daughter. In the fall of 1872, he married Miss Martha J. Mulligan, of Terre Haute; of this marriage, there are three children.
DAVID DAVIS, grocer and banker, Litch- field. David Davis, deceased, the father of our subject, was born in 1785, of Welsh par- entage, near Genoa, Italy, and, at the age of fourteen years, came to the United States. In New York City he learned the baker's trade, and from that city moved to St. Louis. Mo., when it was but a French village; he was in the regular army five years; he par- ticipated in the war of 1812, and was wounded in the battle of Queenstown, with a saber, which enabled the enemy to take him pris- oner, which they did, carrying him on flat- boats to Boston, Mass., where he was con- tined and compelled to endure many priva- tions. He lived in St. Louis, Mo., until about 1840, when he removed to Madison County, Ill .. where he engaged in farming sixteen years or thereabout, coming to Litch- field in 1856. After coming to Litchfield, he was the business partner of his son. the sub- ject of this sketch, until 1872, in which year he died, in his eighty-seventh year, having lived a life of honor. David Davis was born in Madison County, Ill .. in December, 1838; he received his education in his native county, and, at the age of sixteen years, came with his parents to Litchfield. Ill., where, until 1858, he successively engaged his services as clerk and book-keeper in several business honses of the city. In September, 1858, he engaged in the grocery trade, being one of the first grocers of Litchfield; he opened his line of groceries in the building now occu- pied by Mr. Hoog as a sack depot. In 1871. Mr. Davis erected his present building, on
the same block, but located on the corner of State and Edward streets, where he has since conducted a flourishing wholesale and retail business. In 1870, he became a stockholder in the Litchfield Bank, and, the following year, was elected its President. Shortly after this election, they re-organized the bank as a private bank, under the firm name of Beach, Davis & Co .; of the new departure Mr. Davis is one of the managing partners. That he is an estimable citizen is evident from the fact that he has been three times elected Mayor of Litchfield, the elections being made by the Independents; he served in 1875, 1876 and 1879; in 1866 and 1867, he was elected Alderman. December 23, 1868, he married Miss Blanche Keating, of Rockbridge, Greene Co .. Ill., and has four living children, two being deceased.
WILLIAM G. DAVIS, liveryman, Litch- field, was born near Meadville, Crawford Co., Penn., in 1842, and, until he was ten years old, was raised on a farm; his parents then removed to Hartstown, Penn., and he attended an academy there, finally becoming a teacher in the same school. In the summer of 1860, he came to Litchfield, Ill., where he engaged in the sale of lime and plasterers' and brick- layers' furnishings for a period of three years, during which time, in the winters, he taught three terms. He next engaged in the fancy groceries and restaurant business, with good success, for about four years. He was six months in the army, serving half the time in the Seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry, un- der Capt. Munn, and the remainder of the time in the Eighty-fourth Ohio Regiment. In the fall of 1872, he engaged in the livery business, and has since continued, enlarging his trade from year to year. In 1881, he built a large brick addition to his original business house, and this consisted of two stories, with an elevator; the present dimen-
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sions are 115x132 feet, covering almost two lots. Mr. Davis does a large livery, feed and sale business, having on hand a full line of vehicles, and a stable furnishing capacity for from seventy-five to one hundred horses. In 1875, he married Miss Susan Aughinbangh. of Hillsboro.
WILLIAM T. ELLIOTT, deceased, a na- tive of Franklin County, Ky., was left an or- phan at an early age. In his twelfth year, becoming justly dissatisfied with his treat- ment and condition in his uncle's household, he, in 1838, was informally adopted by R. W. O'Bannon; for thirteen years he was a member of his estimable family; with no ties of blood to bind the lad to his foster parent, they were, in esteem and affection, as father and son; he shared Mr. O'Bannon's fortunes, removing successively to Missouri and Madi- son County in this State. In 1849, he mar- ried Miss Adeline Swett, of that county, and, formning a brief partnership with a blacksmith at Ridgely, he wrought for several months at wagon-making. Turning from this, he began mercantile life with his foster parent; suc- cessful in this line, he, in May, 1854, re- moved his family to Litchfield, which then consisted of his store and dwelling, and one other dwelling, not occupied. He was by three days the pioneer settler. James W. Jeff- eris being the second householder. With Mr. O'Bannon as a partner, he opened the store of W. T. Elliott on the corner now covered by the banking house of Beach, Davis & Co., April 24, 1854; the name of the firm was twice changed in the ensuing twelve years, and fortune smiled on his venture. In 1866, he retired from commercial life, and, in con- nection with P. B. Updike, engaged in the sale of agricultural implements. He took the tide at its flood. and it bore him to wealth. The little house on " cheap corner " was ex- changed for a commodious home a quarter of
a mile north, on State street. No reverses swept across his path. His eye was not yet dim, nor his natural force abated. But pul- monary disease appeared, and, after a few months of hoping against hope, and dissolv- ing his partnership with Mr. Updike, he died, March 24, 1868, to the profound regret and grief of the city. Mr. Elliott was a charter member of the Charter Oak Lodge of Masons, and an Odd Fellow; for several terms he presided over the lodges of both fraternities; in graceful recognition of his zeal and effi- ciency in works meet for a true and accom- plished brother of the mystic tie, the chapter bears his name. He greatly aided in the erection of a new church for the Christian society. He was equally estimable in what he did and for what he was. He was of me- dium stature, spare, bnt sinewy: he was of courteous bearing, diligent in business, up- right in his dealings, discreet in speech, with- out concealments or the need of them, and true to his party, which was a bar to no per- sonal friendships, and never limited his read- iness to assist others. Leading a spotless life. losing no friend and making no enemy in the dolorous years when a difference of opinion meant hatred and all uncharitable- ness, he blushed only at his own praises. Three of his six children still survive. Will- iam Lewis, his eldest son, at twenty-two a Knight Templar, and the youngest one in this section, died in 1876, in his twenty-sixth year; his second daughter, Lillie. "went home " the following year; one died in infancy-Minnie.
ISRAEL FOGLEMAN, deceased. Mel- choir Fogleman was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., in 1779, and was educated in both En- glish and German, afterward learning the trade of blacksmith. March 4, 1811, he was married to Elizabeth Meisenheimer, and, ou the 17th day of June, 1812, a son was born to them, he being our subject, Israel Fogle-
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man, who was baptized March 4, 1813. In the autumn of 1813, Melchoir and family set out for the West, first landing in Indiana, but, not being satisfied with the country, re- moved to Illinois, reaching the vicinity of what is now Walshville on the 6th of June, 1818, and for several months, the family, consisting of father, mother, the son and two daughters, subsisted chiefly on venison and honey, of which there was an abundance; Melchoir afterward (about 1820) removed to the West Fork. where he lived till 1824, then he moved to the Clear Spring Branch and built the grist-mill known as the old " Pepper Mill." They had two sons and one daughter born in Montgomery County, in addition to the children born before arriving there. Melchoir died February 10, 1827, and his widow remained at the mill. In 1832, Israel bought out James Parrish, and commenced improving a farm near where Litchfield now is, building a house and removing his mother and the children into it in 1841. He enlisted in the Black Hawk war in 1832, be- ing Sergeant in Capt. Boone's company. Re- ceiving a land warrant for services in the war, he entered another eighty acres, to which he added until he had 350 acres of land. In November, 1838, he married Miss Jane, daughter of Philip and Anna (Kincaid) Cor- lew, who was born January 27, 1821. Mr. Fogleman had borne all the vicissitudes of pioneer life, and was a man highly respected and trusted. It is said that he acted more frequently as administrator and executor of estates and guardian for minors than any other man in the county; he served as Com- missioner, Justice of the Peace and School Treasurer; was a Democrat, and cast his first Presidential vote for "Old Hickory." He died June 17, 1876. He was the father of fourteen children, but six of whom are now living; of those dead, two died in infancy and
three grew to maturity; those living are Amanda E , wife of William R. Blackwelder; John W., merchant in Miller County, Mo .; Sarah L., wife of W. Frank Rainey, of Mont- gomery County; Alida M., Joel M. and Will- iam D. are at home.
JOEL M. FOGLEMAN was born April 7, 1826; is a son of Melchoir and Elizabeth (Meisenheimer) Fogleman. He lived with his mother near the old mill till he was fif- teen years of age, and attended school in the old Clear Springs Baptist Church. In 1841, his mother, with her family, moved to what is now North Litchfield, and settled near her eldest son, Israel Fogleman. Joel M. worked and improved his present place -- a quarter of School Section 16, which had been purchased for him about the year 1843. till 1846, when he enlisted in Company C, Third Illinois In- fantry, under Col. Forman and Gen. Shields, and served in the Mexican war from June to November, but was taken sick and sent home from Matamoras, Mexico. He married, De- cember 30, 1847, Nancy Jane Crabtree, born in Edwards County, Ill .. daughter of John Crabtree, a native of Kentucky and an old Revolutionary soldier, who died about 1837. and who had twenty-two children, Mrs. Fo- gleman being the twentieth child. Mr. and Mrs. Fogleman are the parents of seven chil- dren, of whom two daughters died; those living are Henrietta, now Mrs. David A. Blackwelder; Eliza, now Mrs. Charles Rose, of Montgomery County; John F .; Lizzie, now Mrs. Milton C. Ash: and William J. Mr. Fogleman moved to his present place in 1848, having built a frame house, which is still standing, at the rear of his present resi- dence; he has ever since remained on the same place, which is all under cultivation. His mother, who was born February 4, 1788, died April 27, 1850; her children are Israel, born June 17, 1812; Sarah, now Mrs. Dillard
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Duff: Catharine, now Mrs. George Forehand; John, living in South Litchfield; Peter, died in infancy; Mary A., died in 1857; and Joel M., our subject. Mr. Fogleman is a Demo- crat; he and his wife are members of the United Baptist Church.
JOHN FOGLEMAN, son of Melchoir and Elizabeth (Meisenheimer) Fogleman, was born in Montgomery County, Ill., one mile east of where Walshville now stands, on Easter Sunday, April 11. 1819, and was the first white child born in Walshville Township, and is now perhaps the oldest native resi- dent of Montgomery County. Melchoir Fo- gleman, the father of our subject, started a mill where the " Pepper Mill " now stands, in 1824, the wheel of which was overshot, the water being brought from one-half to three-quarters of a mile, in oak troughs placed on the hillside, connected with springs of water; the mill, which had a capacity of 100 bushels in twenty-four hours in flood time, did a good business, drawing the pat- ronage of all the early settlement; the buhrs were of native stone, taken from the prairie. MIelchoir Fogleman died in 1827; his widow held the mill until 1843. when she sold it to John Kirkpatrick. Our subject attended school principally at Clear Springs Church; his last school term (in 1835); he attended the school a mile west of Hillsboro, taught by J. Grantham, now a sub-clerk in the United States Treasury at Washington, D. C. In his early days, John worked in his father's mill, and was familiar with all the heads of the families in the county at that time. In 1840, he bought eighty acres of land of Jolin Corlew-forty prairie land and forty acres in timber-and April 23 of that year moved into a small cabin on the border of the prai- rie, and the first year tilled six acres, which he had cleared in the timber, but his crop was nearly all taken by squirrels and rac-
coons, which infested the woods; he soon added twenty acres to his original purchase, and, from 1866, steadily increased his prop- erty, till he is now the owner of 300 acres in this township and 200 acres elsewhere. He married. April 19, 1840, Elizabeth Kirkland, daughter of Robert and Jane (Long) Kirk- land, and from this union ten children have been born, of whom six died in childhood; those living are Daniel M., Israel P., Mary E. U. and Francis M. Mr. Fogleman cast his first vote for Van Buren in 1840, and has since been a stanch supporter of the Demo- cratic party; he invariably filled the office of Clerk for township and county elections; has been Township Trustee or Treasurer for a great many terms, and has acted on county and township committees; he was elected Sheriff of Montgomery County in 1860, and served one term.
FRANCIS MARION FOGLEMAN, farm- er, P. O. Litchfield, was born on the place of his father, John Fogleman, on July 15, 1858. He was raised a farmer, and still follows that occupation with his father, on whose place lie has resided since his marriage, on March 2, 1881, to Miss Nancy E. Z., daughter of Da- vid Corlew. He is a young man of enter- prise and industry.
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