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GEORGE OTLEY, Neponset, was born May 20, 1824, in Westow, England. He was a son of John and Jane (Chapman) Otley, who were natives of England, where the former was born at Kerby Misperton. He died August 5, 1864, in Scott County, Ill. The latter was born January 8, 1796, in Byton, Yorkshire. She died October 29, 1875, near Kewanee, Ill. They were the parents of teu children, viz .: Ann, Mary, Hannah, George, Jane, John, Robert, Thomas C., Richard and William. The four girls died in England, and the two youngest boys, Richard and William, died after the family had immi- grated, and were on their way from New York to Scott County, Ill. Richard was buried at Louisville, Ky., and William at St. Louis, Mo. Our subject was educated in England. He came to the United States with his parents, who settled in Scott Coun ty, Ill., in the fall of 1840. He farmed in Scott County till 1853, when he came to Neponset Township, Bureau Co., Ill., where he engaged in farming and raising stock. He was one of the first to introduce thoroughbred stock into the county, and de- serves credit for what he has done in that direction. Mr. Otley was married January 3, 1850, in Scott County, Ill, to Jane Haxby, a native of Baniston, Yorkshire, England. She is a daughter of George and Rachel (Hodgson) Haxby. Both were natives of England, and both died in Annawan, Henry Co., Ill. Mrs. Otley is the mother of eight children, viz. : Pamela A., Mary E., Margaret, William J., Eliza J., Christiana, Robert and
Arthur H. H. Of the above the first three
are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Otley are noted for their hospitality. They are both mem- bers of the Episcopal Church at Kewanee, Ill. Politically Mr. Otley is a Democrat.
THOMAS C. OTLEY, Neponset. 'The sub- ject of this sketch was born October 5, 1833, in Westow, Yorkshire, England. He is a son of John and Jane (Chapman) Otley. (See the genealogy of the Otley family in the preced ing sketch. ) Our subject was principally reared in Scott County, Ill., to which he came with his parents in the fall of 1840. He remained there till after he reached his majority, and then came to Neponset Town- ship, Bureau County, where he formed a partnership with his brother George, which lasted several years. During that time they dealt in cattle and live-stock and farmed. After they dissolved partnership, our subject continued the stock business for some years. He now lives on a farm of 160 acres in Sec- tion 22. Mr. Otley was married twice. His first wife, Emma Robinson, was a native of Dutchess County, N. Y. She died here, leaving five children, viz .: Alonzo, Addie, Jane, Lizzie and Amy. Mr. Otley was mar- ried a second time September 23, 1866, to Charlotte Phillips, who was born May 6, 1844, in Cortland County, N. Y. She is the mother of Charlotte Otley, who was born January 24, 1868. Mrs. Otley is a daughter of William and Malinda (Helmer) Phillips, natives of New York, where the latter died. The former died in Neponset, Ill., to which he came in 1864. Mr. Otley is no office- seeker, and politically he is identified with the Democratic party.
W. J. OTT, Walnut, was born in Fred- erick City, Md., June 21, 1836. He is the son of William and Elizabeth (Rouzer) Ott, both of whom were natives of Mechanics- town, Md. They came to Bureau County in 1857, and died in Hall Township, where he was engaged in farming, but by trade he was a tanner. By trade W. J. Ott is a miller, learning his trade in Frederick City, where he began in 1855, and almost his entire life has been given to this business. In 1861 he came to this county from his native State. From 1861 till 1875, excepting two years he was following his trade in Peru, Ill., he was
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head miller in the mills at Princeton. In
himself at Walnut, where he has since con- November, 1875, he engaged in business for
tinued. The mill was built in 1874 and 1875
at a cost of $9,500, as a custom mill, by G.
W. Hockenbury, C. H. Adams and U. D.
Heiser. Mr. Ott first purchased the interest
who have since remodeled the mill, and interest to the other members of the firm, gether till 1880, when Mr. Adams sold his of Mr. Heiser, and the three continued to-
The roller process is used in the manufacture with a capacity of forty-eight barrels per day. changed it to a merchant and custom mill,
1844, and is the daughter of John and Lou- who was born in Bureau County December 5, county, March 1, 1868, to Hattie Pinnell, from Kansas. Mr. Ott was married in this of flour, and most of the grain is shipped
in Bureau County. They died in Hall Town- isa Pinnell, who were among the early settlers
Mason in 1861 in Peru, Ill., and is now a Mr. Ott is Republican. He was made a Vernie, born August 21, 1870. In politics ship. Mr. and Mrs. Ott have one child, viz. :
member of the Walnut Lodge, No. 722, A.
F. & A. M. He is also a member of the
Modern Woodmen of America, of Walnut. STEPHEN GORHAM PADDOCK,
of George Hussey and Maria (Bolles) Pad. Co., N. Y., April 22, 1828. He is the son Princeton, was born in Hudson, Columbia
dock, both of whom were natives of Hudson, N. Y. The father died in Peoria, Ill., in 1852, and the mother in Princeton in 1863.
They were the parents of the following chil-
Princeton; Richard Bolles Paddock, who Cavalry, and died in 1862; Stephen G., of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ninth Illinois dren: Solomon Allen Paddock, who was
went to sea with a whaling crew, and has not
Elizabeth Paddock resides in Princeton; Paddock is an attorney of Chicago; Sarah been heard of since 1852; George Laban
Charles Barnard Paddock died in 1863 in a Rebel prison in Florence, S. C .; Henry G. Paddock has been for years County Surveyor Paddock was taken to Angusta, Ga., where of Bureau County. In infancy Stephen G.
his father was engaged in business. In the
summer of 1835 he removed to New York City, and in the schools of that city received
1846 Mr. Paddock came to Burean Coun- student in his own library. In the fall of he has been a close observer, and a diligent years of age; however, during his entire life most of his education before he was fourteen
remaining only a few weeks, as he intended, in settling his father's estate, and instead of In 1853 he came to this county again to assist a wholesale dry goods house on Pearl Street. his remaining stay in that city was clerking in office in Wall Street for some time, and during school he was engaged as a clerk in a broker's returned to New York City. After leaving West he remained only one year, when he ty with his father's family, but not liking the
till 1865. In 1867 he was Clerk of the Illi- County Clerk, and again in 1861, and served ty. In 1857 he was elected to the office of ing, 1854, he was elected Sheriff of the conn- he engaged in farming, but the year follow- this county has been his home since. At first
nois House of Representatives. In 1868 lie
dock was a member of the Board of Super- and again in 1882. For four years Mr. Pad - years. In 1877 was re-elected County Clerk, uring Company, aud filled that position ten became Secretary of the Princeton Manufact-
visors, and during his service was Chairman
of the Board. He has always been interest-
High School Board. Mr. Paddock circulated and since 1873 has been a member of the part in establishing the present high school, where he then resided. He took an active a School Director in the country district ed in school matters, and was elected in 1854
the call previous to the organization of the Agricultural Society, and was elected its first
Secretary, and served in that capacity for a
number of years, after which he was Treas-
urer during the years 1878, 1879 and 1880,
and then resigned on account of sickness.
By descent Mr. Paddock was a Whig in
political belief, and cast his first vote in 1852 for Gen. Scott. Previous to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill he had taken no
interest in political matters, but during the
in every campaign as a Republican. He is a and since that time has taken an active part discussion of that bill he became aroused,
charter member of Princeton Lodge, No. 587, A. F. & A. M. In New York City, Novem- ber 6, 1855, Mr. Paddock was united in mar-
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riage to Miss Margaret Seaman, a daughter of James Valentine and Maria Bogart (Wright) Seaman. One incident in the his- tory of James Valentine Seaman's life should be inentioned, and that is, he was the first child to be vaccinated in America. His father, who was a physician, was in Europe when the theory of vaccination was first be- ing advanced. He procured some of the vaccine, brought it home and made his first experiment upon his own son. Mr. and Mrs. Paddock are the parents of the following named children: James Valentine Seaman Paddock, who is Lieutenant of the Fifth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Ni- obrara, Neb .; Richard Bolles Paddock, Lieu- tenant of the Seventeenth United States In- fantry, stationed at Fort Bayard, N. M .; Mar- garet Seaman Paddock, at home.
EDWARD N. PAGE, Malden, was born in Marshall, Oneida Co., N. Y., September 22, 1823. His father, Joseph Page, was born in Connecticut, August 3, 1788, and removed with his parents to New York when about twelve years of age, and resided there until his death, January 8, 1858. He was married December 8, 1814, in Oneida Conn- ty, N. Y., to Maria Nichols, who was born in Catskill, Conn., June 9, 1793. She died in Malden, Ill., December 23, 1867. Mr. Page was engaged in farming in Marshall, where he owned 175 acres of land. He was identi- fied with the Abolition party at its organiza- tion. They were the parents of eleven chil- dren-eight sons and three daughters. Only three of the family are now living, viz. : Edward N., Frederick H., of Malden, and Charles, of Olathe, Johnson Co., Kan. Six of the brothers settled in this county and lived here several years. Edward Page spent his early life on his father's farm in New York, and in attending school. June 1, 1850, he arrived in Dover, Ill., and the same year purchased his present farm and began improving it. It now contains 185 acres, partially within the corporate limits of Malden, it being the northeast quarter of Sec- tion 32, and part of southeast quarter of Section 32. June 13, 1854, he was married in Fremont, Sandusky Co., Ohio, to Hannah Caroline Stacy. She was born in DeKalb, St. Law. rence Co., N. Y., June 7, 1828. She is the
daughter of Norman and Nancy (Peck) Stacy. The father was born at Cooperstown, N. Y., February 19, 1795, and his wife at Vergen- nes, Vt., February 10, 1802. They were married in DeKalb County, N. Y., and after- ward moved first to Strongsville, Ohio, then to York and later to Fremont, Ohio, where he died April 29, 1854. His wife died in this county, February 10, 1875. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom are living, viz .: Lewis A., born in DeKalb County, N. Y., February 24, 1822, now of Chicago; Henry C., of Fremont, Ohio, was born in New York, January 24, 1824; Mrs. Page; Nancy M., born July 4, 1831, wife of Erasmus Donaldson, of Osage, Iowa; Elvira E., born January 26, 1833: John D., born September 20, 1835, now of Hollowayville, Bureau Co., Ill; Timothy, born June 2, 1826, died July 22, 1836; Charles B., born April 20, 1841, died July 8, 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Page have one adopted daughter, Hattie J., born March 11, 1854, and adopted in March, 1860. She was married to William M. Win- ship, who was a hardware merchant in Mal- den at the time of his death, April, 1873. He left one son-William Edward-born April 24, 1873. Mrs. Winship was again married to George W. Manning, of Emporia, Kan., and has one child-Grace-living, and three dead, viz .: Nellie, Ernest P. and Oliver. Mr. Page is a Republican in politics, but was formerly an Abolitionist. Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational Church, of Malden, and were among the original members.
ISAAC D. PAGE, Buda, was born in Marion, Marion Co., Ohio, January 8, 1842. He is the son of Philander and Harriet M. (Gibson) Page. Both the parents were na- tives of New York State. The father was born July 31, 1802, at Lowville, Louis Co .. N. Y. His wife was born February 7, 1818, at Unadilla, N. Y. They were married April 25, 1836, in Elyria, Ohio. Mrs. Page died in Buda, November 14, 1862; Mr. Page died April 22, 1872. Our subject is one of a family of three sons and two daughters. One of the daughters, Mary Jane, born Octo- ber 5, 1840, died March 5, 1841, in Marion, Ohio; the other, Mariah, was born November 29, 1837, in Henrietta, Ohio, and died May
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17, 1861, in Wabash, Ind. Of the sons, Isaac D. is in Buda. Leroy, born October 29, 1844. in Henrietta, Ohio, is at Mon- month, Ill., in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, as yard mas- ter for the main line, train master for the St. Louis division and agent for the com- pany. He is married and has two children, viz .: Hattie M. and Harry. His wife was Miss Lucinda Desplain. John S. Page, the third son, was born March 20, 1851, in Henrietta, Lorain Co., Ohio, and now resides at Galesburg, and is an engineer on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. He was married to Miss Mallie Tarply, and has two sons -- Leroy and Frank. Mr. I. D. Page at the early age of eight years began making his own way through life, and worked on a farm till in November, 1861, when he enlisted in the service of his country in Com- pany K, Fifty-seventh Illinois Volunteer In- fantry. He was with his company a short time at Camp Douglas, Chicago, when he was taken sick, after which he came home on a furlough and did not join the regiment again till at Crump's Landing, but partici- pated in the battle of Shiloh, and during the first day's engagement was severely wounded. For seven months he lay in the hospital at Evansville, Ind., when he was discharged November 14, 1862. Mr. Page had come to Illinois in 1852 and to Bureau County in 1853, and when discharged from the army he returned to Buda. After having recovered to some extent from his wounds, he attended school at Buda, and later the Bryant & Strat- ton Business College of Chicago. October 2. 1866, he was appointed Postmaster at Buda, under the administration of Andrew Johnson, Alexander W. Randall being Post- master-General. From 1866 to the present date Mr. Page has continued in the office as Postmaster. He is a member of the G. A. R. Post of Buda. In politics he is identified with the principles of the Republican party.
GEORGE N. PALMER, Dover, was born near Batavia, N. Y., May 2, 1830. His father, Stephen Palmer, was born in Canada, March 14, 1796, though he was the son of David Palmer, a native of Boston, and a Revolu- tionary soldier. Stephen Palmer died April 27, 1884, at the age of eighty-eight years.
His wife, Martha (Johnson) Palmer, a native of New York State, died July 17, 1872, at the age of sixty-six years. In 1840 our subject removed with his parents from New York State to northern Ohio, thirty-five miles south of Cleveland. It was there that he received his education in the common schools and sem- inary. January 24, 1854, he was married to Miss Ellen M. Russell, in Summit County, Ohio. She was born January 17, 1836, in Wadsworth, Medina Co., Ohio. Her father, Lorenzo D. Russell, a native of Erie County, Penn., born July 16, 1811, died August 19, 1854, in Ohio. His wife, Nancy (Mills) Rus- sell, was born in Litchfield County, Conn., January 25, 1813, and now resides with her daughter, Mrs. Palmer. Mr. and Mrs. Pal- mer have six children, viz. : Dr. Charles A., born September 8, 1855, a resident of Prince- ton; Frank R., born November 11, 1857, en- gaged in mining in Silver Cliff, Col. : Jennie M., born October 4, 1861; Alice B., born Jan- uary 22, 1866; David G., born February 11, 1869; Fannie, born May 4, 1871. In 1855 Mr. Palmer and his wife came to Bureau County and settled on his present farm, which had then been partially improved. It contains 240 acres in Sections 6 and 7. Mr. Palmer has given most of his attention to the stock business; has been buying and feeding stock since 1860. In politics he is a stanch Republican. He has held various Township offices, and has been connected with the Ag- ricultural Society almost from its commence- ment and has been President for some time. For many years he has been a member of the Methodist Church and has been an active worker in the Sabbath-school. He has al- ways taken great interest in school matters, and in the education of his family.
CHARLES A. PALMER, M. D., Prince- ton, was born in Bureau County, Ill., Septem- ber 8, 1855. He is the son of George N. and Ellen (Russell) Palmer. (See sketch of George N. Palmer. ) The Doctor's early life was the same as that of most boys reared on a farm, but at the early age of thirteen he came to Princeton to attend the high school, and after taking the course of study here, graduated and then began the study of med- icinc, reading first under the instruction of Dr. G. W. Crossley, but soon entered the
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Chicago Medical College, and graduated from the same in 1876. Through a competitive examination he obtained the position of Res. ident Surgeon in Mercy Hospital. where he remained for one year, and gained much prac- tical knowledge which served him well in his career as physician and surgeon. In 1877 the Doctor returned to Princeton, and has since de- voted his time and energy to the active practice of medicine, and although still a young man. his thoroughness and genial bearing have given him a place in the front rank of the pro- fession in Bureau County. He has also made a special study of the eye and ear, and in or- der to perfect himself more completely in this department of his profession he went to New York City and studied for some months. Oc- tober 19, 1882, the Doctor was united in mar- riage to Miss Jennie Eckels, a daughter of J. S. Eckels. To Dr. and Mrs. Palmer a dangh- ter-Margaret Ellen-was born March 28, 1884. Dr. Palmer is an independent Repub- lican, and is far advanced in the orders A. F. & A. M., and K. of P. For the latter order he is Surgeon of the Grand Division of the State.
MRS. MARTHA T. PALMER, Walnut, was born in Vermont April 13, 1831. She is the daughter of William and Mary Miller. She was married March 16, 1850, to Solomon Welch, who was born in Vermont, November 28, 1823. In 1855 they came to Bureau County, Ill., from Ohio, where they had re- sided one year. In 1857 they settled on Section 4, Walnut Township, and there made a farm. Mr. Welch's occupation was that of a farmer, but on account of ill health he left the farm and resided in Walnut Village for abont one year, and there died April 21, 1874. His children were as follows: Lona L., born April 9, 1852, wife of L. S. Gatch, of Wal- nut Township; J. S. Welch, of David City, Neb., born June 5, 1855; Willie M., born April 13, 1859, died July 13, 1864, of rattle- snake bite; Elmer E., born August 2, 1861, died April 5, 1877; Mamie M., born No- vember 30, 1868, died January 4, 1870, and Levi P., born April 27, 1871, at home. April 24, 1879, Mrs. Welch was married to Mr. Charles Palmer, who was born in Carbondale, Penn., February 19, 1849. He is a son of Rev. B. B. Palmer, a pastor in the Wesleyan
Methodist Church, and a native of Rhode Island. He began in the ministry in about his thirtieth year. In 1855 he came to Lake County, Ill., and four years later to Bureau County, where he remained until the spring of 1877, and then removed to Osceola, Neb., where he now resides. He was married in Pennsylvania to Julia B. Burdick, a native of that State, and the mother of two sons and three daughters, viz. : Mary E. (deceased), Charles, Julia F., Sarah E. (deceased), and Orange S. Charles J. Palmer has resided in Bureau County since he was eleven years of age, and received his education at the Dover Academy under Prof. Yocum, and at the Princeton High School under the instruc- tion of H. L. Boltwood. Almost all of his life has been given to teaching school, hav- ing taught about twenty-two terms in all, and most of the time in this county. For six years he has also followed farming. In politics he is identified with the Republican party. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
MICHAEL PANTENBURG, Westfield, was born October 22, 1830, in Mehren, Rhein Prussia, Germany. His parents, Peter and Gertrude (Pantenburg) Pantenburg, were na- tives of Germany, where she died, and he was married a second time. In 1845 the family came to America. Peter Pantenburg died in 1874, in Troy Grove, aged eighty- one years. His wife died in 1846 in Peru, Ill. Our subject was one of a family of five children, viz .: Margaret, Michael, Catharine, Mary and John Pantenburg. Michael Pan- tenburg farmed here till 1853, when he went overland to California, where he mined till 1857, and came home via Panama and New York. After his return he bought eighty acres of land in Westfield Township, which he improved and where he lived till 1871, when he bought 262 acres where he now re- sides. He has altogether 382 acres of land. He was married here April 4, 1858, to Emma M. Lunkenheimer, born October 15, 1836, in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. She is the mother of six children, viz .: Peter, Nicholas, Mrs. Mary Billesback, John, Emma and Fred. Mr. and Mrs. Pantenburg are relig- iously connected with the Catholic Church at Pern. Politically he is a Democrat.
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H. R. PARISH, Arispe, was born March 26, 1814, in Maples, Ontario Co., N. Y. He is a son of Erastus and Charlotte (Kent) Par- ish. The Parish family is of Welsh extrac- tion. In the latter part of the seventeenth cen- tury, three brothers-Elisha, Levi and Reuben Parish-came to America from Wales. Of these Reuben is the progenitor of our sub- ject's family. One of his descendants, Eli Parish, was the great-great-grandfather of our subject. He was the father of Levi Par- ish, who was the father of Reuben Parish, who married Sarah Bishop. They reared nine children, natives of Massachusetts, and died in New York. Of the children Oris and Jeremiah B. Parish were Judges of the Circuit Conrt. Erastus Parish died in 1868, aged seventy-five years, in Trumbull County, Ohio. His wife died in June, 1882, aged ninety- three years. She was the mother of eight children, viz .: Homer R., Otis L., Drusilla, Fannie, Austin, Andrew J., Granger (the five latter deceased) and Fielder Parish. Our subject was educated in Trumbull County, Ohio, where he taught school and farmed. He came to Jo Daviess County, Ill., in 1832. In 1846 he came to Bureau Connty, where he has farmed most of his time. For two years he was also engaged in the mercantile business in Tiskilwa, with disastrous result. He has now 200 acres of land. Mr. Parish was a soldier in our late war, aud partici- pated in the battles of Fort Henry and Don- elson, Pittsburgh and Iuca. He was in Com- pany F of the Fifty-seventh Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was mar- ried to Mrs. Sarah Edwards (nee Balden), a native of Knox County, Ohio. Politically he is a Prohibitionist, and with his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The life of Mr. Parish has been a checkered one, with ups and downs. His grandmother, Sarah Granger, was a niece of the first Post- master-General in the United States.
ISAAC PARSONS, Ohio, was born June 8, 1833, in the State of New York, and is the son of Isaac and Mary Parsons, formerly of Canada, who came to this county in 1850, and settled on Section 9, Ohio Township. The father was born in New York, December 24, 1787, and died in California, March 17, 1875. The mother was born in Virginia, in
1803, and died in California, February 14, 1881. These were the parents of a family of nine children, seven of whom are now liv- ing: Walter, lives in Canada; Morilla (Mrs. D. D. Brady), in California; George, died in California, August 4, 1882; Isaac, subject of this sketch; Electa, wife of Alanson Smith, of Walnut, Ill .; Lewis lives at Ohio, Ill .; Jonas, lives in California; Nelson, lives in California; Wallace, died in California, June 4, 1878. The subject of this sketch came to this county with his parents, in 1850. October 14, 1854, he married Fannie E. Hawkins, of Lee County, who was born April 28, 1837, and is the daughter of John R. and Lucretia Hawkins, who came from Ohio to Lee County in 1848. Mr. Parsons has been a farmer since his first settlement in this county, and bought the farm on which he now lives, in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Par- sons have a family of four children, all living: Electa Ann, born August 30, 1857, Ohio, Ill .; Homer W., born January 11, 1859, Ohio, Ill. ; George M., born October 11, 1862, Ohio, Ill .; Estella A., born August 31, 1868, Ohio, Ill. The wife's father, John R. Hawkins, was born in 1797, and died in 1858. Her mother was born in 1803, and died in 1873. Mr. Parsons' parents removed to California in 1869. In 1870 and 1871 the subject of this sketch spent nine months in California. Dur- ing the war of 1812 Mr. Parsons' father was conscripted into the English service from Canada, serving as a teamster, but on the opportunity presenting, he deserted team and all, and joined the American forces. Mr. Parsons owns eighty acres in Ohio Township, and 320 acres in Spink County, Dakota; is Republican, and a member of the Ohio Chris- tian Church.
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