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STERLING POMEROY, Ohio, son of Hiram S. Pomeroy, was born in Chaumont,
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Jefferson Co., N. Y., October 28, 1832. He was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools of his native county. June 17, 1854, he was married in Jefferson County, N. Y., to Henrietta S. Jackson, who was born in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., August 28, 1837. She is the daughter of Henry and Eleanor (Westcott) Jackson, who were both natives of New York. Mv. Jackson came to this county in 1866, and now resides in Ohio Township. His wife died in New York when her daughter, Mrs. Pomeroy, was small. June 23. 1854, Mr. Pomeroy came to Bureau County, and settled on his present farm of 200 acres, which his father had entered. His main occupation has been that of farming, but he has also been engaged in shipping stock and in banking in Ohio Village. He cast his first vote for John C. Fremont. and has been a Republican ever since, except that he voted for Greeley. He has served eight terms as Supervisor of Ohio Township. Dur- ing the war Mr. Pomeroy acted as agent for the township to till its quota. He took an active part in procuring the Clinton branch of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail- road, and also in paying the bonds issued by the township. Mr. Pomeroy and Mr. J. H. Bowlns were instrumental in obtaining the Ohio Township Mutual Fire Insurance Company. of which Mr. Pomeroy is now Pres- ident, and Mr. Bowlus Secretary.
WARREN POOLE, Dover, was born in Williamstown, Vt., February 8, 1834. He is the son of George and Mary (Wight) Poole. The father was born in Putney, Vt., December, 1798, and removed with his pa- rents to Williamstown in 1800, where he re- sided till 1848, when he came to this county, and remained until his death July 23, 1879. His wife was born in Connecticut, May, 1799, and died in Dover, October 5, 1879. They were married at Williamstown in 1829, and were the parents of seven children, five of whom are now living, Mrs. S. P. Clark and our subject residing in this county. Warren Poole came to Illinois with his parents and settled in Bureau County, when in his fif- teenth year. His education he received from the common district schools of that date. He was reared on a farm and has always made farming his occupation. He was mar-
ried February 8, 1859, to Miss Sarah V. Humphrey, who was born July 25, 1840, in Palermo, Oswego Co., N. Y. She is the daughter of Theodore and Fanny (Phelps) Humphrey. Both were natives of Connect- icut. He was born January 1, 1794, and she January 17, 1794. They were married at Burlington, September 25, 1817, and a few years later removed to New York. In the fall of 1843 they came to this county, where they resided until they died, he March 29, 1856, she July 23, 1862. They were the pa- rents of three sons and two daughters, of whom Mrs. Poole is the youngest and the only one now living. Mr. and Mrs. Poole have four children: Henry H., born October 24, 1861; George T., August 13, 1863, died September, 1884; Fanny P .. November 17, 1867; Edward W., March 22, 1876. Mr. Poole is Republican in politics, and has held various township offices. The farm which he now owns is that which his wife's father bought on first coming to this county. It contains 186 acres adjoining the village of Dover.
JACOB POPE, Clarion. This old German pioneer was born December 25, 1815, in Truebenbach, Saxony, Coburg. Germany, where his parents, Nicholas and Catharine Pope, died. They reared a large family, of whom our subject was the oldest. Jacob Pope came to America in August, 1839. He worked on the Erie Canal near Albany, N. Y., till the next spring, when he came to Joliet, III., where he worked on the canal till August, 1841, when he entered eighty acres of land in Clarion Township, where he afterward owned 480 acres, and also 480 acres in Lee County, which his children now own. After working alone for many years, he had his old schoolmate and sweetheart from the old coun- try, Kunigunda Schmidt, come to the New World, and in the fall of 1845 they were married. Here is another example of the old time truth and fidelity which is one of the noblest characteristics of the human fam- ily, and a special trait of the German race. Mrs. Kunigunda Pope was born December 28, 1815, in Truebenbach, Germany. She was the mother of the following children: Mrs. Margaret Betz, George, Lorenzo, Mrs. Barbara Fauble, Fred and Edwin Pope, the
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latter deceased, aged twenty-seven years. Mrs. Kunigunda Pope assisted her husband ma- terially in the way of accumulating property, and after a long sickness died in Lamoille, August 5, 1884. It is but a just tribute to her memory when we say that she was a fond mother, and a faithful, loving wife. The fam- ily are members of the German Evangelical Church.
P. R. PORTER, Concord, was born Octo- ber 18, 1825, in Franklin County, Ohio. He is a son of James and Catharine (Reed) Por- ter, natives of Pennsylvania. They were the parents of the following children: John, Philip R. (our subject), Mrs. Eliza A. Enyart, Mrs. Margaret Applegate, James, Mrs. Cath- arine Holmes, Mrs. Caroline Holmes and Mrs. Martha Triplett. Of these, John and Philip R. Porter, Mrs. Holmes and Mrs. Triplett are residents of Bureau County. Our subject was reared in his native State. In 1850 he accompanied his parents to Bureau County, where the latter died. He made farming his occupation, and started without means. He bought his first eighty acres on time, and be- ing a good manager has acquired a fine prop- erty in Concord Township, consisting of a well-improved farm of 400 acres. He was married here June 24, 1856, to Miss Sarah Seaton, daughter of James Seaton (see histo- ry of Seaton family). Mrs. Porter is the mother of six children, viz .: James S., Ar- thur H., George I., Ora S., Estella and Cath- arine Porter. Mr. and Mrs. Porter are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
W. G. PORTER, Lamoille, was born No- vember 22, 1810, in Litchfield, Conn. His parents, Solomon and Lucy (Wightman) Por- ter, were also natives of Connecticut. They removed to Seneca County, N. Y , in 1812. In 1828 he removed to Michigan, and about 1838 came to Knox Grove in LaSalle Coun- ty, where he farmed and died February 25, 1850, aged seventy years. In life he was a successful man, and a Captain of artillery in the war of 1812, participating in the battle of Plattsburg. Mrs. Lucy Porter died April 7, 1861, aged eighty years. She was the mother of the following children: Monroe, deceased; Lovinia, deceased; Walter G., our subject; Albert G., formerly a prominent citizen of Bureau County, but now a resident
of Waterloo, Iowa; Thaddeus W., of Morris, Ill .; Esther, deceased; Mrs. Clarissa Brock- way, deceased, and Henry Porter, of Polo, Ill. The Porter family is of English extrac- tion. Our subject was educated in Ovid, N. Y. He went to Michigan in 1827 aud came to LaSalle, Ill., the same year the Illi- nois and Michigan Canal was finished. He has followed a mercantile career. He has been married three times. He married his first wife, Catharine Carver, in Detroit, Mich. She died in LaSalle, Ill., leaving one child -Mrs. Lucy Pilcher (deceased), who was the mother of four children. Mr. Porter was married a second time to Rebecca M. Bennett, who died in LaSalle, Ill. He mar- ried his present wife, Mrs. Eliza Benton (nee Angier), a daughter of Abel and Lovina An- gier, in Lamoille, Bureau Co., where he now resides. Mrs. Eliza Porter came to this coun- ty in 1833, being one of the pioneers. She is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Porter is a stanch Republican, an A. F. & A. M., and also an I. O. O. F.
JOHN PRIESTMAN, M. D., Neponset. Among the physicians of Bureau County who have gained wealth and an enviable reputation by close application to their chosen profession we are glad to record bim whose name heads this sketch. Dr. Priestman was born April 19, 1830, in Witham, Lincolnshire, England. His father, Thomas Priestman, was born in 1796 in the same place. He was a farmer in England, and died July 15, 1881, in Nepon- set, Ill., to which place he came with his children in 1858. The grandfather of our subject was Robert Priestman, a native of England, where he farmed and died. The mother of our subject was Elizabeth Tebbutt, also a native of England, where she died. She was the mother of twelve children who reached maturity. Of these seven came to this country, viz .: Charles J., William, Law- rence, Mrs. Jane Christian, Mrs. Sarah Maul, Frederick, and John, our subject, who was educated in his native country, receiving his medical education at the Cambridge Univers- ity. Dr. Priestman practiced medicine about three years in England, and in 1858 located in Neponset, Bureau Co., Ill., where he has followed his profession successfully ever since. He was married in Wolverhampton,
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Staffordshire, England, to Martha Law, a native of the above place. Her father was Richard Law. She is the mother of seven children, viz .. John L. (who is also a physi- cian), Mary, William H., Ida, Amy, Lillie and Minnie. Dr. Priestman is a member of the Kewanee Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, and of the Temple Commandery, No. 20, K. T., of Princeton, III. Politically he is a Republican. Has filled school and town offices many years. In 1882 he visited En. gland, and returned in January, 1883.
JOHN PRIOR, Sheffield, was born in Essex County, England, April 22, 1846. Most of his years in England were spent in London. His mother died in 1854, and in 1855 his father, William Prior, came to America, and settled at Sheffield, Ill., where he died June 14, 1870. Of his family three sons and one daughter came to the United States; three daughters and one son yet live in England; one son died there, and yet an- other died in the East Indies while in the British Army. Of those who came to Amer- ica two of the sons, John and Henry, who came in 1856, are in Sheffield; the other son, William, came with his father in 1855, and now resides in Springfield, Ill. The daugh- ter did not come to America till 1869, and now lives at Galesburg, Ill., and is the wife of William Edmonds. In January. 1865 John Prior enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served in the army for about one year, not being discharged till in 1866. During most of his service he was in Georgia, on the Freedmen's Bureau. After the war he returned again to Sheffield, and this has been his home ever since. In 1870 he, in partnership with his brother Henry, engaged in business, and have since run a meat market at Sheffield, but in connection with other business. For some years they farmed also, and since 1872 have been dealing in stock, and now their annual shipments will average about 100 cars. Each has a farm of one-half section in Franklin County, Neb. In politics they are identified with the Democratic party. Our subject was united in marriage Decem- ber 24, 1868, to Miss Mary E. Taylor, who was born in Licking County, Ohio, June 6, 1851. She is the mother of the three fol-
lowing children, viz .: Letty Estella, born October 30, 1869; Leona Sarah, November 24, 1871, and Percy Edward, June 11, 1876.
W. PRUNK, Indiantown. The subject of the following biography was born March 22, 1836, in Hennepin, III., to which his par- ents came in 1831, before the Black Hawk war. His father, Daniel Prunk, was born in West Virginia. He lived there till he came to Putnam County, where he farmed till 1844, when he came to Bureau County, where he entered 160 acres of land in Sections 11 and 14, where his son now re- sides He died here March 14, 1861. The Prunk family is of German descent. The
mother of our subject, Catharine Hammond, was a native of Maryland. She died in
Minnesota in February, 1880. She was the mother of the following children: Mrs. Martha Gould, Mrs. Jane Jackson, John (de- ceased), Hammond, Madison, Mrs. Maggie Polk, Daniel H., George E., Washington (our subject), Mrs. Catharine Blaisdel and Mrs. Mary A. Barrington. Mr. Prunk re- ceived a common school education in this county, where he has made farming his oc- cupation. He has now 240 acres of land. Politically he is a Republican, and in behalf of his country enlisted in the fall of 1862 in Company E, of the Ninety-third Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving till the close of the war. He participated in many engagements, among others that of Champion Hill, Miss., where he was wounded in the foot. Mr. Prunk was married Decem- ber 24, 1865, to Mrs. Lotta Stewart, a native of Fulton County, N. Y. She is the mother of four children, viz .: George W., Bertha E., Harry O. and Myrtle Rome. Mr. and Mrs. Prunk are religiously connected with the Baptist Church.
ADAM PRUTSMAN, Princeton, was born in Tioga County, Penn., July 23, 1809. His parents, Jacob and Mary (Miller) Prutsman, were natives of Northampton County, Penn., and were of German descent. They died in Tioga County, Penn. They were the parents of fifteen children, five of whom are now living. Adam Prutsman resided on a farm in his native county until 1840, when he came to this county. He came by wagon a distance of 800 miles in three weeks and
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four days. He settled on his present farm, purchasing fifty acres with scarcely any im- provements, and has added to it till he now owns 188 acres. He was married in Tioga County, Penn., June 5, 1836, to Mrs. Zilpha (Jackson) Isenhower. She was born March 15, 1806, a daughter of Ebenezer and Abi- gail (Kyes) Jackson. Her grandfather Jack- son was a Colonel in the Revolutionary war, and her father, though a mere boy, was with him at the surrender of Burgoyne. He was a cousin of Gen. Jackson. Ebenezer Jack- son was a native of Vermont, and his wife of Connecticut. They were of old New Eng- land families, but settled in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Prutsman was first married January 3, 1822. to John Isenhower, by whom she had four children, viz. : Henry H., deceased; Crawford, of Wakarusa, Kan .; Susannah, of Princeton, widow of Watson Cook; Sarah, wife of Peter Searl, of Iowa. Mr. Isen- hower died May 15, 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Prutsman have one son, Charles L., born February 20, 1840, and married Lazette M. West, February 6, 1862. She was born in Tioga County, Penn., February 23, 1843, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Kelsey) West. They came to this county in 1860, and the father died in the army. The mother is still living in Hortonville, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Prutsman are the parents of the following children: George C., born Oc- tober 15, 1863; Charles A., July 28, 1865; Gilbert E., March 2, 1867; Sarah Z., October 26. 1869; Edna L., February 3, 1873; Mary R., March 1, 1876; James B., November 11, 1882; Henry, November 11, 1882. Charles L. Prutsman is a farmer, and owns 360 acres in Selby Township. He is a Democrat in politics, as is also his father. The family are members of the Christian Church.
HERBERT PUTNAM, Hall, was born September 18, 1857, in Hall Township, Bu- reau Co., Ill. His grandfather Sewel Put- nam was a native of Brattleboro, Vt., and died in Trenton, N. Y. He was one of a family of seven children-six brothers and one sister-Mrs. Sylvia Hamilton, mother of Gen. Hamilton, of the United States Army. Sewel Putnam married Rebecca Shepard, who was the mother of ten children-five boys and five girls. Harvey Putnam, their son, was
born November 25, 1818, in Schoharie Coun- ty, N. Y. He married Lurinda Dewey, who was born in Oneida County, N. Y., May 24, 1833. They came to Bureau County, Ill .. in April 1856, and he died here January 4. 1863. They were the parents of three chil- dren: Mrs. Lilian Gleason, of Kansas; Her- bert, and Mrs. Sabina Fox, of Nebraska. Herbert Putnam was educated in the Prince- ton schools. His occupation is that of farm- ing. He is a member of the Baptist Church; in politics is Republican. Mrs. Putnam was married a second time to Alfred McKee, a native of New York, who came to this county in 1851. They have two daughters-Mittie M. and Edna I.
F. D. RACKLEY, Berlin, was born in Orange County, Vt., December 9, 1829. His father, Peletiah Rackley, was also born in Orange County, December 16, 1798. He was married in his native county January 16, 1823, to Dorothy Kenney, a native of the same place as her husband, born November 17, 1802. In 1834 they removed to Genesee County, N. Y., where they lived till 1838, when they came to Bureau County. The first winter they lived in the house where Phillips was killed, and the following spring removed to what is now Berlin Township, and in 1841 to the present farm of F. D. Rackley. They were among the earlier settlers on the prairie in this township, and at that time had to go forty miles to mill, and Chicago was their market for grain, etc. They were the parents of four children, viz .: Warren, born May 12, 1825, died October 5, 1879, leaving a wife and one daughter; F. D., born December 9, 1829; David, born April 15, 1834, died Feb- ruary 18, 1863 (he enlisted in 1861, in Company B, Fifth Kansas Cavalry, but was discharged on account of disability and died soon after); Joanna, born April 3, 1841, wife of William J. Fish, of Whitney, Jackson Co., Kan. Mr. Rackley was a strong party man, and till 1856 was a Democrat, but from that time till his death he was Republican. He died April 19, 1875. His widow still sur- vives and resides on the old homestead. F. D. Rackley came to this county with his parents when a boy and has since lived on his father's old farm. His opportunity for
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obtaining an education was very limited, hav- ing no schools to attend but the early district schools, and those only when he could not work. His occupation has been that of farm- ing, but for twelve years was engaged in the threshing business. For several years he has rented his farm which contains 179 acres and since 1881 has been associated with A. L. Steele, of Dover, in the agricultural im- plement business. Mr. Rackley was married June 7, 1866, to Anna E. Fish, born in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y., May 4, 1824. She is the daughter of Josiah and Mary (Pierce) Fish. Her father was a native of Vermont, but died in New York State. In 1855 his widow and three of her children re- moved to LaSalle County and in 1857 to this county, where she died in 1859. She was the mother of six sons and three daughters, all of whom are still living except the oldest son. All of the sons but one were in the Civil war; three served three years and one went through the war; one, however, lost his health and had to return after nine months. Mr. Rack- ley is a member of the Crystal Fount Lodge, No. 178, I. O. O. F., of Dover, and has been an officer in the Lodge for several years. Mrs. Rackley is a member of the Baptist Church, of Dover.
GEORGE RACKLEY, Malden, was born in Vershire, Orange Co., Vt., November 2, 1821. His father, Nathan Rackley, was born December 15, 1800, in Orange County, Vt., on the same farm where our subject was born, and lived there until he left the State. He was married in Orange County, Vt., Janu- ary 28, 1821, to Susannah Judd, who was born March 6, 1802. In 1828 they removed from Vermont to New York State, Genesee County, and resided there till the spring of 1836, when they came to this county and set- tled on the farm in Section 29, in Berlin Township, where they yet reside. Mr. Rack- ley and his sons were firm Democrats until 1856, when they changed and have since been stanch supporters of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Rackley are the parents of four children, viz. : George; Lonisa, born Septem- ber 15, 1825, died January 12, 1877, wife of Martin R. Zearing, of Princeton; Nathan F., born October 13, 1827, married to Phebe Sutton, February 19, 1856, a native of Bel-
mont County, Ohio, born January 10, 1832; Phebe A., of Malden, wife of D. K. Morris. George Rackley came to this county with his parents in 1836. He was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. He al- so attended the academy at Princeton, taught by James H. Smith. He was married March 24, 1842, to Calista Abel, born in Alden, Erie Co., N. Y., October 14, 1822. She is a dangh- ter of Thomas and Julia (Robinson) Abel, who came to this county in 1839. Mr. and Mrs. Rackley have one daughter, Mrs. Julia Perry, wife of Jesse A. Perry. She was born June 7, 1858. After his marriage Mr. Rack- ley removed to Lee County, and engaged in farming for three years, when he again re- turned to his farm in Berlin Township. Three years later he engaged in the grain and lumber trade at Malden, at first working for other parties but afterward for himself. He continued in this business till 1876, when he retired from active life. He now owns 286 acres of land besides other property. For six- teen years he was member of the Board of Supervisors, and for about one-half the time was Chairman of the Board. He is a mem- ber of I. O. O. F., Crystal Fount Lodge, No. 158, of Dover, also of the A. F. & A. M., Bu- reau Lodge. No. 112, of Princeton, and of Princeton Chapter, No. 28, and Temple Com- mandery, No. 20. He is a member of the Con- gregational Church of Malden.
THE RADCLIFFE FAMILY, Princeton. Daniel Radcliffe, the grandfather of George M. Radcliffe, was of Welsh extraction, and was born on the south branch of the Potomac Riv- er, in Virginia. He was employed as a scout and hunter by the pioneer settlers of that country, and at the age of twenty-two years was killed by the Indians. He left a widow, whose maiden name was Reed, and two chil- dren, viz .: Daniel and Sarah Radcliffe. The latter married Joseph Duncan and died near Princeton. Grandmother Radcliffe was mar- ried a second time to James Taffe, and reared several children. One of her grandsons, John Taffe, Jr., lived in this county when a young man. He afterward emigrated to Nebraska Territory, and was there the first delegate to Congress. He served two years after Nebraska was admitted as a State. He died in 1883 at North Platte. where he was Receiver in the
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Land Office. Daniel Radcliffe, Jr., was tak- en by his mother to Bourbon County, Ky., where he was reared. His mother died in Indianapolis, Ind. He was in the North- western Army under Gen. Harrison, in the war of 1812, and after that settled in Clinton County, Ohio, where he filled county offices and was County Treasurer for ten consecutive years. In November, 1836, he came to Bureau County, Ill., and the following February built his cabin four miles south of Princeton, where he bought 240 acres of land, to which he afterward added many acres and also entered one-half section east of Princeton. He farmed here, and in 1846 built a saw- mill on Bureau Creek, which burned down. He died on his homestead in June, 1873, aged eighty-nine years. Daniel Rad- cliffe was a prominent man among the early settlers of Bureau County. (See General His- tory.) He was self-educated and was admit. ted to the bar in Wilmington, Ohio, and at that place was married to Rachel McMannis, who died November, 1873, aged seventy-four years. She was a daughter of Judge George McMannis, and was the mother of five chil- dren, viz .: Mrs. Juliet Mosely, Mrs. Sarah Lomax and Mary (twins), George M., and Hen- ry, the latter deceased. George M. Radcliffe was born January 15, 1828, in Wilmington, Ohio. He came to Bureau County with his parents, and was educated at "James Smith Academy" and Bethany College, Virginia. For many years he carried on his father's business, and in 1856 was elected to the Leg- islature, serving one term. In the spring of 1860 he was elected Supervisor of Arispe Township, and in the fall of the same year was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court and served four years. After this he farmed, and in 1867 sold out and engaged in the newspa- per business in Ottawa, Ill., where he edited the Ottawa Republican till 1871, when he sold out and was appointed to the office of Internal Revenue Assessor for that district, filling the position till that office was abol- ished by Congress. In 1873 he bought an interest in the Joliet Sun, and converted that paper into the first daily paper issued in Jol- iet. After four and one-half years of faith- ful labor, he sold out and returned to Prince; ton, where he in partnership with C. L.
Smith, established the Bureau County News, in 1881, of which he is now senior editor. Mr. Radcliffe has been married twice. His first wife, Lucy King, was a native of Ohio, and a graduate of Gen. Garfield's Academy at Hiram. She died here in 1861, aged twen- ty-one years. She was the mother of Frank C. Radcliffe, now a resident of California. His second wife, Minerva Corwin, daughter of Hon. Frank Corwin, of LaSalle County. Ill., died November, 1878. She was ther mother of three children, viz .: Harry S.L. Charles D. and Corwin Radcliffe. The two oldest are printers. In religious matters Mr. Radcliffe has been a very active member of/ the Christian Church.
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