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JOSEPH RAUH, Selby, was born in Ba- varia, Germany, July 15, 1826. He wasi reared in his native land and educated in its: schools. In 1848 he entered the army, but, served only about four months when his fa» ther died, and being the oldest sonthe wasl relieved from duty. In 1851/ he came to! America, remaining in New Orleans several! weeks, then came up the Mississippi River: to St. Louis, and from; there to Peru, Ill .; 1 where he landed July 4, 1851, and has since, made Bureau County his home. When he came here he was in debt $20, and untill the season of 1852 worked by the month. He then began farming with one horse, gradually increasing his means, until in 1863 he was able to buy 160 acres of his present farm; moving on to it in 1864; at that time but a small portion of his", farm was cleared, He, now owns 175 acres in Sections 26 and 27. Mr. Rauh was married in his native land to Elizabeth Young, who was born May 5, 1825.+ She died August 17, 1879; She was the mother of eight children, viz. : William, born August 17, 1849; Joseph, born February 28, 1858; Anna, born June 20, 1854, wife .of Anton Hartzog; Andrew, born January 11. 1856, died August 16, 1877; Elizabeth, born October 29, 1857, died July 25, 1858; Phili- pena, bern February 28, 1859, wife of George. May; Valentine, born June 25, 1860, now, of Nebraska; John, born July 13, 1862, at home- All are in Bureau County except Valentinei Mr. Rauh was married February 17, 1881, to Mrs. Louisa (Raker) Cogler. She was born in Bavaria, November 9, 1951, and came 4
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America when about a year old. By her Mr. Rauh has one child-Henry, born March 25, 1882. By her first husband, Fred Cogler, Mrs. Rauh has the following children: Louis, born August 5, 1871; Mary, born May 30, 1873: Clara, born April 2. 1875. Mr. Ranh and family are members of the Lutheran Church. In politics he is a Democrat.
HON. CHARLES G. READ, Malden, was born in Mt. Morris, Livingston Co., N. Y., Jan- uary 10, 1816. He is the son of Horatio and Jemima (Mead) Read, both natives of Ver- mont. Our subject was reared on a farm, one of a family of eleven children, whose father was blind for many years. He continued farming in his native county till 1845, wheu he came to Bureau County. He then had in his possession but $7 in money, and most of his clothing had been stolen in Chicago. For two and a half years he lived at Dover, and was engaged in the cementing business. From Dover he removed to Sugar Grove, Kane County, where he bought a farm at Berlin Centre, but four years later sold it and returned to Dover. When the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Road was in course of construction he bought his present farm. which contains 152 acres adjoining the village of Malden. He lived on the farm till 1873, since which time he has resided in Malden. Mr. Read was the first to begin buying grain in Malden, and continued in that business for six years. He was an energetic business man, and did a large amount of hard work, and through his industry has accumulated a competency. He has always been a liberal friend to those in distress, and has been through the township several times soliciting aid for those in need of assistance. In poli- tics he has always been an active Republican. In 1869 and 1870 he was a member of the State Legislature from this district. May 16, 1842, he was married, in Gainsville, Wyoming Co., N. Y., to Miss Olivia Wood, born in Wyoming County, March 12, 1824. She was a daughter of Deacon Asahel and Olivia (Hall) Wood, who came to this county in 1845, and resided at Dover until their deaths. Mr. Wood died April 12, 1883, and would have been ninety-one years old May 3, 1883. His wife died some years before. Mr. Read had one son-Chester-who was born
August 25, 1839, and accidentally killed in this county in 1857. This was a son by a former marriage, the mother dying when he was four months old. Mr. Read has no children by his present wife, but they have reared a girl and boy. viz .: Mary Young, now wife of James Wentworth, of Leland, Ill., and Henry Read, of Oswego, Ill. ; he is married to Flor- ence Kellogg, of Oberlin, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Read are members of the Congregational Church.
HENRY REAM, Hall, was born August 26, 1825, in Lebanon County, Penn. His parents, Samuel and Eva (Bullman) Ream, were natives of the same place, as were also his grandparents, Peter Ream and wife. The great-grandparents came from Germany. Samnel and Eva Ream and their seven chil- dren came West in the spring of 1852, and settled in Peru, Ill. The next spring tlie parents and one son, Benjamin, moved on to the old Henry Miller farm, in Hall Town- ship, where the father died in 1861, at the age of sixty-four years. The mother died at the home of her son, Henry, in July, 1881, aged nearly eighty-four years. She was the mother of ten children, viz. : Benjamin, now of Chicago; Henry; Mrs. Caroline Zimmer- man, of Peru; Mrs. Chestine Smith, of Peru; Eva; Samuel; Michael, deceased, and Peter (twins); Franklin, deceased; Eliza. Henry Ream came to Peru, Ill., in April, 1851, a year before the others, and worked at the carpenter's trade until the fall of 1854. He then farmed on the old Miller place until 1866, when he bought the John Wilhite farm. He now owns 270 acres in Hall Township, and 380 aeres in Ford County, Ill. Henry Ream was first married to Elizabeth Hack- man, who died in Peru. His second wife, Elizabeth Ott, died leaving two children- Franklin L. and Cora B. His present wife, Mrs. Lucetta Sepp (nee Miller), is a native of Pennsylvania,, daughter of Jacob Miller. She has four children, viz .: Lena, Olvena and Edward Sepp, by her first husband, and Lucetta Ream. Mr. and Mrs. Ream are members of the Lutheran Church. He votes with the Democratic party.
H. C. REASONER, Princeton, was born February 16, 1828, in Egremont, Berkshire Co., Mass. He is a son of Egbert Reasoner,
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who was born June 15, 1797, in Dutchess Co., N. Y. He died November 26, 1876, in Burean County, Ill., to which he had re- moved in 1849. He was a carpenter and joiner by occupation, but followed farming mainly, especially after he came West. His father was Peter Reasoner, who was born in New York State, where he died. During the Revolutionary war he suffered many indigni- ties from the hands of Tories. The origin of the Reasoner family dates back [to the French Huguenots, who were driven out of France to Germany, where they resided many years and then immigrated to the Colo- nies of America, landing iu Philadelphia. Longevity is one of the characteristics of the family, many members living to be over ninety years old. The mother of our sub- ject is Eunice P. Karner, born August 31, 1802, in Egremont, Mass. She is yet living. Her parents were Pliny and Rhoda (Noble) Karner; they were natives of Massachusetts, and of German descent. Pliny Karner was a Major in the war of 1812. Henry C. Rea- soner has one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Field. He was educated in the East, and came to Bureau County in 1848, where he has been a successful farmer ever since. Here he was married, January 24, 1861, to Miss Ellen M. Ward, born May 22, 1842, in Waverly, Ill. Her parents are Norman and Delila (Corey) Ward. Three children were the result of this union, viz .: Pliny W., born May 6, 1863; Egbert N., born May 24, 1869, and Julia P., born Jannary 7, 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Reasoner are esteemed members in the society where they reside and of the Presby- terian Church. In politics he advocates Republican principles.
ADAM REDER, Clarion, was born June 17, 1823, in Neuengronau, Hessen, Germany. He is a son of Henry Reder, who died in Germany, and who was the father of twelve children, of whom five came to the United States. Our subject came to America in 1839, and settled in Butler County, Penn. After two years he went to Niagara County, N. Y., where he farmed till December, 1868, when he came to Illinois. He lived between two and three years in Lee and LaSalle Counties and then came to Bureau County. where he now owns 240 acres in Clarion
Township, and is a steady, hard-working farmer. He was married, July 28, 1844, in Niagara County, N. Y., to Miss Sarah Dun- kleberger, a daughter of Solomon and Chris- tiaua (Harmony) Dunkleberger. Mrs. Reder was born January 11, 1825, in Perry County, Penn., and is the mother of five children now living, viz .: Edmund W., Mrs. Mary A. Neff, Mrs. Tillie E. Rehm, Ella A., Daniel G. aud Christian E. (deceased, aged nine years). Mr. and Mrs. Reder are religiously connected with the German Evangelical Association. Politically he is a good Repub- lican, and is strongly in favor of prohibition. E. A. REED, Lamoille. The genealogy of the Reed family from whom the subject of this biography descends is as follows: Peter Reed came from Holland in 1632, and settled in Albany, N. Y., where he resided with a brother till difficulties arose with the Gov- ernor, when they removed to Stouchsburg, Berks Co., Penn., where the family flourished for more than two centuries. The graves of Jacob Reed, the great-great-grandfather of our subject, and his son and grandson, named after him, can yet be seen-one of the head- stones bearing the date of 1692. The parents of our subject, Jacob J. and Elizabeth (Wei- ser) Reed, were also natives of Berks County, Penn. They came to Mendota. Ill., in 1856, where the former died in March, 1870, aged seventy-one years, and where the mother yet resides, aged seventy-seven years. She was a daughter of Conrad Weiser, of German descent. She was the mother of eleven chil- dren; of these, eight are yet living, viz .: Elmira, Amanda, Emma, Amelia, Jacob, John, George, and Edward A. Reed, who received his primary education in Mendota, where he also clerked five years in a drug store, and in March, 1874, graduated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He then clerked in Mendota till 1878, when he came to Lamoille, where he has kept a drug store ever since. Mr. Reed was married in Dal- ton, Ohio, to Miss Letitia A. Porter, born November 13, 1852, in Homer, Ill. She is the mother of Elizabeth A. Reed, born April 17, 1882. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are members of the Presbyterian Church. They have one adopted child-Maggie B. Reed.
TRACY REEVE, Princeton, was born
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February 22, 1807, near Mt. Hope, Orange Co., N. Y. He is the son of Gabriel and Hannah (Barton) Reeve. The father was born in New York, March 9, 1777, and lived an eventful life. When a young man and starting in life he went to Marietta, Ohio, in 1814, with letters of recommendation to the Surveyor General, but not finding him at home he was determined to find employment. So he walked to Chillicothe, then the State capital, but still not finding work he went to Cincinnati, and from there to Paris, Ky., where he was engaged as a clerk for several years. Finally he decided to return to his old home. He traveled down the Mississippi River to the Gulf, and then made the voyage around to Philadelphia, and then up the Del- aware River to his home. During his stay in Ohio he was drafted into the army, and helped guard the prisoners captured on Lake Erie by Commodore Perry, but the hardships of a soldier's life were too severe for his con- stitution, and while in the service his health was so impaired that he never fully recovered from the effects. He died February 24, 1825, in Ohio. His wife, Hannah Barton, was born in New Jersey, November 23, 1783, and died in Lamoille, Bureau Co., Ill., October 15, 1853. She was the mother of the following named children: Volney, Tracy, Elijah B., Hugh B. aud Frances A. Tracy Reeve was reared on a farm, and received his early edu- cation iu the subscription schools of Ohio. In May, 1834, he came to Bureau County, Ill., bringing with him $200 in money. This Mr. Reeve applied in entering 160 acres of land. He also borrowed $100 at 50 per cent interest, with which he entered eighty acres more. This was the beginning of aremarka- bly successful business career. In 1836 he laid out the village of Lamoille, and started a store at that point, which he carried on in connection with his farm. Mr. Reeve resid- ed at Lamoille till 1869, when he came to Princeton, where he has lived in as much re- tirement as his business would permit. Mr. Reeve has since added to his first purchases of land till he now owns 2,000 acres in Illi- nois and an equal amount in Iowa. He was the founder of the Citizen's National Bank of Princeton, and has since been its Presi- dent. He is also the largest stockholder in
the national bank at LaSalle, Ill .; also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Princeton, and of the Shenandoah Bank, Iowa. Mr. Reeve was first married to Miss Mary Glenn, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1817. . She died March 17, 1841, in Bu- reau County, Ill. She was the mother of two children: Laura, widow of Rev. Benja- min Thomas, and William G., born February 8, 1839, and died in November, 1847. His second marriage was to Miss Sarah L. Bry- ant, who was born September 16, 1820, in Cummington, Mass., and is a daughter of Col. Anstin Bryant, and a niece of William Cullen Bryant. The result of this union is the following named children: William G., born June 4, 1847; Austin B., born August 7, 1859; and Frances A., born June 18, 1861, now deceased. The elder son is now Cashier of a national bank in Peru, Ill., while the younger is Cashier of the Citizen's National Bank of Princeton. The mother of Mrs. Reeve was Adeline (Plummer) Bryant, born in Berkshire County, Mass., May 24, 1801, and died February 26, 1882. She was the daughter of Edward Plummer, a native of Massachusetts. In the quiet of his comfort- able home in the city of Princeton, surround- ed by his family and troops of friends, Mr. Tracy Reove is enjoying those blessings that can only come in the evening of a well-spent life. He was the architect of his own fort- unes, and in the trials and severe struggles of the new West (as was this county when he came) was only developed that inner self-re- liant and manly life that constitutes his green and happy age, and may well furnish a type of character for the healthy study and con- templation of the youths of the State or of the country. It is the simple and sublime story" of the lives of real and true men, that should be made the fundamental text-books of our children. Nothing is more interest- ing to the young 'than biographical history. It charms and leads and draws them after it, and barbarous fathers tell to their children the story of warriors and robbers, and even our civilization has long thought that it was only the great General, the noisy politician, or the individuals who were notorious, ec- centric or iufamous who were worthy of a place in tradition, song or romance. It is
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time for us to know that the true life is the modest, and therefore often the obscure, life. And the story of such lives, when properly told, is the fairest page in the book of his- tory.
LEWIS E. REMSBURG, Ohio, was born December 28, 1831, in Sandusky Coun- ty, Ohio. He is the son of Casper and Mary Remsburg. The father was born February 24, 1786, in Frederick County, Md. The mother was born November 19, 1792, in Frederick County, Md., and is the daugh- ter of Jacob and Margaret Bowlus, who were born in Maryland, and came to Ohio in 1822. On the mother's side Mrs. Remsburg is. of German parentage. The subject of this sketch, with his parents, first traveled through this county in the spring of 1841, and re- turned in July to their home in Ohio. In the spring of 1853 Mr. Remsburg came with his mother to this county, and remained for a few days in Ohio Township. They then went to Rock Island, Ill., where the mother remained about a month, when she returned to Ohio. Lewis E. remained till October of 1854, when he came to Ohio Township, and worked at the carpenter's trade till June of 1855, when he bought eighty acres of land, being a part of the farm on which he now resides. This land was bought from the Il- linois Central Railroad Company at $11 per acre, which at that time was considered a high price for land. This same land is now worth $75 per acre. Casper and Mary Remsburg are the parents of nine children, two of whom came to this county, viz. : Perry and Lewis E. The father died in Ohio, August 22, 1849, but the mother is still liv. ing (now in this county with her son, Lewis E.) at the advanced age of ninety-two, and is the oldest person now living in Ohio Town- ship. She still has a clear recollection of events transpiring in 1800, and tells several pleasing and interesting anecdotes of the war of 1812. In 1857, October 15, Mr. Remsburg was married to Mrs. Emily J. Losee, tho daughter of Sylvester and Safrona Cowles, of Medina County, Ohio. She was born May 14, 1832, in Marion, N. Y. Immediately following the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Remsburg came to Ohio Township and began housekeeping on their present farm, upon which Mr. Rems-
burg had previously erected a house. Mr. and Mrs. Remsburg are the parents of seven children, all living, Mrs. R. having one child when they were married, Ellen T. Losee, born August 31, 1853, widow of Arthur W. Chase, Ohio, Ill .; William E. was born November 6, 1858; Dilla E. was born January 5, 1862; Alta B. was born April 1, 1864; William S. was born March 29, 1868; Gertie M. was born April 2, 1872; Minnie D. was born May 21, 1876; Ada W. Chase was born January 7, 1879. Arthur W. Chase died June 13, 1878. Mr. Remsburg owns 240 acres in Ohio Township, 320 acres in Dakota and town property in Ohio Village. He is a Republican, and member of Meth- odist Protestant Church.
SOLOMON REMSBURG, Ohio, was born January 20, 1820, and is the son of Christian and Catharine Remsburg, of Frederick Conn- ty, Md., where the subject of this sketch was born. The father was born November 28 1784, and died March 29, 1874. The mother was born March 23, 1786, and died August 12, 1851. The son was raised on a farm, where he resided till 1843, when March 23, be married Mary A. Michael, the daugh- ter of John Michael, of Maryland. Mrs. Remsburg was born January 30, 1821, and died in Sandusky County, Ohio, Novem- ber 28, 1846. Of this marriage there is a family of two sons, both living: Isah W. Remsburg was born January 18, 1844, is married, and lives in Ohio Township, this county; Carlton J. Remsburg was born April 6, 1845, and resides in Ford County, Ill., is married to Sarah Haninstein, and has two daughters and one son. , November 2, 1847, Mr. Remsburg married Margaret Shawl, the daughter of Michael and Eleanor Shawl, of Sandusky County, Ohio, who was born Feb- ruary 26, 1827. The father was born in 1803 and died July 14, 1882. The mother was born in 1806, and died November 27, 1875. Of this last marriage there are two children, a daughter and a son: Annie R. Remsburg, wife of James G. Ruff, banker, Ohio, Ill., was born September 29, 1848, has three children; George W. Remsburg was born June 6, 1850, married Margaret R. Ross, is now a widower, and has two children. In March, 1857, Mr. Remsburg removed from
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Ohio to this county, and settled on Section 21, Ohio Township, where he lived till 1873, when he moved to the village of Ohio, where he now resides. He owns 230 acres in Ohio Township, also an interest in 390 acres in Missouri, and residence with other property in Ohio Village. In politics Mr. R. was for- merly a Whig, and is now Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant Church.
J. D. REYNOLDS, Indiantown, was born November 25, 1827, in Hadley, Hampshire Co., Mass. His parents, Thomas and Mary (Dickinson) Reynolds, were both natives of Massachusetts, where they died, the former in 1834 and the latter in July, 1874, aged eigh- ty-six years. They reared the following chil- dren: Elizabeth, deceased; Thomas, a resi- dent of Hadley, Mass .; Frederick, deceased; Mrs. Charlotte Baker, of Hartford, Conn .; John D., our subject, and Charles William, deceased. The progenitor of the Reynolds family in America came from England in an early day. Our subject was educated in his native town and is a well-read man. He has made farming his occupation in life. In the spring of 1856 Mr. Reynolds came to Bureau County, where he raised one crop and that fall brought his family from Belchertown, Mass., to this county. He resided in Macon Township till December, 1860, when he re- moved to Buda, where he lived two years and then came to Indiantown Township, where he now resides and owns a farm of 160 acres in Section 6. Mr. Reynolds keeps himself well- informed on all political matters both local and general and is identified with the Repub- lican party. He was married April 16, 1851, in Belchertown, Mass., to Mary J. Hannum, who was born December 17, 1827, in the above place. Her parents were Stiles and Lydia (Miller) Hannum, natives of Massa- chnsetts. To Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds five children who are now living were born, viz. : Frederick A., George A., Mrs. Nellie B. Wil- kinson, Milton E., Frank E. Two other chil- dren-Charley and Lizzie-died in infancy. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are active members of the Congregational Church at Buda, Ill.
P. C. RHEA, Neponset, was born May 16, 1828, in Washington County, Virginia.
His father, Joseph C. Rhea, was born in the above place. He was a blacksmith by ocen- pation. In 1833 he removed to Bartholomew County, Ind. There he followed his trade and also farmed. He was a good member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died there in 1836. The grandfather of our sub- ject, Joseph Rhea, was a native of Ireland, but it is supposed of Scotch descent. He was a weaver by occupation and came to the United States in early life, settling in Wash- ington County, Penn., where he died. His wife, Margaret (McCormic) Rhea, was also a native of Ireland, but died in Virginia. They reared ten children, viz. : Thomas, William, John, James, Robert H., George G., Joseph C., Mrs. Peggy Spraggins, Mrs. Catharine Blackinmaker and Jennie Rhea. The mother of our subject, Mary (Catron) Rhea, was a native of Washington County, Va. She died in Bureau County, Ill. She was a daughter of Philip and Elizabeth (Spraker) Catron, na- tives of Germany. They died in Washington County, Va. Their children were: Mrs. Peba Daniels, Stofel, Mrs. Betsey De Bush, Frank, Christley, John and Mrs. Mary Rhea, who was the mother of three children, viz. : Philip C., our subject, James and Mrs. Mar- garet E. Sharp. Our subject was educated in Washington County, Va ; there he learned and followed the blacksmith's trade. He came here in the fall of 1861, and has farmed here successfully ever since. He owns 200 acres of land in this county. He was married in the fall of 1862 to Eliza E. Parks, born Octo- ber 1, 1837, in Washington County, Va. She is a daughter of Granville and Nancy (Mc- Kee) Parks, natives of Virginia. Granville Parks, one of our most respected citizens, is yet living in Neponset Township, to which he came in 1854. His wife died January 31, 1875. She was the mother of ten children, viz .: Robert B., Eliza J., Sarah A., William A., John R., Joseph B., Bethia, James M. (deceased), David O. and Clifford C. To Mr. and Mrs. Rhea three children were born, viz .: Joseph C., born November 25, 1864; Marga- ret E., born August 10, 1868, and Nancy C., born December 14, 1870. Mrs. Rhea is a member of the Baptist Church. He is a Re- publican and an I. O. O. F.
DR. GEORGE IDEN RICE, Lamoille.
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The genealogy of the Rice family in America is as follows: The progenitor of the family as far as known is Edward Rice, an Irish gentleman, whose son Edward Rice, Jr., emigrated from the parish of Killman, County Tyrone, Barony of Dunganon, Ire land, in the year 1736. He came to America and settled in Bucks County, Penn., where he was among the earliest pioneers, and reared a family of eight children. Of these, Joseph Rice was born on the old homestead where he died. He married Letitia Hartley, a native of North Wales, who was the mother of four children, viz. : William, Catharine, Letitia aud Joseph Rice, Jr. The latter was a farmer by occupation, and died there in June, 1863. He was married to Julia Iden, also a native of Pennsylvania, where she died in June, 1861. She was of Welsh descent, and a daughter of George and Han- nah (Folk) Iden, who were the parents of eight children, viz .: Anna, John, Thomas, Greenfield, Jacob, Elizabeth, Paulina and Julia. Mrs. Julia Rice was the mother of four children, viz .: Joseph G., William H., George Iden, our subject, and Lewis C., who is also a physician. Our subject entered a printing office at the age of fourteen, where he remained till he was nineteen years old, and then attended William McLean's school in Salem, Ohio, for two years, after which he taught school.ª In 1856 he entered the Penn- sylvania Medical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1858, and located in Morrisville, Penn. When the war clouds gathered Dr. Rice was not inactive, and ten- dered his services to his country. He re- ceived a commission as Assistant Surgeon, and was appointed to the Third Regiment of Pennsylvania Reserve Veteran Corps. In March, 1863, he was sent to the Nashville Hospital, No. 1, where he labored till Sep- tember, 1864. In October of the same year he came to Arlington, Ill., and in 1870 located in Lamoille, where he now enjoys the confidence and patronage of the people. Dr. Rice was married to Miss Julia M. New- port, a daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Newport and a native of Belmont County, Ohio. She is the mother of the following children: Mrs. Ellulia E. Morrisson, Ger- trude C., George I. and John Rice (deceased).
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