History of Crawford and Clark counties, Illinois, Part 62

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 826

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MARSHALL TOWNSHIP.

First Sergeant of Company D, in which ea- pacity he served for twenty-seven months, when, after the siege of Vicksburg, he was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E. He was in several skirmishes in North- eastern Missouri during the winter of 1860- 61: was in the siege of Corinth, battles of Iuka. Raymond. Jackson, Champion Hills, Black River, forty-seven days in the siege of Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, and a number more of small battles and skirmishes. He was mustered out with the regiment at St. Lonis, October 10, 1864. From 1864 to 1868, he held a position on the Cincinnati Commercial. In July, 1868, he came to Marshall with material preparatory to starting a Republican paper. Here he met with many discouragements. The opposite party pre- dominated and the many attempts to estab- lish a journal of said political complexion having as often failed, the leaders of the Re- publieans had lost all courage and were averse to giving Mr. Frost very much encour- agement. He, however, told his friends that he would take an obligation to fulfill a con- tract with any patron for one year, during which time he could ascertain whether the business gave promise of a lucrative enter- prise or not. At the end of the first year he had placed the Herald on a fair footing, and ever since it has continued to grow in favor of the public, and has ascended up the hill of prosperity. January 1, 18S1. he took his son, Harry W., in as a full partner, who has since served as city editor and has done well his part. The success and efforts of Mr. Frost with the Herald is carefully noticed in the history of the press in another part of this work. Mr. Frost was married, September 3, 1857, to Maty S. Carter, in Richland County, Ill., which union has resulted in two chil- dren, namely: Lillie M., born July 14, 1859, at Batavia, Ohio, now the wife of William H.

Floyd, express messenger ou the Cairo Divi- sion of the Wabash Railroad; Harry W., born at Felicity, Ohio, May 22, 1861. Mrs. Frost was born December 7, 1837, at Milford, Ohio.

THOMAS J. GOLDEN, lawyer, Marshall. Among those deserving of notice in this de- partment of our work is Thomas J. Golden. He was born of Irish parents in Wayne County, Ind .. December 21, 1841. His par- ents removed to Madison County, Ind .. in 1848, thence to Clark County, Ill., in 1857. His father died February 4, 1868; his mother still survives. At the two latter points of residence, our subject was mainly educated. In August. 1861, he enlisted in Company K, First Missouri Cavalry, and was mustered in as Second Lieutenant. This place he held until promoted to the office of Regimental Quartermaster in the fall of 1862, after which, for the remainder of his term, he was engaged as Brigade and Division Quar- termaster, by virtue of proper orders detail- ing him for such service. He was in a number of battles, among which were Pea Ridge, Cross Hollows, Jenkins' Ferry, etc. After returning from the army, he entered as a student the law office of J. W. Wilkin, now Circuit Judge; attended law school at Ann Arbor, Mich .. and was admitted to the bar in August. 1867. He was a member of the Legislature from the Forty-fifth Senatorial District of Illinois, elected in 1872; was one of the delegates from Illinois in the Nation- al Republican Convention at Cincinnati in 1876, and is on the military staff of Gov. Cullom, with the rank of Colonel. Mr. Golden was married at Marshall, Oeto- ber 19, 1865, to Miss Mary J. Benedict, whose parents are still living, and residing in Marshall. She was born in Marshall September 30, 1845.

JAMES W. GRAHAM, lawyer, Marshall. James W. Graham is a native of Logan,

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Hocking Co., Ohio He was born Ápril S, 1849. His father, Richard Graham, is a de- scendant of a Scotch family, and came to Clark County in 1851. He settled in Section 1 of Casey Township, west from the town of Martinsville, where he died August 5, 1851. His mother, Ellen Sloan, was of Irish birth, and died at the old homestead in Casey Township, December 22, 1SS1. Mr. Graham received the elements of an Eng- lish education in the public schools of Clark County, having to go much of the time time two and a half miles to the school. He is the youngest of a family of four sons, and, as he was left fatherless when but two years old, he was early thrown upon his own re- sources. By assiduous application to books, ho soon qualified himself for the position of teacher, and taught more or less for seven years, beginning when in his sixteenth year. After taking a course in the State Normal University, he entered the law office of Scho- field & Wilkin, having decided to make the law his profession. He was admitted to prac- tice in 1875, and has since been a member of the bar of Clark County. In 1878, he was the choice of the people of the Forty-fifth Senatorial District to represent them in the General Assembly. He was married in Mar- shall, February 10, 1874, to Miss Etta Crui- sen, daughter of Richard and Harriet Crui- sen, who came to this county from Ohio in 1853, and are still living where they then settled, in Wabash Township. Mrs. Graham was born September 10, 1855. They have two children-Harry C., born November 10, 1874, and Mabel, born September 6, 1881.

JAMES GREENOUGH, merchant, Mar- shall, is a native of Clark County, Ill., born August 24, 1839. He is the eldest of a fam- ily of eight children of Jonathan K. and Eliza A. Greenougli. His father was a native of Maine, and was born July 20. 1809. He

was educated at the Military Academy at West Point and in early life was a com- missioned officer in the Government service. While stationed at Fort Snelling, in Wis- consin, he lost his health and resigned his commission. He soon after located at Terre Haute, Ind., and was employed by the Gov- ernment as a civil engineer in the construc- tion of the National road. He was married in Chicago, Ill., November 7, 1838, to Miss Eliza A. Whitlock, daughter of James and Eli- za A. Whitlock, formerly of Virginia, where Mrs. E. A. Greenough was born on the 25th day of August, 1819. Her parents settled iu Illinois in 1825. Immediately after marry- ing, Mr. Greenough came to Marshall and embarked in business, associated with Beebe Booth. This was among the first business houses established in Marshall, and dates back to 1838. Mr. Greenough remained a member of this firm till his death, which oc- curred August 22, 1858. The business is now conducted by his widow and Lyman Booth, son of Beebe Booth. James Green- ough, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the Marshall public school, and in 1857 graduated from Bell's Business College of Chicago. He was married, Angust 24, 1864. at Marshall, to Miss Caroline Clayton, daughter of Thomas C. Clayton, of Terre Haute, Ind. Caroline Clayton was born in Terre Haute on the 2d day of July, 1843. They have a family of four children, whose names and ages are as follows: Ogden. born September 1, 1865; Nellie, born December 10, 1867; Grace, P., born August 20, 1875; Robert, born April 26, 1881. Mr. Greenough is a member of the Knights of Honor. His family residence is on the corner of Hamil- ton and North streets, Marshall. His broth- ers and sisters are Ogden, Hannah, Frances, Charles, Mary, William and Eva Greenough. Ogden Greenough was killed in battle in 1864.

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JUSTIN HARLAN, deceased, was born December 6, 1800, in Warren County, Ohio. He received an education at the public schools, and early fitted himself for teaching, which occupation he followed for some time. He then prepared for the profession of law, studying in Cincinnati under Judge McLean, who was subsequently a member of the United States Supreme Court. In 1825, he came to Illinois, took part in the Black Hawk war as a Lieutenant, and was snbse- quently elected by the Legislature as Judge of one of the four judicial circuits in the State. He was elected a member of the Convention which framed the constitution of 1847, and in the following year was elected Circuit Judge under its provisions, an office which he filled with great acceptance until 1861. In the following year, he was appointed by President Lincoln Indian Agent, a position he filled nutil he was removed by Andrew Jackson in 1866. In 1873, he was elected and served the county as County Judge until 1877. Public service interfered very much with his practice as a lawyer, but when at liberty to do so he found no lack of business. He did not accumulate property rapidly, as his generosity to his clients and leniency to his debtors made his interests suffer in this regard. He was married March 4, 1832, to Miss Lucinda Hogue, a daughter of David and Sarah Hogue. She was born October 4, 1812, in Knox County, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Harlan had a family of eight children, and it was while visiting a daughter living in Kentucky, that Judge Harlan died, on March 12, 1879, in the seventy-ninth year of his life. He was a man of fine public and private character, and his death was felt as a serious loss in the community where he had spent the larger part of his active life. His wife and children still survive him.

HOWARD HARLAN, hotel, Marshall, is the eldest of a family of eight children of Justin and Lucinda Harlan. He was born at Darwin on the 19th of September, 1832. He received an English education in the pub- lic schools of Darwin and Marshall, and be- gan life for himself as a lumberman. He was engaged in the milling work from 1854 to 1858. He began the livery business in Marshall in 1859, and continued until 1863. during which time he erected a frame stable 120 feet long, corner of Hamilton and Mar- ket streets. He was appointed Postmaster at Marshall under Lincoln's administration, and served until removed by Andrew Johu- son, in October, 1866. He next associated himself with Alex Payne in the old Marshall Mill, continued one year, selling his interest to W. T. Besser. In 1868, he again en- gaged in the livery business, and in 1871 erected the brick stable and hall on the site of the original frame stable. In 1876, he embarked in the hotel business, having be- come the owner of the Sherman House in 1873, and is the present owner and propri- etor, in connection with which he runs the livery stable. He was married in Marshall in November, 1877, to Miss Joann Triplett, daughter of John and Ruth Triplett, of Ohio; she was born in 1856. Our own experience has taught us that Mr. Harlan is a true gentleman, who can forget the interest of self to extend a kindness, and do a hospitable act for a stranger.

EDWARD HARLAN, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall, is the third son of Justin and Lucinda Harlan. He was born in Clark County Febru- ary 15, 1838, and was raised and educated in this county. In 1859, he entered the office of Judge Scholfield as a law student. In De- cember, 1860, he went to Cincinnati to at- tend law lectures, but soon after sacrificed his ambition in the legal line to take his

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place in the lines of his country's defenders. He enlisted in Company H, of Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, of which he was soon made the Captain. He, with fifteen others, pre- sented the petition to Gov. Yates, by which Gen. Grant was made Colonel of the Twenty- first Regiment, instead of Col. S. S. Good. Mr. Harlan served as Captain of Company H three years; he was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Chickamagua. At the expiration of his three years' enlistment, he was appointed by recommendation of Gen. Grant to the position of Captain of Commis- spry, which he held until discharged in Octo- ber, 1865. He was a member of the Chicago Convention, which nominated George B. Mc- Clellan for President. He represented the Forty-fifth District in the Lower House of the State Legislature, from 1866 to 1868, and was then elected as Senator from same State until 1872. In 1879 and 1880, he was Mayor of the city of Marshall. Mr. Harlan was married in Marshall, October 18, 1869, to Miss Eliza Bartlett, daughter of John and Jane Bartlett; she is a native of Clark County, and was burn September 3, 1841. Mr. Edward Harlan is a member of the Knights of Honor, and in politics a Demo- crat.

WILLIS HATTEN, mechanic, Marshall, was born in Niagara County, N. Y., on the 13th of May, 1832. His parents, Thomas and Jane Hatten, were born, raised and married in Ireland. They came to the United States and settled in New York about 1830. They soon after removed to Canada, and now live in London, of that Province. The early life of Willis Hatten was spent in various pursuits, chief of which were travel- ing, steamboating and working at his trade, which is blacksmithing; this he acquired in Detroit, Mich. On the 13th of May, 1861, he became a member of Company E, First

Missonri Engineers, in which he served three years and received his discharge. He then entered the regular service as a member of Company A, of the Eighth United States Infantry, from which he was discharged at the expiration of his term of enlistment. He took part in a number of severe engagements, including Wilson's Creek, Springfield and New Madrid in Missouri, Shiloh, siege of Vicksburg and Atlanta. He received a bay- onet and saber wound at Springfield, Mo., a gunshot-wound at Wilson's Creek, and two gunshot wounds at the battle of Shiloh. During one year of his service he was a special messenger for Gen. Grant. He was married at Washington, D. C., January 1, 1866. They have one daughter-Pinkie Hat- ten, born in Greene County, Ind., on the 12th of November, 1868. Mr. Hatten came to Marshall, Ill., in September, 1877, where he has since lived, and is running a shop on Franklin street. He owns a family residence on the corner of Henry and Mechanic streets.

WILLIAM B. HODGE, JR., Circuit Clerk, Marshall, is a native of Clark County, born in York April 27 1853, son of William B. and Callista Hodge, who settled in this county at an early date. His mother was daughter of James C. Hillebert, who settled in York about 1819. His father came later, perhaps in 1835, and is still living in York. His mother died at York January 27, 1876. Sub- ject is the third of a family of six children, and educated in the common schools of Clark County, and took a course at the Terre Haute Commercial College. For ten years he was book-keeper and salesman for E. A. Jack- son, of York. He was elected Circuit Clerk of Clark County, in the fall of 1880, which position he still occupies. He is a Repub- lican and a member of the Masonic fraternity, I. O. O. F. and Knights of Honor. Mr. Hodge was married, February 19, 1874, to

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Miss Lucy A. Megeath, daughter of Har- rison Megeath. She was born in the village of York, Clark County, Septem- ber 9, 1849. They have a family of three children-Lillis A. Hodge, born september 9, 1875, and died June S, 187S; Edith D. Hodge, born December 11, 1877; Walter R. Hodge, born February 18, 1882. Mrs. Hodge is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal Church of Marshall. Her mother is liv- ing with Mr. and Mrs. Hodge, having been left a widow by the death of Harrison Me- geath, which occurred at York June 1, 1850.

ROBERT HUSTON, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall, was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 14. 1822. His parents were natives of Penn- sylvania, where they grew to maturity and were married. The father's name was Rob- ert Huston and the mother's was Elizabeth Bowman. They had a family of six children of whom Robert is the youngest, and what may be considered remarkable is the fact they are all living at this writing. Our sub- ject came to Clark County, Ill., in 1848, and the family came the next year. They settled in Marshall where the mother, Elizabeth Huston, died in 1856. The father died ten years later, at the residence of his son, George Huston. The mother died in her seventy-sixth year, and the father in his eighty-seventh year. Robert Huston, Jr., was married in Clark County, Ill., January 11, 1849, to Miss Catherine Irwin, daughter of Archibald and Catherine Irwin, of this county. She was born in Pennsylvania January 14, 1825. They have a family of six children living and four deceased-Albert Huston was born October 14, 1849, and is married to Rachel A. Manning; Leonard Huston was born April 20, 1851, and married to Miss Margaret Dick; Henry Huston, born Febru- ary, 1853; Ebenezer Huston, born in Septent- ber, 1855; Selumiel Huston, deceased; Lemuel

Huston, born in 1857; Mary Huston, deceased; Johanna Huston, deceased; Emma Huston, deceased; Matilda Hus- ton, born September, 1862, and married to William R. Bruce. Albert Huston has a family of four children-Charles A. Huston, born May 9, 1875; Hiram R. Huston, born July 30, 1877; Cora A. Huston, born April 20, 1880; Ida May, born October 7, 1882. Mr. Robert Huston has a farm of 160 acres in Section 2S, of Marshall Town- ship, with a residence three miles southwest from the city of Marshall. He has for many years been a member of the Protestant Meth- odist Church.

MARTIN V. B. IRWIN, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall, is a native of Lancaster County, Pa., and was born May 19, 1830. He is the fifth of a family of seven children of Archibald and Catharine Irwin. The father was born in Southeastern Pennsylvania, in 1798, but when young he went into Virginia, where he grew to manhood, returning to Pennsylvania when about twenty-two years old. He was married in Pennsylvania (Lancaster County), about 1820, to Miss Catharine Rhodes. She is also a native of Lancaster County, Penn .. and was born October 20, 1794. She still survives and lives in Marshall Township of this county. This family came to this county and settled in Marshall Township in 1838, where Archibald Irwin died June 12, 1880. Martin Irwin was married in Clark County on the 4th of July, 1856, to Miss Martha Comstock, daughter of Nathan Comstock. Her mother's name was Mary Sandridge. Mrs. Irwin was born in this county January 28, 1832. Her father, Nathan Comstock, was born in Kentucky, but principally raised in Perry County, Ind., where the mother was born and where they were married. Nathan Comstock died at his residence in this county, and the mother died at the home of her

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daughter, Mrs. Irwin, in June, 1859. They had a family of ten children, Mrs. Martha Irwin being the third. The family of Martin Irwin consists of three children, of whom one is deceased -Martha J. Irwin-born April 16, 1857, and died September 25, 1859; Si- mon W. Irwin, was born April 20, 1863; Samuel T. Irwin, was born September 30, 1864. They are members of the Protestant Methodist Church at Auburn. Mr. Irwin owns a farm of fifty-seven acres of land in Sections 29 and 32 of Marshall Township. In 1879, he sustained a serious loss, by fire, of a good frame house and the entire contents.

J. M JANES, physician, Marshall, is a native of Darke County, Ohio, born April 6, 1825. He was reared on the farm, and when eighteen years old he had received such edu- cation as was to be obtained in the log schoolhouse of the new country. From this time until he was twenty-two years old, he taught school in the winter season and ex- pended the proceeds in going to school in the summer. He was married near Winchester, Preble County, Ohio, on the 27th day of February, 1847. From this date till 1853, he was engaged variously, principally at farming and mercantile business. He then entered the office of Dr. Milo Laurance, in the village of Spartansburg, Ind. Here he studied medicine for two years. He prac- ticed medicine and surgery with this old tutor until 1857, when he began practice alone, at Hill's Grove, Ohio, where he re- mained for six years. From here he removed to Union City, on the boundary between In- diana and Ohio. About 1876, he came to Marshall and engaged in the practice of his profession, and is regarded as one of the first physicians of the county. Office on Hamil- ton, street east of court house.

Milo Janes, who, though a young man, de- serves the credit of opening one of the finest drug stores in the State. He is a son of Dr. J. M. Janes, and was born in Union City, Ind., November 6, 1856. He is the eldest of a family of three children, and received the elements of an education in his native town, and afterward graduated from the Terre Haute College. In 1877, he entered the drug store of Whitlock, as clerk, with whom he continued until Mr. Whitlock died. In No- vember, 1879, he bonght the stock of his em- ployer, and has since conducted the business. Mr. Janes needs no special mention, as his reputation as a straightforward business man is already known. Suffice to say he has a complete stock of drugs, books and stationery.

HARRY M. JANNEY, lawyer, Marshall, is a son of the late Eldridge S. Janney, who was born in Alexandria, Va., on the 12th of July, 1803, and came to Crawford County, Ill., in 1827, and who for many years was engaged in the practice of law. He died in Marshall December 17, 1875. The mother of our subject, Ann E. (Martin) Janney, is a daughter of James and Ann Martin. She was born in Loudonville, Ohio, January 30, 1825, and now living in Marshall. Her par- ents came to Clark County, Ill., in 1840. Harry M. was born in Marshall June 15, 1855. He was educated in the public school of Marshall. In 1877, he entered the law office of Wilkin & Wilkin, under whom he read two years. He was admitted to prac- tice September 16, 1879. At the close of the first year's practice, he was elected to the office of City Attorney for Marshall, and served two years. He is a Democrat and a member of the Knight of Pythias.

SIMON JUMPER, M. D., Marshall, is a na- tive of Richland County, Ohio. He was born October 26, 1826. He is the twelfth of a family

MILO JANES. druggist. Among the enterprising business men of Marshall is | of thirteen children, of whom but two are

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now living. His parents, Henry and Eliza- beth Jumper, were each natives of Pennsyl- vania, and both died in the State of Ohio. Simon Jumper was raised in Ohio, and edu- cated principally in Finley and Republic Colleges. He read medicine under Drs. Collin & Rawson, of Ohio, and became a pu- pil in the Medical Department of the Ann Arbor University in 1853. In 1855, he lo- cated at Darwin, in Clark County, III, for the practice of his profession, where he continued with marked success until 1881. when he re- tired from practice and removed to Marshall. Mr. Jumper was married in York Township, December 12, 1859, to Miss Mary E. Besser, daughter of Bates and Huldah Besser. Her parents are among the early settlers of Clark County, and more particularly of York Town- ship, where she was born August 21, 1838. They have a family of six children, of whom but three are living. Their names and ages are as follows: Effie E. Jumper, born in Darwin Township, November 17, 1860; Jen- nie Jumper, born in Darwin Township, No- vember 2, 1862; Lillie May Jumper, born in Darwin Township, January 13, 1866; Cora Jumper, born March 2, 1868, and died July 20. 1870. Mr. Jumper is a Royal Arch Mason. He and wife and one daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mar- shall. Family residence on corner of Main and Fulton streets, Marshall.

LAWSON S. KILBORN, editor Herald, was born in Kingston, Canada West, now Ontario, December 28, 1835, and was the youngest child of a family of eight children. When but six weeks old, the family removed to Monroe County, N. Y. When the boy was eleven years of age, his father died; but by the carnest efforts of his mother and elder brothers, the family was kept together, and young Lawson received such educational ad- vantages as the then partially free school sys-

tem of New York afforded. In the spring of 1853, the family came to Indiana, and located in La Fayette. In the following winter, the boy, now eighteen years of age, taught his first school, thus commencing a profession he has since pursued, with the exception of about five years. March 25, 1857, he was married to Miss Semantha Aydelott, who has ever proved a devoted wife and mother, and a most estimable lady. There have been born to them eight children, six of whom are now living. to wit: Mellie, now Mrs. Claude Husted; J. W., Orrie L., Charles H., Emma L. and Ernest J. In the spring of 1860. Mr. K. was chosen Principal of the Cent al School, La Fayette, a position he ably and creditably filled. In the spring of 1862, he enlisted in Company E, Seventy-second Regi- ment of Indiana Volunteers; was elected First Lieutenant of the company. promoted to Cap- tain and then to Major. He served with honor and distinction throughout the Rebell - ion, participating in many of the fiercest battles of the war. His regiment was one of the four composing Wilder's famous light- ning brigade. In the autumn of 1865, he removed to Illinois, and has since resided in the State. He came first to Shelby County, and there remained for one year, and then went to Marion County, where he was ap- pointed Principal of the graded schools at Kinmundy. He came to Marshall in 1874. and for seven years filled well and honorably the arduous position of Principal of our high school; and by his untiring efforts in the cause of education, our schools were brought from a very inferior condition up to their present standard of excellence. He is well known throughout the State, and enjoys an enviable reputation as an educator. He pos- sesses, in an eminent degree, the ability of quick and acute analysis, by which he is able to grasp and master the most abstruse subjects

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History of Crawford and Clark counties, Illinois, Part 62

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co. Number of Pages: 826

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892?
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago : O.L. Baskin & Co.
Number of Pages: 826