History of Crawford and Clark counties, Illinois, Part 67

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


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WILLIAM S. HOLMES, farmer, P. O. Marshall, an honored resident of Wabash Township, was born in Eastern Virginia on the 7th of August, 1819. His father, Willis Holmes, was also a native of Virginia, and was born on the 5th of March, 1787, and was raised in his native State, where he married, in 1811. Miss Isabell Redman. They made their residence in Virginia until 1825, dur- ing which time three children-James, John and William S .--- were born. In 1825, the family removed to Muskingum County, Ohio, where the two daughters-Elizabeth and Sa- rah A. Holmes-were born, the five children comprising the family. In 1840, the father sold his farm and removed to Licking Coun- ty, Ohio, where the parents both died, the father on the 26th of February, 1871. The wife survived him until July, of the same year. She was born in Virginia in Septem- ber, 1793. Of the five children, but two are now living-James Holmes, of Ohio, and the subject of this sketch. William S. was mar- ried in Muskingum County, Ohio, November 26, 1840, to Miss Sarah Ann Perry, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Walls) Perry. She was born in Virginia on the 8th of April, 1821. Mr. Holmes removed from Licking County, Ohio, in the spring of 1864, and set- led where he now lives, near the city of Mar- shall, and though not an old settler, is an hon- ored citizen. They have had but one child, a daughter, Mary Holmes, who was born in


Licking County, Ohio, November 14, 1841. She was married to Perry Swern, of Ohio, and died on the 3d of July, 1873, leaving a family of four children, three of whom are now in the care of our subject. The grand- children were born and named as follows: William C. Swern, born August 30, 1860; Jay M. Swern, born February 8, 1863; Min- nie Bell Swern, born December 25, 1866; Hurley M. Swern, born January 1, 1870. Mr. Holmes has 335 acres of land in Sections 3, 4, 9 and 10, of Wabash Township, and fifty- five acres, including the residence, in Section 18, of same township. He is engaged in farm- ing and stock-raising. They are both mem- bers of the Christian Church of Marshall.


H. A. HUTCHISON, farmer, P. O. Cohn, was born in Loudoun County, Va., on the 2d of April, 1822. His father's name was Henry H. Hutchison, and his mother was Susan Plaster. Both parents were born in Loudoun County, Va., the father May 1, 1795, and the mother April 6, 1818. They had a family of eleven children, Henry A. being the third, and of whom eight were born in Virginia. In 1836, they emigrated to Illinois, and bought a small farm near the village of Livingston, where the three younger children were born. Henry H. Hutchison lived in Wabash Township until the time of his death, which occurred at the residence of his son, Henry A., on the 15th of December, 1875. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in political matters was an old Jackson Democrat. Susan Hutch- ison, mother of Henry A., died in September of 1872. Henry A. Hutchison came to this county with his parents, in 1836, and grew to manhood, and married in Wabash Township, where he has ever since lived. He was mar- ried on October 1, 1854, to Miss Louisa Cas- teel, daughter of John and Dorcas Casteel. She was born January 4, 1833, and died on October 10, 1855, leaving one child-John W.


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Hutchison, born on the 30th of June, 1855. He was married to his present wife, Nancy E. Adams, on the 13th of April, 1858. She is a daughter of William Adams, and was born in Loudoun County, Va., January 11, 1834. They have a family of five children living and four deceased: George W. Hutchison was born February 22, 159, and died March 8, 1864; William H. Hutchison was born Feb- ruary 11, 1861, and died September 28, 1862; James MI. Hutchison was born Octo- ber 20, 1862, and died February 22, 1864. Susan L. Hutchison, born September 17, 1864; Nelson S. Hutchison, born September 19, 1866; Armenia S. Hutchison, born March 26, 1870; MaryE. Hutchison, born January 29, 1874; Walter H. Hutchison, born January 19, 1876. Mr. Hutchison has a farm in Wabash Township and one in Anderson Township, and is engaged in general farming. He is a Republican, and has frequently been elected to the offices of the township. Residence is five miles southeast of Marshall.


CHARLES G. KNOX, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall, was born in Delaware on the 10th of January, 1813. He is a son of Charles Knox and Elizabeth Griffith, both of whom are na- tives of Delaware. They were married in their native State, where they made their home until 1816, in which year they emi- grated to Muskingum County, Ohio; here the mother died after raising ten children, of whom Charles G. is the fourth. His father died in Gallia County, Ohio. Charles G. Knox was educated in Muskingum County, Ohio, where, on the 14th of November, 1836, he married Miss Sarah A. Wilson, daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth Wilson, of Zanesville, Ohio. She was born November 2, 1820, in Zanesville, Ohio, and educated in the McIn- tyre Academy. For fourteen years after marriage, they made their home in Ohio, during which time four children were born.


In spring of 1850, they came to Illinois, and Clark County, and settled where they now live, on Section 23 of Wabash Township. Here is seen the effects of their industry in the developing of a desirable farm out of the native forest. They now have a farm of 360 acres. . Their family consists of ten children, of whom three are deceased. Those living are: Eliza Knox, married to E. Lewis; Ew- ing Knox, a graduate of McKendree College, and now in Europe with his wife, Lena Cor- ban, who is a noted painter; John Knox, a graduate of the Indiana Asbury University, and now a teacher; Fillmore Knox, married to Miss Carrie Taylor; Lizzie Knox, Leroy Knox and Nelson Knox. The family de- scends from a purely Scotch origin, and are now members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


JOSEPH E. LEWIS, merchant, McKeen, was born in Edgar County, Ill., on the 23d of September, 1833. His father, Jonathan Lewis, was born in Kentucky in 1808, and when a boy came to Crawford County, Ill., where he grew to manhood, and where he married Miss Celinda Cobb. She was a native of Massachusetts, and sister to the em- inent jurist of the Supreme Bench. She was born in, 1814, and died in 1882. Soon af- ter marriage, Mr. Jonathan Lewis removed to Edgar County, Ill., where lie made a brief residence, coming to Clark County in 1835. He settled on Mill Creek, and en- gaged in farming. It is said he assisted in the sawing a portion of the material for the County Court House, which was done with an old-style whip-saw. He died in this county in 1854, leaving a family of eight children, subject being the second. Thomas E. was educatod in the pioneer schools of Clark County, and on August 9, 1861, he en- listed in Company K, of the First Missouri Cavalry, from which he was discharged in


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October, 1862, in consequence of injuries re- ceived in Missouri. He was married in Wabash Township, on the 18th of November, 1855, to Miss Eliza Knox, daughter of Charles G. and Sarah (Wilson) Knox. She was born in Ohio January 21, 1835. They have a family of five children, whose names and ages are as follows: William E. Lewis, born January 21, 1857; Rosa B. Lewis, born October 6, 1858, deceased; John W. Lewis, born January 25, 1860; Annie Lewis, born December 4, 1861, deceased; Catherine Lewis, February 16, 1864. Mr. Lewis is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He is Postmaster at McKeen, where he has been engaged in mercantile business for a few years.


WILLIAM LOWRY is a native of Jef- ferson County, Ohio, born June 11, 1818, son of Robert and Ruth (Pecem) Lowry; the father a native of Washington County, Penn., and the mother born in Providence, R. I. They were married in Jefferson Coun- ty, Ohio, in 1811. They had a family of ten children, of whom William is the fourth. The father died in Jefferson County, Ohio, in 1832. Ten years later, the mother with sub- ject and five younger children came to this county. He was married in his native county, in 1837, to Miss Martha A. Mc- Coy. She died in June, 1841, leaving two children, namely, John Lowry and Eliza- beth Moore. Mr. Lowry was married to his present wife, Sarah Jane Black, in 1847. She was born in Indiana, and is the daugh- ter of David and Charlotte Black, who came to this county in an early day. David Black died in Wabash Township in 1863. Her mother, Charlotte Quick, a native of Con- necticut, died at the residence of William Lowry in 1879. As a result of this union, there were eight children, of whom two are deceased. £ David William, born July 13,


1848; Robert A., October 12, 1849; Emily A., August 26, 1851, wife of Albert Lauther; Thomas, December 20, 1853, died 1855; Charlotte J., February 9, 1856; Rachel, May 10, 1858, died 1859; William A., February 25, 1860; Ruth A., May 1, 1864. Mr. Low- ry assisted in the organization of Wabash Township, since which time he has served the township in official capacity for several years, as Justice of the Peace and Township Commissioner. In politics, he is connected with the Democratic party.


JAMES MADISON, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall. Among the pioneers of Clark County should be mentioned the name of Channing and Maria J. Madison. Channing Madison was a native of Rhode Island, and was born on the 13th of February, 1792. When he was about twelve years old, his parents, Joab and Phœbe (Waterman) Madison, removed to Saratoga County, N. Y., where he grew to manhood, and where he was educated. He came from New York to Warren County, Ohio, in 1811, wbere, on the 21st of July, 1814, he married Miss Maria J. Todd, daughter of Owen Todd, of Kentucky. She was born in Kentucky, near Lexington, 'on the 28th day of July, 1793. From the time of marriage, etc., until 1838, Mr. Madison made his home at various points in Ohio and Indiana, during which time he was engaged as bridge contractor on public works. In 1838, he was given supervision of bridges through Illinois, in the construction of the Cumberland road, and that year settled on the land now occupied by his sons. He erect- ed the bridge at Big Creek, east of Marshall, in the summer of 1861. He was an old-line Whig, and afterward a zealous Republican; taking an active though unselfish part in local politics, yet never aspired to a political honor. He died on the old homestead, near Marshall, on the 22d of December, 1869, the


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wife of his youth surviving him until De- cember 31, 1880, and died at the mature age of eighty-seven years. They left, as a legacy to the county, the families of James and Ed- win Madison, besides John, who has no fam- ily, and one daughter, the widow of Robert Taylor, the first pedagogue of the county. One son, the oldest of the family was sacri- ficed on the altar of his country in 1863. James Madison is the third of this family of six children, and was born in Vevay, Swit- zerland Co., Ind., on the 28th of January, 1822, and came to Illinois with the family in 1838. The most part of his early education was obtained in the Marshall Seminary, un - der the instruction of Dean Andrews. At the age of twenty-five years, he entered the office of Dr. Silas H. Smith, of Dayton, Ohio, as a medical student, where he contin- ued for three years. He began the practice of his profession at West Union, Ind., and has continued in the practice to the present time. Early in the war, he became a member of Battery D, of the Second Illinois Artil- lery, under his brother, Relly Madison. He was shortly after appointed to the position of Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-first Il- linois Regiment, which position he filled for six months. He had the honor of attending Gen. Grant through an attack of malarial fever, and afterward receiving the General's warmest compliments for his faithful and efficient treatment. He was married in Ol- ney, Ill., November 4, 1848, to Miss Ellen M. Glossbrenner. They have never been blest with offspring of their own, but have raised no less than eight children, who have found beneath their roof protection and care, and in their affections a hearty parental wel- come. He has a farm of seventy-six acres, in Section 18 of Wabash Township. Resi- dence, one mile east from Marshall public square.


EDWIN MADISON, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall, is a son of Channing Madison, and was born where he now lives in Wabash Town- ship on the 6th of November, 1839. He was educated principally in Marshall. For a time during the war of the rebellion, he was connected with Battery D of the Second Illi - nois Artillery, and later became a member of Company F of the Thirtieth Illinois Volun- teer Infantry. Returning home, be turned his attention to the study of law, and attend- ed law lectures at' Ann Arbor, Mich. He was married in Marshall on the 28th day of December, 1865, to Miss Cecelia Huston, of Marshall She was born in Ohio January 8, 1843. They have one daughter, Ada E. Madison, born November 5, 1866, and one son, Relly Madison, born May 11, 1872, and died in infancy. Subject owns a farm of eighty-nine acres, in Section 18 of Wabash Township, including an orchard of seventeen acres. He is engaged in farming and fruit- growing. John Madison was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, June 26, 1825, and came to this county with the family in 1838; and has been a resident ever since, with the exception of two years spent in California. He mar- ried in November, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth Newton, who was born in Cincinnati June 30, 1835, and died in Clark County, III., in 1859, having lost one daughter who died in infancy. John Madison is a full fledged Republican, a member of the I. O. O. F., and a. graduate of the law school of Cincin- nati, Ohio, but has never entered the prac- tice. Relly Madison, the oldest son of Chan- ning Madison, was proficient as civil en- gineer. He was a Lieutenant in the Mexican war, crossing the plains five times during its progress. He was an officer in Battery D of the Second Illinois Artillery, and died at Corinth, Miss., on the 21st of April, 1863, leaving a wife who still survives him.


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ALEXANDER McGREGOR. Died at his residence in Wabash Township, three miles east of Livingston, December 20, 1877, Alexander McGregor, aged seventy- one years. He was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1806, and emigrated to America at the age of twenty, and settled in Columbia, S. C. He was by trade a stone mason, and was en- gaged as builder on the State House in Co- lumbia. He came to this county in 1836, where he remained until his death, and dur- ing the construction of the National road was employed as contractor on the stone work. In January, 1846, he was married to Jane Wood. He leaves three children, viz .: Joseph, William and Lizzie. After his mar- riage, he had been a resident of Wabash Township, where he died, being much at- tached to his neighborhood and neighbors, contented and happy to remain among them,


and greatly devoted to his family. He be- came a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1854, of which society he was ever after an ornament. Mr. McGregor made but little noise in the busy world during his long and faithful life, yet few men, on leaving it, have left so many heartfelt regrets at his loss; so many kind memories of his upright, righteous life; his noble kindness and gentle- ness of heart, and so few faults to be apolo- gized for by his friends. Alexander Mc- Gregor was, in the fullest extent, an honest man, whose word was as lasting as the hills, and whose kindness endeared him to all who knew him, and with whom his memory will remain forever green. Few men were his equals, if any were superior, in moral worth, and, old as he was, his place will be difficult to fill.


L. MURPHY, farmer, P. O. Terre Haute, one of the first farmers of Clark County, and owner of the Willow farm, in Wabash Township, was born in Lincoln County, Ky.,


June 3, 1815. His father, Thomas Murphy, was born in the same county, on the 9th of November, 1788, and his grandfather, John Morgan, was a native of Ireland, where he grew to manhood, and afterward became a soldier in the British Army. He came to America with the army in the time of the Revolution, but in company with thirty of of his comrades, deserted the English stand- ard and made their way to Vincennes, Ind., from where they took a Southern course and made a settlement in Lincoln County, Ky. After settling here, Mr. Morgan changed his name, taking the name of Murphy, the maiden name of his mother. Here he mar- ried a woman named Sarah Turner, of Vir- ginia, and raised a family, of whom Thomas Murphy was the youngest. Thomas Murphy received the benefits to be derived from the pioneer schools of Kentucky. He was mar- ried in his native county on the 15th of Au- gust, 1811, to Miss China Stephens, who was born in Virginia May 19, 1788. They raised a family of ten children, of whom Liberty Murphy is the third, and of whom all but one grew to maturity. Thomas Murphy removed his family from Kentucky to Crawford County, Ill., and settled near Palestine, in 1826, where the parents spent the rest of their lives. The father died March 17, 1837, and the mother died in Hutsonville, Crawford County, February 25, 1853. Liberty Mur- phy was married in Crawford County, in March, 1835, to Miss Margaret Seaney. daughter of Samuel and Catherine Seaney, She was born in Crawford County, in 1819, and died June 29, 1837, leaving one daugh- ter, Sarah Jane Murphy. After the death of his wife, Mr. Murphy returned to the scenes of his boyhood, where he took the trade of cabinet-maker, at which he worked some years, principally in Crawford County, Ill. He was married to his present wife, Miss


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Cynthia M. Hall, at Darwin, on the 24th of November, 1840. She is a daughter of Elijah and Eunice Hall, and was born in Genesee County, N. Y., February 13, 1822. She came to this county, from Vigo County, Ind., with her parents in 1836. Here her mother died September, 1845, and her father in February, 1846, leaving a family of ten children, of whom Mrs. Murphy is the eighth. Mr. Mur- phy has a family of five children, but one of whom is living: A. E. Murphy, born April 8, 1843, and died December 16, 1844; Adel- bert B. Murphy, born February 8, 1846, and died November 15, 1863; Helen M. Murphy, born May 3, 1850, died May 28, 1851; John Franklin Murphy, born October 23. 1860. Mr. Murphy located on what is known as the Willow farm, consisting of 320 acres, in 1854. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.


ISRAEL ORNDORFF, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall. Toward the close of the eighteenth century a man named Orndorff came from Germany and settled in Pennsylvania. He was then a young man, and soon married and raised a family of twelve children, of whom nine were sons. After the death of his wife, he moved to Frederick County, Va., where he again married and became the father of a second family of twelve children, and as in the first, nine were sons. Seven of these sons were in the war of 1812, serving in the same company. As a farther illustration of the fertility of this family, we are told that four of the nine brothers married and settled in Virginia, on adjoining farms, and were blessed with eleven children each. The fa- ther of our subject, Levi Orndorff, was a member of the second nine, and born in Vir- ginia about 1791; married to Eleanor Young, who was also a native of Virginia, and was born about 1799. She died in her native State in 1857, and Levi Orndorff died in 1864. Israel Orndorff was first married to


Mrs. Sarah Pitman, widow of A. Pitman, and daughter of Samuel Barr, of Virginia, on the 26th of September, 1847. She was born in Frederick County, Va., January 29, 1816, and died in Coles County, Ill., March 6, 1882, leaving a family of four children-Lewis C. Orndorff, born in Virginia September 6. 1848, and married to Miss Delilah Evans; Milton A. was born in Virginia August 5, 1850, and married Eliza A. Lane, nec Fish- back; Newton E. was born in Virginia De- cember 15, 1853, and married Miss Susan Gaily; Jasper L. was born in Clark County, Ill., June 15, 1858. In 1882, Mr. Orndorff was married to Mrs. Nancy C. Taylor, widow of Rev. William Taylor, and daughter of Daniel Ball and Mary A. Plummer. She was born in Knox County, Ohio, on the 1st of February, 1836, and is the seventh of a family of ten children. Her father was born in Pennsylvania in 1800, and died on the 17th of March, 1865. Her mother was a na. tive of Maryland, born in 1802, and died August 5, 1854. Mrs. Orndorff was married to William Taylor October 6, 1853. He died June 25, 1875, leaving a family of eight children, all born in Clark County-John W. was born July 27, 1854, and is married to Miss Maggie Armstrong; Mary C. was born December 16, 1856, and is married to Leroy Sears; Carrie J. was born December 31, 1859, and is married to Fillmore Knox; Rosetta I. was born November 17, 1863, and is married to George Davidson; William H. was born October 17. 1865; George W. was born April 10, 1868; Flora E. was born July 31, 1870; Charles E. was born October 15, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Orndorff are members of the Presbyterian Church.


GEORGE G. PLATZ, farmer, P. O. Mar- shall, was born in Alsace, France, near the Rhine River. on the 9th of April, 1817. His father, Jacob Platz, was born in Colmar,


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France, December 20, 1778, and his mother, Barbara Vogel, was born at the same place, on the 5th of March, 1787. They resided in France until 1832, when they sailed in the ship Mercy for the United States, and in the same year made settlement in Erie County, Penn., where they died at a matured age. The father, Jacob Platz, was for eight years an officer in the army of Napoleon I, and until his death, drew a pension in conse- quence of wounds received. He had a fam- ily of eight children. of whom six grew to maturity. One of the six, Charles Platz, sacrificed his life in the army. George G. Platz was educated in the German language in the old country and in Pennsylvania; he studied for the ministry. He was licensed to preach in 1844, and was sent by the con- ference to the Mount Carmel Mission, em- bracing about thirteen counties in Illinois and Indiana, and including this county. For twenty-eight years he remained in the active itineracy, in which time he filled the office of Presiding Elder for thirteen years. He was married at Germantown, Wayne Co., Ind., April 13, 1848, to Miss Sarah Baum- gardner, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Baumgardner. She was born in Pennsyl- vania August 4, 1824. Their family con- sists of nine children, two of whom died in infancy - Nimrod J. was born in Cook County, Ill., September 25, 1851 (he is married to Miss Elizabeth Dawson); Mahala A., born in Wayne County, Ind., December 18, 1853 (she is married to Peter Dietrich); Noah F. was born in Miami County, Ind., June 12, 1857 (married to Miss Susan Roth); Moses, born in Miami County, Ind., June 11, 1859; Amanda M. was born in Wayne County, Ind., January 6, 1861; Charles E. was born in Indianapolis, Ind., June 8, 1864; Levi G. was born in Clark County, Ill., De- cember 7, 1866. In September, 1864, Mr.


Platz moved his family to this county, and located where they now live, one mile north- east from Marshall, where they have a farm of eighty-two and a half acres. They are members of the Evangelical Association.


ADDISON ROBINSON, farmer, P. O. Macksville, Ind., is a native of Fauquier Coun- ty, Va., born August 31, 1832, and is the second of a family of six children of Moses and Elizabeth Robinson, who emigrated to Illinois and settled in Wabash Township in January, 1850. Addison went to Arkansas in 1852, where he remained about three years, during which time, June 30, 1852, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Creasey, daughter of Pleasant and Eliza W. Creasey. She was born January 14, 1835, in Clark County, Ili. Her parents are natives of Virginia, and pre- ceded the family of Mr. Robinson in settle- ment in this county, but afterward moved to Arkansas, where the father died, and where the mother is living. Mrs. Sarah A. Robin- son died in Wabash Township June 7, 1879, leaving a family of twelve children-Moses, Mary E., Harriet A., William H., Charles E., George D., Pleasant J., Ann, John, Lu- cius, Minnie and Rose. Mr. Robinson was married to his present wife, Lizzie McGreg- or, on the 19th of September, 1882. She is a daughter of Alexander and Jane Mc- Gregor, and was born July 9, 1854, in Wa- bash Township. On another page will be found an obituary of A. McGregor, which was clipped from the Illinoisan. Mrs. Jane (Wood) MeGregor died in Wabash Township in 1878. She was born May 23, 1814, in South Carolina, and came with the family to this county, 1827. Mr. Robinson is a mem- ber of the Masonic order and Baptist Church. Politics Democratic, and is the present Justice of the Peace in his township.


LUCIUS ROBINSON, Macksville, Ind., was born January 28, 1838, in Fauquier


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County, Va. Is a son of Moses and Eliz- abeth (Campbell) Robinson, natives of Vir- ginia, the former being born March 4, 1801, and the father of six children, of whom Lucius is the youngest. The fam- ily, save the mother, settled in Wabash Township, Clark County, this State, in 1850, where the father died December 10, 1862. The mother of our subject died in Virginia, and the father was married a second time to Juliet Norris, the result being two children. This wife came with Moses Robinson to this county, as mentioned above. Lucius had some chance of the country schools. He was married, November 17, 1862, to Hannah Tet- ley, a daughter of John Tetley, who died when she was but two years old, being suffo- cated in a sand bank at Terre Haute, Ind. Her mother, Naomi, died at the same city with a congestive chill. Mrs. Robinson made her home with her uncle, Michael Tetley. She has blessed her husband with nine chil- dren, viz .: Addison, born on April 15, 1864; Lusana, born May 15, 1867; Lucius, born October 27, . 1869; Hannah, born October 17, 1870, and died November 7, 1871; Eliza- beth, born August 24, 1874; John, born July 21, 1876; Florence, born January 18, 1878; Nettie, born January 31, 18S1, and an infant born and died March, 1863. Mr. Robinson owns two farms. aggregating 273 acres, on which he raises stock, etc. He is a Demo- crat. Has been Township Constable.




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