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CHARLES BOCKMANN, farmer, P. O. Gower, was born in Germany in 1834 ; is the son of Conradt and Catharine Bockman, who came to Willow Springs, Cook Co., Ill., in 1845. They had three children, viz., Margaret (now Mrs. Peter J. Lutz), Catharine (Mrs. George Haixhold), and Charles. They are Lutherans. The mother is eighty-six years old and still liv- ing. Charles attended school in Chicago about
four months. By hard work, he has become possessed of sixty-nine acres of well-improved land. In 1865, he was married to Matilda Stenter, a native of Hanover, Prussia, who came to this country with an uncle in 1864. She has blessed Mr. Boekman with eight chil- dren, as follows : Conradt, Mary, Charles, Peter, Henry, Jacob, Margaret and Emma. Mr. Boeh- man and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, in which he holds office.
F. BASCOM, minister, Hinsdale, was born June 8, 1804, in Lebanon, New London Co., Conn .; is the son of Abiel and Sibyl (Roberts) Bascom, natives of Connecticut. They had ten children, of whom our subject alone survives. He attended school during the winters, or about three months each year, and studied during spare moments in the summers, until he pre- pared himself to teach school, which oe- cupation he followed until twenty years of age. At this period, he entered Yale College, from which he graduated with high honors in 1848. He then became a teacher in an academy at New Canaan, Conn., where he continued one year. He then took a three years' course in the Theological Seminary at Yale, at the com- pletion of which he was appointed a tutor in the college, and held the position two years. In 1833, he came to Tazewell County, Ill., as Home Missionary, residing in Pekin, and the interior of the county, and organizing many churches. For ten years Mr. Bascom acted as agent of the American Home Missionary Society of Illinois, and was for several years pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago; was six years at Galesburg, seven years at Dover, and five years at Princeton, doing a noble work at each of these places. He built up the infant church at Hinsdale. Since 1872, he has spent his time among the weaker churches. helping to set them upon a solid foundation. He preaches now at Western Springs; was first married in 1833 to Ellen P. Cleveland, who died in 1838 ; was again married to Elizabeth
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Sparhawk, by whom he had four children- Charles P., editor, and George S., Congregational minister ; the others deceased. His second wife dying, he married Ruth Pomeroy, by whom he has one son, Henry, a physician. Mr. Bascom was one of the pioneers of this coun- try ; has lived a successful life, and although past his threescore and ten, is still hale and hearty.
PHILIP BAYER, barber, baker, confectioner, etc .. Hinsdale, is a native of Germany, born Jan- uary 28, 1854. His parents, John P. and Cath- arine (Balzar) Bayer, also natives of Germany, came here in 1871, and are now living with subject. Of their eight children, two are liv- ing-Philip and Catharine. Philip received his education in his native country, and at the age of eleven apprenticed to the barber's trade, at which he has since been chiefly engaged. His father is a tailor, and Philip spent some time at that trade also. After landing in New York City, he worked in a shop there for nine months ; then came to Oak Park, Ill., where he ran a shop two years. In 1874, he bought out Jacob Bohlander, of Hinsdale, where he has since been engaged in business, with the exception of a few months of the year 1879, which he spent in Kansas, where he met with ill-fortune in business and returned to Hinsdale with but very little means, but by energy and industry has since built up a good business, his wife aiding him in his endeavors. He has a good barber shop, bakery, confectionery and general store, and is having a lucrative trade. He was married, December 15, 1877, to Mag- dalena Schweickart, a native of Germany, who has borne him two children, one living-Katie. Mrs. Bayer's parents-Philip and Catharine (Grass) Schweickart-came from Germany in 1866, and settled in Downer's Grove, where her mother died in 1871. Her father is now in Colorado. They had eight children, two of whom are living-Sarah (Mrs. J. W. Patricks) and Magdalena. They were Lutherans. Mr.
and Mrs. Bayer are connected with the Luth- eran Church at Fullersburg.
JOHN BOHLANDER, hardware, Hinsdale, was born May 24, 1836, on board an American vessel on the Atlantic Ocean, son of John and Catharine (Glos) Bohlander, natives of Germany. John Bohlander, subject's father, emigrated with his family to America, and landed at Bos- ton, Mass., where he remained one year ; then came West, landing in Chicago in the latter part of 1837, and engaged in farming in Cook County fourteen years ; then sold out and bought a farm in York Township, this county, where he died in 1862. His wife died several years previous. They had seven children- Mary, John, Margaret, Peter, Philip, Henry and Adam. Subject's father, by a second marriage, had four children-Amelia, William, Dora and Ernest. John received a limited education, and in 1859 engaged in the grocery business at York Center, and after three years sold out and bought a farm of eighty acres in Downer's Grove Township, which he afterward sold to Charles Mandel. In 1871, he opened a grocery in Hinsdale, remaining in that business six years ; then sold his stock at auction and en- gaged in the general hardware trade with Charles Pfeifer in 1878, and has since been engaged in that business, under the firm name of Bohlander & Co., doing a good business in all kinds of farming implements, tinware, etc. He married, in 1861, Solmea Wolf, a native of France, who has borne him nine children, six liv- ing-Caroline. John, Henry, Louisa, Sarah and Emma. The three deceased were Katie, Ame- lia and Ellen. Mr. Bohlander was Postmaster two years while in York Center.
J. W. BUSHNELL, retired farmer, P. O. Hinsdale, was born March 18, 1825, in Oneida County, N. Y., son of Calvin and Polly (Will- iams) Bushnell. Calvin Bushnell was born in Connecticut April 29, 1781, and died May 18, 1864 ; he was a Presbyterian minister, of which church his wife was long a member; she was
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born in New York October 9, 1787, and died January 6, 1877 ; they were the parents of ten children. J. W. received an ordinary educa- tion, and at twenty-eight years of age began farming on his own account. He married June 12, 1856, Mary J. Convis, born Angust 18, 1833, daughter of Thomas and Emeline (Peck) Convis, natives of New York, and parents of six ehildren. Mr. and Mrs. Bushnell have two children-Charlotte L., born August 21, 1857, and Elmira A., born July 16, 1865. After his marriage, Mr. Bushnell settled in Kendall County, Ill., where he remained till 1869, when he moved to Sandwich, and invested some cap- ital in the Sandwich Manufacturing Company. After several changes of residence, he came to Hinsdale in 1882, where he erected a fine build- ing, and will probably locate permanently. He and his family are active members of the Con- gregational Church ; he is a Republican. Mr. Bushnell and his brother Calvin own 240 acres of well-improved land in Iroquois County, Ill., all of which they have acquired by their own efforts. Mr. Bushnell attends to the renting of the property.
W. S. BROOKINS, hardware, Downer's Grove, was born in Vernon, N. Y., March 5, 1826, of which place his parents David and Ruby (Smith) Brookins, were natives ; the family eame to this county in 1838; sub- ject's father, prior to that date had sold car- riages in Chicago, and was the first in that business in the city. Subject's parents had nine children, eight living-Wooster H. (in Minnesota), Jane (now Mrs. Acy Manly, of Wisconsin), Erin (now Mrs. Z. M. Brown, Minnesota), W. S. (subject), Margaret (Mrs. A. Woods), Franees (Mrs. Dr. Le Duc), Esther, Mrs. Dr. A. Randall, Kansas), Thaddeus, and Emma (Mrs. Charles Blodgett). Subject worked on the farm till 1856, then went to Minnesota and engaged in the livery business with his brother, Wooster, at Monticello, that State, forfive years. He then returned to this county
and engaged in farming six years, thence to Ogle County, Ill., bought 131 acres of land, and after farming it two years, sold out and went to Minneapolis, Minn., where he dealt in horses for five years. He then came to Chi- cago, engaged in the hotel business there a short time, and in 1873 came to Downer's Grove, and has since been engaged in the hardware business there in company with J. W. Rogers ; they also deal in lumber, coal, etc. In 1853, he married Lucy Thompson, a native of Keene, N. H., who was killed by a train on the Chicago Burlington & Quiney Railroad. Mr. Brookins was Deputy Sheriff one term, and afterward Sheriff one term in Wright County, Minn. He has an ,adopted child, Mary, a teacher in Chi- cago ; is a Democrat.
JAMES M. BARR, Postmaster, Downer's Grove, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., November 5, 1838 ; son of Johu and Emily (Smith) Barr, natives of Massachusetts. Sub- ject attended the country schools and also at Gouverneur, N. Y., three terms, and, at the age of nineteen years, entered the employ of the Farmers' Insurance Company, remaining with that corporation for some time. In 1857, he settled at Downer's Grove and taught school one term at Cass, this township. In 1861, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served till March, 1863. After leaving the army, he became an agent for the Farmers' Insurance Company, Freeport, and afterward for the American In- surance Company, Chicago. He was commis- sioned Postmaster in July, 1881. He married Sarah Whiffen, who has borne him six children, viz., Nellie, George, Harry, Lester, Edna and Ethel. Mr. Barr takes a deep interest in all public enterprises ; he has been Assessor for seven years, and Poliee Constable for many years. He is a member of Hinsdale Lodge, No. 649, A., F. & A. M .; was first Senior War- den in same. His wife is a member of the Baptist Church of Downer's Grove.
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MRS. ALMIRA CLARK, farmer, P. O. Downer's Grove, was born December 4, 1815. Her parents David and Abigail (Taylor) Well- man, natives of Connecticut, settled in Lee County, Ill., in 1847, where they died ; they had ten children. Mrs. Clark attended school but lit- tle, and spent her younger days spinning flax. She was married, in 1836, to Ephraim Holley ; by this marriage they had four children, one living, viz., James L., who married Rhoda Gib- son (now deceased) ; lie was in Company K, Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as was also his brother Franklin, who was wounded at the battle of Chickasaw, and died in the hospi- tal at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Holley died in 1849, and was buried in Downer's Grove. Subject was married, in 1852, to William H. Clark, and from this union was born one child, now Mrs. Joseph Oldfield. Mrs. Clark settled on the present little farm of forty acres when it was mostly raw prairie, on which stood a little cabin which had been formerly used for a schoolhouse. She now lives with her only sur- viving son. She is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which she has belonged over thirty years.
CHARLES CURTISS, farmer, P. O. Down- er's Grove, was born November 3, 1828, in Ver- mont. His parents, Samuel and Mary (Hatchi) Curtiss, he of Connecticut, she of Vermont. They had five children. Samuel Hatch, born in 1789, was Postmaster here, and died in 1867 ; his wife, born in 1795, still survives, making her home in the village ; she is eighty-six years old, and is hale and hearty. Charles attended school in this township, and also a select school at Naperville in 1848. In 1850, he and his broth- er Henry went to California, and engaged in mining for about five years. On his return in 1856, he was married to Laura A. Thatcher, of Ottawa, Ill., daughter of Eldred Thatcher, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss have three children-Addie H. (married Charles Calwell), Samuel (a clerk
at Hinsdale), and Alice M. Mr. Curtiss has been School Director, Township Collector and Assessor, Village Trustee, Justice of the Peace, and a member of the Board of Supervisors, to which latter position he has been elected five terms, and is the present incumbent. He has a fine residence in Downer's Grove. He cast his first Presidential vote for Gen. Scott, on the Whig ticket, and is now a stanch Republican. Himself, wife and eldest danghter are members of the Baptist Church.
R. O. CURTISS, farmer, P. O. Downer's Grove, was born October 19, 1830, in Rutland County, Vt .; is a son of Samuel and Mary (Hatch) Cur- tiss, natives of Vermont, and the parents of five children-Oromel, Eli W., Henry H., Charles and Roswell O. The parents came to Downer's Grove in 1836, and bought land near the pres- ent village. Here the father was recognized as one of the leading men of the township ; he was Postmaster, and held other prominent po- sitions. He died February 24, 1867. His por- trait appears in this work. The mother is liv- ing at the age of eighty-six. R. O. attended school as much as was convenient. He labored on his father's farm in his younger days, and worked in a hotel which was kept by his par- ents for twelve years, on Maple avenue. In 1853, this building was burned and our subject began merchandising soon after, in Wheaton, in partnership with H. H. Curtiss, which he continued for four years. He then bought a farm in Du Page County, and worked on the same. In 1873, he engaged in the grocery bus- iness in Chicago with H. H. Curtiss, from which he withdrew in four years, and returned to his farm, which he still continnes. He was married March 1, 1855, to Cordelia, a daughter of Silas H. and Sophia (Fowler) Lyman. She was one of six children, three of whom survive -Harriet, Cordelia aud Eliza. Mr. C.'s union has blessed him with three children -- Hattie, Carrie and Willie (deceased). He has served in some small offices. He and his wife are
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members of the Baptist Church of Downer's Grove.
CHARLES CURTIS, farmer, P. O. Hins- dale, was born July 1, 1834, in Mercer, Som- erset Co., Me .; is a son of Bracey and Eliza (Day) Curtis, natives of Kennebunk, Me. His father was a farmer and sailor, born in 1800; was Captain of a vessel on one trip to the West Indies ; had nine children, three of whom are deceased ; those living are Daniel D., a man- nfacturer of ladies' straw hats at Medfield, Mass .- will do $1,500,000 worth of business this year ; Irving, Lizzie S., Edward B., Mar- tha D. and Charles, our subject. The latter attended school as much as was convenient and worked on the farm till twenty-one years of age, when he commenced work in the manu- factory spoken of above. Here he remained two years, at the end of which time he began clerking in a wholesale millinery establishment, where he remained three years. In 1861, he enlisted in Company C, Ninth Maine Volunteer Infantry. In 1864, he started a grocery busi- ness in Skowhegan, Me., under the firm name of Farrand & Curtis. From this he withdrew in one year and came to Chicago, where he was engaged for one year in the wholesale millinery business with Keith Bros. In 1866, in Chica- go, he married Miss A. M. Fall, a native of New York, born February 18, 1843, which union resulted in six children, viz., Minnie Edith, Edna May, Irving Claude, Lida Day, George Percy and Walter Ray. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Curtis engaged with M. Camp- bell in a hair manufactory. This he continued three years, when he sold out and bought six and one-half acres of land in Clarendon Hills, which he afterward traded for his present prop- erty. He reuts his farm, and, during the win- ter, manufactures babies' straw hats in Chica- go. Is a Democrat.
PEARL S. COSSITT, A. M., son of Asa C., Jr., and Ra. Seymour (Steel) Cossitt, was born in West Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1817.
His father dying when he was young, the son went to live with an uncle in Tennessee. He received a good business education, and in 1832 removed to La Grange, Tenn. lle returned to New England with some means ; entered Trin- ity College, Hartford, Conn .; graduated in 1845 ; studied law and then theology at East Wind- sor and Princeton, N. J., and was licensed to preach by the Hartford Central Association. He preached at West Hartland and New Hart- ford Center, Conn .; then at East Long Meadow, Mass .; was ordained pastor of the Second Pres- byterian Church in Hanover, N. J .; came West to McHenry County, Ill., in 1854, when he bought a good farm, yet taught and preached. In New Hartford, Conn., he married Sarah Northrop, by whom he had one child-Florence, who died in New England. In 1856, he mar- ried Eliza E. Squires, who was killed by the cars at Western Springs. In 1858, he removed to Indiana, where he resided during the war, in which he took an active part. In 1865, he re- moved to Noble, Richland Co., Ill., and was en- gaged in the mercantile business there for some ten years with success. While in Indiana, he was for a season connected with the Terre Haute Female College. In 1875, he removed to Cook County, and in 1878 married Miss Mary John- son, of Richland, who has borne him two chil- dren-Fannie and May. In 1880, he bought the Rogers farm, near Downer's Grove. Mr. Cossitt is a man of books ; has read and written much and is a good speaker.
HENRY CARPENTER, retired merchant, Downer's Grove, is a native of Washington County, N. Y., born February 22, 1810, son of William and Lois (Austin) Carpenter, who were the parents of six children. William Carpenter was a native of West Chester County, N. Y., and died in Herkimer County, N. Y., in 1822 ; his wife, a native of Saratoga County, N. Y., died in 1814. Mr. Carpenter was apprenticed to the harness-maker's trade, at which he worked several years, and in 1837 came to Downer's
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Grove Township, this county ; bought a farm, brought his family there in 1839, and in 1840 moved to the village of Downer's Grove. In 1845, he built a storeroom adjoining his dwell- ing-house, and continued in business until 1857, when he sold out to Hatch & Thatcher. Since that time he has been engaged in farming ; was also in the boot and shoe business, but is now living retired. In Orleans County, N. Y., October 14, 1832, he married Martha Blanchard, a native of Whitehall, N. Y., born January 21, 1813, died October 2, 1882 ; they had three children -Walter, born November 5, 1833, a fireman on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, killed at Chicago by the bursting of a boiler ; William H., born August 6, 1842, died when young ; Martha J., born September 15, 1845, wife of E. W. Farer (the first white child born in Downer's Grove), and an adopted son of William S., employed in a notion store in Chi- cago. Mrs. Carpenter was a daughter of Ahi- mas and Mary (Tolford) Blanchard, natives of New Hampshire ; he was born April 27, 1765, died in 1817; she died in 1833. Mr. Carpenter is one of the early settlers of Downer's Grove, is an influential man, and one highly respected in the community in which he resides. He has held the offices of Assessor, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public; was Enrolling Officer during the late war. He was formerly a Whig, now a Republican.
JOHN S. COE, retired blacksmith, Fullers- burg, was born in Rockland County, N. Y., November 28, 1815 ; son of Samuel and Mary (Conkling) Coe, who were the parents of fifteen children, seven of whom are living. Ann, the eldest child, was born in 1801, and is still liv- ing, and hale and hearty. Subject's father served in the war of 1812. John S. received but a limited education, his mother dying when he was young. He made his home with his cousin, John Halsted, with whom he learned the trade of a millwright. In 1831, he went to New York City, where he learned the black-
smith's trade ; was in that city during the cholera epidemic in 1832. After working in New York five years, he went to Bristol. where he worked for Chauncey Jerome. He after- ward went to Ypsilanti, Mich., where he worked at his trade for awhile, then went to Ann Arbor, Mich., and thence, in 1839, to Summit, Cook Co., Ill., where he remained till 1841, when he located at York Centre, this county, where he engaged in farming and also worked at his trade. In 1844, he came to Fullersburg, where he ran a blacksmith shop till lately, when he retired, his son taking charge of the business. He owns -160 acres of land in this township, which he farmed for many years, but which he now rents. His children are Samu- el, Elizabeth (Mrs. James Walls), Alice (Mrs. George Long) and Clarence T. The latter was married April 7, 1882, to Libbie Chloe, of Chi- cago; and is running the shop formerly owned by his father, and makes a specialty of the manufacture of buggies, carriages, etc. Mr. Coe was director of the first school in this part of the county, and was the first storekeeper here.
SAMUEL COLWELL, farmer, P. O. Down- er's Grove, was born in Madison County, N. Y., September 20, 1842, and is a son of James and Ann (Reese) Colwell, who were the parents of four children, viz., Louise (deceased), Will- iam, Samuel and Charles. Our subject at- tended school in the country and also three terms at the O. C. Seminary, Madison County, N. Y. He has always worked on a farm, save five years, during which he was employed in the Remington fire-arm manufacturing estab- lishment in New York. He was married in 1864, to Nettie Putnam, a daughter of Benja- min and Sophia (Myers) Putnam, who were the parents of the following children, viz., Oscar, Austin, Ellen. Gilbert, Helen, Charles B., Sophia, Louisa and Elizabeth. Mrs. Colwell's mother died in 1859, when she was quite a child. Mr. and Mrs. Colwell are the parents
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of four children, viz., Edward, Benjamin, Fan- nie and Carrie. He came, directly after his marriage, to Christian County, Ill., where he farmed two years, then returned to New York, and some time afterward, came again to Chris- tian County, where he remained till 1879, when he rented 261 acres, the present farm of his niece, Louisa Lesznsky, where he now re- sides. Mr. Colwell votes the Democratic ticket; he is now Pathmaster. His grandfathers, Col- well and Myers, were in the Revolutionary war.
MRS. L. A. DODGE, Downer's Grove. Mrs. L. A. Dodge, the subject of this sketch, was born July 11, 1815, in Williamsville, N. Y. She is a daughter of George and Rosannah (Knox) Hickman, natives of Wheeling, W. Va., and residents of New York soon after marriage, and to whom were given four children as pledges of their marriage vow, viz., Felding, Reuben, Lucy A. and Hiram. The former son was with " Commodore " Perry at the time when negotiations were opened up between Japan and the United States ; was lost or died while on a voyage. Mrs. D. attended school as much as was convenient in her younger days. She was married, in 1830, at the age of fifteen, to Horace, a son of Zebulon and Salome (Thayer) Dodge, natives of Massachusetts, and parents of twelve children, eleven of whom grew up, viz., Avis (Mrs. Blodgett), Charles Parker, (deceased), Parker, Horace, Harriett, Salome, Ezra, Caroline, Seva, Mariam and Hannah. Horace was born in 1802, in Belchertown, Mass. At marriage, Mrs. D. and her husband settled at Williamsville, where he worked in a plow shop. In two years they moved to Fre- donia, same State, he continuing the same avocation. In 1836, they came to Du Page County, Ill., and settled on the farm which she now owns in Milton Township. At that time the country was a wild, raw prairie, inhabited by wild animals, with now and then a family. Here they experienced all the hard-
ships that fell to the lot of early pioneers, such as going to church on horseback, milling and marketing with ox teams and truck wagons, and plowing with the old cast iron plow, which they brought from New York. Mr. D. hauled the logs to Warrenville on one of the above- described wagons, a distance of eight miles, from which lumber was made to construct their first house. Their building was near an old Indian camping-ground and these red men often pitched their tents near by. On one oc- casion Mrs. D. was alone with three children, when one of the little fellows informed her of a large "crowd " of people approaching. She soon perceived them to be Indians, and gath- ered her babies and left the house to care for itself, retiring to a neighbor's, some distance to the south. The red men camped near the dwelling for several days and she returned to her home before they left. In their honse were preached the first sermons in this part of the country. Revs. Beggs and Gaddis often held meetings here. Mr. and Mrs. D. had ten chil- dren, seven of whom grew up, viz., Sarah (Mrs. F. Irwin), Harriet (Mrs. Theodore Aldrich), Lucy (Mrs. Webster), Rosannah (Mrs. Bracken), Horace was in Company E, Eighth Illinois Cavalry; is a physician in Colorado; Julia (Mrs. E. Willard, of Joliet), and Bertha (Mrs. Stover); she and her husband are mission- aries in Southwest Africa, where they are ac- complishing a good that will only be known on that day when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed. Mr. and Mrs. D. took every ad- vantage in their power to educate their chil- dren. After sending them a short time to the country, they hired teachers to instruct their children at their residence; they afterward sent them to graded schools, and each obtained a good education, five having taught school. Mrs. D. was robbed of her loving companion by death, August 31, 1881. She has 275 acres of well-improved land in Milton Township, a portion of their first pre-emption. In March,
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