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EDWARD GOODNOUGH, retired farmer, P. O. Downer's Grove, was born in Vermont August 9. 1803; son of Liberty and Susan- nah (Barney) Goodnough, natives of Vermont and parents of eleven children, of whom two are living. viz., Edward (subject) and Ira. Subject attended one of the log-cabin sehool- houses of that day, during three months of the year, and worked on the farm. In 1843, he came to Downer's Grove, bought 110 aeres of land, which he farmed until 1867. when
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he sold out and removed to the village of Downer's Grove, where he lives retired from active business life. He married, in 1825, Lura A. Harmnon, who has borne him three children, all living, viz., Harmon, Antoinette (married Mr. Trumbull, and they have one child-Florence, an efficient school teacher), and Ann Eliza, now Mrs. Alf Nixon, of Austin, Ill. Mrs. Goodnough is a daughter of David and Adelia (Overton) Harmon, who were the parents of eleven children, all living, the eldest being over eighty, the youngest over sixty-one years; they are as follows: David, Samuel, Lura A. (Mrs. Goodnough), Eliza, Lydia, Chauncey, Joseph, Mary, Franklin, Nancy and Joel. Eliza Harmon, Mrs. Good- nough's sister, married Ira Persons; came to Downer's Grove in 1865; they had two sons --- Edwin and Chauncey, the former killed at the battle of Gettysburg, the latter at Bull Run. Liberty Goodnough, subject's father, was in the war of 1812. Mr. Goodnough and wife have long been members of the Baptist Church.
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J. R. HAGGARD, physician and surgeon. Downer's Grove, was born in Clark County, Ky., October 29, 1839. His parents, David J. and Sarah A. (Edmonson) Haggard, are natives of the same State; they had four children-J. R .; Sarah, married to James Shaw, farmer in Nebraska; Z. W. and George T., farmers in Nebraska. The parents are liv - ing in Nebraska. The Doctor came with his father's family to Scott County, Ill., in 1840. He took an academic course at Winchester, this State, and then entered the popular school at North Prairie. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and remained until the close of the war; was a private, and afterward Hospital Steward. He began reading medicine in Scott County with Drs. Skilling and Brengle. He was
wounded in the left hip at Kennesaw Mount- ain. On his return from the war, he resumed his studies; was elected County Superintend- ent, which position he took in 1865. At- tended lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich., and Rush Medical College, Chicago, graduating from the latter institution in 1868. He be- gan practice at Winchester. Ill., the season before he graduated, and was selected as County Physician for Scott County. In 1869, he located in Knox County, where he met with good success, and, in 1870, came to Downer's Grove, where he has since remained. In 1877. he was elected County Superin- tendent, which position he filled with credit for four years. In Winchester, Scott Co., Ill., September 24, 1867, he married Fannie H. Avery, a native of that county, born Octo- ber 3, 1846, daughter of Daniel and Eliza- beth (Haxby) Avery, he a native of New York, born March 19, 1819, died in 1866; she, a native of England, still living, was born in April. 1825. Mr. and Mrs. Haggard have been blessed with four children-Laura A., born November 1, 1868; David A., born June 9, 1870; Robert C., born June 23, 1874; and Ralph Waldo, born August 18, 1876. The Doctor is a member of Winchester Lodge, No. 105, A., F. & A. M.
CHAUNCEY HARMON, retired mechanic, Downer's Grove, is a native of Oswego County, N. Y., born April 1, 1813; son of David and Delia (Overton) Harmon, he a native of Con- necticut, born January 20, 1772, died in Jefferson County, N. Y., August 7, 1859, where his wife, born March 18, 1782, who was a native of Long Island, also died, July 2, 1841; they were the parents of eleven children, all living; the eldest being over eighty years, the youngest over sixty-two years of age, named as follows: David, Samuel, Lura, Ann Eliza, Lydia, O. J., Chauncey, Joseph W., Mary, Ben- jamin and Nancy J. Chauncey attended a pri-
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vate school in Massachusetts for a year, and, while quite young, went on a whaling voyage to the Indian Ocean. He afterward engaged in railroading on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad as an engineer, having learned to run an engine while in a machine shop, and, after being on that road about two years, transferred to the Great South Carolina Railroad, from Charleston to Augusta, and, af- ter one season, engaged on the Alabama, Mem- phis & Charleston Railroad for nine years. He then traveled for about four years, and, in 1842, located in Downer's Grove and engaged in carpentering, building houses, railroad bridges, etc. He married, November 6, 1850, Mary L. Rogers, sister of J. W. and Capt. Rogers, of this place, and from this union two children have been born-Isabel A., wife of J. W. Tucker, of Aurora, and Velonia, wife of E. H. Andrews, corresponding clerk of the Northwestern Bank, Chicago. Mrs. Andrews is engaged in the millinery business in this place, and has a large patronage. Mr. Harmon is a Republican; his parents were active members of the Baptist Church.
J. HULANISKI, real estate and building material dealer, Hinsdale, was born in 1839, in Chicago, and is the son of Julian and Mar- cia (Tuttle) Hulaniski, the former a native of Poland, and the latter of New York State. The father graduated at the Warsaw Poland University; was a Colonel in the battle of Warsaw in 1833, soon after which engage- ment he was banished to this country, thus being robbed of a vast fortune. Upon arriv- ing in this country, he engaged in civil en- gineering in New York State; he was also at one time Professor of Languages at the Uni- versity of Richmond in Virginia. After this, he was engaged in civil engineering in Keo. kuk, Iowa, where he was living with his fam- ily at the time of his death, in 1855; he had seven children, five of whom are living, viz.,
Julian, Polonia, Thaddeus, Edmund and Frederick. Our subject obtained a good business and literary education at Keokuk, Iowa, where he spent a portion of his younger days in civil engineering with his father. In 1861, subject entered the Chicago Post Office, where he remained two years under P. M. Scrips. In 1863, he became chief clerk of the general freight department at the Canal depot of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in Chicago, which position he held ten years. From this time, he held various positions in railroading, until June 1, 1882, when he withdrew, and, August 1, started his present business at Hinsdale. He is doing some building, as well as dealing in lime, cement, brick, lumber and real estate. In 1861, he married Miss Fannie Hugunin, by whom he has one child-Dora, who keeps house for him, her mother having died in 1871. In 1869, Mr. Hulaniski bought his present property and erected buildings at Hinsdale, where he is one of the Village Trust- ees. His daughter is a Congregationalist; he is a Unitarian, and a member of the Board of Village Trustees.
WILLIAM J. HEARTT, farmer, P. O. Downer's Grove, was born December 2, 1812, in New York State; is the son of Daniel and Jane (Calander) Heartt, who came to Illinois in 1838. In 1845, the family moved to this township, and bought 120 acres of land. known as the "Covely farm; " here they re- mained but a few years, when they returned to Chicago. There, subject's father, wlio had been Deputy Sheriff and Constable many years, died. Subject's mother is still hale and hearty at the age of ninety-three. Will- iam attended school until fourteen years of age, wlien he began working in a harness shop in Massachusetts, he having partly learned that trade with his father. Here he remained until 1837, when he came to Pike County,
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Ill., where he built a harness shop of his own. In 1840, he located in Chicago, whero he ran a "stage wagon," carrying passengers to different parts of the country. Here he remained two years, when he located on a farm in this county. Two years later, he bought 133 acres of land, a part of his pres- ert well-improved farm of 180 acres. In 1839, Mr. Heartt married Susan B. Roberts, daughter of John and Sallie (Davis) Roberts, natives of New Hampshire, who settled in Canada, where Mrs. Heartt was born in 1821. Her parents came to Pike County, Ill., in 1836. They both died in 1874, were promi- nent Methodists, he being a class leader forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Heartt have thirteen children-George B., Mary J., Edwin, Em- ma, John, Jerusha, Smith, Sarah, Emily, Chester, Rolla, Frank and Ira. George and Edwin served during tho late war, the former in Company B, Thirty-third Illinois Volun- teer Infantry, the latter in the Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry. Mr. Heartt is one of the early pioneers. On his farm stands a cabin, 10x12, which was the first schoolhouse in this neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of the M. E. Church, of which Mr. H. is a Trustee.
GEORGE HOFFMIRE, farmer, P. O. Lemont, Cook County, was born March 5, 1807, in Germany, son of L. and Mary (Brin- kle) Hoffmire, who were the parents of six children-Joseph, George, Leonard, Mary, Abbie and Julia. Our subject attended school very little, but has managed to acquire sufficient education to fit him for the transac- tion of all necessary business, and has that which is ofttimes more valuable to a man than "book larnin"-common sense. In 1837, he was married to Susan Hoffman, and has five children-Abbie, Vila, John, Nick and Charlie; they came to Illinois in 1837, when he worked by the day at any kind of
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labor on farms. In 1875, he bought 112 acres, his present farm in Will County, which is highly improved. Himself and wife are members of the German Church at Lemont.
WENDEL HIX. butcher, Hinsdale, was born June 9, 1832, in Germany; is a son of John and Barbara (Raerich) Hix, natives of Germany; she came here in 1863, and died at the home of our subject; he died in his native country. Mr. Hix is one of ten chil- dren, three of whom are living. After at- tending school eight years in his native country, our subject was engaged in farming and butchering. He came to New York in 1852, and remained thore till 1854, when he opened a butcher shop in Naperville, Du Page County. Here he remained until 1880, when he began the business at Hinsdale, since following the same, having a large patronage at the present time. He has been engaged in this business all his life, and but few are as well posted in the same as he. In 1855, he was married to Josephino Loos, a native of France. She bore him eight chil- dren, all of whom survive. They are Richard, Louisa, France, Peter, John, Mary, Willie and Josephine. His consort died in 1877, and, in 1880, he married Mrs. Caroline Ditz, who had been a resident of Hinsdale since 1870. She came to this country in 1857, and settled in Chicago, where her former husband was engaged in a planing mill. Mrs. Hix is a member of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Hix is a Catholic, and votes the Democratic ticket.
MITCHELL HEINTZ, harness, Downer's Grove, was born January 5, 1842, in France, now a portion of the German Empire, son of Mitchell and Catharine Heintz, who were the parents of nine children, all living- Catharine, George, Ellen, Mitchell, Mary, Sarah, Frederick, Christian and Charles.
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The whole family came to this country in 1851, landing at New Orleans, whence they came to Chicago and from there to Naper- ville, where they rented land for two years, and then bought forty acres in Downer's Grove Township. The father and mother died within one year of each other. Our subject was educated in the schools of this county, and began farming. In 1861, he enlisted for the three-months service, in the Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but remained two years. Was wounded at Vicks- burg by a shell, from which he lost an arm. In 1871, he was married to Catharine Mich- i el, who has borne four children, only one of whom is living-William Fred. Mr. Heintz went into the manufacture of harness at Dowuer's Grove with George E. Downer, and is doing a good business. He also has a farm of eighty acres, well improved, also house and lot in Downer's Grove. Him- self and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and he is a Republican. Mrs. Heintz's parents were natives of Germany: they had five children-Thomas, Catharine, Julia, Mary, and Eva (dead). They were also Lutherans.
HENRY HOGREFE, farmer, P. O. Gow- er. was born in Germany in 1841, and is a son of Frederick and Mary Hogrefe, the lat- ter dying when the subject was quite small. The father lives in this county with his chil- dren When thirteen years of age, our sub- ject came to America with his father, and for two years lived with his uncle Bermen. He then commenced work for Mr. Mendel (his present brother-in-law), where he remained ten years. In 1872, he settled on his present farm of 160 acres. In 1863, he married Mena Hasamier, by whom he has six chil- dren, viz., Willie, Henry, Louise, Sophia, Jacob and Emma. Subject and wifo are Lutherans. He has been School Director.
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JACOB JEANS, farmer, P. O. Gower, was born in England July 31, 1821; is the son of Charles and Keziah (Williams) Jeans, natives of England, and Episcopalians. Our subject closed his school days when twelve years old, and commenced to work in the blacksmith shop with his father; he also learned the shoemaker's trade. He came to Illinois in 1847 with Judge Morey. Henry Dike and others. The company landed in Chicago, and our subject began working for a commission merchant. In 1848, Mr. Jeans was married to Mary Coan, and settled at North Branch, sixteen miles from Chicago. where they rented land for two years, after- ward renting at Romer. In 1852, our sub- ject bought eighty acres of land, a part of the 1003 acres of fine land upon which he now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Jeans bave had seven children, five living-Mary A., Harriet, Cath- arine, William C. and Jacob T. Mr. Jeans has plowed with the ox team, and experi- enced all the hardships of pioneer life. About nineteen years ago, he lost his health, and has since been an invalid. Notwithstand- ing this, he takes a deep interest in general improvements, literary productions, etc.
MRS. A. P. KENNEDY, Hinsdale, was born in Tompkins County, N. Y., November 11, 1833, daughter of John and Mary A. (Slater) Sears, he a native of Connecticut and she of New York; her parents settled in Lake County, Ill., in 1845, where her father had purchased land in 1840, with the view of getting his sons interested in rural life, yet they all sought other occupations; her father graduated at college and carly began labor as a minister of the Baptist Church. which he continued until his death, in Iowa, at the age of sixty-one. Almost immediately after marriage, he and his wife were sent to Fort Wayne, Ind., as missionaries among the Indians. The father of Mr. Sears was also
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a minister, and for a time assisted his son at Fort Wayne, after which he returned to Ohio and died there. The mother of our subject survived her husband several years; after selling the old homestead, she located in De- troit, Mich., where she died at the age of seventy-one. Their union resulted in eight children, as follows: Eliza, Olivia, Anna, J. J. (deceased), Lucy, Harriet, Sarah and Asa. Mrs. Kennedy was married in 1866 to A. P. Kennedy, of Saratoga County, N. Y .; he was born in 1814 and was the son of Lanson and Electa (Kellogg) Kennedy. Subject's hus- band was an early settler of De Kalb County, having come there in 1840; was a member of the First Congregational Church of Chicago. May 2, 1881, while the family were residing at Downer's Grove, Mr. Kennedy fell into a well and was drowned. Mrs. Kennedy has four children-Lina, Asa S., Grace and Carl S .; she now resides in a beautiful residence in this village, possessed of an abundance of this world's goods, sufficient for the comfort and happiness of herself and children through life.
VALENTINE KLINE, farmer, P. O. Gower, was born in Germany in 1815, and is a son of Valentine and Margaret Kline, residents of Germany. Subject attended school until fourteen years of age, when he commenced to work at farming. which he continued until 1845, when he emigrated to this country. Soon after landing, he was married, in Buffalo, N. Y., to Sallie Shupp, who came over in the same vessel with sub- ject. Soon after marriage, they settled in Du Page County, where they worked by the month until 1846, when they purchased eighty acres of land. This has been added to until now Mr. Kline has 120 acres of well- improved land, the result of his own labor. In connection with his, farming, he raises a good many fine cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Kline ar
are the parents of four children, viz., Sally, Mrs. Jacob Lehman; Frederick; Magdalena, Mrs. Lawrence Vix, living in Nebraska, and Catharine. They are all members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Kline is a Republi- can.
DAVID KLINE, merchant, Downer's Grove, was born May 20, 1838, in Alsace, France (now Germany), son of David and Catharine (Wickersham) Kline, natives of Europe. David Kline, subject's farmer, emi- grated with his family to America and settled in this county in 1853, where he bought 125 acres of land; he died in 1871, his wife in 1853; they were the parents of nine children. Subject received an ordinary education, and worked on the farm till 1863, when he en- listed in Company C, Sixty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served about two years, participating in the battles of the campaign from Dallas. Ga., to Atlanta, Ga .; in the battle at the latter place, July 22, 1864, he lost his left leg, which was taken off above the knee. He engaged in the grocery business in 1868; afterward took J. W. La- selle in partnership for four years; then with- drew for about two years and Lasalle moving the goods, Mr. Kline put in a full line of goods in his present building; he carries a general stock and does a good trade. He married. in 1875, Miss Lena Heintz, who has borne him three children, viz., Edwin, Albert and George, he also had by a former marriage one child-Rosa. He has filled the office of Trustee; he is a Republican; polled his first vote for Lincoln. Mr. Kline attends strictly to business himself; is a pleasant, genial gentleman, and enjoys the confidence of all; he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church.
KLINE BROTHERS, farmers, P. O. Downer's Grove. John and Mathias Kline among the leading farmers of this town-
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ship; they are the sons of David and Catha- rine (Wickersham) Kline, natives of Alsace, Germany; they came here in 1854, settling where the subjects now live; here the father died in 1870, the mother having died with cholera at Chicago just before the family came to this county; the parents were Lutherans and had twelve children, nine of whom grew up, viz., Catharine (Mrs. Shuster), Mary (Mrs. Storm), David, Jacob, John, Mathias, Sarah and Caroline. The subjects of this biogra- phy have never married, and their two youngest sisters are keeping house for them. They are making a specialty of Durham cattle on their elegant little farm; they vote the Republican ticket.
WILLIAM C. KESSER, farmer, Lemont, Cook County, was born December 18, 1847, in Blair County, Penn., son of Valentine and Martha (Brower) Kesser, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1842, and settled in Pennsylvania, but afterward removed to Lock- port, Will County; they had eight children, six of whom are living - William, Sarah, Martha, Alice, Emma and Sylvester. The father is dead, but the mother is living with subject. Mr. Kesser has always followed farming, with the exception of one year, which he spent as a traveling salesman for a Cincinnati tobacco house; he is unmarried, and lives with his mother and sister Emma; they have fifty-five acres of land in Will County, and twenty- eight acres of timber at another point; makes some specialty in rais- ing Clydesdale stock. His father was a shoe- maker, and had a shop on the farm. The family have acquired their property since they came here, and are industrious and fru- gal.
HENRY M. LYMAN, farmer, P. O. Dow- ner's Grove, was born in Vernon, Oneida Co .. N. Y., October 27, 1821, and is a son of Orange and Marcia (Dewey) Lyman. Orange
Lyman was born in New Hartford, Litchfield Co., Conn., July 26, 1781; died at Downer's Grove July 16, 1851, and was buried at Na- perville; his wife was born in Sheffield, Mass., April 30, 1796, died in Iowa January 9, 1873. Mr. Lyman removed with his parents to Chicago in 1838, and, the following year, came to Downer's Grove Township. He at- tended school in Ohio, in which State his parents lived for several years, and, at the age of seventeen, began teaching school in Will County, Ill .. Judge Williams, of Chi- cago, being one of his pupils. In Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio, September 18, 1850, he mar- sied Lovancia Pease, born in Madison, Ohio, December 23, 1821, daughter of George and Lucinda (Campbell) Pease, natives of Con- necticut and parents of six children, viz., Lovern. Lovancia, Carlos C., Lauren S., Sarah B. and Granville W. Mrs. L's mother was a distant relative of the poet Campbell. She was educated at Oberlin College, and taught school for several terms in Lake County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Lyman are the parents of two children: Sarah Estella and .Walter Campbell. Our subject has 265 ares of well-improved land, on which he makes a specialty of raising Durham cattle; he brought his stock here over thirty years ago; he was one of the first Road Commissioners of this township, the most of the early records of which were written by him; he was chosen Foreman, by Judge Blodgett, of the United States Grand Jury of this district in the i great whisky prosecution. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church; he is a stanch Republican. Mr. Lyman's parents, Rev. Orange and Marcia (Dewey) Lyman, were among the early settlers here. Our subject is one of seven children, viz., Stephen D., Cornelia, Henry M., Thomas, Euratas, Mary E. and Edward. In the pos- session of Mr. Lyman is a barrel which was
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shipped to the family over forty years ago, by some of the relatives, containing dried apples, and a bag of specie, with which "coin" they paid for their first piece of land, a part of the old homestead.
THOMAS LYMAN. real estate dealer, Chi- cago, Downer's Grove, was born in 1824; son of Rev. O and Marcia (Dewey) Lyman, he a na- tive of Connecticut, she of Sheffield, Mass .; they came to Downer's Grove Township in 1839. Subject's father was a Congregational minis- ter, and was one of the first clergymen in Downer's Grove, where he died in 1851; his wife died in Iowa in 1873; they were the parents of seven children, three of whom are living. Mr. Lyman received his education in the East and at Chicago, and, at the age of nineteen years, entered a store as clerk. When twenty-three years old, he, in company with his brother Stephen, opened a store at Rockton, Ill., thence removed to Iowa, re- maining in business there eight years; he then engaged for ten years as real estate agent in Chicago for parties in the East, and represented for many years more property be- longing to Boston capitalists than any other dealer in Chicago. For the last seventeen years, he has been engaged in the general real estate business on his own account, and owns a great deal of property in Chicago; he built Portland Block, one of the best in Chi- cago. In 1847, he married Miss P. Clark, of Ashtabula County, Ohio; they have had one child -- Bessie, wife of R. Giddings, who is in business with Mr. Lyman, with whom they reside. Mr. and Mrs. Giddings have one child-Edward R. Mr. Lyman attends very closely to his business, in thirty-eight years not having lost more than two months' time from actual business, save a few weeks' vacation each year; he settled at his present place, in Downer's Grove, in 1867, where he has a fine residence. He is well known
throughout the United States as a dealer and breeder of fine Jersey cattle. Mr. Lyman was originally a Whig, now a stanch Repub- lican.
R. LYMAN, farmer, P. O. Lemont, Cook County, was born in Massachusetts in 1824; his father, Liberty, was born in 1794, and his mother, Lucinda (Sikes) Lyman, in 1796; they were natives of Massachusetts, and set- tled in Michigan, where the father died in 1863; the mother of subject is still living; they were the parents of ten children. At the age of twenty-two, our subject started on foot for the Southwest, with only $10; this soon gave out, and he then chopped wood and logs for a time: he finally came to Le- mont, III., where he took charge of a squad of men employed in constructing the Illinois & Michigan Canal. In 1850, he engaged in mining and the lumber business in Califor- nia, which he continued sixteen years; he was married, in 1856, to Mary G., daughter of George W. and Adaline M. (Sharp) Alder- man, who came to Illinois in 1838, settling where subject now resides, he dying in June, 1879, she in June, 1875. He returned from California in 1866, and farmed here two years; then went back to California, where he stayed four years, then made his final set- tlement on the present farm in Downer's Grove Township, containing 167 acres of land, in Sections 6 and 7. Mr. and Mrs. Ly- man are the parents of eight children, six of whom survive, viz., George L., Marua (Mrs. A. Bannister), Henry M., Nellie S., Zolia B. and Sylvester A. Mr. Lyman was Supervisor while in California; heisa Republican. He is making a specialty of Holstein cattle and Poland-China hogs.
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