History of Effingham county, Illinois, Part 45

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, O. L. Baskin & co.
Number of Pages: 650

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of our subject, who still survives at the ripe old age of eighty-two years, is residing with him, who is the youngest child of a family of nine children, three only of whom are now living-George, a farmer, residing in Craw- ford County, Kan., and Eliza E., widowed wife of George E. Allison, a resident of Den- ver, Colo. Mrs. Painter's maiden name be- fore marriage with David Painter was Eliza- beth Mowery; she was born in Augusta County, Va., July 21, 1801, five miles from Staunton. Our subject's wife was born in Sussex County. Del., April 28, 1842. Her father was Oakley Eskridge, and her mother, before marriage, was Miss Mary Griffith; she was born in Maryland, and Mr. Eskridge in Delaware. Mr. Painter is a member of the Methodist Church; in politics, a Republican, and also an I. O. O. F.

JOSEPH PARTRIDGE, proprietor of the Pacific House, Effingham, was born in Meade County, Ky., July 26, 1832. He lived there until he was thirteen years old, when he re- moved with his parents to Evansville, Ind., where he lived in 1861. In November of that year, he removed to Cairo, III., where he lived during the war, acting as agent of the American Express Company. He was route agent of the Merchants' Union and American Express Companies, with headquarters at St. Joseph, Mo., for three years. In 1868, he engaged in the hotel business, at Richmond and Lexington Junction. Mo., and kept a railroad cating-house for a year. He was next proprietor of a railroad eating-house at Jewett, Ill., on the Vandalia line, for twenty- one months. In 1872, he came here and leased the Effingham Hotel, which he ran six years with good success. In November, 1878, he bought of D. Schmidt the Pacific House, which consists of two buildings, the main one located on Banker street, near the Vandalia & Illinois Central depot. It is a three and

a half story brick, 63x45, and contains thirty- four rooms, thirty-two of which are fitted with all the modern conveniences, including three sample rooms. The other building is a two-story brick, at the crossing of the Van- dalia and Central roads, and has a dining- room, lunch-room and sixteen sleeping-rooms. Mr. Partridge gives employment to twenty- one persons. and'a transfer wagon is run to the Wabash road. The main building was erected about 1868, at a cost of $15,600, and the other building was erected in 1850, by Mr. Partridge, at a cost of $6,000.

DAVID PHILIPS, carpenter, Effing- ham, was born in Circleville, Pickaway Co., Ohio, May 19, 1826, son of James and Eliza- beth (Wolf) Philips, he born in Anne Arundel County, Md., in 1780, was a farmer and died in 1850 in Parke County. Ind. He was in the war of 1812. The mother of our subject was born in Chester County, Penn., in 1795, and died in Edgar County, this State. They were the parents of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Our subject received some schooling in Parke County, Ind .. but is mainly self-educated. He worked on his fa- thers' farm till he became twenty.one years of age. He learned the carpenter trade in his native State, and worked at it for three years, afterward clerking for five years in Edgar, this State, during which time he also contracted for the Illinois Central Railroad Company. He was married, in Edgar, this State, in September, 1854, to Miss Margaret Love, born in Edgar County, this State, in 1835, daughter of John and Ellen (Watson) Love, natives of Ohio. Mr. Philips had five children by this wife-Elizabeth E., Maria Bell, Anna, Horace G. and Charles F. Mrs. Philips died in March, 1859. Our subject's second marriage occurred December 2, 1865, in Montezuma. Ind. He wedded Mrs. Clara A. (McDonald) Halladay, born May 6, 1826,

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in Parke County, Ind .. daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Taylor) McDonald, natives. re- spectively, of New Jersey and New York. Our subject has one boy by his second wife -Frank. In August, 1862, Mr. Philips en- listed in the Eighty-fifth Indiana Infantry. Company B, Capt. Brooks. He was First Lieutenant, and toward the close of the war he took sick and returned home and took up carpentering, which he has followed ever since. In early life, after working three years at carpentering, he met with an acci- dent by falling a distance of thirty feet with a scaffold, from which he received injuries which rendered him unable to follow his trade, and so for three years he taught school. He came to Effingham in 1867, and has since resided here. Mrs. Philips had six children by her first husband. In relig- ion, our subject is a Universalist. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, Montezu- ma Lodge. No. 59. In politics, he is a Re- publican, and was a strong Abolitionist.

HERMAN REAGELMAN, merchant, Effingham City, was born in the city of Dar- feld. Prussia, February 3, 1836. At the age of fifteen. he began to work at the stone- mason's trade, and at nineteen became a con- tractor on the public works for the King of Prussia, building turnpikes in Westphalia until 1867, and worked as high as 180 hands. In November, 1867, he landed at Baltimore, Md., and came direct to St. Louis, Mo., where he followed excavation of cellars and other contract work for about four months, and came to Teutopolis in the spring of 1868, and his first contract was on the convent, for stone work, and, after working there about two years, he came to Effingham and built the stone work on both of the mills here, and the round-house and shops of the Vandalia Railroad. In 1870, he bought his present business block on Jefferson street, of

S. W. Little, and, one year afterward, bought the Farmers' Home, on Center street, and, for one and a half years, conducted bus- iness there, and in 1871 a fire destroyed his house on Jefferson street, with a net loss of $1,000. After rebuilding, Mr. Reagelman began business himself, and is at present car- rying a good trade in groceries and liquors. In 1875, he bought the Cedar Park, consist- ing of five acres, at the terminus of Jefferson street, a portion of which is devoted to pleas- ure grounds, and is a beautiful summer resort, shaded with evergreens, and with a seating capacity for several hundred persons, a music and speaker's stand, and large dancing floor. Other parts of Cedar Park are devoted to fruit and grape culture. Our subject was married, May 2, 1871, to Miss Anna B. H. Hille, of this county. They have four daugh- ters and one son living, Lizzie. Annie, Laura, Katie, Joseph, and one deceased. He is a Democrat in politics. Mrs. Reagelman is a daughter of B. H. Hille, of Teutopolis, where she was born.

FREDERICK REINHART, butcher, Effingham, the son of Conrod and Lena (Bloom) Reinhart, was born in Hessen, Ger- many, March 9, 1837. At the age of three years, he came with his father's family to America, who settled on a farm in St. Clair County, Ill. In this occupation the subject of this sketch spent his boyhood, only alter- nating the labors of the farm with such brief terms of the neighborhood schools as offered chances for gaining a little rudimentary learning. His father having died when Mr. Reinhart was nine years old, his mother mar- ried a second time, to Mr. Henry Culp, and he continued to assist about the farm until the age of eighteen. During these years of his minority, however, his brain was not idle, and the hard toil of his willing hands by no means exhausted his energies or extinguished

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his ambition. Nerved by the desire for something worth living for; though poor, yet possessed with the riches of hardihood, frugality, and the Dutch characteristics of indomitable energy and perseverance, he made a start in life, and, notwithstanding the fact that he was shorn of all he possessed by fire, he has at the present time, and is conducting, two of the principal meat markets in Effing- ham-one on Fayette and one on Jefferson street. In connection with his regular city trade, he packs and supplies other smaller dealers throughout the county. These facts establish Mr. Reinhart's reputation for ener- gy and business capacity better than any ful- some phrases of adulation could possibly do. They mark him as a peer amongst his fellow- men, and fully justify the high esteem placed upon him by the business community in which he lives. March 9. 1857, he was joined in marriage to Miss Anna Burgmann, of Madison County, Ill. The result of this happy union was nine children born to them as follows: Carrie, wife of John Shay; they were married December 7, 1879, and have one child, Terrence: Edward, Matilda, Rob- ert, Emma, Fred and William. Those not named died in infancy. Mr. Reinhart is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge; in poli- tics, conservative Democrat. Mrs. Reinhart was the only child of her father's family. She was born in Germany in 1840.

OTTO REUTLINGER, saloon, and coal agent, Effingham, was born at Frankfort-on- the-Main, Germany, April 14, 1833, son of Johan Jacob and Katharina (Rullmann) Reut- linger, natives of Germany, where they also died. He was born in 1795, and was the fa- ther of eight children, three of whom are residing in this country. In 1813, the fa- ther was a volunteer in the Prussian service when that country was engaged in warfare against Napoleon. Our subject received his

education in his native town, where he also learned the jeweler's trade, afterward open- ing a storo of his own. He was married, No- vember 17, 1861. to Miss Eliza Schott, born in Germany June 11, 1841, daughter of Ger. hard and Emily (Knatz) Schott, natives also of that country. Mr. and Mrs. Reutlinger have ten children-Carl. Gerhard, John. Otto, Anna, Greta, Lulu, Emilie, Adolph and Nellie. Our subject came to the United States in 1880, and resided one year in High- land, Madison County, this State. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and in pol- itics is an Independent.

HON. ERASTUS N. RINEHART, attor- ney at law, Effingham, was born in Watson Township, this county, March 1, 1847. His father's family moved to Ewington when sub- ject was small, and the father bought a prai- rie farm about two miles south of Effingham. and subject, with three brothers, opened this farm, and reduced it from wild prairie to cul- tivation. In 1869, he entered Mckendree College. at Lebanon, Ill., and remained there two school years. He began the study of law in 1871, and studied about eighteen months with Cooper & Kagay, and was ad- mitted to the bar in February, 1871, and has practiced law here ever since, first as partner with John C. White for a year, and afterward with W. H. Gilmore for three years, and since then by himself. He was City Attorney in 1872, and was elected, on the Democratic ticket, in 1878, to the State Senate, from the Thirty-third Senatorial District, for four years, and was renominated August 3, 1882, at Windsor, for a second term. He was ap- pointed, by the Circuit Court, Master in Chancery, in 1850, and is still serving. His father was Daniel Rinehart, born in l'airfield County, Ohio, in 1812. He married Barbara Kagay February 9. 1839. He came to this county in 1841, and was soon afterward elect-

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ed Justice of the Peace, serving until 1844. He first settled in Watson Township; entered the farm now owned by Michael Sprinkle. He moved to Ewington, being elected Coun- ty Clerk of Effingham County, and served one term. and was defeated by Thomas M. Loy for a second term, and while Loy served his term, he kept a store and ran a pork. packing house. He was then again elect- ed County Clerk, and served in all eight- een years, serving until 1869, being nom- inated and elected last time without op- position. He died January 8, 1877, on his farm, where his widow still lives. He also served as Treasurer and Assessor of the coun- ty in 1844. In 1849 and 1850. he was a merchant. He had six children-four sons and two daughters, all of whom are living but the oldest daughter. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics was a life-long Democrat.

HANLEY R. ROBBERTS, grocer, Effing- ham City, was born in Decatur County, near Greensburg, Ind .. April 19, 1834. He was raised on a farm in Indiana, and received a common-school education. He came to Illi- nois the first time in 1S51, and lived in Fay- ette County for ten years, on a farm, and was engaged in farming near St. Elmo at the out- break of the war. He went to Greensburg, Ind .. where he bought a stock of goods, and engaged in merchandising two years there, and then came to Altamont, this county, in 1863, and, with his father-in-law, Joel Blake- ly, built a livery stable in Altamont, which, in the fall of same year, they traded for a farm near Mason, this county, which he conduct- ed for about two years, then exchanged it for a hardware stock of goods at Richmond, Ind., and brought the stock to Mason, Ill., at once, and dealt in hardware for about five years, when, on account of his wife's failing health, he traveled through the Western States of

Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska, and returned to Effingham in November, 1880, and has since engaged in the grocery business here. He is at present located on Railroad street, where he has a good trade in groceries and provisions. He was married, July 2, 1865, to Mary Elizabeth Blakely, a daughter of Joel Blakely, of Fayette County, III. Mr. and Mrs. Robberts have three children liv- ing-Sarah J., Mabel, Louis R.

MICHAEL RUSSELL, deceased, was born in Ireland December 15, 1829, and came to this country with his parents about 1830. His father settled at Burlington, Vt., where he was engaged principally as gardener until his death. in 1865. Subject grew up in Bur- lington, Vt., where, at the age of fifteen years, he began to learn the brick-layer's and plasterer's trade, at which he worked in Bur- lington until 1852-three years as journey- man-when he removed to city of Worcester, Mass., and engaged in the ice business for two years. He came to Chicago, Ill., in March, 1856, and worked at his trade there during summer, and in November left. to work on station houses of the Illinois Cen- tral Ralroad, plastering, and built flues, first at Edgewood. this county. afterward at Fa- rina, Kinmundy and Centralia, where he located until 1863, and his wife died there October 23, 1863. Mr. Russell was at the time working in Effingham, and. after the death of his wife, brought his only son here, whom he placed in school at Teutopolis, and located permanently here. He worked at his trade at intervals ever since. About 1867, he became a member of the old hook and ladder company of Effingham, and, after purchase of an engine, a member of Deluge Fire Company No. 1, and has been Foreman of that company for three successive years, and is now serving his second term as Chief of the Fire Department of Effingham, ap-

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pointed by the Council, with the concurrence of that company. He was elected Justice of the l'eaco in the spring of 1SS1, for a term of four years, by the Democrats. He also conducts a collection agency. He was Town- ship Collector during three terms, at differ- ent times-first, in 1865, one term, and in 1879 and 1880. Married, iu April, 1866. to the widow of the late David M. Shepheard, of Mason, IH. Has one son and one daugh- ter-Cora and Della. He was first married to Miss Julia Power, of Burlington, Vt., in 1850. One son was born of that marriage. who was drowned in the Mississippi River, near St. Louis, Mo., in June, ISSI, in his twenty-seventh year. His name was Edward M.

JOHN SCHELLENBACH, iron foundry, Effingham City, was born on the River Mo. selle, Province of the Rhine (now Prussia), March 1, 1834. When eight years of age, he went to Paris, France, where he lived un- til eighteen years of age, and where he worked in a chemical laboratory in the man- ufacture of gas and water tubes. He sailed from Havre de Grace in 1852, and landed, November 9 of that year, in New Orleans, La., where he remained four months, when he went to Hamilton, Ohio, where he entered the employ of Hon. Lewis D. Campbell as overseer of his farms in Butler County, Ohio. He remained with him about five years, and had charge of a large farm there until 1858. About this time, he engaged his services to Long, Black & Allstatter, manufacturers of reapers and mowers, at Hamilton, Ohio. He remained with them as machinist until the fall of 1861, when he volunteered in Col. Campbell's regiment, Sixty-ninth Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, and served until January 11, 1865, when he was mustered out at Co- lumbus, Ohio. He was a Sergeant at the bat- tle of Stone River, and was after this assigned

to the Corps of Engineers, and was de- tailed a member of the corps of Topograph- ical Engineers at Gen. Rosecrans' headquar- ters, and remained in this capacity, with the Army of the Cumberland, until the battle of Atlanta, when he was assigned to Gen. Sher- man's headquarters, and served there until his term of service expired, in January, 1865. He was employed in making maps for the movements of the army. After the war, our subject, with his brother, M. Schellenbach, and William Bechtel, of Hamilton, formed a partnership and built a foundry and ma- chine shop at Seymour, Ind., and, in about one and a half years, subject bought his part- ners out, and ran the business until 1872, when he sold out and went to Columbus, Ind., where he was foreman of the machine- shop of Pine, Bush & Co., for about seven months, when he went to St. Louis, Mo., where he worked in the Eagle Iron Works for about one year, when his family took sick and he returned home. In 1874, he bought the old St. John Foundry at Shelbyville. Ind., and ran it for about six months, when he moved it here, and, in April of 1875. located near the Vandalia Railroad. He erected the present shops that year, which consist of a brick, 50x25, with a frame foun- dry in the rear. He employs six men con- tinuously, and has an engine of six-horse power. They do a general jobbing and re- pair business, and manufacture Perkins and Lambert's patent stove casting, and do all kinds of house work, and molding in iron and brass. Our subject was married, Feb- ruary 7, 1858, to Miss Rosalie Schaffner, of Hamilton, Ohio. She was born in Alsace. France, and came to the United States in 1857. She was a governess in France and Germany in several noble families. Mr. and Mrs. Schollenbach have eight children living -Anna Paulina, now Sister Hyacintha, a E

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teacher in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception at Oldenburg, Franklin Co., Ind., in charge of the order of St. Francis; John Albert, at Milwaukee, Wis .; Michael, Peter, Henry L., George W., Margaret R., Anna Clara, at home.

DR. L. J. SCHIFFERSTEIN, physician, Effingham City, was born in St. Marie, Jas- per Co., Ill., March 1, 1850. At fifteen years of age, he entered St. Louis University, where he spent a year, and next spent a year at Bardstown, Ky., in St. Thomas College. In 1867, he became agent of the Adams Express Company at Olney, Ill., and was thus en- gaged until the fall of 1869. During these two years, he employed his spare time in the study of medicine, under the direction of Dr. H. A. Lemon, of Olney. In 1869, he went to St. Louis, and, shortly after, entered the St. Louis Medical College, from which he grad- uated March 17, 1873, after which he became Assistant Physician in the City Hospital at St. Louis for one year. He came home in 1874, and practiced at Olney, Ill., until May, 1882, when he took charge of the Eye and Ear Department of Effingham Surgical Insti- tute, with Dr. J. N. Groves. During his medical studies in St. Louis, subject spent each summer with Dr. H. Z. Gill, Professor of Eye and Ear College, and pursued those studies as specialties, and has since given them special attention. Before he entered upon the study of medicine, he was a practi- cal chemist for about fourteen years.

W. SCHNAVELIUS, saloon, Effingham. He was born in Selters, Germany, in 1835. His father's name was W. Schnavelius, who was born in the same place June 1, 1800. His mother's name was Augusta Guenquest. She was born in Emmerichhein, Germany, at a date unhnown to the subject of this sketch. In this family there were four children, named in the order of their births as follows:

Henry, Augusta, Hermine and Elise. Our subject was educated in Weisbaden (Ger- many) High School. At the age of sixteen, he became engaged as a seaman on board of a merchantman. He served five years in this capacity as Second Mate, during which time he several times visited the Chinese ports, San Francisco, New York and other ports in the United States. In 1855, he joined the Russian Navy, and served one year, after which he bought and commanded his own vessel, a merchantman, and made several trips to the United States. He was married, in Germany. in 1862, to Miss Elise Ketteler, of Papenburg. By the union they have had the following children: Augusta and William. Augusta was born in Germany, and William in Effingham, Ill. Wife's father's name was An- tone Ketteler, and mother's maiden name was Katrine Biedenhorn. She was born in Ger- many. Our subject's father and mother both died in Germany, and are reposing in St. Goorshausen Cemetery. The father died in 1853, and mother in 1858. In religion, sub- ject is a Lutheran; in politics, a Republican. The name of the vessel in which he was first employed was the Venerve. His own was named Amphitrite.

GUSTAVUS S. SCHURICHT, M. D .. Effingham, was born in St. Louis, Mo., June 1, 1853, and was raised in that city. He was educated in the Concordia Academy at St. Louis, and began the study of medicine in the summer of 1869, reading with Dr. R. Luyties, and at the same time entered the St. Louis Homoeopathic College of Medicine and Surgery, and pursued a special course under Drs. Helmuth, Comstock and Luyties, dur- ing the summer vacation. In 1869, he en- tered the college proper, and attended three regular courses of lectures, graduating Feb- ruary 29, 1872, and, at the competitive ex- amination, won the prize medal as the most

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proficient student in chemistry. Shortly af- ter his graduation, he located at Columbia, Monroe Co., Ill., until 1874, and then re- turned to St. Louis for over a year. In the fall of 1875, he went to New Orleans, where he practiced until 1878. He came to Effing- ham in October, 1878, where he has since practiced with good success, and is at pres- ent the only representative of his school in the county. He is a member of the Western Academy of Homœopathy.

JOSEPH P. SCHWERMAN, farmer, P. O Effingham, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 25, 1849, son of Joseph F. Schwer- man, who is mentioned in the historical part of this work. Our subject received his school- ing in Effingham, and has been engaged in farming all of his life, living with his father till the age of twenty-six. He was married, in Effingham, June 22, 1879, to Miss Mary Ungrun. born in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 23, 1833, daughter of George and Margue- rito (Tiepen) Ungrun, natives of Germany; he died in this county, where she is still liv- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Schwerman have one child, Joseph Lawrence, born August 25, 1880. Mr. Schwerman has 213 acres of land, and carries on general farming. He is a member of the Catholic Church, and in poli- ties is a Democrat.

DR. JOHN O. SCOTT, retired, Effingham, is a native of Davidson County, Tenn., where his infant eyes first stared in wonder at this curious world December 8, 1805. He was reared on his father's farm, within six miles of Nashville. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, in the mounted cavalry, un- der Gen. Coffee, being severely wounded, December 28, in the skirmish preceding the battle of New Orleans. The family moved into Nashville after the wounded father re- turned from the army. In the city of Nash- ville. John O. Scott's boyhood and meager

attendance in the schools, until he was fif. teen years of age, were passed, neither in affluence nor in poverty. The family needs were such that, at the age of fifteen years, the serious work of life commenced, and the boy was put to work in a bakery, where he labored for one year. Almost in the days of his own infancy, being only sixteen years old, and in the year 1822, in the babyhood of Illinois, he caught the infection of the romance of the far West; the land of hope and promise in its newness, fresliness and breeziness, and, in company with his fa- ther, made the long trip, on horseback, to Franklin County, in this State. The light- hearted boy hero encountered for the first time the " Illinois shakes," an indigenous Western animal, and it is no figure of speech to say it " floored " him. Between "shakes," he shook the Franklin County dust from his heels, and, with his father, went to Gibson County, Ind., where the two engaged in farming. In 1825, being then twenty years of age, he returned to Clay County, III., making a short stay here. He joined a fam- ily named Elliott, and, in company with them, moved to Shelby County, passing en- tirely through what is now Effingham Coun- ty, and camping one night at Blue Point. (This is referred to fully in the general coun- ty history.) In 1827, he returned to Gibson County; for the next year. he worked as a farm hand at $10 a month, in Posey County, and returned to Shelby County, Ill. In 1831, he came to this county, and worked a short time on the National road, and the next spring, 1832, he returned to this work, and this time came to make this his permanent home. Thus, fifty-seven years ago, he was here, passing through this wild desert waste, and for fifty years and more he has been a citizen of this county. He located and made his first improvement in what is now Jackson

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History of Effingham county, Illinois, Part 45

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, O. L. Baskin & co. Number of Pages: 650

Author: Perrin, William Henry, d. 1892? ed
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, O. L. Baskin & co.
Number of Pages: 650