History of Effingham county, Illinois, Part 56

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

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where he now resides. He came there and kept bachelor's hall until October 30, 1870, which time he was married to Letitia Scott, of Lucas Township. They have two children living and one dead : Francis Marion and Frances Rebecca are living ; John S. (de- ceased).

WILLIAM N. RICHESON, farmer, P. O. Elliottstown. He was born in Greene County, Ind., on the ISth of September, 1858. Ile was brought by his parents to Effingham County in the fall of 1859. They settled in Lueas Township on a piece of uncultivated land of eighty acres, in Section 10. Our subject re- ceived his education in the common schools of Lucas Township. He was reared on a farm, and in the summer he would help his father on the farm and in the winter would attend school. He would attend school about four months in the year. He was married at the age of seventeen years to Mary A. Burk. She was born in Indiana August 29, 1859. Our subject, after marriage, engaged in farming. He farmned in different places in Effingham and Jasper Counties until the spring of 1879, at which time he purchased a farm in Lucas Township. His farm is situated in Section 12, one-eighth section of which, fifteen aeres, was in cultivation when he bought it. ITis main productions are grain-wheat, corn and oats. They have three children, namely, Gibson W., Mildred and Carroll C. Ile re- mained with his step-father in Union Township and helped him until seventeen years of age. Our subject was married in 1872 to Amanda Davis, of Effingham County, at which time he removed to the farm which he had purchased of his step-father, in Section 21, Lucas Township, of eighty acres. It was all raw prairie land when he bought it. He has it all in cultiva- tion but ten acres, and is successfully engaged in the raising of grain-wheat, corn and oats, He has two children, namely, Walter E. and Meoma A.

GEORGE STRONG, farmer, P. O. Eberle, is one of the substantial farmers of Lucas Township. His parents were natives of Ver- mont, where his father, Emory F., was born in 1811, and his mother, Harriet, in 1807. Our subject was born in York State November 24, 1837. Here he resided until eight years okl. In 1845, his father removed to Michigan, where he resided until 1858, in which year he re- moved to Bureau County, Ill. In the fall of 1861, returned to Michigan, where he remained until the fall of 1874, at which time he moved to the place he now occupies. Ile bought a farm of 160 acres, fifty of which had been cul- tivated. Here he has industriously labored un- til his farm is now one of the best in the town- ship. He is a man of good education and of most excellent social qualities, and is full of original thought and intelligence. This is shown in his thoroughgoing business habits as well as in his social relations. Whether among the hills of his native State, the log- ings of Michigan, the classic shades of Cleve- land School, or the prairie of Illinois, he has ever been the same free-thinking, generous man, hail fellow well met, to all who use com- mon politeness. The writer has known him for years, and bears cheerful testimony to his integrity and true manliness. His education though liberal, far above that which is ordin- ary, was obtained under many embarrassments. He worked on his father's farm during the summers and attended school in winter until he attained his majority. After that he at- tended the Graded School at Plainfield, Mich., the High School at Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Iligh School of Cleveland, Ohio, in all of which he sustained a good standing. He was a teacher for several years, but quit that for his chosen work, farming, which he has fol- lowed the greater part of his life. He usually handles considerable stock and thus finding use for his coarse grain and other farm products that are unmarketable, and thus receives hand-

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some returns. In 1859, he was married to Miss Martha M. Beach, of Kent County, Mich., They have four fine, healthy children-Hattie, a teacher ; Mina, now married to Mr. H. Barron, so that Mr. Strong is already a grandfather though but in the prime of life ; Junia and Georgia, the baby and papa's pet. Benjamin Beach and wife, the parents of Mrs. Strong, are still living in Kent County, Mich. Mr. Strong was one of a family of six children, three of whom are living-Phila, deceased; Return, liv- ing Jerome, deceased; George, subject; Laura, living; Horace, deceased. Mr. Strong, blessed with health, a good farm, a fine family, bright prospects and much , mental vigor, is one our representative men.

NER STROUD, farmer, P. O. Elliottstown, was born in Orange County, Ind., July 4, 1840. Was brought by his parents to this county when one year old. They settled on the farm where James Adams now lives in Section 3, Lucas Township. His father settled on wild prairie land, which he entered about 1848. Subject was raised on a farm, and for several years no school existed in that part of the township, and the first school he attended he was about the age of eight years, in an old log schoolhouse about one mile and a half south of Elliottstown, and for several winters went there until he learned the three " R's." In June, 1861. he enlisted at the first call for three years' men in Company L, of Fifth Illinois Cavalry, and served until October, 1865, in the same regi- ment and company. The last three years he served as Quartermaster Sergeant, and was always on duty, and was in forty battles and skirmishes, the principal of which were: Cot- ton Plant, July 6, 1862; Rock Roe, Ark., Aug. 16, 1862; McAlpin's farm, October 22, 1862; siege and capture of Vicksburg, which lasted forty-three days, ending July 4, 1863; Clinton, Miss., July 8, 1863 ; Canton, Miss., July 12, 1863-city taken by Fifth Cavalry; Coldwater, Miss., August 20, 1863; Robinson's Mills, Oc-

tober 17, 1863, and near there on the 18th day of October occurred an all-day fight; in the rear of infantry, they fought back to Clinton, Miss .; in rear of Natchez, Miss., December 8, 1863; Champion and Dalton, Miss., February 4, 1864; Clinton and Jackson, Miss., February 5. 1864, and eight miles north of Jackson, Feb- ruary 6, 1864; Morton, Miss., February 8, 1864; February 11, 1864, skirmished and drove the enemy all day; Decatur, Miss., February 12, 1864; Meridian, Miss., February 14, 1864; Black River, Miss., May 12, 1864; Port Gibson, Miss., September 30, 1864; city of Monroe, La., February 12, 1865; city of Harrisburg, La., February 16, 1865. The company was organ- ized at Effingham, Ills., September, 1861, by Capt. H. D. Caldwell, and mustered out at Camp Butler, in October, 1865. After the war he came home, and November 5, 1865, was married to Mary F. Merry, of Decatur, Ill. They have four children-Eliza, Hattie, Pretty- man, W. Me. and William Ura. He purchased his present farm in the fall of 1865, situated in Section 1, Lucas Township, where he owns 200 acres. It was unbroken when he bought it; now he has it all under cultivation and raises grain, principally corn, oats and wheat; he plows about one hundred acres per year. Mr. Stroud is a Republican, and has served in va- rious township offices, being at present Super- visor of Lucas Township; he is serving his second year. His father, Thomas Stroud, was born in South Carolina; came with his parents to Orange County, Ind., in boyhood, and there married Eliza Aston, a native of North Caro- lina, and after marriage, engaged in farming until 1840, when he moved to different points in Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri until 1841, when he settled in Lucas Township, where he lived until 1860, when he moved to Union Township, Effingham County, and there died in 1874. He had fifteen children, of which thir- teen grew up-names are: Joseph, deceased; Ura, lives in Union Township; Eliza, married

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.V. B. Tilton, of Iowa; Lucretia, wife of James Cooper, of Quincy, Ill .; Lydia M., deceased; Sidney, deceased; Ner, subject; Samuel J., farmer, of Lucas Township; Ephraim Joy, re- sides in Kansas; Nathaniel S., killed in battle of Brownsville, Ark .; Richard Nalls, farmer in . Union Township; Austin R., lives in Wash- ington Territory. Subject's father married a second wife and have two daughters living of last marriage, names are Helena and Angeline; they reside in Union Township.

WILLIAM TATE, farmer, P. O. Winter- rowd, was born in County Down, Ireland, Jan- uary 10, 1828; he lived there with his parents until twenty-four years of age. On the 10th of April, 1852, he embarked for this country, was twenty-one days on the water, and had a most pleasant trip. He arrived at New York May 1, 1852. He went to work in a lumber-yard, remaining there until the spring of 1854; he then went to Canada and engaged in farming, and in the spring of 1856, came back to New York State, where he remained until the fall of 1857, when he went back to Canada and en- gaged in farming until the spring of 1864; he then went to Wisconsin, and remained there until the fall of 1874, when he moved to Lucas Township, Effingham County, and settled on a farm in Section 36 of 210 acres, the greater part of which was uncultivated land. Now he las about 200 acres in cultivation, his main productions being wheat, corn and oats. This year he has raised about 500 bushels of wheat, 2.000 bushels of corn, and about 2,000 bushels of oats. Ile received his education in his na- tive county, and was married in the year 1857, to Susanna Sweazey, a native of Canada. They have three children-Andrew R., Maggie Jane and Robert Henry. Our subject's father. Robert Tate, was born in County Down, Ireland, in the year 1801, and was a farmer. He died in Au- gust, 1816. Margaret MeElroy, his wife, was born in the same place and year, as her hus- band, and is now living in Albany, N. Y.

They had eight children-William, Robert. living in Michigan; Margaret, living in Al- bany, N. Y .; Jane, deceased wife of Robert MeHlafy; Mary, (deceased); Bessie, wife of Joseph Doran, living in Albany, N. Y .; Anna, wife of James Doran, living also in Albany, N. Y., and John, died when seven years old. Our subject's wife's father, Andrew Sweazey, was born in New Jersey about the year 1795, and died Canada, 1878. His wife, Hannah Dennis, was also born in New Jersey. They have five children-John, William, Andrew, Susan and Joel.

JACOB WINTERROWD, farmer, P. O. Winterrowd, one of the enterprising farmers of Lucas Township, was born in Shelby County, Ind., September 14, 1832. His father was a native of Washington County, Penn., born in the year 1802. He was taken by his parents to Warren County, Ohio, when two months old; resided there about twenty-five years up to 1827. In the same year he removed to Shelby County, Ind., and resided there until the fall of 1860, when he removed to Jasper County, Ill., and bought a farm two miles from Newton, and there died in 1869. Our subject's mother was a native of Ohio, born in Warren County, of that State, and died in Shelby County, Ind , February 2, 1836. Our subject is one of a family of five children, of which four are liv- ing-Washington, living in Ellis County, Texas; Nancy, living with Jacob Winterrowd, in Lucas Township; Kirkwood, died in Shelby County, Ind., when thirteen months old; Jacob, subject; S. J. Winterrowd, living in Livingston County, Mo. Ilis father was married again on the 8th day of June, 1835, to Dorathy Cookson, a na- tive of Shelby County, Ind. They had five children also-S. F., living in Ellis County, Texas; Elizabeth, wife of B. F. Moulden, liv- ing in Newton, Jasper Co., Ill; J. Z., lives on the old farm, two miles from Newton; M. F., (lied in Shelby County, Ind., when seventeen months old, and the other died in infancy.

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Jacob Winterrowd received his education in the subscription schools of Shelby County, Ind., although in the latter part of his school years. he attended free schools, which had then been organized. He began life as a farmer; he was around looking for a location, and eame to Effingham County, III., on the 23d of March, 1859, but not purchasing a farm, he returned to Indiana in June, the same year, well pleased with the country, and came back on September 14, 1859, and yet did not make a permanent location, and went back to Indiana November 29, 1859. He remained there until February 2, 1860, at which time he removed to Jasper County, Ill. He lived there until April 9th of the same year, then he resolved to come to Effingham County, which he did, and settled on a farm of eighty acres in Lucas Township where he is now living. When he came here it was all wild land, with no improvements whatever, but by his diligence and energy he has made quite extensive improvements, and put it all in cultivation. He added eighty acres to it in 1875; it was also wild land, but now : has it all in cultivation, and raises wheat, corn, oats and rye. He also takes a great deal of interest in the raising of thoroughbred eattle, of which he has several on his farm. He was married, in the latter part of 1853, to Avis

Goodwin, a native of Shelby County, Ind., and on January 30, 1881, his beloved wife was called home to the better world, leaving him with four little children - Millard F., W. N., Ida C. and Lily E .; Matia and Dora deceased. He was married again, on the 18th ' of October, 1881, to Sarah Thomas, of Jasper County, Ill. They have one charming little girl, Nancy.

GRANVILLE G. WOODY, farmer, P. O. Eberle. Mr. Woody is one of Lucas Town- ship's most respected and enterprising young farmers. He was born in Indiana March 18, 1853; was brought by his parents to Union Township in the fall of 1862, and settled on a farm there. He received his education in Union Township, by helping his father on the farm in summer and in winter, attending school until twenty-one years of age. He was married, on the 4th of July, 1873, to Lucy Merry, of Lneas Township. She was born October 30, 1856. After he was married, he settled on a farmn of 160 acres, about seventy-five acres being in cultivation, and the remaining eighty-five acres was raw land; his main productions are wheat, corn and oats. They have four blooming ehil- dren living and one dead : Alva Eldridge, de- ceased ; Dencie Ellen, Charles, Kearney and Burgess, living.

TEUTOPOLIS TOWNSHIP.

HERMAN D. ELLMANN, shoemaker, Teu- topolis, was born in the precinet of Tenstedte, Parish of Cappeln, in County of Cloppenburg, Dukedom of Aldenburg, January 15, 1815. He commenced learning the trade of shoemaker with his father, D. Henry Ellmann, in his native place in his sixteenth ycar. He worked with him until he was twenty-five years old. In 1840, he married Catharine Elizabeth Angelbeke, and after his marriage started a shoe shop of his own in township of Dinklage, in a country

place called Wulfennau, 'and run it for five years with fair success. He came to the United States in 1845, landing at New Orleans in De- cember, came via river to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked one year as a journeyman, when he came to Tentopolis, Ill. He only re- members five settlers here in the town when he eame. He bought two lots, where he now lives, of John F. Waschefort, and bought a partly finished house of Mr. Waschefort for $120; as soon as he finished a room, opened shop and

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became the first regular shoe-maker in the place, and has worked at his trade since the winter of 1846-47, setting on his bench from early morning until 12, 1 and 2 o'clock at night for many years. For some years he was the only shoe-maker here. He went in debt for his house and lot, and soon paid all his indebted- ness, although money was very scarce, and bar- ter was paid for work, so that it was difficult to get money enough to buy leather. lle kept one journeyman for many years. He can still put in a full day's work. His first wife died August 21, 1832, leaving no children. In March, 1853, he married to Bernandina Cath- arine Pundsack, she was born in Vechta, Olden- burg, in October, 1832, and came to this coun- try in about 1841 with her parents. They have one daughter living, Mary Anna Ellmann, born November 18, 1869. One son died in infancy.

DR. FRANCIS F. EVERSMAN, physician, Teutopolis. Francis Frederic Eversman, M. D., was born October 20, 1807, at Osnabruck in the Province of Hanover (now Prussia). IIere, also, he received the first rudiments of his education. In 1837. he came to Baltimore, where he finished his education, He then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the medical college there. During his collegiate course he worked in the drug department of a commer- cial hospital. At the end of three years, in 1850, he received the degree of doctor of medi- cine. In 1849. at the breaking-out of the cholera, though not as yet a licensed physician, he had volunteered his services, and was thus prematurely initiated into the practice of med- icine. But, in the following year, 1850, having received his degrees he entered on the regular practice of his profession at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained three years. From Cincin nati he came directly to Teutopolis (1853), here he continued to practice his profession. In 1865, in addition to his professional labors as a physician, he opened a drug store. His son, Charles Eversman, has relieved him of the

care of the drug store, but he still continues his professional labors at the advanced age of seventy-five (1882). Subject is connected with the Cincinnati Medical Society. He married Charlotta Fier, and had three sons-Henry John and Charles.

CHARLES EVERSMANN, druggist, Teu- topolis, was born in Alfhausen, near Osna- bruck, Hanover, Germany, August 31, 1843. He came to the United States with his parents in 1845. They settled at Cincinnati, Ohio, re- maining in that city seven years. In 1852, the parents came to Teutopolis, this county, where our subject has lived ever since. He was edu- cated in St. Joseph's College, and spent two years in the college of Notre Dame, at South Bend, Ind. Ile left school in 1865. At eight- een, he went to work on the farm, and conduct- ed it for three years. In 1866, his father went into the drug business here, and he assisted his father in the store for ten years, and in 1876 he became the proprietor, and has since con- ducted the drug store with good success. He has also been Assistant Postmaster for twelve years. He has been Justice of the Peace for eight years, also Supervisor three years, and Town Clerk. He takes a deep interest in both county and State politics. He was married in October. 1871, to Miss Catherine Busse, daugh- ter of George Busse, of Teutopolis Township, and has four children-Frank, Leo, Dorothea and Katie.

JUDGE HERMAN H. ITUELS, farmer, P. O. Effingham, was born near the city of Osnabruck, Hanover, January 30, 1824. He left the college of his native place and went to Paris, France, where he remained for two and a half years in the Le Sem- inaire, Du Saint Esprit, where he studied rhetoric and philosophy, and then went to Ita- ly, and visited in Genoa, Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples. This was during the reign of Pope Gregory XVI. Spent six months in Italy, for the most part in Rome, intending to study

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for the priesthood. From there he went with an English family to Bedfordshire, Eng- land, where he taught the French, German, Latin and Greek languages in an academy be- longing to the Baptist Church, for two and a half years. He came to the United States in 1846, and became Professor of Languages in the seminary at the Barrens, near Perryville, Mo., a small institution established there by the followers of St. Vincent De Paul, where young men were prepared for the priesthood. Ile remained there about one year, and in Washington, Mo., married in 1848, to Miss Clara Schwegian, and afterward was clerk in the law office of Thomas Allen, then President of the Pacific Railroad, now President of Iron Mountain Railroad. He was a large landed proprietor in St. Lonis. Subject had charge of his real estate and general business until com- ing here in 1851. Ile became a teacher of the parochial school at Teutopolis, this county, where he remained until elected Justice of tlie Peace in the fall of 1853. when he gave up teaching. He served as Justice and Associate Judge of the county until they adopted town- ship organization. He is still Justice of the Peace. He lived in Teutopolis until 1861, when he moved to his present place near Effingham, where he owns about 200 acres of farm lands, and has since engaged in farming.

For many years he did a large amount of pub- lic business for the people of Teutopolis. He also bought and sold considerable real estate. He had two children, both deceased.

FERDINAND KOLLMEYER, farmer, P. O. Teutopolis, was born in January, 1830, in Goldenstedt, Amt Fechte, Grand Duchess of Oldenburg, Germany. He is a son of Bernhard Kollmeyer, born and died in the same place. He was a farmer by ocen- pation. The maiden name of Mr. Ferdinand's mother was Maria Grave, who was born in Oldenburg, Germany, where she died, leaving three boys and two girls. Our subject went to

school in Ellenstedt, Germany, and in 1850 he came to the United States, via New Orleans and St. Louis, and settled near Tentopolis, Effingham Co., Ill., in which village he was married October 28, 1856, to Miss Josephine Puntsack, who was born in 1830, near Fechte, Oldenburg, Germany. She is the daughter of Anthon and Mary Anna Puntsack, who were born in Germany, but who died in Teutopolis Township. Mr. Kollmeyer has three children, two boys and one girl. The names of the boys are Frank and John, who have attended the college at Tentopolis. Mr. Kollmeyer is iden- tified with the Democratic party. Through his economy and industry he has acquired a nice farm of 200 acres. Is the artificer of his own fortune, having labored hard for the means by which to defray the expense of his passage across the restless, billowy sea. Is a Catholic.

FATHER P. MICHAEL RICHARDT, O. S. F., rector St. Joseph's Diocesan College, Ten- topolis, was born in the province of Saxony, Prussia, September 25, 1944. He was educated in the Gymnasium Heiligenstadt, which he left at the age of seventeen, and joined the Franciscan Order in Westphalia, and studied philosophy at Duesseldorf on the Rhine, spending six years at the two places. He spent his novi- tiate of one year at Warendorf, Westphalia. He came to the United States in 1867. and en- tered the Franciscan monastery at Teutopolis, where he pursued the study of theology two years, and was ordained priest at St. Louis, by Bishop Kenrick, and after his ordination he was Professor of Classics and Modern Languages in St. Joseph's College for two and a half years. and was at the same time sub-rector or Vice President of college. He was then transferred to same position in St. Francis Solanus Col- lege at Quiney, Ill., for five years. He then conducted the department of philosophy in the monastery for four years at Quincy, Ill. He was made President or rector of this col- lege in July, 1882. He was working in the

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ministry during all of his collegiate work, hay- ing been pastor of three churches.

JOHN H. RUNDE, merchant tailor, Teu- topolis, was born in the kingdom of Hanover, village Lathen, county of Ashendorf, August 18. 1826. He left school at fifteen to learn tailoring in his native town, serving a three years' apprenticeship, and worked three years as a hand and went to Bremen, and sailed for New York City May 3, 1849, and arrived June 18, and worked in New York City about one and a half years, and in the fall of 1850, came to Cincinnati, Ohio, and worked at his trade there until 1854, on custom work. He was married in May, 1851, to Anna Margarettha Brinker. She was born in Oldenburg in 1822; came to the United States in the fall of 1818, coming to Cincinnati, Ohio. In April. 1854, our subject came to Teutopolis with his fam- ily. He worked about two years for John F. Waschefort. Then formed a partnership with J. F. Waschefort & Co., which lasted one year in the merchant tailoring business. At the end of a year, Mr. Runde bought the stock of his partners, and on April 1, 1857, he opened a merchant tailoring establishment on the same site he now occupies and has done business for a quarter of a century. He bought a fresh stock of piece goods from Cincinnati, Ohio. His was at this time the only merchant tailor- ing house in the county, and he made four suits for parties who bet on the Buchanan and Fre- mont election. He did a good business before the war, and kept at times four hands. He drew his custom from a long distance in every direction. Ile held this large custom for many years, and still does a good business in mer- chant tailoring, clothing, and furnishing goods. He takes an active part in politics and religion, and has been Town and Church Trustee. IIe is Democrat of the old type. Mr. Runde has one son living, John L. Runde, born in Teutopo- lis August 13, 1861, and five children dead, the oldest dying in his eighth year.

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History of Effingham county, Illinois, Part 56

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