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Stephen H. Howe, farmer, Thawville, son of Stephen and Nancy Howe, was born in Genesee county, New York, July 23, 1836. When 29
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he was two years of age his parents removed to Livingston county, New York, where they remained four years. They then came to Racine and finally removed to McHenry county, Illinois, where his father died. His father was by trade a carpenter, but devoted himself largely to farming. In February, 1862, Mr. Howe married Miss Mary J. Lockwood, daughter of Zephaniah Lockwood. They have three chil- dren : William H., born November, 1862; Mattie L., born December, 1864; and Oscar, born August, 1876. In 1865 Mr. Howe came to Iro- quois county and commenced farming operations on the northwest quarter of Sec. 4, T. 25, R. 10. He engaged largely in stock-raising and general farming,-manufacturing his own dairy products. He has a fine farm of 120 acres.
Lemuel Grove, farmer, Onarga, came to this county in the spring of 1866, from Fairfield county, Ohio, and settled in Ash Grove, where he remained three years. He then removed to this township and located on Sec. 35, T. 26, R. 10, where he now lives. Mr. Grove was born February 3, 1836. His father served in the war of 1812. His wife's father was a major in the Ohio militia during the Mexican war. Mr. Grove was married in Ohio, October 17, 1865, to Miss Mary E. Jackson, who was born September 8, 1846. At the first call of the president for 75,000 troops, Mr. Grove enlisted, and immediately after the discharge of the three-months men, he reenlisted in Co. F, 46th Ohio Inf. At the organization of his company he was made orderly- sergeant, and acted as such for about two years. He was then appointed first lieutenant and soon after was made captain, which rank he held at the time of his discharge at the close of the war. Mr. Grove saw his first heavy fighting at Pittsburg Landing. He was in the cam- paigns of Corinth and Vicksburg, also in the movements and battles in and around Atlanta, and in Sherman's march to the sea; then up the route pursued by Sherman, and his military career in the "twenty-one miles of boys in blue," at Waslington. Mr. Grove served in some of the hardest fought battles of the war. True, he had received some slight wounds, but was always "ready for duty," until at Atlanta, August 3, 1864, he received a gunshot wound in the eye. Mr. Grove was sent to the hospital, and after remaining a month was offered his discharge, but refused it, and served through the remainder of the war. The ball is still in his head. That is the kind of men who assisted so efficiently in putting down the greatest rebellion the world ever saw. Mr. Grove has had seven children. The eldest died in infancy. The names of the six living are : Alice E., John S., Etta P., Gracie J., S. Lillian and Jesse. Both the parents are consistent members of the M. E. church.
Addison R. Butler, farmer and dairyman, Thawville, son of Elias
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and Mehitable Butler, was born in Farmington, Maine, September 4, 1840. In 1851 the family removed to La Salle county, Illinois, and settled on a farm. Mr. Butler was brought up on a farm, and received such an education as the limited advantages of that time afforded. In 1866 Mr. Butler purchased the land in section 6, town 25, on which he now lives. The following year he came to this county to remain. February 19, 1868, he married Miss Julia Shear, of Seneca county, New York, who was at the time visiting her brother, J. C. Shear. She was born February 13, 1834, and is the daughter of Peter P. and Sarah Shear, who were Quakers. They have had three children, two of whom, Luella and Estella, are dead. The living child is named Addi- son. September 7, 1861, Mr. Butler enlisted in Co. A, of Yates' Sharpshooters, afterward known as the 64th Ill. Inf .; was disabled through sickness from active service and discharged. Mr. Butler was one of the active promoters of the "Thawville Dairy Association," and at present has the business in charge. He is also supervisor of the town of Ridgeland, and was chiefly instrumental in securing its separation from Onarga.
Charles Cornwell, farmer, Onarga, moved to Iroquois county twelve years ago, and settled on the farm he now occupies, northwest of the village of Onarga. He is the son of Gilbert and Samantha Cornwell, and was born in Schoharie county, New York, March 23, 1831. In 1846 the family moved to Tazewell county, Illinois, and here his father engaged in farming. Indeed, Charles has passed his life on a farm. November 9, 1853, he married Miss Maria Lovelett, who was born February 22, 1834, in Westchester county, New York. They have three children : Dora S., Lester L. and Arthur H. They are members of the M. E. church. Mr. Cornwell and family represent in character and home qualities that type or class who have given such a pronounced social elevation as characterized the people in this section of Iroquois county.
William R. Veatch, farmer, Thawville, was born in Ross county, Ohio, November 6, 1830. He is the son of Thomas J. and Catherine Veatch. His father died when he was very young. Mr. Veatch mar- ried Miss Margaret E. Fearl, September 23, 1855, in Ross county, and soon after, with all his goods, mother, brothers and sister, with three- horse teams, traversed the country to Livingston county, Illinois, where they located and commenced farming and cattle-raising. Here Mr. Veatch remained until 1869, when he removed to this county, and settled on the N.E. ¿ of Sec. 5, T. 25, R. 10, where he has since resided. He has a fine farm, and has been successful in his business, and is highly respected in the community. Mr. Veatch has given much
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attention to the raising of "graded " stock. He is a director in the Farmers Pioneer Fire and Lightning Insurance Company. He has five children : Henry F., George H., Lenora D., Margaret U., Thomas S. Henry is married and living in Artesia on a farm.
FOUNTAIN CREEK TOWNSHIP.
Fountain Creek was a portion of Ash Grove, and was early known `as the Ash Grove country. The Grove, a corner only of which skirts this township, was the first timber, as travelers came north from Bicknell's Point (Rossville), between which point and this was the stretch of prairie which had a dread to those passing over, either in the storms of winter or the terrible dangers of summer fires. Foun- tain Creek is the center of the southern tier of townships, being bounded on the north by Ash Grove, on the east by Lovejoy, on the south by Vermilion county, and on the west by Pigeon Grove, and is described legally as town 24, range 13 west of the 2d principal meridian, being a full congressional township of thirty-six sections. The creek runs directly across the town from section 34 to section 1. The soil is rich and deep, having very few untillable acres ; the prairie is sufficiently rolling, and there is little that could be added to improve it. As before stated, there was no timber in this town- ship, except the scattering belt along Fountain creek, on the northern line of the town. The land gently slopes toward the north, and run- ning across it are the small branches of Mud creek, having a general northeastern direction, and are fed by numerous springs, which make its water sufficient for stock purposes at almost all times of the year. For many years,-and indeed yet among the old settlers down along the Middle fork, -the stream was known as Bussing creek. When Mr. Ambrose Wood came here to live, not liking the name, and having no one to say him nay in all this open tract, he moved and unanimously carried an amendment which changed its name to the more appropriate one of Fountain creek. There were at that time no artesian fountain wells here to suggest the name, but the later development of those remarkable and valuable fountains, has given both an additional value to the land, and a shade of appropriateness to the name not then dreamed of. There are, in regard to artesian wells, many theories and facts which are interesting, for those living in a region so bountifully watered by these wonderful natural gifts, to study. The surface of the land in Iroquois county is well known to be very nearly level, and it is believed (the writer not having access
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to any figures of actual survey) that no portion of the county is one hundred feet higher than any other portion. Whatever of declivity there is, is toward the north. From the high ridge of land lying south of Rankin, the streams all make toward the north. We should expect therefore, under the generally received theory of a subter- ranean reservoir which is forced upward by a great body of water in some higher region of the country, that the water would be reached nearer the surface, and that the outflow would be stronger the farther north we go. This is not true. So far as known, no flowing wells have been opened or artesian water found south of the line of Iroquois county until Bean creek, twelve miles south, is reached. All efforts to reach it failed at Paxton, though it was sought to the depth of several hundred feet. The well at Dr. Ludden's, on sec- tion 33, is the farthest south. In these southern townships, Fountain Creek and Pigeon Grove, flowing wells are reached at depths vary- ing from 42 to 65 feet. In Artesia, wells of about the same depth do not flow. Along the line of the Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw rail- road, a few miles farther north, the depth of flowing wells is more than one hundred feet. Farther north, in the vicinity of Plato, 140 feet seems to be the customary depth. At Chebanse, the well which supplies the water-works is 120 feet deep, but the water rises only to within twenty feet of the surface; while at Langham creek, where the surface is a few feet lower, the wells flow, as was to have been ex- pected, but it cannot be supposed that the surface at Chebanse is more than twenty feet higher than the surface at Dr. Ludden's, forty miles farther up stream.
Ambrose Wood came here to live and took up land in section 27, in 1854. He came here from Blue Grass, in Vermilion county, and brought lumber for a house with him from Higginsville. The severe snow-storm which visited all this region of the country in January following, caught him before he had his domicile ready, and he found it necessary to fly to Blue Grass for shelter. This storm, which will be found frequently alluded to in these pages, has hardly been exceeded in severity or length in the twenty-five years which have followed since that time. There was at that time no house between here and Blue Grass, though Father Schwartz settled where he now lives, three or four miles south of East Lynn, about that time. Mr. Wood made his home here, and for a number of years made a business of herding cattle. He entered this land on 27, and farmed part of it. At that time the lack of material for fencing seemed to be the great drawback to farming. Land was cheap, it is true, but the expense of fencing a farm at this distance
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from timber, especially where one owned no timber lot, was suffi- cient to amount to a prohibition. Timber land was held at prices that no poor man could buy, being considered worth from $40 to $65 per acre. Hedging had hardly been thought of, and farming without fences was practically out of the question. It had not then been discovered that the law ought to compel every man to take care of his own animals.
Jehu Judy came here about the same time from Blue Grass, where his family had long been and still is one of the leading families. He took up land in section 14. The Seemly post-office is kept by him, and is served by post-rider from Wellington. The office was estab- lished about four years ago.
John Leemon, a native of the north of Ireland, came into the country in 1857, and lived near the Hoopes farm nine years, after which he bought 520 acres in sections 27 and 34, where he now re- sides. He kept house "by himself all alone " for some years, and by careful management and frugal industry has worked out the dream of his youth when he left the land of his nativity,-a comfort- able farm and a lively family. The wild desert waste which stretched from Hoopes' farm to Loda was,unbroken by anything which could be called civilization. The Manns,'down in Vermilion county, with the traits of true Britons, used to come up into John's neigh- borhood (in fact he was the neighborhood then) to hunt. They brought a pack of eighteen hounds for the purpose, and "wae worth the deer " that they got track of. After game got scarce down on the North Fork, John Mann never felt more at 'ome than when coursing through this region with some of his English visitors on track of deer. It was rare sport; and none seemed so well able to enjoy it as those whose traditions for generations are bound up in real or mythical legends of the chase.
Among the "game" which was notoriously numerous here at times in the early days were the pesky green-head flies. Mr. Leeman says that at certain seasons they were so troublesome that ordinary farm-work had to be abandoned in the daytime. Many horses could not endure the torment of these troublesome pests. He has fre- quently done fall plowing by moonlight, that his teams might be protected from the annoyance. Good crops of wheat were raised during his earlier farming here, and the influx of new comers made the market demand good.
Mr. William Leland, one of the family which has a world-wide reputation as hotel-keepers in most of the large cities of the United States, purchased 800 acres of Mr. George C. Tallman (a part of his
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swamp land speculation), and proceeded to improve and stock it with sheep, fine horses and cattle. This was probably about 1858. Mr. Leland did not come on here himself and build a six-story marble- front hotel, but spent a good deal of money here. Mr. Robert Carey came here as his representative, and carried on the enterprise awhile. Mr. Leland, tiring of it, leased it to Mr. Carey, and finally sold it.
Parmenus Ludden came here about 1857 and engaged in farming. His brother, Dr. B. M. Ludden, came here about five years later from Indianapolis, and has been largely interested in farming and other avocations. Section 32 is a part of the Rankin property. The Messrs. Rankin own some six sections of land around Rankin in Vermilion county, joining this, and carry on a large cattle business.
It was not until after the war that the great prairie range of which this township was a portion was brought under the plow. Until then a large portion of it was only used as grazing ground for herds of cattle driven here froin La Salle county on the north, and from Texas on the south. The adoption of the law requiring every man to fence his own cattle, instead of fencing his crops, which never trespassed, gave new value to these lands, and permitted men to buy and farm them without the great expense of fences.
William Goodwin has a farm of 1,000 acres in the northern part of the township. He is extensively engaged in raising and feeding cattle. Several other of the farms which were more lately brought into cultivation only lack the additions which time alone can bring to make them as beautiful and attractive as any spoken of.
As soon as possible after Mr. Ambrose Wood came here he used every endeavor to encourage and build up the institutions of religion. A firm and devoted member of the Methodist church, he missed the opportunities which he had formerly enjoyed where he had resided. Father Coleman, of Onarga, occasionally preached here, and Rev. Messrs. Moody, Appy and Sullivan had appointments here. The first class was formed at the school-house near the Bethel in 1869. The church was built in 1872, under the ministration of Rev. Mr. Bishop. It is a plain and well proportioned edifice, 28×40, and cost about $1,900. Mr. A. Wood, John Reed and James T. Jones were trustees and building committee. Mr. Calhoun is the present preacher. This charge remained a portion of Ash Grove circuit until 1877, when it became attached to and a part of Wellington circuit. Preaching services are held here each alternate Sabbath. A Sabbath school has been maintained in summer.
The New Omish church (German) has a strong organization in
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this town. They hang with peculiar tenacity to the cardinal doc- trines of their organization. Among their strong articles of faith and practice is opposition to debts and litigation. No member is permitted to contract a debt without the reasonable prospect of being able to pay it; no church debts are ever permitted under any circumstances ; lawsuits are forbidden : even following or prose- cuting a thief is forbidden. When the inillennium does come, one can readily imagine that the Omish brethren will be found some- where in the front guard of those whose hearts will be found re- joicing at its coming.
By the census of 1870 Fountain Creek had 435 native-born inhab- itants and 68 foreign-born, making a total of 503. The school cen- sus would indicate that its population has nearly doubled in ten years. The township was set off from Ash Grove in 1869. B. M. Ludden was first supervisor; Robert Carey, clerk; Ambrose Wood, assessor ; J. W. Wise, clerk; and Jehu Judy and John Leemon, justices of the peace. The present officers are: Robert Carey, supervisor; James T. Jones, clerk (ninth year); J. W. Wise, assessor ; James Jordon, collector ; and Andrew Wood and James Jordon, justices of the peace.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Benjamin Ludden, East Lynn, was born in Williamsburgh, Hamp- shire county, Massachusetts, November 27, 1815. All of the Luddens in America, so far as known, have descended from two brothers of that name who came from England, one of them being the great-grand- father of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Ludden's parents were Ben- jamin and Hope (Miller) Ludden, both natives of this country. He received a fair education in the town of Williamsburgh, and was pre- paring to enter college, when he was compelled to desist by weakness of his eyes. He went south and taught in an academy in Virginia and at various other places in different states. He was married at Plym- outh Hall, Connecticut, in 1842, to Louisa S. Hammond, who was born in Vermont. She was a lady of rare intelligence, and aided Mr. Ludden in his teaching at Williamsburgh, his native town; also at Collinsville, Connecticut, and lastly in the Female Seminary at Circle- ville, Ohio, in the years 1847 and 1848. After leaving the teacher's desk he entered the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati and grad- uated therefrom with honor in 1850. He practiced the two years fol- lowing, and had a small stock of drugs about eiglit miles nortlı of Cin- cinnati. He then removed to Indianapolis with his stock of drugs, which business he enlarged ; also started the first china tea store in the
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city, and continued in the practice of his profession here until 1861. Mr. and Mrs. Ludden are members of the Congregational church, and during their stay in Indianapolis Mr. Ludden was one of the projectors of the beautiful and costly church edifice belonging to that denomina- tion in that city. From Indianapolis Mr. Ludden came to the south part of what is now Fountain Creek township, where his brother, who now lives in Savannah, Georgia, owned a large tract of land. When Mr. Ludden came here there was nothing but " sky and grass and grass and sky." The farm now consists of 1,040 acres, lying in sections 33, 34 and 28. He bought a half interest in the farm from his brother and has, since coming here, devoted his time and energies to improving this property. The farmers around had to go long distances to town and post-office. Dr. Ludden, seeing the need of such institutions as a farmers' store, blacksmith-shop and post-office, went to work and estab- lished them. He also put up a wind grist-mill that did good service in its day. To use the doctor's expression, he began to "centralize " here, but after the advent of the Lafayette, Muncie & Bloomington railway a few miles south, the institutions of "Luddenville" took a new lease of life at East Lynn, on the railroad in Vermilion county. The doctor has a large stock of general merchandise at this place, where he and his wife reside in the winter. In the summer they live at their pleasant home on the farm. Dr. Ludden has been postmaster at Luddenville and East Lynn for seventeen years. He is a republican and has been closely identified with the interests of Fountain Creek township, having served as supervisor ever since its organization, excepting three terms. He has no children.
John Leemon was born in Neury, Armagh county, Ireland, about the year 1827. He came to America in company with J. L. Hamilton, of Watseka, in 1850. The " boys" husked corn the first winter in Jersey county, Illinois, at two cents per bushel. John Leemon was early attracted to the cheap and valuable lands in the southern part of Iro- quois county. He entered some lands in Lovejoy township, and moved on. to his farm in section 33, in 1857. He built a house and set orchard and other trees, and lived here until 1865, when he moved to his present residence in Fountain Creek township. His farm here, contain- ing 520 acres, is the one first improved by Mr. Wood, and is nicely situated, Fountain creek flowing through the western part. He also owns his old place in Lovejoy, containing 440 acres, and 125 acres adjoin- ing in Vermilion county, besides a quarter-section in Christian county, which was his first entry of public lands. Mr. Leemon was married, August 29, 1865, to Lodema Brown, a native of New York, and the daughter of John and Catherine Brown. By this union they have had
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five children; names and dates of birth follow : Izele, born June 28, 1866, and died January 9, 1879; Mary Eliza, born April 12, 1868 ; Robert A., born November 19, 1871; John, born October 27, 1874; and Charles, born February 11, 1879. Mrs. Leemon is a very intelli- gent lady, having taught several terms of sehool before her marriage to Mr. Leemon. She was educated at the Clarence Academy, near Buffalo, New York. Mr. Leemon, besides successfully carrying on his farming operations, devotes considerable attention to raising and feed- ing stock.
Alonzo Carman, farmer, Seemly, was born in Vermilion county, Indiana, December 2, 1843. He grew up in the town of Perrysville, Indiana, attending the schools in that place. In February, 1862, his father died. He then went to Wea Prairie, in Montgomery county, Indiana, where he followed farming and dealt in stock. Having good success there he came to Fountain Creek township in the fall of 1867, and bought 480 acres, most of which was raw sod. He improved this farm which he sold in 1876, and bought a farm in Milford township, which he kept but a short time. He came to the place where he now lives February 1, 1877. At first he bought 235 acres and added 80 acres more in 1878. He was married, October 10, 1865, to Mercy A. Lunger, of Montgomery county, Indiana. Her parents were first settlers of Wea Prairie. By this marriage they have three children : William A., born April 9, 1867; Frank L., born August 3, 1872 ; and Lewis W., born January 10, 1874. Mr. Carman has attained his present comfortable and independent circumstances through his own industry, honesty and good management.
Lemuel B. Russell, farmer and stock-raiser, Milford, was born in Williamsport, Warren county, Indiana, November 30, 1829. His parents, William and Fanny (Hall) Russell, came from Ohio to Indi- ana in 1829. His youthı, up to the age of sixteen, was spent on a farm near Williamsport, to which his parents had mnoved shortly after his birth. When sixteen he began to work for himself, and in 1859 he was able to buy 160 acres in Warren county, Indiana, which he kept and farmed three years. He then sold out and came to the farm that he now owns in the northeast corner of Fountain Creek township, which also extends into Ash Grove and Lovejoy towns. He first settled in the woods on his farm, in a log house, where he lived four or five years. He then built a fine residence near by, and has since erected a large barn. He was married, December 29, 1859, to Eliza- beth Hickman, daughter of Peter J. Hickman, of Warren county, Indiana. They have two children living : Charles A. and Lemuel B .; also one dead, named Peter W. Mrs. Russell is a Methodist. Mr.
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Russell feeds a large number of cattle and hogs each year. He values his farm of about 550 acres at $35 per acre.
Jehu Judy is the postmaster at the office in Fountain Creek, called Seemly. He was born in Hardy county, Virginia, February 19, 1825. His parents were Nicholas and Mary A., who were born and brought up in Virginia. The early life of Mr. Judy was spent on his father's farm in Virginia, which he left in October, 1849, and came to Blue Grass Grove, in Vermilion county, Illinois. He worked on a farm in the summer and split rails in the winter. In the spring of 1851 he entered 240 acres, where he now lives, and in 1852 erected a small house into which he moved a year later. He was married the first time, September 7, 1852, to Lucinda Haigler, a native of Virginia. By this union they had two children : Phebe M. and Lucinda H., both of whom are dead. Mrs. Judy died June 13, 1855. Mr. Judy was married the second time to Elizabeth M. Bible, also a native of Virginia. There were two children by this marriage : Mary J. and Susan V. The last named died in infancy. The date of this second marriage was March 18, 1856. The second Mrs. Judy died October 13, 1862, and Mr. Judy was then married for the third time to Tabitha M. Slusher, June 7, 1863. Her parents were Virginians, but she was born in this county. By this union they had seven children : Charles L.,. Jacob M. (dead), Sarah O. (dead), Minnie M., Martha H. (called Hattie), and Tabitha M. (called Tease), also anotlier who died in infancy. Mr. Judy's third wife died November 14, 1875. He was married again December 12, 1876, to Cinderella M. Green, a native of Indiana. By this marriage they have had two children : Clara V. and Jeliu G., bothı of whom died in the fall of 1879. The post-office of Seemly was established November 23, 1874, with Mr. Judy as post- master, which position lie has since held. Besides being a good farmer and stock-raiser, Mr. Judy has also been a carpenter and, a blacksmith. He does his own blacksmithing yet. He has made the most of his money in later years by feeding stock. He owns a splendid farm of 650 acres lying on both banks of Fountain creek. West of his resi- dence, on his land, stands tlie United Brethren church, to which Mr. Judy contributed in labor and money about $700. He and his present wife are members of that church. His other wives were also members of the same church. He is a republican.
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