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PAPINEAU VILLAGE.
When the railroad was built, there was some question about what the town would donate, and the company did not locate the depot, and the town plat was not laid out, until the following spring, 1871, when Dr. D. K. Cornell and Mr. Hay, who owned about half a section in T. 28, laid out 60 acres of the north half of the southeast quarter into blocks and lots. Dr. Cornell was a physician here, and now resides at Taylorville. Mr. Hay resided at Nashville, Illinois, and died there. In the fall of 1870, however, Rice, Lottinville & Co. built a depot for the company north of Beaver creek, and erected a set of scales there and commenced buying corn and live stock. They pur- chased 190,000 bushels of grain that winter. The next spring the depot and business was moved here. Savoie & Barney put up the
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first building to keep store in. It stands on the corner north of the post-office. They carried a general stock of goods, and were assisted by Mr. Charles F. Lottinville, a young man of excellent natural abili- ties, aided by considerable experience at Cairo and other places. This firm continued in business a year. The next store was built by Hubert Lepage on lot 6, block 6. He put in a stock of goods, but soon sold to Barney & Co. Dr. Wagner commenced business and carried it on a while, and is now engaged in keeping hotel and in insurance. Oliver Barney engaged in mercantile business in 1876. Thomas Lot- tinville bought Savoie's interest in the store in 1874, and in 1876 Charles F. and Henry, his brothers, entered into a partnership with him, which has proved successful and has continued. Charles is postmaster and carries on the drug trade. Philip Kaufman opened a store in 1874, which he sold the following year.
William E. Stone bought grain here during the first year, and was succeeded the next year by Massy, Letourneau & Co., who continued the grain and lumber trade for two years, when Mr. Comstock put up the warehouse and extensive cribs. W. F. Risley, from Joliet, com- menced the same year to buy grain for Simon & Co., and continued until 1875. Rosenberger & Co. bought grain for a time, and Mr. Pape became a partner for one year. C. F. Lottinville was appointed postmaster first in 1871, and served three years. Mr. Risley succeeded him two years, then Joseph Langellier two years, when Mr. Lottinville was again appointed. This was made a money-order office July, 1879. D. K. Cornell was first physician. Dr. Critzer, the present physician, is county coroner.
Papineau was incorporated under the general act in 1874. Under the first election F. Langdoc was president; Jolin Massy, Ezra Savoie, Octave La Plante, A. P. Shipley and Thomas Lottinville, trustees ; C. F. Lottinville, clerk; and Joseph Laveaux, treasurer. The present officers are: Thomas Lottinville, president; Ezra Savoie, Theodore Englebert, Frederick Tegg, Anthony Goyette and Milton Froge, trus- tees ; C. F. Lottinville, clerk ; Henry Lottinville, treasurer ; E. P. Shipley, police magistrate ; and A. W. Froge, constable. The school is in charge of Mr. S. H. Byrns, a very successful teacher.
The Roman Catholic Church, a neat and substantial structure, 30 ×55, was built in 1872, at a cost of about $1,200. It is yet unfinished internally. It suffered a partial removal once, having been blown from its foundation in a severe gale. Rev. Father Rouquier, of St. Mary's, and Rev. Father Lettellier, of St. Anne, have in turn ministered to the people here, but they have no resident priest.
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BIOGRAPHICAL.
David N. Lowe, farmer and stock-raiser, Kankakee, was born at Covington, Indiana, November 23, 1827. He is a son of Peter and Julia A. Lowe, and came with them to this county in 1834. They settled near Mount Langham, in what is now Kankakee county. His early youth was spent with his parents, engaged in farming and stock- raising, the country at that time being very new and sparsely settled. His advantages for education were very limited, yet he has become suffi- ciently educated to do an immense business in his line. He is truly one of our self-made men, beginning with nothing and now owning 800 acres of very valuable land in this county and some in Nebraska. He raises and deals in large numbers of cattle yearly, and has made the breeding and raising of graded short-horns a specialty the last few years. February 24, 1859, he married Miss Martha J. Pruett, daugh- ter of Meredith Pruett, late of Iroquois county, and immediately located on his present home farm, on Sec. 14, T. 29, R. 13, which is now one of the finest in this part of the county. His success has been equaled but by few in this part of the state. He lias seven chil- dren, all living: Flora M., Lloyd W., Bell A., Perry B., Melvin M., David N. and Mary Leonora. His political principles are republican, but he takes no active part in politics. He has been strictly temperate from youth.
Philip Jones, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, was born in what is now Papineau township, Iroquois county, Illinois, March 28, 1839. He is the first person born in the township that is now living in the same, and is a son of Mr. Henry Jones, the first settler and pioneer of the township. His early youth was spent with his parents, engaged in farming and stock-raising and attending school, though his advan- tages for education were very limited ; yet by the care of his parents, the aid of a teacher hired by subscription, and a determined will, he acquired a good common-school education. He was one of the first to attend the first school taught in the township of Papineau,- Miss Dilly being the teacher. June 4, 1861, he volunteered his services to his country, and became a member of Co. F, 25th Ill. Vol. Inf. His first engagement with the enemy was at the battle of Pea Ridge. From that time on he participated in much hard fighting. He was wounded at the battle of Stone River by a ball entering the corner of his mouth, coming out of the back part of his cheek, and was honora- bly discharged September 5, 1864. On May 2, 1867, he married Miss . Margaret, daughter of Mr. Thomas Sammons, one of the early pio- neers, and fourth sheriff of this county. She was born November 1, 1844, in what is now Kankakee county, Illinois. He has one child,
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William Henry, and owns 100 acres of land (a part of the old farm on which he was born), and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He is one of the true men of which his neighbors should be proud.
Fabien Langdoc, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, whose portrait appears in this work, was born March 24, 1830, in Papineauville, Can- ada. He is a son of Joseph Langdoc, formerly a member of the house of representatives of Canada. He lived with his parents, engaged in farming, till 1850. He then came to Illinois and settled in Papineau township, Iroquois county, and engaged in farming and stock-raising. January 7, 1851, he married Miss Margaret Miner, a native of Canada, who was born July 8, 1831. He had sixteen children, ten living : Joseph, Victoria, Victor, Josephine, Salem, Arcade, Albert, Fabien T., Samuel and Saul. He has filled the office of supervisor one term, county coroner two terms, and school treasurer eleven years. , He owns 240 acres of land, and commenced in Illinois with $2.50. He is a gentleman of ability, integrity and honor, and was never known to waste time or money in anything.
Henry Lottinville, dealer in general merchandise, Papineau, came to Illinois in 1851, being then about two years old. With his parents and their family he was almost lost by shipwreck on Lake Erie, August 19, 1851, while on board the steamer Atlantic, which sunk on that date. He was rescued the last minute before she went down. His early yonth was spent in Iroquois county, Illinois, with his parents. He was deprived of the advantages of education, as the country was new when he came to this county ; bnt a determined will secured him a fair education. February 6, 1865, he enlisted in Co. K, 147th Ill. Inf., and served one year. He then engaged in farming for others, but in 1868 bought a farm, and in 1870 engaged in farming and stock- raising, and followed that business about six years. He then sold his farın and engaged in the mercantile business in the village of Papin- eau, as one of the firm of Lottinville Brothers, in which business he is now engaged. January 6, 1872, he married Miss Georgiana Boulle, who is a native of Canada. He has two children : Eugene and Jose- phine.
Thomas F. Switzer, farmer and stock-raiser, Waldron, Kankakee county, was born in Ross county, Ohio, June 25, 1823. At the age of six years he came to Warren county, Indiana, where he lived with his parents, engaged in farming and stock-raising, that part of the country then being very new and very few white settlers. He was deprived of the advantage of education, but by the aid of his parents and his own determined will he obtained a fair education. April 20, 1851, he married Miss Margaret Connor, a native of Indiana, and on
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the next day started for Iroquois county, Illinois, with an ox-team and wagon, with all his worldly effects, and after three-days travel arrived ' in what is now Aroma township, Kankakee county, Illinois, at that time it being Iroquois county. His farm now joins the Iroquois county line, where he preëmpted government land and engaged in farming and stock-raising, which business he now follows, making it a success not equaled by many in this part of the state. At the time he settled here his nearest market was Chicago, where he has hauled corn a distance of seventy-five miles and sold it for twenty-five cents per bushel. He has hauled wheat from Warren county, Indiana, to Chi- cago, a distance of 150 miles. December 12, 1862, his wife died, and on July 2, 1865, he married his second wife, Mrs. Susan Hall, who is a native of New York, and was born June 15, 1830. He had five children : Casandra J., Martha E., Americus, Thomas B. and Bertha A. He owns 740 acres of very valuable land, all earned by industry and close attention to business. Since 1867 he has turned his atten- tion to the breeding and raising of full-blooded short-horn cattle. He is a member of the M. E. church, and aided largely in building the Boucher Chapel. He has been strictly temperate from his youth.
Thomas Lottinville, merchant, Papineau, son of Antoine Lottin- ville, was born at Riviere du Loup, Canada, March 20, 1840. He lived there till 1851, when with his parents he removed to Papineau, Iro- quois connty, Illinois. His first year in Illinois was spent clerking in Bourbonnais and St. Anne. After that he engaged in farming with his father, and so continued till 1862. He then married Miss Dilema Savoie, who was born July 31, 1842, and was a native of Canada. February 10, 1865, he volunteered his services to his country, and became a member of Co. K, 147th Ill. Inf. He served one year, returning home February 10, 1866, and again engaged in farming till 1868, when he sold out and moved to Kankakee city, and returned again in 1869 to Papincan. The village at that time was located, and he engaged in the grain business, putting up the first scales and buy- ing the first load of corn bought in the town. In 1873 he engaged in the mercantile business, in which he still remains. He has filled the office of assessor six years, constable seven years, and president of the village four years. On his way from Canada he was shipwrecked on Lake Erie while on board the steamer Atlantic, August 19, 1851, and was rescued from the sinking vessel the last minute before she went down, losing all he had but his night-clothes. He has four children ; Flora, Adeline, Mary and Nellie.
Arthur W. Frogge, dealer in lumber and coal, Papineau, was born in Iroquois connty, Illinois, April 2, 1852, where he still lives. During
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his youth he remained on the farm with his parents, engaged in farm- ing and going to school. October 30, 1873, he married Miss Sallie C. Clark, of Iroquois county. They have one child, Inez. In Novem- ber, 1877, lie located in Papinean, and engaged in the lumber and coal business. His father, Mr. Arthur R. Frogge, was born January 14, 1811, in Kentucky. During his early yonth he lived a short time in Tennessee. In 1851 he came to Iroquois county, Illinois, bought a farm and engaged in farming and stock-raising. He has six children : Ellen, Milton, Sarah, Arthur W., Benton and Frank. He now lives in the village of Papineau, and is quite smart for a man of his years.
George Ducharme, farmer and stock-raiser, St. Anne, was born in Montreal, Canada, July 24, 1832. After living near where he was born thirteen years, with his parents he came to Chicago, and there remained about eight years attending school. April 9, 1852, in company with his brother he started for California with a team via the plains, arriv- ing in Hangtown, California, Angust 9 of the same year. After a stay of about two years he returned home by the way of the Isthmus, crossing at Nicaragna, arriving in Chicago October 13, 1854, bringing back $1,200 in gold. In the autumn of the same year he removed to St. Anne, Kankakee county, Illinois, and about a year later removed to Iroquois county, and settled and built the first house where St. Mary now stands. Having bought a farm he engaged in farming and stock- raising, and so continned eight years. He sold his farm there and again bonght land, this time in the northeast part of Papineau township, in section 15, town 29, range 13, where he now lives engaged in the busi- ness of farming and stock-raising. He now owns 240 acres of land all earned by his own careful management and industry. February 5, 1855, he married Miss Delphine Fancher, who is a native of Canada, and was born October 15, 1841. They have nine children : Delia, David, Levi, Sopliia, Flora, Ida, Ellen, Philip Louis and Egla. He has filled the office of school trustee since 1864, collector seven years, assessor five years, and commissioner of highways two years. His health has been so broken down the last fourteen years as to render farm labor to lıim impossible.
Philip LaPlante, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, was born near Montreal, Canada, August 18, 1838, where he lived till about the age of thirteen years. With his parents lie then removed to Clinton county, New York, where lie engaged in a nail factory and attended school till about the age of sixteen years, when he removed with his parents to Illinois, and two years later he settled in Papinean township, Iroquois connty, and engaged in farming till Angust 5, 1862. He enlisted as private in Co. D, 76th Ill. Inf. ; November 28, 1862, lie was appointed
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first sergeant ; May 27, 1864, sergeant ; and July 22, 1865, was cominis- sioned by his excellency Richard J. Oglesby, governor of Illinois, to the position of second lieutenant, and was finally discharged with his regi- ment after participating in the battles of Talalıatchee, Vicksburg, Jack- son, Tennessee, Jackson cross-roads and the siege and charge on the Blakeley batteries near Mobile, Alabama. He thien returned home and engaged in farming and stock-raising in Papineau township, Iroquois county, Illinois, in which business he is now engaged: In the spring of 1860 he married Miss Flavie Gaudreau, a native of Canada, who died in November, 1862. December 16, 1865, he married Miss Josephine, daughter of Mr. Moses Langellier. She is a native of Canada, and was born August 5, 1839. He lias three children : Florence E., Irena A. and Lionel C. He owns 160 acres of land two miles northeast of Papineau village.
Charles Ezra Savoie, farmer, Papineau, a native of Riviere du Loup, Quebec, Canada, and son of Mr. John Savoie, was born November 17, 1837. He lived there till 1847, when with his parents he removed to Illinois and settled in Bourbonnais Grove, Kankakee county, where he lived with his parents, engaged in farming and stock-raising and attending school till 1855, when he came to Papineau, Iroquois county, and again engaged in farning and stock-raising. December 8, 1860, he married Miss Melena Mercier, a native of Canada. July 27, 1862, like other patriotic men, he volunteered his services to his country, and became a member of Co. D, 76th Ill. Inf. After eighteen-months service he became disabled by sickness and was transferred to the Invalid Corps, and July 3, 1865, was honorably discharged. After his return home he again engaged in farming, in which business he is still employed. He has filled the position of commissioner of highways the last fifteen years, and village trustee since the organization of the vil- lage of Papineau. He has five children living : Delia, Hattie, Ezra, Lucy and Adalore. He owns eighty acres of land in and adjoining the village of Papineau, all earned by his own industry.
William S. Jones, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, is a native of Meigs county; Ohio, where he was born January 2, 1834. He came to Illinois in 1837 with his parents, his father being the first settler in Papineau township, their nearest market for many years being Chi- cago by team via the old Hubbard trace. January 17, 1856, he mar- ried Miss Hester A. Canady, who was a native of Ohio, born January 19, 1834, and died June 18, 1864. Mr. Jones again married, Decem- ber 15, 1864, Miss Mary Canady, who is a native of Illinois. He lias six children : Eugene and Philip, by his first wife ; and Calvin, Addie Bell, Leon and Albert by his last wife. He is now acting supervisor of
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Papineau township, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He owns 170 acres of land. He lias sound business principles, and las won for himself many friends. He is also engaged in buying and ship- ping fat stock.
Hugh McSweeney, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, March 13, 1843, where he lived till eleven years old. With his parents he then removed to La Salle, Illinois there going to school till the excitement of the gold discoveries at Pike's Peak. He fell in with the tidal wave and went west, but returned in 1858 and settled with his father in Iroquois county, Illi- nois, and engaged in farming. In the spring of 1861 he enlisted in Co. I, 20th Ill. Inf., but after eight-months service, on account of sick- ness, lie became disabled and was sent to the hospital at Chicago, where he remained unable for duty till the winter of 1863, when he was dis- charged. He then again engaged in farming as a liired hand till August, 14, 1864. He married Miss Harriet Jones, of Iroquois county, who was born October 24, 1844. He has eight children : Charles H., Sarah E., William E., Hugh, Olla, Peter R., Eugene and Wilbur. He now owns a home of 160 acres of land, the reward of strict econ- omy and industry, in Sec. 35, T. 29, R. 13.
Christopher S. Guthrie, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, is a son of Henry P. Guthrie, of Ohio, and was born December 22, 1838, at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio. At the age of eight years he moved with his parents to Wheeling, West Virginia, but soon after returned to Ohio and lived with his parents till 1857, when he came to Kankakee, Illinois, in company with a Mr. Hoyle, bringing with them the first steam threshing-machine ever introduced in this part of the state. January 1, 1862, his patriotic impulses induced liim to offer his services to his country, and he joined Co. E, 53d Ill. Inf. He was stationed at Chicago guarding rebel prisoners, under Col. Mulligan, for some time. From there he went direct to Shiloh, and participated in that memorable battle and the advance on Corinth. He was actively engaged from there on in many battles and skirmishes, till July 12, 1863; in the charge on Jackson he was captured by the rebels, and endured the horrors of prison life in all the principal prisons of the south, at one time paying twenty-five cents for one ear of corn, and was finally paroled at City Point, Virginia, in October, 1863. He was after that ordered with Gen. Sherman, and participated in his great march to the sea, and was finally mustered out of service at Goldsboro, North Carolina, in March, 1865, and returned to Illinois and engaged in farming and stock-raising. December 25, 1865, he married Miss Mary J. Warden, who was born in Greencastle, Indi-
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ana, in 1844. They have five children : Frances I., Henry W., James B., George C. and Malinda C. He owns 160 acres of land, all earned by his industry.
August Lottinville, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, was born at Riviere du Loup, Canada, where he lived till about the age of ten years. His parents at that time came to Illinois. An incident oc- curred on their way from Canada which must here be mentioned. August 19, 1851, the steamer Atlantic collided with a schooner on lake Erie, and the former sank soon after. The family, however, were all rescued the last minute before she went down, losing all they had bnt their night-clothes. Coming to a new country in his youth, he was deprived of the advantages of education, but a determined will overcomes obstacles of every kind, and he acquired a fair education. September 21, 1861, lie volunteered liis services to his country, and became a member of Co. K, 4th Ill. Cav. He was engaged in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloli, Corinth and many others. August 1, 1862, he was appointed fifth sergeant, and honora- bly discharged November 3, 1864. April 22, 1866, he married Miss Josephine Paradis, a native of Canada, born March 1, 1847. In 1865 lie bought the farm on which he now lives, and engaged in farming and stock-raising, which business he now follows, abont half a mile north of the village of Papineau. The farm comprises 160 acres of land, all earned by his own industry and hard labor. He has five children, as follows : Ida, Anna, Cora, Georgiana and Adalore.
Andreas Streigel, farmer and stock-raiser, Papinean, son of Sebas- tian Streigel, was born in Baden, Germany, October 20, 1828, remain- ing at home with his parents and learning the trade of cabinet-maker till twenty years of age. He was then drafted to serve three years in the army, which he did with credit. June 20, 1853, he married Miss Kathrena Billharz, who is a native of Baden, Germany. In the winter of 1854 he left his native country and sailed for America, and landed in New York April 24, 1854. He worked one year at liis trade in Boston and Cambridgeport. In April, 1855, lie came to Illinois, bouglit a farm in Kankakee county and engaged in farming, in which business he continned till August 5, 1862, when his adopted country needed his services, and lie volunteered and became a member of Co. F, 76th Ill. Inf. He served his adopted country faithfully, as lie did that of his nativity, three years, and was honorably discharged, July 22, 1865. He lived in Kankakee city till April, 1867, when he came to Papineau, Iroquois county, Illinois, and bought the farm on which he made liis present home. He immediately engaged in farming and stock-raising, in which business he is still successfully employed. He
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has six children living : Frances, Kate, Albert, George A., Edward, and one infant.
L. W. Critser, M.D., physician, Papineau, was born January 13, 1827, in Bartholomew county, Indiana. With his parents he soon after removed to Warren county, Indiana, and there attended school till the age of twenty, when he went to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and engaged in school-teaching three years. He then attended the High School at Greencastle one term, and again engaged in teaching till February 3, 1853. He married Miss Rebecca Parker, who was born January 13, 1835. He then went into mercantile business till 1862. He then began the study and practice of medicine under Dr. Ogborn, till 1868, when he removed to Iroquois, Illinois, where lie is still engaged in the practice of his profession. He graduated in 1878 at the Eclectic Medical Institute, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the same year was elected coroner of Iroquois county, which position he now fills. He has three children living : Hattie A., Katie I. and William L.
William T. Hiser, farmer and stock-raiser, Papineau, was born in Warren county, Indiana, January 13, 1844. He lived with his mother till the age of fourteen, when lie came to Iroquois county, Illinois, and lived with his uncle, engaged in farming and going to school. In July, 1869, he bought a farm in Papineau township, on which he now lives actively engaged in farming and stock-raising. January 9, 1870, he married Miss Sarah E., daughter of Mr. John Dugan, who was born in Ohio in 1847. They have four children : Nellie, Frank, Eva Maud and Eva May. He owns 358 acres of land all in one farm, and has it well stocked and improved. His careful and close attention to busi- ness secures him remarkable success. He takes no interest in politics, neither has he ever been known to waste time or money in anything intemperate.
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