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nois; and James, Hugh, William and Hannah, all of whom have long since passed away.
When he was still a boy, the Carlin family moved to the territory of Illinois, and William Carlin was reared in the Wood River district in what was then Madison County. In the fall of 1820 he came to Greene County, entering land near Carrollton, and he developed into a very prominent man. Active as a Democrat, he was elected in 1839, as county clerk, but resigned from that office in 1844, but in 1848, while he was away from home, on a trip to New Orleans, La., on business, he was nominated for circuit clerk, and was elected to that office in December, 1848. His death occurred while he was discharg- ing the duties of that office, April 20, 1850.
On December 6, 1826, William Carlin was married to Mary Goode, born at Lynchburg, Va., a daughter of William and Agnes (Cole) Goode, natives of Lynchburg, Va. They later moved to Shelbyville, Ky., and still later to St. Genevieve, Mo., where William Goode died.
CARRICO, Andrew, whose agricultural success entitles him to a place among the leading farmers of Jersey County, where he owns 266 acres of land, was born in English Township, August 16, 1848, a son of John Clark and Winnie Ann (Van Meter) Carrico, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work. After attending the schools of his district, Andrew Carrico worked among the neighboring farmers for a short period, and then went to Call County, Mo., driving there overland. After a year, he drove back to Jersey County and began farming on the homestead, thus continuing for a year, when he went to Blanco County, Tex., where he had interests, and assisted in con- ducting a sawmill for a year. Once more he returned to Jersey County, and for two years was engaged in farming the homestead, and then bought forty-five acres of land from his father, forty acres of which were in Greene County, and five in Jersey. On the latter he built his residence, and he kept on adding to his holdings until he now owns 346 acres of land, all except eighty acres being in Jersey County. In 1910 Mr. Carrico turned over his farm to his children and moved to Fieldon, Ill., where for five years he was engaged in a mercantile business. Ilis wife dying January 19, 1915, he sold his business and returned to the farm where he has since resided.
On August 20, 1868, Andrew Carrico was married to Sarah L. Ritchie, born at Fieldon, Ill., a daughter of James and Mary Ann Ritchie. Mr. and Mrs. Carrico had the following children : John C., who lives at Alton, Ill .; Willie, who died at the age of eight years; Cora, who is Mrs. Edward Mourning, lives on her father's homestead ; Elmer, who died in infancy; and Marion R., who lives in Greene County. Mr. Carrico is a Democrat and served as township collector for two terms, and for many years as a school director.
CARRICO, Marion, one of the prosperous farmers of English Town- ship, Jersey County, Ill., who has made a success of his agricultural
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operations, was born in this same township, September 22, 1850, a son of John Clark and Winnie Ann (Van Meter) Carrico, natives of St. Louis County, Mo., and a grandson of Dennis and Elizabeth (Clark) Carrico. Dennis Carrico was born at Boston, Mass., but his parents were natives of France who came to America at an early day. The maternal grand- parents of Marion Carrico were very early settlers of Greene County, Ill., where they entered land from the government. After his mar- riage, John Clark Carrico bought about 285 acres of land, all in timber, which he improved to a considerable extent. For many years he served as a justice of the peace, and died full of years and honors in 1897 when he was seventy-eight years of age. His wife died in 1898, aged seventy-six years. Their children were as follows: Lafayette, who is of Jersey County; Achsah, who is Mrs. J. L. Seago, of English Township; Andrew and Marion, who are also of English Township; Nancy Janc, who was Mrs. C. C. Berry, is now deceased ; Mary, who died at the age of fourteen years; Phebe Ann, who was Mrs. F. Bean, is now deceased; and Elizabeth, who died in infancy.
Marion Carrico attended the district schools and made himself useful on his father's homestcad, where he remained until a year after his marriage in 1874. He then moved on a farm owned by his father in Greene County, where he was engaged in farming until 1898, and in the spring of that year came to the homestead in English Township, buying 145 acres from the other heirs. Of this he has 115 acres under cultivation, the balance being in timber. In addition to his farming, he conducted a threshing machine from the time he was seventeen years old until 1890.
On December 10, 1874, Mr. Carrico was married to Mary Ellen East, born in Greene County, Ill., January 10, 1856, a daughter of Elisha and Jane (Wicks) East, natives of Missouri and Cleveland, Ohio, respectively, and granddaughter of William and Mary (Dunham) Wicks, of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Carrico have one son of their own, Sylvestor Marion, who was born September 18, 1875. He was married on July 24, 1898, to Nettic Pearl Berry, and they have two sons, namely : Sylvestor Everett, who was born August 1, 1899, and Homer Clarence, who was born January 21, 1906. Mrs. Sylvestor M. Carrico died November 21, 1912, since which time Sylvestor M. Car- rico has lived with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Carrico are notably charitable, and have given a home and kindly care to orphan children, and in the forty-three years of their married life, they have only been three weeks without having orphan children in their home. They adopted a daughter, Eugenia East, born at Dennison, Tex., when she was an infant. She is now Mrs. Orville Barry, of Greene County, Ill., and has two children, namely: Robert Earl and Delbert O. Mr. Carrico belongs to Kane Lodge No. 197, A. F. & A. M. and Mrs. Carrico to the Eastern Star. Their son is also a Mason. In politics Mr. Carrico is a Democrat.
CATT, Stephen, now deceased, was for many years one of the beloved clergymen of the Baptist faith, and a missionary for the Car-
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rollton Baptist Association, whose last years were spent at Jerseyville. He was born at Rotherfield, County of Sussex, England, April 10, 1844, and died at Jerseyville, April 27, 1915. Stephen Catt was a son of James and Harriet Catt and the youngest child born to them. Leav- ing his native land on the day he was seventeen years old, he reached New York City May 18, 1861, to find the United States in the throes of civil war, and his sympathies were so enlisted in behalf of the estab- lished government that on November 24, 1863, he enlisted in its defense in Company F, Fourth Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, at Springfield, Ill., he in the meanwhile having gone west to Illinois. After a faithful and honorable service he was discharged August 29, 1865.
The object of Stephen Catt in coming to this country was to join an uncle who lived in Jersey County, but as he had only seventeen cents in his pocket when he landed, he had to make his way west as best he could, and was thankful to a Jersey County farmer for giving him a ride from Alton to Jersey County. Naturally a young man of serious mind, it is probable that his experiences as a soldier turned his thoughts toward a religious profession, and he was licensed to preach by the Jerseyville Baptist Church January 30, 1876, and was ordained at the Baptist Church June 26, 1879. For eleven years he served the Carrollton Baptist Association as a missionary, and through his aid the churches at Roadhouse, Palmyra and Greenfield were erected, while it is estimated that at least ten per cent of the members added to the district under the jurisdiction of this association came through his preaching and earnest endeavors. During his residence at Jersey- ville he became a very familiar figure to the people of the county seat, especially any of tlicm who were in need of sympathy, spiritual inspira- tion or material aid. He was the friend of the downtrodden and afflicted, and awakened a love for humanity in many a desolate heart and turned hundreds to the church. When he died a multitude gath- ered to pay homage to the memory of a good man, and while all that is earthly of him has passed away, the work he accomplished will live forever and stand as a monument to him and his.
Rev. Stephen Catt was married November 14, 1866, to Tabitha Smal- ley, born at Plainfield, Union Conuty, N. J., a daughter of Isaac and Nancy (Drake) Smallcy, the former of whom was born February 23, 1796, at Plainfield, N. J., and in 1858 came to Jersey County, settling on the edge of Jerseyville, where he died in 1878, the latter surviving him until 1889. Mrs. Catt attended Mrs. Cutting's Seminary at Jer- seyville. The children born to Rev. and Mrs. Catt were as follows: Mary H., who is Mrs. George Gard of Los Angeles. Cal .; Isabell, who is a professional nurse; Nellie J., who is Mrs. Dr. Justus White of Auburn, Ill. ; J. Henry, who lives at Jerseyville; Stephen W., who is a mail carrier of Jerseyville ; Charles I., who lives at Jerseyville; Or- ville S., who lives at Litchfield, Ill .; Fannie R., who married Charles S. Jewsbury, lives with her mother; Flora, who is Mrs. William Mar- tin of Moline, Ill., and Ethel B., who died when one year old. In politics Mr. Catt was a Republican. Fraternally he belonged to the
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Masonic order, and he was an enthusiastic member of the Jerseyville Post, G. A. R., which he served as commander for many years. Mr. Catt lived for thirty-eight years in the house where his widow now lives.
CHAPMAN, Walter Joseph, one of the active practicing attorneys of Jersey County, is located at Jerseyville, where he is held in the highest esteem. He was born near Roodhouse, Ill., October 18, 1874, a son of William D. and Hannah M. (Mitchell) Chapman, he born at London, England, and she in Northamptonshire, England. In 1870 William D. Chapman came to the United States and spent a year in New York, where he worked in a brickyard. He then came to White- hall, Ill., and worked for Jacob Tunison for two years, doing farm labor, and then rented land from his employer, that was located near Roodhouse, Ill. Two years later he bought a farm three miles east of Manchester, Ill., and in 1895 bought another farm in the same vicinity, and was engaged in operating his land until his death, which occurred May 19. 1910. His widow still lives on the farm.
Walter Joseph Chapman attended the common and high schools of his native county, and took one term at the Western Normal school, of Bushnell, Ill., another term at the Northern Illinois Normal school at Dixon, Ill., from which institution he graduated in 1898, and later took a course in the University of Illinois, at Urbana, Ill. During the winter terms of 1895-6-7-8-9 and 1900, he taught school. In August, 1900, Mr. Chapman was married to Parthena Spencer, of Murrayville, Ill., a daughter of Benjamin F. and Mary (Payton) Spencer, born in Morgan and Hancock counties, respectively. Dur- ing the first winter following his marriage Mr. Chapman taught school, and then he entered the office of Thomas Henchaw, at Carroll- ton, Ill., and continued to read law during the summer months, and teach school in the winter until in October, 1905, when he was admit- ted to the bar. At that time he was principal of the public schools of Medora. For a time he was engaged in the practice of law at Medora, Ill. On August 1, 1906, he came to Jerseyville, and formed a partnership with E. J. Vaughn, which association continued until 1910, when the partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Chapman remained alone until in October, 1915, when he associated Fred A. DuHadway with him, the latter gentleman having charge of the firm's office at Hardin, Calhoun County, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have two children, namely: William Don- ald, who was born July 27, 1906; and and Thelma Faye, who was born November 26, 1911. IIe belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics he is a Democrat, and was elected state's attor- ney in 1908, and held that office until 1916, and during that period proved himself a fearless and energetic prosecutor. A Mason in good standing, he belongs to Jerseyville Chapter, R. A. M., and he also be- longs to the Odd Fellows and the Elks. Since 1911, Mr. Chapman has been a member of the library board, and was its president for one
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year, and also was president of the board of education for one year. A man of great ability and careful training, he is a lawyer of note, and a citizen whose worth has been proven upon many occasions.
CHAPPELL, Edwin E., sheriff of Jersey County, has a record for fearlessness in the pursuit of duty, and success in clearing his county of malefactors, that is remarkable. He is a native son of Jersey County, having been born in Mississippi Township, November 14, 1865, a son of Richard and Minerva Jane (Swan) Chappell, also natives of Mississippi Township. The grandparents, Bartholomew and Grace (Gains) Chappell were born in France and England, respectively ; while Nathan and Nancy Jane (Patton) Swan were born in Virginia. Bartholomew Chappell went to England in 1828, and from thence to the United States, locating in Jersey County. Nathan Swan trav- eled overland from Virginia to Jerscy County, with horses and wagons, and located in what is now Mississippi Township. Botlı sides of the family entered land from the government. Richard Chappell, after his marriage, located on a farm in his native township, and there he died October 1, 1890, aged fifty-six years. His wife died July 22, 1917, aged seventy-five years. Their children were as fol- lows : Ella Eudora, who is Mrs. William Noble, widow of William Noble; Teressa Jane, who is Mrs. Prentice Noble, of Alton, Ill .; Edwin E .; Albert Ross and Richard S., who live in Jerseyville; and William Pearl, who lives at Los Angeles, Cal.
Edwin E. Chappell attended the schools of his district, and grew up on the farm. On July 25, 1890, Mr. Chappell was married to Emma E. Darr, born in English Township, a daughter of Matthew and Eliza Ruth (Beaver) Darr, natives of Jersey Township. Mr. and Mrs. Chappell have one son, Richard Clyde. He was graduated from the Jerseyville High school, following which he studied for one year at Shurtleff College at Alton, Ill. ; was for two years at the Valparaiso Law School; and spent one year in the law department of the Wes- leyan University at Bloomington, Ill. IIe then completed his legal studies at the Lincoln Law School, Springfield, Ill., from which he was graduated with highest honors.
After his marriage, Edwin E. Chappell moved on a farm in Mississippi Township, and there spent two years, when he sold and went to Dow, Ill., where he conducted a meat market for a year. He then came to Jerseyville and acted as deputy sheriff for four vears. At the expiration of his term of office, he went to St. Louis, Mo., and was a conductor on the street cars of that city until 1900. For the following three years he was employed in the ice cream de- partment of the Union Dairy Company, and then was engaged in work on the Exposition grounds at St. Louis, as a guard, conducting the sight-seeing cars. In 1905 Mr. Chappell went to Los Angeles, Cal., and was a conductor on the Los Angeles & Pacific Steam and Electric Railroad for two years and four months. Returning to Jerseyville once more, he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, William 34
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Noble, and the two carried on a painting contracting business until 1910, when Mr. Chappell was again appointed deputy sheriff. At the expiration of the four years, in 1914, he was elected sheriff of the county, and still holds that important office. Mr. Chappell is a Democrat. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America.
CLANCY, Rev. John J., pastor of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church at Jerseyville, was born in Ireland, June 24, 1866. He made his preparatory studies in Ireland, and in September, 1889, came with a relative to America and entered the seminary of Our Lady of Angels at Niagara Falls, N. Y. He was ordained priest by Rt. Rev. James Ryan, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese of Alton, in the cathedral at Alton, August 15, 1891. After his ordination he was sent by Bishop Ryan to the Catholic University at Washington, D. C., and remained in Washington until he was appointed pastor of the Sacred Heart Church at Dalton City, Ill., being its first resident priest. He remained there until February 1, 1894, when he was sent to take charge of St. Catherine's Church at Virden, Ill., and remained at Virden until September 1, 1899, when he took charge of St. James Church, at Riverton, Ill. On October 1, 1914, he arrived in Jersey- ville to take his present charge and to assume the task of paying off a large debt, and with the co-operation of a loyal and generous people he is meeting with much success at the present time.
COCKRELL, Elias, one of the most highly respected, best known and most substantial men of Jersey County, can look backward many vcars over an active and useful life and one that has, in its course, been identified with many unusual features. Mr. Cockrell is a native of Jerscy County, born September 8, 1838. His parents were Moses and Katie Ann (Utt) Cockrell, natives of Portsmouth, Ohio, who came at an early day to Jersey County. Moses Cockrell was well known to river men in early times even as far as New Orleans. He later became a farmer in Jersey County, Ill.
Although school opportunities were far from being as they are at the present time when Mr. Cockrell was a boy, he gained his first knowledge of books in the school of the old Camp Ground Church, and the primitive log schoolhouses at Gillum Mound and Selby, and a later wide experience and association with men and important affairs, built on this sound foundation an educational structure that he has found entirely adequate. He remained with his father on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age. On March 28, 1859, with three companions, a pony, and four yoke of oxen, he started for the reputed gold fields of Pike's Peak, Col. His companions were John Buckles, John Whipple and Henry Lamb, the two former being deccased. Mr. Lamb lives in Nebraska. This was an adventurous undertaking and by the time the long journey was completed and Pike's Peak reached on the 24th of May, the three companions of Mr. Cockrell were so thoroughly discouraged and homesick that they
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immediately took three of the four yoke of oxen and turned back on the trail for the old home. Their attitude was not shared, however, by Elias Cockrell. He had met with just as much hardship as his comrades but was made of sterner stuff and having come to the moun- tains for gold, he determined at least to look for it. Erc long he bought a claim and worked at mining for three months and then accepted a chance to sell it and went to the town of Golden Gate, at the foot of the mountains. There he engaged in logging through the winter, often in snow from one to three feet in depth. In the spring gold was discovered in California Gulch, Col., and immediately there was a stampede in that direction, in which Mr. Cockrell took part, and when there worked for a company by the day. The discovery of the precious metal at another point, Biven's Gulch, twelve miles further on, brought about a stampede in that direction, miners rush- ing to the new prospect in the middle of the night. Mr. Cockrell secured a claim there and after mining it for a year with very satis- factory results, sold out and went to Salt Lake, Utah. There he went into the freighting business, buying flour, and with a mule outfit freighted into Montana where he traded the mules for more flour and bought a better outfit. For about six years he continued his freighting business from Salt Lake to Fort Benton and Virginia City and Helena, and then sold his outfit to the United States government.
After disposing of the above business Mr. Cockrell rode a pony down the mountains to Helena and from there travelcd by stage to Ogden, Utah. At this time the Union Pacific Railroad had been built within thirty-five miles of Ogden and in that then frontier city, with others, he was able to hire a hack which conveyed them to the con- struction train on which they were taken to Cheyenne, Wyo. There Mr. Cockrell boarded a passenger train for Kansas City and thus safely reached home. As may be expected, during these years of adventure, Mr. Cockrell many, many times had thrilling escapes from the Indians and accidents and also from the stampedes of wild buffalo on the plains, notwithstanding, Mr. Cockrell is very modest in describ- ing his courage and resourcefulness in facing and overcoming the dangers and hardships that the most of his fellow citizens have only read about.
After Mr. Cockrell returned to Jersey County he bought a grain elevator at Jerseyville from his brother George Cockrell and Richard Schuler, and this he has conducted continuously ever since 1870. with the exception of one year when he traded it for a farm in Kansas, but rebought and in 1873 he built a lumber yard at Jerseyville and con- ducted it in connection with the elevator until 1907, when he sold the lumber and coal business to the Pollack Lumber Company. He has also owned other elevators but has disposed of all except the one at Jerseyville and one at Kane, Ill. He owns a valuable farm of 600 acres at Lavoy, Alberta, Canada. He is a director of the State Bank of Jerseyville.
Mr. Cockrell was married December 5, 1871, to Miss Lottie E.
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Knapp, who was born here, June 21, 1850, a daughter of Colonel and Elizabeth (Halstead) Knapp, and they have had these children: Hattie B., who is deceased; Frank B., who operates his father's stock and grain farm in Canada; Charles K., who operates his father's elevator at Kane, Ill .; Robert E., who is in business at Alton, Ill., married Tessie Wyoff, and they have one son, Robert W .; George C., who resides at Jerseyville married Mary E. Lamb, and they have one daughter, Charlotte; and Bessie, who is the wife of Charles Warren, of Jerseyville.
In politics Mr. Cockrell has always been a Democrat. He belongs to both the Masons and Odd Fellows at Jerseyville, and he and fam- ily are members of the Presbyterian Church. He has been one of the solid and dependable men of this city for many years and has always given encouragement to laudable enterprises. Ile served eight years on the city school board and was a member of the building com- mittee of the Carnegie Library, and also has been for many years on the board of the Jerseyville Building and Loan Association.
COOPER, John, one of the successful general farmers of Rich- woods Township, has long been recognized as one of the substantial men of Jersey County. He was born in Hanover, Germany, August 26, 1854, a son of John and Teressa (Ultman) Cooper. In 1868 the father, with his six children, came to Jersey County, the mother having died in Germany. They located at Fieldon, and he rented and cultivated land. His death occurred May 9, 1917, when he was eighty-eight years, five months and two days old. His children were as follows: Albert, who lives in Kansas; John, George and Alfred, who live in Richwoods Township, and Anna, who is Mrs. Walter Dunham.
John Cooper attended the common schools in Germany and accom- panied his father to the United States in 1868, and lived with his father until his marriage, which occurred August 7, 1878, to Rosa Weeks. She was born in Greene County, Ill., April 8, 1860, a daughter of William and Rachel (Borruff) Weeks, natives of Greene County. After his marriage Mr. Cooper moved to his present farm of 220 acres in Richwoods Township, but after two years went to Greene County. Later he returned to his farm, and since then has been conducting it, doing general farming and stockraising and making a success of his undertakings.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper became the parents of the following children : Nettie, who died May 16. 1917, at the age of thirty-seven years, was Mrs. Steven Reddish, and she left a son, Norman; Robert, who lives in Richwoods Township is married to Virgie Miller, and they have three children, Otis, Edna and Robert; Dollie, who is Mrs. Victor Hidershied, has the following children: Evelyn, Morris, Hazel and Leona, and lives in Richwoods Township; Anna who is Mrs. Beman Meadford of Richwoods Township; Rachel, who is Mrs. John Ruch of Richwoods Township, has one child, Everett, and Alma and Bertha, who are at home. Mr. Cooper is a member of the Christian Church. He is a Demo-
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crat, and served for twenty years as a school director. Fraternally he belongs to Fieldon Camp, M. W. A. One of the sound and reliable men of this locality, he stands well in the estimation of his neighbors.
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