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Mr. Wilkinson, from Rhode Island, came with Henry Angell, his brother-in-law, in 1836, and settled at Vermillionville; soon after went to Iowa.
Levi Woodward, and wife, from Massachu- setts, came in 1837, and settled on S. 32, T. 32, R. 3, where he died in 1846. His widow mar- ried John Clark. Mr. Woodward left four chil- dren : Lewis, married Relefe G. Dart, second wife Margaret Dart.
Lloyd C. Knapp, came from Massachusetts in company with the family of Joseph Hamar, and Joseph Bullock, in the spring of 1836; he settled on S. 33, T. 32, R. 2. He married Sarah Kirk- patrick. Their children are : Alvan, who died soon after his return from the army, in the war of the rebellion; Austin; Sarah, wife of Nathan Hall; Dora, wife of Albert Hall; George.
Joel Alvord, Edward Alvord, Nelson Alvord, (sons of Joel), Jacob Barr, William Groom, and Madison Goslin, left Albany County, New York, in wagons, the 15th day of May, 1833, for the West. In Chicago, they met Judge Isaac Dim- mick, then returning from a tour of explora- tion, who directed them to this locality. They arrived here July 18th. A journey by land for hundreds of miles at that day through a country, most of it unsettled, without roads or bridges, can hardly be appreciated now. They were com-
pelled to adopt camp life ; stopping at night on the bank of some stream, where wood and water could be procured, and sleeping in their wagons, or on the ground, and in some instances were compelled to build bridges to cross the streams. Madison Goslin died in the fall of 1833.
Joel Alvord, and wife, in 1833, bought a claim of Jacob Moon, on S. 18, where he spent the remainder of his life a substantial farmer, and
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good citizen. He died, March, 1856, aged sev- enty-six, leaving five children : Betsy, married Reuben Moffat; Edward, married Elizabeth Cleveland ; Alison; Nelson, a Baptist clergyman, married Susan Bailey ; Joel, married Lydia Hall, died of a wound.
Jacob Barr married Harriet, daughter of John Slater.
Ezra Hawley, and wife, Rhoda M. Buck, came from Bennington County, Vermont, to Sanga- mon County, and to Bailey's Grove, in June, 1835 ; settled on S. 20. His children are : Anson ; Myron, who married Emeline Hall, in Vermil- lion ; Hiram, married Mary Goodwin.
Nathan Hawley, brother of Ezra, came from Vermont, July, 1836, and died the next October.
Jacob Burgess, came from Burlington County, New Jersey, in December, 1837; settled on sec- tion 31. His wife was Olive Clark; they are both dead. Ebenezer, married Mary Seeley, he died in 1841 ; Dorothy, married Jonathan Hutch- inson, of Iowa; Jacob, married Betsey Hall; Warren, married Emma Swift; Stokes, married Emma Hiller ; Sidney, married Miss Allen ; Mary, married Israel Hutchinson.
Israel Hutchinson, from New Jersey, came in 1837, and settled on S. 32. He married Mary Burgess, and has had fifteen children.
Jonathan Hutchinson, from New Jersey, came in 1837; married Dorothy Burgess; moved to Iowa.
Bailey Barrass, from Saratoga, New York, in 1837 ; a carpenter and joiner by trade, an indus- trious and good mechanic; he married Annis, daughter of John Bailey. He died in 1864, aged fifty-one, leaving four children : John, died in the army ; Orvill, married Anna Fleming; Onslow, married Margaret A. Mosier ; Julia.
Josiah Seybold, from Southern Illinois, a native of the State, came in 1833. He built a flouring mill on the Vermillion, which was completed in 1836; he sold the mill to the Messrs. Todd, and moved on a farm in the town of Eden. While descending the Mississippi in a flat boat, he died at Natchez, suspected of poison. He left three children: Thaddeus, married Lizzie Denton ; D. C .; Jerome: Mary is the wife of Willis Stewart, of Putnam County.
Chester Dryer, from Seneca County, New York, in December, 1835, his family came in June, 1836. A sad fatality attended his family ; his second son, Calvin, died in 1840; his oldest son, William, died in 1841, and his wife, Sarah Hobro, died in 1842. Of seven children by his first wife, one only survives, Keziah, wife of San- ford Harwood, living in Iowa. Mr. Dryer's sec- ond wife was Mary Little ; they had one daugh- ter. He brought in the first threshing machine-
a four-horse power that delivered the grain on the ground from the cylinder to be cleaned by the hand mill-an imperfect implement, but far better than tramping out the grain on the ground with horses or cattle.
Mr. Dryer held the office of Justice of the Peace for several years.
George Brown, from New Hampshire, came in 1830; was part owner, with William Seeley, of the first saw mill built at Lowell; he died' at Seeley's about 1836.
Moses Little, son of Ebenezer, came from New Hampshire in 1837; settled on section 33; removed, and died in Iowa.
Fernal Little, from New Hampshire, came in 1837; went to the south part of the state.
Deacon Button came from Ohio to Michigan, and from Michigan to S. 31, T. 32, R. 2, in 1835 ; in 1844 he removed to Wisconsin. He had a large family; Rosanna, married Peter Schoon- over ; another daughter married a Mr. Curtis ; Ann, went to Wisconsin ; Aladelphia, died at home: His sons were: Hollis; Ard, married the widow Faro : Charles, became a Baptist preacher of note: Asa ; and some younger children. They all went to Wisconsin.
Peter Schoonover came from Ohio and from Michigan here in 1830, settling on sections 32 and 33 ; married Rosanna Button, and was a large farmer and stock raiser.
Benjamin Lundy, settled in the town of Vermil- lion in 1838. A complete account of his life and labors is given elsewhere.
Mr. Lundy left five children, two sons and three daughters: Susan, married William Wier- man ; Eliza, married Isaiah Griffith. Mr. Lun- dy's two sons are both dead. Benjamin, married, practiced medicine in Magnolia, and died there, leaving one son, William L., the only male de- scendant. Esther, the twin sister of Benjamin, died single.
Zebina Eastman was assisting Mr. Lundy in the publication of his paper. at the time of Lun- dy's death. and immediately after commenced the publication of the "Western Citizen," an anti- slavery paper, at Chicago, which was continued for several years, and was really a continuation of Lundy's work in the Northwest.
David Perkins came from New York in 1837. He married Miss Barrass; resided at Lowell several years and removed to Chicago.
Dr. Jethro Hatch, and wife, Ruth Cogswell, . came from New Preston, Connecticut, in 1834; was a physician of good practice. Had two daughters : Mary Ann and Elizabeth. Mrs. Hatch died about 1845: the Doctor died about 1850.
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MANLIUS.
William Ritchey was born in Pennsylvania, emigrated to Huron County, Ohio, where he heard the cannonading at the time of Perry's victory on Lake Erie. Lost his first wife and married Dolly Wilson, a Kentucky woman, near Indianapolis, in 1828. Moved to Wisconsin, and engaged in lead mining. In October, 1829, came to La Salle County, and made a claim on S. 17, T. 33, R. 4. He was accompanied by his son William W., the only child of his first wife that came West. The son stayed on the claim while the father went to Blue Mounds for the family. They came by the way of Dixon, in a "prairie schooner," with a span of horses, and an ox and cow yoked together ; arrived on the claim in Jan- uary, 1830. The only neighbor was James Gal- loway. In February, 1830, Mrs. Galloway died. Mr. Richey and son cut down a black walnut tree the Indians had girdled, and spilt out some puncheon boards and made a coffin, in which Mrs. Galloway was buried. In the spring of 1830 Mr. Ritchey sold his claim to Abraham Trumbo. They then made a claim near Gallo- way's, but sold to Galloway soon after and made a claim on the S. E. 14 S. 18, T. 33, R. 5, and in the winter of 1831 built a cabin in the ravine near the Dr. Ward place, the first cabin built in Marseilles, and where James Ritchey was born, the first birth in what is now Mar- seilles. William W. sowed a small patch of wheat where the sod had been killed by Indian cultivation; he got some wheat, but, what was more valuable, unwittingly got a pre-emption, and as he and his father were on the same quarter section, they were each entitled to a float on eighty acres elsewhere. They sold their floats to John Green, for which he entered their quarter section ; they thus secured their quarter section without money and without price. After the massacre at Indian Creek, in 1832, William W. went to Seneca to notify Abel Sprague, who had a claim there, and then moved the family to Ottawa. The father was a teamster for the army, and the son enlisted as a soldier. They ivere discharged on the banks of the Wisconsin River. In the fall they helped Ephraim Sprague, Charles Brown, and Richard Hogaboom build a dam and dig a race for a saw-mill at Mar- seilles. William Ritchey died about 1842; his wife died in 1839. William W. married Widow Green.
Abner Stebbins came from New York in 1834; settled on S. 4, T. 33, R. 5. George W. Brumback said he was the best axe man he ever knew, the best worker and most honest man; he went to Iowa.
Abdolonymus Stebbins, brother of Abner, and wife, Julia Webber, came from New York in 1835, and settled on S. 8, T. 33, R. 5. Had ten children. He was a stanch Whig, in favor of internal improvements, of developing manufac- tures, arts and sciences, and delighted in talking on these subjects by the hour ; but that his Dem- ocratic neighbors held him and his political heresies in utter contempt. His children were: Henry, married Mary Ann Pope, his second wife was Miss Bignal; Louana, married Jacob Reser ; Lorinda, married Volney Wood; Mary ; Louisa, married Gale Waterman; Emery, married Laura Lammy; Edgar; Austin, married Miss Wiley. There were two younger sons.
Lovell Kimball, from Watertown, Jefferson County, New York; came in 1833. Brumback said there has never been a man of greater abili- ties in Marseilles, except Daniel Webster, and he stayed only one night. Kimball was an active business man, energetic, venturesome and un- scrupulous ; he built a saw-mill, and in 1840 was a member and agent of a company that erected the best flouring mill, probably then in the State; it had eight run of stone, was forty feet high above the foundation, and every way complete.
When Kimball commenced his improvement he found Ephraim Sprague in possession of a part of the water privilege, owning and running a saw-mill. Kimball so made his dam as to flood out the privilege of Sprague, and as Sprague had no title but a claim on Government land, he found himself dispossessed of his little property with no redress but Kimball's gen- erosity, and as that did not serve, he left in despair, and as he did so, he raised his hands and prayed that water might wash away, and fire burn all in Marseilles, as long as the memory of Kimball should last. This is related by the old settlers of Marseilles, and it is called "Sprague's curse." Kimball's saw-mill and the flouring mill were burned on the night of the 18th of May, 1842 ; he rebuilt the saw-mill, but never recovered from the loss, as, by some quibble, the Insurance Company evaded payment, and the flouring mill was never rebuilt. The members of the Mar- seilles company that built the mill were: Gurdon S. Hubbard, of Chicago; Robert P. Woodworth, James A. Woodworth, Lovell Kimball, Augustus Butterfield, William Whipple, and James Brown. Kimball died in 1848 or 9; after Kimball's death his widow married Orville Cone, of Morris; she died in 1875.
L. S. P. Moore, from Vermont, came in 1838; a wagonmaker by trade. He married Jemima Reser.
Vivaldi Morey, came from New York to Illi-
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nois, in 1837, with his wife, Emily Brown, and settled on S. 32, T. 34, R. 5; went to Kendall County for five years. His children are : Sarah, who married Melvin Prescott, of Marseilles; William A., married H. C. Belknap, his second wife was A. P. Skinner; Frances, married H. G. Peister; Emily A., married F. W. Simpson, and Nettie, married R. W. Kilbourn.
Hanson Morey, came from New York in 1835, and settled on S. 8, T. 33, R. 5 ; left in about two years.
Nelson Morey, brother of the above, came about the same time and went to Texas.
John Harrington, from England to New York in 1836; bachelor; grain dealer in Marseilles.
Thomas Harrington, brother of above, was drowned at the time of the flood in 1838. The ice gorged on the island below Marseilles, and flooded nearly the whole town.
Joseph Brumback, from Licking County, Ohio, arrived here August 3, 1832, built a cabin on S. 6, T. 33, R. 5, and lived in it nineteen years. His neighbors very appropriately called him the Patriarch Joseph, as he had nineteen children and eight step-children. His first wife was Mary Parr, who died, leaving four children; George W., was County Surveyor of La Salle County ; Elizabeth and Mary, are dead; Samuel, went to Odell. His second wife was Margaret Oatman ; she died in 1842; had one child, Mar- garet. His third wife was Comfort Young, who died in 1858; had eight children: Newton W., Jervis J., Ada Perkins; Joseph Jefferson ; John Howey ; Merritt M., and Oby David; Nite E. died. His fourth wife was Margaret Hart; had six children : Ella, Viola, Mirza, Ira E., Ezra H., and Oliver C.
Christopher Massey, and wife, Sarah Bennett, from New England to Illinois in 1838. He died in 1877. He left three children : Ann married James Mossman, her second husband was Mr. Jacobs; Susan, married George Turner, of In- diana ; and Charles.
Jonathan Massey, brother of Christopher, came at the same time. His wife was Nancy Dow. He died in 1866, and his widow died in 1876. He left five children : Adeline, married Mr. Houghton, of Michigan; Stillman E., married Miss McEwen ; Myra, married Mr. Pettis; Hor- ace and Lizzie.
Israel Massey, brother of the foregoing, came at the same time, with his wife, Phebe Gardner. Had five children : Warren, married Caroline Barbour; Mary A., married Mr. Young, of the City of Washington ; Gordon; Sylvanus ; Frank.
Dr. Robert P. Woodworth, from New York, 1837, one of the firm that built the Marseilles
Mill, went to Ottawa, was postmaster and mer- chant ; moved to Peru ; was killed by an acciden- tal gunshot wound while hunting.
James H. Woodworth, brother of the above, from New York, 1837, also one of the Marseilles mill firm; after the burning of the mill moved to Chicago; was a member of Congress one term, and died at Evanston.
David Olmstead, and wife, Mary Linderman, from Tioga County, New York, 1833; settled on S. 10, T. 33, R. 5; died 1846. They had eleven children: Dea. Hiram, settled on a farm in Freedom; married the widow of Rev. Charles Harding, had four children: Allen, married Mercy Baker; Lewis, married Lydia Ackley at Marseilles; Edward A .; Sally Ann, married Lewis Linderman; Anson, married Phebe M. Jameson; Wesley, was a Methodist Episcopal preacher in Minnesota; Ann, Mary and William, with their mother, moved to Minnesota; Curtis, went to McLean County.
Ephraim Sprague came first to Ottawa, and to Marseilles in the spring of 1833; built a dam and saw-mill, completed in the fall of 1833. A dam built below him running his mill power, he moved to Grundy County.
Abel Sprague made a claim near where Seneca now is, on the Crotty place, sold the claim to two young men by the name of Stocking, and they sold to one Carter, who afterwards aban- doned it. In 1841, when work was resumed on the canal, Jeremiah Crotty occupied it.
Dolphus Clark, and wife, Sally Loring, from Ontario County, New York, in the fall of 1836 settled on S. 5, T. 33, R. 5; first a farmer. Chil- dren : Carlos, married Clarissa Dyke; Adaline, married Samuel Parr; Mercy, married Sylvester Renfrew ; Sally Ann, married D. A. Nicholson in Marseilles; Caroline, married H. W. Morey, died from the bite of a rattlesnake; John, married Mary Jane Kerns; Mary, married Ebenezer Bar- bour; Richard, married Mary Parr; Clara M., married F. E. Titus.
William R. Loring, from New York, came here in 1838, married Jane Micca, and settled on S. 32, T. 34, R. 5.
Jacob Reser, from New York, came here in 1838; died leaving five children: Jacob, Jr., married Louana Stebbins, and settled on S. 2, T. 33, R. 5; Jemima, married L. S. P. Moore.
Nathaniel Neece, and wife, Miss Lewis, came here in 1836.
James Dyke, and wife, Mary Sabin, from Connecticut, came here in 1837, settling on S. 5, T. 33, R. 5; was killed by the fall of a tree, February, 1844.
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Seth Otis, father-in-law to A. D. Butterfield, from Watertown, New York, resided here a short time. George W. Brumback says that Otis' family were well educated and intelligent; that Mr. Otis came to his father's, and finding their stock of book knowledge was contained in one Bible, one Methodist hymn book, one Pike's arithmetic, and old work on chemistry and Cobb's speller, very generously, and unsolicited, loaned them a portion of his library, of which they made good use. The next season the neigh- bors put up a small log schoolhouse, and Otis' daughter Mary, kept school for them. Brumback thinks that without Otis' books, and Mary's teaching, some other person than George W. Brumback would have been County Surveyor of La Salle County. Otis soon after moved to Chicago, and died there.
John Loring, and wife, Louisa Micca, from Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, came here in 1835, and settled on S. 31, T. 34, R. 5. They had five children: Eliza Jane, married Milton Peister; Hulbert, married Mary Bos- worth; George, and Alzina.
David Loring, brother of John, from the same place to Ohio; came here in 1836. Married Elizabeth Nichols, and settled on S. 5, T. 33, R. 5 ; removed to Nebraska.
Richard Ives, from Thompkins County, New York, came here in 1835 ; resided here about eight years, then went to Will County, and thence to Grundy County.
Horace Sabin came from Connecticut in 1836. and died in 1837.
Reuben Simmons, and wife, Susan Kinney, came from New York in 1834, und settled on S. 4, T. 33, R. 5. Moved to Iowa in 1855. His children were: Joshua, Lois, Melinda, Eliza, Emilv and Frank.
Giles W. Jackson, came from New York in 1836. He married Hannah Jennings, and set- tled on S. 20, T. 33, R. 5. In 1854 he removed to Ottawa, and for several years was the senior member of the firm of Jackson & Lockwood, hardware mechants. Mr. Jackson was the first Supervisor of the town of Manlius, was Agent of the county for the care of the poor and poor farm for several years, and Alderman of the city. His childern were: Henry A .; Elizabeth, is Mrs. Morgan; Harriet, married Charles Catlin, of Ottawa.
Samuel Bullock, from Boston, came here in 1834. He married Rhoda Bailey, daughter of John Bailey, of Vermillion. He left his family in 1850 and went to California, and did not re- turn.
DEER PARK.
Martin Reynolds, and wife, Elizabeth Hitt, came from Champaign County, Ohio; removed to Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1827, and in 1829 lo- cated on S. 29, T: 33, R. 2, in present town of Deer Park; the first settler in the town. For the purpose of securing educational advantages for his children, in 1838 he removed to Ogle County and assisted in establishing and sustain- ing the Mount Morris Academy. He returned to his farm in Deer Park in 1844, where he re- sided until his death. His wife died in 1849, leaving six children (Mr. Reynolds subsequent- ly married the widow Thurston) : Joseph, married, and lived near the old homestead, where he died in 1870; James C., married Caroline Clayton, and resided on S. 28, T. 33, R. 2, a large farmer and stock dealer, was Supervisor of the town several terms, the first Anglo-Saxon born in Deer Park; Robert; Margaret, married B. T. Phelps; Caroline, married Joseph Gum ; Elizabeth, married L. P. Sanger.
Joseph Reynolds, brother of the foregoing, from Champaign County, Ohio, came to Deer Park in the spring of 1830, where his three sons, Smith, Newton, and Milton, had located the previous fall, on what is now the Clayton farm : they sold the farm to Vroman, and located at Troy Grove, the first settlers in chat locality.
John Wallace came from Urbana, Ohio, with his family, and made a farm on the point of prairie just above the junction of the Vermillion and Illinois and between the two rivers, in the summer of 1834. In 1838 he removed to Ogle County, in company with Martin Reynolds, to ob- tain a better opportunity for educating their chil- dren. He remained there until his death in 1854. leaving thirteen children : Eliza, married Caleb Hitt, brother to her stepmother. Wallace's second wife, and Mrs. Martin Reynolds; Mary Berry, died single; Josiah, was a merchant, and died in Chicago unmarried ; William H. L., was killed at the battle of Shiloh ; Sarah Ann, is the wife of Dr. R. Shackleford, of Ohio: Thomas died at La Salle on his way home from Wiscon- son ; Margaret, died single; Martin R. M., was Major and promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of Fourth Cavalry, and breveted Briga- dier-General-was assessor of internal revenue for First District, Illinois, and in November, 1869, was elected County Judge in Chicago-his wife was Emma, daughter of George W. Gilson -- he has a large family : Barbara, married Wil- liam T. Cooper, of Polo, Ogle County ; John Fletcher, died of yellow fever, in Texas, in 1867;
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Elisha Berry, was the first of the family born in La Salle County, went South il: 1856; Matthew H. W., enlisted in the Fourth Cavalry and was drowned at Cairo; Caleb Hitt, married V. Belle, youngest daughter of Judge T. L Dickey.
Mrs. Elsa Strawn Armstrong, from Licking County, Ohio, leaving her husband in Ohio, set- tled on sections 35 and 36, T. 33. R. 2, in town of Deer Park, in 1831, with a family of seven children. A woman of great energy and busi- ness capacity. She died in 1871, aged eighty- two years. Her children were : John S., lived in town of Mission; George W. in Brookfield ; William E. died in Ottawa; Joel W .; Jeremiah died in California ; Perry lived in Morris, Grun- dy County, lawyer and member of the legisla- ture ; and one son, who lives in California.
Joel W. Armstrong came from Ohio with his mother's family in 1831, married Cordelia Chaniplin, and settled on section 35 and 36, T. 33, R. 2; was a large farmer and stock dealer ; he was a teamster with the army in the Black Hawk war when a mere lad; he held the office of County Recorder ; was several terms Justice of the Peace and Town Supervisor; a good busi- ness man and prominent citizen. He died in 1871, leaving five children. Mulford, his oldest son, died before his father, just after graduating at the Chicago University with the first honors- much regretted ; was a young man of great prom- ise. Nellie married E. C. Lewis; Julia married Isaac Smead ; Cora, Walter and Hart.
Judge Isaac Dimmick, and wife, Clarissa Nor- ton, from Wayne County, Pennsylvania, came west in the spring of 1833: he returned and brought out his family in the fall, and located at Vermillionville. He laid out and was the owner of the town of Vermillionville, which promised well for a time, but like many other towns of that day, refused to grow faster than the sur- rounding country, and was forced, with them, eventually to yield the palm to the railroad cen- tres. Mr. Dimmick held the office of Judge in Pennsylvania, and was County Commissioner for several terms here. He removed to Ottawa,
where he died, aged ninety-one. His children were : Lawrence W., who came with his father in 1833, married Cynthia Jenks, was Deputy Sur- veyor, and settled on T. 32, R. 2, where he died in 1852; Esther, married Deacon Wood, she died in 1856; Dr. L. N., a physician, married and practiced at Freedom, then at Ottawa, where he kept a drug store ; Philo C., married Sarah Yost, and for his second wife, Miss Stewart-occu- pied the old farm, then joined his brother in the drug store in Ottawa : Ann : Olive, wife of James Van Doren.
Dr. James T. Bullock, from Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts. He left there for Illinois in 1835, by the way of Providence, New York, Albany, Cleveland. Portsmouth, Ohio, and the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers, and reached La Salle County on January 2, 1836. He settled at Vermillionville, and at once commenced prac- tice as a physician, which he followed sucess- fully for forty years. His literary education was completed at Brown University, Rhode Island, and he took his medical course at Boston. He died October, 1875, highly respected as a man and physician. He married Nancy Barrows, of Massachusetts, who survived him. His children were : Sarah, who married Rev. Mr. Dickin- son ; Ella married Robert Galloway, who died in 1869; Frank W. married Agnes Baird, was a physician, and succeeds to his father's practice ; Lena.
John Hollinger, from Champaign County, Ohio, in 1833; settled on section 4. T. 32, R. 2; died January 4th, 1836. His widow married Thomas J. Potter in 1838, and died September 3, 1840. The Hollinger children are: John D .; Martin H. ; Maria H. ; Harry C .; William S .; Elizabeth ; Caroline S., wife of James Holman, of Deer Park; Mary A. Barbary.
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