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Samuel W. Raymond came from Woodstock, Vermont, in 1837; lived in Peru ten years, and kept the ferry part of the time. In 1847 he was elected County Recorder, and removed to Otta- wa; he held the offices of Recorder, County Clerk, and County Treasurer for many years ; an excellent and popular officer. He married Lorilla Lewis, daughter of Zimri Lewis, of Peru. He had ten children: Frances, married Asa Hoffman: Susan, married John A. Corton, of Iowa; Mary H., Charles, Emeline, Floretta, Samuel, Corrin, and Walter.
Hiram P. Woodruff came from Vermont in 1837; was engineer on the Illinois Central Rail- road, then a merchant. Died of cholera, at Hen- nepin, in 1852.
Dr. Seeley came from New York in 1837; a physician here until 1848; went to the Au Sable.
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M. Mott came from New York in 1838; kept the hotel at the Sulphur Springs, between Peru and Ottawa ; died there.
A. Hyatt, and wife, sister of Jesse Pugsley, came from New York in 1837; merchant with Mott, and Postmaster; left in 1840.
O. C. Motley came from Hennepin in 1837; he built the Motley Hotel on the bottom, near the old ferry; the hotel was carried away by an ice flood, and Motley left.
Lewis Waldo, from New London County, Connecticut ,and wife, Alice T. Baldwin, from Canterbury, Connecticut, in 1834 : settled on the bluff south of Peru. They had three children : Ella S., married William H. Bryan, of Peru; Sarah H., and Herbert L.
George W. Gilson, of Connecticut, graduated at the Norwich University in 1837, came to Peru in the spring of 1838; was an engineer on the origi- nal Central Railroad, built under State authority, under T. B. Ransom, resident engineer ; he mar- ried Miss E. C. Greenfield, of Middletown, Con- necticut, a sister of Mrs. Ransom; he removed to Lost Grove, but returned to Peru, and was lected Mayor in 1855. He removed to Chicago, and became a member of the real-estate firm of A. J. Galloway & Co .; he died September 29, 1856.
William Richardson, and wife, Mary Myers, came from Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1837; kept hotel in Peru several years; bought a afrm of Thomson, in the Brown settlement, South Ottawa, and dealt largely in cattle. He died July 13, 1854, of cholera, in Ottawa, aged 56. His children were: William Capron, mar- ried A. Palmer, his second wife was Anna Hos- sack-he died May 9, 1868; Henry, married Sarah Benedict, died soon after; Susan, died single.
LA SALLE.
Samuel Lapsley, from Pennsylvania to St. Louis, and from St. Louis to La Salle, in 1830; made a farm on the present site of La Salle, where the old Catholic church stood, extending as far north as Fifth street, and as far east as Joliet street. He built a saw-mill on the Little Vermillion ; his claim proved to be on canal land, belonging to the State, and he lost his improve- ments ; he died in 1839.
Burton Ayers, and wife, Orilla Langworthy, from Ohio, came to La Salle in 1830, and settled on S. 14; a blacksmith and farmer. His shop was at the foot of the bluff, near the Little Ver- million ; he died in 1870.
Mrs. Swanson, a widow, with a family-and
a sister, John Myers, from Ohio, settled near the mouth of the Little Vermillion, in 1831. She moved near the Hardy farm, and in 1840 re- moved to Pecatonica, then came back to La Salle, and finally moved to California, where she died. She had two sons, John and Edward, and two daughters.
Aaron Gunn, from Montague, Massachusetts, was one of a colony formed in 1830, in North- ampton, Massachusetts. Agents sent out to find a location, fixed upon La Salle. The colony came out in 1831. Gunn, and seven other young men bought two piroques, or canoes, at Mott- ville, Michigan, and floated down the St. Joseph to South Bend, then hauled their canoes across the portage to the Kankakee (the same route taken by La Salle 150 years before), they then floated down the Kankakee and Illinois to Hen- nepin, in nine days. The season was wet, and the colony, dissatisfied with the location, scattered over the country, mostly going to Bureau County. Mr. Gunn went to where La Moille now is, bought a claim of Mr. Hall, who was killed by Indians, at Indian Creek, the following summer.
The next summer he left on account of the war, and remained two years at Magnolia. In 1835, sold his claim and bought 400 acres north of and. now adjoining the town of La Salle. In common with most of the settlers in 1836, he supposed his fortune made, being told that his 400 acres were worth $40,000, and that he need work no more, but not realizing that sum he went one year on the Ottawa mission as a Methodist exhorter, and in 1837 was married to Nancy Winters, of Mt. Palatine, and went to farming, finding his 400 acres worth what its production of farm crops would indicate. His children are: Lydia C., who died at the age of eighteen ; Nettie Z., married George A. Elliott, of La Salle : Moses W., became a Baptist preacher ; Lucy G., married Herman B. Chapman, of La Salle; Elizabeth S., married Frank L. Ayers, of Kansas ; Aaron E .; Bella E.
Dixwell Lathrop, from Norwich, Connecticut. came in 1835; was employed by a company in Norwich to select and purchase land. He ar- ranged to enter land at Rockwell, adjoining La Salle, returned and brought out his family in 1836.
As the agent of Charles and John Rockwell. of Norwich, he laid out the town of Rockwell. and in 1838 was reinforced by a colony from Norwich and vicinity, called the Rockwell Col- ony. The town of Rockwell was at this time at the height of its prosperity, and the arrival of the colony was supposed to insure its ultimate success : but the summer and fall of 1838 were seasons of unexampled sickness throughout the
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West; malarious disease existed to an extent unknown before or since. It was particularly severe along the wide and low bottom lands of the Illinois. The Rockwell colonists were all sick, many died, the survivors scattered through the country, and the town never recovered.
Daniel Baird came from Westborough, Massa- chusetts, in the spring of 1836; kept a boarding- house at Rockwell; his wife, Charlotte B. Field, and her sister, Adeline O. Field, came out in the fall of 1836. Miss Field was married to Elmer Baldwin, of Farm Ridge, in 1838. Mr. Baird and family were all prostrated by the sickness of 1838, and his business broken up. In the spring of 1839 he moved on to a farm near Pales- tine Grove, in Lee County, where he resided till his death, in 1866. He had three children : Marianne, married Henry C. Chapman; Seth, married Amanda Thompson, second wife, Mar- tha Reese; Carrie, married Newton Pumphrey.
Hackaliah Merritt, and wife, Sarah Smith, came from Putnam County, New York, in the fall of 1836. He made a farm on S. 3, T. 33, R. I ; his wife died in 1847; his second wife was Lydia Robinson. Mr. Merritt died in February, 1877, aged 84. He left four children: Fuller married Julia Ide; Cordelia, married Philo Lindley; Martha, married Frank Hunt ; Nathan. Norman McFarrand came from Whitehall, New York, to Baltimore, in 1830; he married Mary Ann Forrest, of Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, and settled in La Salle September 13, 1837. His wife died, leaving seven children : John Forrest, Isaac Hubert, William Henry, Hary Ann, Cyrene Sophia, Norman Nash, John Isaac.
John H. McFarrand, brother of Norman, came from Tioga County, New York, in 1837; he married Julia A. Clark; he was engaged on sev- eral railroads before he came to La Salle ; he was a contractor on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and on the Illinois Central Railroad; was Post- master at La Salle for several years.
Nahum Gould was born in Warwick, Frank- lin County, Massachusetts, in 1798; crippled by an accident and unable to labor, he attended an academy at New Salem, and taught school al- ternately, till he entered Amherst College and graduated in 1828. He studied theology with Dr. John Woodbridge, of Hadley. He married Rebecca B. Leonard. Was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and appointed a missionary in the State of New York.
May 5. 1834. with his wife, three children and his sister, Semira (who afterward married Thomas Hartsell, of Hennepin), started for Illi- nois in a light wagon; they generally found ac- commodations for the night at the houses along the route, but were sometimes compelled to sleep
in their wagon. He arrived at his wife's broth- er's, Deacon John Leonard, at Bailey's Grove, on June 12th. He first settled at Union Grove, and preached occasionally at Hennepin and Vermillionville.
He organized or assisted in organizing a Pres- byterian church at Hennepin, December 29, 1834; one at Union Grove, December 3, 1834; at Vermillionville or Lowell, August, 1834; one at Plainfield; one at Rockwell, January, 1837. That year he built a house and settled at Rock- well.
In 1838 his wife, Rebecca Blake Leonard, died, leaving four daughters. The sickness of 1838 swept away more than half of the church. He preached at Troy Grove, and organized a church there. In 1838, being, in common with the ma- jority of the population, taken sick, he turned his horse on the prairie to care for himself, and was taken to his sister, Mrs. Hartsell, at Hen- nepin, where his children were.
Mr. Gould returned to Rockwell late in the fall, and in the spring of 1839 married Sarah Dewey, daughter of Roswell Dewey. He left for his health and lived at Princeton one year, then settled at Troy Grove ; preached and taught the district school and kept a station on the Un- derground Railroad, and claimed that the pas- sengers went safely through. While at Homer he was a sort of an itinerant on a missionary circuit to Indian Creek, where he organized a church in 1843: one in Paw Paw in 1844; preached in Harding and Serena; suffered many hardships and encountered many dangers and narrow escapes in fording streams and other new country experiences.
In 1846 he removed to Gouldtown, in the town of Freedom, where he resided four years, then to Northville, and to Somonauk in 1859.
In November, 1850, his wife, Sarah Dewey, died, and in 1858 he married Lois Jane, widow of Rev. Francis Leonard, of Galesburg. His family lived with or near him till 1871, when one daughter went to Nebraska, one died, one went to Iowa, and one to Minnesota.
In October. 1871. he removed to Nebraska, and settled at Kearney Junction. He secured the organization of a church at Kearney, aided efficiently in organizing the presbytery of Kear- ney and synod of Nebraska, and presided at the first meeting of each.
He died at his home in 1872, aged seventy-four, and his grave overlooks the city which had but one house when he went there. But few men have had more varied experiences-seen more of new country life, or labored more zealously in their chosen field, or accomplished more for which his church should be grateful.
COLUMBUS SCHOOL-OTTAWA.
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Dr. Thomas W. Hennessey, from Ireland, 1837, was a practicing physician in La Salle for twenty years, then moved on to a farm, in the town of Dimmick; he married Charlotte Cad- well, daughter of Sheldon Cadwell, of Deer Park.
Daniel Burdick and wife, Sally Adams, from Norwich, Connecticut, in 1837, settled on a farm. He enlisted in the army, and died in 1864, soon after his return.
John Higgins, from Detroit, to Chicago, in the spring of 1836, and to La Salle, November Ist, same year.
Giles Lindley, from Connecticut to St. Louis, from there here in 1840; married Jane Knight, from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Lindley died, leaving nine children.
Philo Lindley, from Seymour, Connecticut, came in 1836; married Cordelia Merritt; was ยท seven years Clerk of the Circuit Court of La Salle County, and County Clerk one term; was Quar- termaster of the Fifty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, and was killed near Altoona, Missis- sippi, 1863.
Myron D. Downs, from Connecticut, in 1837; he married Elizabeth Allen ; he sold goods in Rockwell and went to Chicago in 1838 or 1839.
William Burns, and wife, Sarah Harris, from Ireland to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1812, came to La Salle in 1837 ; was the contractor for build- ing the canal aqueduct over the Little Vermillion, and the lower locks on the canal; a good me- chanic, and physically and mentally a superior man. He died in the Sisters' Hospital, in Chi- cago, in 1873, aged 101 years. His children were: Eliza, who married David L. Gregg; John C., died in the State of Maryland; Sarah, married Mr. O'Connor, of La Salle, and, after his death, married John Higgins, of La Salle; Joseph, died at St. Louis.
Daniel Cosgrove came from Ireland in 1837; was Justice of the Peace for several years; died in 1872. His wife was Miss Garrity. His chil- dren were: Annie, Daniel, Terrance, Cronise, and Luke.
John Cody, from Ireland, came to La Salle in June, 1837; he married Miss Turney; his wife died in 1870. Had three children : James, mar- ried Mary Whalen ; Bridget, married James Dun- can, Mayor of La Salle; Ellen, is unmarried.
James and William Crosiar, brothers of Simon Crosiar, from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, settled on section 36, near Shippingport, in 1831 ; they both left in 1833.
FARM RIDGE.
William McCormick, Samuel Mackey, and Rees Morgan, came from Fayette County, Penn-
sylvania, and were the first settlers in the town of Farm Ridge.
William McCormick settled on section 18, in 1833, and in 1834 broke the first prairie broke in the town; in 1835, sold his claim, crops and improvements, and located on section 3, town of Bruce. He married Mary Morgan and had had eleven children : Sanders, in Iroquois County ; Hampton, in Strawn; Bruce, in Cham- paign ; William, in Strawn; Ann Eliza, married Mr. Bodine, now in Iowa; Mary, in Champaign County ; Rees, Worth, and Morgan, in Ford County.
Samuel Mackey, settled on section 33 in 1833; sold to Charles McCormick, and removed to sec- tion I, town of Bruce. In company with his brother, Norton Mackey, built a saw-mill on Otter Creek. In 1839, in company with Rees Morgan, built a saw-mill on the Vermillion, in the center of a heavy timbered region, which did a large business for several years; he died in 1854; he was the first Supervisor of the town of Bruce. He left children : Malvina, married Mat. Morrison ; Stephen, married Emma Holly ; Minerva, married William Cadwell; George and Jabez ; Agnes, married Methuel Bronson.
Rees Morgan, son of William Morgan, of Bruce, settled on section 33. He married Re- becca, daughter of David Reader; in 1838 sold to Marvin W. Dimock, and moved on to section 8, township 31, range 3; after running the saw- mill on the Vermillion for several years, he served one term as County Treasurer, then removed to Dayton.
Elmer Baldwin, Beebe Clark, James B. Beards- ley, and Noble W. Merwin, came from New Mil- ford, Connecticut, in the spring of 1835. Bought the claim, improvements and crops of William McCormick, and the claim of Alfred McCormick -purchased the land at public sale, at Galena, in June, and settled on sections 18 and 19, township 32, range 3.
Noble W. Merwin sold his land to Solomon Brown and Kirjeth A. Hunt, in the spring of 1836, and moved to Ohio.
James B. Beardsley brought out his wife, Laura M. Platt, and settled on his purchase in the spring of 1836. His wife died in July, 1837. The same year he married Prudence Barrass, from Saratoga County, New York. In 1850 he sold his farm to Rev. Daniel Baldwin, from Con- necticut, and removed to the town of Vermillion.
Beebe Clark settled on his farm as soon as purchased. In 1837 he married Susan Bishop, of Connecticut, and cultivated his farm till 1869, when he sold, and moved to Joliet, to live with his daughter Henrietta, an only child, the wife of the Rev. Charles A. Gilbert; he died February, 1870, and his widow died two years after.
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Elmer Baldwin brought his family in 1836, consisting of his wife, Adeline Benson, and an infant daughter, Mary, who became wife of Rinaldo Williams; his wife died in January, 1837. He married Adeline O. Field, of Worces- ter County, Massachusetts, in May, 1838, and still resided until his death on the land pur- chased of the United States in 1835, a farmer and nurseryman. He held the office of Justice of the Peace fourteen consecutive years; Super- visor of the town five years; Postmaster twenty years; School Treasurer of the town from its first settlement, till 1874; twice a Representative in the Legislature, and once in the State Senate; and a member and President of the Board of State Charities five years. His son, Noble Or- lando, married Maggie Jackson, and lived ad- joining the old farm.
Harvey Benson, and wife, Fanny Northrop, came from New Milford, Connecticut, in 1836; he settled on section 29, where he died in 1841; his widow occupied the same premises till her death, in 1871. Their only child, Adeline, was the first wife of Elmer Baldwin.
Solomon Brown, from New Milford, Connecti- cut, in 1836; he settled on section 18; he sold to Moses G. Hallock, in 1842, and moved to section 13, township 32, range 2, where he died, in 1846; his widow, Armida Waller, died in 1856. His daughter Jane married Marvin W. Dimock. His son Henry became a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York.
Kirjeth A. Hunt, from New Milford, Connect- icut, wife and five children, came from Connecti- cut in 1836 and settled on section 19, on the premises bought of Noble W. Merwin ; remained one year, and returned to Connecticut. He sold his farm to Dr. Johnson Hatch.
Marvin W. Dimock, from Washington, Con- necticut, came in 1838. He bought the farm of Rees Morgan, and married Jane, daughter of Solomon Brown. In 1850 he sold to Hiram Jackson, from Pennsylvania, and removed to Ottawa. In 1865, while showing a friend the animals in the park of Judge Caton, he was killed by a vicious elk.
The foregoing eight families constituted what was called the Yankee settlement. Five of these came in company from Connecticut by the way of New York and Philadelphia, by railroad from Philadelphia to Columbia on the Susquehanna, then by canal and slack water on the romantic Juniata to Holidaysburg, by the Portage Rail- road over the crest of the mountains to Johns- town, thence by canal to Pittsburg and by steamer to St. Louis, and from there by a stern-wheel Illinois River boat to Utica, La Salle County --- being five weeks on the trip.
Deacon Henry W. Gridley, and wife, Lucy Dickinson, came from . Deerfield, Massachusetts, in June, 1835, and settled on section I, where he resided until 1848, when he sold to Thomas Dunnaway and removed to Ottawa. His chil- dren are: Caroline E., married Henry L. Brush; Charles H .; Laura W., married Dr. D. Hopkins; Lucy S.
William Moore, and wife, Miss Wauchope, came from Ireland in 1835, and settled on sec- tion 35, where he raised a large family. He sold his farm to Mr. Bossermans about 1854, and moved to Fall River.
John McCormick, brother of William, came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, settled on sections 33 and 34, in 1835. He married Miss Morgan, daughter of William Morgan. He raised a family of seven children. In 1875 he sold his farm and went to Missouri. His chil- dren are: Charlotte; Ralph; Charles, married Lizzie Hays; Nelson; Zachery, deceased ; Olive, married Joseph Wauchope ; Dow.
Charles McCormick, and wife, from Fayette County, Pennsylvania, parents of William, John and Alfred, came from Fayette County, Penn- sylvania, in 1836; bought the farm of Samuel Mackey on section 33. where they died a few years after.
Alfred McCormick, son of Charles, came from 'Pennsylvanian in 1835; made a claim on section 19; sold and located on section 33, and lived there until 1866, then sold to Mr. Hampson and re- moved to Streator.
James G. Patten, and wife, daughter of Charles McCormick, came from Fayette County, Penn- sylvania, in the fall of 1836, and settled on sec- tion 33. In 1839 he removed to Wisconsin.
John Trout, from Brown County, Ohio, came in the fall of 1838, and settled on section 6. In 1842 went to Ohio on a visit, and died there. He left six children: John M., married Abby Angell Fry; William C., married Mary More- head, lived in Vermillion; Susan, married John Morehead ; Sarah M., married Hiram Cole; Har- riet, married Salathiel Snell.
Deacon John T. Ross, from Clermont County, Ohio, came in 1836, and settled on section 6, and died in 1837, aged about 80, leaving three chil- dren: Archibald Tweed, went to Missouri and died there; Henry, also went to Missouri; the daughter married John Black and went to Iowa.
George Gleim, and wife, Katharine Weitzel, came from Germany to Baltimore in 1834, and settled on section 36, township 32, range 3, in 1840. His wife died in 1858, leaving two chil- dren.
Isaac Wheatland, and wife, came from Eng- land to Ohio, and from Ohio here; made a claim
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on section 33, in 1836, where he lived till his death. His wife died about 1843, and he again married. About the year 1846 he was drowned while crossing the Illinois River at Ottawa. He left six children : Elizabeth, married William Wedgebury; Mary Ann, who married and went to Livingston County ; one son died single ; Wil- liam, married Miss Casey; George and Ellen.
Amos Clark, brother to Beebe, came from Con- necticut in 1837; purchased a farm on sections 20 and 29, and in 1839 sold to Myron B. Bennett, and returned to Connecticut.
Dr. Johnson Hatch, and wife, came from New Preston, Connecticut, in 1837, and bought the farm of Kirjeth A. Hunt. An old experienced physician, his services were in demand during the sickly seasons of 1838 and '39, and the re- lease from labor which he sought by coming West was hardly found; he returned to Con- necticut in 1841.
John W. Calkins, and wife, Miss Page, came from Salisbury, Connecticut, in 1838, and set- tled on section 19. Mrs. Calkins died in 1838. He married Miss Beardsley, of Connecticut, who died soon after. He then married Cynthia Bishop, of Connecticut. Mr. Calkins removed to Deer Park in 1842, and subsequently to Ottawa, where he died, leaving four children: James, who married, was engaged in the lumber trade in Ottawa, subsequently in Chicago, and then at Manistee, Michigan ; Helen, married Edgar Bald- win, from Connecticut ; Mary, married Henry M. Baldwin, from Connecticut, and settled in Deer Park; William W., married Louise Hossack, and moved to Chicago.
FALL RIVER.
The first settler in the limits of the present town was James Galloway; he came from Penn- sylvania to Ohio, near Sandusky, and remained there three years; he visited the Illinois River in the fall of 1824, and is said to have spent some months in hunting, trapping, and exploring the country ; moved his family to Chicago in 1825, and wintered there; in 1826 he bought a claim on section 24, township 3, range 4, which was first made by a man by the name of Rawson, who sold to Ephraim Sprague, and Sprague sold to Galloway, where he made a home and spent his days. His first wife died in 1830. Her chil- dren were: George, claimed to be the first white male child born in the county; John, died in Missouri; Susan, married Joel Ellis ; Jane, mar- ried Mr. Halloway; Mary, married Mr. Cly- burne. Mr. Galloway's second wife was Ma-
tilda Stipes. Her children are: Archibald, mar- ried Mary Dickerman; Marshall, was a con- ductor on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad; Samuel, moved to Michigan; Sarah, married Mr. Pesons ; James. Mr. Galloway died in 1863, age seventy-three years. His widow died in 1864.
Abraham Trumbo was born in' Pendleton County, Virginia, and resided in Licking County, Ohio, eighteen years; left there for Illinois in November, 1829, with the Greene Colony. That company crossed White River, in Indiana, in the morning, and Mr. Trumbo arrived on its banks the evening of the same day; it had be- come swollen during the day so that he was de- tained four weeks before he could cross. He went to Sangamon County, where he wintered, and reached La Salle County in the spring of 1830 ; he first bought a claim of William Richey on section 17 and afterwards purchased on sec- tions 14 and 22. He was the first Supervisor of the town. He died October 7, 1865, aged seventy- three years, and his wife, Esther Dyer, died in April, 1865. His children were: Jane, who died in 1848; Ambrose, married Casbia Gentleman ; Mar- garet, married John S. Armstrong ; Rebecca, mar- ried Samuel Parr; Jackson, died of cholera in 1848.
John Brown, from Missouri, came in 1829; settled at the ford of the Illinois River, two miles above Ottawa, which bears his name. He was drowned in sight of his house while crossing the Illinois in returning from the land sale in 1835. The famliy left in 1841.
John Powers, from Bridgewater, Massachu- setts, came to southern Illinois, and from there here, in 1834, and settled on section 26. He was the first Justice of the Peace in the town. He died in 1862. He left six children : Charles R. Powers, has removed west; Aaron F .; John H .; Mary; Lucy, married Andrew Greenless ; Lura, married Samuel Hammond. The family have left the county.
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