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their discipline and military precision strangers mistook the Guards for soldiers from the regular army. The commissioned officers are Chas. H. Ingals, captain; William Deter, first lieutenant ; Phillip H. Schwab, second lieutenant. A large proportion of non-commissioned officers and a number of privates were soldiers in the late war. The rank and file, by their persistent and determined effort to excel, have succeeded in attaining proficiency and excellence in military discipline and tactics for which they have, without an exception, received com- mendation and profuse compliments from the assistant superintendent general whenever paraded for inspection, and are now rated as one of the best companies of the Illinois National Guard.
Its property is valued at $4,000, secured without outside assistance (except about $100). It consists of an iron-roofed armory, which contains drill-room, gun-room, officers' quarters, dining-room and kitchen, and is one of the best in Illinois.
The organization is a grand success, and an honor to itself, the locality in which it exists, and the county it represents.
The armory is 40×96 feet, one and two stories high. Musical instruments, colors, munitions, etc.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
JONATHAN PETERSON, farmer, Sublette, is one of a family of three boys and eight girls. He was born in Truxton, Courtland county, New York, in 1812. His parents, Jonathan and Doretha (Smith) Peterson, were born in Franklin county, Massachusetts. His mother was of Irish descent. He was reared a farmer, and enjoyed the benefits of a common school education. He came west in 1836 via the Erie canal, Lake Erie, and across Michigan afoot to Chicago, where he stopped one week ; thence to Ottawa, La Salle county. Here he spent the winter of 1836-7, whence he come directly to Lee county in the following spring, and settled in Lee Center township, near its southern boundary, nearly opposite his present home in Sec.4, Sublette,having moved across the line abont twenty-five years ago. In the fall of 1837 Mr. Peterson went back east and was married to Percis Avery, of Connecticut. With his bride our subject came to his western home in the spring of 1838. In these early days Mr. Peterson hauled much produce to Chi- cago ; in 1840 he took up a load of wheat, and brought back his parents and their family (except one sister), who had come on from the east. He has had five children : Francis Augusta, born April 1839, was a gradu- ate of the first class of the state normal school, Normal, Illinois; was married July 1862 to E. A. Gastman, her classmate, and now a prom- inent educator and principal of schools, Decatur, Illinois. She died in the winter of 1863. Before her marriage she taught in Normal and
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Decatur. Alice M., born in the fall of 1840 ; in March, 1863, married to W. F. Hoyt; died of consumption in the latter part of 1863. Mr. Hoyt is now residing in Clinton, Iowa. Emeline W. was born in May 1842, second wife of A. J. Biddle, her second husband, a native of In- diana, and a veteran of the Union army in the late rebellion. Myron J. was born in April 1844. In September, 1862, he enlisted at Dixon in the 75th Ill. Vols .; was wounded at Perryville, and was sent back to the hospital at New Albany, Indiana, reentered his regiment June 1863 ; was in the 75th Ill. Vols. until the close of the war. Myron was in the following engagements: Chickamauga, Chattanooga, with Sherman to Atlanta, and back with Thomas to Tennessee. In 1873 he took up a soldier's claim in Nebraska, where with his wife he is now liv- ing. Walter A. was born in April 1852, is married and living in Wis- consin, having gone to that state in March 1881. The subject of this sketch has twice been supervisor of Sublette,having held that office three years. In an early day he was elected justice, of the peace for Lee Center township, but did not qualify for the office. He is a repub- lican and a deacon of the Baptist church, of which he and his wife are prominent members. Mrs. Peterson, daughter of Elisha and Percis (Pease) Avery, was born 1811. Her father was born in Massachusetts, her mother in Connecticut. Her ancestors on both sides are a long-lived race. Her mother's grandfather was born in Ireland, her father's peo- ple were from England. Her uncle, Walter Pease, aged ninety-eight, is living on the Connecticut river, near Hartford, where seven genera- tions of the Pease family have lived. He is active yet and walks all over his farm. Her grandfather and grandmother on both sides lived to be over cighty years old. At one time her father had four widowed sisters, all more than eighty years old, living in Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Biddle, the son-in-law of Mr. Peterson, is an industrious, self-made man. He left his home when he was eleven years old, and began for himself. He was a lumberman twelve years in Indiana. He has farmed in Lee Center township ; is a republican and a member of the Baptist church. He was born in 1835.
CHARLOTTE (Field) BAIRD was born in Worcester county, Massa- chusetts, in 1811. Her mother, Martha Hitchcock, was born in 1868, and her mother's mother and father were born in 1742 and 1740 respect- ively. The name of the latter was David. Mrs. Baird has a brother and a sister : Seth, born in 1802, living in Massachusetts, and Adeline O. (Mrs. Baldwin), born in 1807, is living in La Salle county, Illinois, with Elmer Baldwin, her husband, and author of a history of La Salle county. Charlotte Field was married in December 1832, to Daniel Baird, born in Tioga county, New York, in 1806. Mr. Baird was rear- ed a merchant and had a common school education. He came to La-
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Salle county in 1836, via Buffalo, Detroit and Chicago. Mrs. Baird and her sister came in the fall of the same year, via the Ohio and St. Louis. In 1839 Daniel Baird and his family came to Lee county, Sublette, and settled within a few rods of where Elijah Austin now lives, on the old mail route from Peru to Grand Detour; he took up a claim for a large tract of land. Then there was no house between his place and Troy Grove, thirteen miles southeast, in La Salle, and only one between there and La Moille. Here was the first post-office in Sub- lette, called Brookfield, and afterward Hanno. Mr. Baird was widely and favorably known ; he was the first supervisor of Sublette, and held the same office in 1858 ; he was county commissioner from 1844 to 1846 inclusive. In his house the first town meeting for Sublette was held. Baird's first house contained two twelve-pane windows and a stairway to the second floor, and compared with the greased-paper-window and peg-ladder-log-house, was considered by some rather stylish. He died in March 1866, and was buried in the family burial-ground. His fam- ily are: Marianne, born in 1838 (Mrs. Henry Chapman), living in Sublette township; Caroline (Mrs. Newton Pumphrey), 1843; Seth F., 1846. The latter is married and living on the homestead in Sec. 19, and with him Mrs. Baird is living. Newton Pumphrey is a tin- smith in the village of Sublette.
WILLIAM DEXTER, farmer, Sublette, was born in Canada, December 1831; he is the son of Elisha and Mary (Kane) Dexter, and the second in a family of eight. His mother, born in Ireland, came to Canada when she was about three years old. His father was born in New York state, and several of his people were in the revolution. Elisha Dexter was a radical in McKinzie's rebellion in Canada in 1837, and was in Michigan during the latter part of 1837. In 1838 he left Canada, after selling his farm near Toronto at a great sacrifice, and came to Illinois with his family. On their way they were all sick in Michigan, where his wife died. They arrived in Lee county in No- vember 1839, and settled about a mile east of Binghamton, where they staid a short time; from here they moved to May township, where, after a little, Mr. Dexter bought a claim from John Dexter, his uncle, who came to Lee county in 1835. In 1846 he left this place, moved to the central part of the township, and bought a claim of 200 acres now owned by Jake Baker. Mr. Dexter, sr., died about 1858. In 1852 William Dexter married Martha Coleman, of Pennsylvania, whose people had come to Lee county about 1848. William had obtained a common school training, often going several miles to school. In 1858 he bought the W. ¿ of S.W. } Sec. 4, Sublette, from Lewis Clapp for $2,400, having previously owned land and farmed in May and Lee Center townships. He has since bought land in Secs. 8 and 9,
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and now owns over 200 aeres. In August 1862 Mr. Dexter enlisted in the 75th Ill. Vols., Co. E, Captain Frost, of Lee Center. During his entire service of nearly three years he was off duty only five days (in regimental hospital). Mr. Dexter drove a team about three months ; drove an ambulance at Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Dalton, Resaca and Rome; here he was commissioned commissary sergeant of an army train, of which he had entire charge at Atlanta, and back with Thomas to Tennessee. He was discharged June 29, 1865. Mr. Dexter has nine children : Eliza, born 1853; Etta M., 1855; Emma, 1857 ; Otta, 1861; William, 1866: Tra, 1868; John, 1870; Margaret, 1872; Fred, 1874 (Martha, born 1859, died 1864). Etta is a graduate of the Northwest College, at Naperville ; here Otta attended two years. Mr. Dexter has been nine years road commissioner, was chairman of the Garfield club of Sublette, is first lieutenant of the Lee county guards, and with his wife and four eldest daughters is a member of the Baptist church.
ALPHEUS H. CLINK, farmer, Sublette, was born in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, in 1829, and was brought up to farming. His parents were William and Rebecca (Hulburt) Clink. His father was born in New York, and was descended from German ancestors. His mother was born in Pennsylvania, and her grandfather was German, while her grandmother was Scotch. Of a family of six Alpheus was the third. He was educated at the common schools, and with the whole family came to Lee county in August 1843. His father bought a claim in Lee Center township from William Church; lived here a few years, and was engaged much of the time in teaming to Chicago, chiefly for Geo. E. Haskell, store-keeper at Inlet. In 1848 the family came to the N.W. ¿ Sec. 12, Sublette, and entered the same. About this time the eldest daughter, Mrs. Lucretia Sawyer, died. The youngest boy died in 1854 of typhoid fever. In 1856 William Clink, the father, died of con- sumption, and was buried in Bradford cemetery, where the son and daughter had been laid. Margaret (Mrs. Canfield) died in Marshall- town, Iowa, in 1857. Isaac M. Clink is farming in Iowa. He is well known in this and Bureau county, having been a justice of the peace in both. In 1852 Alphens Clink built an 18×20 frame house on the south "eighty" of the homestead. He has since bought sixty acres south of that. In 1879 he erected a fine dwelling, cost about $1,800. He was first married in 1850, to Julia A. Canfield, by whom he had one son, now living in Greene county, Iowa. His wife died in Decem- ber 1854. His second wife, Melissa M. Robinson, born in Ohio in 1837, has given birth to five children : Nina (Mrs. John Ellsworth), born September 1856, William H., 1857, Frank E., 1859, Harry, Janu- ary 1869, and Sarah, December 1870. Mr. Clink is a republican.
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ALPHEUS CRAWFORD, the father of Geo. M. Crawford, the subject of this sketch, was born December 28, 1798, in Lucerne (now Brad- ford) county, Pennsylvania. His grandparents on his father's side were born and married in Scotland. His father and mother were born in Connecticut, and the parents of the latter were English. During the revolution his father belonged to a guard of minute men at New Haven, Connecticut, and he witnessed Burgoyne's surrender. In 1844 Alpheus Crawford with a family of six children came west with a team and wagon via Buffalo, Lake Erie by boat, and across Michigan directly to Knox Grove, where seven or eight families were then living. He bought of widow Pratt, for $75, a claim of the N.E. ¿ of S. W. ¿ Sec. 13, and a "forty " just east of the same. There was a log house on the place, and about seven acres were broken. He is still living here. Geo. M. Crawford, born December 19, 1825, was the second in a family of seven. His mother was Marsha Skinner, born June 1803. George received a common school education and in the spring of 1845 took a claim of the E. ¿ of N. W. ¿ Sec. 13, and an "eighty " east of the same. In the spring of 1849 he built a frame house, partly with lumber hauled from Chicago with a team. He was married the same year to Mrs. Lydia A. Dewey, daughter of Levi Camp, an old settler at Knox Grove. This lady died in 1852, and in December, 1859, Mr. Crawford married Maria J., daughter of Stephen Clink, an early settler in Bradford town- ship. Three children are the offspring of this union : Milo H., born October, 1861 ; Norval M., born October 1863, Clara M., May 1870. In 1862 Mr. Crawford bought of Daniel Pratt the N. W. ¿ of S.W. ¿ Sec. 13, at $30 per acre. He has also purchased the W. ¿ of N. W. ¿ Sec. 13, at $58 per acre. In 1868 he built a house at a cost of $2,000, and a barn in 1877 at a cost of $1,200. Mr. Crawford is a republican, and his wife is a member of the Congregational church.
EDWARD M. LEWIS, wagon-maker and blacksmith, Sublette, was born in Broom county, Massachusetts, December 1844. He is the son of Joseph W. and Elsie (Shutts) Lewis, the latter of German descent. His father was from Vermont, and was a carpenter by trade. Edward was the eldest of four children, of whom two are now living. He worked on a farm until he was nineteen years old. In the meantime he obtained a common school education. He came with his parents to Lee county in 1845, first to Nachusa, thence in 1853 to Amboy, where they have since had a residence. He learned carriage wood-work of H. Sweet, of Amboy. Was married in 1868 to Sarah Tate, born of English parentage in 1851. Two boys have been born to them : How- ard, in 1871, and Henry, 1876. Mr. Lewis began in Sublette in 1869. He owns property to the value of about $1,000 and is doing a good business, chiefly wagon and carriage repairing. He is a republican, a
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member and officer of the Methodist Episcopal church, and belongs to the Lee county guards. His wife is a Baptist.
NELSON F. SWARTWOUT, farmer, Sublette, brother of Abram Swart- wout, was born in .Rock Island county, Illinois, in 1844. He attended the Lee Center Academy as well as a commercial school ; enlisted at Dixon, October 1864, in the 34th Ill. Inf .; went into Tennessee, was first engaged at Nashville, and was there wounded. After being in the hospital a month and spending another at home on furlough, he was sent via New York to his regiment at Goldsboro, North Carolina, skirmished a little in this vicinity, and was mustered out July 12, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky, having previously witnessed the grand review of Grant's and Sherman's armies at Washington. Mr. Swartwont has, at different times, been engaged in teaching school. He was married, October, 1869, to Amelia Nettleton, of Massachusetts. They have three children : Walter R., Mina L. and Nellie A. His farm of 170 acres in S.W. ¿ of Sec. 3 is well tilled and valuable. Mr. Swartwont votes the republican ticket, belongs to the Sublette Baptist church, and is a frank, outspoken man.
ABRAM L. SWARTWOUT, farmer, Sublette, was born October 20, 1841, in Rock Island county, Illinois. He is one of four children of Nelson J. and Abagail Ricker Swartwout : Abram L., Nelson F., Frank E. (de- ceased), and Hattie (Mrs. Wright). His father came to Illinois from Otsego county, New York, about 1836. His mother was born in San- gamon county, Illinois. After living in Lee Center township about ten years the family moved to Sublette in 1855. The senior Swart- wont built here, and was the first lumber dealer and grain buyer in Sublette. He had built the first blacksmith shop in Lee Center town- ship. This was on the old Chicago road from Dixon. Mr. Swartwout hauled lumber from Chicago. to build his house in Lee Center. Frank, nine years old at his death, was killed by a horse in Sublette in 1856. Abram L. Swartwout received an academic education. He enlisted September 21, 1861, in Co. D, 34th Ill. Inf., at Springfield, Illinois. He went into Kentucky, came up with Buell's command at Shiloh the second day of the fight, afterward went to near Chattanooga, then fell back to Louisville when Bragg threatened Cincinnati. He was cap- tured about the time of the engagement at Perryville, but was soon paroled. Early in 1863 was again in service. At Liberty Gap, June 1863, he was brigade inspector's clerk ; was captured at Chikamauga, and was a prisoner seven months in Richmond and Danville, Virginia. June 10, 1864, Mr. Swartwont joined his regiment on the Atlanta cam- paign. He was mustered out September 1864, reënlisted March 1865, in the 4th U. S. Veterans, Hancock's corps. During most of his latter service he was a detailed clerk in the war department. Finally mustered
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ont April 1866. Mr. Swartwout was married to Carrie E. Thayer, of Massachusetts, September 1866. He settled on the homestead, where he now resides, having previously been one year in business with A. L. Wilder, in Sublette, and two years in the grocery business in Men- dota, Illinois. He now has a farm of 240 acres, Sec. 4, S.E. ¿ and S. ¿ of N.E. 4. His family are Frank A., Edith L. and Hattie May. He is a prominent republican, a deacon of the Sublette Baptist church, quartermaster sergeant of the 12th I.N.G.and withal an intelligent, un assuming gentleman.
D CHAS. H. INGALS, farmer, Sublette, son of Charles F. and Sarah (Hawkins) Ingals, was born March 11, 1846, in Lee county, Illinois, and was brought up to farming. Besides going to the common schools he took a partial course in the normal school at Normal, Illinois. He enlisted at Dixon in 1862, but was rejected because he was too young and too small. In the fall of 1863 he entered Co. A., 75th Ill. Inf., went with his regiment to Tennessee, from Chattanooga to Atlanta, was with Sherman at the capture of Atlanta, came back with Thomas to Tennessee, was in the engagements at Franklin and Spring Hill, November 30, and at Nashville in December 1864. Mr. Ingals was then detailed by the medical directory to the 1st division of the 4th Army Corps, was transferred to the 21st Ill. reg. in June 1865; went to New Orleans the next month, and thence, in August 1865, to San Antonio, Texas, where he remained until he received orders to be mus- tered out. From January till June 10, 1865 he was in the office of the medical directory. He was afterward in the provost guards, 4th corps army headquarters, and the provost marshal general's office at St. Antonio, which position he held until the expiration of his service, De- cember 25, 1865. In May, 1865, Mr. Ingals received a sergeant's com- mission. He was in the engagements at Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, Franklin, and others. He is now captain of Co. F., 12th Inf. Illinois national guards (see Lee county guards), also commander of Lee county post No. 65 of G.A.R., headquarters at Am- boy. Mr. Ingals is a republican, and belongs to the order of Masons. His farm of 200 acres is in Sec. 10. His residence is about half a mile from the village of Sublette, and was built in 1870 at a cost of $3,400. Previous to his settlement here he was engaged in mercantile business at Rocky Falls, Whitesides county. Was married in March 1871, to Mary I. Morse, who came with her parents from Massachusetts to Illi- nois in 1869. She was born in Natick, Massachusetts, December 10, 1854. The offspring of this marriage are five children : Herbert F., Grace M., Neva May., Walter F. and Fred. M. Mr. Ingals is a thrifty farmer and an enterprising citizen. He has an attractive home with beautiful environments, and seems to enjoy life.
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SHERMAN L. HATCH, father of Charles L. Hatch, the subject of this sketch, was born in Cavendish, Windsor county, Vermont, in 1807. He was the son of Sherman and Caroline (Lovell) Hatch, of the same place. His grandfather on the father's side lived in Hartford, Con- necticut, and his mother's father was one of the earliest settlers in Cav- endish, Vermont. His father owned a small farm and was a hatter. Sherman was the oldest of twelve children, of which only he and four sisters are living. He received what was then called a common school education, and in the spring of 1837 came west to Chicago, thence to Milwaukee, and from there to Janesville, Wisconsin. From there, with seven others, he went down the Rock river in a boat, stopping at Rockford, Dixon and Prophetstown. Mr. Hatch remained over night in Iowa, opposite the mouth of the Rock, and then next day started up the river to Dixon, and arrived there in June. From there he went to Charles F. Ingals', who had settled in Lee Center in 1836. On his way he stopped at the house of Mr. Whittaker, Lee Center, the only home seen since he left Dixon. Mr. Hatch came to Sublette, Sec. 7, in the southwest part of which was an abandoned claim and an unfinished log honse, which he occupied and completed. He re- turned in the fall of 1837 to Vermont, and married Lucy Brown in the spring of 1838. Returning to his claim he found it occupied. He appealed to the squatter tribunal ; the decision was that he (Hatch) should pay $150 to the occupant in consideration of tillage and other improvements made during his absence; or if Hatch chose, the occu- pant might pay him $125 and retain possession. Our subject paid the $150, and reentered his humble dwelling. During the summer of 1838 mother earth was the first floor of his cabin; the second, consist- ing of split rails covered with corn stalks, was for company. Mr. Hatch claimed a half-section of prairie and 240 acres of timber in May and Sublette townships; but when the land was sold he bought only an eighty (in May town), having loaned considerable sums of money which he could not collect. He has since bought the W. ¿ of N. W. 4 Sec. 18, Sublette, and soon after the E. ¿ of the same, where, in 1846, he built a 16×20 frame house, and in 1852 he built a brick house and a large barn ; the lumber for the latter was all hauled from Chicago. Mr. Hatch lost his wife in November 1876; all of their four children are married : Harriet L. (Mrs. Gardner) was born December 1839; Caroline L. (Mrs. James Garrett), December 1840; Julia A. (Mrs. J. W. Latta, Dixon), December 1845 ; Charles L., 1848. The latter was married in 1874, to Catharine Barse, of Detroit, Michigan. Their family are Lucy M., born April 1875, and Harry L., May 1877. Mr. C. L. Hatch has recently bought land in Secs. 17 and 18, adding to the large tract only partially described in this sketch. He taught
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school two winters; he is now living on the homestead. He is a dea- con of the Sublette Congregational church ; his wife is a Unitarian. His father is a republican, and in an early day was a captain in the Vermont militia.
JOEL COOK, farmer, Sublette, was born in Otsego county, New York, in 1828, and was raised a farmer. He came west with his peo- in 1845, learned the carpenter and shoemaker trades in Lee county, though he had worked at the latter a little in the east. He went over- land to the Far West in 1850, was in California and Oregon nearly four years, came back, and married Emily Strickland, of Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1855, her parents having come to Lee county in 1849. Mr. Cook bought eighty acres of land from his brother John for $1,700, and went to farming, the next spring, in the S.E. } Sec. 8. He built a 16×24 house. He has since purchased 110 acres in Secs. 5 and 9, at a cost of $4,000. In 1875 Mr. Cook put up a house at a cost of $1,800. His family are Lacon, born in 1863, and Katie, born 1871. His wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a repub- lican and a Mason, but was formerly an Odd-Fellow. In an early day he used to go to Chicago much with an ox team; once he was gone forty days. In the meantime, however, he took some emigrants out to Iowa. Daniel Cook, father of the above, was born in New York, on Van Rensselaer's grant, in 1802. He was the second in a family of seven. He had five uncles killed in the revolution. His parents, Simeon and Polly (Baldwin) Cook, moved to Pennsylvania when he was three years old. He went to school only about two weeks, but was taught at home. He married, in 1823, Phoebe Rouse, and lived in Pennsylvania until he came west. Their family consists of four chil- dren living : Samuel, born 1824; Joel, born 1826; John J., born 1830 ; Lydia, born 1836. On his arrival in Lee county with his family in 1845, Mr. Cook, during the first winter, lived with Daniel Trip at Inlet creek ; the next year on Thomas Fessenden's farm, after which he settled on the S.E. } Sec. 8. For this John J. Cook had a warrant, having been a soldier in the Mexican war. John is now living in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Samuel was in the late rebellion, and received injuries at Perryville, from which he has never recovered, though he was not in the engagement. He is now living with his family in Cherokee county, Kansas, and is engaged in farming. Mr. Cook and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. The former is an Odd- Fellow, and the latter belongs to the Rebeccas. Mr. Cook was an old- time democrat, but voted for Abe Lincoln, and has since voted the re- publican ticket. He can remember seeing the soldiers of the war of 1812, in which was one of his cousins. He and his wife are now liv- ing with their daughter, Mrs. Scofield, in Sublette.
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