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Very early in the settlement of Nachusa township a Methodist minister by the name of Benjamin preached to the pioneer settlers in their cabin homes. Another minister, by the name of Reed, an Eng- lishman by birth, who has since returned to England, preached to the early settlers near Mr. Brierton's in the little stone school-house, spoken of elsewhere. Religious services are still kept up by this denomination.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
JONATHAN DEPUY, farmer and stock raiser, Nachusa, is prominent among the early settlers of Nachusa township now living. He was
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born of poor but honest parents, in Luzerne county, in the old hilly State of Pennsylvania, reared on a farm, and educated to hard toil and industry. July 5, 1838, he married Miss Sallie A., daughter of Phillip and Elizabeth (Moore) Klintob, also a native of Luzerne county, Penn- sylvania. After his marriage Mr. Depuy began life himself with just what nature provided him with, a pair of strong hands and a deter- mined will. His first work was to secure a team and wagon and a small amount of money. This obtained, in the spring of 1842 he started for Lee county, Illinois, where he arrived June 2, three dollars in debt to a friend in Chicago from whom he borrowed that amount. After his arrival here Mr. Depuy at once went to work, and when he could not succeed in getting $1 a day he took 50 cents, and so perse- vered until he became independent. He now owns one of the most desirable homes in Nachusa township, besides 240 acres in Iowa. His wife died at her home, where she so long lived and where she reared her family, November 30, 1866. The issue of this union was eight chil- dren, six of whom are living: Alexander, Rosana, Maranda, Fidelia, Sarah J. and Mariam. The two deceased are Francis, aged two years, and Charles, who died in the winter of 1863, aged eighteen years. Mr. Depuy's second marriage was with Miss Tenia Bowman, who was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1828. Mr. Depuy was born October 2, 1816, and is the son of Jonathan and Rachel Winner Depuy, who were also natives of Pennsylvania.
JAMES A. HEATON, farmer and stock raiser, is a son of John and Sarah (Weed) Heaton, and a brother to the late Judge Heaton, of the appellate court. He was born in Oneida county, New York, August 17, 1822. His early labor was farming, but he served an apprentice- ship to the cooper's trade. His education was quite liberal for his day. He attended the common schools, then spent parts of three years at Clinton Liberal Institute, where he studied all branches taught in that institution except the classics. He taught ten years in New York state. April 1, 1844, he started for the west. He landed first in Wis- consin, then made his way to Illinois. He arrived in Lee county in August of the same year, and engaged as a farm hand to James Camp- bell, then sheriff of Lee county. In winters he taught school. On April 18, 1847, he enlisted in Co. A, 16th reg. U. S. Inf., for the Mexi- can war, and served till its close. He then returned to Lee county. He was married June 1, 1851, to Anna M. Hetaler, daughter of Nathan and Katharine Hetler. She was born September 1, 1832. They have seven children living: William H., Katharine H., wife of B. F. Miller; Andrew J., Charles C., Jessie, and twins, Nellie and Georgia. Mr. Heaton has owned many different tracts of land, but
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dates permanent settlement to his occupancy of his present home, Secs. 22 and 24, T. 22, R. 9. He has 208 acres in his farm.
ZACHARIA T. STOVER, farmer and stock raiser, Dixon, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, February 6, 1849, and was reared on a farm, with but a limited means of obtaining an education, as his mother died when he was but a small boy ; yet, by a determined will, and application to study, he gained a fair business education. In 1870, in view of bettering his condition, he came to Lee county, Illinois, where he decided to make his future" home; decidedly preferring the prairie State of Illinois to the hilly State of Pennsylvania. October 6, 1875, he married Miss Anna L. Seitz ; she was born in Lee county, Illinois, December 16, 1854. They have two children : Charles T. and Mary F. Mrs. Stover's father, Isaac Seitz, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, April 22, 1809. Early in life Mr. Seitz learned the trade of cooper, which he followed till he came to Illinois, in 1846. He then bought a farm in Sec. 2, T. 21, R. 10, and engaged in farming. September 8, 1850, he married Miss Frances, daughter of Charles Philip and Elizabeth (Moore) Klintob; she was born in Lu- zerne county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1826, and came to Lee county in 1848 or 1849. By this marriage he reared four children, two of whom are living, Mrs. Anna L. Stover, and Jacob E., born May 24, 1862; by a former marriage he reared six children, three of whom are living: Mary A., wife of John W. Courtright, and Isaac and Abraham (twins). Mr. Seitz is still living on the old home farm with his daughter.
DOLLIVER JOHNSON, retired, Amboy. After a long life of useful labor, combined with a high order of mechanical genius and intelli- gence, Mr. Johnson retired to his farm in the southeast of Nachusa township, where himself and his excellent wife are now spending their declining years, surrounded with the blessings of a pleasant home. Mr. Johnson was born in Bradford, Orange county, Vermont, July 16, 1800. He was reared on the farm, but at the age of eighteen, being a natural mechanic, turned his attention to learning the trade of black- smith. This he followed till the age of thirty-four, when, seeking a broader field of labor, he entered a foundry at Boston, where he bored and finished the first brass cannon ever produced in the United States. About this time came the demand for railroad engines, and he engaged in the manufacture of these great iron horses, which were then not only the wonder, but consternation, of the world. He subsequently became master mechanic for five different railroad companies, viz, the Erie, the Pittsburg, the Calais & Baron in the United States, and the St. Lawrence & Atlantic and Grand Trunk of Canada. In 1855 he came to Amboy, Lee county, Illinois, where he received the appointment by
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the Illinois Central Railroad Company of foreman of their machine shops at Dunleith, where he remained till 1870, when he retired to the farm, which his noble wife had been superintending from the time of their advent into Illinois, thus bringing into practice those rare talents for which her family are characteristic. On March 20, 1827, Mr. John- son was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Underwood. She died April 20, 1835, aged twenty-nine years and five months. Of this marriage are two children : Alonzo and James, both living in Springfield, Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Johnson's next marriage was on October 17, 1837, with Miss Lucretia, daughter of Mr. Thomas and Anna (Eaton) Abbott. She was born in Concord, New Hampshire, March 6, 1812, and is a descendant of the historic Abbott family, whose ancestors (two brothers) came to America in the early Puritan days in the next ship following the immortal Mayflower.
WILLIAM W. DARKER, farmer and stock raiser, Amboy, is a native of Leicestershire, England, and came to Lee county, Illinois, in 1845. During his early youth he was engaged in a mixed business of farm- ing, brewing, butchering, and attending school. Soon after he came to Lee county he entered land in Sec. 21, T. 21, R. 10, and at once began to make himself a home, which to an Englishman is of great importance. He very early entertained the idea that to make a home on the prairie it must be surrounded with a thick growth of a large variety of timber, hence his residence is now almost hid from view in the tall timber that surround it. On January 26, 1853, he mar- ried Miss Caroline Gould, a native of Ashtabula county, Ohio. She was born January 24, 1824, and died July 26, 1863, leaving one child, Elizabeth, born October 25, 1853, who is now cheering her father's home with the pleasant sunshine of her countenance. Though she was early in life deprived of the tender care and instructions of a mother, she has those very essential qualities which are so much re- quired to make a pleasant home-industry, perseverance and good taste Mr. Darker is engaged in stock raising as well as farming.
SAMUEL CRAWFORD, farmer and stock raiser, Nachusa, was born in Blair county, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1823. Like his father he was reared a farmer, and educated in the common schools of his boyhood days (that of the old subscription plan). February 10, 1848, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary A., daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Wilson) Burket, also a native of Blair county, Pennsylvania. She was born April 21, 1827. In April following his marriage Mr. Craw- ford started for Lee county, Illinois, by the way of the rivers Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois. On his arrival in this county he at once began improving his prairie home, which he had two years previously entered in Sec. 9, T. 21, R. 10, and has since transformed it from a state of
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nature, inhabited by deer and wolves, into one of the finest farms in Nachusa township. It comprises 400 acres of excellent farming land. This has about all been earned by a close application to business, and is an evidence of what pluck and industry will accomplish. When he first had wheat to sell he hauled it by team to Chicago over the un- broken prairie, without roads or bridges, but he worked and waited for the railroad, and now it passes in sight of his home. Himself and his noble wife are now. enjoying the fruits of their labor. They have five children living : William J., Wilson, Fannie M., Calvin B. and Lu- cinda A. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford are members of the Presbyterian church and hold their membership at Dixon.
WILLIAM H. FISCEL, farmer and stock raiser, Nachusa, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1842, and came to Illinois with his parents, David and Mary A. (Herbst) Fiscel, in 1848. They were natives of Pennsylvania, but of German ancestry. Soon after coming to Lee county they settled near Franklin Grove, but two years later bought land in Sec. 32, T. 22, R. 10, in what is now Nachusa town- ship. They made the trip from their native state to Lee county with a team, being six weeks on the road. At the time they came the coun- try was quite new and unimproved ; grain had to be hauled to Chicago to find a market, and then sold for from 30 to 50 cents per bushel. Passengers were but poorly accommodated by the old stage coach, which is now replaced by the lightning express, and passes several times daily in sight of their home. Mr. Fiscel lived to see a great change in this county. He died in November 1865, leaving a wife and seven children to mourn the loss of a kind husband and father. Wil- liam H., the subject of this sketch, coming as he did to Illinois when quite young, was deprived of the advantages of anything more than a limited education. Young as he was at the outbreak of the late rebel- lion, he became a member of Co. G, 75th Ill. Vol. Inf., and did about three years' service for his country. He was honorably discharged with his regiment at the close of the war. February 27, 1868, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. George Stambaugh. She was born in Pennsylvania, December 25, 1846. They have one child, Frank, born January 24, 1876. The very pleasing appearance of their home shows its proprietor's good taste.
JOHN P. BRUBAKER, farmer, Nachusa. The Brubaker family in this country descended from two brothers who came to America from Germany, in 1771, and settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, from whom sprang a numerous posterity. One of the two brothers, as above, was Christley Brubaker, from whom descended Jonathan Brubaker, who was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was the father of Jonas Brubaker, who was born in the same county, May 5, 1801. The latter
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moved with his parents, when seven years of age, to Virginia, settling near Lynchburg, that state. Three years later the family removed to Preble county, Ohio, where Jonas still lives at the advanced age of eighty years. John P. Brubaker, the subject of this sketch, was born July 30, 1826, in Preble county, Ohio, and is the son of Jonas and Rebecca (Phillips) Brubaker. His mother was the daughter of Simon Phillips, of Tennessee, who lived near Blue Ridge, that state. When twenty-three years of age he left his father's house in Ohio, and com- ing to Illinois he purchased a farm on Sees. 5 and 6, T. 21, R. 10 E. of the 4th P. M., Lee county, where he still lives. On September 7, 1840, he was married to Miss Hannah Wright, daughter of William and Eva Wright, of Preble county, Ohio. Resulting from this union were four children : William E., now residing in Iowa; Marcus C. died De- cember 11, 1875, in Cincinnati ; and Laura A., now wife of Ruben W. Eicholtze, of Nachusa township. Mrs. Brubaker died October 15, 1865. On February 31, 1867, Mr. Brubaker was united in marriage to Miss Ann Sunday, daughter of Henry and Susan (Trostle) Sunday, of York county, Pennsylvania, her parents both dying when she was but a child. From the above marriage union resulted. two children : Min- nie May, born May 21, 1868, and Ozra J., October 5, 1873. Mr. Bru- baker has served as commissioner of highways for a number of years, as school trustee for the last fifteen years, and as justice of the peace for the past ten years, and sustains the last two official relations at the present time. He gives special attention to fruit-growing, of which he has many choice varieties, his home being well shaded with thrifty fruit and forest trees. He has one brother living, Ephraim Brubaker, of Chicago, and one sister, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Baker, Preble county, Ohio. Mrs. Brubaker has two brothers living: Solomon Sun- day, of Frederick county, Maryland, and two sisters : Rebecca, wife of John Peters, of Dickinson county, Kansas, and Abigail, wife of Abraham King, of Lee county.
BENJAMIN KESLER, farmer, Nachusa, was born April 12, 1807, in Ash county, North Carolina, and is the son of Joseph Kesler, born in Pennsylvania, February 17, 1767, and removed to Ash county, North Carolina, about 1791. His grandfather, Unrich Kesler, emigrated from Switzerland when a lad, between 1740 and 1750. When the subject of our sketch was but a child he removed with his father to Montgomery county, Ohio, where the latter died September 1840. He remained on the farm until November 1836, when he removed to Darke county, where he continued the occupation of farming until 1850, when he removed to Illinois and settled in Sec. 6, T. 21, R. 10, Lee connty, where he resided until the autumn of 1880, when he removed to his daughter's home in Nachusa township. On September 21, 1827, Mr. Kesler was
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united in marriage to Miss Sally Burket, danghter of John and Mary Burket, of Miami county, Ohio. To them were born seven children : four now living, two dying in infancy, and Miss Anna at the age of twenty years. After a companionship of fifty-three years Mr. Kesler was bereaved of his wife and devoted mother of his children, she dying May 2, 1880. Mr. Kesler has been identified with the German Bap- tist church for about forty years, thirty of which time he has held the office of deacon.
MRS. MARY (KESLER) EMMERT, of Nachusa, was born April 1, 1831, in Montgomery county, Ohio, and is the daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Burket) Kesler, given above. At the age of nineteen she removed with her parents to Illinois. She was united in marriage March 11, 1852, to Henry Emmert, son of Rev. Joseph Emmert, of Lee county. After marriage they settled on a farm in Secs. 4 and 5, T. 21, R. 10. They have eight children : Sarah Catharine, Joseph (deceased), Anna Elizabeth, Alora Priscilla, George Rufus, Eva Jane, Carrie Hewet, Frank Winfred, and Jesse Theadore.
GEORGE WASHINGTON KESLER is the eldest son of Benjamin and Sally (Burket) Kesler, and was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, October 21, 1836. He removed with his parents to Lee county, Illinois, in June 1850. In October, 1862, he enlisted in the army and entered Co. C, 34th reg. Ill. Vols. ; was wounded in the battle of Murfreesboro, being disabled from further service, and was honorably discharged. December 29, 1864, he was united in marriage to Miss Lonisa M. Hunt, daughter of Otis and Louisa (Fluent) Hunt, of Steuben county, New York. She was born November 6, 1840, and removed with her parents to Lee county, Illinois, in 1861. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Bradford township, where they resided until March 1879, when they removed to Collyer, Trego county, Kansas, where they still reside. They have a family of four children : Otis B., Perlie, Jesse L. and Nettie F.
MRS. EVA (KESLER) LICHTY was born April 22, 1841, in Darke county, Ohio, and is the daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Burket) Kesler. She removed with her parents to Lee county, Illinois, in June 1850. In August, 1865, she was united in marriage to Daniel A. Lichty, who was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania, came to Illinois about 1863, and devoted some time to school teaching. After their marriage they settled on a farm in Lee county, where they resided until March 1873, when they removed to Brown county, Kansas, where they are now living. They have four children : Bernice M., Olive Mary, Mahlon, and Ida Anna.
RUFUS G. KESLER, son of Benjamin and Sally (Burket) Kesler, was born in Darke county, Ohio, August 3, 1845. In June, 1850, he
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removed with his parents to Lee county, Illinois. After acquiring a fair common school education he spent a three-months term in a com- mercial college. In 1863 he enlisted in the service of his country and become a member of the 75th reg. Ill. Vols., remaining in the service until the close of the war. Besides other severe battles in which he took part he participated in the bloody battle of Perrysville, where most of his regiment fell. In the fall of 1870 he married Mrs. Frances Graves, of Chicago, daughter of Mr. George Robinson. He made Chicago his home until 1878, when he removed to Collyer, Trego county, Kansas, where he took a soldier's claim of 160 acres and a timber claim of the same amount, and is engaged in farming and stock raising.
JACOB HILL, farmer, Dixon, Lee county, Illinois. Jacob Hill, farmer and stock raiser, son of Jacob and Catherine Hill, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1821. In about the year 1837 he went to Livingston county, New York, where he resided for nearly twenty years. In 1858 he came to Lee county, where his father had settled two years previous. He had six brothers and two sisters, but is now the eldest living, three brothers and one sister having died. His father died about 1870, and his mother survived until 1879, when she too passed away. Mr. Hill has one brother in this county. In about 1842 he was married in New York, the issue of this marriage being two children, and he was afterward bereaved of wife and chil- dren. About one year after his removal to this county he was united in marriage to his present wife, Miss Balinda Marteeney, daughter of Jacob and Anna (Corke) Marteeney, of this county. They had by this union four children. Their eldest daughter married Daniel Linzey, of South Dixon. Mr. Hill, the subject of this sketch, resides upon the home farm, and is an enterprising and successful farmer and an es- teemed citizen.
COL. ALEX. P. DYSART, farmer, Nachusa, was born February 3, 1826, in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and is the son of James and Elizabeth Dysart, who were natives of Pennsylvania, but of Scotch and Irish ancestry. When a boy of eighteen or nineteen he located land in Lee county, embracing the present village of Nachusa, and in 1847 settled where he has since resided, and improved one of the finest farms in Lee county. His farm embraces 288 acres of prairie land on Secs. 6 and 7, T. 21 N., R. 10. In 1848 the colonel returned to Penn- sylvania and was united in marriage to Miss Catharine Grazier, of Huntington county, that state, and daughter of Henry and Nancy Grazier, and returned to his farm in Lee county in May of the same spring. He was elected justice of the peace for two successive terms, also served on the board of supervisors for a number of years, as well
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as commissioner of highways, town clerk, etc. In the fall of 1861 he entered the United States service, being commissioned captain Septem- ber 13, 1861, and mustered in as captain of Co. C, of the 34th reg. Ill. Vols. After the battle of Shiloh, he was promoted major and re- ceived his commission April 18, 1862. On November 29 of the same year he was commissioned colonel, and took command of the 34th reg. At the expiration of the regiment's service he returned to Springfield, and was tendered the command of a new regiment by Gov. Bates, but which he declined, and returned home. In 1878 he was elected representative to the Illinois state legislature, and reëlected in 1880. He is of decided republican principles in politics. The colonel suffered the bereavement of his wife, who died December 11, 1878, leaving seven children, four sons and three daughters. The eldest son, James W. Dysart, M.D., is living in Laramie City, Wyoming; two sons, James H. and Alison A., and one daughter, Mrs. Miller, reside in Chicago; one daughter, Mrs. Jessee R. Whitney, resides south of Franklin Grove.
WILLIAM C. DYSART, merchant, Nachusa, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1837. His early life was spent at farm- ing on the old homestead. During this time, however, he received a liberal education at Mountain Seminary, Birmingham, Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1866 he moved to Lee county, and engaged in the grain business at Nachusa, in company with his brother, Capt. John Dysart, and erected the first grain elevator at that place. After engag- ing one year in this pursuit he returned to his native state and en- gaged in the wholesale grocery trade at Altoona, at which business he continued until in 1879, when he again came to Nachusa, and estab- lished himself in the general merchandise and lumber business, which he still pursnes. For this business he first occupied a small frame build- ing, which now forms a wing to his present commodions store, erected in 1878. On January 1, 1872, he was married to Sophia Barlow, daughter of Augustus Barlow, Esq., a prominent citizen of Lee county. They have had by this union one child, a daughter, Anna May, born in 1875. In 1869 Mr. Dysart was appointed postmaster at Nachusa, and has held the office continuously ever since, and is the present incum- bent. Mr. Dysart, together with his estimable wife, enjoy the confi- dence and esteem of the entire community in which they live.
WILSON DYSART, farmer and stock raiser, Nachusa, was born No- vember 27, 1829, in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Joseph and Mary A. (Davison) Dysart. He was reared on a farm, receiving a fair education, also a good practical education in the art of intelligent farming. January 18, 1853, he married Miss Frances M., daughter of Mr. Samuel P. and Susan (Rathbon) Wallace, who was
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born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, August 31, 1833. After his marriage Mr. Dysart engaged in farming on the old home with his father, till 1857. In the spring of that year he came to Lee county, Illi- nois, and commenced improving land previously entered by his father, and in the fall of the same year his family joined him here, and he at once settled permanently on Sec. 17, T. 21, R. 10, which he has since by industry and good taste transformed from a state of nature into one of the beautiful prairie homes of the south part of this town. Mr. Dysart is now (1881) actively engaged in stock raising as well as farm- ing. This farm contains 440 acres of excellent land, highly improved. His family consists of nine children : Warren P., Joseph W., Anna M., Clarinda, Ernest S., Edith, Marian L., Edward E. and Frances E.
JOHN LEAKE was born in Leicestershire, England, November 27, 1807. He was the elder son of John and Miss (Snow) Leake. Educational advantages were meager, but he acquired learning sufficient to enable him to do business, and when about fifteen years of age was appren- ticed to a butcher. After acquiring the trade he and his father bought a small farm and carried it on, together with the butchering business. After a time this business was disposed of and other enterprises under- taken, but business did not prove successful, and Mr. Leake determined to seek his fortune in America. In December, 1832, he was married to Mary A. Jarvis. To them, while they remained in England, were born three sons and one daughter, the latter dying when a child. In 1840 Mr. Leake bade adieu to his family and, without a tear, set sail for New York, where he arrived in the latter part of May. Imme- diately he pushed on to the frontier, up the Hudson to Albany via the Erie canal to Buffalo, via lakes to Chicago, thence by stage to Dixon's Ferry, Lee county, Illinois. He reached this place June 10, in company with William Moodey and Isaac Means, whose acquaintance he had formed en route from New York. Mr. Means proposed going farther, at least to Galena, but Mr. Leake said "Stay here and look about." He shortly bought a claim, for which he said he would not take a thousand dollars, the other men found employment, and so farther explorations ceased. And now commenced the struggle for a home and compe- tency. Having little or no money, Mr. Leake worked at any employ- ment within his reach, often for 25 cents or less per day, and taking for payment anything that could be made available toward securing the home or sustenance for the family. In 1841 a business trip took him to New Orleans. Here he lived "three days on three 10-cent pieces ;" then came employment and success. Returning to Dixon, he was there in time to meet his family, who arrived in August of that year. Mr. Leake sold his coat to buy a cow; built a shanty, which was only partly covered with floor, and here, without table or chairs,
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