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JOHN BAKER, farmer, stock raiser and dairyman, Paw Paw Grove, was born in Jersey county, Illinois, October 14, 1846. At an early age his parents, Ira and Sarah Baker, brought him to Wyoming town- ship, where they settled and have since made their residence. This subject obtained a fair education in the district schools, and on Feb- ruary 7, 1872, married Miss Hannah E. Hunt, only child of Dr. George S. Hunt, the first regular practitioner in the township. In the fall he went to Neosho Falls, Kansas, with a view of purchasing there, but returned the following spring. Next autumn he moved to the Hunt farm, where he now resides. Purchases by him have enlarged the homestead to 360 acres. His barn, nearly new, 30×80, was built in 1879; his other buildings, including a good granary, are large and commodions. His farm is well stocked with implements, neatly culti- vated, and in his herd are about 110 head of cattle and horses. Louis Ward and Arthur James are their only children. Mr. Baker is a member of the Corinthian Lodge, No. 205, A.F. and A.M.
FRANCIS E. ROGERS, farmer and dairyman, Paw Paw Grove, was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, August 2, 1840. He was the youngest son of Elihu and Bersheba (Styles) Rogers. The lineage of this family is traced directly back to that grand martyr to principle, John Rogers, who was bound at the stake. Jacob D. Rogers, who came to this town in 1837, was a brother to Elihu. The subject of this
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sketch has a fair education and has taught four years in this township. On March 4, 1865, he enlisted for one year in Co. G, 15th Ill. Inf., and marched from Raleigh to Richmond. On the three-hundred-mile march from Leavenworth to Fort Kearney and back he drove a team of six lit- tle yellow Spanish mules, that were just like wild cats. They had to be choked down and chained before it was possible to harness them. An officer looking on remarked, " Rogers, you are the only man who can handle mules without swearing." To hitch the tugs he was compelled to lie flat down and let their heels fly over his head. These were wild mustang mules, lassoed, choked down, and hitched up. His experiences with them were decidedly rich. On April 27, 1866, he married Nancy Barratt, daughter of John A. and Rachel E. (Clark). Barratt. To gratify his father's wish he remained on the home-place, where the latter died in 1873. Their three children, Belle, Frank, and Mary E., are all minors. The large cottonwood in the rear of the honse is ten and a half feet in circumference. It was the only living shrub on the place when his father came, and was left by the cradler the season before, it being just above the grain. Mr. Rogers is a stal- wart republican in politics, and past grand of Anchor Lodge, No. 510, I.O.O.F., and secretary of the Wyoming Horse-Thief Protective Association.
AVERY MERRIMAN, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, was born in Geauga county, Ohio, February 2, 1846. His father, born in Pennsylvania in 1812, came to Illinois in 1846, and settled first at Shabbona Grove, and two years later at Paw Paw. A carpenter by trade, he followed the same till he went to Nebraska, in 1875, where he died in 1878. His father was married in 1839, to Mary French ; his mother, who died in 1863, leaving five children. When the family moved from Shabbona Grove Avery was but three years old, and remembers seeing Indians who lived about forty rods from his father's place. In 1864 he en- listed in Co. K, 75th Ill. Inf., and served till the close of the war. This command was first in action at Perryville, and next at Stone River; it fought at Chickamauga, served during the Atlanta campaign, resisted Hood's invasion of Tennessee, and bore a part in the battle of Nashville and the pursuit of his demoralized forces into Alabama. An elder brother of the subject of our sketch was killed at Stone River. On December 23, 1868, Mr. Merriman was married to Josephine Pot- ter, daughter of Lester and Miranda Potter, and came to his present farm in the spring of 1869. They have a happy family of five children : Albert, Levancha, Josie Ellis, Alice Pearl, and Charlie. Mr. Merri- man is liberal in politics, and a genial and intelligent man.
ANDREW MAY, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, is a son of Peter and Catharine May, who came to Paw Paw, as elsewhere stated, in 1841.
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Little did his father think at that early day, when he owned the claim for the site of nearly all of the present Paw Paw, that the day would come in his son's time when a single lot of that land would bring nearly a thousand dollars. Andrew was born in Sussex county, New York, May 28, 1834, and when seven years of age came to Paw Paw with his parents, and in 1846 went with them to their new farm at Malugin's Grove. At twenty-three years of age, in March 1857, An- drew started for himself, without a cent of capital, in Viola township, by buying eighty acres raw prairie, all on credit, being allowed six years' time with interest at ten per cent; went on it the following spring and improved and worked it until June 1865, when he sold it for thirty-five dollars an acre. In March, 1869, he bought 152 acres in Wyoming township, Sees. 6 and 7, and by hard work and patient indus- try has acquired a clear title to this farm and also improved it to some extent. It is now worth $7,500. He has also on hand a good stock of cattle, horses, and sheep. So much for industry. He has five children : Thomas, Margaret, John, Edward, and Theodore, all at home. His youngest brother, Martin H., was born in Paw Paw and died in Andersonville prison in 1862.
LOWREN SPRAGUE, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, was born in Barn- ston, Lower Canada, August 21, 1828. His parents, Josiah and Fanny (Stowell) Sprague, with seven children, came to Paw Paw Grove in the spring of 1841. They rented land of William H. Rob- inson, now of Earl, and took up the claim adjoining it on the west, now owned and occupied by their son Lowren. Josiah Sprague was a veteran of 1812, a hard-working, straightforward, upright man. He lived to be eighty-two and had thirteen children. As Lowren was in his thirteenth year when the family came to Paw Paw Grove, his school experience is too interesting to omit. Of course he only went winters. His first teacher was one Adams, who wielded the birch and rule in a log cabin some twenty rods east of David A. Town's. His second school was taught by Robert Walker in the same cabin ; his third by Willard Hastings in his own house at Fonda's corner ; his fourth by one Basswood, in a log cabin where the old Wheeler house now stands; his fifth at Deacon O. Boardman's, in a frame school-house, 18×20, built where William Mayor's house now stands at South Side. In the spring of 1852 the subject of our sketch was one of eight or ten who went with Jacob Wheeler to California, Wheeler furnishing the team,-consisting of oxen and cows,-the rice and hard-tack, and charging each passenger $100. Sprague was there about nine years. After his return he was married to Evaline Bowen, daughter of Daniel Bowen, December 10, 1865. He has a good farm yielding the best of crops. They have six children, two boys and four girls.
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DEACON ISAAC E. HUNT; farmer and stock raiser, Paw Paw Grove, was a native of Indiana, born in Union county, November 11, 1819 ; a son of William H. and Elizabeth (Esteb) Hunt. His parents being in moderate circumstances, and with a quarter-section in the woods to clear and till, the boy's schooling was naturally limited, at an early age, to the winter seasons. About 1836 his father bought a tract of wild prairie in La Porte county. Thither the family moved, built a log house, and here Isaac worked till he was twenty-three, when he pur- chased a farm for himself in the same county. On February 20, 1844, he was married to Miss Eliza A. Patterson, of La Porte, Indiana. In the fall of 1852 he moved to Illinois, and bought the farm that he still owns and occupies, about one mile south of Paw Paw Grove. His wife died March 31, 1858, leaving three sons: George, William, and James. March 10, 1859, he was again married, to Ann Eliza McBride, daughter of Frederick McBride, of Wyoming township. The children by his second wife are four: Martha E., Fred R., Mary E. and Milton K. In April, 1864, George fell from a stack and was paralyzed. He lingered along till August 1, when he passed away ; Mary died June 3, 1878; William is a farmer in Nebraska; the other children are all at home. Deacon Hunt united with the Bap- tist church in his twentieth year, and was appointed deacon of Paw Paw Baptist church in 1859. He was a Henry Clay whig, is now a republican, and believes in home manufactures. He has served as commissioner of highways, and several years as trustee of schools, and has always been ready to bear his part in the support of educational and religious institutions.
DR. JAMES H. BRAFFET, physician and surgeon, born in Florida, Orange county, New York, October 16, 1834, eldest of three children of James and Mellissa A. (Firman) Braffet, now residing in Compton, Illinois. He attended school at Chester Academy under Deacon Bros., late of the Chicago " Tribune," and his successor, Rev. Phineas Robin- son, as principals, completing a scientific course as also one in civil engineering. He studied there with a view to a course at West Point, passed the required examination and received the requisite creden- tials ; but at this point he concluded to pursue the study of medicine, which he began in 1853. In 1855 he came to Illinois and located at East Paw Paw. Here he followed surveying a year, then went into the practice of medicine, which he pursued until the session of 1860 and 1861, when he entered the Rush Medical College, Chicago. After this he was constantly in practice till the session of 1868 and 1869, when he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, where he completed his college course. In 1868 he became a member of the Medico-Pathological Society, in 1878 a member of the North
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Central Medical Association of Illinois, in 1879 of the Illinois State Medical Society, in 1880 of the American Medical Association. In the fall of 1860 he was married to Ellen S. Billings, of Shabbona, De Kalb county, Illinois, and daughter of Jas. M. Billings, now residing at Downsville, Dunn county, Wisconsin. Before leaving the east he was for five years a member of the Caliopean Literary Society, and for sev- eral years has been an honorary member of the Athenaeum Literary Society, connected with the Classical Seminary of East Paw Paw. He has seven children : Nellie N., John J., Charles C., Mark M., James H., jr., Willie, and Essie.
THOMAS D. PALMER, physician and surgeon, Paw Paw Grove, was born Angust 15, 1846, and the only son of George and Catharine (Stetler) Palmer, of Dixon, Lee county, Illinois. He was educated at the Mt. Carroll and Dixon seminaries. During his seminary course he employed his vacations in the office of Drs. Hewitt and Spigler, at Franklin Grove, and in Jannary, 1864, entered this office permanently as a regular student. At the session of 1865 and 1866 he entered the Chicago Medical College, and, graduating at the following session, re- ceived his diploma in the spring of 1867. In June of that year he came to Paw Paw, where he engaged in the practice of medicine. January 6, 1869, he was married to Mary E. Detamore, a true lady and daughter of Mrs. Susan P. Detamore, of that place. In the fall of 1872, at the completion of the railroad, in company with T. H. Stetler, he opened the first drug store of the village; Dr. Palmer continued in it about eight months and then sold to W. C. Runyan, the firm then being Stetler and Runyan. In the spring of 1877 he, in company with Dr. Stetler, opened the Palace Drug Store, now owned by Pierce and Barringer. He is now in his eighth year as Worshipful Master of Corinthian Lodge, No. 205, A.F. and A.M. He is also charter member of Rochelle Chapter, No. 158, was exalted to the degree of Royal Arch Mason, August 15, 1873, created a Sir Knight of Bethany Command- ery, No. 28, March 6. 1874, received the thirty-second degree at the Chicago Consistory, October 15, 1875, and at the Grand Conclave of the Knights of the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine, convened in Chicago October 24, 1881, was elected Grand Junior General. With like enthusiasm in his profession Dr. Palmer is now taking a course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
ANDREW H. ROSENKRANS, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, son of Abrani and Lydia (Henry) Rosenkrans, was born in New York, March 10, 1835. His grandfather Rosenkrans was a soldier of 1812. Before he was able to remember his parents removed to New Jersey, where his mother died when he was four or five years old. He was raised on a farm until eighteen or nineteen years of age, when he began learning
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the carpenter's trade, and worked at it as a business up to 1859. The residence of the family in New Jersey was of short duration. They went from there to Pennsylvania and lived about a dozen years, when he came west to Wyoming township, and was followed a little more than a year afterward by the others. Mr. Rosenkrans' arrival here was in 1853. In 1859 he started with fa party, driving ox teams, for Pike's Peak; but meeting many returning from there who gave dis- couraging accounts of the prospects in that new place, and being too strong willed to turn back for ordinary discouragements, they all agreed to proceed to California, and did not stop till they reached the Pacific slope, the journey consuming five months. Mr. Rosenkrans had a brother who went to Pike's Peak just before he started, and died there the same summer. He remained in California a year and a half, and returned home by water. He was married October 15, 1863, to Miss Lydia A. Mittan, who was born October 29, 1839. Her parents were Jeptha P. and Jane (Beemer) Mittan, who settled in Willow Creek township about 1850. Mr. and Mrs. Rosenkrans have two sons : Anson P., born July 31, 1869; and Byron M., November 22, 1871. He is a republican, and a member of Anchor Lodge, No. 510, I.O.O.F. He owns a pleasantly sitnated farm of 240 acres, three miles northwest of Paw Paw, valued at $12,000.
HENRY L. ROBERTS, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, son of Hendrick H. and Elizabeth (Scott) Roberts, was born in New Jersey in 1845. He was the third child in a family of ten. Four were sons, three of whom are living. The other, Crawford, was a member of the 1st Wis. Cav. in the late war, and died at Cape Girardeau, Wisconsin. Mr. Roberts came to Pavilion, Kendall county, in the spring of 1856, and in 1868 removed with his parents to Paw Paw, where they still reside. He is a republican in politics, and belongs to the Sons of Temperance and to the Good Templars. January 1, 1873, he was married to Miss Eva- leen Cornell, daughter of Harvey and Lura Cornell. She was born in 1856. Their three children are Crawford Leroy, born Angust 8, 1875; Etta May, October 11, 1877 ; and Lura, in August 1878.
WILLIAM P. HAMPTON, farmer, East Paw Paw, third child of James and Clarissa (McCarty) Hampton, was born in Canada, May 6, 1823. Three Hamptons came from England in the colonial period ; one brother settled in Nova Scotia, one in New Jersey, and the other in South Carolina, from the latter of whom the talented and aristocratic family of that name in the Palmetto State has sprung. Mr. Hamp- ton's grandfather MeCarty was a militia captain and served in the second war for independence; he was taken prisoner by the British but escaped from Canada. His father was born in Pennsylvania and his mother in Saratoga, New York. The latter is still living. They
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went to Canada in early life, were married there and had five sons and one daughter. His father moved with his family to Quincy, Illi- nois, in 1838, and on the breaking out of the Mexican war he enlisted in the military service and was sent to Santa Fé, where he died. Early in 1848 Mr. Hampton came to Lee county, and in the fall the rest of the family followed him. That season he cropped his present farm, but did not buy it. Next year he purchased 80 acres and after- ward 40 more northeast of Paw Paw. In 1852 he crossed the plains to California, where he was married May 16, 1853, to Miss Amanda J. Weddell. She was born in Pennsylvania, June 24, 1823. Her grandfather Weddell emigrated from Wales before the revolution, and obtained a large tract of land between the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers. Her parents, Jesse and Nancy (Davis) Weddell, had five sons and four daughters. The mother is yet living. Both father and mother were born close to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The former was a soldier in the last war with England, served in Ohio, and fought in the Massinaway battles under Captain Jacob Walsh. In 1831 he settled in Indiana, and died there in 1838. He was born in 1780. In 1853 Mrs. Hampton, in company with her brother, P. M. Weddell, and Henry Zinn, left Goshen, Elkhart county, Indiana, where she had been reared, and went by steamship to California, sailing from New York on board the Northern Light; Tinklepaw, captain. They en- countered a severe storm on the way to Greytown, and up the Nica- ragua river; and after taking passage for San Francisco on board the Independence, met with a terrible disaster at sea. This steamer was burned off the island of St. Marguerite, and over 400 passengers were lost. Mrs. Hampton was bereft of her brother and their friend Zinn, and she herself was washed ashore, insensible, a distance of over a mile. Later, the steamer was driven onto the beach. Three days elapsed and the whaling vessel Omega, Captain Jeffrey, from Bedford, Maine, took the survivors off the island and conveyed them to their destina- tion. The captain of the Independence was imprisoned 21 years for not beaching his boat and saving the passengers. Mr. Hampton re- turned with his wife and child to Illinois in the spring of 1855, and resumed the occupation of farming at his former home in Paw Paw township, De Kalb county. In 1866 he sold his farm there and re- moved to the place where he is now living, one mile north of East Paw Paw. This contains 117 acres, worth $6,000. In 1871 he went south and traveled a few months in Florida, on a sight-seeing tour. Both himself and wife are members of the Congregational church. He is a republican and a Mason ; and belongs to Spartan Lodge, No. 272, I.O.O.F., and has filled all the chairs.
BRITTAIN J. AGLER, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, was born in Lycoming
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county, Pennsylvania, in 1848, and was the youngest of five sons and four daughters by Jerome and Sarah (Brittain) Agler. His father came west in the spring of 1849 and located his family on the south side of Paw Paw Grove. Farming has always been Mr. Agler's occu- pation, and his home was never elsewhere than in Lee county, excepting a residence of three years at Mendota. He was married September 21, 1873, to Miss Mary E. Pulver, daughter of James F. and Sarah C. Pulver, of Paw Paw. Her birth was on April 18, 1852. Two chil- dren have been born to them, James J., April 13, 1874, and Fred W., September 7, 1879. Mrs. Agler is a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church at South Paw Paw. He is a republican, and owns 178 acres of land in Sec. 2, Wyoming township, valued at $8,000. Mr. Agler's brothers Joseph and John were volunteers in Co. K, 75th Ill. Vol. Inf., served their full term of three years, and bore a part in several memorable engagements.
ABIJAH FLORENCE, farmer, Paw Paw Grove, was born in the town of Reading, Steuben county, New York, in 1823, and was the son of Peter and Elizabeth (Campbell) Florence. He was reared a farmer, and carried on lumbering in connection with that business several years. He was married in New York to Miss Mandane Smith, daughter of John and Clarissa (Fitch) Smith. She was born in 1832. In 1854 they moved to Paw Paw, and Mr. Florence bought his present home, which is the E. } of S.E. } Sec. 3, one mile north of the village. This homestead is worth $4,000. They resided in Paw Paw until 1871, Mr. Florence farming his land meanwhile, but in that year removed to the farm. He is a republican, and has belonged to Anchor Lodge, No. 510, I.O.O.F., eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Florence have an only child, Clara.
CORNELIUS QUACKENBUSH, deceased, was born in Bergen county, New Jersey, November 18, 1825. His parents were Corinis and Jane (Post) Quackenbush. He was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade and followed it until he came west. His father followed agriculture, was a man of great business tact and industry, and accumulated a large for- tune. On November 18, 1846, Mr. and Mrs. Quackenbush were united in marriage. The latter, daughter of David and Rachel (Westervelt) Christie, was born July 29, 1830. Her grandfather, David Christie, was a Scotchman by birth, and settled in New Jersey before the revo- lution. In the spring of 1851 her parents emigrated to this township and bought the place where James Fonda lives. In the spring of 1858 Mr. Quackenbush brought his family here, and the next year purchased the farm on which his widow resides, adjacent to Paw Paw on the north. He carried on this farm as long as he lived. From 1866 to 1869 he carried the mails between Earlville and Twin Groves; he then
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moved his family to Shabbona Grove, and was mail earrier between there and Leland until 1873. He had four children : Jennie M., born November 26, 1850, married Dallas C. Breese October 29, 1867; David H., June 27, 1852, died September 14, 1874 ; Corinis, July 15, 1854, died Angust 24, 1855; and Renea, March 10, 1861, died October 13, 1864. Mrs. Quackenbush's father was born December 27, 1790, and for some years prior to his death was afflicted with physical in- firmities, which affected his mind and caused temporary mental de- rangement. In one of these moods he ended his life by hanging, in July 1867. Her mother, who was born September 15, 1793, is still living, in tolerable health, in Mendota. These venerable parents had a family of eleven children. The eldest was David, who lives on a part of the old homestead. John was a surveyor and school teacher, at one time was book-keeper and paymaster on the Illinois and Michigan canal, and died of consumption not long after the family emigrated to this state. Ralph lives at Mendota, unmarried. James, who married the youngest daughter of Joshua Swarthout, lives in Missouri. One died in infancy. The daughters were Betsy, Rachel, Anna, Irene, Jane, and Ann Maria.
THOMAS W. MARBLE, farmer, East Paw Paw, was born in Ontario county, New York, July 11, 1826, and was the fourth in a family of seven children by Thomas and Katie (Winfield) Marble. His brothers and sisters were Levi, Lucinda, Phebe, Asenath, Serephna, and Eph- raim. When he was ten years old his father died, and his mother married Thomas Burgess. By this second marriage four more children were born, namely : Julia, John, Benjamin, and Rhoda. In 1831 the family moved to Cuyahoga county, Ohio, and it was there that Mr. Marble's father died, in April 1836. They settled on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh turnpike, on 160 aeres located in a dense forest. This land is now all cleared and has been parceled out to the heirs, who have sold their inheritance. His mother is living on her portion of the old homestead, at the advanced age of eighty-one. Mr. Marble went to work at carpentering at sixteen, and followed his trade until his re- moval to Illinois in 1856. He settled in Paw Paw township, De Kalb county, resided there five years, then moved to his present home in East Paw Paw. He was engaged in farming the first seven years of his residence in Illinois; the rest of the time he has been engaged in carpentry. He has been constable since his settlement in this county twenty years ago ; was deputy sheriff four years under Jonathan Hills ; and has twice been collector. Politically he is a republican. He has been a Mason twenty-three years, and is a member of Corinthian Lodge, No. 205, A.F. and A.M. His marriage with Miss Susannah B. Le Moin, daughter of Eleazer D. and Rebecca Le Moin, took place
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October 11, 1845. She was born in 1824. Their four sons are Emery H., Butler, Henry, and Lewis. The first enlisted in December 1862, in Co. I, 4th Ill. Cav., and served his full term of three years without accident or injury. He campaigned in the southwest, and in the spring of 1863 went on Grierson's famous raid, one of the most brilliant and successful made during the whole war. He married Miss Mary Beckwith, of Texas, and has two children. Henry married Miss Emma Shufelt, and they have one bright little girl, Mirtie May.
OREN MARBLE, blacksmith, East Paw Paw, was born in New York in 1814, and was the son of Lucius and Mary (Olds) Marble. His father died when he was eight years old, and at the age of fourteen he went to live with a man who was a blacksmith by trade. After being with him one year, and partly learning to be a craftsman, he went to doing for himself, and until he was twenty-five found employment at various avocations. In 1832 he settled in Ohio, and the same year was married to Miss Lois Marble, whose natal year was the same as his own. In Ohio he finished his apprenticeship and worked most of the time at the blacksmith business ; in 1845 he removed to Lake county, this state, and in 1867, to his present home at East Paw Paw. Mr. and Mrs. Marble have been the parents of seven children, as follows : Lavina, William, Martha (dead), James (dead), Franklin (dead), An- geline (dead), and Wyman. Mrs. Marble is a communicant in the Methodist church. Mr. Marble has held the offices of town clerk, road commissioner, constable, and justice of the peace, and is a member of Spartan Lodge, No. 272, I.O.O.F. His son Wyman belongs to the same lodge. In 1853 Mr. Marble went overland to California, helped to drive 122 head of cattle across the plains, remained two years on the Pacific coast, and returned by way of Panama and New York. He was originally a whig, but since that party went out of existence has been a republican.
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