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Harrison Maltby, Justice of the Peace and Clerk of East Lin- coln Township, is a native of Vermont, born in Chelsea, Orange County, August 15, 1813. About 1815 his parents moved to Tompkins County, New York, fand in 1826 to Illinois, locating on a farm in Sangamon County, where he'grew to manhood. In 1834 he went to Waynesville, De Witt County, and was employed as clerk in various stores till 1846, and then went to Clinton, in the same county, but two years later returned to Waynesville and en- gaged in the mercantile business till 1856. He then moved to At- lanta, Logan County, and in 1863 to Lincoln, still following the mercantile business till 1870, when he retired. He was elected justice of the peace of East Lincoln Township, and in 1881 was elected township clerk. He was married February 22, 1844, at Mt. Pulaski, to Sarah P. Harry. They have five children-Sarah L., wife of James T. Hoblit, an attorney at law; Mary H., wife of Rev. L. P. Crawford, a Presbyterian clergyman of Southern California; Edwin B., a clerk in the law office of S. A. Foley; Amelia, at home, and Harry C., of Los Angeles, California. Po- litically Mr. Maltby is a Republican. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Christian Max, a tinner of Lincoln, was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, January 3, 1846. He is the third of four sons of Will-
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iam and Dora (Volmer) Max. He received his education in Aus- tria after which he worked as a common laborer till 1865. He then came to America, landing at New York July 24 of that year. He came at once to Lincoln, Logan County, and commenced learn- ing the tinner's trade with Frank Frorer, with whom he remained till October, 1867, after which he worked for Mat Reinhardt for twelve years. He went to Mount Pulaski, this county, in 1880, remaining there till 1882, when he returned to Lincoln and worked again for Mr. Reinhardt for sixteen months. He then worked for John E. Dehner fourteen months, when, in June, 1884, he began repairing self-binders, and in the fall of that year he es- tablished his present tin-shop in Lincoln. August 1, 1869, he was married to Reginna Zimmermann, of Lincoln, a daughter of Gottlieb F. Zimmermann, of Wurtemberg. They have no family. Mr. Max and his wife are members of the Zion German Lutheran Church at Lincoln. Mr. Max's parents came to America with him, and en- gaged in farming near Mount Pulaski. The father died April 6, 1868, aged fifty-four years, after which his mother lived with him in Lincoin till her death, which occurred August 11, 1883, at the age of seventy-six years. In his political views Mr. Max is inde- pendent.
Abram Mayfield, Treasurer of Logan County, is a native of Al- abama, born near Huntsville, March 21, 1824. In 1830 his par- ente, Enness and Mary (Myers) Mayfield, came to Illinois and lo- cated near Franklin, Morgan County, where he was reared on a farın. He was given as good an education as the public schools of his day afforded and also attended McKendree College at Lebanon, Illinois, two years. When he reached his majority, his father hav- ing died, he took charge of the homestead, in Morgan County, and followed farming till 1850, and after attending college two years in 1852 went to Kaneville, Illinois, and engaged in the mercantile business, and from there went to Girard, where he engaged in the same business till 1858, when he came to Lincoln, continuing the same business till 1862. He was elected Sheriff of Logan County in the fall of 1862, and held the position till 1864. For the next five years he was out of business and in 1869 became associated with M. Mayfield in private banking, as Mayfield & Co., he being general manager till 1877, when the bank was organized as the Lincoln Saving, Loan and Trust Company, of which he was a stock- holder and director. In 1885 the bank was reorganized and is now known as the Lincoln National Bank. In 1870 Mr. Mayfield was
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elected Mayor of Lincoln, a position he filled six consecutive terms. In 1878 he was elected on the Democratic ticket to represent his district in the State Senate, and served four years. In 1881 he was again elected mayor of Lincoln, and in 1882 was elected treas- urer of Logan County, a position he still occupies, serving with fidelity and efficiency. May 1, 1863, Mr. Mayfield was married to Lucy Forsyth. They have five children-Uriel, a clerk in the treasurer's office; Bernice, Edwin, Frederick and Willie. Mr. Mayfield is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery, in each of which he has held prominent positions.
Prof. Benjamin Freeland Mc Cord was born in Martinsville, In- diana, Dec. 23, 1845. His father, Rev. Elam MeCord, a Cumber- land Presbyterian minister, was a nativeof Kentucky, and of Scotch- Irish descent, and his wife, Jane Freeland, was a native of Maryland. Both were well educated, and the education and training of their children were well looked after. They had six children-Sarah J. married William H. Hackney, of Grand Forks, Dakota; Anna P., wife of Mark Hays, of Washington, Indiana; Benjamin F., our subject; Elam M. and William E. are lawyers in Martinsville, Indiana, and Clara E. lives in Lincoln. The two former are grad- nates of Waynesburg College, and the four latter of Indiana State University. The subject of this sketch spent most of his boyhood at Brainbridge, Indiana. He received his preparatory education at Brainbridge Academy, and graduated at Indiana State University in 1869, taking the honors in a class of twenty-eight. Three years afterward he was elected to deliver the Master's Oration, and received the degree of Master of Arts. He taught the Robinson select school two years, then went to Lebanon, Tennessee, and entered the theological department of Cumberland University, from which he graduated in 1872. December 24, 1872, he was married at Olney, Illinois, to Miss Rosabelle Fitch, a daughter of Chester H. and Martha Jane Fitch. She had been his pupil while he taught at Robinson, that place being her home till the death of her parents. Mr. McCord was ordained a minister of the Cumber- land Presbyterian church by the Wabash Presbytery, at Howard, Indiana, in August, 1873. In 1873 he was elected to the Chair of Mathematics in Lincoln University, a position he has filled for thirteen years. Although his speciality is mathematics, he is well educated in all other departments of the university, all of which he has at various times filled when there were temporary vacancies. At the annual commencement in 1885 Cumberland University con-
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ferred on Prof. McCord the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Both he and his wife are somewhat reserved in their manners and quiet in their tastes. They take much pleasure in their pleasant home, which is elegantly furnished and filled with books and arti- cles of vertu. They have two children living-Anna Hays, aged ten years, and Chester Fitch, aged seven years. Professor McCord spends most of his time in scientific and literary pursuits, yet he is known to a few with whom he is associated in financial affairs as a shrewd business man. He is one of the original projectors of the Lincoln Savings, Loan and Trust Bank, of which he has been a director and its vice-president since its organization. He is also a director of the Lincoln National Bank. He is one of the principal stockholders in the Kansas Irrigating Water-Power and Manufacturing Company of Western Kansas and in the summer of 1882 he was engaged in surveying the irrigation ditches of the company. Mr. McCord has quite a taste for rural life and usually spends a part of each summer vacation looking after his farms.
Henry Mohn, proprietor of Mohn's machine and repair shop, Lincoln, Illinois, is a native of Germany, born in 1833. In 1852 he emigrated to the United States, landing in New York in April. He located at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he worked at the blacksmith's trade, and in the fall of 1853 went to St. Louis, Mis- souri, and in 1861 came to Logan County, Illinois, and located in the small village of Postville, now the city of Lincoln, where he worked as journeyman till 1863. He then opened a blacksmith's shop of his own, manufacturing wagons and plows and doing a general repairing business. In 1874 he abandoned the manufact- ure of wagons and turned his attention to making and repairing machinery. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Board of Edu- cation of the city of Lincoln for a term of three years. He with his family are members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lincoln. Mr. Mohn was married in November, 1856, at St. Louis, to Louisa Durval, of that city. They have nine children- Albert G., of Kansas City; Emily M., Oscar F., Louisa H., Natalie A., Amelia C., Flora, Clara and Julia, all at home save the eldest two.
George Washington Montague, deceased, was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, February 21, 1821. His father, James Mon- tagne, was of French descent and a native of Virginia, a farmer and trader. His mother, Elizabeth Edmondson, was a native of Virginia, and an active member of the Baptist church. His
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parents moved to Mercer County, Kentucky, in the year 1820, one year prior to his birth. When he was a small boy he moved with his parents to Hardin County, Kentucky, where he remained, 'as- sisting his father on his farm until he arrived to manhood. His was a business education, which he obtained mainly through his own exertion by studying at his farm home, and in after life in the daily pursuits of business. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he left his father and went to Elizabethtown, the county seat of Hardin County, and accepted a position as deputy in the county clerk's office, where he remained one year when he moved to Greensburg, Kentucky, and accepted a position as deputy in the Green County Clerk's office, where he remained un- til the first of the year 1848, when Green, which was a very large county, was divided, forming Green and Taylor counties, and Campbellsville was adopted as the county seat. In March, 1848, he was appointed circuit clerk of Taylor County, for a term of four years. At the expiration of his term as clerk (the new Constitu- tion of the State making all the county offices elective, having been adopted), he was elected both county and circuit clerk of Taylor County, and continued to be re-elected without opposition for three terms, or twelve years. He was a strong Union man and during the late war was one of the leading Union men of that part of Kentucky. The rebels robbed him of a great deal of his prop- erty, and often he had to flee from his home at the hour of mid- night to save his life. Therefore in the latter part of September, 1864, he resigned his offices and moved to Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois, where he arrived October 13. While he resided in Taylor County, Kentucky, he was for many years master in chancery and treasurer of the Lebanon and Campbellsville Turnpike Company and also treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the town. On ar- riving at Lincoln, Illinois, he purchased the real estate and ab- stract office of S. A. Foley. He also associated with the above the loan and collecting business, in which he remained until the ascendency of Andrew Johnson to the Presidency in 1865, when he was appointed Deputy Internal Revenue Assessor for Logan County, which formed a part of the Eighth Illinois Internal Reve- nue District, which he continued to hold until the expiration of Mr. Johnson's term of office, the 3d day of March, 1869. In the same month he was elected city clerk of Lincoln, the term of office being one year, and was re-elected in 1870 and 1871. Al- though he held an elective office during most of his life after at-
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taining to manhood he was never defeated, always being re-elected by an increased majority. In June, 1871, on account of failing health, he went to Colorado in quest of a better climate, and find- ing that climate agreed with him better than Illinois, in October, 1871, he resigned the office of city clerk. He remained in El Paso County, Colorado, until September, 1872, when his health began again to fail him and he saw that the end of his earthly career was not far distant, and he decided to return to Lincoln and spend his remaining days among his relatives and friends. He arrived in Lincoln, September 7, 1872, and was confined to his bed until the 7th of May, 1875, when he departed this life. He professed a hope in Christ when a lad of fourteen and joined the Baptist church. From the time he arrived at manhood until his death he was a pillar in his chosen church and a liberal supporter of every Christian enterprise. He was a deacon and treasurer of the Bap- tist church of Campbellsville, Kentucky, and Lincoln, Illinois, for over twenty-five years, and handled a great deal of the people's money during his long business career. He died a comparatively poor man, and all who knew him may truthfully write over his grave, " Here lies an honest man." He was married April 6, 1843, in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky, to Miss Margaret Steele Moore, daughter of Robert Moore, a farmer of that county, born May 16, 1824. She is still living with her son, Daniel B. Montague, in Lincoln, Illinois. She bore him thirteen children, five of whom are still living-James Brown, of Lincoln, a temper- ance evangelist, now doing a good work in the State of Nebraska; Daniel Brown, a general collecting agent of Lincoln; Arabella, wife of Wm. Robert Lewis, a grocery clerk of Lincoln; Josie Mon- tague, wife of John M. Hull, a farmer of Otoe County, Nebraska; McCelland, a carpenter of Lincoln. They have eight children dead-May Robert, born May 13, 1846, died September 6, 1847; George Washington, born August 12, 1852, died October 16, 1854; Robert Davis, born July 30, 1854, died November 6, 1854; Mar- garet Ann, born June 22, 1857, died January 29, 1862; John Warner, Lucy Victory and Ann Amecha all died in early infancy; Elizabeth Edmondson, wife of Joseph D. Barbee, was born April 13, 1844, and died in Sacramento City, California, September 27, 1882. Mrs. Montague professed a hope in Christ when a small girl and joined the Presbyterian church, of which she is still a consistent and faithful member. All his children who lived to the age of maturity professed a hope in Christ and joined the
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Baptist church save Arabella; she went with her mother and joined the Presbyterian church.
James Brown Montague, of Lincoln, Illinois, was born January 5, 1848, in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky, a son of George Washington and Margaret Steele (Moore) Montague. He was reared in Campbellsville, Kentucky, where his father moved soon after his birth, and was educated in the Campbellsville select school and the Ireland Academy, near Campbellsville. He moved with his father to Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois, October 13, 1864, and entered the Logan County circuit clerk's office as a clerk, where he remained three months. In January, 1865, he accepted a position in the dry-goods and grocery house of Hyde, Hoskins & Co., remaining with them for six months. He was then employed as clerk in various other branches of business until March, 1866, and from that date till 1873 held the position as head clerk in J. A. Lutz's dry-goods house, and the last two years was a silent partner. March 29, 1873, he embarked in the dry- goods business for himself, continuing till the fall of 1884, when he went to Albion, Nebraska, and accepted a position in a large dry-goods honse. A number of years before leaving Lincoln he was a leading temperance worker, and on going to Nebraska he was soon prevailed on to enter the temperance field as a lecturer. Since April, 1885, he has lectured each night in the week and some times three times on Sunday. He has met with very great success as a temperance lecturer and subsequently became associ- ated with Prof. Hucking. They were so successful that the papers christened them the Moody and Sankey of the temperance work. He professed a hope in Christ in January, 1868, and joined the Baptist church in Lincoln, and has been an active member. He was for several years superintendent of the Sabbath-school and treasurer and deacon of the church. He commenced teaching a class of young men in the Sabbath-school when about sixteen years old, before leaving Kentucky, and then again soon after coming to Lincoln, which he continued until he went to Nebraska. He was as ardent in the Sunday-school work as he is in the tem- perance work. His family still reside in Lincoln. He was mar- ried September 19, 1867, to Miss Fannie Phebe Hodgen, daughter of S. P. and Maria (Brown) Hodgen, a merchant of Lincoln, her father a native of Kentucky and her mother of New York. His wife was a member of the Christian church when they were mar- ried, but joined the Baptist church soon after. They have five
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children living and at home-Nettie P., Herbert Lee, George Henry, Robert E. and James Park.
Thomas Moran, proprietor of the Spitley Hotel saloon, is a na- tive of Ireland, born in County Leitrim, December 12, 1855, a son of John and Mary Moran. He remained with his parents till eighteen years of age, receiving a good education in the National school, also attending a private school some time. In 1874 he came to the United States, landing at Castle Garden, October 19. The following month he came to Illinois and worked on a farm near Lincoln till 1876, and then rented land five years. In 1881 he went to Chicago, and for a year was employed in the freight house of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad. In 1882 he re- turned to Lincoln and has since been engaged in his present busi- ness. October 30, 1883, Mr. Moran was married in St. Patrick's Church, Lincoln, by Father Tuohy, to Mary T. Peifer, of East Lincoln Township. They have one son-Thomas Francis. A son, John Henry, died March 18, 1885, aged seven months. Mr. and Mrs. Moran are members of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.
John Franklin Mundy, dealer in boots and shoes, Lincoln, Illi- nois, is a native of Logan County, born August 3, 1861, a son of Jacob R. and Margaret A. (Hill) Mundy. He was educated in the common schools and university of Lincoln, and when seventeen years of age, in 1878, he became associated with his brother-in- law, S. H. Schryver, in the hardware and farm implement busi- ness at Audubon, Iowa, under the firm name of Schryver & Mundy. Retiring from the fir.n in 1881 he returned to Lincoln and became established in his present business. He is one of the prosperous young men of Lincoln, his business ability and good address mak- ing him many friends in both business and social circles. He was married November 16, 1880, to Lulu M. Johnston, of Tama City, Iowa. They have one son, Walter, aged three years.
Jacob Randolph Mundy, retired farmer, was born at Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, July 4, 1828, a son of Zadock aud Rachel (Daniels) Mundy, natives of New Jersey, the father of Eng- lish and the mother of Welsh parentage. His mother died in New Jersey in 1832, and in 1840 he accompanied his father to Illi- nois, first locating at Round Prairie, near Springfield, and thence, in 1845, coming to Logan County. They located in Postville in what is now the Fourth Ward of Lincoln. The father entered 160 acres, equal parts of which now lie north and south of Eighth street. In 1856 and 1866 he platted what is now known as Mundy's Survey
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and Mundy's Addition to Lincoln, in the Third Ward. He died August 24, 1868. J. R. Mundy worked with his father, who was a wagon-maker and farmer, till twenty-two years of age, when, having some land in Broadwell Township, he located on it and lived there till 1869. He then rented his farm, consisting of 280 acres, and moved to Lincoln, where he has since lived. In 1872 he platted what is now known as Jacob Mundy's Addition to Lin- coln. Mr. Mundy was married February 23, 1850, to Rebecca Ferris, who died December 23, 1851, leaving one child-Henry Jewett, who died in 1852. March 13, 1856, he married Margaret A. Hill, daughter of John and Laurena (Lattimer) Hill, the former of English and the latter of Welsh descent. They have three children-Caroline M., wife of S. H. Schryver, of Audubon, Iowa; John F. and Maggie L. Zadock, born April 7, 1858, died August 31, 1864; Jacob R., born February 10, 1865, died October 24, 1865; Lillie M., born December 13, 1867, died September 5, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Mundy and their daughter are members of the Cum- berland Presbyterian church. In politics he was originally a Democrat, but now affiliates with the Prohibition party.
Jessie Sylvester Musick; farmer, section 20, East Lincoln Town -. ship, was born in what is now West Lincoln Township, Logan County, November 17, 1847. He is the fourth of eight sons of John and Mary (Johnson) Musick, his father a native of Kentucky, and a farmer by occupation, and his mother a native of Indiana. Jessie S. received his education in the schools of his district, and has always lived on the home farm. He was united in marriage July 13, 1871, to Ella Phillips, and this union has been blessed with three children, of whom only one, Gertrude, an interesting child, is living. Edward died at the age of three months, and a son, unnamed, died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Musick are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church, belonging to the Zion Congregation, near Lincoln. In politics Mr. Musick affiliates with the Republican party.
John Musick, one of the oldest pioneers of East Lincoln Town- ship, was born in Wolford County, Kentucky, March 10, 1807, the youngest son of Jesse and Hannah Musick, natives of Virginia, the mother being of German descent. They were married about 1802, and in March, 1807, moved to Gibson County, Indiana. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and received a wound at the bat- tle of Tippecanoe, which shortly afterward resulted in his death, and a few years later his widow married again; John Musick
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received a limited education in the schools of Gibson County. From thirteen to eighteen years of age he lived with his brother- in-law, John Forbis, when, in 1825, he came to Logan County, Illinois, and farmed in what is now West Lincoln Township. March 18, 1830, he was married to Mary Johnson, born in Clark County, Indiana, October 29, 1831, a daughter of Levi and Bar- bara (Kline) Johnson, her father a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother born in North Carolina, of Gerinan ancestry. Of the eighteen children born to them ten are living-Levi J., of Kansas; Sarah Jane, wife of Frank Duncan, of Nebraska; William H., of Kansas; Mary, wife of T. H. Denney, of Dakota; Leanna, wife of J. H. Gallagher, of East Lincoln; John T. and Jessie S., of East Lincoln; Jonathan, also of East Lincoln; Permelia E., wife of J. P. Staatk, of Piatt County, Illinois; Ephraim, of East Lincoln. After his marriage he lived one year with his father-in-law who gave him 160 acres of land in what is now West Lincoln, where he located, adding to his farm from time to time till he had 320 acres, residing there till 1855, a period of twenty-four years. He then sold liis farm and bought 560 acres near Lincoln, which he improved and brought under fine cultivation. He still resides at his homestead, but being in feeble health he rents his land to his sons. He and his wife and three of their children are members of the Christian church at Lincoln. In politics he is a Republican. During the Black Hawk war he served as a private. He has eighty grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
Charles Alvin Nicholson, teller in Dustin's Bank, at Lincoln, Illi- nois, was born near Cassopolis, Cass County, Michigan, Novem- ber 20, 1847, a son of Aaron B. and Jane (Norton) Nicholson, his father a native of Ohio aud his mother of Michigan. His mother died in 1849, and in 1856 his father came to Logan County, Illi- nois, aud settled on a farm in Mount Pulaski Township, where our subject grew to manhood, obtaining his early education in the district schools, and later attending Lincoln University. In 1871 he served as deputy under C. B. Jackson, Sheriff of Logan County. He then was appointed assistant under County Treasurer Joseph Ream, a position he held two years. In 1873 he was employed by William Dustin as bookkeeper, and five years later was promoted to teller. In the spring of 1885 he was elected a member of the Council at Lincoln, for a term of two years. In politics he is a Republican, and has served a number of years on the Logan County Republican Central Committee. He is a member of
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