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Jerry Matthews, farmer, section 6, was born October 4, 1841, in Logan County, Illinois, and has ever since resided in this county.
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His father, William Matthews, was born in 1811, in Pike County, Ohio, and is the son of Thomas Matthews, who came from London- derry, Ireland, to Ohio, in 1789. William Matthews married Mary Wilday, born in Delaware. They came to Logan Coun y in 1838, settling on section 31, Chester Township, where the mother died in 1880. There were nine children-Alonzo, born in Ohio, ac- cidentally shot and killed himself in 1854; Priscilla is the wife of Dr. T. W. Prime, of Lincoln; Jerusha is the wife of Edmund Lynch, a leading attorney of Lincoln, Illinois; Mary A. is the wife of T. B. Piatt; William L. lives on the home place not married, aged thirty years; Arvilla, F. N. and Allen G. are all dead; and Jerry, our subject. At the age of twenty Jerry Matthews began teaching school, and taught eight years. In 1866 he began farming where he now lives, and has taught school several winters since. In 1869 he married Miss Lizzie Lawrence, born in Edgar County, Illinois, daughter of James Lawrence. She died May 23, 1875, leaving two children-Leona and Stanley. The present wife, Frances A. Koonse, was born in Perry County, Ohio. Three children have been born-Stella, Emma, and Frederick William. Polit- ically, Mr. Matthews is a Democrat. He is a member of Logan Lodge, No. 480, F. & A. M., of Lincoln, and of the Mount Pulaski Chapter. He was elected supervisor in 1885.
Theodore Herman Otto Mattfeldt, deceased, was born June 1, 1817, in Hamburg, Germany, and was thoroughly educated in his native city. In 1837 he came to America, hiring out as a day laborer, near Detroit, Michigan, where he earned only $36 in six months. He afterward removed to Livingston County, Michigan, where he lived ten years as a farmer. Here, in 1845, he was mar- ried to Emelie Baurmann, born June 7, 1819, in Hamburg. She came to America in 1840, with her widowed mother. Mr. and Mrs. Mattfeldt came to Mount Pulaski in May, 1850, Mr. Matt- feldt working for the first year at the cooper's trade, and the fol- lowing seven years as clerk in the store of Jabez Capps, Esq. He was then elected county surveyor and served three years. In 1866 he was appointed postmaster of Mount Pulaski, and held the office until April, 1869. He then opened a drug store on the sonth side of the square, continuing in this business twelve years, after- ward living two years on a farm in Elkhart Township. He ex- changed this farm for a home in the village, where he died, January 24, 1884. He was a prominent member of the Lutheran church, in which he held an official position. He also served 50
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twelve years in the Village Council. He left four daughters- Marian, Acelia, Agnes and Amelia, and one son-Adolph, now in Molene, Kansas. The two oldest were born in Livingston County, Michigan. Mrs. Emelie Mattfeldt died January 30, 1886, at her residence in Mt. Pulaski.
George Mayer, Sr., of the firm of George Mayer & Son, grocers at Mount Pulaski was born May 15, 1820, in Kirchburg, Wurtem- berg. His early days were spent in caring for the farm and vine- yard of his father, John George Mayer. In May, 1838, he arrived direct from the Fatherland at Springfield, Illinois, where he entered the employ of J. G. Stewart, then recently elected to Congress. Later he worked for J. L. Lamb, taking lessons in the English language from his employer's son, John C. Lamb, now a prosperous foundryman of Springfield, he in return instructing his tutor in the German language. For five years he clerked for Mr. Lamb, and then, in 1849, came to Mount Pulaski, where he opened a small stock of groceries, the only other merchants then being Jabez Capps and Thomas P. Lushbaugh. In 1850 he was joined by his brother, John Mayer, and added dry-goods to his stock. In 1854 the present store was built. The brothers did a flourishing business up to the death of John Mayer. David Van Hise and W. W. Martin bought the interest of the late partner and the firm of George Mayer & Co. did business for about eighteen years. Both the partners entered the Union army, leaving Mr. Mayer to attend to the business. The firm was at that time badly involved, yet within eighteen months the last dollar of indebtedness was dis- charged and money placed to the credit of the house. The firm dissolved in 1877, Mr. Mayer being out of active business until 1879, when the present firm was instituted. Mr. Mayer married in Springfield, Illinois, Caroline Dingle, who died in 1845. The present wife was Anna Work, born March 29, 1814, in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. Of the five children born to them only one, Frank- lin Pierce Mayer, born April 5, 1853, in Mount Pulaski, now sur- vives. He is the junior partner of the firm and in 1874 married Elizabeth Molidor, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Three children have been born to them-John Albert, Katie Emma and Louie F., all born in Mount Pulaski. Father and son are Democratic in politics and in religion Lutheran. George Mayer was village school treasurer from 1861 to 1875 and tax collector of Mount Pulaski Township in 1877.
J. Mayer & Brother, harness-makers, of Mount Pulaski. John
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W. and Jacob Mayer, are sons of the late John G. Mayer, who was born February. 25, 1809, in Wurtemburg. Coming to America in 1832, he spent four years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and in 1836 married Elizabeth Work, born in that county, October 21, 1812. Moving then to Springfield, he was employed in Lamb's foundry, and later in Ridgley's bank as porter. At one time the brothers, George, John and Michael Mayer, each owned and ran a dray in Springfield. In 1846 John G. Mayer removed his family to a new farm in Mount Pulaski Township, where he lived until 1850. He then went into mercantile business with his brother, George Mayer, continuing with him until 1859, when on account of failing health, he withdrew from the business and returned to his farm, where he died April 1, 1866, after nine years of almost constant battling with disease. His widow now resides in Mount Pulaski. There were seven children born to them-Samuel, born October 22, 1837; Magdalena, born February 13, 1839; George, born May 16, 1840; Anna, born January 4, 1844; John W., born August 1, 1846; Jacob, born March 16, 1850; and Henry, born June 18, 1854. Magdalena ,Mayer married Henry Fox, and died at Dwight, Illinois, October 10, 1879, and Henry Mayer died Feb- ruary 1, 1884. The five now living are all in Mount Pulaski and vicinity. Samuel Mayer married Mary W. Lee, September 15, 1862, in Lincoln, Illinois. Of the seven children born to them four are living-Annie E., born November 21, 1863; George A., born July 19, 1867; Mary C., born August 17, 1870, and Stella L., born April 3, 1876. Sarah O., born March 13, 1866, died November 24, 1871; Ida B., born June 5, 1869, died March 24, 1876, and Henry L., born October 2, 1872, died August 6, 1873. John W. Mayer ' married Mary Mattfeldt, of Michigan. Of the four children born to them, three are living-Harmon, Oscar and Clarence. Freddie died aged two years. They were all born in Mount Pulaski. Mr. Mayer began the saddlery and harness business in Mount Pulaski in 1866, forming a partnership with his brother, Jacob Mayer, in 1872. Both brothers cast their votes for the Democratic party. Jacob Mayer was married November 7, 1872, to Mary Schick, born in Mount Pulaski, August 15, 1853. They have two children -William Walter, born July 22, 1875, and Elmer B., born June 1, 1881, both born in Mount Pulaski. Mr. Mayer and family are members of the Lutheran church. The Mayer Brothers are well- known among stockmen as owners of the magnificent stallion, King o' the Lyons, a thoroughbred, Clydesdale horse, registered
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in the Scotch Clydesdale stud-book, as 1461, and in the American Clydesdale stud-book (volume 2), as 1251. He was 'imported in 1881 by Huston Brothers, and purchased by J. Mayer & Brother in March, 1883. The horse is in color a deep, rich blood bay, with black legs, mane and tail, and weighs 2,050 pounds. He is seven- teen and one-half hands high, and has taken two sweepstakes pre- miums at the Logan County Fair, one in a ring of twenty-one horses. His sire was Lord Lyon, No. 489, dam Flora, No. 59, she by Vic- tor, No. 892, and has a registered pedigree extending back seventy- five years. He is beyond question the best horse of his class in Logan County. General Garnet is another imported Clydesdale horse, No. 2121, in volume 5, Scotch Clydesdale stud-book, and 1238 in volume 2, of the American stud-book. He was sired by Topsman, No. 886, dam Jean, No. 645, she by Robin, No. 703. General Garnet is a bright bay, with feet, legs and face white. He is a beautiful and extremely docile animal. He took the first prize in the ring of imported three-year-olds at the Logan County Fair, in 1884. He was imported by Huston Brothers in March, 1883, and purchased by the Mayer Brothers in December of the same year. These gentlemen have won an enviable reputation among the horsemen of this section, and their horses are recog. nized as among the first-class stock animals in Central Illinois.
George Meister, Mt. Pulaski, comes of an old Bavarian family, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Kotmann) Meister. He was born July 5, 1815, in Weidersgren, Bavaria, reared a farmer, mar- ried to Catherine Klotz, and in 1844 came with his wife and two children to America. The family was forty-two days on a sailing ship from Bremen to Baltimore. From the latter city they went via Cincinnati to St. Louis, and while there Mr. Meister found employment with the owner of a brick-yard in Mt. Pulaski, to which town he removed his family for what proved to be a perma- nent location. In the spring of 1846 he built a small house, meanwhile working three months per year, at 812 per month, in the brick-yard. During the balance of the year he worked at whatever he could find to do-driving hogs to St. Louis at 50 cents per day, and living on two meals per day, as an instance. During 1848 he earned 850 by working on the Urbana court-house, and with this he entered forty acres of land at $1.25 per acre. He still owns it and 200 acres additional, purchased at various times since. In 1849 he opened a brick-yard here, which supplied Mt. Pulaski with brick for thirty years. The wood used in the yard
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was hauled by John and Barbara Meister, the two eldest children. In 1850 he built a small house on this land, by setting posts in the ground, siding up this primitive frame by placing the boards up- right. In this was an old German clothes-chest, which served as a table, a bedstead made of rough boards, and blocks sawn off the ends of logs for seats. Beginning thus, Mr. Meister has lived to . be an old man, has reared and educated a large family, and may look baek with a pardonable feeling of pride to his life-work. His wife, born December 10, 1810, died January 7, 1883, and is buried in Mt. Pulaski cemetery. She left five living children- John L .; Barbara, widow of John Kreig, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Suedmier; Henry, on the homestead, and G. S. Meister.
John L. Meister was born March 2, 1839, in Weidersgren, and has lived since 1845 in Logan County. His early life was employed on his father's farm and brick-yard. On the 16th of October, 1861, he married Mary A. Lang, of Mt. Pulaski, who was born February 21, 18-, in Germany. Mr. Meister began as a bar- tender at $19 per month, but within a year purchased Crosbin's * saloon, paying 20 per cent.on borrowed money, but discharging the entire debt within six months. He was behind his own bar for twenty years. He bought his present residence at $1,900, and various pieces of town property at different times. He built a fine two-story brick block in 1882-'83, in which he has a saloon, also running one in the old Jabez Capps store building, bought by him in 1879. Mr. Meister is a shrewd, energetic business man, and has large landed interests in Logan, Macon and Sangamon coun- ties, also in Kansas and Minnesota. He is a prominent Free Mason and Odd Fellow, and a life-long Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Meister have four children-John, GeorgeIS., Frederic W. and Anna C., all born in Mt. Pulaski.
George Mier, section 20, was born in 1811, in Wurtemburg, and came to the United States in 1836. After spending about one year in Maryland, he came to Springfield, where he worked as a carpenter, and assisted in demolishing the old court house, also helping to build the one which replaced it. He remembers taking a prize offered for certain extra work. In 1839 he came to Mt. Pulaski, where he worked at his trade among the farmers of Logan County for many years. March 4, 1840, he married Becky Laughlin, born June 21, 1823, in Pennsylvania. Her people removed to Ohio when she was [two years old, coming from
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there to Illinois in 1837. Her father built a good story and a half log house in the Salt Creek timber, and after residing there three years removed to Lake Fork. He died in 1857. He mar- ried Nancy Boyd, who died March 4, 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Mier began on a "forty-acre lot," in a clay-chinked log house, with a loose puncheon floor and clapboard roof. This was replaced by a comfortable framne house, and to-day we find the old couple. in a two-story frame house, 24 x 32, built in 1884, and an es- tate comprising several hundred acres. Mr. and Mrs. Mier have nine children-John C .; Mary, wife of Peter Fenton; Nancy, wife of Mr. Samuel Dyer; Bettie, now Mrs. John Shepherd; Leeds; James; Zerilda, now Mrs. John Moore; Myra, wife of J. A. Buckles, and Becky, wife of Frederick Arming, of Finney County, Kansas. All live in Logan County but the last men- tioned. Mr. and Mrs. Mier belong ito the Christian church. John C. Mier, the eldest son, was born February 13, 1841, on the Mount Pulaski homestead, and enlisted in July, 1862, in Company I, One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. He was with the regiment at Grand Gulf and Jackson, Mississippi, and with General Grant through the Vicksburg campaign, at the second capture of Jackson. . He then engaged in [scouting. He was captured, with 110 others, by the rebels, at Guntown, Mississippi, and held prisoner five and one-half months, part of the time in Andersonville. He suffered much from fever during this time, and was reduced to a mere shadow of himself. On his release he came home for a month, then re-enlisted, and going via St. Louis and New Orleans to Mobile, was a participant in the final operations resulting in the capture of that last rebel stronghold. He was mustered out at Vicksburg, August 15, 1865, returned and has ever since been a quiet Illinois farmer. Sep- tember 29, 1866, he married Sarah Smith, in Lincoln, Illinois. Five children have been born to them-Allen, George, James, Charles and Elmer, all born on the Mount Pulaski farm. Mr. Mier casts his vote for the Republican party, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
William R. Munce was born in Natchez, Mississippi, Decem- ber 14, 1830, and is a son of John and Eliza J. (Stockdale) Munce. His father, born in Ireland, was reared in Washington County, Pennsylvania. After his marriage he spent about thirty years in the South. In 1846 the family came to Sangamon County, Illinois, locating three miles southwest of Williamsville. The family consisted
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of two sons and four danghters. The father died June 17, 1871, and the mother in April, 1883. Thomas Munce, brother of W. R. Munce, lives at Illiopolis. Mr. W. R. Munce married in Buffalo, New York, Mary R. Davenport, who was born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts. They have two children-Charles .Carroll, born January. 6, 1877, and Margaret F., born May 1, 1878. Mr. Munce lived as a farmer in Sangamon County, Illinois, until 1880, when he leased the Hay & Coleman farm on Lake Fork. This estate comprises 960 acres and employs fifteen men during the working season. There are several houses upon it, which have lately been remodeled. Mr. Munce has likewise re-fenced the farm, hung convenient gates where needed, built a barn at the home place and generally improved this valuable estate.
Constant R. Oglesby was born in 1831, in Christian County, Kentucky. His father, Walker Oglesby, a native of Virginia, removed to Kentucky and there married Sarah Durham. About 1840 they came to Illinois with their eight children, locating in what is now Saline County. C. R. Oglesby came to Logan County in 1851, hiring out as a farm hand at $13 per month. In 1854 he married Chloe Turley, born in Mount Pulaski Township and daughter of Sanford Turley, an early settler. Of the ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Oglesby, nine are living-Sarah E., Almeda, Charles O., Benjamin E., John T., S. Walker, Albert R., Martha A., and Otto, all born on the Mount Pulaski homestead. George W., an infant son, died in 1877. Mr. Oglesby has 156 acres, well fenced, tiled and improved, on which he has lived since 1854. His substantial two-story house was built in 1881. Politically he is a Democrat. He is a prominent member and elder of the Lake Fork Christian Church. His parents both died in Saline County.
Robert O. Paranteau, deceased, was born in Paris, France, Angust 30, 1820, and is a son of Pierre and Harriet Paranteau who brought their family to Canada and settled near Montreal in 1825. Pierre Paranteau was with Sir John Franklin, and was one of the few survivors of his famous and ill-fated expeditions. For his services on this Polar trip he was given two lots in a Canadian village, the deeds for which are still in the family. Robert O. Paranteau went in early life to New York City and shipped thence on a vessel for the Pacific Coast. He rounded Cape Horn and landed at a Mexican seaport and thence made his way across the sterile country to the United States, finally in 1845, settling in Illinois. For several years he was employed during the session
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of the Legislature as a printer in the State Register office at Springfield. Like the majority of his countrymen he was polished in manners, light hearted, and delighted in dancing and gay so- ciety. He taught the terpsichorean art for years in Mt. Pulaski, which became noted for its brilliant parties and balls. Mr. Par- anteau spoke with fluency both German and French. During the Rebellion he served in Company I, Twenty-Sixth Illinois Infantry. He was discharged on account of ill-health and returning to Mt. Pulaski, died, February 10, 1865. Mr. Parantean was & charter member of Mt. Pulaski Lodge, No. 87, A. F. & A. M. In 1847 he married Miss Caroline Brancher, daughter of Colonel Isaac R. and Susan W. Braucher. Of his children, two daughters only survive him-Katie, wife of Jacob Seyfer, and Letitia Wyun, both teachers. Since 1880 Mrs. Paranteau has re- sided on her farm, two miles north of Mt. Pulaski, which is managed by Mr. Seyfer. Colonel Braucher was a miller and farmer, and came from Ohio to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1832, thence to Logan County in 1841, where he engaged in milling, building a saw and grist mill on Salt Creek, which he ran for many years. Later the mill burned and he moved to his farm one mile north, where he died in 1870. He was a charter member of Mt. Pulaski Lodge, No. 87, A. F. & A. M., also a charter member of Mt. Pulaski Chapter, No. 121, Royal Arch Masons. He was a man of original thought and liberal views; an energetic public-spirited citizen, and just the man needed in developing a new country. Colonel Braucher and Robert O. Parantean are both buried in the Mt. Pulaski cemetery. Susan Wynn Brancher was born and reared near Philadelphia; died and was buried in the village of Adelphi, Ohio, in 1829.
James Poe is a son of George L. and Jane (Gasaway) Poe, who brought five children from Ross County, Ohio, to Illinois, in 1852, settling near "Two Mile Grove " where G. L. Poe died in 1865. His wife survived him until 1872. Our subject, James Poe, was born October 24, 1841, in Ross County, Ohio, and mar- ried Sarah E., daughter of Henry Mann, in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Poe have seven children-George L., Rhoda A., Henry Franklin, James Albert, Carrie E., Dora J. and Eva F. Mr. Poe has re- sided in this county since 1852, living for seventeen years on the homestead, and since 1869 on his present farm of 185 acres. He has fenced and tiled this farm, erected a good barn and made other substantial improvements. He is a member of Mount
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Pulaski Lodge, Chapter and Commandery, A. F. & A. M. He has two sisters living-Catherine (Mrs. James Houston, ) and Mary E., wife of N. Gasaway.
John Reinders, section 10, was born November 28, 1831, in Rhenish Prussia, and received a thorough practical education in the excellent schools of the Fatherland. In 1854 he came to America with his parents and two brothers, one older and one younger than he. Two brothers died in Germany. His parents married in 1825. His mother's maiden name was Ger- trude Bruckhaus. The family landed at New York, coming at once to Cass County, Illinois, where they remained ten months. They then came to Mt. Pulaski. Mr. Reinders is by occupation a farmer, and politically a Democrat, and belongs with his family to the Second Lutheran Church. He owns 120 acres of land with a good house, substantial farm buildings, well fenced and tiled. In 1868 he married Anna. M. Danner, daughter of Andrew Dan- ner, one of the first settlers of Mt. Pulaski. They have seven children-Peter H., Anna M., John O., Andrew F., Fred W., Agnes M. and George W. One son, Henry D., died when a week old. All their children were born on the present home farm. Mr. Reinders served one term as tax collector, three as road commissioner, and four terms as supervisor. From 1877 to 1881 he always received good majorities over regu- lar opponents. His mother died in 1868, aged sixty-seven years, and his father in 1879, aged eighty-five years. He tries to raise highly improved farm animals, also fowls, Toulouse geese, Pekin ducks, Bronce turkeys and pea-fowls.
Rev. Peter Reinders is a son of Peter and Gertrude (Bruck- haus) Reinders, and was born in Rhenish Prussia, September 15, 1827. His parents had five sons-Gerhard, who contracted con- sumption in the German army and died at the age of twenty-four years; Peter, our subject; Henry, who died in early manhood; John and Dedreich. Peter Reinders served three years in the Prussian army and in April, 1854, married Agnes Ophuls. Two weeks later he started for the United States. Mr. Reinders en- gaged in farming about seventeen years, and since 1871 has re- sided in Mount Pulaski. About 1876 he took up the labors of a local preacher, in the Evangelical Association, of which he was a member. At the end of five years he was ordained by Bishop Escher, of Chicago, and has since continued in the work. Mr.
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Reinders has been a Republican since the second nomination of Abraham Lincoln, in 1864.
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George Ring, deceased, was born in Massachusetts. His father was a distinguished officer in the Continental army, during the Revolution, and died in Massachusetts. His widow, formerly Penelope Patch, removed to Rutland, Vermont, where George' Ring spent his early days. Abont the beginning of the present century George Ring and a party of young men made the trip, on foot, to where Lancaster, Ohio, now stands, and laid out that town. He built one of the earliest woolen mills in the State, in Fairfield County, Ohio. During the war of 1812 he was a line officer in an Ohio battalion., and the rust-eaten sword, dated 1758, which he utilized in his campaigning, is still in the possession of his dangh- ter, Mrs. J. H. Toole. The mother of our subject died at his Fairfield County home, at the age of eighty-five years. Mr. George Ring was married three times and was the father of twenty-two children. In business life he was energetic and far-sighted, and by the exercise of these talents accumulated a fortune. He die in 1862, aged seventy-four years. His second wife, Mary Ludwig, was of a noted Ohio family, as her father, Daniel Ludwig, a Penn- sylvanian, was the founder of the now thriving city of Circleville, Ohio, so called from the fact of its streets being originally laid out in circles around the old court-house, an inconvenience long since done away with. It is related of this frontier capitalist, that in looking over the beautiful prairie country about Circleville, with a party of land hunters, he was taken by them to be an unfortunate and impecunions old fellow, and, in pity for him, it was agreed to give him his choice of the lands selected, when the party was at the Chillicothe land office to make the entrees. This arrangement being communicated to him, he instantly exclaimed: " Den I takes him all," and he did. He was an enormously wealthy man and a noted character in Central Ohio.
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