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Richard E. Jurley
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a farmer and stock-dealer in 1867. He is in every sense a success- ful, prudent manager, and has one of the best kept and neatest appearing farms in the township. He was married first in March, 1866, to Sarah Ellen Buckles, daughter of Jeremiah Buckles, de- ceased. They had two children-Robert Lee, born February 16, 1867, and Mary Susan, born February 21, 1869. The year 1869 is one ever to be remembered sorrowfully by Mr. Turley, as in that year his wife and two little ones died. His wife, Sarah E., died May 9, 1869; Mary S., the infant daughter, died in August, and little Robert followed a month later. The result of this was that the husband and father broke up his home and after a time sold out his farm. In August, 1871, he married again, Mrs. Kittie Phipps, widow of James Phipps, who died February 18, 1869. Mrs. Turley is the only daughter of John Buckles, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Turley have one son-John Elmer, born March 5, 1873. An infant son, Frankie, died November 18, 1884. Mr. Turley's present farm consists of 280 acres, part of it being the old Landis farm. He has rebuilt the house, built the barn, painted, remodeled, and generally improved, until the old place is completely transformed. Mr. Turley's brother, Theodore, died a Union soldier during the Rebellion, aged twenty-two. Marshall, another brother, died when three years old. A sister, Elizabeth, married Chalton C. Buckles, and died September 18, 1874, leaving four children-John, Charles F., Addie and Ulysees Grant.
Richard E. Turley, deceased, was the only son of George W. Turley, Esq., and Margaret (Scott) Turley, and was born July 27, 1827, near Lake Fork, Logan County, Illinois. He grew up a farmer and speculator in real estate. In 1849 he crossed the plains to California and spent two profitable years in the mines there. Returning he invested part of his capital in and about Mount Pulaski, platting at different times the additions known as R. E. Turley's First, Second, Third and Fourth additions to Mount Pulaski. In 1883, as an inducement to go forward with the work of sinking a coal shaft, he donated five acres of valuable land for that en- terprise. He showed the same commendable public spirit on many occasions and was looked upon as one of the progressive men of his town. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, of the One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Infantry and was elected Sec- ond Lieutenant of the company, he having been very active in recruiting it. He served three years, participating in all the movements and engagements of the regiment, and was mustered
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out in 1865, as First Lieutenant of his company, in which he had been very popular, both as a soldier and officer. He then lived in comparative retirement at Mount Pulaski, until his death, Septem- ber 25, 1885. His wife, who survives him, was Miss Annie Baxter, born in Knox County, Ohio. They had no children. Mr. Turley in politics, was a Republican and in religion a Universalist. Mr. Turley had been a warm exponent of Republicanism until Prohi- bition, as he thought, superseded it in importance and usefulness. The first had performed its mission; the latter would. He was one of twelve in Mount Pulaski Township who possessed the moral courage to vote the Prohibition ticket in 1884.
Captain David Vanhise, proprietor of the Mount Pulaski Tile Works, was born August 22, 1822, in Fairfield County, Ohio. His parents, James and Nancy (Winstead) Vanhise, were both born in Shenandoah County, Virginia. David Vanhise was reared on a farm in Fairfield County. In 1856 he came to Illinois, and entered into partnership with George Mayer and W. W. Martin, of the firm of George Mayer & Co. August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company D, One Hundred and Sixth Illinois In- fantry, but was immediately elected Captain of the company, com- manding it through the movements preceding and during the siege of Vicksburg, and, after the surrender of that stronghold, in the guerrilla campaigns in Arkansas-a difficult, dangerous service. In 1865 he was promoted Major of the One Hundred and Sixth, and on his discharge returned to Mount Pulaski, resuming his mercantile business with Mayer and Martin. In 1876-'77-'78, he was engaged in the lumber trade here, and in 1879, instituted the tile works, which enterprise has proved to be a substantial benefit to the country about the Mount, as well as a financial success to its genial founder. Captain Vanhise, as he is best known, has been a church communicant since he was sixteen years of age and is now, with his wife, a member of the Mount Pulaski Methodist Episco- pal Church. He was also a charter member of Mount Pulaski Lodge, No. 27, K. P .-- now discontinned. He was married Octo- ber 17, 1842, in Ohio, to Catherine Martin, of Pickaway County, that State.
John T. Walker, farmer, on section 4, was born in 1829, in Pick- away County, Ohio, and is a son of James and Margaret (Rollins) Walker. The father died in 1846, aged thirty-eight years and eight months, and the mother September 20, 1885, aged seventy- eight years, four months and four days. They had eleven chil-
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dren, it proving a most remarkable family in several respects, as seven of the sons entered the Union army during the Rebellion of 1861 to 1865. Moses Walker enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois and was shot through the face and head in such a way as to paralyze one side of his face; Asahel enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixth Illinois; James enlisted in the Seventh Illinois and was shot through the leg at Shiloh; Samuel enlisted in the Seventh Illinois, served three years and was killed at Alatoona, Georgia; Ezekiel enlisted in the Thirty-second Illinois, and died at Natchez, Mississippi; William enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixth Illinois and was drowned in the Arkansas River. Our subject, John T. Walker, enlisted August, 1862, in Company D, One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Infantry. He served in the Trans- Mississippi army, participating in the siege of Vicksburg and Little Rock campaign, and was mustered out July 12, 1865, having had many narrow escapes from rebel bullets. Mr. Walker mar- ried, in 1849, Sarah J. Jackson, born in Miami County, Ohio, July 25, 1828. Of the nine children born to them, only four are living- Sarah E., Mary A., William F. and Martha S. Mr. Walker came to Illinois in 1841, living for many years in a log house in the Salt Creek timber, this county. He had lived on his present farm of eighty-seven acres for the past ten years. Mrs. Walker is a daughter of James and Sarah (Jones) Jackson and was brought by her parents to Illinois in 1830. The family wintered in a floor- less log house on Round Prairie during the winter of " deep snow," and saw much hardship and many adventures during that winter and spring. The mother used a half-bushel measure for a washtub and was compelled in the spring to dig a ditch, diago- nally across her cabin, to drain off the water. The family later re- moved to Salt Creek, then to Hurricane Point and from there to Fremont. He then bought out the claim of Robert Frakes on Salt Creek. Here the father died, April 28, 1872, and the mother August 6, 1842. Of their eight children, only three survive- Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Laughlin, and William R. Jackson, who served in the Union army, in the One Hundred and Sixth Illinois. A son, Abner Jackson, died in the service.
John M. Whitney was born November 17, 1836, in Bolton, Massachusetts. His father, Joseph Whitney, farmer, was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and married Eliza Sanders, of West Townsend, Massachusetts. Joseph Whitney was a son of David Whitney, and a grandson of Samuel Whitney, who was one
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of the Concord Committee of Safety on the day of the battle which inaugurated the American Revolution. David Whitney saw the first battle, he being fourteen years old then. The Whitneys are of English descent and the family was founded at Watertown, Mas- sachusetts, in 1632. John M. Whitney was educated in the New England Normal Institute, and in the scientific department of Am- herst College, finally taking a course in chemistry under Prof. Hors- ford in the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard College. In 1865 he left his birthplace and lived two years at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, one year at Dorchester, New Jersey, and then settled on a fruit farm at Ewing's Neck, New Jersey, where he had a fifty-acre peach-orchard. After residing here nine years his plantation was overflowed by an unusually high tide, and the labor of years was destroyed in a few hours by the salt water. Selling out here, he resolved to locate permanently at Mount Pulaski, Illinois, and go into mechanical business, for which he had always had a natural inclination. This was in 1878, and the same year he built his ma- chine shop. This proved a success and he has since built at a convenient distance from the spring a handsome residence. In 1883 he erected a tenement house on the modern plan for the occu- pancy of six families. It is well built and convenient, and there is seldom a vacant room. In the following year he built a cider- mill with automatic power-press in connection with his shop. By the aid of this, his engine and two men he can make seventy-five barrels of cider per day. Mr. Whitney, preserving the character- istics of his family, has always been interested in the invention of labor-saving machinery. Among his creations may be mentioned a corn cultivator, to run astride the corn row, one of the first of its kind, patented 1858; an automatic or self-holding plow, an odom- eter for registering the distance a carriage-wheel passes over, etc., a pump governor and a perfectly automatic windmill, known as the "Yankee," in popular nse by many Logan County farmers. He is a self-taught mechanic and feels now that he is doing that which his native inclination and ability prompted him to do long ago. Mrs. Whitney was Ellen A. Nourse, born October 27, 1834, in Bolton, Massachusetts. She is a daughter of Caleb Nourse, farmer, of Bolton, who is a son of Barnard and Hannah (Barrett) Nourse. He married Orrissa Holman, also born in Bolton. The family is descended from the Salem family of Nourses, who were so perse- cuted in the dark days of witch-craft. " Mr. and Mrs. Whitney were married May 7, 1861.
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Z. K. Wood, proprietor of Junction Elevator, Mount Pulaski, was born in West Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, September 29, 1841. In July, 1862, he enlisted as a private sol- dier in Company A, Forty-first Massachusetts Infantry, serving until June, 1864, when he took part in the organization of the First New Orleans Infantry, of which regiment he was made Adju- tant with commission of First Lieutenant. The Forty-first Massa- chusetts served principally in Louisiana, and during part of the time Mr. Wood was employed as clerk in the United States District Courts, under Judge Peabody and others. He was also clerk in the provost-marshal's office. From 1864 to 1865 Lieutenant Wood was in charge of the military prisoners in New Orleans. When relieved from that duty he was assigned to duty on the staff of General T. W. Sherman as aide-de-camp. In May, 1866, he was transferred to the headquarters of General Phil. Sheridan and June 1 of that year he was mustered out of the service. Returning East he spent some time in New York as a clerk in a mercantile house, and for about one year was in the freight auditor's office of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, in Chicago. He then went to Kansas, where for seven years he owned and managed a cattle ranch in Pottawatomie County. During this time he rode over the greater part of Eastern Kansas, at a time when the Indian troubles of that State were by no means settled, on one occasion volunteering, with his neighbors, to help repress and punish the redskins. In 1875 he sold his Kansas property and re- moved to Warrensburg, Illinois, two years later beginning the grain business in Latham, Illinois. In 1881 he came to Mount Pulaski, where he rebuilt the Juntion Elevator on the site of the one burned December 16, 1880, of which he was part owner. Mr. Wood married in Macomb, Illinois, Sarah J. Chase; born in Macomb, of which place her parents, formerly from New Hampshire, were early settlers. Mr. and Mrs. Wood have two children-Harvey Chase, born in 1882, and Margaret, born in 1885, both in Mount Pulaski. Politically Mr. Wood is a Republican. He still buys most of the grain at Latham, with his partner, P. Maus, in charge.
Zeiss de Bekemeyer, merchants. This firm was founded in 1880 and by its wonderful success has become one of the leading houses in the whole county. Both partners are what is usually termed "live business men," with good qualifications and of experience. They have an advantageous site at the southeast corner of the square, and a large, complete stock, full of everything needed to
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snpply their unusually large trade. Their stock, originally $10,000 to $12,000, has been increased to $18,000 and $20,000, and com- prises a full line of dry-goods, boots and shoes, hats and caps and a a carpet department. They also have a complete stock of family and fancy groceries, glassware and queen's ware. Captain George P. Zeiss was born in Marburg, Germany, and came to America in 1868, locating first in Rochester, New York. After quite an extensive trip over the greater part of the United States, he came to Decatur, Illinois, and engaged in the dry-goods trade for about eight years. Coming to Mount Pulaski in 1878 he opened a boot aud shoe store, meeting with good success by close attention to his business. He branched out by taking in Mr. H. S. Bekemeyer as his partner, and laid in a general stock of mercandise. Mr. Bekemeyer is a native of Springfield, Illinois. In 1875 he came to Mount Pulaski, and after clerking for two years for George S. Sawyer, went into the grocery business for himselt. In 1880 he entered into his present partnership. The firm has a large double store, glass front, with basement of same size, and have merited the large and exten- sive trade now controlled by them.
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CHAPTER XXIX.
ORAN TOWNSHIP.
GEOGRAPHY. - TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. - STATISTICS. - POLITICAL .- BEASON .- BUSINESS .- CHURCHES .- BIOGRAPHICAL.
Oran is in the eastern tier of townships, contains between thirty- four and thirty-five square miles, and is bounded as follows: On the north by Atlanta Township, on the east by De Witt County, on the south by Etna Township and on the west by East Lincoln Township. It is drained by Deer Creek, which rises rear its cen- ter, and Kickapoo Creek, which flows along the northern border. The Champaign & Havana Line runs due east and west through the southern tier of sections, having two stations-Skelton and Beason-within its limits.
OFFICIAL.
The following is a list of township officials from the date of its organization till 1885:
1867-Supervisor, William S. Curry; Clerk, E. L. Cannon; Assessor, M. C. Stark; Collector, H. A. Pruitt; Highway Com- missioners, James Ban, N. W. Robinson and G. W. Middlecoff; Justices, W. J. Reece and Owen Davis; Constables, James Cannon and H. A. Pruitt.
1868-Supervisor, S. P. Boardman; Clerk, E. L. Cannon; As- sessor, J. M. S. Cantwall; Collector, G. W. Middlecoff; Highway Commissioner, William J. Reece; Justice, John S. Boosinger.
1869-Supervisor, Adam G. Shields; Clerk, John S. Boosinger; Assessor, G. W. Middlecoff; Collector, Andrew Shields; Highway Commissioner, T. J. Copes.
1870-Supervisor, Adam G. Shields; Clerk, John S. Boosinger; Assessor, Henry W. Sullivan; Collector, Andrew Shields; High- way Commissioners, N. W. Robinson and George Gelsthorp; Jus- tices, John S. Boosinger, R. B. Mills and H. A. Pruitt; Consta- bles, William J. Reece and E. R. Williams.
1871-Supervisor, Adam G. Shields; Clerk, John S. Boosinger; Assessor, William J. Reece; Collector, John S. Boosinger; High- (821
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way Commissioner, William J. Reece; Justice, Thomas B. Short. 1872-Supervisor, A. G. Shields; Clerk, Jesse A. Hawes; Assessor, Bartholomew Gardner; Collector, John Bell; Highway Commissioner, John Harmon; Constable, E. G. Copes.
1873-Supervisor, A. T. Hayes; Clerk, Hiram A. Smith; As- sessor, A. B. Young; Collector, Thomas L. Sullivan; Highway Commissioner, George Gelsthorp; Justices, George Atchison and Henry W. Sullivan; Constables, George Marvel and Marion Hull.
1874-Supervisor, A. T. Hayes; Clerk, John P. Jones; Assessor, John T. Butler; Collector, John H. Bell; Highway Commissioner, James H. Gambrel; Constable, William Gambrel; Trustee, H. W. Sullivan.
1875-Supervisor, John H. Bell; Clerk, John W. Haas; As- sessor, Peter J. Hawes; Collector, James C. Curry; Highway Commissioner, John T. Butler; Justice, B. Gardner; Constable, John T. Harmon.
1876-Supervisor, John H. Bell; Clerk, John W. Haas; As- sessor, Henry W. Sullivan; Collector, A. T. Hayes; Highway Commissioner, George Gelsthorp; Justice, A. G. Shields; Consta- bles, John Harmon, Jr., Zachariah Duncan and David Hanger.
1877-Supervisor, John H. Bell; Clerk, John T. Gelsthorp; Assessor, H. A. Pruitt; Collector, James C. Curry; Highway Commissioner, John Rhodes; Justices, H. A. Pruitt and A. G. Shields; Constables, Robert Whiteman and Samuel Gambrel.
1878-Supervisor, W. S. Curry; Clerk, John T. Gelsthorp; As- sessor, H. A. Pruitt; Collector, L. W. Sullivan; Highway Com- missioner, J. F. Gordon; Justice, Thompson Gambrel.
1879-Supervisor, A. T. Hayes; Clerk, John T. Gelsthorp; Assessor, H. A. Pruitt; Collector, L. W. Sullivan; Highway Commissioner, George Gelsthorp; Justices, H. A. Pruitt and J. Barr; Constables, J. H. Hammerton and C. Seal.
1880-Supervisor, A. T. Hayes; Clerk, John T. Gelsthorp; Assessor, W. S. Curry; Collector, S. W. Sullivan; Highway Com- missioner W. H. Estes; Justices, H. A. Pruitt and John Barr; Constables, W. S. Jones and William Gambrel.
1881-Supervisor, A. T. Hayes; Clerk, John T. Gelsthorp; Assessor, G. W. Middlecoff; Collector, L. W. Sullivan; Highway Commissioner, James H. Gambrel; Justices, W. C. Mountjoy and B. H. Pendleton; Constables, William Gambrel and W. S. Jones. 1882-Supervisor, A. T. Hayes; Clerk, John T. Gelsthorp; Assessor, E. R. Vanmeter; Collector, L. W. Sullivan; Highway
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Commissioner, J. W. Haas; Justice, H. A. Pruitt; Trustee, T. L. Sullivan.
1883-Supervisor, John O'Hare; Clerk, John A. Pruitt; As- sessor, W. S. Curry; Collector, J. H. Hammerton; Highway Commissioner, W. H. Estes.
1884-Supervisor, John O'Hare; Clerk, John. A. Pruitt; As- sessor, W. S. Curry; Collector, J. H. Hammerton; Highway Commissioner, James H. Gambrel; Constable, John M. Cheek; Trustee, George Gelsthorp.
1885-Supervisor, John O'Hare; Clerk, John A. Pruitt; As- sessor, W. S. Curry; Collector, J. H. Hammerton; Highway Commissioner, W. P. Hunt; Justices, W. S. Jones and W. C. Montgomery; Constables, W. W. Sample and A. L. Harmon.
STATISTICS.
Oran Township had 769 inhabitants in 1870, and 1,002 by the census of 1880. In 1885, there are about 1,000, there having been no perceptible increase of late.
The valuation and taxation of the property in 1875 are here compared with the same items in 1885:
1875 .- Equalized valuation, $631,881; State tax, 81,895.64; county tax, $1,263.76; no town tax; school tax, $3,383.17; road tax, $161.64; no road and bridge tax; sinking fund tax, 8631.88; county bond tax, $821.46; town bond interest tax, $2,609.31; same for sections formerly in Atlanta, $537.58; back tax, 8640; total taxes, $11,310.84.
1885 .- Equalized valuation, $401,222; State tax, $1,402.20; county tax, $2,604.11; township tax, $440.70; road and bridge tax, $1,602.53; county bond interest tax, $520.83; township bond in- terest tax, $2,283.61; township bond sinking fund tax, $1,041.64; district school tax, $3,158; dog tax, $106; back taxes, $86.82; total taxes, $13,246.44.
POLITICAL.
In political sentiment, the township is Republican, though by small majorities. Following is the vote for President since the township was organized:
1868-Ulysses S. Grant. 75 10
1880 -- Winfield S. Hancock. 126 22 Horatio Seymour 65
James A. Garfield.
104
James B. Weaver.
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Neal Dow ..
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Horace Greeley. 77
1884-James G. Blaine.
114
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1876-Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Grover Cleveland
112
Samuel J. Tilden .104
John P. St. John.
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BEASON,
a village of about 200 inhabitants, is situated nearly ten miles east of Lincoln, on the Champaign & Havana Line of the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad. It was laid out in July, 1872, by Silas Beason (from whom it received its name), George Gels- thorp, and others. Additions to the original town were made by Joseph Wilson, Elias Hamilton and Lewis C. Turk. The first store was built by Berryman Pendleton, and by him used as a gro- cery. It is now owned by H. A. Pruitt. The second store was erected by M. R. Hall, and occupied by Joseph Baswick with a general stock of goods. After Mr. Pendleton sold the first store, he erected a third, which is now occupied by Johnston & Co. John A. Evans built the first dwelling in town, and very shortly after William Verg and Berryman Pendleton put up houses. Pruitt & Gelsthorp erected an elevator in 1873. It is now used by Arm- strong & Gelsthorp, and from it large amounts of grain are shipped.
BUSINESS INTERESTS.
The business firms of 1885 are: Armstrong & Gelsthorp, agri- cultural implements, stock and grain; Esten & Randolph, grain; J. C. Curry & Bro., L. H. Sullivan and Johnson & Armstrong, general stores; S. E. McClelland and H. Davis, druggists and phy- sicians; A. Horney, hotel; J. C. West, restaurant and billiard hall; Frank Rudolph, blacksmith and manufacturer of road carts; Fred Stoll, blacksmith; L. Donegan, barber; William T. Hunt, harness- maker; J. H. Hubbell, carpenter and wagon shop; William Jones and Henry Knowles, shoe shops; John Harmon, carpenter; Jacob Jensen, butcher; John F. Lucas, station agent; John T. Gelsthorp, postmaster.
The postmasters here have been, in order, Berryman Pendleton, Joseph S. Barwick, C. W. Floyd, Levi Dixon, George A. Curry and John T. Gelsthorp.
CHURCHES.
The Methodist Episcopal Society is the largest here, the usual attendance being 200. That at Sunday-school is about 100. The society was organized a mile east of Beason, about 1865. Here they built a house of worship and held their meetings until 1877, when they moved the church to the village. Rev. A. M. Danely, of Lincoln, preaches here the first and third Sundays of each month.
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The Christians erected a house of worship in 1873 and 1874, but are now inactive.
The Cumberland Presbyterians have a society numbering about thirty, and an attendance of perhaps 125. Rev. S. Richards, ot Lincoln, preaches here the second and fourth Sundays of each month. John M. Ross is superintendent of the Sunday-school, which has some fifty pupils.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
George W. Atchison was born in Kentucky, June 4, 1834, his parents, Isam and Mary Atchison, being natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively. In the fall of 1834 his parents moved to De Witt County, Illinois, they being among the early settlers of that county. They were the parents of seven children-George W., John T., David W., Charles W., Paulina E., Margaret D. and Mary. The last two are deceased. Our subject was reared to maturity in De Witt County, and there received a fair education. He was married March 12, 1856, to Mary A. Reece, daughter of Sampson and Sarah Reece. This union has been blessed with nine children, of whom six are living-Paulina E., Charles H., Nellie H., Frank R., Asa R. and Edgar J. Bertha L., Teedie and Winfield S. are deceased Mr. Atchison settled on section 3, Oran Township, in 1856, where he has since resided and is the owner of 207 acres of good land. He enlisted in the late war in the three-months service in June, 1861, and after the expiration of his term of service he re-enlisted in October, 1862, in Company E, One Hundred and Sixth Illinois Infantry, and a few days later was appointed Corpo- ral, and served in that capacity till his discharge in February, 1865. He was principally on guard duty, while not in the hos- pital, where he spent much of his time, both as a patient and a nurse. Mr. Atchison is a practical farmer, and in his agricultural pursuits has been very successful. He is a member of the Odd Fellows order, belonging to the lodge at Atlanta.
George W. Barr was born January 22, 1835, in what is now Atlanta Township, Logan County, his parents, James and Marga- ret Barr, being early settlers of Logan County. His father entered about a quarter-section of land in Atlanta Township, then moved two miles south in Oran Township, where he lived till his decease. His mother is still living. Of the nine children born to his parents six survive. George W. Barr has followed agricult- ural pursuits through life, and in his youth received a limited
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