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IKE L. MORGAN.
Ike L. Morgan is the son of Thomas S. and Nancy Morgan, of George's Creek precinct, Massac county, Ill., where he was born March 4, 1872; was educated in the district school and the Metropolis High School. His boyhood was spent on the farm.
When 19 Mr. Morgan began teaching, which profession he followed for five consecutive terms in the schools of Mas- sac county. He has also done a good insurance business in Massac and Johnson counties. In 1897 he moved to Vienna, Johnson county, now his home. During the last two years he has published an excellent map of Massac county in 1899, and will, in 1900, complete one of Williamson county, Illinois. He was given first premium at the State fair of Illinois 1899 for the best county map published in the state.
December 24, 1895, he married Miss Lillie Rose, daughter
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of P. W. Rose, of Wartrace, Johnson county, and they have oue child, Emma Opal, born May 2, 1897, a charming little girl much adored by her happy parents. Mr. Morgan is a member of Hurricane lodge No. 617, [. O. O. F.
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DAVID L. PARIS,
David L. Paris was born Fcb. 8th, 1862, in Clay county, Indiana, and moved to Unionville, Massac county, in 1870, where he has since resided.
His education was gained in the rural schools and the farm developed a magnificent physique. He was in the em- ploy of the Mississippi River Commission and Construction Company from 1882 to 1885. March 24, 1885, he and Miss Alice Woods of Unionville were united in marriage.
Mr. Paris has been successively elected constable, school trustee, and twice clerk and treasurer of road district No. 1. Always an ardent and zealous republican, he was appointed on
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the special force of the Southern Illinois penitentiary and has made an enviable record. Fraternally he is a Modern Wood- man and a member of Orestes lodge 268, Knights of Pythias, Metropolis, Illinois.
CAPT. ELISHA THOMAS WOODS.
Captain Elisha Thomas Woods, born March 31st, 1824, in Indiana; came to Illinois in 1847 or 1848; taught three terms of school and was a general favorite with the pupils on ac- connt of his amiable disposition. On March 17th, A. D. 1850, he married Miss Elizabeth Hannah Morrison. As a fruit of this union six children were born, three sons, Francis, Archi- bald and Jessie, and three daughters, Jane, Kate and Alice. Archibald is residing on the old homestead. Jessie is a suc- cessful merchant in Unionville, and Francis is dead. His ster- ling qualities commended him to the confidence and esteem of his fellows, hence he offered his services to his country in August, 1862, and was chosen captain of the company he was chiefly instrumental in raising, company A of the 131st regi- ment of Illinois Infantry volunteers, Colonel G. W. Neely,
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CAPT. AND MRS. ELISHA T. WOODS.
ommanding. Given first position in the regiment, Captain Woods was made senior captain of the regiment. His regi- ient was one of those unfortunate regiments that was tricken with disease, and he was compelled day after day to Fitness the intense suffering and distress of the brave boys e had enlisted in their country's service. His company was ctively engaged in the battles of Milliken's Bend and Arkan- as Post. Soon after the latter engagement the ranks of the : giment became so decimated by disease and death that it was rdered by the war department to Paducah, Ky., where it was onsolidated with the twenty-ninth regiment of Illinois In- intry Volunteers. By this consolidation a surplus of officers ad to be disposed of and as a result Captain Woods resigned is command and returned to the walks of civil life.
During his term of service he contracted a disease of the ves that remained with him until the date of his death, render- ig him at times almost totally blind. Capt. Woods was an old me abolitionist in politics and lived to see the longing desire f his heart fully accomplished. He prized human liberty far bove wealth, personal ambition or official distinction, and is life was that of a loyal patriot who regarded no sacrifice
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too great, except that of personal honor, to make for the good of his country. He was an active member of the M. E. church and lived an exemplary christian life. He died on the 21st day of February, 1883, in the 59th year of his age, loved and mourned by all who knew him.
DANIEL RISINGER PRYOR.
Daniel Risinger Pryor, the subject of this sketch, was born in Pope county, Illinois, on the 15th day of January, A. D.
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1841. He was the sixth son of Daniel Farley Pryor, who was the youngest son of Captain John Armstrong Pryor, who com- manded a company of Virginia volunteers during the strug- gle for American liberty. After the close of the Revolution- ary war Captain Pryor emigrated with his family to Kentucky, where Daniel Farley Pryor, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born. Captain Pryor's ancestors emigrated to this country from Scotland early in the settlement of the colony of Virginia, and were of that hardy and fearless stock known as Scotch-Irish, and possessed to a remarkable degree that peculiar courage and hardihood characteristic of the
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pioneer settlers of this country. The ancestral tree was ex- ceedingly prolific and as a result the Pryor family are scat- tered from Virginia to New York. Judge Roger A. Pryor, of New York, is a descendant of the Virginia ancestors of the Pryor family, as also is Judge Pryor of Kentucky, who was a member of the notorious Goebel state election commission.
On the side of his maternal ancestry his mother was Nancy Louis Risinger, the oldest daughter of John Risinger, of whose ancestors little is known beyond the fact that he was of German origin. His maternal grandmother was Miss Mary Pike and a descendant of General Zebulon Pike, of Rev- olutionary fame. It will be seen that Mr. Pryor has a long line of illustrious ancestors, men whom the state and nation have honored with positions of official distinction. Daniel Ris- inger Pryor, the subject of this biography, was reared on a farm in what is known as "Goose Neck," in Pope county, Illi- nois; with the exception of five years, from 1851 to 1856 he resided with his parents in Smithland, Ky. Since 1856 his place of residence has been in southern Illinois. In his rearing he had none of the advantages of the present free school sys- tem of the state, but had to depend on the uncertain and in- capable subscription school for an education. But notwith- standing these educational disadvantages, by dint of persever- ance and self-denial he managed to acquire a fair common school eduaction. His early life was like most boys raised on the farm, rather uneventful, until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861. The exciting campaign of 1860 so im- pressed him with the spirit of human liberty that the first call to arms found him ready to respond. He enlisted as a mem- ber of company K, 29th Regiment of Illinois Volunteer In- fantry on the 13th day of July, 1861, but unfortunately for him he suffered a sunstroke the following September which so dis- abled him that in November, 1861, he was honorably dis- charged from the service for disability to perform military duty. However, he was not content to remain at home in- active while the life of the nation was threatened by armed . rebellion, and in August, 1862, he re-enlisted in company H, 131st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but he was again doomed to disappointment as his disability prevented him
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from being regularly mustered into the service and he was again sent home as unfit for military duty. Broken down in health and suffering severely from disappointment, because of the early and unfavorable termination of his military career, he returned to the walks of civil life.
On the 28tli day of December, 1862, he was married to Mrs. Mary Ann Woodward, the widow of B. F. Woodward, and daughter of John and Lucinda Roberts. During all the trials and afflictions of life she has been a faithful and affec- tionate wife, sharing alike his joys and sorrows.
In 1865 he was converted to the christian religion and connected himself with the Baptist church. In 1867 he was ordained to the full work of the gospel ministry.
The disability contracted in the United States army con- tinued to afflict him to such a degree that he found himself wholly unable to perform manual labor, and he was therefore forced to resort to some less laborious profession to gain a livelihood for himself and family. He chose that of teaching in the public schools, which he entered upon in 1864 and pur- sued with unqualified success for a period of twelve years, when his health became so badly impaired that he was com- pelled to abandon the school room. In 1874 he suffered a stroke of paralysis which was followed by a still more severe one in 1882 from which he has never recovered. In 1889 he and H. C. Laughlin founded the Metropolis Republican, and run it very successfully for two years when his constantly de- elining health forced him to abandon the editorial chair, but his paper was consolidated with the Massac Journal and still lives.
Mr. Pryor is a man who has made his impression socially and particularly among the people of his religious denomina- tion. As a minister he is regarded as a very close logical rea- soner, and as possessing very considerable pulpit power. As a writer he has few superiors, and as a consequence his produc- tions are sought after by newspaper publishers and maga- zines. At the present time he is associate editor of the Bap- tist News, a Baptist publication of national reputation. He is also trustee of Ewing College, located at Ewing, Ill., and also a trustee of the Baptist Ministerial Education Society.
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This is but an index to the public spirit of the man and marks him as a man of influence and distinction in his de- nomination.
He and his amiable wife are at this time living quietly on their farm in Jackson precinct, Massac county, where they expect to welcome the sunset of life when it is the Master's good pleasure to call them to their final home.
CHARLES ADAM GILTNER.
Charles Adam Giltner was the son of John and Christina Giltner, and was born in Allentown, Lehigh county, Penn.
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He came to Massac county in 1848 and taught a term or two of school. He was married to Miss Sarah Jane Leeper on the 27th day of March, 1851. To them were born five sons and two daughters. His sons are among the most thrifty and prosper- ous farmers of the county at the present time. By close man- agement and the exercise of self denial Mr. Giltner, the sub- ject of this sketch, acquired a farm and accumulated some considerable property during the early years of his married life and exercised a wholesome influence on the lives and
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characters of the rather rude and uncivilized inhabitants of the county at that time. In August, 1862, he enlisted in com- pany C, 131st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Captain Purdyon. His record as a soldier is without a blemish, but he must be classed with a large number of unfortunates whose military career was cut short by the wasting hand of disease. He was attacked with chronic diarrhoea and after a lingering illness he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., on a hospital boat and died on board the boat just before it reached its destination on Feb. 1st, 1863, and his remains were interred in Jefferson Barracks cemetery. Thus away from home and friends but under the folds and protection of the flag for which he sacrified his life, he sleeps the peaceful sleep of the patriot soldier, loved and revered by all who knew him as brave soldier, a loyal patriot, an exemplary citizen, and a model husband and father.
His widow lived true to his memory, having never given to another the place he held in her youthful affections, but she peacefully resided on the old homestead in Jack- son precinct, this county, and in the lengthening shadows of the evening of life she calmly waited to join her husband in the grand reunion on the final camping ground of soldiers, dying this year.
THOMAS JOHNSON MOSELEY.
Thomas Johnson Moseley, the oldest son of William Mose- ley and Eliza Dunn Moseley, was born in Trigg county, Ky., the 22nd day of November, 1832. He came to Illinois with his parents in 1836 or 1837. He grew up on the farm and had all the disadvantages of pioneer life. His educational advan- tages were very meagre, and his life wholly void of every ex- citing incident until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861. He was married at the early age of 19 years to Miss Mary Lane Purcell by whom was born to him six children, one of whom, George W. Moseley, is living, and a prosperous farmer in Jackson precinct, near the place of his birth. Edna Henriette died just as she was budding into womanhood. The remain- ing four died in infancy.
In August, 1861. he enlisted in company A, 48th Regi- ment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Captain Manning Mayfield.
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He was mustered into the service at Camp Butler, and soon after was sent to Cairo, Ill., under command of General John A. McClernand. He participated in the battles of Belmont, Missouri; Paducah, Ky .; Fort Henry, Tenn .; Fort Donaldson and Pittsburg Landing. Soon after the last named battle he was attacked with typhoid fever and was sent to the hos- pital in a dying condition, when all trace of him was lost. He was a brave, patriotic soldier, always ready to answer every call to duty. It was proverbial among his comrades that Corporal Moseley could be depended on in any emergency.
Thus through the carelesness of our hospital officials the life of a brave, patriotie soldier is lost in oblivion, and a grave injustice done one of our country's defenders. His widow, still faithful to his memory, lives in the solitude of widowhood at the home of her only child, George W. Moseley. She is the oldest daughter of Edward and Sarah Purcell and was born to tliem in Henry county, Tennessee, on the 23rd day of Septem- her, 1828, and though somewhat eccentric she is a model type of American womanhood, having all those sterling qualities that commend her to the hearts and confidence of her associates. She is a faithful member of the Christian church and is calmly waiting the final call of the Master.
CHENAULT WEBB, M. D.
UNIONVILLE, ILL.
Hon. Isaac Webb, the father of Dr. Webb, was born in Henry county, Ky., and was a lawyer by profession. He rep- resented his section in the legislature of Kentucky. His wife was Miss Levina Gist, who was a native of Alabama.
Chenault Webb, their son, was born in Henry county, Tennessee, Sept. 30, 1869. Their home was in Newcastle, the county seat, but they owned a large farm adjacent to the city on which young Webb spent most of his early time.
He attended the Newcastle high school, and was gradu- ated in a course of private instruction under Prof. H. K. Bowan. He clerked in a drugstore in his native city for two years and in 1890 matriculated in the Louisville Medical Col- lege, Louisville, Ky., also taking an unofficial term in the
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Kentucky School of Medicine and graduating from the former institution in 1891.
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CATHERINE WEBB.
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In June, 1891, he opened an office at Hamlettsburg, Pope county, Ill., and within one year removed to Unionville, Illi- nois, where he maintains a large practice. He is an Odd Fel- low and Modern Woodman.
In October, 1891, he and Miss Lora Spore of Golconda were married. They have one child, Catharine, born Aug. 13, 1896.
DANIEL DEANE,
MERCHANT.
The grandfather of Mr. Deane was an expert weaver of velvet in Spittlefield, England, and was the superintendent of velvet weavers. His son's name was Daniel Deane.
Daniel Deane, Jr., was the son of Daniel and Mary Deane, two hardy English ancestors. He was born June 3, 1839, in London, England, and was educated under a private instructor and secured a good education. His early life was spent in his native country.
Twenty-six years ago he came almost direct to Massac county and farmed for about six years. Having a business turn of mind he opened a general store in Unionville, Massac county, twenty years ago and has continued merchandising for a fifth of a century in the same bulding.
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March 24th, 1885, he and Mrs. Mary Anders were married and they have two bright children. Mr. Deane is of a pleasing disposition and stands high in the community.
HON. CHARLES P. SKAGGS,
HARRISBURG, ILL.
Pryor L. Skaggs, the father, was born in East Tennessee, Aug. 6, 1829, and came to Illinois in 1851. He is a harness maker and worker of leather. For three years he served as a volunteer in the 120th Illinois infantry with the rank of corporal. Miss Eliza J. Davis, who was also born in East Tennessee, Nov. 23, 1831, became his wife June 22, 1848, and to them were born four sons and one daughter.
Charles P. Skaggs, their son, was born in Marion, William- son county, Ill., December 1, 1858, and attended the common schools. He extended his education at the Southern Illinois normal university, Carbondale, paying his way by his own la- bors. For some time he read law with Messrs. Gregg and Gregg until he went to Mt. Vernon, Ill., and engaged in the real estate and abstract business in the contiguous counties for about five years.
Returning to Harrisburg in 1883 he became cashier of the Bank of Harrisburg, in which capacity he served for fifteen ycars, when he resigned, immediately resumed the study of law, was admitted to the bar and became a member of the law firm of Thompson, Williford & Skaggs, which yet exists.
Fraternally Mr. Skaggs has attained success. He was made a thirty-second degree Mason in oriental causistry, Chicago, April, 1887, was knighted in 1886 in the Gethsemane com- mandery, Knights Templar, Metropolis, Ill .; is grand cou- ductor in the grand lodge of the I. O. O. F. of Illinois, trustee in the grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, domain of Illinois; also a member of the Modern Woodmen, A. O. U. W., Court of Honor and Tribe of Ben Hur.
Mr. Skaggs is an ex-mayor of Harrisburg, his home city, and was nominated by the republican party as the candidate for the forty-second general assembly of Illinois at Mound City, July 12th, 1900, and elected Nov. 6th, 1900, without opposi- tion. His extended experience in parliamentary bodies, wide
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fraternal acquaintance, affable manners, and recognized abil- ity bespeak for him a successful career as a legislator.
November 29, 1882, he was married to Miss Carrie E. Sei- mer, daughter of H. W. Seimer, Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Their two sons, Charles Seimer (16) and Frank P. (14) are cadets in the Kenyon military academy, Gambier, Ohio; Helen H., who is 12, and William B., who is 11, are at home with their par- ents.
HON. MARION SUMNER WHITLEY,
HARRISBURG, ILL
The paternal ancestry of the subject of this sketch were of English lineage originally in North Carolina, while the mater- nal family was of German descent and early settled in the state of New York.
Silas A. Whitley, the father, came to Williamson county, Ill., in 1837, and died in the spring of 1900, while his son Mar- ion was attending the republican state convention, Peoria, Illinois. His wife was Miss Hannah Crawford, who died when her son Marion was only five years old.
June 17, 1860, Marion Sumner, their son, was born in Saline county, Illinois, where the parents then lived. In youth he attended the rural school for a short while and labored in a saw mill when young to earn money to pursue an education. When 19 he taught his first school and alternately taught and attended school until he was 26 years of age, when he mar- ried, settled at Gallatia and was admitted to the bar in 1888, practicing there for four years.
In 1892 he was elected state's attorney of Saline county and in 1893 he formed a partnership with Choisser and Choisser. His practice has, perhaps, extended into more counties than any other lawyer of southern Illinois. In 1897 he was elected mayor of Harrisburg and in 1900 was nominated by the con- gressional convention at Carbondale as the republican presi- dential elector of the twenty-second congressional district and made an earnest, capable and telling canvass for his party.
JAMES ELLIOTT.
Of the early pioneers of Massac county none did more to de- velop along the correct lines the rude conditions then exist- ing than did James Elliott.
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He was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Allegheny in 1819, and early had the misfortune to suffer from disease
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which left him a cripple for life.
Undaunted he secured a good education and came to Vienna, Johnson county, Illinois, in 1842, where he clerked in a store until he later came to Massac county, and it is said taught the second term of subscription school in the first school house in Massac county. This profession he followed for quite awhile and was made the fourth county school commissioner of the county, now the county superintendent. This office he filled for a number of years.
Before the civil war he was twice elected circuit clerk and gave universal satisfaction. He retired to his farm until af- ter the war was over, when he was again elected circuit clerk as a republican, but died in 1866.
Mr. Elliott and Miss Eliza Laird were married in Massac county, of which she was a native. Her father was a pioneer of Massac county originally from New England. She died in 1888: Their children living here are James L. Elliott, cash- ier of the National State Bank, and John M. Elliott, a well established undertaker and furniture dealer.
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E. A. ADKINS, M. D.
Dr. A. E. Adkins is a native of Massac county, the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Adkins, two of the foremost citizens of the county. He was born Oct. 12, 1859, and his early life was tem- pered by the happy environments of the farm.
He obtained a common school education and in 1881 began
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the study of medicine under Dr. J. D. Young, of Brooklyn, Ill., also entering the drug store as clerk, where he gained a phar- maceutical knowledge very valuable to him during his ex- tended practice.
In the winter of 1883 and '84 he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Louisiana, New Orleans, took two courses of lectures in the Missouri Medical college, St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from that noted institution in March, 1887.
Returning home he opened an office at his old home, where he has resided ever since, enjoying the confidence and profit- able patronage of his life long friends. On April 7, 1886, he and Miss Laura B., daughter of Dr. J. D. Young, were mar- ried and they have a pleasant and well arranged home.
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MILO H. TROVILLION, M. D.
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Daniel P. Trovillion, the father of our subject, was born in Tennessee, and was early brought to Illinois by his parents. He became a prosperous farmer in Pope county, Ill., and re- tired to Brownfield, 1891, to enjoy his later years. His wife was Elizabeth Lewis, and a native of Illinois.
Milo H. Trovillion, M. D., was born in Columbus, Pope county, Ill., Oct. 31, 1865, and reared on a farm. He attended the common schools and the private normal schools. In 1885 he taught school for one term and began to read medicine un- der his brother, Dr. J. A. Trovillion, of Pope county.
In the fall of 1889 he matriculated in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating with the title of "M. D." March 14, 1892, and opened an office in McCormick, Pope county. Later he removed to Bloomfield, in the same county, and practiced his profession there for two and one-half years. In 1899 he located at Round Knob, in Massac county, where he is building up a paying practice.
Dr. Trovillion is a member of the Massac and Pope county medical societies and of the Southern Illinois Medical Asso-
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ciation. He is assistant physician at the Metropolis Sanitar- ium and has contributed scientific medical papers for the Southern Illinois Journal of Medicine and Surgery. In 1888 he and Miss Anna Willianis were married. They have one child living, Loren, now 13; Carlos died at the age of 5 years.
HON. JAMES E. JOBE,
HARRISBURG, ILL.
The Hon. James E. Jobe was born in Indiana, but early came to Saline county, Illinois, where he entered the profes- sion of teacher and met with great success. He was elected county superintendent of public schools for several terms, re- signing during the last term to accept appointment as com- missioner of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, Chester, Ill.
Mr. Jobe has for a number of years been active in poli- tics and has been delegate for his county to senatorial, con- gressional and state conventions, where he has always wielded marked influence. He was a delegate from the Twenty-second congressional district to the national republican convention in 1896.
His greatest record, however, has been made as a mem- ber of the penitentiary commission. He has done his part in
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conducting the business of that great institution. When the present commission took charge, the penitentiary was $115,000 in debt with nothing to meet the emergency. Although the annual appropriations have been much less during the four years of his administration than that of his predecessors, the $115,000 indebtedness is paid, the institution's bills paid, and a balance to its credit. Of this record the friends of Mr. Jobe are justly proud.
HON. BEN O. JONES,
METROPOLIS, ILL.
Benjamin O. Jones was born in Graves county, Ky., Nov. 23, 1844, the son of Dr. Caleb Jones, a native of Virginia. He early laid the foundation of a liberal education in literature and languages, being recognized as a close student of poetry and history. He is a versatile writer and fluent speaker.
In 1864 he came to Metropolis and in 1869 became editor of the Western Star, a year later purchasing the "Promulgator," and changed its name to "Massac Journal." In 1871 he, with A. J. Alden, also founded the "Pulaski Patriot" at Monnd City, Ill. He parted with his newspaper interests in 1887.
He was elected as a republican member of the XXIXth gen- eral assembly and took foremost rank as a leader. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar, was elected state's attorney the fol- lowing year, and county judge in 1890. As a campaign speak- er he has few superiors.
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FRAGMENTS.
We have endeavored to give a full and detailed account of the churches, lodges and points of interest, and feel that the most important facts have been secured, but several friends failed to keep their promises to our request.
The Germans support Evangelical, Methodist and Luth- eran churches and parochial schools in Grant, Benton Washington and Brooklyn precincts.
The Methodists maintain congregations at Joppa and in Logan precinct, as parts of the Belknap circuit. They have good houses.
The Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities have organiza- tions at Brooklyn.
Joppa is one of the oldest points in the county situated nine miles below Metropolis on the river. For years it has been a small village, boat landing and postoffice. This sum- mer of 1900 the Chicago & Eastern Illinois has built a line into the quiet little place and will perhaps cross the river there, giving new life and vigor to Joppa, worthy a larger pop- ulation than heretofore.
Along the Illinois Central railroad is Round Knob, a neat little village and station, and Big-bay, further up the line. Several other minor postoffices also exist throughout the county.
We might have secured many more sketches by soliciting the same but we have extensively advertised for all those de- siring to publish their family record. Now time and the press of business forbid further delay. We thank all our friends who have supported an honest effort to more particularly put iu permanent form the facts of the history of Massac county. When this book is placed in our State Historical Library it will be about the last county of Illinois.
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