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Chauncey A. Dunham, section 5, Coral Township, was born Aug. 9, 1858, a son of Artemus R. and Maria J. (Benson) Dun- ham. He was reared on the old homestead farm and obtained a good education, attending the Marengo, Woodstock and Wheaton schools. Since leaving school he has given his attention to agri- cultural pursuits, at which he has been very successful. He now makes a specialty of dairying, and has a herd of thirty cows. He
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John Eddy
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was married Sept. 3, 1879, to Ella, daughter of Thomas Gilkerson. They have one child -Nellie S., born Aug. 13, 1880.
Rev. Henry C. Eddy, deceased, was born in Cazenovia, Madi- son Co., N. Y., May 6, 1832, a son of Robert Eddy. He came with his parents to Illinois in 1837 and completed his education in the schools of Marengo and Jennings Seminary, Aurora. In 1853 he went to California and preached in the Methodist Epis- copal church in Sacramento Valley a year, and subsequently taught several years. When he first went West he was obliged to work some time as a common laborer in the mines. In the spring of 1864 he returned to Illinois and enlisted in Company E, Niuety-fifth Illinois Infantry, and served until the close of the war. In 1865 he went to Spring Hill, Tenn., to teach the freed- men, and at the same time preached regularly for about five years. In 1870, his health being poor, he returned to Illinois and settled on section 33, Coral Township, where he lived till his death, although he returned to Tennessee and taught during the winter of 1870-'71. He subsequently taught and preached, as his health would admit, in McHenry County. He died June 24, 1880, leaving a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. He was married Aug. 2, 1864, to Martha E. Morris, a native of Cazenovia, N. Y., born in 1835, a daughter of Samuel R. Morris, who located in Coral Township in 1840. To them were born six children- William L., Charles W., George W., Annie L., Mary E. and Olin R.
Captain John Eddy, section 27, Coral Township, was born in Devonshire, England, July 21, 1821, a son of Robert; and Susan (Pingelley) Eddy, also natives of Devonshire. When he was a child his parents moved to America and settled in Chittenango, Madison Co., N. Y., and three years later moved to Cazenovia, the same county. In 1837 they moved to Illinois and settled on section 28, Coral Township, McHenry County, where the father died Aug. 13, 1844, aged fifty-two years. The mother still lives with our subject and is now eighty-nine years of age. She was born Feb. 7, 1796. Captain Eddy is one of the oldest settlers in the township. There is but one family living in the township that was here when he came. He saw the first mail wagon (an old emigrant or cheese wagon) that carried the mail from Chicago to Galena, in 1838. The first log school-house in the township was built on his land and he cut the first log with which to make it. Before it was finished, however, it was taken down and moved
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to section 33. The first well in the county was dug by his father, on section 27. It was dug early in 1837, walled up with stone, and still furnishes a good supply of pure cold water. Captain Eddy owns 340 acres of choice land, all well improved. He was married July 15, 1849, to Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Small- dridge, who settled in McHenry County in July, 1846. They have had five children; but four are living-Susan E., Thomas V., Robert L. and Henry L. Susan married Albert Ushorne and has had four children-Charles R., Bertha M., Gracie E. and Eddy G. Thomas E. married Alice A. Burns and is now practicing law in Watertown, Dak. Robert L. married Louise Brand, and has two children-Clara Adell and Lewis V. Henry L. married Sarah Davis. In the late civil war our subject enlisted in the Ninety- fifth Illinois Infantry, and was commissioned Captain of Company E. He participated in the battles of Champion Hill, Vicksburg, and many others, but in 1864 was sent home to recruit new troops and thus escaped some of the most severe battles. He has served in many local offices of trust, such as Sheriff, Supervisor, Jus- tice of the Peace, School Trustee and Director.
William J. Fillmore, carriage-maker, Union, Ill., was born in Middletown, Rutland Co., Vt., July 10, 1831, a son of Luther Fill- more, of Union, who was born in Rutland County, Vt., in 1804. Mr. Fillmore learned the carriage-maker's trade when a young man, and is conversant with every detail of the business. In August, 1855, he located in Coral, then the principal village of the township, and worked at his trade till after the breaking out of the war. In 1862 he enlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and served two years. He was detailed to the Commissary Department, but in 1864 was discharged on account of disability. He was unable to work for fifteen months after his return home. He then traveled three years for Austin & Boal, wholesale dealers in farm machinery and stoves, when he had his left leg broken in a railway accident. After his recovery he traveled seven months for Jones & Laughlin, heavy iron dealers of Chicago. Their operations were stopped tempo- rarily by the fire of 1871. Since that time Mr. Fillmore has worked at his trade in Union, where his home has been since 1862. He was married in November, 1851, to Henrietta M. Has- tings who died Dec. 12, 1852. Jan. 10, 1855, he married Mary E., daughter of Charles Lyman. Six children have been born to them, five of whom are living-William H., Charles L., Frank
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M., Edith M. and Ernest F. Henrietta married Frank Dewey and died in January, 1879. Mr. Fillmore is a member of Orion Lodge, No. 358, F. & A. M., and Harley Wayne Post, No. 169, G. A. R.
Rev. William H. Fisher, section 11, Coral Township, was born in Washington County, N. Y., May 11, 1834, a son of William Fisher. He received a common-school education and subsequently attended the Troy Conference Academy at Poultney, Vt., and Claverick Seminary, near Hudson, N. Y. In 1860 he came West and entered Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill., and gradu- ated in November, 1862. In the fall of 1862 he joined the Rock River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. He labored two years at Wyanet, two years at Plano, three years at Lockport, three years at Belvidere, three years at Roscoe, and two years at Newark. After fifteen years he took a local relation to conference and in March, 1878, came to McHenry County and settled on his present farm. He owns 448 acres of choice land, and runs a dairy of thirty-five cows, with a large herd of young stock. He was married May 15, 1864, to Mrs. Mary C. Feakins, daughter of Rev. Timothy Benedict, and widow of Wm. H. Feakins. They have two children-Harry B. and James O. Mrs. Fisher has one son by her first marriage-William T. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church at Marengo.
Jonas M. Frink, section 7, Coral Township, was born in Wind- ham County, Vt., July 7, 1821, a son of Ephraim N. Frink. He was educated in his native county and in 1839 came with his par- ents to McHenry County and settled in Coral Township, where he has since lived. He built a hop house on his farm and after- ward converted it into the second cheese factory in the township, and carried on that business several years. He now uses it as a sorghum factory. He constructed his own mill and considers it the best he ever used. The boiling is done by steam. The engine runs the machinery that saws the wood, cuts the feed and grinds the cane. Mr. Frink has served as Assessor and Collector and is the present Thistle Commissioner of the township. He was mar- ried Aug. 18, 1846, to Prudence Bridges. They have four children -Ann E., Estella, Minnie and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Frink are members of the Baptist church.
Carlisle Hastings, section 18, Coral Township, was born in Suf- field, Hartford Co., Conn., April 25, 1815, a son of George W. and grandson of Benjamin Hastings, natives of the same county,
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of English ancestry. He received a good education, attending the academy of Westfield, Mass. He came to McHenry County, Ill., in 1839, and settled in Coral Township, and in 1841 occupied the farm of 160 acres where he now resides. Mr. Hastings has been a life-long Democrat. In 1842 he was elected School Com- missioner; in 1846 was elected County Commissioner and served two terms (six years); in 1852 was elected Sheriff, and has been Assessor since 1876. He has served as School Director over twenty years, and was Trustee several years. In all his official relations he has given satisfaction, serving in a conscientious and painstaking manner. Mr. Hastings was married Oct. 29, 1838, to Hannah Granger, daughter of William Granger. To them have been born nine children, eiglit of whom are living-Flora, Agnes, Hezmer C., George H., William G., Arnold D., Frank W. and Benjamin F. Mrs. Hastings's ancestors came from England in an early day and settled in Suffield, Conn. She is a relative of Gideon Granger, Postmaster-General under President Jefferson, and Frank Granger, ex-Governor of New York.
Edmund F. Haven, farmer and dairyman, postoffice Union, is a native of McKeen County, Pa., born Dec. 6, 1825, a son of Luther Haven, a native of Otsego County, N. Y. He received a good common-school education, and subsequently tauglit two terms. In 1846 he came West and settled in Seneca Township, McHenry County, but the next spring returned to Pennsylvania and resided till 1855, when he came again to McHenry County. He lived in Seneca Township till 1869, when he settled on his farm of 212 acres in Coral Township. He was married in July, 1870, to Ann Van Patton. They have liad five children; but three are living- Millie G., Milan and Vine.
Chester Flint Houston, agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, at Union, was born in Charlemont, Franklin Co., Mass., Feb. 14, 1824, a son of David and Thirza (Upton) Houston, his father a native of Massachusetts, of Irish descent, and his mother a native of Charlemont. In his youth he served an apprenticeship of several years at the tailor's trade and worked at it eleven or twelve years. For eighteen years he was an officer in the Massa- chusetts State's Prison. We came West in 1868 and spent some time with a brother in Chicago, and afterward was with a brother in Wisconsin. In February, 1869, he assumed the duties of his present position. He was married in 1849 to Eliza A. Graves, a native of Northampton, Franklin Co., Mass., a daughter of Elisha
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Graves. To them were born seven children, five of whom are living-Edwin A., Caroline M., Robert G., Frederick H. and Mary E. Mrs. Houston died Jan. 1, 1878.
George Jackson, section 22, Coral Township, was born in York- shire, England, in December, 1803. In 1819 his father, Bryan Jackson, brought his family to America and settled in New Castle, Pa. In 1825 George Jackson went to Utica, N. Y., and remained till 1834 when he came West and located in Chicago, Ill., at that time a mere hamlet of sixteen dwelling houses. He moved to McHenry County in 1841 and has since resided in Coral Township. He married Maria L. Hill, and to them have been born ten chil- dren, but five of whom are living; three of their sons were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion; one, George G., was killed at the battle of Chickamauga.
Wm. M. Jackson was born in the State of New York, in the year 1810. At the age of twenty-six years he moved with his father from Rochester, N. Y., to McHenry County, Ill., and located in Coral Township. He taught one of the first schools in the county, Mr. Rogers teaching another school at the same time. He was elected County Commissioner in 1838; took first United States census in 1840; served as School Treasurer in the townships of Coral and Seneca; elected to the Legislature in 1842, and re-elected in 1844. He was appointed as Register in the United States Land- Office, then located at Chicago, and served four years; was elected to Constitutional Convention in 1862, and was a candidate for Member of Congress in 1854. Mr. Jackson left Coral Township several years ago, and is now a resident of Minneapolis, Minn.
Charles Lockwood, farmer, section 30, Coral Township, was born in Cazenovia, Madison Co., N. Y., May 11, 1820, a son of Joseph Lockwood, a native of Oneida County, N. Y. He was reared and educated in his native county, and in 1844 came to McHenry County, Ill., and settled where he now lives. He owns 126 acres of land, well improved. He married Jerusha Miller who died leaving two children-Mary, now wife of Lehman Warner, of Mendota, Ill., and Henry, who married Hattie Woodworth, and lives in Courtland, Gage Co., Neb. He subsequently married Sarah Kennedy. They have two children-Jennie and Joseph.
Edwin R. Morris, section 33, Coral Township, was born in Madison County, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1833, a son of Samuel R. and Sally Morris. In 1840 his parents came to McHenry County and settled in Coral Township. They had a family of eight children,
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our subject being the eldest son; six are living-Charlotte M., now Mrs. A. Thompson, of Marengo; Sarah E., now Mrs. A. O. Adams, of Vinton, Iowa; Mary E., now Mrs. Israel St. Clair, of Dorr Township; Martha E., widow of Henry C. Eddy; Edwin R. and Wilbur F. Two sons are deceased. Edwin R. Morris re- ceived a good education, completing it at the Elgin High-School. He was married Sept. 12, 1854, to Sarah A., daughter of Robert and Susan Eddy, sister of Captain John Eddy. They have had four children-Mary R., wife of J. W. Usborne; Lillie I., wife of Wm. H. Comstock, now of Oskaloosa, Iowa; Eddie L. and Alice M. Mr. Morris enlisted in the war of the Rebellion as a private in Company E, Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry, and served three years. He participated in the battles of Vicksburg, Red River campaign, Guntown, Spanish Fort and many others. He was dis- charged as Second Sergeant. He has given his attention to farm- ing since the war and now owns 137 acres of fine land and keeps a dairy of twenty cows. He and his wife are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. Politically he is a Republican. He is a member of Harley Wayne Post, No. 169, G. A. R.
I. N. Muzzy was born in West Dayton, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Feb 19, 1836. His father, B. F. Muzzy, died Sept. 11, 1838, aged thirty-nine years. Our subject was reared and educated in his native village, and in October, 1855, came West to McHenry County, and worked on the farms of J. Deitz, A. Read, T. Bigelow, and P. Stowell till November, 1860, when he went to Iowa and bought a farm in Tama County. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Fourteenth Iowa Infantry; participated in the battles of Fort Henry, Donelson, and Shiloh. At Shiloh he was captured and taken to the prison at Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was dis- charged in October, 1862, on account of disability and returned home. In 1864 he sold his Iowa farm and returned to McHenry County, where he has met with success, and now has a comfortable home and a good farm for each of his children. Mr. Muzzy was married Oct. 10, 1863, to Sabina Bigelow, a native of Collins Center, Erie Co., N. Y., born June 24, 1839, the eldest daughter of T. Bigelow. They have three children-Lucy, Frank and Emma. Their eldest child, Grant, died Oct. 12, 1874. Mr. Muzzy is an independent thinker, temperate in habits, industrious, economical, and full of hope for the future.
John H. Ocock, blacksmitlı, Coral Township, was born in Rock County, Wis., May 17, 1851, a son of Henry Ocock, a native of
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Somersetshire, England. His parents caine to Illinois and settled in Coral Township in 1864. In 1877 he went to Sac County, Iowa, but in 1878 returned to Huntley, and in 1879 moved to his present location, where he has built up a good business. He makes a specialty of wood-work and repairing. In July, 1870, he was married to Maria Dean, daughter of Richard Dean, an early settler of Coral Township, from New York. Mr. Dean moved to Sac County, Iowa, in 1877, and died there May 15, 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Ocock have had two children; but one is living-Bertie, born June 14, 1875. Mr. Ocock is a member of the A. O. U. W. and Select Knights (same order). He has been School Director three years. He is Secretary and Treasurer of the Sabbath-school at Coral.
William W. Ocock, section 27, Coral Township, is a native of Somersetshire, England, born Aug. 20, 1840. His father, Henry Ocock, was born in Somersetshire, England, March 2, 1815, and married Harriet Webber, a native of Devonshire, England, born Sept. 19, 1813. They had a family of ten children, of whom six are living. They came to the United States in 1849 and settled in Rock County, Wis., where they lived until 1864 when they moved to Coral Township, where they now live. Wm. W. Ocock enlisted in the late war in the Twelfth Wisconsin Battery; was assigned to the First Brigade, First Division, and Fifteenth Corps. He par- ticipated in the Atlanta campaign, with Sherman to the sea, and through North and South Carolina and Virginia, and was at Wash- ington at the great review of the army. At one time during the war he was dispatch carrier to General Logan's headquarters; had many narrow escapes. He was also in the battle at Altoona Pass where they were surrounded, when Sherman gave the signal to hold the fort until reinforcements appeared. At the close of the war, he received an honorable discharge and returned home. Nov. 18, 1869, he was married to Miss Susan E. Jabe, daughter of John Jabe, of Marengo, and settled in Coral Township. They have one child-Harry B., born Feb. 28, 1874.
Orson N. Pettingill, miller, Union, Ill., was born in Lamoille County, Vt., June 16, 1844, a son of William Pettingill, of Ma- rengo, wlio came with his family to McHenry County in 1850. He was reared a farmer, but in 1868 began working at the black- smith's trade and followed it ten years. He now does a general milling and feed business, and also runs a threshing machine during harvest. He was married Dec. 23, 1869, to Estella
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Noonen, daughter of Charles Noonen. They have three children -Rollin, Ralph and Ruth. Mr. Pettingill has served as Consta- ble of the township and at present is School Director. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has served as Senior and Junior Warden of his lodge.
Scott K. Phillips is a native of Elgin, Kane Co., Ill., born Aug. 9, 1850, a son of Nathan J. Phillips, a resident of Kane County. He was reared on his father's farm and attended the common schools of Elgin, and Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- Jege, Chicago. Since leaving school he has devoted his time to farming and dairying, and is also at present giving considerable attention to stock-raising. He moved to McHenry County in 1877 and settled on section 14, Coral Township, where he now owns 160 acres of choice land. He was married June 14, 1874, to Ella J. Baldwin, daughter of Lucian Baldwin, of Hampshire, Kane County. To them have been born five children, but four of whom are living-Charles, Roy, Nettie and Lucian.
Charles Read, son of Joseph Read, of Belchertown, Mass., was born Oct. 25, 1795. He was of Puritan ancestry, being a lineal descendant of John Read who emigrated from England in 1630, and settled first at Boston, and afterward at Rehoboth, Mass. Mr. Read was married Sept. 3, 1822, to Miss Harriet M. Hebard, a most estimable woman, a daughter of Rev. Asa Hebard, of Leyden, Mass. After a residence of two years in Greenwich, they settled in Athol, Mass., but in 1830 removed to Steuben County, N. Y. In 1843 Mr. Read decided to try his fortune in what was then con- sidered the far West, and in October of that year he came to Illi- nois, selected a location, and sent for his family, who arrived the succeeding May. He was the first settler in the northeastern part of the town of Coral, in McHenry County. Here he lived until the death of Mrs. Read, in 1869, after which he divided his time between the old home-farm and the homes of his children. He- died at the residence of his son, J. A. Read, in Union, Oct. 20, 1875. He left five children, Dr. Charles B. Read, his eldest son, was for many years a resident of Hampshire, in Kane County. He married Sarah J., daughter of John Trumbull, of that place. In April, 1883, he removed with his family to Platte, Mich., where he died Jan. 2, 1884. The other children are-George A. Read, of Pecatonica, Ill .; Joseph A. Read, of Marengo, Ill .; Harriet A. M. Read, a teacher, who resides at Madison, Wis., and Maria A., wife of Lyman Pierce, of Hebron, Ill. Mr. Read was a man of
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good habits and firm principles. His occupation was farming. In politic's he was a Republican. He was a firm believer in the truths of the Christian religion, and a member of the Presbyterian church.
Joseph A. Read, son of Charles Read, was born Oct. 20, 1827, at Athol, Mass., and came with his father's family to Illinois in 1844. He settled with his father in Coral, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1864. He then removed to Union and engaged in the mercantile business. He also served his fellow townsmen several terms as Justice of the Peace, and a number of years as Town Treasurer. In September, 1857, he was married to Sarah M., daughter of Hezekiah Carmichael, of Coral. She died Jan. 31, 1880. They had three children-Edward Hebard, who died in infancy; Charles Hezekiah, who died of consumption, Feb. 17, 1880, in his twentieth year, and Maria Theresa, who died of consumption Dec. 16, 1880, aged sixteen years. In 1881 Mr. Read removed to Marengo where he now resides. Aug. 8, 1883, he was married to Miss Delia A. Blanchard, daughter of Wm. Blanchard, of Marengo. Mr. Read has been an energetic, perse- vering, liard-working man. By prudent management, fair deal- ing and promptness in meeting engagements he has won the confidence of a large circle of friends, and he may be counted among the successful business men of McHenry County.
William O. Riley, deceased, was born in County Longford, Ire- land, April 5, 1829, and died at liis home in McHenry County, Nov. 12, 1880. In 1848 he came to the United States and located in Otsego County, N. Y., and in 1855 came to McHenry County. He worked as a farm hand several years, but by economy and good management saved his earnings and bought a farm, and at the time of his death owned 343 acres of land on sections 12 and 13, in Coral and Grafton townships. He was a devoted member of the Catholic church, a benevolent and sympathizing friend, a good citizen, and a quiet, unassuming man. His advice was frequently songhit, and was always given on the side of law and order. He married Feb. 9, 1861, to Margaret Dyer, of Dorr Township. She was born in Will County, Ill., June 21, 1839. To them were born four children-Tessie, Annie E., William E., Mary E.
William S. Ross, son of Thaddeus Ross, was born in Monroe County, N. Y., July 21, 1828. When he was an infant his father died, and his mother subsequently married again. He learned the carpenter and joiner's trade of his step-father, and worked at it till
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twenty-one years of age. He came to McHenry County, Ill., in June, 1843, and settled in Coral Township, a half a mile from his present home. He has followed agricultural pursuits since about 1850, and now owns eighty acres of choice land. He was married July 22, 1850, to Harriet A. Ross, daughter of John M. Ross. They have had five children; but four are living-Emily J., now Mrs. G. B. Hovey, of Buchanan County, Iowa; Alonzo N., George A. and Lee D. Mr. Ross is a member of the Odd Fellows order.
Ephraim H. Seward, section 6, Coral Township, was born in Middletown, Rutland Co., Vt., Sept. 15, 1823, a son of Jedediah Seward, a native of New England. When thirteen years of age, Jedediah Seward enlisted in the Revolutionary war under General Washington. He served in the regular army nineteen years, and during the latter part of liis service was an officer. He was a mess- mate of David Enos over eighteen years. He was a second cousin of Hon. William H. Seward. Ephraim H. Seward received a good education, attending the common schools and Fulton Seminary. In 1840 he went to Potomac Valley, Va., and sold a patent-right for internal cog gear five years, and while there formed the ac- quaintance of C. A. McCormick, who has since become famous as an inventor and manufacturer; at that time was running a thresh- ing machine and working on his first reaper. Mr. Seward ran the first McCormick reaper in McHenry County, in 1850. He came to McHenry County in 1846, and entered 160 acres on section 31, Seneca Township. He located in Coral Township on his present farm, buying fifty acres of the homestead entered by Jedediah Rogers. He was married in November, 1845, to Maria L. Rogers, daughter of Anson Rogers. They have nine children-Belle, a physician of Marengo; Frank, a grocer of Marengo; Henry G., a bookkeeper in Madison, Greenwood Co., Kan .; Charles, an attor- ney of Watertown, Coddington Co., Dak .; William G., a ranch- man of Greenwood, Kas. ; Elsworth, an attorney of Dakota; Grace, a teacher in the Marengo High-School; Maggie and Richard R., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Seward and three children, William, Belle and Grace, are members of the Presbyterian church.
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