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William Montgomery, one of the first settlers of Dorr Township, was born in Pendleton County, W. Va., Feb. 14, 1802. In the spring of 1840 he moved to Illinois and settled in Rock Island County, but in 1843 moved to McHenry County, and in 1844 set- tled on the farm where he now lives. He owns 160 acres of land eighty of which he entered from the Government. He built a small log house into which he moved his family and began improv- ing his land, a portion being heavily timbered. In an early day he manufactured brick, finding a ready market in his own town- ship. He has been a very successful stock-raiser, making a spe- cialty of cattle and hogs. Coming to the county when it was in a state of nature, he has helped to bring it to its present state of advanced civilization. He was married in his native State to Mary Friend who shared the vicissitudes of a pioneer home and helped in many ways to make his home a paradise till her death in 1879, aged seventy-eight years. To them were boru seven children -- Ann C. (deceased), married Paris Barker; Mary E., wife of Aaron Peterson; William S .; Rhuama H., wife of Walter P. Jewett; Archibald T .; Suetta, wife of John Bird; Elizabeth F., wife of Captain L. Kelley. Politically Mr. Montgomery is a Republican.
Sherman Morse, M. D., was born in Otsego County, N. Y., March 12, 1821, the fourth of thirteen children of David and Han-
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nah (Childs) Morse. He received a good education, completing it at Dudley Academy, Mass. He then taught several years and in 1860 commenced the study of medicine, and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1863. Imme- diately after his graduation he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, at Fort Stedman. He was taken prisoner, and confined in the prison at Petersburg; from there taken to Libby Prison and thence to Annapolis, where he was released and joined his regiment at Tennallytown, D. C., near Washington. After his return from the war he settled in Union City, Mich., and practiced two years, when his health failed and he was obliged to abandon his profession. In 1867 he moved to McHenry County, Ill., and bought the Hamilton farm, near Ridge- field, and engaged in agricultural pursuits in partnership with his brother, Albert Morse. . They afterward purchased the Goff farm which adjoined them and divided the property, Dr. Morse locat- ing on the last mentioned. He owns 112 acres of choice land well adapted to the dairy business, to which he gives special attention, shipping his milk to Chicago. Dr. Morse was married in 18-, to . Nettie S. Holden, a native of New Hampshire, daughter of Ed- mund and Anna Holden. They have two children-Floyd S. and Anna Holden. Dr. and Mrs. Morse are members of the Presby- terian church.
William H. Murphy is a native of Virginia, born in Greenbrier County, Nov. 25, 1807, a son of David and Jane (Huggart) Murphy. His mother died in Virginia. She was a very intelligent woman and from her he received the greater part of his education. In 1842 he came with his family, and his father to Illinois and settled on what is now the A. B. McConnell farm in Dorr Township, where he lived several years. He has served McHenry County as Deputy Sheriff and as jailer. He has been Constable of Dorr Township twenty-two years, Collector, three years, and Supervisor one year. He served as bailiff of the grand jury about eight years. He has been an industrious, honest man and accumulated a large property, but lost the greater part of it by being obliged to pay notes he had signed as security for others. Politically he was originally a Whig, but of late has affiliated with the Democratic party. Mr. Murphy was married in 1833 to Susan H. Friend, who died in 1846. They had nine children; but five are living-S. D .; Mary J. wife of C. Lumbard; Almedia, wife of J. G. Hartman; Aquilla J., and Susanna, wife of W. H. Gregory. In 1853 Mr. Murphy
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married Lucilla Button. They have four children -- Francis D., wife of L. Bigelow; Edward, Albert J. and Charles .D.
James Nish, Treasurer of McHenry County, was born in Wil- kinshire, Scotland, in 1824, a son of Nathaniel and Jane (McGeoch) Nish. He came to America in 1851 and engaged in traveling till 1854, when he located in Cary, Ill., and the following year opened a stock of goods. After the breaking out of the Rebellion he enlisted and raised Company I, One Hundred and Ninety- fifth Illinois Infantry, and was appointed its Captain. He par- ticipated in the battle of Champion Hills and siege of Vicksburg. From November, 1863, till April, 1864, he was detailed a recruit- ing officer, and was then assigned to take charge of the convales- cent camp at Cairo, Ill. ; and from there went to Nashville, Tenn., and Huntsville, Ala., and participated in the battle of Atlanta, Ga. He was inustered out Aug. 17, 1865, and resumed the mer cantile business. He was the pioneer merchant of Cary, and it was through his influence that the postoffice was established there, in 1856. He was appointed Postmaster by President Buchanan, and the position has been held by him, his brother and son since that time. He has served the county as Treasurer since 1875, entering upon the ninth year of his duties in 1884, his present term expiring December, 1886. Mr. Nish was married in LaPorte, Ind., in 1853, to Caroline Dorrington, a native of England. She was killed by lightning while standing in the store at Cary, Oct. 1, 1857. John D., their only surviving child, is a Postal Clerk between Elgin, Ill., and Lake Genoa, Wis. He married Orissa Crissman, of New York State. Mr. Nish married, subsequently, Sarah R., daughter of L. A. C. Smith. They have two children -Annie J. and Matie. Mr. Nish is a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, and Grand Army of the Republic.
Edwin S. Olmsted was born in Cayuga County, N. Y., July 8, 1815, a son of Silas and Penninah (Hickok) Olmsted, natives of Fairfield County, Conn. He came West in 1852 and settled on the farm where he now lives, on section 24, Dorr Township. Heowns 120 acres of fine land, all well cultivated. He also makes a specialty of dairying. His residence and farm buildings are good and comfortable, and his location pleasant. Mr. Olmsted was married in 1838 to Viseney Hamilton, who died, leaving one child-Viseney, now the wife of Edwin Thompson, of Iowa. In 1841 he married Eleanor M. Marshall, who has three children- Esther M., wife of Ezra Smith; William E. and Silas E. Mr.
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Olmsted is an active member of the Presbyterian church, and has been an Elder several years. They have always been active in Sabbath-school work. Mr. Olmsted's parents came to McHenry County in 1854, and lived in Crystal Lake. The father died Jan. 6, 1870, and the mother in June, 1883. They had a family of three children, of whom Edwin S. is the only one living. They were members of the Congregational church.
Lyman S. Page is a native of Canada, born July 29, 1827, a son of Orvis and Fannie (Strobridge) Page, natives of Vermont. His mother died in 1867, at the age of sixty-five. His father died at Baraboo, Wis., Aug. 18, 1884, aged eighty-five years. Both par- ents belonged to long-lived families, one of the mother's brothers living to be over ninety and another over eighty. They had a family of ten children; eight lived to maturity-Lyman S .; Alvin A., died Nov. 22, 1862, aged thirty years, at LaGrange, Tenn., while a mem- ber of Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois In- fantry; Jas. A., died Jan. 3, 1860, aged twenty-six years, from the effects of a wound received in a railroad accident; Henry H., died Oct. 18, 1864, aged twenty-one years, of typhoid fever; William R. is a railroad conductor in Mexico, Ohio; Augustus is in business in Chicago; Sarah P. married D. W. Thompson, of Baraboo, Wis .; Eliza Jane is the widow of C. H. Walters, late of Oshkosh, Wis. Lyman S. Page learned the carder's and dyer's trades of his father, and when nineteen years of age went to Concord, N. H., and en- gaged in the railroad business. In 1852 he came West, and was employed at Chicago by the North westeru Company six years, to attend to the shipping of rails, ties, etc., used in the construction of tracks. In 1858 he removed to Woodstock and assumed the duties of operator and agent. Since 1865 lie has been conductor on a passenger train. Mr. Page was married Dec. 22, 1858, to E. Antoinette, daughter of John and Hannah (Fellows) Calef. They have one daughter, Minnie Antoinette, born June 22, 1860; was married March 7, 1883, to Matt. J. Conklin, a distant relative of Senator Conklin, aud resides in Denver, Dakota. Mr. and Mrs. . Page and their daughter are members of the Baptist church. Mrs. Page's father died at the age of sixty years, and her mother, aged forty-two. They had a family of five children-Areannah E., died at the age of seventeen years; E. Antoinette; Georgiana Augusta, married T. E. Jeffries, and died at the age of forty-two years; Helen Frances is the wife of L. D. Tenant, of Alabama; John Howard enlisted in the war of the Rebellion, in the Eighty-ninth
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Illinois (Second Board of Trade Regiment) Infantry, and was com- missioned Lieutenant of Company I. At the battle of Kenesaw Mountain he was shot through the body, and left by the Surgeons on the field for dead, but through the care of his comrade, William Johnson, recovered. He was married Jan. 1, 1866, to Mary A. Black, and died in Chicago, of small-pox, in July, 1871.
James F. Parker, one of the most successful business men of McHenry County, was born in Niagara County, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1828, a son of Alvin H. and Mary (Hosford) Parker, natives of New York, his father of Ontario County. His grandparents, James Parker and Joseph Hosford, were natives of Massachusetts. In 1840 his father came West and entered land in Hebron Town. ship, McHenry County, Ill., and in 1841 moved his family to the county. Alvin H. Parker was one of the most prominent men in the county in an early day. He helped to establish the first school in the township, and helped to build the first school-house. He at one time owned 1,000 acres of land in Hebron Township. His wife died in 1861. In 1876 he moved to Woodstock, where he died in 1879. They had a family of one son and four daughters, all married and living, save one daughter, in McHenry County. Mrs. Parker was a member of the Presbyterian and Mr. Parker of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was for many years a class-leader and steward. James F. Parker received a good ed- ucation. He assisted his father on the farm till his marriage, and then began life for himself. He was for many years the leading sheep-raiser of the county, and has now one of the best flocks in the county. He has also raised horses, cattle and hogs, and has been successful in this branch of stock-dealing. In 1874 he moved to Woodstock, where he has a pleasant home, but still superintends his farm in Hebron Township. Politically Mr. Parker is a Re. publican, and during the war was a member of the Union League. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church in Greenwood many years, but since their removal to Woodstock have attended the Congregational church. Mr. Parker was mar- ried in 1854 to Hannah J. Seward, daughter of William Seward, a relative of William H. Seward, of New York. Her father moved to Illinois in 1838. In 1817 he was sent to St. Louis, Mo., from New York, by a company, with a large amount of money, and on his return passed through the State of Illinois, and in 1843 settled in Chemung, McHenry County. Mr. and Parker have one child -Julia May.
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William Quinn is the youngest of nine children of John and Margaret (Grady) Quinn, natives of Ireland, who came to America in 1840 and located in McHenry County, in Hartland Township, where they still reside. He remained with his parents on the farm till 1880, when he moved to Woodstock and opened a livery and sale stable, which he has since successfully conducted. He is an energetic young man and keeps his stock in first-class order. His buggies and carriages are of the latest style. He was married in 1879 to Elizabeth Glennan, of Woodstock, daughter of Thomas Glennan.
E. E. Richards, Clerk of the Circuit Court of McHenry County, was born in Massachusetts, Feb. 12, 1838, a son of Erastus and Rowena C. (Johnson) Richards. In 1852 his parents moved to Woodstock, Ill. Wlien seventeen years of age he accepted the posi- tion of clerk in the county clerk's office, and subsequently served as Deputy seven years. In 1861 he enlisted as a private soldier in the Fifteenth Illinois Infantry, and served fourteen months. After his return liome he accepted a position in the county clerk's office, and is now serving his third term as Clerk of the Circuit Court. He has served on the City Board, and is now President of the City School Board. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, Masonic and A. O. U. W. fraternities. He was married in 1864 to Frances A., daughter of Henry M. Waite, of Woodstock.
Thomas McD. Richards was born in Madison County, N. Y., April 18, 1819, a son of Ezra and Martha (Nash) Richards. He received a good education and after leaving school taught several years in Southern Ohio. In the spring of 1846 he came West and bought 160 acres of land in Seneca Township, McHenry Co., Ill., where he was successfully engaged in farming and stock-raising till 1883. He added to his land from time to time till he now owns 340 acres. In 1883 Mr. Richards moved to Woodstock. He was married in 1847 to Miss Julia A. Webb, of Wisconsin. She died in 1880, leaving three sons and one daughter. In 1883 Mr. Richards married Martha J. Streets, of Will County, Ill, Mr. Richards was. elected County Surveyor of McHenry County in the fall of 1853, and served two years. He served as Supervisor of the county five years. He has been President of the McHenry County Agricult- ural Board since 1878. He has been President of the Pickle Growers' Union of Woodstock since its organization in 1882. He has been a member of the Kishwaukee Farmers' Club a number of years. He was School Director over twenty years, and is an earn-
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est supporter of the common-school system. He is one of Mc- Henry's most influential and public-spirited citizens, always being in the front rank to assist and advance anything of public benefit.
Edward H. Richmond, proprietor of the Richmond House, Woodstock, Ill., was born in Ogden, Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept. 22, 1833, a son of Ira and Nancy (Perry) Richmond, natives of Ver- mont, but subsequently residents of New York, where the father died aged thirty-five and the mother aged thirty-eight years, They had a family of five children-Mary, the youngest daughter, died at the age of seventeen years; Harriet, the eldest child, is the widow of Schuyler Bromley, and has one son-Byron. Oscar is engaged in farming and stock-raising in Anamosa, Iowa; he has eight children -Ida, Ada, Jennie, Gertie, Edwin, Frank, Eva and Fred. Edward H. is the next son. Billings M. went to California in an early day, where he is engaged in farming and stock-raising. He has four children-Eliva, Ira, Edward and Frank. Edward H. Rich- mond spent his boyhood days on a farm. His father died when he was five years old and from that time till eighteen he lived with a man by the name of Hill. When nineteen years of age he received an injury in a threshing machine that threatened to make him a life-long cripple. After this he served an apprenticeship at the harness maker's trade, and then went to Canada and worked at his trade two years. In 1857 he came to McHenry County, Ill., and worked on a farm with his cousin Richard Willard two years, and thien rented a farm a year. In 1860 he went to Marengo and worked as a journeyman three and a half years, and in the spring of 1864 came to Woodstock and formed a partnership with E. R. Bird in the harness business. In 1872 they dissolved partnership and divided the stock. In 1876 he opened the new hotel in the Murphy Block and ran it in connection with his shop six years, when he sold his stock and has since 1882 given his exclusive attention to the hotel. He lias a good transient custom and many regular boarders. He has recently expended over $2,000 in re- furnishing the rooms and now has twenty-eight rooms furnished in the latest style. His guests receive the polite attention of the host, and the table is always furnished with the best the market affords. Mr. Richmond was married in 1855 to Jane McQuede, who was born in Churchill, Ogden Co., N. Y., in 1836. They have had six children; but two are living-Mary, wife of Harvey McBride, of Chicago, an express messenger on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and Clara, the youngest, aged fifteen years. Frankie
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and Jennie died of diphtheria within a period of twenty-four hours, the former aged six and a half and the latter four and a half years. Edward and Edna (twins) died at the age of six months, of cholera infantum. Mr. Richmond has been a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity since eighteen years of age. He and his wife are mem- bers of the Congregational church. Politically he is indepen- dent.
William B. Robinson was born in Livingston County, N. Y., Ang. 12, 1826, the third of thirteen children of Joseph and Cath- erine (Spangler) Robinson, his father a native of Burlington, Vt., and his mother of Pennsylvania. When eighteen years of age he came West and located in McHenry County, and engaged in farming till 1866, when he began to work at the carpenter's trade and soon after moved to Minnesota. In 1875 he returned to Mc- Henry County and settled on his present farm near Ridgefield. He owns ninety-seven acres of valuable land, all well improved. Mr. Robinson was married in 1845 to Mary A. Skinner, of Fort Wayne, Ind. They have had nine children; seven are living-Sarah, wife of A. Wheeler; Wesley, residing in Minnesota; Lydia A., wife of Alonzo Dennen; Elva, wife of Alfred Edwards; James E., married Mary E. Johnson; Nellie and William. Mr. Robinson has served his township as Constable, Pathmaster and School Director.
Edward Short, Superintendent and Secretary of the Woodstock Pickle Factory, was born in Lowell, Mass., May 6, 1834, the eldest son of Francis and Catherine (Donnelly) Short. In the fall of 1836 his parents came West and spent the winter in Chicago. The next spring they moved to McHenry County and settled in Greenwood Township, where his mother died in April, 1856, and his father in March, 1882. Edward Short received a common-school education, residing on the farm till manhood. He at one time was in the grain business in Woodstock and subsequently in the grocery busi- ness. In 1881 he assisted in the organization of the pickle factory and has since served as Superintendent and Secretary. He owns a farm of sixty acres on section 7, Dorr Township, which is well stocked, to which he gives liis supervision. Mr. Short is a good manager, a practical business man, and therefore a successful one. He was married Jan. 20, 1856, to Mary, daughter of John Murphy, of McHenry County. They have had nine children, one son and eight daughters; the son and one daughter are deceased. Mr.Short has served efficiently as School Trustee and Highway Commis- sioner, although he never seeks official honors, preferring to devote
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his attention to liis business. He and his family are members of the Catholic church.
John D. Short, Justice of the Peace, Woodstock, Ill., was born in Hartland Township, McHenry Co., Ill., Dec. 7, 1837, a son of Francis and Catharine (Donnelly) Short, natives of Ireland. His parents were married in Lowell, Mass., and in the fall of 1836 came to Illinois in wagons and settled in Hartland Township, where the mother died in 1854. The father remained in Hartland till a short time before his death, in 1883, when he moved to Woodstock. He was an active member of the Catholic church and one of the founders of the church at Hartland. Of a family of nine children, seven are living. John D. Short began clerking for Neill Donnelly in 1855 and remained with him twelve years He then went to Dubuque, Iowa, and two years later returned to Woodstock, and soon after was elected Township and City Collector, and served six years. He has been Assessor of the township since 1875. He has served eight years as Alderman, and as acting Mayor for the unexpired term of Secretary Joslyn. In politics he is an active Democrat, and is Chairman of the County Central Committee. Mr. Short was married in 1861 to Lucy A., daughter of M. E. Whitlock, of McHenry County. They have had six children. They are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Short has been an able contributor to several county papers.
Asa Wisner Smith, attorney at law, Woodstock, Ill., was born at Knoxville, Tioga Co., Pa., Dec. 13, 1819, a son of Benjamin D. and Eunice (Howland) Smith, his father of English and his mother of French descent. In 1837 his father moved to a heavily timbered farm which he helped to clear. He attended the dis- trict school, and then took an academic course at Alfred Centre, Allegany Co., N. Y. He attended school and taught at intervals till 1846, when he entered the junior class at Union College, N. Y., graduating in 1848, in the same class with President Ar- thur. After leaving school he was Principal of Coudersport, Pa., Academy eighteen months, and of Addison Academy one year, in the meantime devoting his leisure hours to the study of law, and then attended law school one term. In January, 1854, he came West and located at Woodstock, forming a partnership with S. A. Hurlbut, a prominent attorney of Belvidere at that time. He was Principal of the Woodstock scliools a year, and while filling this position was elected Superintendent of the McHenry County 39
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schools, and served eight years as Justice of the Peace, and since then has given his attendance to the practice of his profession, insurance and farming. He is a member of St. Mark's Lodge, No. 63, F. & A. M., and Woodstock Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M. He is an active member of McHenry County Agricultural Board, and has served two years as Secretary. He was Postmaster of Woodstock four years during President Grant's administration. Mr. Smith was married at Alfred Centre, N. Y., to Caroline M. Hughes, a native of Northumberland County, Pa. They have three children, two sons and one daughter.
Ezra B. Smith, the eldest son of Eleazer Hyde and Lucille (Parker) Smith, was born in McHenry County, Ill., Sept. 1, 1846. His father was a native of Connecticut, but in 1843 came West in company with Theron Parker and settled on a farm three-quarters of a mile southwest of Ridgefield, where he died Aug. 1, 1855. His widow is living on a part of the old homestead. They had two sons-Ezra B. and Theron P. Ezra B. Smith received a good education, completing it at Rev. R. K. Todd's Seminary, Wood- stock. He taught school one term and then began clerking for Davis & Hartman, remaining in their employ sixteen years, when on account of failing health he was obliged to abandon mercantile life. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1881 for a term of four years. He has been a Notary Public since 1876. Mr. Smith was married in 1868 to Esther M., daughter of E. S. and E. M. Olmsted. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members of the Presbyterian church of which he is one of the ruling Elders. He is a teacher in the Sabbath-school.
Jacob Snyder, one of the successful farmers of Dorr Township, was born in Northumberland County, Pa., Nov. 14, 1825. When he was an infant his father died and early in life he was obliged to assist his mother in the maintenance of the family. In 1850, with his mother and sister, he came to Illinois and settled in McHenry County, east of Woodstock, where he still resides. He owns 240 acres of choice land all well cultivated, with the best of farm buildings and a pleasant residence. Although a poor man when he came to the county his untiring efforts have been successful. His mother died in 1874, aged eighty-eight years. He was married in 1853 to Sarah S. Parks, daughter of Jonathan and Almira Parks. They have one son-Charles H., who married Rosetta Sherman, daughter of Jeremiah Sherman, of McHenry County. Mr. Snyder has been Road Commissioner since 1869, and has also served his
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township as School Director and Pathmaster. Mr. Snyder retired from farming one year ago to enjoy the fruits of his hard years of labor; has bought ten acres of land adjoining the city of Woodstock where he and his wife expect to spend the remainder of their lives in quiet and happiness.
Israel C. St. Clair, an intelligent and successful farmer of Dorr Township, was born in Detroit, Mich., June 15, 1829, the third of seven children of William and Elizabeth (Simmons) St. Clair, his father a native of Delaware and his mother of Pennsylvania. In 1837 William St. Clair moved to McHenry County, Ill., and settled on wild land two and a half miles southeast of Woodstock. The land had been staked out but not entered and he purchased it of the first comer. He and his family were obliged to endure many hardships and privations, but were rewarded by good crops and a full larder. He and his wife were among the active mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal church and their house was the home of the itinerant, and was often used for public religious services. He died in 1850, aged sixty years. His widow is still living in the eighty-third year of her age. Israel C. St. Clair has resided in McHenry County since eight years of age. He received the greater part of his education in what was known as the old log city school-house. Although his early advantages were limited he has by personal study and judicious reading acquired a knowledge of all important subjects. He has given his attention to agri- culture and stock-raising and has been successful, studying the ways and means which more surely lead to success. He has few equals in the line of manufacturing dairy products and has taken the first premium for butter and serials at the county fairs. He was married June 15, 1852, to Mary E., daughter of Samuel R. Morris. She is a lady of excellent family and of rare personal acquirements. They have five children-Ella M., wife of Elias Brooks; Morris, George, Leila and Susie. Mr. St. Clair is a public-spirited, enterprising man, always interested in the pro- motion of anything of interest to the county.
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