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The justices of the peace of Perryton township, so far as we were able to make up the list from the county records, are as follows : Edward Burrall. elected April 30, 1838. and resigned April 6, 1839 :
JACOB BEAR.
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William Moore, elected June, 1842; Joseph G. Gilmore, 1847 : Edward Burrall, 1847: C. G. Taylor, 1849 : JJ. G. Gilmore, 1858; Lee Holister. 1858; Lee Holister, 1862: J. G. Gilmore, 1862; J. G. Gilmore. 1870: Lee Holister, 1870; J. G. Gilmore, 1874: Lee Holister. 1874 : John Gingles, 1877: J. G. Gilmore, 1881.
Date of Election.
SUPERVISOR.
CLERK.
ASSESSOR.
COLLECTOR.
1856
Graham Lec.
S. D. Trego
William MeHard
J. C. Gilmore.
1857
Graham Lee ..
S. D. Trego
William Mollard
J. G. Gilmore.
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J. c. Gilmore
S. D. Trego
William Mollard
J. G. Gilmore.
J. G. Gilmore
S. D). Trego
William MeHard
William Clark.
1860
.I. C. Gilmore
S. D. Trego
William MeHard
William Clark.
1861
J. G. Gilmore
. D. Trego
Aaron Thompson
William Clark.
1862
J. G. Gilmore.
1 .. W. Hanes.
Aaron Thompson
William Clark.
1863
William Doak
L. W. Hanes
H. J. Walter
G. D. Crabs.
1865
William Doak.
II.J. Walter
Charles York
G. D. ('rabs.
1866
I. V. Willitts
Theodore Gully
Josiah Candor.
William MeHard.
1867
Thomas Love
J. M. Gaily
Meigs Wait
G. D. Crabs.
1868
Thomas Love
Frank Mellard.
G. D. Crabs
David Bine.
1869
G. D. Crabs .
John Gingles
John Ball
J. R. Ball.
1870
William Doak.
John Gingles
Lee Ilolister.
(. MeIntire.
1871
William Doak
(. C. Watters
Charles York
(. MeIntire.
1872
William Doak
(. D. Walter.
David Blue.
('. B. Halstead.
1873
William Doak
H. J. Walter
David Bhie.
(. B. Halstead.
1874
G. D. Miller
John Gingles
Theodore Gutly
David Blue.
1875
G. D. Miller
L. Girton
J. Blue.
A. J. Birrkett.
1876
L. Girton
D. Blue.
1 .. Girton.
1877
William Doak
L. Girton
D. Bhc.
J. Hartman.
1878
William Doak
L. Girton
D. Blue ..
J. Ilartman.
1.879
William Doak
L. Girton
1. Kendall
J. McDonald.
1850
G. D. Miller
M. ('riswell
J. (. Gilmore
George Ilarness.
1881
G. D. Miller
J. T. Hartman
1. Kendall
1. 1[. Cooper.
1882
G. D. Miller
G. F. Hartman
. Kendall
J. G. Gilmore.
The census report of 1880 gives the population of Perryton town- ship 987. The taxable property of 1881 was valued at 8367,134; the real estate at $281,248 ; and personal property at $85, 886. In 1881 there was collected taxes for general state purposes and schools. $2.091.60; county tax, 8987.61 ; town. $191.61 ; road and bridge tax. $396.66; bond tax, $987.61; district school tax. $2,250.28: dog tax. 8134.
Perryton township is located along the north line of the county. and is bounded on the north by Rock Island county, on the east by Pre-emption, south by Mercer, and west by Duncan. It is divided into two sections by Camp creek, which enters the township on the . sonth half of section 24, and flows west across and out of the town- ship on section 19. The country for some distance on either side of this creek is very broken; but both north and south Perryton is a fine farming country. In the neighborhood of Hamlet. the country can- not, for farming purposes, be excelled by any locality in the county. It is peopled by a well-to-do class of farmers, who pride themselves in having good improvements, and many of them have their farms so
19
I .. W. Hanes.
William Mollard
G. D. Crabs.
William Doak
D. M. Candor.
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beautified by fine buildings, groves and lawns. as to attract the atten- tion of lovers of the beautiful. The farm of Graham Lee is the most beautiful farm in the township. and justly merits the title, "The Ever- green Home." There are a number of farms both north and south of Camp creek that need to be mentioned, but the owners names of most of them will be found in the biographical department of the township. The stock of the township in every particular will compare with that of every other section of the county.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
MEIGS WAIT is a native of Switzerland county, Indiana, born in 1826. His parents were Henry and Sophia (Wells) Wait, the former a native of Grand Isle county, Vermont, and served as a soldier in the war of 1812 at the battle of Plattsburg, and died February 9, 1882, at the age of eighty-nine years. His father, Gardiner Wait, grandfather of Meigs, was a native of Wales, and came to America at an early date and settled in Grand Isle county, Vermont, and served in the Continental army as a soldier, and died about the year 1788. Henry Wait, by this marriage with Sophia Wells, raised a family of eight children : William, Sarah, Ruth, Rhoda, Harriet, Jacob, Lucretia. Lavina (deceased). Meigs Wait was married in Switzerland county. Indiana, in 1856, to Caroline Robinson, of Indiana, daughter of Thomas and Mary Robinson, and emigrated to Effingham county. Illinois, in 1864, where they both died. Mr. Wait has by this mar- riage two children : Frank G. and Katie, whose mother died in 1862. In 1863 Mr. Wait was married a second time, to Miss Edith Clark, of Pennsylvania, born in 1842, and daughter of William and Mary Clark. both of Pennsylvania. They came to Mercer county in 1853, and located near New Boston, where they remained only a few months, when they moved to Perryton township. There they both died, the former in 1882, aged seventy-seven years; the later in 1875, aged sixty-six years, both members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a local preacher. By this marriage Mr. Wait has seven children : Harry, Ernest, Daisy, Bertie, Marion, Guy, and Mark. Ilis wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He has a beautiful and well improved farm of 400 acres, located at the north line of Mercer county, one mile west of Reynolds. Hle raises on his farm thorough- bred cattle, and feeds cattle for the market. His hogs are of the best breeds. He does the largest business in buying and shipping stock. especially cattle, of any man in Perryton township. The Wait family came here as early settlers. They are all well-to-do and highly respected citizens.
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LEE HOLISTER is a native of Connecticut, born in Litchfield county in 1822, son of Horace and Sarah (Lee) Holister, both natives of Con- necticut. His mother died in Connecticut in 1830, aged thirty-nine years. Ilis father came to Macoupin county, Illinois, in 1864, where he died in 1866, aged seventy-five years. He was by vocation a farmer. He and wife were members of the Congregational church. Mr. Lee Holister was reared in Connecticut where he remained till he was twenty-four years old. He then came to Illinois and located in Peoria county where he remained till 1856, when he came to Mercer county and located where he now resides. He was married in 1847 to Esther Barker, of Greene county, New York, daughter of Charles and Armina (Smith) Barker, both of New York. They came to Peoria county, Illinois, in 1846, where they are yet residing; the former is now seventy-eight years old, the latter seventy-seven. Mr. Holister has by this marriage four children : Minnie, Edward, Clara, and Alice. He and wife and three children are members of the Presbyterian church at Hamlet. He has a well improved farm of eighty acres, one-fourth of a mile west of the village of Hamlet, and keeps a good grade of farm stock. He has held the office of justice for the past eighteen years.
GEORGE D. CRABS is a native of Jefferson county, Ohio, born December 11, 1824, and is a son of Philip and Sarah (Duffield) Crabs, both of Pennsylvania ; his father of Westmoreland county, and mother of Cumberland county. They emigrated to Ohio with their parents. where they were married. The latter, Philip Crab's wife, died in Ohio in 1836, at the age of fifty-five years ; the former came to Rock Island county in 1858, and died there in 1878, at the age of seventy-five years. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812, was wounded by the enemy in an engagement near Lake Erie ; at another time by one of the guards who accidentally hit him while shooting at a pig a negro was trying to force across his beat. By trade he was a carpenter and joiner. Ilis father was Abraham, born in 1767, and died February, 1836; his mother, Thankful Crabs, was born in August, 1775, and died in Sep- tember, 1814. G. D. Crabs received a fair educational training in his boyhood. He was reared to the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed for a livelihood till 1859 when he located in Mercer county where he now resides, and engaged in farming. He emigrated with his family in 1844, from Ohio to Rock Island county, where he resided till he located in Perryton township. He was married July, 1850, to Sarah B. Hazlitt, of New York, who was born in 1827, and is the daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Mckay) Hazlitt, both of New Jersey. They emigrated to Illinois in 1838, and located in Rock Island county in 1839, where the father died in 1849, at the age of eighty-two; the
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mother in 1842, at the age of fifty-seven. Both were members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Crabs have a family of seven children : Armenia, Ida, Elda, Sarah J., Emerson, Amy T., and Fay. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He has a well improved farm of 120 acres, located one mile west of the village of Hamlet. His stock, consisting of Norman and Morgan horses and short horn cattle, is of the best grades.
WILLIAM BRAIN, the subject of this life sketch, is a native of Eng- land, born in 1807, son of John and Sarah Brain, who were born and reared in their native country and there died. Our subject's father was a boatman. William Brain came to America in 1832, stopped for a time in Connecticut, then went to New York where he remained till 1834, when he returned to his native home. In 1843 he returned to New York, remained five years, came to Illinois and located where he now resides. By trade he is both wagonmaker and carpenter. He has been married twice, first to Elizabeth Sproson, of England, in 1832, by whom he has three children : Sarah A., Anna, and Elizabeth. The mother of these died in 1861. Ile was married again in 1862 to Mrs. Mary Halstead, formerly Miss Mary Cooper, and daughter of Thomas and Ann Cooper. She is a native of England. Mr. Brain has a fine farm of 240 acres, well improved and well stocked.
J. G. GILMORE's parents, Robert and Elizabeth Gilmore, came to Illinois with the pioneers and located in Warren county, eight miles northeast of Monmouth. The former was born in Chester county, the latter in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. They emigrated to Jefferson county, Ohio, with their parents, where they were married. He was a tanner by trade, but followed farming exclusively in Illinois. In 1820 he was a member of the Ohio legislature, and at one time was colonel of the state militia, and held the office of captain in the war of 1812. He and wife were members of the Presbyterian church. J. G. was born in 1819, in Jefferson county, Ohio, and came to Illinois with his parents when two years old. His early educational training was only such as the common schools of the pioneer districts of Illinois could furnish. He was reared on the farm. In 1839 he moved from Warren county to Mercer, where he has since resided, with the excep- tion of two years. In 1840 he moved to Iowa, where he remained one year, when he moved to Missouri, and stayed one year and returned in 1842 to Mercer county. He was married in December, 1843, to Alletta A. Brady, native of Ohio, born in 1822, daughter of John and Elizabeth Brady. By this marriage he has nine children: Elenor (deceased), Mary, Elizabeth, Lydia, Ann E., Robert B., Arabella. Ephraim C., and Albert N. (deceased). He held the office of justice
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for nineteen years without cessation, and was re-elected in 1881 for another term. He also filled the office of supervisor for two years, the office of collector two years, and assessor in 1880. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church at Hamlet. He has a farm of eighty-one acres, well improved and fairly stocked.
DAVID BOPES is a native of Columbia county, Pennsylvania, born in 1825, son of George and Sarah (Bauchard) Bopes. Both were natives of Pennsylvania. They were married in Pennsylvania and came to Illinois in 1836 and located in Rock Island county, near Edgington, when there were but few white settlers in that part of the country. The former died in 1838, at a comparatively early age ; his wife afterward moved to Mercer county, where she died in 1843. She was a zealous christian and member of the Methodist Episcopal . church. He was a man respected for his integrity and other good qualities. David Bopes came with his parents to Rock Island county where he resided till 1858, when he located where he now resides. His early educational training was that of the pioneer schools of his neighborhood. He has always been engaged in farming, the voca- tion of his father. In 1854 he married Miss Sarah E. Titterington, a native of Ross county, Ohio, born in 1836, daughter of James and E. (Beal) Titterington, the former a native of England, and came to America when he was ten years old; the latter born in Ross county, Ohio, and now a resident of Rock Island county, near Edgington. The former died in 1876, at the age of sixty-nine years. They located in Rock Island county in 1839. Mr. and Mrs. David Bopes have six children living. He crossed the plains to California in 1849, and returned in 1851. Mr. Bopes has a farm of 480 acres of as fine land as can be found in Mercer county. It is well improved with substan- tial buildings, and beantified by groves which he himself planted, He deals in cattle, feeding them for the market, and has his farm well stocked with good grades. He is a successful farmer.
Among the soldier citizens of Perryton township is C. B. HALSTEAD. He was born in New York in 1843, and son of Lewis M. and Mary J. (Cooper) Halstead. His father was a native of New York, and his mother of England. He first emigrated to Michigan in 1838, where he married and returned to New York. In 1851 he came to Mercer county and located where his son C. B. now resides. Here he died in 1854, at the age of forty-two. He served three years in the U. S. dragoons. The date of his discharge is 1836. C. B. Halstead came to Mercer county with his father when eight years old. His early education was limited to the common school. In 1861 he enlisted in company HI, 61st Ill. Vol. Inf .. and served two years and five months.
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He was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, and Vicksburg, after which he was discharged on account of a wound received in the battle of Pea Ridge. He then returned home to the farm. He was married in 1870 to Elmora A. Neely, of Illinois, born in 1851, in Stark county, dangliter of Joseph and Happy Neely, both of Pennsyl- vania. They came to Stark county with its early settlers and moved to Mercer county. The father is now living in Hamlet, this township ; the mother died in 1879, at the age of 66. Mr. Halstead has four children : Dallas B., Riley E., L. Benjamin. He is a member of the masonic lodge at Edgington, Illinois. He has a farm of 120 acres, and keeps a good grade of farm stock.
Among the farmers and stock raisers of Perryton township is . MICHAEL VETTER, located on the north line of the township. He is of German birth, born in Hesse Darmstadt in 1830, and is a son of Peter and Mary Vetter. They lived out their lives in their native country. The former died in 1862, aged sixty-four years ; the later in 1852, aged fifty-three years. They were members of the Presbyterian church ; by vocation they were farmers. Michael came to America and first located in New Jersey; then moved to New York; then to Rock Island county, where he remained till 1867, when he came to Mercer county, where he has a fine farm of 292 acres fairly improved and well stocked with good grades of cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses. He was married in 1856 to Elizabeth Vetter, of Germany, daughter of Lewis and Mary Vetter, both of Germany. The former died in Germany in 1840, at the age of forty-two ; the latter came to America in 1855 and located in Rock Island county, now lives in Duncan township, and is in her seventy-seventh year. By this marriage Michael has eight children : Catharine, Barbara, Mary, Elizabeth, Lewis, Michael, John, and Willie. He and wife are members of the German Presbyterian church.
FREDERICK HARTMAN is a native of Germany, born in 1838, and is a son of Daniel and Barbary Hartman, both of Germany. They came to America in 1840; lived one year in Muscatine; then moved to Buffalo Prairie, Rock Island county, where they lived for thirty years, when they moved to Perryton township, where their son Frederick now lives. They were farmers, and members of the German Presbyterian church. The father died in 1866, aged seventy-eight years; the mother in 1848. Frederick came to Mercer county in 1867. where he now resides. He was reared to the business of farming. His literary education was wholly German and taught him in his mother tongue. He was married in 1861 to Barbary Schweobel, of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, daughter of George and Margaret Schweobel, both of Ger- many. They emigrated to Rock Island county in 1849, and now live
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with their daughter, Mrs. Frederick Hartman. They are both mem- bers of the German Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Hartman have six children : Margaret, George, Thomas, Jolin, Frederick, and Edward. He has a fine stock farm of 240 acres, well improved and well stocked. He and wife, like their parents, are members of the German Presbyterian church.
HAMLET COOPER (deceased) was one of the pioneer settlers of Perry- ton township. He located here in 1844. At that time there was but little else here than wild grass and wild animals. IIe emigrated from England, his native country, about 1832. to New York, and then to Michigan, where he resided six years, and then came to Perryton township, where he died in 1847, at the age of forty-one years. In 1829 he was married to Mary A. Clark, of England. They. raised a family of eight children : Thomas, William H., Charlotte A., John H., Lester II., Philip, Enoch, and Robert (deceased). The last named enlisted in company A, 9th III. cavalry ; he was mustered into the service in 1861 and served one year, when he died at Keokuk, Iowa. William HI. and Lester H. enlisted in 1862, in company C, 102d Ill. Vol. Inf., and served till the close of the war. They were at the battle of Peach Tree creek, with Sherman on his march to the sea. Both were with the company all the time during their term of service. They passed through Richmond, to Washington, then to Chicago, where they were mustered out. William H. now resides in Kansas ; Lester H. on the farm, three-fourths of a mile west of the village of Hamlet. Lester H. received only a moderate educational training ; for several years he followed breaking prairie, when he took to the farm, but at present is engaged in keeping fine horses. He was married in 1876 to Mary J. Nichols, native of Illinois, daughter of Ephraim H. and Diana Nichols, both of Ohio. They came to Illinois in 1854 and located in Hancock county; they afterward came to Mercer county, but returned to Hancock county, where both are living.
DAVID HI. COOPER was born in 1832, in the State of New York, and is a son of Levi and Lucy Cooper. He emigrated with his parents from New York when five years old, and came with his father in 1846 to Mercer county, where he has since resided. His early educational training was such as the pioneer schools of the west could furnish. He was reared to the business of farming, which he has since followed. Ile was married in 1855 to Sarah A. Brain, daughter of William and Betsey Brain. He has by this marriage seven children : Clara, Lucy, Lewis (deceased). Willie J .. Fanny E .. Ella, and Levi. His wife is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church. He resides on the farm of his father. He keeps a good grade of farm stock. In politics he is a republican.
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H. N. ROSEBERRY is a native of New Jersey, born in 1827. son of Elijah and Nancy (Young) Roseberry, natives of New Jersey. The mother died in 1829: the father came to Perryton township. Mercer county. where he died in 1864. at the age of sixty-three years. IIe was a farmer and trader. H. N. came with his father to Mercer county in 1849, and located where he now resides. He was married in 1859. to Ann Killon. a native of England, born in 1842. who came to America with her god-father. in 1849. Her parents were James and and Mary Killon, of whom the former died in 1869. the latter about 1842. Mr. and Mrs. Roseberry have seven children : Anna. Mary, Rebecca. Catharine. Hilda H .. Stanton (the youngest not named). He has a fine farm of 190 acres located along the north line of the county in Perryton township. It is well improved and well stocked with good grades. He and wife are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. Since he settled in Mercer county he has seen the sea of tall. waving wild grass transformed into beautiful farms, ornamented with the maple and elm trees. and fine spacious barns and dwellings.
F. G. WAIT. the subject of this sketch, is a native of Indiana. born in 1857, son of Meigs and Caroline Wait. He was reared on the farm, and received a common school education. Except one year. which he spent in a store. he has followed the business of farming. He was married in 1881 to Lizzie Asquitt, of Illinois, born in 1860, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Webster) Asquitt, both of English birth, and emigrated to America about 1850. They are now residents of Reynolds. Rock Island county. Illinois. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a retired farmer. F. G. Wait has a well improved farm of eighty acres. located two and a half miles east of Hamlet. He keeps a good grade of stock.
A. KENDALL is a native of Chautauqua county, New York, born in 1836. son of Hazzard and Mary (Smith) Kendall, both of Connecticut. They emigrated to Pennsylvania. then to New York, then to Kane county. Illinois. then to Kendall county, Illinois, where the former now lives, his wife having died in 1838 in New York at the age of twenty-one years. Ebenezer Kendall, father of Hazzard Kendall. was a native of Scotland. The family, consisting of four brothers, came to America and settled. one in each of the following states (then colonies) : Massachusetts. New Jersey, Vermont, and Connecticut. Levi Smith, maternal grandfather of A. Kendall, was a native of Gen- esee county, New York, and moved to Mercer county in 1840. locating at Millersburg. A. Kendall was married in 1863 to Lucretia Wait, of Switzerland county, Indiana. born in 1863, and daughter of Henry and Sophia (Wells) Wait. both of Vermont. They came with their
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parents to Xenia. Ohio. where they were married. then to Switzerland county, where their daughter was born : they then moved to Rock Island county, where the father died in 1852, at the age of eighty-nine. He had served as a soldier in the war of 1$12. A. Kendall has four children : Lettie, Ida, Viola, and Meigs W. He has a farm of 212} acres of fine farming land. fairly improved and well stocked with good grades of cattle. sheep and hogs.
CORNELIUS SWARTWOUT is a native of Saratoga county. New York. born in 1809, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Swartwout. both of New York state. His father died in 1839 at the age of fifty-six. and his mother in 1814. They were Baptist people. The advent of the family into America, consisting of three brothers. was during the colonial times. All of them settled in New York. The Swartwout family is of German descent. Cornelius received a common school education, such as could be obtained in the then almost pioneer schools of his boyhood days. He was taught the vocation of farming which he has always fol- lowed. He came to Illinois with his family in 1855 and located in Rock Island county, where he remained until 1860. when he came to Mercer county, where he now resides. three-fourths of a mile east of Hamlet. on his farm of 240 acres. He was married in 1539 to Lucinda Platt. a native of New York and daughter of Epenitis and Eve Platt. both of New York and now living in their native state. They have six children : James. Elizabeth. Sarah. John. William. and Henry. The eldest enlisted in the army in 1862. in company B. 126th Ill. Vol .. and died in 1864. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church.
GRAHAM LEE. the subject of this sketch. was born January 22. 1821. and is the son of Elisha and Almyra (Scoville) Lee. His father is number 18.194 of the sixth generation of the family. Graham is num- ber 18.249. Elisha Lee was born August 27. 1794. This history is recorded in the chronological history of the Strong family, volume II. The Lees trace their ancestry to John Lee, born in 1621. a native of Ipswich, England, who came to America in 1834. in the ship Francis. under the care of William Westwood. He located in Cambridge. Massachusetts, where he remained a short time when he moved to Hartford. Connecticut. where he married and became one of the per- manent men of the settlement. Graham Lee was born on the same farm as was his father, and in the same house, where he was reared to the age of twelve. when his father moved to town and engaged in the mercantile business. Here Graham received a fair education and but for indisposition of his eyes would have begun a collegiate course. But notwithstanding his failure to enter college, a long life of continuous reading and careful observation has made him a well-posted man as to
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