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HORACE NYE CHANDLER is a son of Zachariah and Fannie (Bingham) Chandler. The Chandlers have been prominent figures in America for several generations. Benjamin Chandler was killed in the battle of Bennington in the revolution, as a "Green Mountain boy," and his sons, John, Joseph, Jesse, Benjamin, and Seth were in the same battte. Joseph was in the regular army under Gates, and afterward settled in Morgan county, Ohio. Dr. Jesse Chandler settled in Putnam county, Ohio, and his son, Dr. Ero Chandler, is now of Hancock county, Illinois. Benjamin died in Philadelphia. John raised six sons; he died and is
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buried at Chandlersville, Ohio. His sons were: Zachariah, Martin, John, Samuel, Guy, and Stephen. Zachariah was born in Rutland county, Vermont ; he died in Muskingum county, Ohio, and is buried by his father. His wife, Fannie Bingham, was a native of New Hamp- shire ; she rests near her husband in Ohio. She was related to con- gressman Bingham, so long an Ohio statesman. She was a descendant of Miles Standish of the May Flower fame. She was a very intel- ligent woman, not only understanding, but able to teach. Her children received the larger part of their education from her wonderful fund of knowledge. Her children are: Seth, who died in California; Horace N., of Mercer county ; Mary (dead), Harriott (dead), Abigail (dead), Abigail (living), Fannie (dead), Eliza, and Nira. Horace N. Chandler was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, November 8, 1817. He was was raised to the toil of the farm. He attended the common schools, but received the larger part of his knowledge of government and public men from his mother. Being the only son at home. the duties of the house fell somewhat upon him, so that he lived with his , parents and they with him till they died. He became the proprietor .of the Ohio homestead. Mr. Chandler was married June 1, 1843, to Miss Anne E. Bevan, daughter of John and Mary (Blackburn) Bevan. Her father was a native of Monroe county, Ohio, and her mother of Maryland. Mrs. Chandler was born in Monroe county, Ohio, October 8, 1822. After marriage Mr. Chandler resided in Ohio till 1865, when he came west, arriving at Monmouth on the day on which the news of Lincoln's assassination stung the heart of every true American. He bought, June 12, 1865, the James Kellogg farm, the S. W. ¿ of Sec. 27 and W. ¿ ofS. E. } Sec. 27, Ohio Grove township, Mercer county, Illinois, where he has since lived. He has improved the farm very materially. He has been supervisor for many terms. In politics he has been whig and republican, being a charter member of the latter party. The children of this union are : Darwin, Mary, Seth, John B., Harriott, and Homer. Darwin enlisted in the naval service under Com. Leroy Fisk, serving one year, till the war closed. Mary is now Mrs. J. K. Porter.
DR. C. C. SMITH, son of Andrew and Jane (Craig) Smith, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, April 1, 1825. Jane Craig was born in county Monohon, Ireland, in 1790, and emigrated with her parents in 1794 to Pennsylvania. She died in Ohio, July 12, 1864. Andrew Smith was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio, August 31, 1875. His grandfather Smith was from Germany. Andrew Smith and wife were many years in the Associate Presbyterian church. In their family were six children : Anne, Lydia, C. C., Sarah J. (dead), 27
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John, and Walter. The life of Dr. C. C. Smith has been one of unusual activity, from the fact that he has been obliged to fight his own battles in life. His education, liberal as it is, he acquired by his own efforts. His early years were spent in country air and his hands were inured to farm labor. He desired a professional life, and to fit him for this he was resolved first to be well read in general knowledge. He accordingly attended the common schools. He began teaching, which he followed at different times for a number of years. He attended Madison College at Antrim, Ohio, where he completed the course in mathematics, except surveying. He also pursued the Latin language to some extent. In 1848 he began to read medicine with a Dr. Davis. His preceptor dying he then read with Dr. R. G. Stephen- son. After reading more or less for four years he attended medical lectures at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852. He began the practice of medi- cine in Antrim, his home, first in partnership with his preceptor, but Dr. Stephenson dying Dr. Smith continued his profession alone. In 1856 he located at Viola, Mercer county, Illinois, remaining two years or little more. He then practiced as long in Preemption. In the fall of 1861 he bought out Dr. Gilmore, of Sunbeam, and has since prac- ticed here. That he has been a successful practitioner is evident from the fact that he now owns seventy-two acres, with good house, etc., aş his home place, eighty acres in section 10, and 160 acres in Iowa, all the reward of his practice. During the war the doctor was busy, doing much for the families of soldiers. The wounds he dressed without charge, and thus he did his duty at home. Late years he has circum- scribed his practice, on account of overwork. He has been an active worker in temperance work, also a member and an officer in the United Presbyterian church. He is a very strong republican. His first vote was for John P. Hale. Dr. Smith was married February 22, 1855, to Cordelia, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Work) Downerd. She was born in Guernsey county, Ohio. Her father was a German, her mother from county Donegal, Ireland. Dr. Smith has a family of six children living and two dead.
CHRISTIAN SHARER (deceased) was born on New Year day about 1800, in Herkimer county, New York. His people were of Duteh descent. His father was killed in the revolutionary war. Mr. Sharer was raised on a farm, but became interested in dairying, merchandis- ing, distilling and banking business, becoming quite wealthy. The panic of 1837 crippled him financially. He was married in New York to Catharine Rasbach, by whom he had three children : John, George, and Edward M. In 1844 they moved to Licking county, Ohio. In 1854 they located in Moultrie county, Illinois, and a year afterward in
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Stark county. In 1858 they moved to Mercer county, Illinois, where Mr. Sharer bought land in Suez township, and lived till his death, in June, 1861. His wife lives on the homestead. Edward M., the third child, was born May 3, 1841, remained with his parents, and moved with them. He enlisted August 26, 1862, in company E, 102d III. Vol., and served in service of his country nearly three years, enduring all the hardships and enjoying the few pleasures incident to the career of his regiment. In the fall of 1868 he purchased 100 acres of land in the northeast part of section 24, Ohio Grove township. In 1876 or 1877 he built his present commodious house. He now has 180 acres in his farm, well improved. He was married February 23, 1869, to Martha Simpson, daughter of James and Anna (Goodman) Simpson, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Sharer was born in Pennsylvania. Three of her brothers were in the civil war, David R. being in company E, 102d Illinois, the others in Pennsylvania regiments. Mr. and Mrs. Sharer have five children : Alva, Willie, Edward, Charlie, and the babe.
GEORGE W. WERTS, blacksmith, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, April 4, 1841, and is a son of George and Margaret (Maple) Werts. His father was a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, and his mother of Ohio. Mr. Werts was raised on a farm, and when sixteen years old learned the blacksmith's trade, so that when Sumpter's cry of distress belched from mouths of cannon and called for America's yeomanry to relieve her he was used to toil and prepared to do his country's service. He enlisted August 22, 1862, in company I, 122d Ohio Vol., under Capt. Gary. . He was mustered in at Zanesville, Ohio, as a private. For two years, more or less constantly, he bugled for his company. He became engaged in battle at Winchester ; Millroy, where his company became surrounded by the enemy; Harper's Ferry; went into line at Williamsport, near Gettysburg, where he assisted in taking 1,500 prisoners. He was then in the effort to cut through Manassas gap to intercept Lee; was then sent to New York to aid in quelling the riot. He fought at Locust Grove, then started with Grant for Richmond. May 4, 1864, he went into the battle of the Wilderness, where his company lost heavily; took part at Spottsyl- vania Court-house, Cold Harbor, where his division received a compli- mentary order for taking the works of the enemy. He was then sent to the south side of Richmond to Butler's department, and was drawn in line to make a charge, but word came countermanding the order. He then united with the main army at Petersburg, and fought on the south side of the river. He accompanied Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley to protect Washington ; went through that campaign, and was
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with Sheridan in his famous ride, and aided in "licking them out of their boots " at Cedar creek, where victory depended largely on the corps of which he was a member, the army having been generally routed by Early's forces when Sheridan arrived from Winchester. This corps was called by the rebels the Catholic cross corps. Mr. Werts assisted in the charge and taking of the works at Richmond; followed the enemy to Sailors' run, taking 1,100 wagons and many prisoners ; then on to Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court-house. Mr. Werts' army career was one of unusual activity. He was mustered out at Washington. But twelve of his company remained able for duty. In 1865 he located at Sunbeam, Mercer county, Illinois, where he has since been the " village blacksmith." He was married October 3, 1865, to Miss Mary Decker, daughter of Benjamin Decker, and a native of Mercer county. He has six children : Alpha M., Susie E., Clarence B., George W., Jr .; Alonzo E., and Everet L.
PETER PETERSON, farmer, was born in Sweden June 27, 1826. In June, 1865, Mr. Peterson sailed for America, landing at New York city. IIe soon arrived at Rock Island. He spent eighteen months with the Bishop Hill colony in Henry county, Illinois, working at his trade of carpentering. He continued his trade in Fulton county, then one year at Galva. Being ont of work, he overheard some persons talking of moving to Mercer county, Illinois, and he proposed to accompany them, which he did in 1859. Here he lived with the Sharers for four years, working at his trade. August 18, 1862, he enlisted in company E., 102d reg. Ill. Vol., under Capt. Likely and Col. McMurtrie. He served sixteen months. He was on detached duty mostly. At Chattanooga he stood in the river up to his ears in cold water for thirty-six hours continuously, which disabled him for duty and has crippled him for life. He returned to Mercer county, not being able to walk for some time. He managed to buy a small farm, and now has 140 acres and a good house. He was married first to Betsy Johnson, who died in Henry county, Illinois, leaving one child, Cathrina, now Mrs. Henry Crosby, of Viola. He was next married to Catharine Johnson, January 26, 1869, and by her he has five children : Eddie, Maggie, John, Julia A., and Charlie. Mr. Peter- son is a thrifty farmer.
ROBERT HAMILTON, farmer, was born in Kentucky, October 8, 1811. His parents, Samuel and Jane (Smith) Hamilton, were natives of South Carolina. They moved to Kentucky early, and thence to Preble county, Ohio, where Samuel Hamilton died. His wife died in Indiana. Robert was raised in the stern schools of toil. When twenty years of age he learned the carpenter trade, which he has followed more or less
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since. He also worked as a millwright for some years. In the fall of 1830 he located in Clinton county, Indiana, near Madison. He was there married to Miss Deborah Talbert. In 1855 he moved to Mercer county, Illinois. Here he bought 150 acres of land, his present farm. This he has improved. In polities Mr. Hamilton was whig, in the days of that party. He is a strong republican. He is a member of the United Presbyterian church. He has a family of four children living and one dead : William H., when under age, went to the war, and was out about two months ; Perry S., Mary E., and Rose E.
MOSES PATTERSON, farmer, was born in Knox county, Illinois, June 13, 1841. His father, John M. Patterson, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1799, and was of Scotch-Irish descent. His mother, Sarah A. (Bell), was born in Delaware, Kent county, January 15, 1818. The grandfather of Moses was Col. Patterson of Pennsylvania militia, and the father was in both the Pennsylvania and Ohio militia. John M. Patterson became a resident of Ohio about 1815, and there married Margaret Stephens, who died leaving three children. He next married Sarah A. Bell. In 1836 he settled in Knox county, Illinois. He lived two years near Viola, Mercer county, then went to Rock Island county, thence to Henry county, where he buried his wife. She died March 25, 1865. He died in Warren county, June 18, 1873. He was a strictly moral man ; swearing was extremely odious to him. His religion was as he called it, "homespun." His wife was a Methodist. Moses Patterson left home at the age of seven- teen years, going to Pike's Peak, Colorado, in 1857. He returned to Illinois and joined some of his schoolmates for the civil war. He enlisted at Rock Island March 12, 1862, in company B. 65th Ill. Vol; Capt. R. S. Montgomery and Col. Daniel Cameron, known as the " Montgomery guards." In March, 1864, he was transferred to engi- neer bat. 23d army corps, army of Ohio, in which he served till April 5, 1865. He took part in the battles on the Potomac the first summer and was taken prisoner at Harper's Ferry together with the whole command of 1,100 men ; was paroled and sent to Chicago. In March, 1863, he was sent to Lexington, Kentucky, and over to West Virginia. There he took part in the battles of that campaign, and assisted in tak- ing Ben. Coddle, the famous guerilla, and in breaking up his band, capturing 400 of his men. He then crossed the Cumberland moun- tains with Burnside, and experienced the twenty-two days' siege of Knoxville ; was twice at Zollicoffer, then with Sherman at Chattanoogo and through to Atlanta. He returned with Thomas in pursuit of Hood; was at Nashville and from there followed Hood to Corinth. He was engaged at Fort Fisher, Fort Anderson, and Wilmington. North
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Carolina, and was there relieved and sent home. He returned to Knox county, Illinois. September 7, 1869, he located where he lives, in Mercer county. He owns 240 acres of land well improved. Mr. Pat- terson was married December 26, 1869, to Alice Hawkins, daughter of Augustus Hawkins, of Cameron, Warren county, Illinois. She was born April 19, 1851. They have three children : Edwin A., Mary, and a babe.
NICHOLAS SHEARER, farmer, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, March 29, 1831. His parents, John and Mary Ann (Walters) Shearer were natives of Ohio. They moved to Indiana, and about 1855 came to Mercer county, Illinois. They subsequently moved to Madison county, Iowa, where they died. Their family numbered thirteen chil- dren : James (dead), Nicholas, Jeremiah, Francis M., William D., Hugh P., Lucinda, Mary E., Martha, Melissa, John, Noah. Francis M. served in the late war in the 102d III. Vol., and died of measles at Fort Donelson. Hugh P. and William D. enlisted in the 36th Ill. Vol., and died of measles at Raleigh, Missouri. Nicholas was raised on the farm ; in 1851 he came to Illinois ; here he worked for Wm. Stephens and esquire Nevius. In 1852 he returned to Indiana, and September 7, 1852, was married to Elizabeth McPherren, daughter of James and Jane (Shaw) McPherren. She was born in Muskingum county, Ohio. Her father and five brothers served in the civil war. One, George, was killed at Stone river. After marriage Mr. Shearer returned to Mercer county. For three or four years he rented a farm ; he then bought forty acres and began farming his own land. He now has 160 acres free from debt, and has made it all himself. He paid for the first forty acres by working by the month. He has four children living : Sarah J., Margaret A., Mary C., and Fannie. John is dead.
BEARD CHURCH, farmer and stock raiser, was born in Mercer county, Illinois, December 20, 1842. His father, Thomas Church, was a native of Virginia. He moved to Wayne county, Indiana, in an early day. He married Rachel A. Beard, a relative of the Hon. John Beard, of Indiana. About 1835, or a little later, Mr. Church moved to Mercer county, Illinois, and lived a short time in Duncan township. Ile then moved to Eliza township, and finally to New Boston, where he died about 1857. He was well known and highly regarded. He owned, at his death, about 400 acres of land, indicative of his success as a farmer. His wife survived till 1881, when she joined the departed. Six children were born to them : John L., born in Indiana, and died in Mercer county. Those born here are: Elizabeth, Hannah, Beard, Thomas, William W., and Rachel A. Beard is one of Mercer county's own children raised together with his home. A farmer, yet he spent
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one year in Aledo as a grocery merchant. After this he bought a farm west of Aledo, but soon sold this and in 1877 bought in Ohio Grove township, where he owns 200 acres well improved ; his farm being the S. E. } and N. E. { of S. W. } Sec. 11. He was married October 20, 1864, to Miss Mary E. McGinnis, daughter of the Hon. John T. McGinnis, of Mercer county. She was born October 25, 1846. They have two children : Everett W., born September 24, 1865; and Frank M., born May 10, 1868. Mr. Church is republican in politics.
MOSES MCINTIRE was born in county Donegal, parish of Ray, seven miles southwest of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1830. His father, Jere- miah MeIntire, was born in Ireland, and died about 1839; and his mother, Sarah (Ross), also a native of Ireland, died (1841) in Ireland. They were of the Protestant faith, belonging to the Seceder church. Jeremiah was a millwright by trade, but followed farming mostly. They were parents of nine children : James sailed for Quebec and probably died there from ship fever ; Mathew died in Ireland ; John B. died in Warren county, Illinois; William is in Iowa; Jeremiah died in Abington township, Mercer county ; Sarah (now Mrs. James Friell). and Moses. William was here about 1835, while the Indians were bad. Moses MeIntire emigrated from Ireland in 1848. He came to New York, where he became porter in Brooks' dry goods establishment ; then was engaged in a white-lead factory. In 1852 he came to Warren county, Illinois. Here he followed carpentering several years in part. and ran a threshing machine in threshing season. He bought 160 acres of land in Warren county. This he sold, and purchased in 1862 eighty acres, the S. ¿ of N. E. } of Sec. 32, Ohio Grove townsnip. This farm he has well improved. He also has some timber. Mr. McIntire was married, September 3, 1863, to Miss Matilda Watt, daughter of John and Jane Watt, of Pennsylvania. She was born in Mithin county, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1842. They have eight children living and two dead. Mr. and Mrs. MeIntire are connected with the United Presbyterian church. Mr. MeIntire is a republican. He has been postmaster of Duck Creek office since 1862. He takes an inter- est in school affairs and all progressive movements for the county's good.
JOHN B. MCINTIRE was born in county Donegal. Ireland, Mannor- Cunningham parish, twelve miles from Londonderry, in 1816. He is one of the progressive Protestants of Irish blood. He was married to Eleanor McElheney, also a native of the same place. They sailed for America in 1847, settling on a farm near Brighton, Canada. In 1851 they moved to Warren county, Illinois. Sumner township, where they became land owners and are thrifty farmers. Both are members of the
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United Presbyterian church. In the family are six children living and five dead: Sarah and Bessie, born in Ireland; Bessie died on the ocean, and Sarah died in Canada ; Moses died in Warren county, Illinois ; Margaret, also ; Ellen, Minnie, and William J. William J. MeIntire was born July 30, 1848, near Brighton, Canada. He lived at home till about twenty-five years of age. When twenty-five years old, his father gave him eighty acres of land in Ohio Grove township. He sold his eighty and bought 110 acres of the S. W. } of Sec. 28, paying . $4,500. He has improved his place very much. He is naturally handy with tools, doing his own carpenter work, blacksmithing, etc. Mr. McIntire was married, February 26, 1874, to Miss Bellzora Bullock, daughter of William Bullock. She was born in Mercer county, October 28, 1853. The children are: Guy, and Glenn. Vida is dead.
JACOB GUTHRIE (deceased) was a native of Greene county, Pennsyl- vania. He came to Warren county, Illinois, in 1863, and the following year bought a farm of eighty acres in section 10, Ohio Grove township, Mercer county. He died October 7, 1871. He was justice of the peace and hel'd other offices in Pennsylvania. His politics were demo- cratic. His wife died April 17, 1875. In the family were eleven children. Noah H. Guthrie, the fifth child of the above, was born in Pennsylvania, March 6, 1842. His life was spent on the farm till the war. September, 1861, he enlisted in his country's service, in company F, 7th reg. West Virginia Vol. Inf., under Lieut .- Col. Kelley and Capt. Ben. Morris. Mr. Guthrie fought in eleven battles, the chief of which were Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bull Run, The Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court-House. At the last- named battle he was shot in the right leg, necessitating the removal of eight inches of the tibia. He was six months at Chester (Pa.) hospital. He was discharged December 17, 1864. Leaving the hospital, he came direct to Sunbeam, Mercer county, Illinois, to his parents. He subse- quently spent three years at the Soldiers' College, at Fulton, Illinois. In 1870 he took the census of eight townships of Mercer county. In the fall of 1870 he was elected sheriff of Mercer county, which office he filled two terms. In 1880 he took the census of Ohio Grove town- ship. He is a republican. Mr. Guthrie was married July 4, 1870, to Miss Delila Hardy, daughter of Ashford and Sophia Hardy. She was born in Mercer county, February 11, 1848. They have three children : Freddie, Edmund, and Grace. Mr. Guthrie owns a beauti- ful farm of 240 acres, well improved.
WILLIAM R. VANCE, farmer, is a son of James and Sarah (Pearson) Vance, of Abington township, elsewhere noticed. William R. was
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born in New Boston township, Mercer county, Illinois, September 20, 1847. He has spent all his time in Mercer county, except a short time in Iowa. He remained at home until twenty-two years of age, when he bought a farm in Abington township. In 1876 he moved to Ohio Grove township, where he bought 160 acres of the N. W. ± of section 27. He was married January 7, 1875, to Jennie Brown, daughter of John Brown, of Mercer county, Illinois. She is a native of this county. They have one child, Olive B.
SAMUEL SPROWL, farmer, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, June 29, 1822, and is a son of William and Rebecca (Baker) Sprowl, both natives of Virginia, and of Scotch descent. Rebecca Baker's grandfather was a wealthy Londoner. William and Rebecca Sprowl moved to Fayette county, Ohio, about 1842, where she died about 1845. She was born March 17, 1782. William was born January S, 1775, and died November 17, 1872. He spent his aged years with his son Samuel. He was for many years a member of the United Presbyterian church. In the family were : William, born June 11, 1801; Elizabeth, born March 14, 1803; Polly, born March 7, 1805, died January 27, 1869 ; Rebecca, born October 21, 1807 ; John, born May 15, 1810 ; Martha, born May 27, 1812, died November 17, 1873 ; Anna P., born January 11, 1817 ; Sarah, born December 2, 1819, died January 4, 1874 ; Samuel ; Christiana, born February 8, 1825. Sam- uel Sprowl was raised on the farm in Ohio, in the log cabin, the forest and the field. Many a day has he worked with ax to clear the land for crops. The school was three miles away, so that his advantages were very limited. In 1855 he emigrated to Illinois. He farmed a rented place one year. In 1856 he bought the S. E. ¿ of section 22, · at $12.50 per acre. This he has improved into a good farm. He now has 172 acres and house, and three lots in Aledo, where he lived for three years. He was married September 14, 1869, to Maggie Dixon, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Shaw) Dixon, both natives of Vir- ginia. Her father died May 29, 1879.' Mrs. Sprowl was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, September 9, 1848. She was in Vir- ginia during the late war, and witnessed both northern and southern armies frequently, and heard the roar of battle. Two brothers were in the battle of Gettysburg, and her youngest brother was a guard at Libby prison. Mr. Sprowł has three children : John W., Samuel B. and Olive L.
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