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On March 23, 1837, Jacob N. Fullinwider and Agnes Bullard were united in marriage. She was born March 24, 1814, in Shelby county, Ken- tucky, and is the daughter of Renben Bullard and Elizabeth Gill, natives of Virginia. She came to Sangamon county, Illinois, in November, 1835. Mr. and Mrs. Fullinwider first settled in town sixteen, range two west, about five miles east of the village of Mechanicsburg. Fifteen years later they sold that farm and bought a farm which forms a part of their present estate, and settled on it but a few rods from the splendid dwelling they now occupy. This beautiful brick residence was erected by Mr. Fullinwider in 1862 and '63, at a cost of $10,000. The barns and other buildings surrounding it cost $2,500. Mr. Fullinwider, being a thorough going, pri- dent business man, has been successful in a finan- cial way. After having bought the interests of the other heirs to the old homestead, he purchased other tracts about it, until at one time he owned one thousand four hundred acres of fine farming lands. He has given each of his six sons and two daughters $7,000, and still owns a farm of four hundred acres. In early years he voted the Whig ticket, and since the birth of the party, has been a Republican, though he has not been active in politics. He has served Mechanicsburg township two terms in the county board of supervisors, and has for many years been a zeal- ous and prominent promoter of church and school matters. He has been a member and efficient worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church forty-
nine years, and has contributed much, both in labor and money, toward its prosperity. Mr. and Mrs. Fullinwider's children are all, but one, married and comfortably situated in life; and for habits of industry, thrift and morality, they are an honor to their parents, and an ornament to society. They are all members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and all the sons, save one, are farmers. Marcus L. graduated from Illinois Western University, in 1871, and from Rush Medical College in 1876; and has since July, of that year, been extensively engaged in the practice of medicine in Mechanicsburg, Sanga- mon county.
J. T. Fullinwider, is a son of Jacob N. Full- inwider, of Mechanicsburg township, one of Sangamon county's best known and most worthy farmers, and largest land owners, who came here in an early day, and has been prominently identified with the growth and development of Sangamon county, and Central Illinois. Our subject was born in Mechanicsburg township, this county, November 24, 1853, and is, there- fore, twenty-eight years of age. Mr. Fullin- wider is essentially a product of Sangamon county, having been born, educated and married here. He married Miss Laura Thompson, daugh- ter of a prominent business man and banker of Mechanicsburg, who came to Sangamon county in an early day. Mr. Fullinwider owns a farm adjoining the village, and is at present engaged in the banking house of his father-in-law, Mr. Thompson.
Samuel Garvey, born August 27, 1825, in Owen county, Kentucky, son of Samuel and Maria (Elliston) Garvey, came to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1830. He was married in Sangamon county, July 3, 1849, to Sarah 'A. Gideon; she was born January 13, 1828, in Champaign county, Ohio, and came to Sanga- mon county in 1845. They had five children: Mary A., born May 21, 1850, married to David C. Fletcher, September 9, 1869; Ann M., born August 27, 1852, and remains at home; Catharine J., born October 17, 1854, and married March 7, 1877, to Jacob Rogers; Henry C., born August 13, 1863, now at home with his parents; and Andrew S., born December 27, 1867, and died December 6, 1871. Mr. Garvey has eight grand-children. The family are all Christians.
John Gelling, was born November 13, 1805, in the city of Douglas, Isle of Mann, and came to America in 1830. He landed at New York, and went to the vicinity of Morristown, New Jersey. Hannah Monson was born in 1797, near Morristown, New Jersey. She was of an old
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French family that was among the earliest set- tlers in New Jersey. John Gelling and Hannah Monson were married June 23, 1833, near Mor- ristown. They moved in 1838, to Vevay, Swit- zerland county, Indiana. Mr. Gelling, his wife, and a girl living in the family, started from Ve- vay in a wagon, and drove through Indianapolis to Springfield, arriving in October, 1839. Since that time he has resided four years in Morgan county. With that exception, he has been in Sangamon county to the present time. They never had any children. Mrs. Hannah Gelling died December 30, 1872, and John Gelling re- sides two and a half miles south of Dawson.
In December, 1839, Mr. Gelling entered one hundred and sixty acres of prairie land now ad- joining the village of Dawson, and settled on it, and soon after traded it for the land he now oc- cupies, on section twenty-nine, in this township, three and one-half miles west of Mechanicsburg, and twelve miles east of Springfield, and two and one-half miles south of Dawson. His farm contains one hundred and twenty acres of good land, and is worth $60 per acre. When he came to America he worked at his trade of paper making, in New Jersey, as he had done in his native Isle of Mann, so that when he came to Sangamon county he knew but little in the way of farming; but has become, in the last forty years, skillful as a tiller of the soil, and has been successful. Having been a widower for nine years, he has been favored in having his sister, Ellen Charlotte, to care for his domestic inter- ests. She was also a native of the Isle of Mann, where she was born in the year 1818, and came to America in 1852, at the request of her brother, with whom she has made her home since that time. Mr. G. has no other near relatives in America, except two nephews and two nieces, the children of a brother Robert, who died in this township a few years ago. Mr. G. has been a member of the M. E. Church for about thirty years, and his sister is of the same, first in her native Isle, and since, in this country. In poli- tics they are Republicans.
O. P. Hall, born March 11, 1832, in Shelby county, Kentucky, is the son of Benjamin L. and Eveline (Pickrell) Hall, and the only one of eleven children born out of Sangamon county. He came to what is now Mechanicsburg, with his parents, in September, 1833; he being about one year old. He was married in Sangamon county, January 20th, 1855, to Susan M. Short who was born October 14, 1833, in Pickaway county, Ohio, and came to Sangamon county, in 1846. They had six children, five of whom are
living, Wm. L., Lewis B., J. Leslie, Rena, and Oscar E. Mr. Hall manages a large farm, and is extensively engaged in stock-raising. At his elegant home, surrounded by his intelligent and cultured family, he enjoys life.
W. T. Hall, son of B. L. and E. Ilall, lives on section thirteen; is a farmer and stock dealer; he was born December 21, 1844, in Sangamon county, Illinois; married January 9, 1872, in Jacksonville, Illinois, to Florence M. Winn, who was born neat Urbana, Ohio, June 12, 1846, and died July 6, 1881. Mrs. Hall's parents, Dr. Chas. and Nancy (Branson) Winn, are both dead. Her father died August 17, 1847, and her mother, November 4, 1852. W. T. Hall and family moved to Salina, Kansas, in 1872, and remained there until 1876, when he returned to Sangamon county. He was engaged, while in Kansas, in general house furnishing, hardware, undertaker's goods, etc., etc. He now has a fine farm, which occupies his entire time and attention.
W.m. F. Herrin, born November 18, 1836, in Sangamon county, is the son of James and Mary A. (McDaniel) Herrin, who came to Sangamon county in November, 1833, and located in what is now Clear Lake township. They are both dead. Mrs. HI. died March 25, 1868, and Mr. H. August 6, 1881. Wm. F. married Mary A. North, September 10, 1863, the daughter of Rob- ert North. They had six children: Belle N., James E., Chas. F., Burt Allen, died May 7, 1876; Carrie F. and Lettie A. Mr. Herrin lives in Buffalo; is engaged in farming and stock deal- ing. Mr. H. has one brother, David C., now liv- ing in Wheatfield township, and one sister, Mrs. Harriet F. Hewitt, residing in Menard county.
Jacob Morgan (deceased), son of Charles Mor- gan, was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, May 20, 1808, and came to Sangamon county with his parents, in October, 1826, where he married Susan Correll, May 17, 1832, by whom he had four children: Josephus, born March 30, 1833, died January 5, 1877; Minerva, born No- vember 8, 1834, died July 21, 1837; Caroline, born July 21, 1837, and married Geo. W. Hes- ser, and lives on a farm in Illiopolis township; Rufus, born September 16, 1840, died May 12, 1843. His wife, Susan, died October 15, 1848, and he was married again, November 22, 1855, to Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, whose maiden name was Stickel. She was born in York county, Pennsylvania, April 16, 1825. She, with her parents, who were of German descent, had moved to Macon county, in 1837, where they died; they were John and Mary Stickel. She had one son by her former marriage to Jas. J. Wilson, named
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Ardrew S. Wilson, who was born in Macon county, Illinois, and married in Bloomington, to Mary Hamilton, and had two children. He now resides in Washington county, Kansas, where he has represented that county two terms in the leg- islature, and is now Judge of the Twelfth Dis- trict there. Mrs. Morgan has had by her second marriage the following: Luella, born Septem- ber 4, 1856, died October 6, 1877; Selina B., born February 4, 1859, is single, and at home; Anna M., born March 3, 1861, also at home; Charles W., born September 4, 1863, with his mother on the farm, and yet single.
Mr. Jacob Morgan entered the land on which he resided for many years to the time of his death, October 23, 1877. There he located and remained nearly fifty years, being an influential and worthy citizen of the community, holding various offices of trust, and being a leading and useful member of the M. E. Church, and hold- ing various offices therein. The homestead is located on section twenty-one, about two and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg.
William Norred, was born March 9, 1809, in Loudon county, Virginia. He was married in 1834 in that county to Elizabeth E. Dowdall, who was born there March 9, 1814. They lived in Frederick county, Maryland, until they had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illi- nois, arriving November 6, 1838, and settled three miles northeast of Rochester, at the mills of Darling & Baker, where one child was born.
Charles H., was born January 19, 1842, in San- gamon county. He was a medical student, but laid aside his books in August, 1862, and enlisted in Company -, One Hundred and Fourteenth Illinois Infantry. He was placed in charge of a medical dispensary for the regiment, and later of a hospital; served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged; attended McDowell College, at St. Louis, and graduated there. He was married 'in Logan county to Elizabeth Dalbey. They have two children, Charles Elmer and William Asbury. Dr. Norred commenced practice at Dawson, but removed to Lincoln, Logan county, where he now resides, and practices his profession.
Mrs. Elizabeth E. Norred died September 1, 1843, in Sangamon county, and William Norred was married in 1845, in Loudon county, Vir- ginia, to Mary Ann Daneil, who was born in that county, April 22, 1820. She died October 21, 1851, leaving one child, John W., born June 17, 1847, in Sangamon county, and married Mary Richardson, and lives in Middletown, Logan
county, Illinois. William Norred was married December 18, 1853, in Sangamon county, to Mrs. Martha Dowdall, whose maiden name was Enlow, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania. She has one child by her first marriage, Silas R. Dowdall. Mr. and Mrs. Norred had four chil- dren: Fenton M., Lauretta, Mary E., and Eliza- beth C.
Nelson H. Plummer, harness manufacturer and dealer in hardware and stoves, Buffalo; opened business in that village in the fall of 1867, as a harness manufacturer. Seven years ago he put in a general assortment of hardware, and has since carried a stock in that line. He makes all grades of harness, and keeps in stock a variety of styles of saddles, whips and horse clothing. His annual sales aggregate from $5,- 000 to $6,000.
Mr. Plummer was born in 1833, in Champaign county, Ohio; came to Illinois in 1856 and located a few years in Clinton, then moved to Decatur, and six years later came to Buffalo. In 1876, Mr. Plummer, married Miss Clay Cassity, who was born in Kentucky, and is the daughter of Allen Cassity, now a resident of Missouri, formerly railroad agent at Wheatfield, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer have two children, Mattie E. and Lee Plummer.
Leonard P. Rogers, M. D., Buffalo village, is the third of a family of ten children, nine living, of Uriah, and Hettie A. Rogers nee Myers, and was born April 20, 1852, in Fairfield county, Ohio. His parents who were both natives of Burks county, Pennsylvania, were married in 1845. Mr. Rogers learned the carpenter trade in youth and pursued it up to the time of his marriage, but has since devoted his attention to farming. In the autumn of 1854, he moved with his family to Illinois, and settled in Me- chanicsburg township, Sangamon county, where they still reside two and a half miles east of Buffalo. The subject of this memoir was educated chiefly in Burlington, Vermont; read medicine in Mechanicsburg, Illinois, and attend- ed lectures in Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D., February 15, 1876. On March 10th following, he opened an office and commenced practice in Buffalo. In June, 1877, he was elected county physician, and has filled that office continually to the present time, by annual re-elections. Dr. Rogers has enjoyed a large and lucrative practice from the first, and now has all he can do. He is a member of the San- gamon county, Medical Association. His father was born in 1818, his mother, in 1827.
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Josiah M. Thompson, dry goods merchant, Mechanicsburg, is one of a family of nine chil- dren, five sons and four daughters, of John Thompson and Elizabeth Ferguson, who married and settled in Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he was born October 11, 1824, and was brought by his parents to Sangamon county, Illinois, at the age of eleven years. llis father being a farmer, he was brought up to, and followed that avocation until 1857, then sold his farm, moved to Mechanicsburg, and in partnership with his elder brother, Harvey Thompson, engaged in the mercantile business, which they have pursued to the present time, under the firm title of H. & J. M. Thompson.
Harvey & A. T. Thompson commenced selling goods in the burg, in the fall of 1849, and the firm continued till about 1857, when A. T. sold his part to J. M., and the firm of H. & J. M. Thompson has continued since that time. In the year 1837, William and Upton Radcliff had built the old house in which the Thompson firm opened, and continued till 1875, when the pres- ent firm built their present large brick house- forty-four by seventy-two, in which they deal in a general line of merchandise, suited to supply all needs of the community in these lines, of which their annual sales have been from $18,000 to $20,000. Politically, the brothers are staunch Republicans.
Josiah M. Thompson and Maggie Munce united in marriage in 1860. She was born in Indiana, in 1837. Her parents emigrated from county Down, Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Thomp- son have three surviving and two deceased chil- dren. The living are : Eliza, John A., and Thomas M. Mr. Thompson is a Mason, and member of Mechanicsburg Lodge, 229.
John Thompson was born March 28, 1783, in Pennsylvania ; went to Kentucky at twenty years of age, and there married Elizabeth Fergu- son, who was born in Kentucky, June 18, 1791. They moved from Montgomery county, Ken- tucky, in the autumn of 1836, and settled one mile west of the village of Mechanicsburg. Of their nine children, four sons and two daughters are living. Mr. Thompson died in Sangamon county, Illinois, October 14, 1855. Mrs. Thomp- son died November 22, 1868, also in Sangamon county. He had previously been married, and had two children, both of whom, with the mother, are dead. The mother died when the
children were quite young, and James died in Indiana, in 1835, and John, the youngest, in 1837, in Sangamon county, Illinois.
Andrew T. Thompson, banker, of the firm of Thompson & Brother, has been a resident of Sangamon county, Illinois, since the fall of 1836, and engaged in the banking business in Mechanicsburg, in company with his elder brother, Harvey Thompson, since December 1, 1873. The banking house is a private partner- ship, established under the laws of Illinois, and does a general banking, loan and deposit busi- ness. The deposits range from $25,000 to $80,000. The building occupied was erected for the purpose by the Thompson Brothers, in the summer of 1873, and is a-most substantial brick structure.
Andrew T. Thompson is the son of John and Elizabeth (Furguson) Thompson, and was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, January 30, 1827. At the age of nine years he was brought by his parents to what is now Mechanicsburg town- ship, Sangamon county, Illinois, which has since been his home. In 1849, Mr. Thompson first started in business, on his own account, as a merchant by opening a general store in com- pany with his brother and present partner, Har- vey, in Mechanicsburg. In 1853, they erected the second building built in the city of Buffalo, and established a store of the same class there. Harvey conducted that store, and Andrew the one in Mechanicsburg. In 1858, the firm sold out the store at Buffalo, Andrew having sold his interest in the Mechanicsburg store to another brother a year or two previously. For a num- ber of years subsequently, the subject of this memoir engaged in dealing in live stock before opening the bank.
In December, 1850, he was united in marriage with Elizabeth C., daughter of John R., and Louisa Groves, of Bath county, Kentucky, where she was born in 1833, but brought up from early childhood in Sangamon county, Illinois. Three children, two daughters and a son, are the fruits of their marriage, namely: Laura, now the wife of J. T. Fullenwider; Maggie and William W. Thompson. Politically, Mr. Thompson was a Whig in former years, and a Republican since 1856. He is a member of the Masonic order, Mechanicsburg Lodge, No. 299.
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CHAPTER XLIII.
TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE OF NEW BERLIN.
The history of this township is identified with that of Island Grove until 1869, when it was set off as a political township, under the name of New Berlin, the name of its principal village.
Among the earliest settlers were John and Thomas Ray, John Foutch, and a man by the name of Johnson. The latter, about 1830, pur- chased three thousand three hundred acres of land near Bates station. This land now in- cludes several large farms owned by the Smiths and Browns, and includes most of the town of New Berlin.
The township comprises about thirty-one square miles or sections of land, which is en- tirely prairie land, This being the case, it will be understood by the reader of pioneer history that it was not settled at as early a date as other townships in the county where timber was in abundance. After it became known and realized that the prairies were valuable for other pur- poses besides grazing purposes, the land was quickly taken up and settlements made.
For many years this township, together with Island Grove, was considered the best stock raising field in the county, it being said that in 1865 there were more cattle-feeders and more cattle fed within eight miles of Berlin than any other point in Illinois. The Browns and Smiths especially were noted for their fine herds.
The first railroad ever built in the State, the Northern Cross, now the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific, passes through the township from east to west, entering on section twenty-four, town- ship fifteen, range seven, and running southwest about two miles, it then passes due west, enter- ing Morgan county from section twenty-seven. There are three stations in the township, Island Grove, New Berlin and Bates.
There is one church in the township outside of the village of New Berlin, a Union Church, sit- uated on section six, township fourteen, range
seven, erected jointly by the different denomina- tions residing in the neighborhood.
In schools, outside the village of New Berlin, which has one graded public school, and one parochial school, by the Catholics, there are now two school houses in the township, the three valued at $9,000.
ORGANIC.
As stated, New Berlin township was cut off from Island Grove in 1869, since which time it has had an independent existence Annual town- ship elections are held the first Monday in April, each year.
VILLAGE OF NEW BERLIN.
The village of New Berlin was laid out in 1838, and its plat recorded as the property of Thomas Yates, and is described as part of the east half of the northeast quarter of section thirty, township fifteen, range seven. The date of the record is October 26, 1838.
The first building erected in the place was of brick, and built in 1836, and intended for the purposes of a general store, which was opened by Henry Yates, the father of Thomas and Rich- ard Yates, the latter of whom was subsequently Governor of the State.
The first dwelling house was also built by Mr. Yates, and occupied by Phelan Jones. His daughter, Mary, and William Ratford were the first couple married in the place. In this same house the first death occurred-Mrs. Homer Starks.
The village of New Berlin presents a very neat and attractive appearance, and is a home- like town. It has a population of about four lıundred.
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS.
No better evidence of the well being of a place can be given than is shown in its schools and churches. New Berlin is behind no village of
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its size in the State, with respect to both. The school house in the village is a large brick struc- ture, capable of accommodating one hundred and fifty pupils. A graded school has been in existence since 1867. In addition, the Catholics have a parochial school, of which mention is made in the sketch of the Catholic Church; and the German Lutherans have, also, a school.
There are three church buildings in the village, owned respectively by the Catholics, German Lutherans, and Congregationalists, the latter having no organization, although a fairly pros- perous church of that denomination existed here between the years 1869 and 1876. The Metho- dists and Baptists hold services every Sunday evening in the Congregational Church, but have no regular or formal organization.
The following is a history of the Roman Catholic Congregation and Church, at New Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois, from 1860 to 1881, from writings of Rev. F. Schreiber, to-wit:
Although no written account of the fact has been preserved, there is no doubt in the mind of the readers of Catholic Missions in the West, that divine services were held at the private dwellings of early settlers, long before the above date, (January 1860). But that is the date Rev. F. Schreiber assigns for the organization of a Catholic congregation, at this place; he says: "The present secretary, (now Vicar General and Chancellor) of the Right Rev. Bishop, of Alton, (the Bishop of Alton, at that time was Right Rev. II. D. Junker, consecrated April 17, 1857, died, October 2, 1868; the present Bishop is Right Rev. P. J. Baltes, consecrated January 23, 1870,) Very Rev. J. Janssen, at the time (1860) pastor of the German Catholic cougregation, at Springfield, being requested by some of the faith- ful Catholics, to attend from time to time, to their spiritual wants, at New Berlin, became the founder of this congregation. Inspiring the people with holy zeal for a church building, he had the pleasure of seeing it soon built."
Some of the oldest settlers still living here at the present time, (1881,) whose names appear on the subscription list, are the following: Theo- dore Kunst, Ferdinand Rustemeyer, Frederick Ludwig, Peter Kneffler, Joseph Burger, John Stork, Ferdinand Stelte, Henry Votzmeier, Ber- nard Freitag, Philip Kress, among the Germans; and Martin Ryan, Patrick Murray, Patrick Ryan, John Haugh, Richard Barnes, Sr., James Sullivan, Thomas Ryan, John Walsh, and others, of Irish nationality and birth.
The foundation of the church (now used as a school house,) was laid October 26, 1860, and
before Christmas that year, the church was ready for divine service, though it was not plastered till 1862.
Very Rev. J. Janssen was transferred to Alton early in 1863, and was succeeded in Springfield by Rev. William Busch, who attended at New Berlin for the first time, according to the baptis- mal register, May 10, 1863. An addition was built to the church, during his three years at- tendance. He died of consumption.
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