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Another and very eccentric pioneer, was Reuben Lively. He bought the Athens ferry of Ira Manville, Sr., who first established it, and kept it for many years. He also furnished entertainment for travelers. In this capacity he was known for many miles around. As parties would stop to ask for lodging he would insult them, sometimes even going so far as call to his son to bring him his shot gun, to drive away the intruders, then as they would start away he would doff his mask and say, " I guess the old woman has a crust of bread and a pile of straw in one corner for you, come in." No matter how rough he was, or how much incensed travel- ers became, Lively never neglected to make all right. To him a son, William Lively, was born in Dec., 1816, the second birth iu the precinct.
Among other early settlers were George and Jack Baggs, Robin McDonald, Thos. James and John Rainey.
As early as 1831 a school-house, better than pioneer school- houses usually are, in that, to use the expression of a pioneer who attended there, "They did make out to liave a pucheon floor," was
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erected in section 34. The teacher, Isaac Hill, contrary to custom had a regular boarding place at John Lively's. Several pupils from abroad likewise boarded there. In all there were as many as thirty scholars. It was a subscription school at $2.50 per pupil for three months' tuition. In the north-eastern part of the precinct in 1836 a school-house was built on Mud Creek, a primitive log affair without a floor other than that furnished by mother earth, and yet it was not without its pretensions, as there were four or five small panes of glass fitted in between the logs, by Mr. Wilson, the hus- band of Mrs. Martha Wilson, the first teacher. As the neighbors said, " Mr. Wilson was a handy man."
A Scotchman named Kirkwood was claimed to have been the first preacher, resident in the precinct. He preached in his own house to the neighbors who gathered to hear him. He was an Old School Presbyterian. This was in 1829. Prior to this there had been occasional services by traveling preachers.
As illustrative of the faithfulness of some of these pioneers, it is said that Mrs. Rebecca Greene, wife of Sir Francis Burdette Greene, who located on Sect. 27, T. 3 S. R. 6 W., 1826, walked to attend church near Sparta, ten miles distant, carrying an infant in her arms, that too, when life was endangered by wandering bands of Indians.
As early as 1837 a steamboat, called the "Wild Duck," steamed up the Kaskaskia as far as Carlyle, thus opening up a new era in the prosperity of this county. Athens, which had been laid out Sept. 21st, 1836, by Narcisse Pensoneau, took on city airs (on paper.) Plats of the " future great " slowing churches, public parks, steamboats at the levee, and crowded thoroughfares were circulated through the eastern cities, and much property was exchanged for merchandise of various kinds.
The first Land entries were by Andrew White, 160 acres, it being the S. E }, section 33, September 29, 1814; Robert Morrison, 160 acres, being the N. E. }, section 34, September 11, 1816; John Lively, 160 acres, being the S. W. }, section 34, November 28, 1816. Nathaniel Hill, 320 acres, it being the S. W. }, section 28, and S. E à, section 29, September 14, 1814 ; Thomas Nichols, 134 acres, it being the N. W. }, section, March 18, 1815; Daniel P. Cook, 160 acres, it being the S. E. }, section 27, July 26, 1817, all in T. 3 S. R. 7 W .; and by Adam Henderson, 80 acres, being the W. { of the S. E. }, section 30, September 30, 1816, in T. 2 S. R. 6 W .; and by Henry T. Whitman, 160 acres, being the N. E. }, section 15, July 8, 1818; and by James Morrison, 160 acres, being the N. W. }, section 10, June 29, 1818, both in T. 3 S. R. 6 W.
The first threshing machine used in the precinct was that by Baumann Bros. in 1854. It was bought by them in Alton. It was a horse power.
Isaac Hill was licensed to keep a tavern at what is now the village of New Athens in 1816, paying into the County Treasury the sum of four dollars per annum for the privilege. This was the nucleus of the town itself. It drew to the vicinity other settlers, and trade demanded the location of the
TOWN OF NEW ATHENS.
NEW ATHENS, or Athens, as it was first called, was laid off by Narcisse Pensoneau in 1836. It consisted of forty-eight blocks, comprising 461 lots and a public square. Streets were of a uniform width of 66 feet, save Water, which was 99 feet wide. It is beautifully situated, and at times has seemed destined to become a city of considerable size only to lapse again almost into a series of farms. At first it grew rapidly, reaching as great a
population, it is claimed, as 1,500 inhabitants. In 1851 there were only five inhabitants. The first business house was a general store of Narcisse Pensoneau. The first physician was Dr. A. Trapp in 1837, the second Dr. Edward Klinckhardt, who is still a resident. George Rock kept entertainment for travellers in 1838. During the same year the first mill (a saw mill and corn cracker) was built. John Irwin was the first teacher ; he taught in 1836. William Brock burned the first kiln of brick in 1838 or 9. A house built of some of the brick still stands a quarter of a mile south-east of New Athens. It was built and at first occupied by Pensoneau. The prospects were bright, but reverses came, and in fifteen years the town was quite deserted, when a fresh impetus was given it by the opening of a store by Baumann Bros.
Again it revived. The steamboat " Pearl" undertook to make regular trips, followed shortly after by the "Silver Lake." In 1852 a post-office was established and William H. Bennett was appointed Postmaster. Was succeeded in 1856 by William Baumann, who continued as such until near the close of Lincoln's administration. The Athens Mill Company was incorporated and mill built in 1857 at a cost of $18,000. The company also bought the steamboat " Wild Duck" to ply upon the river between Athens and Kaskaskia.
Great confusion resulted from the fact that there was another Athens in the State. Baumann Bros. had 14 cases of boots and shoes and other merchandize shipped from Boston during the winter of 1855-6 which reached its destination the following spring, having wintered at Athens, Menard county. A change was made in the name from Athens to New Athens, in 1868.
In 1868 the Era was established and published by William Baumann.
In 1866 New Athens was incorporated by election, all residents excepting eight voting in favor.
The first Board of Trustees was elected December 8, 1866. It consisted of William Darmstetter, John Einge, Joseph Flach, H. M. Perryman and Gustav Huelbig.
In 1868 an effort was made to improve the navigation of the Kaskaskia, in which citizens of New Athens were quite active. A company was organized. Subscriptions were made but the locks and dams were never put in; the railroad superseded the move- ment.
The first train of cars on the Cairo Short Line from St. Louis crossed the bridge on New Year's day, 1870.
The Methodist Church was built in 1869; the Catholic in 1870; the Lutheran in 1878; and the German Evangelical in 1879.
New Athens, which a few years ago boasted from twelve to fifteen hundred inhabitants, had by the census of 1880 only 603. The destruction of the mill by fire in 1879, and competition with other railway towns have contributed to this result.
At present the leading business houses are :
Dry Goods Merchants-Joseph Flach, Isfried Probst, C. Stolz, F. H. Holst, William Wimer.
Druggists-Louis Schenck, Henry Dose.
Hotels-" New Athens," by Peter Deichmann ; " Bennett," by Daniel Bert ; " Tremont," by Cristoph Heinnemann ; " Illinois," by Mrs. William Geiger.
Printing Office-Hauft Bros.
Machine Shops-Degen Bros. manufacture plows, wagons, culti- vators and do repairing.
Brewery-Jacob Hooss, built in 1853, original cost $3,000, en-
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larged in 1866 at an expense of $9,000, finds a home market for all its products. Capacity, 31,000 gals. annually.
Milliners-Mrs. Catherine Judd, Mrs. J. Lively.
Blacksmith-Gain Bros.
Elevator-Russell Hinckley, capacity, 5000 bushels. Built in 1880.
Physicians-Dr. F. Reder, Dr. R. J. Watts, and Dr. Klinck- hardt.
Lumber Yard-Fritz Oberbek.
There are ten saloons.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
New Athens Lodge, No. 588, I. O.O. F., was organized October 16, 1875, with ten charter members, R. J. Watts as N. G. Present membership, about thirty.
MARISSA.
The village of Marissa was laid off by James Stewart, Dec. 12th, 1867, it being the east middle part of the west one-half of south- west quarter sec. 22, embracing 39 lots. To the original plats ad- ditions have been made by John W. Hesker of 21 lots east of ori- ginal plat, January 28, 1869, and by W. E. C. Lyons of 54 lots to the south, January 29th, 1870. It now has a population of about sixty inhabitants. It contains a general store by Henry Strassinger & Co .; blacksmith, Henry Hacket; and two saloons. To the north one quarter of a mile are Coulter's mills, Henry Schlosstein, propri- etor, built by Archibald Coulter in 1852; capacity 100 barrels per day ; three run of stone ; brick, with frame attachment. Original cost, $15,000.
MARISSA STATION,
One of the livest villages in the county, was laid out by M. E. and J. C. Hamilton, Jan. 5, 1871, on the Cairo Short Line Rail- road, which divides into the north and south divisions. . It occu- pies the central part of the north-west quarter of section 27. Ori- ginally there were 99 lots, 50 north and 49 south of the railroad. To these additions have been made at various times to meet the demands of growth, which have been quite regular and steady. Its population is about 300.
The name Marissa was selected by James Wilson, the first post- master appointed in 1846, who showed his love for ancient history by selecting a name preserved alone in Latin records. It was the name of a city destroyed and afterwards rebuilt by Gabinius, and is believed to be the only place in the world of the name. Messrs. Hamilton and Hayes opened the first store at the station in 1871.
John Hamilton, one of the founders of the town, a man of great energy, came to this county from South Carolina in 1834, and lo- cated on sec. 28. M. E. Hamilton built the first house, now used as a station-house. It was built for the storage of grain.
BUSINESS HOUSES.
Marissa Bank .- By Hamilton, Kunze & Co .; A. H. Wells, cashier; was established Sept. 1st, 1879. First and only bank in the precinct.
Marissa Elevator .- By F. A. Reuss & Co .; was built in 1877; has a capacity of 32,000 bush .; Jacob Adam, manager.
Marissa Mill and Elevator .- A. J. Meek builder and proprietor, was erected in 1877. The mill has a capacity for turning out 65 barrels of flour per diem, has four run of stone, elevator; capacity 4,500 bushels.
4. Dry Goods .- M. E. Hamilton & Co .; M. W. Borders & Co .; Wyllie Bros.
Druggists .- Lyons & Strassinger.
Hotels .- "Marissa House," by J. R. Helbron; "Hamilton House," by James A. Coppedge; and "Globe House," by Philip Kirch- hoeffer.
Hardwire .- J. H. Hamilton & Co.
Stoves and Tinware .-- A. Wasem.
Gents' Furnishing House .- J. W. Stewart.
Jeweler .- A. L. Blankenmeister.
The Marissa Monitor was established by John Wells.
Livery and Agricultural Implements-S. J. Guthrie. Furniture .- L. Vierheller, Jr.
Agricultural Implements .- Robert Mearns.
Wugon Maker .- Charles Stewart.
Lumber Dealers .- W. M. K. Lyons, Francis White.
Saddlery .- H. E. Mitze.
Carpenters .- J. W. Elder & Co., M. M. Lively, J. K. Nelson, . William Little.
Butchers .- John Hotz, A. Buser.
Post-master .- Daniel Zihledorf.
Lawyer .- A. Lyons.
Physicians .- A. P. Coulter, J. G. Guthrie, W. O. Wilcox. .
Justice of the Peace .- James A. Coppedge.
Churches .- Reformed Presbyterian, built in 1855; United Pres- byterian, in 1871; and Baptist, in 1875.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.
Marissa Lodge, No. 602, I. O. O. F., was organized Sept. 21st, 1876, with five charter members, M. M. Lively, N. G. Present N. G., E. D. McLean.
Evening Star Lodge, No. 654, I. O. O. F., was organized May 20th, 1878, with nine charter members; Philip Kirchhoefer, N. G.
Harmonia Lodge, No. 13, U. O. T. B., was instituted Feb. 6th, 1872, with ten charter members.
LENZBURG.
Here, again, we have old and new towns, not a half mile apart. The old town was laid off by T. A. Schneider, November 7th, 1862, it being the N. W. } of the N. W. } of section 7, T. 3 S. R. 6 W., and the adjoining fraction of the S. W. } of section 6. Since the iron horse has superseded the old-fashioned mail coach, the town has lost its trade to a great degree. It now has a general store by Adam Wesel, a blacksmith shop and saw-mill. The name was bestowed by Peter Baumann in honor of his native village, in Switzerland.
LENZBURG STATION. .
Population about 150, and rapidly increasing. Was laid off by P. J. Dreher, October 4th, 1876, on the S. E. } of the N. E. } of section 12, T. 3 S. R. 7 W., containing 81 lots.
Its business is rapidly increasing. Business houses are :
General Store, Peter J. Dreher.
Hotel, Hermanu Heinike, Frederick Deutchmann.
Elevator, Henry Serth.
Wagon Maker, Charles Vogler.
Blacksmiths, David Haensel, Philip Keim.
Physician, Miles Hughes.
Lenzburg post-office was located in 1866, P. J. Dreher, P. M., who has ever since held the office. There is a neat German Evangelical church building, which was erected in 1879.
RESIDENCE AND BLACKSMITH SHOP OF D. HAENSEL.
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DUTCH HILL
Was laid off and named by Fred Griebel, March 16th, 1867, on the S. W. ¿ of the S. W. + of section 11, T. 3 S. R. 7 W. A brewery had been established on the site by Edward Griebel, in 1844 or 5. Long since destroyed.
HILLSTOWN
Was laid off by Jacob Frech, April 2d, 1855, on the east side of the S. E. } of the S. W. } of section 18, T. 3 S., R. 6. W., being the first town laid out in the congressional township.
The first coal mine in the township was opened by George W. Morgenthaler, near Lenzburg, in 1865.
The Covenanters, or Reformed Presbyterians, built a house of worship half a mile south of Marissa Station, in 1856.
Among additional industries in the township should be men- tioned a saw-mill, owned by Hermann Yunk, on section 29, T. 3 S., R. 7 W.
CASUALTIES AND CRIME.
On the 10th of July, 1844, there occurred, near Athens, the drowning of five persons. As narrated by Otto Huelbig, one of the party : "Seven of us started to attend a wedding. Before reaching the Okaw we had to cross a slough. The waters were much swollen. Unfortunately the wagon upset, caused by the ladies rushing to the front, where my father and myself were seated. My mother, three sisters and a Miss Lena Williams, found watery graves, whilst my father and myself escaped a like death."
A SHOCKING MURDER.
Was committed in the month of May, 1854, at the house of Henry
Snyder, section 3, T. 3 S., R. 7. One Valentine Klaus, it seems, loved his step-daughter, or so professed, and feigning illness, had her come to his bedside at Snyder's, where, after a short conversa- tion, he shot her with a bullet that had been cast in a thimble; immediately he sprang from the room, climbed a ladder leading to the loft, and shot himself with a pistol. Death ensued at once.
This precinct was organized June 5th, 1839, and embraced within its limits the precinct of St. Clair, which was stricken off in 1870. The first election was held in the fall of 1839, at the store of James Turkington. Reuben Lively, Adam McDonald and Isaac Rainey, were the first judges of election.
White Oak Mine, for the mining of coal, the second most exten- sive coal-shaft in the county, is located on section 35, nearly two miles south-east of Marissa. It is one hundred and seventy-five feet deep ; the vein is about six and a half feet in thickness; gives employment to one hundred men ; is operated by steam-power ; its products are shipped to St. Louis. Proprietors are Donk, Tijou & Co. Shipments amount to nearly twenty cars a day.
Agriculturally, Athens is an excellent body of land, producing luxuriant crops. Dutch Hill, on an elevation, surrounded by a fine expanse of prairie, overlooks nearly all the precinct. Few finer views are anywhere presented than this. Farm-houses, neat and comfortable; barns good and substantial greet the eye on every hand. This precinct perpetuates a name handed down honorably for centuries as that borne by the Grecian capital and the world's seat of learning. The projectors of the village on the banks of the river, and from which it directly derives its name, had originally in mind to make it a seat of learning, as plats first named clearly show.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
AMONG the rising young business men of the county none better deserve mention in this work, than Jas. H. Hamilton of Marissa. Being thoroughly identified with the interests of his own community, he has done more than any other man to aid in its development. He is the head of the firm of Jas. H. Hamilton & Co., who carry on an extensive business in hardware, agricultural implements, &c., both in Marissa and Sparta. He is also a member of the firm of Hamilton, Kunze & Co., bankers of Marissa.
His great-grandfather, Robert Hamilton, was a Scotch Irishman who emigrated to this country in the latter part of the last century, and settled in Chester county, S. C, where he raised a large fami- ly, of which there were four sons : John, William, Samuel and Ro- bert.
John Hamilton, the eldest of the family, and grandfather of Jas. H. Hamilton, the subject of this sketch, was born in 1794. He married the daughter of Mathew Elder, who with his young wife
had come to this country in the same ship with the father and mother of Mr. Hamilton. In 1832, Mr. Hamilton left Carolina for the state of Illinois, arriving at the town of Columbus, (now Sparta) where he remained until the fall of 1835, when he came to this county, and settled upon what is now known as the old Ham- ilton homestead, near the present town of Marissa. There were then but a few settlers in that part of the county. The now beau- tiful farms with cozy homes, were then one vast plane of prairie grass, as high as the shoulders of a man on horseback, with deer and wolves its principal inhabitants. Mr. Hamilton raised a fa- mily of three sons and four daughters, all of whom married and settled immediately around him. He died October 26, 1876, over 82 years of age.
His eldest son, Mathew E. Hamilton, the father of Jas. H. Ha- milton, was only fourteen years of age, when they arrived in Illinois. At the age of twenty, he married Miss Jeanetta Gibson, who died in
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1852, leaving three sons : James H., John M., and Robert G. In 1854, Mr. Hamilton married again, taking Miss Elizabeth Bau- mann, eldest daughter of Peter Baumann, Sen., who was one of the early settlers of the county. Mr. Hamilton was an energetic man, and did much to advance the interests of his own community. He was an earnest Christian, charitable to a fault, and it could be said of him that he had no enemy among men. He was postmaster of Marissa for twenty-five years, and township treasurer for an equal length of time. He was engaged for a number of years in the mercantile business in the old town of Marissa, but upon the build- ing of the railroad through his farm, he laid out the present town of Marissa, and through his energy and liberality did much to make the town what it is. By untiring industry Mr. Hamilton accumulated a considerable amount of property. But by that ever charitable disposition which led him to aid all who called upon him, he was persuaded by misrepresentations to go security for large sums, which by the failure of P. Baumann & Bros. of New Athens he was compelled to pay. This swept away at one stroke his whole life's accumulation. This was more than his mortal part could stand : his health failed, he sought the most skilled of medi- cal aid ; the recuperative powers of the most celebrated Mineral Springs; the diversion of travel in the orange groves of the sunny south, and finally took a trip to England and Ireland, but all in vain. He returned home, arriving upon the morning of the 25th of October, 1876, to die the next morning surrounded by his fa- mily and friends.
Mr. Jas. H. Hamilton was born Oct. 11, 1844. He spent his mi- nority in laboring upon the farm. His mother died when he was but eight years old. Being the eldest of the family, and his father engaged in a mercantile business, it devolved upon him early to take charge of the management of the farm, which he did with much success as long as he remained upon it. Having a de- sire for a more extended education than that afforded by the com- mon schools, he entered. Monmouth College in the fall of 1866, where he graduated in 1869. He then went to St. Louis, where he attended two courses of lectures in the St. Louis Medical College. Studying with a view of being an oculist, but having obtained an in- sight of the medical profession, he concluded that he did not like it, and formed a copartnership with Mr. Wm. M. Lyons, (then as now also of Marissa,) and embarked in the drug business upon the corner of Fifth street and Washington avenue in St. Louis. This venture not proving a success they sold out and removed to Marissa, and in the summer of 1873, began in the drug business there, to which they soon added a hardware store and a lumber yard, all of which they managed very successfully until the spring of 1876, when they dissolved copartnership, Mr. Hamilton taking the hard- ware, to which he immediately added agricultural implements. In the spring of 1880, Mr. Hamilton started a house also in Sparta, under the supervision of Mr. R. J. Rankin, a gentleman who had been with him a number of years as a clerk. They have since formed a copartnership under the firm name of Jas. H. Hamilton & Co., and carry a very large stock of goods in both places. In 1876, Mr. Hamilton married Miss Virginia Short, daughter of Mr. J. S. Short, formerly of the vicinity of Freeburg in this county.
Mr. Hamilton was one of the organizers, and is still one of the principal managers of the banking firm of Hamilton, Kunze & Co. of Marissa.
Mr. Hamilton is a member of the United Presbyterian Church, and superintendent of their Sabbath-school. He is a man of great self-reliance, and whatever success he may have achieved is due to his indomitable energy and perseverance.
GEORGE W. GUTHRIE,
WHO was born January 15th, 1841, is a native of St. Clair county, and of Irish and German descent. His father, Joseph Guthrie, was born on Horse Prairie, Randolph county, Illinois. The Guthries were among the early settlers of this prairie. Guthrie grew to manhood here, and married Elizabeth Boyd, a native of Ireland, who was brought to America when an infant by her parents. Her father, Robert Boyd, settled in South Carolina, near Charleston, where he remained several years, and afterwards came to Randolph county, this being about 1828, where she subse- quently married Joseph Guthric. They raised a family of five children; three now living, viz., Martha, now Mrs. John G. Fel- lers, who lives near Sparta, George W., our subject, and Samuel, who now lives in Marissa. During the life of Joseph Guthrie, he followed shoemaking, school-teaching, and farming. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk War, enlisting from Randolph county. After Mr. Guthrie's marriage, he came to St. Clair county, about 1835, and settled on section thirty-four, about two miles south of Old Marissa, where he improved a farm. In 1841, he sold out his improvements to William White, and moved further west, in the same township, near where George W. Guthrie now resides, where he lived until his death in 1848. He left his family in fair cir- cumstances, and a farm of two hundred and forty acres. His widow survived him until October 6th, 1866. Joseph Guthrie was a kind and hospitable man, a warm-hearted and generous friend. Many of the old settlers who struggled with him to sur- mount the hardships of a new country, destitute of schools and churches, and beset on every hand with difficulties and trials, will join with his children and relatives in shedding a tear over his grave. The subject of our sketch remained at home, and assisted his mother on the farm, and attended the common schools of the neighborhood during the winter months, until he became of age.
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