History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources, Part 75

Author: Beckwith, H. W. (Hiram Williams), 1833-1903
Publication date: 1879
Publisher: Chicago : H. H. Hill and Company
Number of Pages: 1164


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N. C. Howard . . G. W. Cook.


1862 ... 247 ... A. G. Olmstead .J. Crosby


H. J. Oakwood .J. A. Church.


1865. Richard Jones . S. Calvert


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of the Homer circuit. The present house was built in 1857, under the preaching of Rer. Peter Wallace. G. W. Pate. Thomas Williams, Thomas Keeney, the Rays, Isaac Wolf, Truman Williams and several others were active in the work of building this. It is 36×46, with a steeple, and is a comfortable house. It cost about $1,500. The num- ber of members is about forty. It afterward was changed to Fairmont circuit, and is now Catlin circuit. The Shiloh Methodist Society was organized in 1854. Hamilton Boggess was the first class-leader, and continued his faithful service in that position until he went to the army, where he remained faithful to every trust, as indeed he did everywhere, until, stricken down by disease, he was called up higher. He died in the hospital at Nashville, a sacrifice, like thousands of others, to the unity of this nation. Mr. and Mrs. H. Boggess, Miss Pritchard, John Aldrige, Martin Roof and wife, John Busby and wife, Peter Conrad and wife, M. B. Boggess and wife, Edwin Busby and wife, and William Busby and wife, were the members of this class which became the Shiloh charge. William Busby was another of this little band who gave his life to his country. Rev. George Fairbanks, who resided in Homer, first preached here once in four weeks. Rev. George Bates is the present preacher in charge. Services are held in the school-house. The charge has usually numbered about thirty-five. A union Sabbath-school is maintained in connection with the Cumber- land Presbyterian. W. Douglass is superintendent.


The Fairview M. E. Church is on the line between Catlin and Georgetown. The Bethel M. E. Church was organized as a class in 1869, with fifteen members. Under the preaching of Rev. John Helmic, who held a protracted meeting in the school-house here, a church of thirty-five members was organized. Preaching was held in the school-house until 1876, when the church was built. The building is 28×40, a neat and tasty edifice, with a steeple, well painted and comfortably seated. It cost $1,400. The Rays, Thomas Williams, E. P. Boggess and Clark Fetterplace were leading men in getting this work forwarded. The membership is about forty. A Sabbath-school, under the superintendency of William M. Ray, numbers about thirty- five.


A Sabbath-school was first taught by G. W. Pate in the little cabin which was used for a school-house as early as 1838. Coffeen's Hand- book of Vermilion County says, p. 24: "The first Sunday-school in the county, as also probably the first M. E. Church, was organized at Asa Elliott's cabin." No dates are given, and no names; but it is probable that those pioneers of religious effort, the Pates (father and son), and Reynolds and Elliott, were the promoters of this school, and


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that the date was possibly anterior to the one given above on the authority of Mr. Ray. Jacob Wright, an elder of the Christian church, preached here irregularly for two years, commencing in 1865, and organized a church. The building was erected in 1873. It is 32 x 50, with steeple, and cost $1,800. Joel Acrec, Henry Foster and D. Runyon were the leading men in erecting the house. Elder John Myers is the present preacher. Preaching service is held every two weeks, and disciple school each alternate Sabbath.


The Cumberland Presbyterian church, known as Mt. Vernon, was organized by Rev. James Ashmore, of Foster Presbytery, in 1840. Mr. Ashmore has been the pioneer preacher of that denomination for all this portion of the county, having labored here for nearly fifty years, and organized churches, preached the gospel, and labored faith- fully here during nearly all of his life. He now resides in Fairmount, under which heading the reader will find a more extended notice of this excellent man. Mr. Ashmore came here to preach in the Jordan school-house in June, 1840, and Mount Vernon church was organized in the fall of that year, with about twenty members. Mr. and Mrs. Oakwood, Mr. and Mrs. Buoy, Mr. and Mrs. Allen, Mr. Hardin and family, Mr. Davis and family, Mrs. McKinney and family, Mr. Martin and family, were the first members. The first elders were: John Allen, Laban Buoy, Jesse Burroughs and T. H. Morgan. For two years this church was in a constant state of revival, and Mr. Ashmore carried on the work with the assistance of Rev. Mr. Hill. At one time it numbered two hundred and fifty members. Its numbers were greatly reduced by death and removal. More than forty members went to Oregon, and not less than one hundred of them sleep in the little church-yard. The pastors of the Mount Vernon church who followed Father Ashmore were: Rev. Henry Woodward, who died in Kansas; Rev. David Vandeventer, who lives near Delevan; Rev. Allen Whitlock, now dead ; Rev. Jesse Beals, at Mattoon ; then Father Ashmore again. At present, Rev. W. R. Hendrick is pastor. A Sab- bath-school numbering eighty, with Mr. Albert Voores superintendent, is kept up.


COAL.


They have abundance of good coal at Catlin, but the depression in the coal trade has been so great that the enterprises have proved finan- cial failures. The Hinds shaft was sunk in 1862 by William Hinds. It passed successively through the hands of Mr. Henderson, Isaac Wolf and Mr. Jenkins, since which it has been closed. John Faulds put down a shaft near the railroad, west of town, in 1863. He reached a six-foot vein one hundred and forty-seven feet below the surface. It


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was thought to be a great strike at that time, and men of figures showed by slate and pencil that the coal under each section of land would be worth about $12,000,000. The event was celebrated by a grand banquet in June, 1864, at which Capt. W. R. Timmons was called on to preside, and, amid feasting and good cheer, G. W. Tilton, the poet laureate of Catlin, sang an original song, displaying in stately numbers the beauties and utilities of this grand " Hole in the Ground." The occasion was one of delight, such as the wideawake citizens of Catlin are pleased to engage in. Mr. Faulds supplied it with all the necessary machinery, and run it until 1870. Messrs. McNair and Sweany then worked it for a while, when it went into disuse.


The Ohio shaft, one and one-half miles east of Catlin, was sunk by a company of men from Youngstown, Ohio, in 1865. They found coal at a depth of one hundred and twenty feet. This has changed hands often, and has proved a financial loss. Charles Gones, who purchased the old Woodin farm, put down a shaft one mile northwest of Catlin, near the stream. He struck a six-foot vein at the depth of seventy feet, and at an expense of about $1,500. It is now leased by James Payne, who is carrying it on successfully.


CATLIN VILLAGE.


When the Great Western railroad was built, a station was estab- lished on section 34, and in 1856, Guy Merrill and Josiah Hunt laid out the village of Catlin on that section. It consisted of twelve blocks north and south of the depot grounds. At the same time Harvey Sandusky laid out and platted an addition lying south of and running from the railroad west of the original town as far east as that plat did. On the 18th of March Josiah Sandusky platted an addition between this last and the railroad. April, 1858, Josiah platted and laid out his second addition west of the original town. In 1863 J. H. Oakwood laid out an addition of two blocks north of the original town, and in October, 1867, McNair & Co. laid out and platted the Coal Shaft addi- tion along the railroad west, and west of Sandusky's second addition. The place had been known so long as Butler's Point, that it at once became a place of considerable importance. Some of the most enterprising citizens of the county have done business here.


Richard Jones was the first to begin business here after the railroad was built. He was station agent, bought grain and sold goods, and continued in active business here for several years. Capt. W. R. Tim- mons came here from Indiana in 1855, before the railroad was built, and commenced selling goods in a room which he rented of G. W. Pate, just west of town. The place was known then as Butler's Point.


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It was on the old stage road between Crawfordsville, Indiana, and Springfield. Mr. Pate was postmaster. Timmons had one room of the house, which at that time served for residence, store, post-office and country tavern. When the village was laid out he built the store now standing in the northern part of the village, and moved his store there, still keeping on the state road, and was appointed the first postmaster of Catlin. He continued in trade here for more than fifteen years. Harvey Sandusky was a partner while he remained in the store on the state road, and Mr. Wolf for ten years after.


Capt. Timmons raised Co. A of the 25th Reg. Ill. Vol., but was prevented by sickness from going with them. He raised Co. D of the 35th Reg., and rendezvoused on the fair-ground. He marched with them and led them to victory for two years, when his health again giving out, he was obliged to return home. Fred Tarrant and John Swanell had a nice drug store, which was continued for some years. Henry Church commenced the grocery trade, and in 1857 S. Calvert commenced selling goods, and J. H. Oakwood and G. W. Pate opened a general retail store. Goss & Sandusky commenced trade about the same time, or soon after, and were succeeded by Goss & Lee.


About the close of the war, G. W. and S. R. Tilton came here. They were enterprising and thoroughly educated young men, have continued in business till the present time, and have done their full share toward the advancement of Catlin. J. C. Clayton was the first blacksmith. He had a large establishment, and engaged in making mole-ditchers for B. Stockton, who had the right for several counties. Addison Neff also had a blacksmith shop. Crosby, Cook & Co. com- menced, in 1858, the manufacture of chairs, furniture, etc., a business which they continued for some years. They employed six or eight hands, and did a large, and for a time a very successful, business, but the changed condition of manufacture and the demands of the times have driven this line of business entirely out of the small villages, and now everybody has to go to the large cities for his chairs or a bedstead. Albert Heath came here in 1857, and erected the linge pile just sonth of the railroad known as "Heath's Folly." The building is 40 x 75, three stories high, with a large addition on the south side. It was built to contain three stores on the ground floor, a hotel in the second, and a ball-room in the third. It was the largest building of any kind in this part of the county, and far too large for Heath's purse or for the demands of the times. When he got it inclosed he failed and ran away. Six years later the citizens bought it and presented it to Mr. Jenkins, who put a steam grist-mill into it. Mr. Jenkins had had a considerable experience in milling, and did a good business. It had


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two run of burrs, and was successful until Mr. Jenkins' death. The building was never occupied either as a store or hotel. Capt. Timmons was the first postmaster, and was followed by the following officials in turn : J. K. Turner, Thomas Church, Albert Church, Sam. R. Tilton, L. C. Kyger and Arthur Jones.


INSTITUTIONS.


The Catlin Brass Band was organized in 1866 by Frank Champion, and has been kept up ever since.


The Catlin graded school is under the efficient management of the School Board, of which G. Wilse Tilton is president, and A. G. Payne, secretary. The school is under Principal W. J. Brinckley. The house is a large and roomy three-story brick building, about 45 x 60, the np- per story of which, however, belongs to the Masonic order, under a con- tract which was entered into at the time of building. The school has always been well conducted, and is evidently in good hands. Pupils are carried through all the higher branches: rhetoric, botany, geome- try, zoology, higher arithmetic, physical geography and natural philoso- phy, preparing graduates for first grade certificates under the laws of this state. The school year is eight months with three vacations.


The Vermilion County Agricultural and Mechanical Association was organized in 1850. The first fair was held at Danville where the Presbyterian church now stands. They elected officers, held the fair, declared premiums, all in one day. There was no gate fee charged, and only about forty dollars paid in premiums. It does not appear where the money to pay this princely sum came from, but probably from license fees charged to those who kept stands on the ground. The second fair was held down on the bottom near the Red Bridge. This was such a decided improvement on the first one, that the farmers be- gan to take heart. No fee was charged. People thought it was about all it was worth to come the distance they must to see a fair. Harvey Sodasky, Samnel Baum, Martin Mondy and P. S. Spencer showed fine cattle, and Ward H. Lamon, afterward President Lincoln's marshal and biographer, showed a fast horse and a monkey. Mr. J. H. Oakwood, Mr. Milligan and Mr. Catlett were appointed a committee to fix up a plan of organization. Nearly all the fine stock was then owned by the men living in this part of the county, and it was thought more convenient to locate it at Butler's Point, where suitable grounds could be got at very reasonable rental. Forty acres of ground was rented and fenced, a good track laid out, an amphitheatre, floral and mechanical halls erected, and good fairs have been held each year. Last year it was thought best to hold it at Danville. The present officers are G. W.


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Tilton, president ; W. T. Sandusky, vice-president ; W. S. McClenna- than, secretary ; D. Douglas, treasurer. The fairs have increased in general interest each year, and have generally proved financially suc- cessful.


The Oakridge Cemetery was organized under the laws of the state in August, 1868. Two burying-grounds had been previously occupied for resting-places for the dead. The old ground is near the railroad, three-fourths of a mile from the village. It was the first place for burial of the dead in this part of the county, and was never properly platted and mapped ; very many of the graves are not marked, and the surface indications have become obliterated, so that it was difficult to tell where new graves might be dug without breaking into old ones. Henry Jones laid out a family burying-ground on his own lands which has been used by some.


The necessity was, therefore, apparent for a regular place to lay away the dead in their last resting-place in an orderly way. A beauti- ful spot was selected, two acres of ground purchased and properly platted. Hon. J. H. Oakwood is president; G. W. Tilton, secretary ; G. W. Wolf, E. P. Boggess and W. M. Ray, directors.


Catlin Lodge, No. 285, Free and Accepted Masons, was instituted October 7, 1858. The charter members were: Dr. Allen Lathram, W.M., J. H. Goss, Albert Heath, David M. Woolin, Henry Carigan, William Kyle and W. R. Timmons. The latter is the only one left of the original charter members. This has been the parent lodge of Masonry in this portion of the county. One hundred and forty inter- mediate, Passed and Accepted Masons have been put through the course of instruction which entitles them to position in the order. Twelve were sent out from here to start the Fairmount lodge, and fifteen to Newtown, and some to others. No. 285 is everywhere recog- nized as one of the best lodges in this part of the state. It now num- bers sixty-five. Its successive masters in turn have been : Dr. Lathram, J. H. Oakwood, W. R. Timmons, J. H. Goss, A. G. Olmstead, J. A. Frazier, G. W. Tilton, J. C. Vance, Peter Wolf, J. H. Crosby and A. G. Payne. It practically owns the room which is the third story of the seminary building, having paid for it when it was built, and have a ninety-nine years lease. The present officers are: A. G. Payne, W.M .; D. Douglas, S.W .; J. W. Newlon, J.W .; Albert Church, secretary ; J. W. Crutchley, treasurer; S. McGregor, S.D .; J. D. Culp, J.D .; M. Lenon, T. Lodge meets second and fourth Saturdays in each month.


Catlin Lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 538, was constituted October, 1874. Joseph Buckingham, N.G .; Henry Martin, V.G .; J. C. Thorp, R.S .;


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Silas Clark, treasurer, and William Jameson, were charter members. Seven were initiated the first night, making twelve original members. The lodge has always been a prosperous one. The Noble Grands have each hung their portraits in the lodge-room. The present officers are: Silas Clark, N.G .; F. F. Torpenning, V.G .; Thomas Dale, secretary ; G. W. Tilton, treasurer. The lodge numbers thirty-three.


The Catlin Grange, No. 4, Patrons of Husbandry, was, as its num- ber indicates, one of the first organized in the state. The charter members were Jesse Davis, H. M. Payne, Joseph Culp, J. C. Sandusky, J. H. Hartley, A. G. Payne and J. C. Vance. It was strong in men and firm in the faith, and probably did its share in increasing the crops, killing off the middle-men, and making the politicians dread the tillers of the soil. It maintained an efficient organization for five years.


The Sons of Temperance organized in 1871 and the Good Templars in 1864. At the time of their organization there were four licensed saloons in Catlin. They lived and did good work in their respective orders until the last saloon was closed, and then disbanded. Catlin has been a temperance village since then.


VILLAGE ORGANIZATION.


March 24, 1863, an election was held to vote for or against incorpora- tion, Sanford Calvert presiding. Twelve votes were cast for, and none against incorporation. April 3 an election was held for five trustees. The result was: for S. Hodges, 11; S. Calvert, 9; J. C. Clayton, 10; G. W. F. Church, 8; Thos. Church, 8; A. C. Cord, R. Wilson, U. Winters, each 6. S. Calvert was chosen president; G. W. F. Church, clerk, and Dr. Richardson was chosen trustee in place of J. C. Clayton, who de- clined to serve. Clayton is supposed to have been the first citizen of the town who declined official preferment, and some suppose him the last. The corporate limits were fixed as the west half of section 35 and east half of section 34. At an election for police magistrate, July 25, twenty-eight votes were cast, and S.Calvert was elected. The new board established a set of ordinances to govern the town. The present officers are : S. Hodges, president; J. F. Crosby, C. Gones, L. C. Kyger, A. G. Payne and S. W. Jones, trustees; D. H. Hazelrigg, police mag- istrate; Albert Church, clerk ; D. H. Torpenning, street commissioner.


BIOGRAPHICAL.


D. B. Douglass, Catlin, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Ver- milion county, Illinois, on the 11th of October, 1827, and is the son of Cyrus and Ruby Douglass, who were natives of Virginia and Pennsyl- vania, and came to the county in an early day, and were the first


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couple married in the county. Mr. D. B. Douglass made a trip to California in 1853, and in 1864 went to the western territories, re- turning in 1866. He was married on the 5th of September, 1855, to Miss Ann Downing, a native of Kentucky, born on the 25th of De- cember, 1825. They have three sons and two daughters: Samuel, Eliza, Allen, Bell and George. Mr. Douglass has three hundred and twenty-six acres of land with good improvements, which are the fruits of his own management and attendance strictly to his own affairs. He has thus gained the good will of all his neighbors, and is respected by all who know him.


Lura Gnyman, Catlin, farmer, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 20th of August, 1793, and was married to Noah Guyman, May, 1812, who was a native of North Carolina and came to Vermilion county in 1829, and resided where Mrs. Gnyman now lives until his death in 1861. He served in the Blackhawk war in 1832, under Col. Moore. She is the mother of one son and one daughter now living : Franklin N. and Mary H. Payne, who is the mother of three children : Milton N., Lura E., wife of George Trimmell, and Jessie L., wife of J. G. Redmon. Mrs. Gnyman has been a practicing physician in the ' county for sixty years, and has been at the births of over one thousand children, always making her visits on horseback ; consequently she has ridden more miles on horseback than any other woman in the state. She is now eighty-six years of age, and attends a garden of one-fourth of an acre, that would do credit to any man in the county.


James T. Yount, Fairmount, farmer, was born in Gallion county, Kentucky, on the 30th of March, 1813, and came to Vermilion connty with his parents in 1829, and first located eight miles west of where M. Yount now resides. One of Mr. Yount's brothers was in the Black- hawk war. Mr. Yount has been twice married. His former wife was. Emaline Halden. They were married in 1857. She was born in Monroe county, Virginia, on the 23d of March, 1841, and died in 1864. His second marriage was to Eliza E. Worl, on the 22d of June, 1877. She was born in 1849. Mr. Yount has two children by his former wife : Mary E. and William G., and one by his present wife : Charles.


Joel Acree, Catlin, farmer, with his father and family, arrived in this county in 1829, and located in Catlin township, coming from Ala- bama. His father bought one hundred and thirty acres of raw land and built a cabin, and the second year put in cultivation thirty acres and became one of the prominent farmers of the county. Milling was difficult on account of the long distances and unbridged streams. When a boy, Mr. Acree has often taken a single sack of corn on horse- back as far as ten, and sometimes fifteen, miles in order to obtain a


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little meal for immediate family use. For a number of years after the death of his father (who died in 1835) Mr. Acree continued to reside with his mother and family, filling, to the best of his ability, the posi- tion naturally devolving upon him as the eldest son. In 1848 he took to himself a wife, the object of his choice being Miss Eloessa Yount, daughter of William and Cathrine (Sacra) Yount, old settlers of the county. Mr. Aeree remained on the old homestead and bought out the other heirs, and became sole proprietor. He has added to it until the farm now embraces four hundred and eighty-five acres of well- improved land. Mr. Acree is to be congratulated on his past success, and it is but just to add that in a large measure he has been assisted by a noble, self-denying wife who has not only saved her husband's hard earnings, but has materially added from time to time thereto. Two children only are spared to them as the fruits of their marriage : Mrs. Mary C. (Tho. A. Taylor) and Mattie, wife of L. McDonald.


J. W. Acree, Fairmount, farmer, was born in Alabama on the 15th of October, 1825, and came with his parents to Vermilion county in 1829. On the 4th of March, 1852, Mr. Acree took himself a life- partner, his choice being Miss Lydia Brady, daughter of John and Rosanna Brady, who were early settlers of this county. She was born in Brown county, Ohio, on the 6th of November, 1832. They have been blessed with a family of two sons and one daughter: Jerod Rosanna (now wife of E. C. Lee), and Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. Acree are both united with the C. P. Church. Mr. Aeree owns a fine farm of two hundred and thirty-five aeres, which is the fruit of his own industry.


John A. Church, Catlin, was born in Greenbrier county, in what is now West Virginia, on the 20th of August, 1827. In the fall of 1830 his family moved to Vermilion county, Illinois, and settled at Butler's Point. Mr. Church's father still resides on the place originally settled, and is now in the seventy-third year of his life. Mr. Church's mother, formerly Miss Ruth Caraway, died on the 14th of February, 1850, and was buried at Butler's Point. She was the mother of ten children, seven of whom were raised, and five are now living: John A., William, Sarah, Joseph and Charles, all of Catlin township. Mary, the wife of Frank Guyman, and Ruth, both died in the same township, the former in 1862, and the latter about 1854. Mr. Church was about three years of age on his arrival in this county, and has lived all his life within a mile of the place first settled. He was married to Miss Mary Lore on the 27th of September, 1849, at the house of the bride's parents in Catlin town- ship. He settled down immediately to farm-life, and tanght school in the winter for some three years. By striet economy, and the simplest


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mode of living, enough money was saved up the first six years to make a payment of $500 on an improved forty acres of land, on which he immediately moved, and which was paid for in due time, and now forms a part of the present fine farm of one hundred and seventy aeres, lying two miles northwest of Catlin, and on which the proprietor lived till the fall of 1874, when he settled in Catlin, where he has bought a handsome little property. As the fruits of their marriage. Mr. Church and lady have been blessed with two bright, interesting daughters: Miss Edwina and Miss Clara. Alexander, Mr. Church's father, was also raised and married in Virginia, in the county already mentioned, and is now one of the old and honored pioneers of Ver- milion county. Mrs. Church's ancestry, the Loves, are also of an old and well-known Virginia family, and were also settlers in that state when it was a British colony. Her father, William, was born in the same state in 1803. He married a Miss Elizabeth Gish, and immedi- ately moved to Highland county, Ohio, where they landed about 1826. They arrived in Danville, Illinois, in 1830, where they resided till 1839. when they moved to Catlin township, where they both died, he in the spring of 1868, and she in the spring of 1871.




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