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soul of every private gathering. He is plain and simple in his habits and manners. His modesty is a conspienous trait that is equaled only by his goodness of heart, and the universal esteem which he enjoys by virtue of his many excellences of character. He is a republican in polities, and has been an active member of the Methodist church thirty years. The Mann family have always been noted for their hospitality, and their careful avoidance of notoriety.
John Davison, Rossville, collecting agent, was born in Ross town- ship, Vermilion county, Illinois, on the 12th of February, 1837, and is the son of Robert and Melinda (Chenowerth) Davison. He was brought up to farm labor. In the fall of 1856 and the next winter he attended school at Perrysville, Indiana, and, the following summer, clerked at Myersville for Andy Gundy. He spent the next winter at Perrysville, and the succeeding spring at Danville, in school again. On the 26th of September, 1858, he was married to Maria, daughter of Joseph Gundy. He enlisted in Co. F, 4th Ill. Cav., in July, 1861, and was in the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson ; was discharged in August, 1862. Mr. Davison returned to farming. From 1873 to 1876 he was employed in mercantile pursuits. He was elected justice of the peace in 1877, and since then has been in the collecting busi- ness. He has three living children : Willie L., Charley F., Ferdinand. Mr. Davison is a republican.
Anthony T. Search, Alvin, farmer, was born in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, on the 16th of August, 1814. He is a son of Christopher and Ann (Miles) Search. He learned the tailor's trade, and followed it a number of years. In April, 1837, he started for Illinois, stopping and working at his trade at different places on the route, and arrived at Danville in August. He was married on the 18th of February, 1839, to Miss Eliza Mckibben. In 1840 he went to Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, and lived there until 1850, when he crossed the plains to California. He remained there mining, doing moderately well, till 1856, at which time he returned to the states by steamship, stopping a few months in New York and Philadelphia, and reaching Danville, Illinois, in February, 1857. He then devoted himself to farming until the breaking out of the war. In August, 1861, he re- cruited Co. F, 4th Ill. Cav., Col. Lyle Dickey. Ile was commissioned captain on the 27th, and mustered into the United States service the next month. He was engaged in the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson, and Shiloh and Coffeeville, and, as usual with cavalry, in numberless skirmishes. When the term of service of his regiment expired, one battalion veteraned, and he was commissioned major. This was in September, 1864. Subsequently, he participated in an
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engagement at Egypt, Mississippi, under Gen. Grierson, and later, at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee. His service extended into the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louis- iana and Texas. He was president one year of the Department Court- martial, which held its sittings sometimes at Houston and at others at Galveston, Texas. He was twice breveted in the field for meritorions service: first, lientenant-colonel, and next, colonel. His son Henry volunteered in the fall of 1863, and was mustered into his company. He was accidentally thrown from his horse while doing duty in Hous- ton, and received mortal injuries. This sad event took place on the 31st of October, 1865, and he lingered till the 2d of November, when he expired. His remains were brought home and interred at Danville. Another son, Griffith, enlisted in Capt. Samuel Frazier's company, 12th Ill., Col. McArthur, for three months. He reenlisted in his father's company in August, 1861, and served three years. Major Search was mustered out of the service in April, 1866. He was elected sheriff of Vermilion county in 1868, and filled that office two years. He has been assessor and collector of Ross township, cach three terms. He is the father of six children: Ann (relict of William Pierce), Henry, Griffith, Joeddy, William and Sarah (wife of Henry Marshall), who died on the 12th of August, 1876. He owns one hundred and twenty acres, worth $3,600. He is a stalwart republican in politics.
Joseph C. Gundy, Rossville, merchant, was born in Vermilion · county, Illinois, on the 15th of February, 1838, and is the son of Jo- seph and Sally (Davison) Gundy. He was enrolled on the 1st of June, 1861, in Co. B, 25th Ill. Vol., and was engaged in the following battles : Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge and Kenesaw Mountain. His service on the Atlanta campaign terminated on the 26th of August, when his regiment withdrew pre- paratory to returning home, as their period of enlistment had about expired. He was commissioned second-lientenant of his company on the 17th of February, 1862, and first-lieutenant on the 14th of April, 1863. He was brigade commissary from the time Bnell advanced from Louisville until after the battle of Perryville, and post commis- sary at Cleaveland, East Tennessee, in the winter of 1863-4. He has been collector of Ross township, and is now president of the board of trustees of Rossville. Mr. Gundy was married on the 29th of Novem- ber, 1865, to Miss Anna Tuttle. They are the parents of two living children : Flora and Maud M. His political opinions are republican.
Daniel C. Deamude, Rossville, merchant, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, on the 26th of July, 1839, and is the son of Samuel and Eleanor (Hillery) Deamude. He was reared a farmer. Mr. Dea-
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mude enrolled in Co. D, 35th Ill. Vol., on the 3d of July, 1861, and mustered into the United States service on the 28th of August follow- ing. These are the chief engagements in which he participated : Pea Ridge, Corinth, Mumfordsville, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Charleston, Tenn., Rocky Face Ridge, Buzzard Roost. Resaca and Burnt Hickory. At Chickamauga he was slightly wounded ; received nine bullets through his clothing, two of them taking hair from his head; at Mission Ridge he received a flesh wound in his right arm ; at Burnt Hickory on the 26th of May, 1864, he was severely wounded in the left side. He was mustered out with his regiment at Springfield, Illinois, on the 27th of September, 1864. On the 1st of Jannary following he recruited Co. K, 150th Ill. Vol., and was mustered in as first-lieutenant on the 14th of February ; he was mustered out early in 1866. Mr. Deamude married, on the 29th of November, 1866, to Harriet a Mosher. The past ten years he has been in the hardware trade in Rossville. He is a republican and a Methodist.
Thomas J. Allison, Alvin, farmer, was born on the 30th of Septem- ber, 1840, in Newell township, Vermilion county, Illinois, and is the son of Otho and Mary (Leonard) Allison. He enlisted on the 15th of August, 1861, in Co. K, of which he was fifth-sergeant, 37th Ill. Vol .. Col. J. C. Black. He participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove, Van Buren, Ark .; Sugar Creek, Neosho, Newtonia, Cape Girardeau and Chalk Bluffs, Mo., and the siege of Vicksburg. He was taken prisoner in Louisiana on the 29th of September, 1863, and held in confinement until the 22d of July, 1864. He was married on the 26th of March, 1867, to Samantha Cunningham. They have two living children : Bertha and Charley. He is a republican in polities.
John Lytle, Rossville, farmer, was born in Clinton county, Ohio, on the 10th of August, 1825. He is the son of John and Bathsheba (Babb) Lytle. When four years old his parents removed to Fountain county, Indiana, and in 1843 he came to Vermilion county, Illinois, and lived on the Covington road three miles east of Danville, two years, then on the North Fork one season, and the rest of the time, till 1856, on the East Fork of the Vermilion, when he went west and remained over winter. He returned the next spring and settled where he now lives, one mile east of Rossville. He has one brother, Isaac, and six sisters: Mary, Anna, Hannah, Eliza, Sarah and Martha. His father died on the 7th of August, 1836, and his mother on the 27th of March, 1854. He owns one hundred and twenty aeres, worth $3,500. He is a republican in politics.
Cornelius W. Miller, Thomas, Warren county. Indiana, farmer, was
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born in Vermilion county, Illinois, on the 23d of September, 1843. He is a son of Andrew J. and Catharine (Moyer) Miller. He was married on the 11th of February, 1877, to Mary Lloyd, who was born on the 11th of April, 1854. He owns one hundred and ninety-two acres of land, which lies in sections 19, town 22, range 10, and 24, town 22. range 11. He is the father of two children : James U., born on the 4th of February, 1878, and Ida May, born on the 7th of April, 1879. In politics he is a democrat.
George W. Miller, Rossville, farmer, was born on the 26th of No- vember, 1841, in Vermilion county, Indiana. When two years old his parents, Andrew J. and Catharine (Moyer) Miller, removed to the present limits of Ross township, Vermilion county, Illinois, where he has since lived. His farm of two hundred and eighty-five acres, valued at $8,500, lies principally in sections 8, 9 and 16, town 22, range 11. He was married on the 15th of February, 1872, to Viana C. Haas, who was born on the 27th of November, 1852. They have four chil- dren : Lonisa C., born on the Sth of March, 1873: Andrew D., born on the 12th of October, 1874; Samnel J., born on the 13th of October, 1876; Mary E., born on the 27th of December, 1878. Mr. Miller is a greenback democrat, strongly tinctured with independence of all parties.
Andrew Miller, deceased, was born in Kentucky on the 31st of De- cember. 1812. He was the son of Cornelius and Alice (Bairden) Miller. He came with his parents to Vermilion county, Indiana, about 1831. In 1843 he permanently settled in Vermilion county, Illinois, where he died. In 1845 he began improvement on the place where his widow now resides. He was successful in his business, and acquired considerable property. At one time he owned twelve hundred acres of land. He sold some portions of this, and liberally endowed his heirs with the remainder. He was a democrat.
Isaac Christman, Rossville, farmer, was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 27th of January, 1823. He is the son of Peter and Sarah (Stout) Christman. In 1828 his parents removed to Tippecanoe county. Indiana, and in 1830 to Warren county, where his father died on the 3d of November, 1859. He was married on the 26th of No- vember. 1843, to Miss Elizabeth Gundy, daughter of Joseph Gundy. soon afterward he moved into Vermilion county, Illinois, where he now resides, and lived five or six years ; but. as the country was sickly, he returned to his large estate in Indiana, where he remained until 1878, when he came again to Vermilion county, and resumed the improve- ment of the tract of eleven hundred and twenty acres which he has owned many years. Mr. Christman has always been an extensive farmer and heavy stock-raiser. He has been a member of Williamsport
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Lodge, No. 38, A.F. & A.M., twenty years. He inclines to independ- ence in politics.
Milton Lee, Rossville, merchant, was born in Springfield, Clark county, Ohio, on the 3d of March, 1837, and is the son of James and Mary (Williams) Lee. In 1844 he accompanied his parents on their removal to Vance township, Vermilion county, Illinois, where he lived until 1866, when he removed to Rossville, where he has been employed the past six years in merchandising. He enrolled in Captain Frazier's Co. (C), 12th Ill. Vol. Inf., in April, 1861, being the twelfth man enlisted in Vermilion county. He was mustered out at Cairo about the 1st of August, by reason of the expiration of enlistment, which was for three months. In the same month he reënlisted in Co. I, 35th Ill. Vols. The second lieutenant of his company having died, Mr. Lee was elected, at Sedalia, Missouri, by the enlisted men, to that vacancy, being promoted from third sergeant. He served in the siege of Corinth, and on Buell's retreat to Louisville, subsequently taking part in the battle of Perryville, shortly after which he was promoted to first lientenant. In November, 1862, a pioneer corps, consisting of two enlisted men from each company and one lieutenant from each regiment, was organized; and the several detachments from the 35th Ill., 81st Ind., 4th Iowa and the 25th Ill. constituting his brigade, were formed into Co. K, 2d Battalion, Pioneer Brigade, com- manded by Captain, afterward Brevet Brig .- Gen. Morton, and Lient. Lee was given the command of this company, which he led in the battle of Stone River. He was sent back from Elk River to Nashville to fit ont the pontoon train, and was employed in the organization of the pontooniers, whom, with the train, he conducted across the Cum- berland Mountains. He held a position at the mouth of Battle Creek throughout the intensive and critical period of affairs at Chickamauga. This pioneer corps was disbanded in June, 1864, and the men and officers returned to their regiments. Lieut. Lee rejoined the 35th in front of Kenesaw Mountain, where he fought on the 27th of June. He was mustered out with the regiment at Springfield, Illinois, on the 27th of September, 1864. He was married on the 7th of October, 1868, to Catharine Gundy. They have two children living: Herbert and Catharine. Mr. Lee is a republican in politics.
Asa W. White, Alvin, farmer and stoek-raiser, was born in Mus- kingum county, Ohio, on the 12th of June, 1819, and is a son of John and Mary (Davis) White. When he was twelve years old his parents removed to Licking county, where he lived till 1841, when he settled in Ross county. In 1844 he came to Illinois and located in Vermilion county, near the present site of State Line City. He has lived in this
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county since. Mr. White was poor for many years after he came, and lived by renting farms. At length, in 1860, he bought the first farm he ever owned in Illinois. By unremitting industry and careful man- agement he has increased it to three hundred and twenty acres, worth $6,500. He has ten children living: John W., born on the 1st of March, 1846; James E .; Tichsh ; Delia A., born on the 6th of Sep- tember, 1847; Martha, born on the 2d of June, 1854; Noah ; George H .; Elizabeth ; Sarah E., born on the 9th of April, 1863; Mary A., born on the 19th of February, 1865. Mr. White is a citizen of sterling integrity, and is a republican in politics.
William T. Fairchild, Rossville, farmer, was born in Blount town- ship, Vermilion county, on the 9th of November, 1847, and is the son of Zenas and Mary Ann (Hastings) Fairchild. He was reared as a farmer, and has always lived in the county in which he was born. He was married on the 12th of February, 1874, to Dialemma Ann Moss, who was born on the 5th of October, 1850, and died on the 16th of December, 1875. He was married again, on the 4th of October, 1877, to Eleanor Busenbark, who was born on the 19th of May, 1855. Mr. Fairchild is the father of two children, one of whom is living: Lily May, who was born on the 10th of November, 1878. The name of the deceased is Charles Wesley, who was born on the 11th of June, 1875, and died on the 25th of September, 1875. Mr. Fairchild is a republican, and he belongs to the United Brethren church.
Elias Morse Gilbert, Rossville, liveryman, was born in Ross town- ship on the 13th of May, 1848, and is the son of James Harvey and Sarah (Mather) Gilbert. When obtaining his education he spent one year at Union Christian College, Merom, Indiana. In 1873 he started in the livery business in Rossville, and now has a fine large establish- ment, well furnished with good horses and carriages, and everything in the line necessary for the dispatch of business or the promotion of pleasure. He was married on the 16th of June, 1875, to Belle Wier, of Ontario, Canada, who was born on the 20th of December, 1852. They are the parents of two sons: Harvey, born on the 12th of De- cember, 1876, and Robert A., born on the 29th of September, 1878. He is a republican in politics.
Henry W. Harris, Rossville, farmer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of July, 1827. He is a son of Jesse and Lydia Ann (Warner) Harris. In 1841 his parents removed to Ross county, Ohio, and lived there till 1848, when he settled in Ross town- ship, Vermilion county, Illinois, near the present site of Mann's Chapel, and removed from thence in 1853 to his present abode on the northeast quarter of section 15, town 22, range 11. He was married on
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the 24th of November, 1853, to Nancy Clark, who died on the 24th May, 1864. He was married again, on the 22d of June, 1865, to Mary E. Money. He has been school treasurer of town 22, range 11, since 1875. He is the father of ten living children : Prescott, Mary Emma, Isabella, Stanton, Olive, Salome, Lydia, Josephine, John and Minnie. He owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth $4,500. He is a republican in politics.
Josiah Bivans, Alvin, farmer, was born in Franklin county, Ohio, on the 23d of December, 1832. He is a son of Thomas and Anna (Gundy) Bivans. In the fall of 1849 he came to Illinois, and settled on the east fork of the Vermilion, in the present limits of Ross town- ship. He was married on the 23d of December, 1852, to Rebecca Gouty, who was born on the 29th of January, 1834. He was a hearty supporter of the war for the preservation of the Union, and subscribed liberally to a fund for the hiring of substitutes. He has been highway commissioner twelve or fourteen years, and constable of Ross one term. He is the father of seven children: Horatio T .. born on the 26th of August, 1853; Francis M., March 15, 1856; John M., June 12, 1858; Martha D., March 26, 1862; Robert T., June 10, 1867 ; died September 21, 1869 ; William J., December 18, 1869; Henry C .. January 28, 1874. In politics he is a republican, and his religious views are Methodist.
Charles A. Allen, Rossville, attorney, was born in Danville, Illi- nois, on the 26th of July, 1851, and is the son of William I. and Emily (Newell) Allen. His mother was a daughter of 'Squire James Newell, for whom Newell township was named. Mr. Allen entered the law school of the Michigan University in September, 1872, and graduated on the 25th of March, 1874. He immediately located in Rossville! where he now resides, and is practicing his profession with gratifying success. He is enterprising and public-spirited, and verifies the old adage that "blood will tell." He married, on the 4th of April, 1878, to Miss Mary Thompson. In' politics he is a republican, and his re- ligious views are Methodist.
Amaziah Davis, deceased, was born in what was then Morgan county, Virginia, on the 2d of August, 1807. He was a son of Jona- than and Margaret (Hill) Davis. He removed with his parents to Muskingum county, Ohio, in 1812, where he grew up and spent his life farming till 1851, when he moved to Grant township, Vermilion county, Illinois, and settled on a farm near Rossville. He was married on ;the 24th of April, 1832, to Emily Berry. He held the office of road commissioner several years; was a republican in politics, liberal in his views, and universally respected as a man and citizen. He was
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a prominent and influential member of the United Brethren church over thirty years. He owned one hundred and sixty acres of choice farming land. His death occurred on the 10th day of May, 1879. Two of his sons enlisted at the same time in Co. A, 125th Ill. Vol., leaving home on the 1st of February, 1864. Their service was of brief duration, both dying of measles,-the elder, Charles, at Nashville, on the 1st of March following, and Elias at Chattanooga, on the 5th. Mrs. Davis was born on the 2d of April, 1813, in Muskingum county, Ohio. Her parents were James and Hannah (Williams) Berry.
William D. Foulke, Rossville, retired farmer, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of June, 1828, and is a son of Evard and Fanny (Watson) Foulke. From the time he was seventeen years old until he became of age he clerked in a dry-goods house in Philadel- phia. In 1852 he came to Vermilion county, Illinois, and went into the stock business, buying up cattle and sheep and grazing them. He drove the first lot of cows and sheep ever taken from this section to Lancaster county, Pennsylvania; before this it was supposed to be impossible to drive sheep so far, but this experiment was entirely suc- cessful. He had at the same time an interest in a mercantile house in Sonth Charleston, Clark county, Ohio. This business was swamped in 1855 by the potent influence of wild-cat money. Again in 1858 he came to Illinois and settled on a farm near Rossville, which he still owns. He has conducted farming operations since that time, and in ad- dition done a good deal of surveying. He surveyed most of the north part of the county, and, besides, laid out Hoopeston, Rossville and Alvan. He has been justice of the peace for Grant and Ross town- ships, collector, and at present commissioner of highways for the latter. He married on the 5th of April, 1854, to Alice Thomas. They have four living children : Susan J., Ellen, Jane and Luln. Mr. Folke has been a member of the Society of Friends the past twenty-nine years. He is a republican, and owns one hundred and eighty acres, worth $5,500.
Lewis Coon, deceased, was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 5th of December, 1822. He was the son of John and Sarah (Morehead) Coon. His parents removed to Clinton county, Indiana, when he was young, and he was reared there on a farm. He married on the 27th of November, 1851, to Mary Albright. In the fall of 1853 he moved with his family to Illinois, and settled where his widow now lives in Ross township, Vermilion county. Both he and Mrs. Coon became members of the United Brethren church in 1860. He was a life-long democrat, and was greatly esteemed for his striet integrity and neigh- borly qualities. He died on the 13th of May, 1870, leaving one hun-
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dred and sixty-seven acres of land to his heirs. The following were his children : Sarah Eliza, Melissa Belle, Mary Jane, who died on the 29th of March, 1872, John D., Keturah Ann, Caroline, Alantson, George B. M., who died on the 5th of June, 1865, and Laura Ellen. Mrs. Coon was a daughter of David and Phebe (Newman) Albright. Her father was a native of Pennsylvania, and her mother of New York. The former died on the 28th of September, 1851; and the latter on the 7th of June, 1852.
William Chambers, Rossville, farmer, was born in Queen Anne county, Maryland, on the 26th of February, 1826. He is a son of Matthew B. and Letitia (Broadaway) Chambers. When very young his parents moved to Franklin county, Indiana, and lived there till he was twelve, when they went to Montgomery county. He enlisted in the early part of June, 1846, in Co. H, 1st Ind. Vols., Col. James P. Drake. At New Orleans his company and another from Hendricks county, Indiana, were embarked on board a sailing vessel for Point Isabel, but on the passage she grounded while under full sail. This occurred two hours before daylight, and, when morning eame, Padre Island was discovered half a mile off. Two sailors, taking a small line, swam to land, and with this drew a rope ashore, by means of which the wreck was delivered of the men and the cargo, ten days being consumed in the removal of the latter. The vessel was burned. This regiment passed their term of service on the Rio Grande, guard- ing stores and doing other correspondingly irksome duty. It is said that a too ardent fondness for the "flowing bowl" in the commanding officer determined Gen. Taylor to keep them in the rear, and thus by the sins of one were many made to forfeit a share in the glories which clustered around the national standard from Palo Alto to Buena Vista. Mr. Chambers was discharged at Point Isabel shortly before the year for which he had volunteered had expired. He shipped for home on a rotten craft, and drifted about the gulf thirty days, with only eight days' rations aboard. The suffering from hunger was great, but that from thirst was exquisite. A Spanish merchantman heaving in sight, a flag of distress was hoisted, and provisions and water obtained. The last few days the men had subsisted on rotten oats. Eleven deaths occurred before they arrived in port. Mr. Chambers was 'married on the 10th of Angust, 1848, to Lydia Phelps. He learned the carpenter trade, and divided his labors between that and farming till 1853, when he moved to Waynetown, Indiana, and sold goods two years; and in April, 1855, removed to Blue Grass Grove, Vermilion county, Illinois, and in 1865 to Bean Creek, in Ross township, where he now lives. In 1861 and 1862 he was supervisor of Middle Fork township, which
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