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The parents of Henry S. Hoover, of Hoopeston, Abraham and Mary (Speedy) Hoover, removed in 1831 from Lancaster county, Penn- sylvania, to La Fayette, Indiana, when there were fewer than a half dozen houses in the latter place, and the Indians were "as plenty as blackberries." On the 19th of February, 1833, the subject of this sketch was born. In 1846 the family sought a new location at Marsh- field, Warren county, where they resided eighteen months, and then moved on a farm owned at the time by Perrin Kent, southeast of the present site of State Line City. From there, in 1849, they went to Oskaloosa, Iowa. In 1854 Mr. Hoover returned, and worked as a hand in the neighborhood of Marshfield and of Rossville till 1862, when, in February of that year, he went back to Iowa, and on the 13th of August enlisted in Co. C, 7th Iowa Inf. He served on the Atlanta campaign ; was under fire at Resaca, and fought in front of Atlanta on
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the 22d of July, 1864, and a little later at Jonesborough ; participated in the march to the sea, and the still longer and more difficult eam- paign of the Carolinas, ending his active and eventful military service with the grand review of Sherman's army, at Washington city, on the 24th of May, 1865. He was mustered out at that place on the 13th of June, and disbanded toward the close of the month at Clinton, Iowa. In the following September he came to Vermilion county, Illinois. In 1867 he settled where he now lives, four miles southeast of Hoopes- ton. He was married on the 14th of November, 1875, to Mrs. Ellen Forshier, relict, of Daniel Forshier. Her maiden name was Stone. Mr. Hoover owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, worth $4,800. He is a republican in politics.
John L. Starr, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Logan county, Illi- nois, on the 5th of April, 1853. His parents were Shelby and Naney (Groves) Starr. His father was from Kentucky, and his mother from Pennsylvania. The former died on the 8th of August, 1855, and his mother married again to John Brandt. In 1869 the family removed to this county, and settled in Blount township. From this time for- ward till 1876 he lived alternately in Vermilion and Logan counties. In the latter year he moved on the farm he now owns, five miles east of Hoopeston, which he had bought the fall before. It consists of ninety acres, situated in section 10, town 23, range 11, and is valued at $2,700. He was married on the 31st of December, 1874, to Miss Sophia A. Fairchilds, who was born on the 20th of April, 1857, and was a daughter of the Rev. Daniel Fairchilds, a pioneer Methodist preacher of Vermilion county, now deceased.
Philip C. MeMains, Rossville, farmer, was born in Parke county, Indiana, on the 15th of February, 1835, and is a son of Robert and Mary (Groves) McMains. His grandfather, Frederick Groves, was a soldier in the Mexican war. He was married on the 15th of February, 1858, to Nancy Groves, daughter of Samuel Groves, of Lemon county, Kentucky. She was born on the 18th of February, 1832. In 1868 he moved to Waynetown, Montgomery county, Indiana; lived there one year, and then removed to Vermilion county, Illinois, and settled in Grant township. He has eight living children : John H., born on the 21st of February, 1859; Zachariah T., born on the 22d of April, 1861; Charles, born on the Sth of November, 1863; Mary B., born on the 15th of October, 1865 ; Betty, born on the 28th of May, 1868; Willie, born on the 18th of September, 1871; Frank, born on the 24th of Jan- uary, 1874, and Almira, born on the 7th of August, 1877. Mr. Mc- Mains is an independent in politics. Mrs. McMains has been a member of the Christian church about thirty-five years.
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Lemuel W. Anderson, Hoopeston, physician and surgeon, was born in Franklin, Venango county. Pennsylvania, on the 7th of May, 1838. In 1844 his parents settled in Huntington county, Indiana. He spent one year at Wabash College. Crawfordsville ; he studied medicine at Zionsville, Boone county, under Drs. Duzan & Anderson, who were in partnership. In the winter of 1858-9 he took a partial term of lec- tures at the Medical College of Ohio, and in the winter of 1861-2 attended a full course of lectures at the University of New York. During the same period he took a full course of instruction in the Eye and Ear Infirmary of New York. After the close of the lecture course he practiced a while in obstetrics, under Dr. Wilson, superintendent of the Lying-in Asylum. In 1862 he began practice at Huntington, In- diana; but in eight months re-located at Mount Ætna, in the same county, where he remained nine and one-half years. In 1851-2 he was deputy postmaster at Huntington, and from 1858 to 1860 occupied the same position at Zionsville, except the time he was in college ; and again at the former place in 1861. During the intervals he clerked a part of the time in a dry-goods store. In 1857 he worked in a machine shop in Fort Wayne, with the intention of learning the trade, but the concern broke up and he was thrown out and never resumed it. In 1871 he moved to this county and settled on a farm of eighty acres sit- uated four and one-half miles southeast of Hoopeston, which he still owns. In the spring of 1873 he removed to Hoopeston. He is a member of the North Vermilion and of the Vermilion County Medical Societies. Dr. Anderson not only began poor, but sadly in debt. No favorable circumstances attended him from his youth up. He has struggled with a high purpose and an invincible will. The result is but natural : he now owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres of choice farming land, valued at $7,000; also twenty-two lots and six houses in the city of Hoopeston. His superior skill and judgment, and extensive and constantly increasing practice, have placed him in the front rank of his profession. His eminent snecess has made him widely known and deservedly popular : but it is not Dr. Anderson's success as a business man and practitioner which is most to be admired : his word is law. This is not the least of the means which have operated to give him a highly respectable and conservative reputation. He was married on the 24th of March, 1864, to Elizabeth J. Blose, who was born on the 2d of July, 1842. They have eight children : William Orion, born on the 28th of November, 1866 ; Norval Otto, born on the 29th of March, 1867, died on the 24th of August, 1869; George Oscar, born on the 7th of June, 1869, died on the 29th of May, 1872; Edward Ovid, born on the 24th of March, 1871 ; Alfred Oglesby, born on the 11th of Septem-
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ber, 1872; Thomas Orlando, born on the 24th of May, 1874; Lemuel Orth, born on the 7th of March, 1876; Mary Olive, born on the 4th of February, 1878. Both he and his wife are members of the Presby- terian church. He has been an elder thirteen years.
David Bedell, Hoopeston, merchant, was born at Twin Rivers, Manitowoc county, Wisconsin, on the Sth of April, 1854. He is the son of Jonathan and Jane (Pollock) Bedell; came to Hoopeston with his father in the summer of 1871. He received his education at the public schools of Loda and Hoopeston. He is now chief partner in the firm of David Bedell & Co., in the general merchandising business.
Jonathan Bedell, Hoopeston, merchant, was born in Cazenovia, Madison county, New York, on the 29th of October, 1827, and is a son of Milo and Hannah (Cole) Bedell. His grandfather, Joseph Y. Cole, was a veteran of the revolutionary war. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the tanner and currier's trade. In 1851 he emi- grated to Twin Rivers, Manitowoc county, Wisconsin ; while there he learned the carpenter's trade. He was employed by the Wisconsin Leather Company four years in tanning leather. In April, 1855, he moved to Illinois and entered the last piece of land in Vermilion (now Ford) county, which was entered while the register's office was at Danville. This was the S.E. } of section 35, town 24, range 8. He lived on his farm four or five years; moved into Loda and lived there until 1871, when he settled in Hoopeston and opened the first store in the place. He was at first assistant postmaster in the new town, and opened the first mail that was received, and mailed the first matter that was sent away. He also made the first payment of cash on lots which were sold in the place, it being for lots 68 and 69 which he at present occupies on 'Main street. He was the first master of Star Lodge, No. 709, A.F. & A.M., of Hoopeston. On the 1st of Jannary, 1875, he sold his store, and the business has since been continued under the firm name of David Bedell & Co. He was married on the 18th of September, 1851, to Jane Pollock. They have seven children : Henry, born on the 12th of June, 1852, died on the 27th of September. 1853; David, born on the 8th of April, 1854 ; Lanra E., born on the Sth of Feb- ruary, 1857, died on the 24th of April, 1864; Wilford, born on the 16th of June, 1859, died on the 27th of December, 1863; Jane, born on the 20th of January, 1864, died on the 20th of September, 1864; George, born on the 18th of December, 1866; Maggie, born on the 16th of January, 1870. He is an independent in politics.
Miles Odle, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Warren county, In- diana, on the 26th of December, 1841. His parents were Nathan B. and Frances (Watkins) Odle. He was reared on a farm. He volun-
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teered, on the 3d of June, 1861, in Co. A, 15th Ind. Vols., Col. G. D. Wagner, and was mustered into the United States service on the 14th at Lafayette. He was engaged at Cheat Mountains on the 12th of September, and at Greenbriar, Virginia, on the 3d of October, 1861, both of which were federal successes. He subsequently fought at Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge, be- sides having a share in a large number of smaller actions. He was mustered out on the 30th of June, 1864, at Indianapolis. He was married on the 30th of Angust, 1866, to Susan Hunter, who was born on the 25th of November, 1847, and died on the 17th of May, 1870. He was married again on the 12th of January, 1872, to Sarah Hunter, who was born on the 22d of January, 1850, and daughter of John Hunter, a wealthy farmer of Warren county, Indiana. In 1871 he removed to Vermilion county, Illinois, and settled where he now lives, in Grant township, four miles east of Hoopeston, on a farm of one hundred and twenty acres in section 3, which he bought at that time. He now owns two hundred acres, worth $6,000. Mr. Odle is a staunch republican, and a firm advocate of specie resumption. He has five living children : Ella Florence, born on the 17th of September, 1867; Anna Rossa, born on the 18th of October, 1869; Hattie Letitia, born on the 21st of February, 1874; John Lindsay, born on the 3d of Au- gust, 1875, and Miles Sherman, born on the 2d of November, 1878.
Thomas J. Bowsman, Hoopeston, farmer and carpenter, was born in Preble county, Ohio, on the 14th of November, 1839. His parents were James and Rosanna (Strader) Bowsman. His grandfather Strader served seven years in the revolutionary war without a furlough, and without being once at home during the time. His father was a carpen- ter, and from him he learned the same trade. Until he was seventeen he had done no other kind of work. In 1856 the family emigrated to Pike county, Illinois, and settled near Pittsfield, where he farmed two years. In 1858 he returned to Ohio, and finally went to Madison county, Indiana, where he enlisted on the 28th of August, 1861, in Co. D, 34th Ind. Vols. This regiment became attached in time to the 1st Brig., 3d Div., 13th Army Corps. He bore a part in the opera- tions at New Madrid and Island No. 10; fought at Fort Gibson, Champion Hills, siege of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi. In the winter of 1863-4 the regiment was ordered to Texas, but returned to New Orleans in March and veteraned. On the 13th of May, 1865, a portion of the regiment had a sharp fight with the rebels, and sustained a loss of two companies captured. This occurred on the Rio Grande and on the old Palo Alto battle-ground. In the battle of Champion Hills the stock of his gun was shattered by seven bullets, but he was
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unscathed during all his service. He was mustered out on the 28th of February, 1866, at Brownsville, Texas, and disbanded at Indian- apolis. On his return home he engaged in running first a saw and afterward a planing mill, owning a one-third interest in each. Subse- quently he worked at his trade, but in the spring of 1869 he became interested in a saw-mill in Preble county, Ohio, which he ran to May, 1871, when he removed it to Vermilion county, Indiana, and set it up seven miles southeast of Danville. He operated it till September, 1875, when he sold out and bought one hundred and ten acres of land, where he now lives, in Grant township. He is a stalwart republican.
William R. Clark, Hoopeston, hardware merchant, was born in Watertown, New York, on the 25th of October, 1832, and is the son of Raymond and Lucy (Gill) Clark. When quite young his parents emigrated to Washington, Wayne county, Indiana, and in 1840 to Adams county, Illinois, settling on a farm near Quincy. He was in Missouri a year, returning to Franklin county, Indiana, in the spring of 1846. From this time till the spring of 1853 he was steamboating on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, most of the time in the capacity of steward. He started on the 1st of May, 1853, for California by the overland route, arriving there on the 2d of October. He kept (1977 CLARK'S HALL hotel at Neal's Ranche, in the Sacramento Valley, forty miles HARDWARE north of Myersville, during his residence in that state. In Sep- tember, 1857, he returned to Mar- shall county, Illinois, living nine years in Winona, engaged in the grocery trade. In 1866 he moved CLARK'S HALL. to Gilman, Iroquois county, and started a hardware store; in 1870 removed his business to Loda, and in the spring of 1872 to Hoopeston, then an enterprising town just starting. He has continned the same business ever since, and now owns and occupies the finest merchandis- ing house in the northern part of Vermilion county. He is serving his second term as supervisor of Grant township. He possesses good busi- ness qualifications, a firm character, unqualified integrity, and is highly and universally respected. He was married on the 5th of September, 1857, to Henrietta Filton. They have two living children : Lilie, born on the 8th of May, 1864; Georgie, born on the 5th of May, 1866. Mr. Clark is a steadfast republican, at this time popularly termed "stalwart."
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John S. Powell, Hoopeston, druggist, was born in New York city on the 23d of February. 1840, and is the son of Edward and Harriet (Everett) Powell. At the age of twelve he was indentured to Dr. William G. Wood, of Harlem, in the drug business, and placed under the supervision of the doctor's brother, James Wood, a thorough pharmacist. He served an apprenticeship of five years, during which time he was required daily to learn a prescribed task and undergo examination by the doctor. He became by this means a good Latin scholar. When seventeen he went into some of the leading drug stores in the city, where he finished his professional education. In 1860 he immigrated to Illinois, and on the 14th of April, 1861, volun- teered in Co. A, 12th Ill. Inf., Col. McArthur, for three months. He was mustered out at Cairo on the 2d of August. In the following month he reënlisted in the 30th Ill., and was appointed hospital steward of the regiment, and served in that capacity till the expiration of his three years' term, when, in September, 1864, he veteraned. He bore a part in the battles of Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, and the Vicksburg campaign, including the actions at Clinton, Jack- son, Champion Hills, and finally the siege and fall of the Gibralter of the Mississippi. At the battle of Champion Hills, on the 16th of May, 1863, he fell into the hands of the enemy, but was released on parole, when he reported in person to Gen. Grant, and requested to remain with the army till the fall of the city. The general acceded to his request, and put him on duty as hospital steward in Gen. Logan's division hospital. After the capture of Vicksburg he was ordered to report to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, as a paroled prisoner of war, where he remained until exchanged ; then returning to that city he was placed on detached service in the office of the medical director of the 17th Army Corps. Availing himself of the department library at command, he resunied and diligently prosecuted his studies. He ap- peared before the board of medical examiners, consisting of surgeons Patterson, Wilson and Bouschee, and passed a successful examination, and in January, 1865, was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 52d U. S. Col. Vols. He was given charge of a ward in U. S. hospital No. 3, at Vicksburg, and also a small-pox hospital. He remained there on duty till he was innstered out of the service, in May, 1866. He returned to Illinois and engaged in traveling in the wholesale drug business. On the 2d of August, 1871, he stopped in Hoopeston, and in the following winter purchased the store and stock of drugs belong- ing to Frank Hoffman, and has continued the business to the present time, having secured a large and increasing trade. He was married on the 25th of January, 1874, to Miss Lizzie Webb. They have one child,
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Robert Lennox, born on the 20th of February, 1876. Mr. Powell is a conservative in politics and a Universalist in religion.
Joseph Dallstream, Hoopeston, merchant, was born in Wenersborg, Sweden, on the 2d of April, 1852, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Anderson) Dallstream. He received a fair education in the public schools of the country, and spent one term in Uppsala College. At sixteen he was apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade, which he has steadily followed since. In 1871 he came to America, and settled in Champaign city. He lived there one year, and afterward a few months in Rantoul, finally settling in Hoopeston in the fall of 1872. In 1876 he opened a general boot and shoe store in connection with his manu- facturing. He was married on the 6th of September, 1878, to Amy J. Given, who was born on the 22d of July, 1849, in Millersburg, Holmes county, Ohio. She is a member of the Christian church. He is a republican in politics, and a member of the Lutheran church. He is also a member of the Blne Lodge of Masons, and of the chapter in Hoopeston.
Jacob S. MeFerren, Hoopeston, banker and real estate broker, was born in Warren county, Ohio, on the 1st of October, 1845. His par- ents were William and Eliza (Snyder) McFerren. He received a busi- ness education at Bartlett's Commercial College, Cincinnati. His father having always followed the mercantile business, he was reared to the same pursuit. At the age of fifteen he quit school to take a half interest with his uncle in a store at Level, Ohio, the latter furnishing the capital, and he conducting the business and sharing one half the profits, the style of the firm being, A. S. McFerren & Co. Two years later his uncle formed another partnership, and commenced operating in grain; but a heavy decline and other bad speculations caused the firm to suspend with heavy liabilities, which so affected the firm of A. S. McFerren & Co. that the quite extensive business which the subject of this sketch had built up was discontinued, and their affairs were settled up, and all their debts paid in full. In his short, indepen- dent business career Mr. McFerren had made a clear profit of $3,000; but by the unfortunate speenlations of his partner he lost all but $800, which so reduced his capital that he was obliged to begin on a salary. So, in Angust, 1865, he started west, and located at Paxton, Illinois, where he took charge of the books of J. W. Scott, of that place, for a short time, and afterward found a permanent situation with R. Clark, one of the oldest merchants of Paxton, as book-keeper. At the end of a year Mr. Clark's health failing, he offered to turn over his stock of goods to his nephew, A. L. Clark, and Mr. McFerren, and loan them all needed capital. The proposition was accepted, and the firm
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became Clark & McFerren. This partnership and enterprise proved highly fortunate. Their trade suddenly attained a basis of substantial prosperity, and their capital steadily and rapidly inereased. Mr. Mc- Ferren at length determined to embark in banking and real estate brokerage, and, accordingly, associated with himself T. W. Chamberlin, under the style of McFerren & Chamberlin. They opened a bank in Hoopeston on the 1st of August, 1872, and did a remunerative busi- ness, passing safely through the panic of 1873, keeping their doors open throughout that trying period. Early in 1874, owing to ill-health, Mr. Chamberlin retired from the partnership. Mr. McFerren's bank is one of the most safely condueted institutions of the kind in the country, and its credit is deservedly high. The business transacted by it has constantly augmented in volume. Maintaining his working capital at a uniform figure, he has judiciously invested the profits in first-class farming lands in Vermilion, Iroquois and Ford counties, which are now valued at $60,000. He attributes his success to careful economy, to keeping his own books, and maintaining a elose, personal supervision over the details of his business, and to strictly living up to his contracts, and compelling others to a like exactness in discharging their contracts with him. In the spring of 1877 Mr. McFerren was elected the first mayor of Hoopeston on the temperanee ticket. The town had always been controlled by the liquor interest, but at the end of his term of two years it was cleared of every saloon and groggery. It is not the least of his merits that he has been a consistent and ear- nest laborer in the temperance cause, and has thus assisted largely in building up the city, infusing life into it, rendering it respectable, and contributing to its good name and reputation. He has been treasurer and director of the Hoopeston District Agricultural Society, and is at present school treasurer of town 23, range 12. He was one of the original projectors of the Ford County Agricultural Society, and is still a stockholder in it. Having a taste for travel, Mr. McFerren has gratified it by an extensive tour of the United States, from the Atlan- tic to the Pacific, and from the British provinces to the Gulf of Mexico. He was married on the 4th of April, 1871, to Miss Susie P. Clark, daughter of R. Clark, who died on the 28th of July, 1871. His parents have been life-long members of the Universalist church. He is a re- publican in politics.
Enoch Ross, Hoopeston, farmer, was born in Stark county, Ohio, on the 27th of December, 1840, and is a son of Isaac N. and Nancy (Hewitt) Ross. His parents were native Pennsylvanians, and his an- cestors on his mother's side were Irish. His father was the owner of a large grist-mill in Waynesburg, and he raised his son a miller. He
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followed this trade until his removal to Illinois. On the 17th of July, 1863, he joined the " Ohio National Guard" for five years, and remained a member of that body until the 1st of May, 1866, when he was hon- orably discharged. He volunteered in the one-hundred-days service, on the 2d of May, 1864, in Co. I, 162d Ohio National Guard, as a musician, and was mustered into the U. S. service. He did duty at Camp Chase, Ohio, and at Covington and Carrollton, Kentucky, and was mustered out at the former place on the 4th of September, 1864. He was married on the 22d of September, 1862, to Christina Karn, daughter of Adam Karn, a well-to-do and respectable mechanie of Waynesburg. She was born on the 27th of December, 1841. In the spring of 1868 he removed with his family to Illinois, and located in Fountain Creek township, Iroquois county, on land belonging to his father. He lived there four years, and then bought one hundred and sixty acres in Grant township, Vermilion county, of H. W. Beekwith, of Danville, the same being the southeast , section 6, town 23, range 12, where he at present resides. He has a fine homestead, free from debt ; is an independent farmer and valued citizen. He has one daugh- ter : Lorena, who was born on the 22d of August, 1863. His political views are republican.
Garret J. Pendergrast, Rossville, farmer, was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, on the 24th of February, 1838, and is a son of James F. and Dorothea (Miller) Pendergrast. His father was a physician of Jefferson county. He was reared a farmer, and also learned the trade of brickmaking and bricklaying. In 1856 he emigrated to Keokuk, Iowa, and in 1858 returned to Kentucky, and in the fall went to Chip- pewa county, Michigan, and entered one hundred and twenty aeres of land, living eighteen months among the Indians, but growing weary of his prolonged separation from white men and civilization, he gave his land to his brother, who lived in that section fifteen years altogether. He returned to " Old Kaintnek," and after a few months went to New Orleans. In 1863 he again wandered back to his native home. Three or four years were then spent in farming, after which he went to mak- ing and laying briek in Henry and Shelby counties. He was married on the 9th of December, 1871, to Delia Hardesty, daughter of a wealthy farmer of Henry county, living near Eminence. She was born on the 23d of November, 1853. In 1872 he emigrated to Illinois and settled at Rossville, where he continued his usual employments of farming and making and laying brick. He and his brother Patrick built all the brick business-houses in Rossville, viz : Deamude's, Henderson's and Put- nam & Albright's. He has a pleasant home of sixteen acres on the northern confines of the town, valned at $1,500. He was identified
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