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WILLIAM A. NEWCOMER, son of An- drew and Eliza (Hamilton) Newcomer, was born in Mount Morris, March 29, 1850, and died Feb. 24, 1927, aged nearly 77 years. He attended school in the old Miller schoolhouse and Rock River Sem- inary. In 1871, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, Ninth Infantry, serving five years. He had many interesting experiences in Indian warfare and was mustered out of Custer's army only two weeks before his company was annihilated in the famous Custer Massacre. He returned to Mount Morris in 1876 and engaged in the grocery business with his father until the latter's death in 1885. His brother, Arthur M., then joined the firm under the name A. M. and W. A. Newcomer, William dropped out of the firm for awhile and conducted another grocery in partnership with John Tice, but later sold out and again joined his brother, Eventually Howard New- comer became a member of the firm in place of his father, A. M. In April, 1886, Mr. Newcomer was married to Lottie E. Rohrer, who survived him and died in 1929.
J. D. ARMSTRONG, born at Spring- field, Ill., Aug. 7, 1852, was engaged in the hardware business in Mount Morris in the eighties, first in partnership with W. E. Cushing (Cushing & Armstrong) and later with C. E. Price (Armstrong & Price). Mr. Price retired from the busi- ness and Mr. Armstrong later sold out to J. M. Piper.
BENJ. MUMMA was first associated in the meat market business with Samuel Middour, but later purchased Middour's interest and conducted the business for many years, after which Henry H. and Ernest E. Newcomer purchased it. Mr. Mumma's ad appeared in the Ogle Coun- ty Democrat of Dec. 21, 1882.
ANDREW NEWCOMER, father of A. M. & W. A. Newcomer, was justice of the peace and real estate agent in 1858. His office was a few doors east of Brayton & Baker's new store, on the south side of Front Street. In 1866, he started a small store in this same location. This was later the home of Robert Crosby. He sold the business to Geo. Windle, but on the re- turn of his son, William, from the army in 1876, the two started another grocery with the firm name of A. & W. A. New- comer, located on the corner of Front and McKendrie Sts. They continued until the death of the father, when A. M. New- comer took the father's place in the busi- ness.
SAMUEL LOOKABAUGH died Sept. 4, 1899, aged 72 years. He was born in Washington County, Md., in 1827. He was engaged in the mercantile business in Mount Morris from 1865 to 1872 in part- nership with Samuel Middour. In 1848, he married Mary E. Gross and came to Mount Morris in 1865. They were the parents of nine children.
AUGUST T. OLSON, son of Hans and Anna Olson, was born Nov. 8, 1864, at Malmo, Sweden. He came to the United States in 1880, and worked as a chef in Denver. Later he moved to Mt. Carroll, Ill., where he operated the Glenview Ho- tel for six years. He came to Mount Mor- ris in 1898 and purchased the Hotel Rohr- er. He changed the name of the hotel to the Olson Hotel and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to Kable Brothers Company. Later he opened Olson's Res- taurant, which he operated for a number of years. He is a member of the Masons and Odd Fellows. In 1883, he married Dina Gifford at Denver, and there were four children: Carl Oscar, Glenn William, Floyd E., and Cecil Harriett. Mrs. Olson died in 1916. Mr. Olson was married again in 1931 to Bessie Raney.
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DR. JOSEPH I. MERSHON, who was born in Jones County, Iowa, Nov. 25, 1849, was a physician in Mount Morris for about eleven years beginning in 1874. He then located in Mount Carroll where he lived until his death in 1899. He mar- ried Mary Jane McMurrin and they had five children: Geneva (married F. G. Stearns), Mable C. (married Roy W. Gra- ham), Noble C., Joseph I. (deceased), and Dr. Glenn E. Mershon, who is now
DR. GLENN E. MERSHON
a practicing physician in Mount Carroll. He also has a son, Donald G., who is a physician, thus making three generations in the medical profession. All of the Mershon children were born in Mount Morris except Geneva. Dr. Glenn Mer- shon attended Mount Carroll High School and Mount Morris College. He graduated from the Barnes University Medical in St. Louis in 1901. He has practiced in Mount Carroll since that time.
JOHN H. NYE, for many years a pros- perous farmer in Mount Morris Town- ship, and later a resident of the village, was born in Dover, England, Dec. 31, 1831. He was 19 years old when he came to the United States. He learned the trade of carpenter in New York and came to Mount Morris in 1853 where he assisted in the construction of Rock River Semi- nary. He engaged in farming until 1870, when he moved to Mount Morris. He established the first lumber yard in Mount Morris about 1872 after the com- pletion of the railroad. He later sold the business to Henry Gilbert. In 1857, he advertised in the Northwestern Republi-
can that he had purchased the right for one-half of the United States for the sale of the famous Hays Lard Lamps. Kerosene or electric lamps were unknown at that time. Mr. Nye was married to Marie Beebe in 1852 and four daughters were born to them. The mother passed away in 1859 and Mr. Nye was married again in 1860 to Catherine (Coffman) Stonebraker, widow of Michael Stone- braker. Two children were born to them, Frank C. (deceased) and Ulysses C. In 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Nye went to Califor- nia to spend the winter and Mr. Nye died in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 1896. Mrs. Nye lived until March 27, 1910. See pic- ture on page 376.
A. V. JOHNSTON, who conducted a jew- elry store in Mount Morris, for a number of years, died April 23, 1931, at the age of 67 years. He was the son of Isaiah and Anna Johnston and was born April 8, 1864, at New Castle, Pa. He moved from Pennsylvania to Marion, Ohio, in 1902, and came to Mount Morris in 1907, when he purchased the jewelry business of H. E. Newcomer, which he continued until ill health forced him to retire. He was married to Ida Brown and they had two sons, Harry and Clarence. The mother died in 1906 and Mr. Johnston was mar- ried again to Addie Tucker Stoll, who with a step-daughter, Mrs. R. C. Hoff- mann, and the two sons survive.
DR. J. F. CANODE, son of Wm. L. and Mary Canode, was born Jan. 23, 1863, at Greenwood, Pa., and came to Ogle Coun- ty with his parents in 1876. After engag- ing in various lines of business in Oregon, he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and graduated in 1898. He lo- cated in Mount Morris where he prac- ticed dentistry for a number of years and then moved to Oregon. He was mar- ried in 1896 to Lucy A. Seyster and they had two children, Mary and Morris.
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DR. GEORGE B. McCOSH was a well- known physician in Mount Morris for thirty-five years. He was of the famous musical family of Dr. John and Elizabeth McCosh, and was born at Quincy, Pa., March 4, 1855. He died Dec. 5, 1915, aged nearly 61 years. He came to Mount Mor- ris with his parents in the early sixties, and after attending the local schools, en- tered Rush Medical College, from which he graduated in 1880. Returning to Mount Morris, he entered the practice of medi- cine with his father, who died in 1883. He continued to practice in Mount Mor- ris for 35 years. He conducted a drug store in Mount Morris for a number of years, part of the time in partnership with C. H. Mishler. Dr. McCosh was mar- ried in 1881 to Wanda Blair, and they had six children: Blair (died in 1926), Gladys (Mrs. T. R. Trawick), Jeanette (died in infancy), Mac (died in 1935), Jean (Mrs. Edwin B. Scott), and Marion. Other well-known members of the musi- cal McCosh family were Mrs. Lucia Maltbie, James McCosh, David S. Mc- Cosh, Benjamin McCosh, Mrs. Jacob Strock, and Mrs. Chas. H. Sharer.
DR. CAROLINE L. PARKER was Mount Morris's only woman doctor. She maintained her office and residence with Mrs. E. A. Newcomer on Center St. in 1882. She specialized in obstetrics and diseases of women and children.
B. F. SHEETS, operating as B. F. Sheets & Co., purchased the hardware business of Hitt, Smith & Co., about the year 1880 and later sold out to Cushing & Arm- strong.
CHAS. B. STANGER operated a tailor shop in Mount Morris in the eighties. He was born in Maryland in 1829 and came to Mount Morris in 1870.
JAMES M. WEBB conducted a hotel in Mount Morris before the Civil War. He was born at Lunenburg, Vt., July 8, 1817, and was the son of Samuel Webb. He came to Mount Morris in 1840 and served as Justice of the Peace and later was elected County Judge. In 1858, he pur- chased the Eldorado House from Jona- than Mumma and continued to operate it as the Webb Hotel until his death of consumption in 1859, after which Mrs. Webb continued to conduct the hotel for many years. The building was on the present site of the Kable Inn. While run- ning the hotel, Mr. Webb was also in the mercantile business in the same building with a Mr. Potter with the firm name of Potter & Webb. Mr. Webb was married in 1848 to Caroline J. Jones, daughter of Rev. W. P. Jones, who was a student at Rock River Seminary. They had three children: James M., Samuel T. (who was station agent in Mount Morris) and Linna Alice, who married George Wirtz.
DR. W. W. HANES, son of Samuel and Mary (Walkup) Hanes, was born in Pine Creek Township, June 13, 1861, and died in Mount Morris, March 11, 1924, aged nearly 63 years. His childhood was passed at the family home five miles south of Mount Morris. After preliminary educa- tion, he entered the Physio-Medical In- stitute at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1883. He commenced the practice of medicine at Adeline and lo- cated in Mount Morris in 1886, where he administered to the sick continuously for 38 years. He served as Coroner of Ogle County for sixteen years and sev- eral terms as President of the Village Board of Trustees. He was a member of the local Masonic lodge. In 1889, he was married to Georgia Rohrer, and they had one son, Ernest. Mrs. Hanes died Jan. 28, 1925.
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DANIEL H. SMITH, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Ackerson) Smith, was born in Orange County, N.Y., July 21, 1830, and came to Ogle County in 1856. He engaged in farming and in about the year 1878 purchased the hardware business of David Rine and George Sprecher, which was operated under the name of Hitt, Smith & Co. They eventually sold out to B. F. Sheets & Co. Mr. Smith also pur- chased the south elevator in 1882 from Daniel Sprecher, which he later sold to Thos. C. Williams. In 1865, he married Martha A. Little, and they had five chil- dren: Mabel, Burt, Eldridge, Nellie and Olive G.
I. B. KINNE & SON conducted a hard- ware store in Mount Morris in the early eighties. Their advertisement appeared in the Ogle County Democrat in September, 1882
DAVID RINE died Sept. 4, 1898, aged 62 years. He was born near Newville, Pa., Feb. 14, 1836, and came to Mount Morris with his parents in 1853. In 1859, he married Eliza C. Sharer. For a num- ber of years, Mr. Rine was in the grocery business in Mount Morris, with the firm of Rine & Marshall. In 1883, he sold out his business interest and moved to Kan- sas City, but returned to Mount Morris about a year previous to his death. For a number of years he was choir leader at the Lutheran Church. He had three brothers, Benjamin, William and John, and a sister, Mrs. Margaret Stroh.
C. H. WHITMAN conducted a jewelry store in Mount Morris about the year 1900 and thereafter. He married Anna M. Rine, daughter of Benj. Rine. The family moved to Belvidere.
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DR. ROYAL O. BROWN, son of Perry and Lena (Seise) Brown, was born at Freeport, Ill., Nov. 15, 1874, and died Dec. 15, 1934, aged 60 years. He attended grade school in Freeport and graduated from the Madison, Wis., High School in 1894. He also graduated from the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College. After serving his internship, he located in Mount Morris in 1903, but moved to Forreston in 1905, where he stayed 10 years, returning to Mount Morris in 1915, where he contin- ued to practice until his death in 1934. In 1904, he married Miss Marie Jones, and they had one son, Russell.
DANIEL SPRECHER, a prominent fig- ure in the early days of Mount Morris, was the son of Philip T. and Catherine (Houke) Sprecher and came to Mount Morris with his parents in 1839. He en- gaged in farming for a time, then located in Mount Morris where he engaged in the grain business and built the north elevator in 1875 which he sold to H. H. Clevidence and John Sprecher in 1879. He also built the south elevator in 1882 and later sold it to Daniel Smith. In the early forties he married Barbara Kauff- man, and they had eight children as fol- lows: Amos, Philip T., Lewis C., William (who died at 23), Harvey, Daniel, Eliza (Mrs. Roher Eakle), and Samuel. The mother died at the age of 39, and later he married Mary Eakle, who also passed away and he was married a third time to Mrs. Elnora Hedges. Mr. Sprecher passed away May 4, 1888.
H. M. AND WM. N. GILBERT operated a general store in Mount Morris in 1878, succeeding Gilbert & King.
DR. A. R. LONG, dentist, was located in Mount Morris in 1882. His business card appeared in the Sept. 14 issue of the Ogle County Democrat.
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R. E. ARNOLD was born November 18, 1867, at Burlington, W. Va. He gradu- ated from Bridgewater College, Bridge- water, Va., in 1889, receiving an A.B. degree. Traveled during 1892 and 1893 in England, Scotland and Wales in com- mercial business. Came to Illinois in 1893 and located at Mount Morris. He conducted a drygoods business in Mount Morris from 1894 to April 1, 1900. He married Irena Amick, daughter of Jos- eph Amick, Sept. 1, 1897. Moved to Elgin, Ill., April 1, 1900. Spent the following three years in commercial traveling, cov- ering most of the United States. He was elected business manager and treasurer of the Brethren Publishing House at Elgin, Ill., in 1904 and has served in that capacity continuously to the present time. A son, Ralph E., is married and in busi- iness at Biglerville, Pa. A daughter, Lois Virginia, is a physical educational teacher in the Junior High School at Lansing, Mich.
E. O. STARTZMAN conducted a con- fectionery store and bakery in Mount Morris for nearly 25 years, beginning in about 1880. He owned the brick building which stood on the present site of the Township Hall. Mr. Startzman moved to Freeport where he passed away.
J. N. STONEBRAKER conducted a con- fectionery in the "Mammoth Block" in Mount Morris in the early eighties. His advertisement appeared in the Nov. 3, 1881, issue of the Ogle County Democrat.
RINER, MOORE & CLARK advertised a new firm in August, 1881. They did a general contracting business and handled lumber and building material.
Z. W. BUCK succeeded Riner & Clark in the lumber business in Mount Morris in about 1882.
LOOKABAUGH, TEETER & CO. ad- vertised a dry goods and grocery store in the Ogle County Democrat in 1882.
ED. CRIPE conducted a grocery busi- ness in Mount Morris in the nineties and later combined his stock with the dry goods stock of F. K. Spalding. He was a brother of D. S. Cripe and was a former student of Mount Morris College.
GEORGE W. DEPPEN conducted a grocery and dry goods business in Mount Morris in the nineties. Previous to that he engaged in farming south of town. He was the son of John R. Deppen, and was born Oct. 13, 1863, at Nachusa, Ill., and died at Rockford, Mar. 17, 1931. In 1882, he married Nettie J. Neff and they had two sons, Merritt and Roy. The family moved to Rockford in 1907 where Mr. Deppen engaged in the grocery business for 20 years. Mrs. Deppen died May 18, 1927. The elder son, Merritt, was a pro- fessional musician for many years. He is now employed in the Rockford postoffice.
EDWARD JIMMERSON operated
a restaurant in the nineties in the building south of the John Sprecher store. He had a wife and three children: John, Edward and Esther.
A. H. KNODLE, doing business as A. H. Knodle & Co., in the early nineties bought the general store of L. C. Stan- ley (formerly the Sprecher & Clevidence store) and after several years sold the business to F. K. Spalding.
ALBERT C. LOOKABAUGH, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Lookabaugh, was born at Funkstown, Pa., Jan. 11, 1854, and died Dec. 18, 1929, aged nearly 76 years. He came to Mount Morris at the age of 21, and worked at his trade of blacksmith the greater part of his life. In 1878, he was married to Mary D. Davis, and six children were born to them: Elsie (Mrs. H. E. Longman), Lulu (Mrs. George Fouch), Ruth (Mrs. Theodore Horst), Charles Clifford (deceased) and Nellie (deceased).
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THIS PICTURE was taken about the year 1920 and shows the interior of the Citizens Bank in its first location on Wesley Avenue. Those in the picture are, left to right, Joseph L. Rice, Benj. S. Price, Daniel L. Miller.
BENJAMIN E. AVEY was engaged in business in Mount Morris in 1899 and several years thereafter. He is the son of Josiah and Elizabeth (Bovey) Avey and was born in Lincoln Township, Aug. 3, 1874. He attended Mount Morris Col- lege and the Zanerian Art College of Co- lumbus, Ohio. Later he filled several posi- tions as teacher of art, and in January, 1899, returned to Mount Morris and pur- chased the confectionery business of Otho Baker, which he conducted for a year. He then opened a hardware store in the frame building owned by George Sprecher, which stood on the present site of the Wishard Building. After several years he disposed of this business and since that time has been a traveling sales- man. He married Maude Rowe and they have two sons.
DANIEL L. KEES was born at Shanghai, W. Va., Sept. 30, 1868, and died in Mount Morris, April 30, 1936, aged 68 years. He came to Mount Morris in 1901 and engaged in farming for several years, then oper- ated a confectionery for 25 years. In 1919, he married Mrs. Etta Bruner, who passed away in 1928. He was survived by four brothers and four sisters, all residing in the east.
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ARTHUR W. BRAYTON, son of Fred- erick B. and Charlotte (Wheeler) Bray- ton, was born in Mount Morris, Jan. 7, 1847, and died Jan. 19, 1922, aged 75 years. The name of Brayton has been prominent in Mount Morris since the founding of the village. The grandfather, Daniel Brayton, established the first store in Mount Morris in 1841, which was handed down to his son, Frederick B. Brayton, who in turn handed it down to the sub- ject of this sketch, Arthur W. Brayton. Mr. Brayton lived in Mount Morris all his life, attending the public school and Rock River Seminary, in which institu- tion he taught mathematics for several years. In 1871, he took a course in teleg- raphy in Chicago, and in December of the same year became the first station agent of the Chicago & Iowa Railroad in Mount Morris. Later he became a clerk in his father's store and became a regis- tered pharmacist in 1881, then succeeded to the ownership of the store until he sold out to S. E. Avey and O. E. Mar- shall. The remainder of his life he looked after his extensive fruit farm and other interests. He was actively interested in many affairs of the village. He was presi- dent of the Village Board of Trustees for a number of years, and a director of Kable Brothers Company from 1903 to the time of his death. In 1876, Mr. Bray- ton was married to Harriet Grigsby, of Lena, and three children were born to them: Louis, Bruce LeRoy (died in 1928) and Ernest.
J. M. RINEDOLLAR conducted a pho- tograph gallery in the nineties. The gal- lery was located upstairs over Brayton's drug store.
WILLIAM H. STEWART, son of John and Laura Stewart, was born at Mar- tinsburg, W.Va., and died in Mount Mor- ris, March 1, 1923, aged 65 years. He came to Mount Morris with his parents when
he was only seven years old. He worked at the carpenter trade for a while with his father, but during the greater part of his life he conducted a barber shop in Mount Morris. In 1886, he married Susie Huffmaster, and three children were born to them-Maud and May, who died in childhood, and Maurice, who lives in Mount Morris. Mrs. Stewart died in 1915.
L. C. STANLEY, of Chippewa Falls, bought out the general store of Sprecher & Clevidence in 1891, and after conduct- ing the business for several years sold out to A. H. Knodle & Co.
CHARLES H. SHARER, son of Henry and Sara (Felker) Sharer, was born in Mount Morris, Sept. 25, 1859, and died May 19, 1935, aged 75 years. He was educated in Mount Morris, including Rock River Sem- inary, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1883. He was a staunch sup- porter of education and during his years of service as president of the High School Board of Education the school was in- creased to a four-year course. He also served with distinction as president of the Village Board of Trustees, and was in- strumental in having the principal streets of the village paved. Most of his life was devoted to various business enterprises in Mount Morris. In 1895, he became a part- ner of J. A. Brubaker in the grocery and dry goods business, and several years later purchased the grocery end of the business which he conducted for many years. He finally sold out to J. P. Hol- singer and operated a dairy farm for several years until he retired. He was an active member of the Methodist Church. In 1887, he married Susan Mc- Cosh, daughter of Dr. John McCosh. Sev- en children were born to them: George (died in infancy), Elizabeth Hill (died in 1928), Wentworth, Max, Mrs. Ruth Hardt, Dwight S., and Robert.
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F. K. SPALDING came to Mount Mor- ris about 1895 and purchased the general store of A. H. Knodle & Co., and after several years combined it with the gro- cery business of Ed. Cripe. He later moved to the state of Washington.
THOMAS C. WILLIAMS operated a nursery on his farm just east of Mount Morris. He was also engaged in the grain- buying business having purchased the south elevator from Daniel Smith in the eighties. He moved his family to Sunny- side, Calif., where he died some years ago.
NATHANIEL E. BUSER, son of Jere- miah and Mary Ellen Buser, was born at South Mountain, Md., April 28, 1851, and died in Mount Morris, April 16, 1931, aged 80 years. He came to Mount Morris with his mother in 1868 and completed his education. Later he taught school for a time and then took up his life's work as carpenter and builder. He became a licensed architect and contractor. Nearly all of the important buildings in Mount Morris and dozens of the residences were constructed by him and stand as monu- ments to his genius in his chosen voca- tion. He also built many schools, churches and residences in surrounding towns. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity and the Church of the Brethren. He was married in 1872 to Arbanna C. Middle- kauff, and six children were born to them: Floy, (Mrs. John Wine), Pearl (Mrs. F. A. Myers), Robert E., Ruby (Mrs. Albright), and two that died in infancy. In 1906, he married Ivey D. Ever- sole, who died in 1919, and in 1921 he mar- ried Nora Gouker, who survived him.
JOSEPH L. RICE, son of Isaac and Sarah Hiestand Rice, was born on the Rice farm, north of Mount Morris, Dec. 23, 1866, and died June 9, 1931, aged 65 years. He attended Rock River Seminary and graduated from Northwestern University at Evanston. After graduation in 1893, he and his cousin, John H. Rice, established the Citizens Bank of Mount Morris, and he served as president until he retired several years before his death. He served as an officer and director of Kable Broth- ers Company from the organization of that company until his death. He was one of Mount Morris's most prominent and influential citizens and was affiliated with every important movement for the bet- terment of the community. In 1893, he was married to Miss Emily Newcomer, who passed away in 1929.
GEORGE WINDLE, prominent farmer and business man of Mount Morris, was the son of William and Mary (Kretsinger) Windle and was born Nov. 18, 1841, at Shenandoah, Va. The family consisting of ten children moved to a farm a few miles south of Mount Morris in 1855. He attend- ed Rock River Seminary and in 1865 mar- ried Mary Ellen Sprecher, daughter of Philip and Catherine Sprecher, pioneers of this vicinity. They had a family of five children: Chas. E., who died at the age of 19; Mary Catheryn, wife of J. H. Harnly; Addie, wife of Ira R. Henderick- son: Orpah Irene, wife of Harry Bibler; and Philip, living near Harrison, Ill. Mr. Windle was a successful farmer and at the time of his death owned considerable real estate. He was engaged for a num- ber of years in the mercantile business in Mount Morris. Mr. Windle died May 22, 1913, and Mrs. Windle died Jan. 28, 1920.
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ROY HOUSEHOLDER conducted a pho- tograph gallery over the Brayton store for a number of years, but later moved to Rockford. He was the son of Peter and Anna (Sheets) Householder and was born and raised in Mount Morris.
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