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A. M. BRYAN.
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dren born unto Frederick and Rachel (St. Clair) Long, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Ottawa county, Ohio.
Being but a young lad when he arrived in Bu- reau county, Lewis M. Long began his education in the public schools here and continued his studies in the graded schools at Sublette, Lee county, Illinois, and again was a student in Bu- reau county for one term. His mental training was an excellent discipline for the practical and responsible duties of later life and on putting aside his text-books he entered upon the task of making a farm and home for himself. He has met with some financial reverses, but under all conditions has maintained an unassailable reputa- tion for integrity and honor, and as right event- ually triumphs, Mr. Long is again munbered among the substantial residents of his community.
On the 3d of September, 18:3, occurred the marriage of Lewis M. Long and Miss Eliza F. Cresap, who was born in Bureau county, July 10, 1856. She is a daughter of Van O. and Ruth (Ravenscroft) Cresap, who were natives of Ohio and became residents of Illinois in 1810. Her father was a farmer by occupation and reared a family of six children, of whom Mrs. Long is the fifth. By her marriage she has become the mother of three children: Pearl, born Angust 10, 1877; Elva Ruth, born January 16, 1883, and Daisy M., born April 29. 1884. Mrs. Long attends the United Brethren church, of which she is a mem- ber, and his views upon the temperance question are plainly indicated by the allegiance which he gives to the prohibition party. The home farm com- prises one hundred and twelve and a half acres of excellent land and Mr. Long has always followed farming and stock-raising. He has been a di- rector of the schools for twelve years and the cause of education fuds in him a warm friend. Socially he and his wife occupy au enviable posi- tion and he is a pleasant, genial gentleman, whose kindliness and deference for the opinions of others have made him popular. At all times he has maintained an unassailable reputation for hon- orable dealing, and his personal worth classes him with the valued and representative citizens.
PETER J. CASSIDY.
Peter J. Cassidy, figuring prominently in agri- cultural and financial circles in Arlington and Westfield township as president of the State Bank of the former and as a leading and successful far- mer of the latter, i- numbered among that class of representative American citizens who in promoting individual success likewise contribute to the gen- eral prosperity. Moreover, he has maintained an active and helpful interest in public affairs and is justly accounted one of the representative men of this part of the state.
He was born in Canada, August 4, 1815, about twenty miles from the city of Ottawa. His pa- rents, Patrick and Joanna (Coughlin) Cassidy, were both natives of Ireland and at a very early age became residents of Canada, where they were reared and remained until their removal to the United States in May, 1817. They re-ided for a short time in Stark county, Illinois, coming later to Bureau county, where they took up their abode in Westfield township before the close of the same year. Patrick Cassidy and his father, Peter Cassidy, entered claim to eighteen tracts of land of eighty acres each near to and adjoin- ing the village of Arlington, which was at that time called Lost Grove. Practically ilo work of development and improvement had not been start- ed in that part of the county, the land being still in its primitive condition. Patrick Cassidy first purchased a yoke of oxen and was obliged in the early days to drive this ox team thirty miles to mill in order to get bread stuffs. It frequently required two days to make the trip, for he had to wait his turn at the grist. He brought flour back with him to sell to his neighbors. In the com- munity he was widely known and was an influ- ential factor in public life and in the business de- velopment and improvement of the community. Peter Cassidy, Sr., died in the spring of 1861 at Ottawa, Illinois, while Patrick Cassidy died July 16, 1855, on what is now the old homestead farm on section 10, Westfield township, Bureau county. They were both prominent pioncer settlers and their names are closely interwoven with the carly history of this part of the state.
Patrick Cassidy had four brothers, two of whom, Peter and Terrence Cassidy, served as sol- dieis in the Civil war. Terrence enlisted at Ot- tawa early in the war and was wounded at At- lanta, being shot in the hand. He died shortly after the close of the war, passing away in 1865. Peter Cassidy, uncle of our subject, was drafted in 1864 and served until the close of hostilities. He died in the winter of 1SS1. Phillip Cassidy, another brother of this family, passed away at Omaha, Nebraska, in 1893, while the fourth broth- er, James Cassidy, died in Arlington, Illinois, July 3, 1895.
Two years of age when brought by his parents from Canada to Illinois, Peter J. Cassidy of this review began his education in the district schools and continued his studies in the high school in Princeton. He engaged in teaching school for a time through the winter terms and during the summer months followed farming. He has always led a busy and useful life, his energy and enterprise being crowning features in his career and from early manhood to the present time has been closely associated with agricultural interest :. II is now the owner of two hundred acres of land in Westfield township valued at from one hundred and seventy-five to two hundred dol- lars per acre. This constitutes a very fine farm,
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being equipped with all modern conveniences and accessories and everything about the place is in keeping with the most advanced ideas concerning agricultural development. Mr. Cassidy also be- came an active factor in financial circles when in 1902 he was one of the organizers of the Arling- ton State Bank. He served as a director from the beginning and on the 28th of May, 1901, he was chosen president of the bank, which is his present connection therewith. He is a man of keen discernment in business affairs, his judgment being seldom, if ever, at error and his wise coun- sel is a valued factor in the successful control of the interests, public and private, with which he has been connected.
On the 19th of November, 1812, Mr. Cassidy was married to Miss Mary A. Lawler, who was born in the village of Arlington, June 26, 1857, a daughter of Luke and Catherine (O'Malley) Law - ler, both of whom were natives of Ireland. The father came to Bureau county in the early :40s and was the first blacksmith in Westfield town- ship. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy have been born three children: Harry Vincent, who died in infancy : Jennie, who died in 1896; and John L., who is still with his father. The wife and mother passed away April 26, 1883, and as she was a most estimable lady, possessed of many good traits of heart and mind, her death was deeply regretted by those who knew her.
Mr. Cassidy has served as assessor of Westfield township for several years and was township treas- urer for four years. In politics he is an independ- ent democrat, supporting the candidate rather than the party and always laboring for the best inter- ests of the community. He ever places the gen- eral good before partisanship, nor has he sought political preferment as a reward for aid which he has rendered in matters pertaining to the wel- fare of the community. Realizing the obligation- which have devolved upon him as an individual and as a citizen he has in public and private re- lations of life faithfully discharged every duty and thereby commanded the esteem and confidence of his fellowmen.
BENJAMIN .F. PATTERSON.
Benjamin F. Patterson, who has spent his en- tire life in Bureau county, where his birth of- curred August 2, 1868, has throughout the period of his manhood carried on general farming in- terests and now owns and operates one hundred and twenty acres of land in Berlin township. His parents were David and Mary ( Davis) Patter-on, both natives of Pennsylvania, whence they removed westward, becoming residents of Bureau county, Illinois, during a comparatively early period in its development and upbuilling. They lived upon a farm and thus Benjamin F. Patterson was reared to general agricultural pursuits, early be-
coming familiar with the Cause and labors that fail to the lot of the farmer as he tills his fields and harvests de crops, whole during the winter sea on. be acquired his obogbon in the common schools.
On the 6th of January, Javi, in Bureau coun- ty, he was married to Mis- Dadie D. Jay, who was born in Berlin township. Dece ber 30, 1812, and is a daughter of Andrew J. and Roll on (Kinna- mon) Jay, both natives of Off'o, the former born in 1829 and the latter on the 18th of October. 1833. Mrs. Patterson obtained a common-school cducat'on in Bureau county and by her marriage lits become the mother of one daughter, Ruth E., bom April 11, 1891.
Mr. Patterson, in order to provide for himself and family. is devoting his margies to general agricultural pursuits and is a wide-awake busi- The s map, alert and energetic. He now has one hundred and twenty acres of land, which is rich and productive and the place is well equipped with modern improvements and accessories, the field- being well tilled, while in the pastures are found good grades of stock. Swially he is con- nextel with the Modern Woodzan and in hi- po- Itical views is a republican. II's wife is a mem- ber of the Methodist church and both are highly esteem i people, who have spent their entire lives in this county and have a fare . circle of warm friends, many of whom have known them from early life to the present time.
HERMAN N. HOLLER.
llerman X. Holler, comfortably situated in life upon a farm in Westfiehl township, is one of the native sons of La Salle county, this state, having been born in Dimmnick township, Novem- her 13, 1861. Ile is a son of Phillip and Eliza- beth ( Ott) HoHler. His father, a native of Cham- bersburg. Franklin county, Pennsylvania, became one of the carly residents of La Salle county and for many years followed farming as a source of livelihood, but is not actively engaged in business pursuits at the present time. He resides upon the boundary line between Bureau and La Salle counties on the old family homestead, which has been his place of residence through a long and uninterrupted period. His wife was born in Cum- berland county, Pennsylvania, and with her hus- band came to La Salle county in 1816. She died November 15, 1899. Mr. Holler is yet a very active old gentleman, who, although eighty-five years of age retains his hearing and eyesight un- impaired. Ile is so hale and he rty that it is dif- ficult to realize that he has pas-ef the four score mark on life's journey. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for over forty years and was one of the first to join Peru Indre. Ho has attained the Knight Temp! r degree in St. Johns commandery and is one of the oldest Marins
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in the state. Ile ha- reared a family of children and now has grandchildren and great-grandehil- dren, so that there are four living generations of the family in this part of Illinois.
Herman N. Holler at the usual age entered the district schools, wherein he pursued his studios until he put aside his textbooks to give undivided attention to farin labor. The occupation to which he was reared he has always made his life work and he is now the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of fine land valued at from one hun- dred and seventy-five to two hundred dollars per acre. Upon this place he raises com, oats and other crops and also keeps some stock. He is principally a grain farmer, however, and his fields are now well cultivated, bringing to him good annual harvests. Ile has recently erected a fino now residence upon his place and there are also substantial barns and outbuildings. The land is divided into fields of convenient size by well kopt fenees and none of the equipments of a model farm are here lacking.
Mr. Toller was married December 16, 1898, to Miss Jennie Neill, who was born in Peoria, li- nois, a daughter of William and Margaret ( Coak- ley) Neill, the former a native of Ireland and the Iatter of this state. Four children bless this mar- riage: Howard, Robert. Blanche and Phillip.
THOMAS C. CALLINAN.
Thomas C. Callinan is among the worthy resi- dents of Bureau county furnished by the Emerald isle. Ilis birth occurred in County Clare, Ireland, and he came to America in 1860, making hi- way direct to Princeton, and after four years' residence in the new world he offered his services to his adopted land as a defender of the Union cause, en- listing in 1864 and serving until the end of the war. He took part in a number of battles and was wounded on several occasions. He was in the en- gagement at Altoona Pass and in various battles of the Atlanta campaign, and after the capitulation of the city of Atlanta went with Sherman on the celebrated march to the sea. He joined the army as a private of Company I. Thirtieth Illinois In- fantry, and became captain of a forage company, in which capacity he was led into many places of danger, but he never faltered in the performance of any task that was assigned hin.
Returning to his home at the close of the war. then but eighteen years of age, Thomas C. Cal- linan gave his attention to farm work and throughout his entire life has carried on general agricultural pursuits. In 1820 be purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land. for which he paid seventy-two and a half dollars per pere and which is today worth one hundred and seventy-five dol- lars por aere. He has placed many substantial improvements upon his property and uses excel- lent machinery to facilitate the work of the fiells.
He raises the cereals best ande pool to sol went chi- mate and altogether ha- a well ipron le model farm.
On the 24th of February, Isto, in Ma.on, Mr. Callinan was married to Miss Mary A. Rinker, who was born in tins county in Augt- . 1852. Their children are: Marty A., who was born March 31, 1811, and marri of Brot .A. R .n; and Eva, who was born November 11, 182%. and is now the wife of J. E. Selfsborg, In whom she has one child, Jacob E., now in his third year. Mr. Callinan provided his children with excellent educational advantages. His son, who w .- a stu- dent in the high school of Princeton, completed his education in San Francisco, Califmaria, and the daughter. after attending the Printon high school, pursued her studies in the Moody school in Massachusetts and was afterward graduated on the completion of a course in both wood and in- strumental mu-ie in Oberlin College a: Oberlin, Olio. She is a musician of rare ability, both as a performer and soundist.
Mr. Callinan ba- attaine T high rank h. Masonry, belonging to Printton lodge, No. 58%. A. F. & A. M. Princeton chapter, No. 25, R. A. M. Coun- cil No. S. R. & S. M. and Temple constandary, No. 20, K. T. He is also a member of Ferris post, No. 309, G. A. R., and of Dauntless lodge, No. 150, K. P., at Malden. He votes with the republican party, to which he has ab ays given stanch support, standing firm in his ad. ochey of the organization which was the champion of the I'nion during the dark days of the Civil war anl has always been the promoter of reform and progress in the country. For four years L . served as deputy sheriff, but otherwise has heldl ro public offices. In his religion- faith he is a Presbyterian, belonging to the First Church of Princeton. Loval in military service. faithful in citizenship and ao- curate and reliable in his business atfais -. he has during the years of his residence in Bureau county won a place among its foremost citizen -.
FRED ALBRECHT.
Fred Albrecht, owning and operating two hun- dre and eighty-two acres of valuele farming land on section 5, Ohio township, Burett county, and also having extensive landed possessions in Wisconsin, where he own- thirteen hundred and sixty acres, was born in the township which is still his home, on the 6th of January, 1550. His parents were Jacob and Barbara ( Ringer'mig) Al- brecht, both nat ve of the east, whence they came to Illinois at an early day. In their Gepily were five children, of which the subject of this review is the youngest. By a previous mar age the father had four children.
Fred Albrecht was reared to farm life and ac- quired a common-school adoration. Ve gh he inherited some of his property he has through
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industry and integrity added thereto until he is now the owner of two hundred and eighty-two acres of very valuable farm land, situated on the southeast quarter of scetion 5, Ohio township, Bureau county. He has added many modern im- provements to his place, uses good farm machin- ery in carrying on the cultivation of his land, and by practical and modein methods has enhanced the value of his farm until it is worth from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars per acre, and is one of the best tracts in Ohio township, and in fact in Bureau county. Ile is engaged in gen- cral agricultural pursuits, and annually harve-ts excellent crops of grain, his product- finding a ready sale on the market, where they command the highest prices, owing to their good quality. Be- sides this farm on which Mr. Albrecht makes his home, he also owns a tract of thirteen hundred and sixty acres in Wisconsin.
Mr. Albrecht was married on the 25th of Octo- ber, 1885, to Miss Anna B. Bumgardner, who was born in Bureau county, July 9, 1866, a daughter of Henry C. and Anna MI. Bumgardner, the for- mer born in Switzerland, whence he came to America in the '50. The mother was born in Bureau county. Unto our subject and his wife have been born seven children : Christian H., born July 20. 1886; George F., September 11, 1587 ; Albert D., January 23. 1889; Amelia M., Feb- ruary 4, 1891 ; Sadie, January 11, 1893 ; Pearl C., January 27, 1902, and Florence E., January 4, 1903.
Mr. Albrecht gives his political support to the Democratic party, having firm faith in its prin- ciples, and he and his family are identified with the German Evangelical church. Although our subject came into ownership of some of his prop- erty through inheritance, he has been industrious and persevering, carefully managing his business interests, so that year by year he has added to his financial income and he has been enabled to make additional purchases until he is today in posses- sion of a handsome competence, being numbered among the most prominent and substantial farm- ers of Ohio township. He and his family are ex- cellent Christian people, possessing sterling qual- ities, which have won for them warm and lasting friendships.
GENERAL THOMAS J. HENDERSON.
General Thomas J. Henderson, of Princeton. was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, November 29, 1824, a son of Colonel William Il. and Sarah M. ( Howard) Henderson. ITis father, born in Garrard county, Kentucky, November 16, 1793, enlisted at the age of nineteen in Colonel Richard M. Johnson's Regiment of Mounted Riflemen and served in the war of 1812. En 1-23 he removed to Stewart county, Tennessee, where he followed the profession of surveying and filled various posi- tions of honor and trust. On coming to Ilindi -.
le bieatol in what was then Putnowe but we don Stark county, and two y . I. later, JE 188- Ko- elected to the state legislature, when he was the contemporary of Lincoln. Edu.il, and eller notable mon. He met with the Hit hardhud session at Vandaha and the first at Sprunga. and in 1812 he was the whig candidate fo; lieutenant governor. In 1815 he removal to Juluison county, Iowa, and die l Janvary 22. 1861, at the age of seventy-on years. He was man & ! in Stewart county, Tennessee, Jan ny 11. 1516. to Miss Lucinda Winterly, and they had three children. The mother died in Haywood count:, Tennessee, and Mr. Henderson married Sarah MI. Il ward, who was born in Sau geon county. Nom Carolina. September 15, 1804, and died in Marshalltown, Jowa, in Jam ary, 1829. They had five elaldren.
General Henderson of this review was a student in the public schools and in the seaden; at Brownsville, Tennessee, until eleven years of age, when he accompanied his father's family to Start: county, Hinweis, where he resumed his studies in the pioneer schools. Nine years later he went with the fandil, to Joltsont count .. Jowa, and spent one term in the State University, at lowa City. He then returned to Stark county, Ill mais, and after teaching for a term spent nearly a year as clerk in a store. In the fall of ist he wa- elected clerk of the county commissioners' court and served as such until the offer was chan_pl to that of clerk of the county court, to which he was elected. serving until 1853. In that thre he contimad his law studies, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and on rething from the offre in 1853 began practice in Toulon. The following year he was elected to the state legislature. and in 1856 was chosen to represent his district in the state senate, being the youngest member of that body. It was an exciting epoch in the history of the country that prece ding the Civil war. . As an anti-Nebraska man he was dertol to the hatt- and as a republican he was chosen to the senate. When the war was inaugurated he stood for the Union, and in almost every school district in Stark county address @ his fellow ctions. m_in_ enlistiments and pleading with all to stand by the administration.
In the summer of 1862 General Henderson en- listed, raising a company which was attached to the One Hundred and Twelfth Winois Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was permitted to elect its colonel, and Mr. Henderson received the unani- mous vote of officers and privates. After being mustered in September 22, 1542, it was sent im- mediately to the front, participatin_ in the call- paigne throng! Georgia and Tonness & and Major General J. D. Cox said of Colon & Henderson, "Always hope ful, always prompt, always coul- agrous, he was a most loval sul ard wate and a most alle and deveted ba er." At the battle of Restare, May 14, 1804. He was sever ly wound. 1.
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and after some time spent in the hospital was granted a furlough and returned home. After ro- joining his regiment, the Third Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-third Army Corps was returned and he was assigned to its command, thus serving until the close of the war, when he was brevetted brigadier general, the commission dating Novem- ber 30, 1861.
The war over, General Henderson returned to Toulon, Hlinoi-, and resumed his law practice. In March, 186;, he removed to Princeton and was a partner of Joseph J. Taylor in the practice of law until 18:1, when he was appointed by Presi- dent Grant as United States collector of internal revenue for the fifth Illinois district, with head- quarters at Peoria. He filled the office for two years and on his return to Princeton in 18;3 joined Judge 11. M. Trimble in the formation of one of the strongest law firms that has ever prac- tieed at the Bureau county bar. In 1868 Gen- eral Henderson was one of the presidential electors for the state at large and supported General Grant. In 1820 he was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination for congress, but in 1864 was elected to the forty-fourth congress from the sixth Illinois district, and during that term served on railways, canals and pension commit- toes; in the forty-fifth congress he served on claims; in the forty-sixth on commerce; in the forty-seventh was chairman of the committee on military affairs; in the forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses he served on the commit- tee on rivers and harbors; in the fifty-first was chairman of the committee on river and harbors; and in the fifty-second and fifty-third served on the rivers and harbors committee, and also on banking and currency. For eight years he ropre- sented the sixth district, and for twelve years the seventh district, and after his first term was al- ways renominated by acclamation, continuing in congress for twenty years.
On the 29th of May, 1849, General Henderson married Henrietta Butler, of Wyoming, Illinois, who was born in New York city, August 11, 1830, a daughter of Captain Henry and Rebecca (Green) Butler. They have become the parents of four children: Gertrude R., who married Charles J. Dunbar, of Princeton; Sarah E., who became the wife of Chester M. Durly, of Prince- ton ; Mary L., who married John Farnsworth, of Washington, D. C .; and Thomas B., a business man of Princeton.
General Henderson has attained high rank in Masonry in connection with the York and Sout- tish rites, belonging to the commandery and con- sistory. A contemporary biographer has said: "A man more honest and devoted to the best interests of his constituents never entered the halls of con- gress, and those who know him best do not hesi- tate to say that he is in every respect a noble type of American manhood. His name stands for hon-
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