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Dr. Lumley is the eldest of three children, hav- ing one brother yet living in Canada, while his sister, Miss Isabella M. Lumley, makes her home with him in Watseka. He is popular and promi- nent here, both socially and professionally, and he keeps abreast with the spirit of progress as manifest in the science and practice of medicine.
Dr. Lumley is secretary of the Watseka board of United States pension examiners, appointed by the commission of pensions of the department of the interior, and is also state examiner of the blind, appointed by Governor Deneen.
WARREN S. GOODELL.
Among the earnest men whose depth of char- acter and strict adherence to principle excite the admiration of his contemporaries Warren Sellick Goodell is prominent and his name is a most honored one in financial circles, where his con- servatism, his sound judgment and his enterprise are widely recognized factors. Banking institu- tions are the heart of the commercial body, in- clicating the healthfulness of trade, and the bank that follows a safe, conservative business policy does more to establish public confidence in times of widespread financial depression than anything
DR. ROBERT LEMLEY
& Sons Company followed node The Me com agement of its presolent, the subject pos p view. For a long period he has been one of the as tive business men of fromquais county but the is tent of his labors and their far-reaching; ntlu ence is not measured by the boundaries of th's section of the state. As an investment banker hic has in a quiet, unostentations way done nluch for the development of this state and Indiana, where the investments of the bank are largely placel.
Mr. Goodell is one of the county's native soll Ilis business history has been honored among men who are familiar with his record from his earliest borhood and the fact that his stanchest friends are numbered among his oldest acquaintances is an indication of the commendable policy and upright course that he has always followed.
He is a direct descendant of Robert Goodell. who sailed from Ipswich, England, in the ship Elizabeth of Ipswich, William Andrews, master. in the last of April. 1034. Ilis age is given as thirty, that of his wife, Katharine, twenty-eight. and of his children as follows: Mary, four years ; Abraham, two years ; Isaac, one-half year. They had a child baptized at Salem, Mas 31. 1040; Jacob, on the 9th of January, 1641 or 1042; and Hannah. August 6. 1045. Robert Gowell had a grant of twenty acres in Salem perhaps as carl > 1636, to which, on the 21st of February, 1638. the town added twenty acres more in response to his request for an "enlargement." By 1651 he had bought of others enough land so that his bold ings amounted to four hundred and eighty acres and is allowed by the town twenty four acres of meadow in consideration of his discharging to the town a grant of eleven hundred acres. This re cord is taken from the Salem book of grants. Isaac Goodell, son of Robert, was born in Eng land in 1633 and died at Salem in 1680. He was married in February, 1668, to Patience Cook, who afterward became the wife of a Mr. Stimpson. They had seven children, including John Goodell. who removed to Woodstock, Connecticut, where he was married. November 10, 1702, to I.vdia Titus, and in 1780 or 1711 married Hannah Co)- burn. The eldest of his six children was John B. Goodell, born November 25, 1704 He was married in Woodstock, May 25, 1731. to Vary Bugbee, and the next in line of direct descent to
all and Ins natal das was November 25 1735 He was married in Wordstrack on the the of December, 1703, 20 Mars Warmer, of Wall .. ! their sixth child was Warser Gono
Warner home, the great grandi ther of War ren Selick Goodell of this review, was born Los and ced August 15 1820, at the ag pt hits vigh years He was a preacher of the gospel in the Baptist denomination for eleven years. In Workstock, Connecticut, in June, 1792, he mar rie l Miss Phillips and on the 28th of April, 1793. they Ixcame parents of a daughter, Phobe, who married Ebenezer Doty and removed to Kiny ville, Illinois, and afterward to California. Thus far the ancestral history of the family is taken from old records of Connecticut. The entry con- cerning the daughter is the last mention made of Warner Goodell on the Woodstock records. Fur- ther information was obtained at Mentor, Ohio. There Warner Goddell died August 15. 1826. He removed from Woodstock to Cazenovia, Non York, where was born another daughter. Salle. afterward the wife of Isaac .A. Baxter, of Aus- tinburg. Ohio, and a son, William. Nathan Phillips Go dell was born November 1. 1707. in Cazenovia, New York, and died February 8. 1872. He married Hangah Mead Griswoldl. in Mentor. Ohio, June 6, 1820. Warner Goodell's second wife was a sister of his first wife. His third wife was Miss Patty Brown, who died in Mentor. . Ohio. April 3. 1843, at the age of sixty -one years. It is understood that he had no children by either his second or third wife. Nathan Phillips God- el. grandfather of Warren S Goodell, is men- tioned at more length in the history of Addison Goodell, his son and the father of our subject. on another page of this work.
Warren S. Goodell acquired a high-school cou- cation and later attended the Albany Academy at Whamy, New York, in the years 1870 and 1880. He left school in 1881 and made a six months' trip abroad, visiting most of the European coun- tries. Upon his return home he pursued a com- mercial course in a business college and then en- tered the employ of his father, Addison Goodell. in 1882. He was unable to complete a course in college, partly owing to ill health but more par- ticularh on account of the fact that he was needed in the business by his father, who felt that
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the son should assume some of the responsibility of a business that was developing rapidly and re- quired close personal attention owing to the trying financial crisis that came in the '8os. Entering the bank which was established by his father in 1855, Warren Sellick Goodell has since been closely associated with the business and after six years spent as an employe in the institution, dur- ing which time he thoroughly mastered the busi- ness in every department and gained a syste- matic and accurate knowledge of banking, he was admitted to a partnership under the firm style of A. Goodell & Son. On the Ist of October. 1898. the present firm of .\. Goodell & Sons Company was formed by the admission of Nathan P. Good- ell and Frank F. Butzow. Warren S. Goodell has served successively as bookkeeper, cashier and president and at this writing, in the winter of 1906-7, is at the head of the firm of A. Goodell & Sons Company, which has the largest capital and surplus of any bank or financial institution of the county and controls an investment of three million five hundred thousand dollars on farm lands in addition to its regular banking business, with deposits of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. The firm has breasted all of the financial storms of the last half century without the loss of a dollar to a depositor and enjoys the full con- fidence of the public in its financial liability and fairness of dealing with customers. In the year 1897 Loda received the most severe financial blow in its history in the failure of John S. Sheldon, Sheldon's private bank, which resulted in the as- signment of a number of business men who had conducted their banking business with him. The bank of A. Goodell & Sons Company passed through the trying times following the failure without asking depositors to wait a moment for their money and not a customer of the bank failed. The capital of the bank at this time is one lun- dred thousand dollars with a surplus of twenty thousand dollars and a business of a million dol- lars annually transacted in central Illinois and In- diana, and represents four hundred private in- vestors scattered over the United States. As in- vestment bankers the firm has become most widely known and in all of its business relations sustains an unassailable integrity as well as a splendid re- putation for the stability and correctness of its methods.
Mr. Goodell was married at Boston, Massa- chusetts, to Miss Lucy W. Wendland, who was born in Marietta, Ohio, but after the Civil war the family removed to Helena, Arkansas. She had several brothers who were soldiers of the Union army. Going to Boston to study music, Miss Wendland was there married on the 26th of June, 1888, in Trinity church by Bishop Phil- lips Brooks. Their children are Helen Elizabeth, Addison, Warren Franklin and Phillips Wend- land.
Mr. Goodell is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, identified with the chapter in Chicago, and belongs to the Congregational church. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He cast his first presidential vote for James G. Blaine and is usually in sym- pathy with the principles for which the Maine statesman stood yet does not consider himself bound absolutely by party ties. He has never sought or held office save in the village where he makes his home but is deeply interested in secur- ing men devoted to the best interests of the peo- ple for public office and is a member of the county republican central committee. Business interests have largely absorbed his time to the exclusion of outside work and yet no movement for the public good fails to receive his endorsement and co-operation. His life has been characterized by extreme industry and by close application to the imporant business interests of the banking house of which he is now the head. This business, es- tablished in 1855, is almost unique in its success and in the extent and importance of its opera- tions outside of regular banking lines. The firm furnished private money to farmers to improve their lands at the lowest rates of interest for which capital could be secured for that purpose. Very few foreclosures of mortgages have been made by the firm and these only when absolutely no other course was open to the company to pro- tect its customers' interests. In this way the busi- ness has been conducted not only with profit to the members of the company but with great bene- fit to the farming community in Illinois and in Indiana, and in the more direct lines of banking the enterprise is one of great importance to Loda and the surrounding locality. In all of his under- takings Mr. Goodell has displayed an aptitude for successful management, a keen penetration into
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business conditions and a ready understanding of possibilities, together with a power of co-ordinat- ing forces that has produced strong results and made his business a power in financial circles in Illinois.
N. P. GOODELL.
Well qualified by educational and preliminary training for important service in business circles, Nathan P. Goodell has made good use of his tal- ents and his opportunities and gained for himself a place among the representative and valued res- idents of Iroquois county. He is vice president and attorney for the well known banking firm conducting business under the style of .1. Good- ell & Sons Company at Loda, an institution which has had marked effect on the business life of this locality.
A native son of the county, Mr. Goodell was born in Loda. May 9. 1866, and is a son of A. Goodell, who is mentioned elsewhere in this vol- ume. He was reared in the place of his nativity and at the usual age entered the public schools, passing through successive grades until, having mastered the course, he entered Graylock Insti- tute, a preparatory school for Williams College. in 1882. There he pursued a two years' pre- paratory course and in 1884 matriculated in the state university at Urbana, where he continued his studies for four years, being graduated in the class of 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Lit- erature. After completing that course he went to Chicago, where he entered the law office of Cratty Brothers & Ashcraft, under whose direc- tion he pursued his law studies, also taking a night course in Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. After a year spent in Chicago he went to Paxton and became a student in the law office of Judge John H. Moffatt, who directed his read- ing for a year, and on the 19th of November. 1891, he was admitted to the bar after success- fully passing an examination before the supreme court at Mount Vernon.
Thus well qualified for the onerous and respon- sible duties of a business carcer, Nathan P. Good- ell returned home to accept a salaried position in his father's bank. He was thus employed for
seven years, during which time he applied himself closely to the mastery of the banking business in principle and detail, and in 1898 he was given an interest in the business, at which time the firm style was changed to .A. Goodell & Sons Company. Nathan P'. Goodell devotes his time and energies to the banking business and is vice president and attorney for the company, which conducts not only an extensive banking business but also has a large farm loan department, in which connection Mr. Goodell looks up the titles of real estate for parties and negotiates loans. The operations of the loan de- partment cover much of Illinois and Indiana. where they have placed loans to the amount of three million five hundred thousand dollars, and in a period of fourteen years they have never lost a cent for themselves or for an investor, Mr. Goodell examining the title for most of the loans before placed. In connection with his brother, Warren S., Mr. Goodell purchased and now con- ducts the Loda brick and tile factory, of which he is manager. In this has been installed modern and improved machinery and the plant is first class in every particular. They use a superior clay and their output of brick and tile is of the highest possible quality.
Mr. Goodell was married in Paxton, March 6, 1804, to Miss Mary E. Gray, a sister of Mrs. Judge Moffatt, of Paxton. She was born in Loda but was reared in Paxton, and by her marriage has become the mother of two children: Martha Jane and Frances Warren, two bright and at- tractive little girls.
Mr. Goodell's political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is much interested in local politics, desiring honesty in public office and efficiency in public service. The cause of educa- tion finds in him a stalwart friend and he has been especially helpful in his support of the Loda public schools, having for six years served as sec- retary of the school board. Loda maintains a school unsurpassed by any in the state, and Mr. Goodell has also been secretary of the Loda lec- ture course for the past five years, where a lec- ture course is maintained during the winter months and many eminent speakers are thus an- nually heard in the town. He is also one of the trustees of the A. Herr Smith library and its vice president, and he and his wife hold membership
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in the Congregational church. He is a gentle- man in whom learning and culture have vied in making an interesting and honorable gentleman and his life has at all times commanded the re- spect of his fellowmen. In business he has not relied alone upon the influence or financial ability of his father to give him a start but has worked his way upward through individual merit and may properly claim recognition as a citizen of energy and industry, whose salient traits of character have been such as to gain him leadership and splendid success in business life and have also made him a potent influence over public thought and action. His efforts in behalf of advancing the intellectual progress of the community have been particularly helpful and Loda owes much to his public spirit.
C. PETER CHRISTENSON.
C. Peter Christenson, of Sheldon, who for over thirty years has been connected in various ways with business interests as a stock-buyer and shipper, a farmer and butcher, was born in Ger- many, May 5, 1847, and the schools of the father- land provided him with his educational privileges .. He remained in that country until twenty years of age, when the hope of bettering his financial condition led him to seek a home in the new world and in 1867 he crossed the Atlantic, taking up his abode in Chatsworth, Illinois, where he worked at farm labor for a year and a half. Hle was afterward employed at the butcher's trade and later conducted a shop there for a time prior to his removal to Sheldon. On coming here he opened a butcher shop and soon after began buying stock, in which line he has con- tinued for twenty-eight years, being the only shipper at this point. He sold his market in 1906 but still continues as a stock-buyer and shipper and is also the owner of a valuable farm- ing property, having invested in two hundred acres of good land in Iroquois county and one hundred and thirty-eight acres in Indiana. He owns the building in which he conducts his meat market and also a fine home in Sheldon, where he resides and which is located on one of the best corners of the town near the busi-
ness section. His property is the visible evi- dence of his life of well directed thrift and labor, for he started ont for himself empty-handed and by judicious use of his opportunities and his business enterprise and foresight he has become one of the substantial residents of the county.
Mr. Christenson was married to Miss Cath- erine Hickleman, of Chatsworth, Illinois, and they have two sons, George and Charles H. The latter is a graduate of the Purdue Univer- sity, where he was a student for four years. In 1904 the brothers bought ont the Independent telephone and later the Bell telephone and are now controlling the entire telephone business in Sheldon.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Christenson are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Christenson and his son Charles affiliate with Sheldon lodge, No. 600. A. F. & A. M., while he is likewise connected with Sheldon lodge. No. 349. I. O. O. F. His political allegiance is given to the democracy and he is now serving as a member of the drainage commission of Iro- quois county. For six years he has been on the school board and in office and out of it has done effective service for the public welfare, while in his business life he has made that steady prog- ress which is indicative of ability, resolution and of strong purpose. He is a man of marked in- dividuality of character and is one whose example is well worthy of emulation, showing as it does what may be accomplished in the business world by young men who have to start out empty- handed.
HOUGARDY BROTHERS.
The firm of Hougardy Brothers of Clifton is composed of Theophile and Eugene Hongardy. sons of Joseph and Victoria (Morreau) Hou- gardy, who came from Belgium to the United States in 1856, locating near Clifton, afterward purchasing one hundred and forty acres of land on section 2. Upon this farm the family were reared.
Theophile Hougardy was born in Brobant county, Belgium. September 27, 1849, and was therefore only about seven years of age when
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brought by his parents to the Umted States, His educational privileges were limited but in the school of experience he has learned many valu- able lessons, gaining a good knowledge of prac- tical business methods. He is now associated with his brother, Eugene Hongardy. in farming inter- ests. The old home farm of the father, compris- ing one hundred and forty acres on section 2. Chehanse township, is now owned and operated by the sons and in connection with this they also culivate eighty acres of land adjoining the estate. They are men of good business ability, watchin of opportunities painting to success, and show keen discernment and unfaltering energy in their management of their interests. On the 18th of August. 100. Theophile Hongards embarked from New York city for Belgium and while abroad visited all the principal cities of that con- try and visited relatives and the friends of his early boyhood days. He is a member of the Catholic church and a communicant in Clifton parish.
Eugene Hangards, the imer partir of the firma, was bery nothis canty. March 19, 1802. and having arrived at years of maturity was mar ried to Leonie Looze, at Chebanse, October 15. 1889. They have three children. Model A., In- seph E ... and Nester II .. all still und r the parental rif.
In his politied view . Mr. Hegarty is inde pendent. He belongs to Park Village camp. No. 2500. M. W. A., of China, and is well kig won in the town and throughout the surrounding com try. The brothers are recognized as represent it citizens, who while promoting their individual in terests like wise contribute to geteral progress and in provement through the co-operation which they give to many measures for the public god.
WILLIAM HENRY SHANNON.
William Henry Slamon, who is engaged in Inning, selling and shipping live stock at Martin ton and is also a dealer in farm implements. is one of the worthy citizens of Iroquois county that Canada has furnished to this country. Many there are who, born across the border, have sought homes in the United States to enjoy the advan-
tages of its livelier competition and advancement more quickly scented.
Mr. Shannon was born in Ontario, Canada. May 20, 1811 His father, William Shannon. was a native of Ireland and came to this country at an early day, settling in Canada, where be re- mained until 1856, when he came with his family in Illinois, settling in Papineau township. He purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land which at that time was entirely unimproved. but he at once turned the virgin soil and cultivated the fields, continuing the work of improvement in every way mit he had developed a splendid fare property. Thereon be made his home until about 188, when he removed to Pitts wal, where he
Wa har I Shantou reytitle last hope with les parent- m til 1808 and then started out in life on his own account, being at that time a young man of twenty-four years. He had been reared to the occupation of farming and thinking to make that purshit his life work, he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of sand on l'apineau township. which vas partially improved. Upon this place he lived and followed i mming and stock raising until 1885, when he re paved to a farm in the " Middle purt township, that he had previous'. purchased. He las ti d. foncol and Unproved this property, and he resided thereon until about ten years ago when he bought a lot mol built home in Martinton, where he has sind Jis 1 Here he has changed ip buying, selling and ship ping stock and is one of the well known live stock: dealers of the county, doing a large and profitable business, He las ale ben in the farm in prevent business, where his natural resources have been greath increased.
Mr. Shannon was married on the 11th of March, 1808, in Papineau parship, to Miss Sarah E. Jones, who was born in that township in 1851 and is a daughter of Henry Jones, whose birth occurred in Meigs county, Ohio, January 17. 1811. He married Sarah Hester, and with their som. William Seth, they left their old home in Ohio on the 23d of March, 1835, and proceeded by boat down the Chio river to the Wabash river. after which they forced their beat up that stream to the ferry and crossed to Vermilion county. where they remained until the following year. At that time they came to the Iroquois river in
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Iroquois county and located on section 34. Pap- ineau township, where Mr. Jones built a log cabin and made his home. He was the first permanent settler in Papineau township and as such deserves honorable mention in. this volume. In 1847 he hauled lumber for a house from Chicago to Iro- quois county and was closely and honorably as- sociated with the material development and up- building of this portion of the state. He died March 4, 1859. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Shannon have been born six children: Mrs. May White. John, George, Mrs. Mina Jane Ash, Arthur and Maud.
Mr. Shannon holds membership with the Mod- ern Woodmen and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political allegiance is given to the democracy and he served as constable from Martinton township. Toward the close of the Civil war, although he had not yet attained his majority, he became a member of Company D. One Hundred and Fiftieth Illinois Infantry serv- ing from February, 1865, until the close of hostili- ties. He has always been a loyal, patriotic and public-spirited citizen and his residence in the county covers more than a half century. during which time he has been an interested witness of the changes that have occurred as the county has emerged from pioneer conditions and taken on all the evidences of an advanced and progressive civilization.
CHARLES H. MINER.
Charles H. Miner, who owns and operates a farm of two hundred and forty acres on section 13. Onarga township, was born in Cook county. Illinois. April 28. 1865. His father, Forbes II. Miner, was a native of New York, born in Oneida county in 1810. There he was reared and in carly life learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner. When a young man he came westward to this state and was identified with building operations in Chicago, assisting in building some of the first dwellings of that city. He was twice married and had children by both marriages. There were four children by the first wife. For his second wife he chose Miss Nasezee Schoquette. a French lady, whom he wedded in Chicago. In 1864 he came to Iroquois county, locating on a farm, and
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