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Mr. Cadwell was married to Miss Jemima C. Pond, who was born April 27, 1836, the mar- riage being celebrated October 25, 1855. Her parents were Edward and Charlotte (Stearns) Pond, both of whom were natives of Massachu- setts, born near Boston. A great-grandfather of Mrs. Cadwell was one of the heroes of the Revo- lutionary war and was taken prisoner by the British troops during the period of hostilities. Her father was a school teacher for thirty years or more. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church in early life but after- ward became identified with the Congregational church. Mr. Pond gave his political allegiance to the whig party and was a man of broad in- tellectuality, whose influence was a potent element for good in every community where he lived and labored. He died at the age of sixty-six years. while his wife passed away at the age of eighty- eight years.
Unto 'Mr. and Mrs. Cadwell were born seven children, of whom five are now living: William E., born June 26, 1858, is a fruit-grower and
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business man of Griggsville. George F., born August 27, 1862, is engaged in the fruit business in Griggsville. Carrie Belle, born April 14, 1865, is the wife of A. L. McClay, a resident of Hill- ville, Illinois. Ollie J., born September 28, 1874, is also living in Griggsville. Alfred Addison, born December 28, 1876, makes his home in the same city. All of the sons are fruit-growers and shippers and the family have made an excellent reputation in connection with this line of business.
Mr. Cadwell led too busy a life to hold public office but was a supporter of many progressive movements for the general welfare. He was made a member of Griggsville lodge, No. 45, A. F. & A. M., in 1867, and he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, while his wife is a Congregationalist. He took a very active and helpful interest in the work of the church of which he was an honored member for many years and his activities therein ceased only with his increasing illness. He voted with the democratic party and was interested in the material, intellectual and moral progress of the community. He and his wife spent many winters in the south, both in Florida and Texas, and also in California, traveling extensively in many por- tions of the country for the benefit of Mr. Cad- well's health. He passed the seventy-seventh milestone on life's journey and in a review of this long record many sterling traits of character stand strongly forth, his energy and enterprise being salient features in his success. He was al- ways honorable in his methods, considerate in his dealings with his fellowmen and commanded respect and confidence by reason of a life rec- ord that will bear the closest investigation and scrutiny.
JOHN S. LOCKWOOD, M. D.
The subject of this sketch, Dr. John S. Lock- wood, was born on a farm near Dover, in Kent county, Delaware, January 10, 1838. His par- ents and grandparents were all natives of Kent county and were practical farmers. In early life his father, John Lockwood, who was a school teacher and surveyor, rode to Ohio on horseback
and taught school near where the city of Chilli- cothe now stands. He afterward returned to Del- aware and married Miss Ann Slay. He then bought two hundred and twenty-eight acres of land and engaged in the business of farming, in which he continued as long as he lived. As a re- sult of his marriage three children were born: William H., John S. and Mary E. William is now living in Cass county, Illinois, and has one grown son and one daughter. Mary is deceased, while her only child, Mrs. Amelia Crider, is now living in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
After the death of his mother, which occurred when John Lockwood was about eight years of age, their father having died about three years previously, John Lockwood was taken into the home of a maternal uncle, John Slay, and when not attending school he was employed in the store and on the farm, of which his uncle was owner and proprietor. After reaching the age of fourteen years he started out in life for him- . self, continuing in the work of the farm and the store for a few years. He then attended school and taught alternately until he had completed a three years' course in Fairfield Seminary, of New York. He next returned to Delaware and en- gaged in business, conducting a general store and at the same time registered as a student of law with Eli Saulsbury, of Dover, but at the end of two years he gave up the study of law, sold out his store at anction and went to Philadelphia, where he pursued a course in a commercial school. On the completion of that course Dr. Lockwood obtained a position as a clerk and traveling sales- man for a wholesale house in Philadelphia, but after a short business experience in that line he gave up his position and soon matriculated in the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, attend- ing one course of lectures, when, owing to feeble health he went on a cruise in a sailing vessel on the Delaware and Chesapeake bays off the At- lantic coast of New Jersey on Long Island Sound and up the Thames river as far as Norwich, Con- necticut. He then returned to Delaware greatly improved in health and early in the following September he started to Burlington, Vermont, to complete his college course in medicine and sur- gery, but stopped on the way at Pittsfield, Massa-
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chusetts, and after inspecting the college there he changed his plans about going to Burlington and went instead directly to Ann Arbor, where he spent a few weeks. He afterward proceeded to Keokuk, Iowa, and there matriculated in the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. Hc subsequent- ly became a dresser of wounds and assistant in post-mortem examinations in the Estes House Military Hospital, where he remained until he had attended two courses of lectures and was graduated in the summer of 1865.
Dr. Lockwood then crossed the river to Adams county, Illinois, and visited with his Delaware friends and relatives through the remainder of the summer. He taught school in the fall and winter and in the spring opened an office for prac- tice of medicine and surgery in Quincy, where he remained until the fall, when he removed to New Canton in Pike county, where he engaged in the practice of his profession for about seven years. He then attended a course of lectures in the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis and the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia and was graduated from both schools in the spring of 1874. He then returned to New Canton and resumed the practice of his profession as before.
On the 3Ist of December, 1874, Dr. Lockwood and Miss Ella Clauson were married. She was a daughter of Eben and Malinda Clauson, the former a native of New York and the latter of Kentucky. They were among the early settlers of Pike county, were married here and lived most of their married life in New Canton and vicinity. Eight children were born unto them, all of whom died in infancy except three : Ella, Allie and Min- nie. Ella died January 23, 1895, Allie died in February and their father died in the following April. The widowed mother survived her hus- band and two daughters for more than ten years and passed away May 7, 1905, leaving but one daughter, Mrs. Fred Brown, of Hull, Illinois.
Owing to failing health Dr. Lockwood was compelled to give up the general practice of medi- cine in New Canton in the summer of 1888 and then went to Hamilton, Illinois, where he and his wife became connected with a sanitarium, re- maining there for several years. Since then, with the exception of his connection with the Baldwin
Park Sanitarium in the summer of 1895, he has not been engaged in the practice of his profession nor has he had any permanent residence, but has spent his time in Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Arkansas, Colorado and California. He was one of the original active promoters of the incorporation of the town of New Canton, was its first treasurer and was subsequently elected as one of its trus- tees and lastly as president of the board. While in the practice of his profession at New Canton he also served for two terms as supervisor, one term as school trustee and one term as director. He was never an aspirant for any political office of the county or state, but was sufficiently in- terested and identified with local politics as to be frequently sent as a delegate to the county, dis- trict and state conventions of the party to which he belonged. He is not a member of any church, but is favorable to all churches and public organ- izations for the good of the community. He was formerly a member of a literary society of some note and also of a beneficiary society, but is not now a member of any society except the Masonic lodge, No. 821, of New Canton, Illinois.
GEORGE W. PARKER.
George W. Parker, following the occupation of farming in Fairmount township, was born January 6, 1850, in the township which is now his home and has spent almost his entire life in Pike county. His father, John J. Parker, was born in Canada, January 13,, 1812, and having arrived at years of maturity was married in Cayuga county, New York, on the 12th of October, 1831, to Miss Lydia Phillips, whose birth occurred in Scotland, March 18, 1813. Mr. Parker was only six months old when taken by his parents from his native place in the province of Lower Canada to Cayuga county, New York, where he remained until early manhood. He was married at the age of twenty years and continued a resident of New York for seven years thereafter, when in 1838 he emigrated with his family to Pike county, Illinois, arriving at his destination on the 28th of May. He took up his abode near the central
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part of the county. He had at that time a wife and three children and his cash capital consisted of only twenty dollars. He at once began farming and he met the usual vicissitudes of pioneer life, for this district was cut off from the older settled portions of the country by long stretches of wild land, unbroken forests and by streams that were unbridged. In fact the work of improvement and progress had scarcely been begun in this section of the state. After various removals Mr. Parker settled in Fairmount township in 1845 and pur- chased land on section 26, afterward buying one hundred and sixty acres on section 27, but he continued to live on section 26 until his death, which occurred February 22, 1871, his remains being interred in the Woodland churchyard. When about fifteen years of age he united with the Freewill Baptist church and following his removal to Illinois joined Hinman Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal church on probation. He continued his connection with that denomination until 1861, when he and his wife joined the United Brethren church, of which he continued an active member until his death. His wife's father had died previous to her birth and when yet an infant she was left an orphan, being reared by an old gentleman by the name of Terry, who took her to Stephentown, Rensselaer county, New York, when she was six years of age. Ten years later Mr. Terry died and she was taken by her uncle, E. Brown, to Berkshire county, Massachu- setts. After this she was compelled to make her own living. She was converted under the teaching of the Christian church when seventeen years of age but did not unite with any church until after she came to Illinois, when she joined Hinman Chapel and, as stated, she and her hus- band transferred their membership to the United Brethren church.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker became the parents of ten children, six sons and four daughters. Tacy Ann, born in New York, October II, 1832, died at the age of fifty-six years. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and was buried in Woodlawn cemetery. Sena A., born Decem- ber 2, 1834, died May 28, 1902, at Moweaqua, Shelby county, Illinois, in the faith of the Metho- dist Episcopal church. Miles M., born in New
York in 1836, is now living in Iowa. Mary E., born July 25, 1839, died in Iowa, in March, 1904, in the faith of the United Brethren church. John M., born February 24, 1846, is a resident of Iowa. Twins died in infancy. George W. is the next of the family. Louis D., born January I, 1852, is a resident of Iowa. Alive F., born January 15, 1854, was a member of the United Brethren church. She died at the age of twenty- one years and was buried in Woodland cemetery.
In his boyhood George W. Parker lived at home with his parents, assisting his father in the labors of the farm and pursuing his early education in the public schools of the neighborhood, after which he attended schools at Moweaqua, Shelby county, Illinois. He remained under the paren- tal roof up to the time of his marriage, which was celebrated on the 29th of July, 1880, the lady of his choice being Sarah J. Comer, who was born November 5, 1855, and is a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Dehart) Comer. The father, who was born in Scotland, August 10, 1822, came to this country with his parents in his childhood, the family being established in Indiana, where he remained until twenty-three years of age. He then removed to Mount Sterling, Brown county, Illinois, and in 1847 became a resident of Adams county, buying a farm of about eighty acres in McKee township. There in connection with gen- eral agricultural pursuits he also followed car- pentering and coopering. Subsequently he added forty acres to his place and devoted his entire attention to general farm work. His religious views accorded with the teachings of the United Brethren church and in politics he was a Jack- sonian democrat. He died October 17, 1897, at his home in Adams county, and his widow, who was born in that county, March 23, 1834, is now living in Nebraska. In their family were ten children, five sons and five daughters, those still living being Sarah J., now Mrs. Parker; George W .; Nancy E .; James M .; Mary A .; Martha E .; Joseph M .; Annie M .; and Robert D.
At the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Parker began their domestic life on a farm and later he purchased the interest of the other heirs in the old homestead property. He is now culti- vating two hundred and twenty acres of land
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and resides upon the old Parker homestead, where his labors have resulted. in bringing the fields under a high state of cultivation so that he annu- ally harvests good crops. As the years passed by five children were added to the family, but only two are now living: Minnie I., who was the third in order of birth, and Mamie A. Minnie was born April 16, 1885, and is now the wife of Harry Manton, a resident of Griggsville town- ship, while Mamie A. was born August 30, 1895. The others were: Gertie M., who was born June 14, 1881, and died June 17, 1888, at the age of seven years; Myrtie B., who was born April 2, 1883, and died November 19, 1885; and Mary Bessie, who was born August 24, 1892, and died February 19, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Manton have one daughter, Mary L., born October 3, 1904.
Mr. Parker votes with the republican party but has never had any aspiration for office. He belongs to the Masonic lodge at Perry, in which he has served as steward and senior warden and he also holds membership with the Modern Wood- men camp and is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge of Perry. Hebelongs to the Anti- Horse Thief Association and to the Methodist Episcopal church. He still has in his possession the first half dollar which he ever earned, it being given him in 1860 by Rev. James Dimmitt, a Methodist Episcopal preacher, for picking apples, and the coin bears the date 1850. It was the nucleus of his present possessions and is cherished by him as the beginning of a competence which is now large and gratifying and which indicates a life of well-directed thrift and activity.
JOSEPH C. TONER.
Joseph C. Toner, postmaster at Kinderhook and also a hardware merchant, was born in Pike county on the 3d of July, 1845, a son of William G. and Mary (Gose) Toner. The father was born in Jefferson county, Missouri, September 14, 1817, and passed his early days in his native state and obtained his education in a pioneer log school- house. When but seven years of age he left home, stopping at any place where he could ob-
tain food and shelter, thus working for the neces- sities of life. When sixteen years of age he began to learn the trade of a hatter in St. Louis, Missouri, but gave it up on account of the evil influences to which he was subjected among his associates in the business. He finally came to Pike county, Illinois, in 1840, and on the 14th of September, 1844, was married here to Mrs. Mary Long, nee Gose, the widow of W. W. Long. Her father, George Gose, was born in Grayson county, Virginia, whence he went to Russell county, that state, when a small boy, there spend- ing his remaining days. He married Elizabeth Jessey, who was born, reared and died in Russell county. It was in that county. that Mrs. Toner was born on the 20th of July, 1814, and she lived in her native state until twenty-two years of age. She then married W. W. Long and came to this county in 1836. They cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers and Mr. Long was connected with the early development of the county until his death, which occurred August 6, 1843, his re- mains being interred near his farm in Kinderhook township.
William G. Toner resided in Adams county for a few years before coming to Pike county. He was a farmer by occupation and here settled on sections 16 and 24, Kinderhook township, where he owned and operated three hundred and forty acres of rich land, being considered an en- terprising farmer of the community. In his family were four children : Joseph C .; Louise J., the wife of C. H. Kennedy, who resides near Kinderhook; Elizabeth J., who married Ed Ferguson and after his death became the wife of George H. Leggett, their home being in Barry ;. and Frances E., who married G. C. Lock, and lives in Kinderhook. The father of this family was a stalwart republican and was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, taking a deep and active interest in the church and Sunday- school work. He devoted the last years of his life entirely to the various activities of the church and his life was an honorable one, character- ized by many sterling qualities. He was well known as Uncle Billy and he was loved and es- teemed by all who knew him. He died June 13, 1903, at the age of eighty-five years and his
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memory remains as a blessed benediction to his friends, his neighbors and his family. His wife had passed away in 1893.
Joseph C. Toner was educated in the public schools of Kinderhook township and acquired a limited education in the old stone schoolhouse near his father's place. He remained at home until twenty-eight years of age and then took up his abode in the village of Kinderhook, where he began life for himself ås a partner of David Devole in a general store, which they conducted for four months, when Mr. Devole sold out to John Clutch, who thus became a partner of Mr. Toner. This relation was continued for four and a half years, since which time Mr. Toner has been alone in the business. For twenty-five years he engaged in dealing in farm implements, but has now retired from that branch of trade. He has been in the hardware business since 1885 and keeps a large line of shelf and heavy hard- ware, pumps, etc. For ten years he has acted as postmaster of Kinderhook and he gives his po- litical allegiance to the republican party. For three terms he served on the school board, has also been village trustee and collector and for several terms has served as alderman.
In 1872 Mr. Toner was married to Miss Sarah Gertrude Leggett, who was born in Barry town- ship, Pike county, on the 15th of May, 1851, her parents being Alexander Blair and Margaret (Philips) Leggett, who came from Kentucky to Illinois at an early day, settling in Griggsville when there was only one house there, while later they removed to Barry township. The father was a contractor and subsequently conducted a saw- mill. In later years he removed to Kinderhook, where he conducted a drug store. In the family were thirteen children, eight of whom reached adult age. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Toner have been born eight children, of whom three are now liv- ing: William Gray, Walter F. and Mary Mar- garet. Those deceased are : Ethel, Sydney, Erma, Cecil and Joseph.
Mr. Toner is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, No. 757, of Kinderhook, which he joined on its organization, having formerly belonged to Barry lodge, No. 336, I. O. O. F. and he was a charter member of the Encampment at Barry.
He is likewise identified with the Modern Wood- men camp at Kinderhook and his wife is con- nected with the Rebekahs, the Eastern Star and with the Baptist church. Mr. Toner is one of the most energetic and wide-awake business men of Kinderhook, his labors being a potent element in the commercial activity of the village and to his own labors may be attributed his success. In public office as in private life he has justly merited the confidence and regard of his fellowmen and his life work shows forth many sterling traits.
HON. B. T. BRADBURN.
Hon. B. T. Bradburn, who is serving for the second term as county judge of Pike county and makes his home in Pittsfield, was born on a farm near Huntsville, Missouri, when the late Rebel- lion was at its highest. His parents were Alex- ander M. and Emily E. (Jameson) Bradburn, natives of Ohio and Kentucky respectively, his grandfather on his father's side being one of the first sheriffs of Scioto county, Ohio. They re- moved to Missouri and after the Civil war came to Pike county, Illinois, where they lived on various farms but for twenty-five years re- sided in Martinsburg township, where their children were reared. The father died Septem- ber 10, 1890, when sixty-three years of age. He had served in various township offices and was a most highly respected citizen, devoted to the welfare of the community at large and of his family, giving to his children good educational privileges and thus equipping them for the prac- tical and responsible duties of life. His widow, at the age of seventy-three years, is now living in Pittsfield. In their family were six sons and two daughters. David N. Bradburn, the eldest, is married and follows farming and school teach- ing in this county; Mark S., the present state's attorney of Pike county, is living in Pittsfield with his mother; Mary E. is the wife of J. G. Waggoner, of Martinsburg; Barna T. is the next of the family ; Dr. Benjamin P. Bradburn, of Lin- coln, Illinois, is a graduate of the Keokuk Med-
B. T. BRADBURN
LIBRARY Of THE UNIVERSITY OF HLINDIS
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ical College of Keokuk, Iowa, and also pursued a post-graduate course in the Bellevue College and Hospital of New York city, and for fifteen years he has been successfully engaged in prac- tice, also conducting a drug store in Lincoln. John L. Bradburn, of Whitehall, Illinois, is married and formerly followed farming but is now acting as fireman at the Whitehall Tile Works. Cammie B. is the wife of R. E. Rush, a prominent and wealthy farmer, of Detroit, Illinois. Charles T. owns and operates a fine farm in Newburg town- ship.
Judge Bradburn, reared in this county, after at- tending the high school of Pittsfield, continued his studies in Jacksonville, Illinois, in the Central Normal College, at Danville, Indiana, and Well's School for Principals and Superintendents at Ore- gon, Illinois. For several years he engaged in teaching, being connected with educational work in Helena, Montana, in 1891, and his last work of that character covered three years spent as prin- cipal of the schools of Vermont, Illinois. He had read law at different times under the direction of Hon. W. E. Williams and was admitted to the bar November 22, 1889, before the supreme court of Illinois. Returning to Pittsfield in 1894 he en- gaged in practice in connection with Averill Bea- vers, then states attorney. In 1897 he was elected city attorney of Pittsfield on a temperance ticket and before his term expired was nominated for the office of county judge on the democratic ticket. His election followed, with a re-election four years later, so that he is now serving for the second term. Since coming to Pittsfield he has so directed his labors as to gain recognition as one of the representative citizens and lawyers of Pike county, being actively connected with a profession which has important bearing upon the progress or stable prosperity of any section or community, and one which has long been considered as con- serving the public welfare by furthering the ends of justice and maintaining individual rights. He has great respect for the dignity of judicial place and power and as a result of that personal char- acteristic the proceedings of his court are always orderly upon the part of every one-audience, bar and the officers from the highest to the lowest. His opinions are fine specimens of judicial
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