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Col. Myron S. Barnes was born in Malone, Franklin County, N. Y., March 4, 1824. His parents were from Vermont. He received a good education, and learned the printer's trade in Rochester, N. Y. He came to Illinois first in 1840, but afterwards edited The Plaindealer, at Lapeer, Mich. In 1841 he came to Chicago, where he was editorially connected with a paper called The Gem of the Prairies. At the breaking out of the Mex- ican War he became a soldier, and at the close of the war was offered the position of Second Lieutenant in the Regular Army, which he declined. In 1848 he was editorially connected with the Milwaukee Daily Commercial, the only daily paper then published in Wisconsin. In 1849, in partnership with H. O. Sholes, he published The American, daily and weekly, at Keno- sha, Wis. In 1856 he went East on account of his failing health, and soon became editor of the Jersey City Daily Telegraph. In 1852 he was one of a company who established the Rochester Daily Times. afterwards the Daily Advertiser, and finally the Daily Union, whence he went to Ithaca, and there established The Watchman, of that city. Returning West in 1856, with regained health, he was for a while connected as senior editor and proprietor with a Chicago daily paper, published in the West Division. In 1858 he moved to Moline, and in connection with Robert H. Graham, published the Moline Independent for one year. In 1859 he came to Rock Island and became one of the editors of The Register, a tri-weekly Republican paper. After a somewhat eventful experience in the late war, he purchased the Rock Island Union, as above stated, in May. 1863, and published the paper till Angust, 1864, when he sold the establishment to Major William Caffery. Major Caffery had formerly been connected with the Whiteside County. Republican and the Fort Madison Plaindealer, the latter of which he sold and came to Rock Island in 1864. He was con- nected with the Union only three months, when he sold it back to Col. Barnes late in the fall of 1864. Col. Barnes conducted the paper till the fall of 1866, when he sold to Capt. L. M. Haverstick. He has since been connected with the Dubuque Daily Times, the Chicago Daily News. and The Free Press at Galesburg. Ill., the latter of which he is still publishing as an independent Democratic paper.
Captain Haverstick purchased the Union of M. S. Barnes in Dec., 1866. He subsequently bought the Moline Republican, which he merged with the Union, and still kept a job printing office at Moline. A few years later he sold the Moline office to Messrs. Lowe and Gilson, who started the Moline Review.
Capt. L. M. Haverstick is a native of Cumberland County, Penn., born January 4, 1842. In 1861 he graduated at Dickinson College. Penn. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, and at the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg was severely wounded in the arms and legs, which so disabled him that he was mustered out of the service in May, 1863, having been previously promoted to the Captaincy of his company. During the summer of 1863 he became editor of the Baltimore (Md.) County Union, by the purchase of one-half interest in that paper, which was the second in the State to advocate emancipation. By contract, in 1865, he became State printer, and in 1866 was a candidate for the Maryland Legislature, and ran ahead of his ticket in his district. In December, 1866, he came to Rock Island, and, as before stated, purchased the Union. He remained editor of the Union till September 23, 1874, when he was succeeded by Walter Johnson. From March, 1871, to April,
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1873, Capt. Haverstick was Postmaster at Rock Island. In February, 1876, he again became owner of one-fourth of the Union establishment, and in June resumed charge as chief editor, remaining till he again sold his inter- est in October, 1876. He built and owns the Union Block. As an editor he was able and indefatigable.
On the 1st of July, 1867, M. D. Merrill bought a two-fifth interest in the Union, and devoted himself to its business interests till about June, 1869, when he sold back to Capt. Haverstick and retired. Mr. Merrill came to this city in 1853. In 1858 and 1860 he was elected Sheriff of the county. He is at present a member of the Board of Education of Rock Island.
In the summer of 1869 Richard Crampton bought of Captain Haver- stick a one-half interest in the Union, and that fall the office was moved into Peter Frie's block over Crampton's book store. In the summer of 1872 Captain Haverstick repurchased Crampton's interest, and erected the Union building now occupied, into which the establishment was moved in the fall of 1872. Mr. Crampton is well known as the most enterprising and successful book dealer ever in Rock Island. He was born in Ireland, Jan. 7, 1838, and came to Rock Island in 1854.
In the spring of 1873, Oscar A. Barnhart came to this city and pur- chased a one-half interest in the Union, dating from Jan. 1, 1873. He was one year connected with the paper in the capacity of foreman of the job department. He learned the printer's trade in the Reporter office at Knox- ville, Ill. After leaving the Union office, he established a job printing office in Rock Island, which he still carries on.
THE UNION PRINTING COMPANY.
The Union Printing Co. was organized in March 1874, with a capital of $20,000, 75 per cent. of which was paid up July 1st, when the company purchased the Union establishment of L. M. Haverstick for $15,000.
The original stockholders and officers were L. M. Haverstick, President; A. E. Wells, Vice President; and Walter Johnson, Secretary and Treasurer.
In September of that year the half interest of Captain Haverstick was purchased by H. C. Cleaveland and J. J. Parks, when Walter Johnson became president and editor, and H. C. Cleaveland secretary and treasurer and business manager.
In July, 1875, H. C. Cleaveland sold his stock to J. J. Parks, and in Angust J. J. Parks sold his stock, half interest, to A. A. Morey, who became secretary and treasurer. In February, 1876, Mr. Morey resold his stock to Mr. Parks, and Mr. Parks subsequently resold a quarter interest to Captain Haverstick, who resumed connection with the piper as editor in June, 1876, and was elected president again in August following.
In March, 1876, Mr. Parks sold his remaining quarter interest to Geo. M. Luken, who was made superintendent of the job department, and at the annual meeting in August, was elected treasurer, the office of vice president being abolished. At the meeting, Walter Johnson was elected secretary.
In October, 1876, Captain Haverstick's quarter interest was purchased by W. II. Burdett, and in November officers were elected as follows : Pres- ident, Walter Johnson ; Secretary, W. H. Burdett ; Treasurer, G. W. Luken. Mr. Wells has continued a director from the ontset.
In the division of work Walter Johnson and W. H. Burdett were made joint editors, G. W. Luken general superintendent of the job depart-
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ment, and A. E. Wells general superintendent of the newspaper printing.
Mr. Johnson was born in London, England, and came to this country with his parents, who settled in Clinton, Iowa, in 1851. In 1865 he located in Davenport, and in 1866-7 did his first journalistic work as assistant city editor of the Democrat. In 1868 he was engaged as a general assistant in the editorial department of the Rock Island Union, on which paper he has labored ever since, with the exception of the summer of 1873. which he spent in Chicago as a member of the editorial staff on the Inter-Ocean. On the 1st of July, 1874, the Union Printing Company, which had been organ- ized some months previously, purchased the Union and have since retained it, Walter Johnson having a fourth interest in the company.
Henry C. Cleaveland became interested in the Union in Sept., 1874, and was its business manager till July 10, 1875, when he sold out. He is now in the firm of Hayes & Cleaveland, insurance business, in Rock Island.
George M. Luken, who purchased a fourth interest in the Union, in March, 1876, was born in Louisville, Ky., and came to Rock Island first with his parents in 1838. He learned the art of printing in the Register office at Mount Carmel, Ill. Since March, 1876, he has had charge of the job department of the Rock Island Union.
William Henry Burdett, one of the editors of the Union, was born in Manchester, England, July 20, 1837, and came to reside in the United States in 1869. He was at one time city editor of the Rock Island Argus. On the 17th of Oct., 1876, he purchased a one-fourth interest in the Union, of Captain Haverstick, and has since been one of its editors.
THE AMERICAN LAW REPORTER.
Such was the title of a neat quarto weekly paper, started at Davenport, by L. G. Johnson, in the fall of 1872, and afterwards removed to the Union Block printing office in Rock Island, where it died, after an existence of eighteen weeks, for want of support. Mr. Johnson afterwards studied law, at the University Law School at Ann Arbor, Mich., and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
THE LIBERTY LEAGUE.
In the spring of 1873 the printing office in Union Block was leased or purchased by Robert Tompkins and Isaac N. Kirkpatrick, who started a paper called The Liberty League in the interests of the liquor sellers of Rock Island and adjoining cities. It maintained an existence of only two or three weeks. Col. Danforth reports Johnson as saying that somebody stole the material of the office, run it off in the night, and shipped it to Burlington, Iowa, and sold it. And that, he adds, was the end of The Liberty League and of the Union Block printing office.
THE BEOBACHTER.
The first German newspaper printed in Rock Island was the Beobachter am Mississippian, a weekly started by Magnus Mueller in 1857. It was printed in Charles Buford's block, and edited by Dr. Fr. Ciolini, a Bavarian, who had been educated as a physician at the University of Berne, in Switzer- land, and came to Rock Island some time prior to 1856. He resided here and practiced medicine several years, and was an able writer and public speaker.
CAPTAIN L. M. HAVERSTICK, Rock Island.
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THE CHRONIK DES WESTENS.
In December, 1859, the material of the Beobachter office was pur- chased by Adam and George Leiberknecht, who, on the first of January, 1860, started a weekly German newspaper, called the Chronik des Westens. The name was afterwards changed to Monitor des Westens. This paper, like its predecessor, was neutral in politics. It ceased to exist in 1863.
Some time after it was started, Adam Leiberknecht disposed of his interest to his brother George, and removed to Geneseo, where he has since been connected with the Geneseo Republic. The office remained idle on the hands of its owner for some time after the discontinuance of the paper, when it was finally sold and removed from the city. George Leiberknecht removed to Geneseo and engaged in business, where he still resides.
THE NEUE VOLKS ZEITUNG.
On the 30th of August, 1875, the first number of a handsome semi- weekly paper, entitled Neue Volks Zietung, was issued from Zeis' building on the northeast corner of Eighteenth street and Second avenue. It was started by Charles C. Winter, one of the editors of the Westliche Post, of St. Louis, who had come here during the April previous to inspect the pros- pects for such an enterprise. The paper was a success from the start. In politics it was thoroughly independent, and it has maintained this position admirably throughout. On the 15th of September, 1875, the office was moved to the Union office on Eighteenth street.
Mr. Winter was born in Heidelberg, Germany, April 21, 1842, and was educated at the celebrated university of that city. He entered the publishing house of his father, and in 1866 came to this country, ever since which he has been a contributor to the American press. Under his enter- prising and able management, his paper has attained a good standing.
CHURCHES OF ROCK ISLAND.
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The first meetings which resulted in the formation of this church were held at the residence of Judge Spencer, in 1833, and Rev. Asa McMurtree was the preacher. A school house was built in 1836, which became the house of worship of the society till their first church was erected in 1844. That church was built at a cost of about $4,000, and stood on the north- west corner of Union Square. The present church edifice, corner of Second Avenue and Nineteenth Street, was built in 1855, at a cost of $20,000. The following were the members of the original class formed at Judge Spencer's in 1833: Calvin Spencer and wife, Zerah Spencer, Sally Case, William Brasher, Jane M. Brasher, James Thompson and Caroline Thompson- eight members.
The first pastor, Rev. Asa McMurtree, came here in 1833. The fol- lowing, in the order named, have been his successors: Revs. C. D. James, Asa D. West, Norris Hobart, J. B. Kirkpatrick, C. N. Wager, G. G. Worth- ington, Andrew Coleman, Freedom Haney, B. Searle, Zadock Hall, J. O. Gilbert, R. C. Rowley, G. L. Sutcliff, William Parker, S. G. J. Worthing- ton, J. W. Flowers, W. H. Hunter, A. P. Graves, John P. Brooks, L. B.
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Kent, Richard Haney, J. M. Rhea, C. C. Knowlton, W. C. Knapp, and H. M. Laney, the present pastor. The church now numbers 275 members, and the Sunday-school abont 300.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHI.
This church at first commenced its meetings in private houses, and for some time held service in the Court House. In 1844, the "brick school- house," then standing on Union Square, was purchased for $45.36, and fitted up for a place of worship. The church was organized at the house of Lemuel Ludden, June 4, 1837, with seven original members, viz: Titus Gilbert, Zachariah Cook, Barbara Cook, Lemuel Ludden, Silah Ludden, Phoebe Skinner, and Nancy Taylor. The first church building was erected in 1848, and cost about $3,500. This was sold, and the present edifice erected in 1870-cost, $18,000.
The pastors have been as follows: Titus Gillet, Aug. 20, 1837, to Feb., 1844 ; Ezra Fisher, March 16, 1844, to March 15, 1845 ; Daniel Dye, July 19, 1845, to Sept. 26, 1846 ; J. W. Denison, Nov., 1846, to April 30, 1850; F. Ketchum,June 15, 1850, to May 28, 1854; W. W. Sawyer, June 24, 1855, to May 27, 1858 ; O. Briggs, April 20, 1859, to Nov., 1861: Isaac Gray, Jan., 1862, to July 19, 1865 ; E. C. M. Burnham, Oct. 16, 1865, to Oct., 1867 ; Henry Davis, D. D., Nov. 27, 1867, to 1870 ; J. S. Mabie, Jan. 1, 1871, to Feb., 1876 ; E. Nisbet, D. D., April 1, 1876, and is pres- ent pastor.
The following members of this church have become preachers : W. W. Phares, N. Elton, John L. Jackson. The church numbers 200, and has a mission school-house worth, with lot, $2,000.
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCHI.
The Second Baptist Church (African) was organized April 19, 1875. Its first meetings were held in the Mission Baptist school-house, for one year. Then they purchased a lot on the corner of Ninth street and Fifth avenue, on which they erected their church building, and occupied it on the 30th of January, 1876. The cost of the building was $670. Member- ship 23 ; number in the Sunday-school, 25. Present pastor, Rev. R. Hawkins.
GERMAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Organized May 16, 1871, with 33 members. The building at present in use was bought of the United Presbyterian congregation for $450. Rev. Angust Busch was pastor from April 24, 1872, till October 24, 1873. De- cember 20, 1874, Rev. C. G. Vor Thoren was called, and is the present pastor. The church has 20 members, and from 40 to 50 in the Sabbath- school.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN IMMANUEL CIIURCH.
Organized in 1856. Church on the corner of Fifth avenue and Twen- tieth street. £ This church holds the unaltered Augsburg Confession of Faith. It has a membership of 125, and a day school connected with the parish, which employs two teachers. Rev. C. A. Meunicke, pastor.
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FIRST SWEDISH BAPTIST CHURCH.
Fifth Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets. This church held its first services in a little school-house on the public square. It was organized as a church August 13, 1852, with three members, viz : A. T. Mankee, P. Soderstrom, and Frederika Bolberg. Rev. L. L. Frisk is pas- tor, under whose administration the church established a mission, and built a parsonage in Moline in 1865. The church edifice in Rock Island was built in 1855, costing about 1,500. The succession of pastors has been : Revs. G. Palanquist, A. G. Swedberg, A. Norelius, N. G. Rundquist, O. Lindh, and the present minister, Rev. L. L. Frisk.
Four successful missionaries have been sent out from this church to the West, out of whose labors have grown several churches. Present mem- bership 70 ; Sunday-school 50.
TRINITY (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH.
Some time prior to 1853, Rev. Mr. Louderback held Episcopal services in Rock Island, in a hall in W. L. Lee's block. The first recorded vestry meeting of Trinity parish was held Nov. 12, 1853, and it was about that time that an organization was effected, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Harris, Mrs. Langley, Mrs. Joseph Brackett, Mrs. Goldsmith, and Mr. Bailey Daven- port being among the original members. The first church edifice was com- pleted June 11, 1857, and cost $2,000. The present church, costing $16,000, was completed on the 30th of January, 1870.
Rev. L. Goodale was elected first rector, October 18, 1854, and resigned May 4. 1857. He was followed by Rev. Mr. Stanley, who resigned April 15, 1860, and was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Magill. After him, from 1863 to 1865, there was only occasional services. In May, 1865, Rev. Prof. Brooke, of Griswold College, began to officiate regularly and continued one service a day for three years. He was followed by Rev. Mr. Hoyt, one year, and he by Rev. Dr. Powers, two months. The present rector, Rev. Theodore I. Holcombe, B. D., was called to the parish May 1, 1869.
The parish is now one of the best in the diocese, outside of the city of Chicago. It numbers 150 members, with about the same number in the Sabbath-school, and has connected with it Grace Church Mission at Moline, numbering about 50 persons.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
This church was organized July 1, 1854, in the " Seminary Building," now Christie's Cracker Factory, where the first meetings were held. Twenty persons constituted the original membership, the first Board of Elders being Erskine McClelland, James Todd, and Hugh Warnock. The first church building cost about. $1,200, and was completed in January, 1854. The present church was completed in May, 1876, and occupied about the same date-cost, $10,000.
The succession of pastors has been as follows : Rev. J. R. McCalister, from July 1, 1854. to July 1, 1860 ; Rev. W. H. Jeffers, from July, 1860, to Sept. 1861; Rev. Henry Wallace, from April, 1863, to April, 1871 ; Rev. John A. Reynolds, present pastor, has had charge of the church since July, 1872. Present membership, 76 ; Sunday-school, 110.
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SWEDISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH.
The movement to establish this church began by the pastor of the church at Moline holding services in private houses. In 1870 an organiza- tion was effected, consisting of members formerly belonging to the Swedish Lutheran Church of Moline. The church, which cost $2,500, was built in 1870, on the corner of Tenth street and Eighth avenue. Rev. S. Benson, from Moline, served as pastor till 1873 ; then Rev. V. Setterdahl to 1874 ; Rev. T. N. Hasselquist, D. D., the present pastor, and President of August- ana College, has been in charge of the church since September, 1875. The church now numbers 125 members, and 30 in the Sunday-school.
GERMAN M. E. CHURCH.
Organized in 1855, this church has now about 30 members and a Sun- day-school of between 40 and 50. In 1856 the first church was built, which in 1874 was superseded by the present building, on the corner of 6th avenue and 14th street. It cost about $4,000. Among the original mem- bers were H. Brockmann, J. Rawser, Ph. Sherer, C. Wagner. The follow- ing have officiated as pastors: Ulrich Von Gunter, three years; William Winter, one year; P. Helwig, three years; Ph. Hehner, three years; F. R. Heintz, three years; C. Paish, three years; J. G. Lart, three years; R. Irmsher, one year; Ph. Barth, one year. Rev. S. Saegesser, present pas- - tor, settled over the church in September,.1876.
ST. JOSEPH'S (CATHOLIC) CHURCH,
Formerly known as the Congregation of St. Mary's Church. The former church having been sold to the German Catholics of Rock Island, the first Presbyterian Church was bought and refitted in 1874, and is now occupied under the title of St. Joseph's Church. It is located on Second avenue.
The first Catholic congregation was formed in Rock Island under the charge and with the occasional work of Father Alleman, a German Domin- ican Friar, who died in St. Louis about ten years ago. He was famous as an indefatigable and estimable missionary. The congregation was com- posed of Irish, German and French emigrants chiefly. The names of the original members now extant are not very many. John Linahan and E. Littig are the best known.
Services were at first held in a cooper shop. After this period Father Alleman built a small Catholic Church on the corner of Dock street, where St. Mary's now stands. The singularity of that was in the fact that all the cut stone was brought from Nauvoo and taken from the ruins of the Mormon Temple there. At the taking down of the church the old stone was again used for the pastor's residence. St. Mary's Church was built in 1866.
The following have been pastors of St. Joseph: Rev. J. G. Alleman, Rev. John P. Donelon, author of " My Trip to France," " Year in the Holy Land," Rev. P. J. Murphy, Rev. P. T. McElherne, and the present pastor, Rev. Joseph P. Roles.
St. Joseph's numbers now about 2,000 souls, and 250 children are taught in the Sunday-school.
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ST. MARY'S (CATHOLIC) CHURCHI.
The congregation of this church was a part of the general Catholic body of the city of Rock Island prior to the establishment of St. Joseph's parish in 1874. With a view of forming two congregations, one for the English speaking people and one for the Germans, the Presbyterian Church on Second avenue was purchased and refitted for the latter in 1874, and the old church of St. Mary's on Fifth avenue, which had been in use since 1866, was assigned to the German Catholics. Rev. C. Schnickel became pastor of St. Mary's August 2, 1874, on the same day that St. Joseph's was dedicated by Bishop Foley. St. Mary's parish comprises about 100 fami- lies of the German population of the city, and has connected with it a parochial school of about 70 pupils.
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The first step taken towards the organization of a Presbyterian church in Rock Island was at a meeting in the dining-room of the old Rock Island House, Nov. 27, 1837. Rev. John Montgomery and Rev. I. Pillsbury were present as a committee of the Presbytery. After a sermon by Rev. Mr. Pillsbury, ten persons, whose names follow, united in forming a church, viz .: William Dickson, A. C. Donaldson, Ann M. Conway, Mary Donald- son, Phoebe H. Donaldson, Miriam C. Dickson, A. F. Russell, David M. Dickson, Benjamin Mckay and Sarah McKay.
The name given this church was " The First Presbyterian Church of Stephenson, Illinois. " The regular succession of pastors has been as fol- lows : Rev. Michael Hermmer, from June, 1838, till 1841; Rev. J. A. Woodruff, from 1841 till 1844 ; Rev. Mr. Cleland, from 1844 till Nov. 16, 1847 ; Rev. E. W. Larkin, from Ang. 24, 1848, till Aug., 1853 ; Rev. F. P. Monfort, from Dec., 1853, till Aug., 1854 ; Rev. S. T. Wilson, from Sept., 1854, till Nov., 1868 ; Rev. H. A. Newell, from April, 1869, till July 15, 1873. From this last date the church was supplied till Dec. 15, 1873, when the present pastor, Rev. John R. Findley, was called.
In the summer of 1848 a second Presbyterian church was formed in Rock Island. The ministers officiating were Rev. A. Kent, of Galena, and Rev. S. W. Blanchard, of Galesburg, Ill. The services were held in the Court House. Seven persons entered the new organization by letters, viz .: M. B. Osborn, Elizabeth Osborn, Sarah E. Osborn, Samuel Gaghe- gan, Nicholas Lynch, A. Purdy and Delia Purdy.
This church was under the supervision of what was then known as the New School, while the First Church belonged to the Old School Presby- terian body. The Second Church, during the days of its separate existence, had the following pastors : Rev. Israel Dwinell, from the summer of 1849, for six months, when he resigned ; Rev. D. B. Holt, from 1850 till 1853 ; Rev. H. II. Hays, D. D., first for two years, and after an interval of two years, again till 1858 or '59 ;. The interval of two years was supplied by Rev. W. H. Spencer. In 1859 Rev. James Caldwell took charge of the church and officiated two years. After an absence of two years, he again became pastor, leaving finally in 1866, when he was succeeded for one year by Rev. Mr. Whetmore, who was followed by Rev. E. L. Burnett, who remained till the two churches were formally united, in May, 1870.
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