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115,000
14,000
135,000
11,000
275,000
1895 to 1897.
149,500
25.750
149,500
3,750
328,500
1897 to 1899.
150,000
10,100
180,000
5,100
345,000
1899 to 1901
176,000
23,500
176,000
8,500
384,000
1901 to 1903. ..
176,000
15,600
176,000
14,000
411,700
1903 to 1905. ..
187,500
37,100
187,500
11,600
423,700
Out of the above appropriations there has been returned to the state treasury $113,000 to date.
Congress provides that the national treasury shall contribute to the support of State Sokliers' Homes, under certain regulations, to the extent of $100 per member per annum. This money is paid direet into the state treasury.
The present officers of the home are:
Governor-Charles S. Deneen.
Superintendent-Capt. William Somerville.
Adjutant-Capt. S. P. Mooney.
Surgeon-Dr. D. M. Landon.
Clerk -- E. C. Sehureman. Engineer-J. A. Bunting.
Farm Superintendent-C. S. Cordsiemon.
Board of Trustees-Ilon. J. B. Messiek. East St. Louis: Hon. C. C. Johnson, Sterling: Maj. C. W. Hawes, Rock Island.
Officers of the Board-Hon. JJ. B. Messick, president; E. II. Osborn, treasurer: Nellie J. Mc Mahon, secretary.
Quartermaster -- R. B. Laneaster.
Chaplains-Rev. M. M. Davidson, Rev. J. P. Kerr.
TRUSTEES.
Daniel Dustin, Sycamore, Ill., Dee. 11, 1885- May, 1890.
L. T. Diekason, Danville, Ill., Dec. 12, 1885- April, 1893.
J. G. Rowland, Quiney, Ill., Dec. 11, 1885- Oet. 4, 1887.
Thomas Maefall, Quiney, III., Nov. 23, 1887- April, 1893.
James T. Neff, Freeport, Il., May, 1890-April, 1893.
William Steinwedell, Quiney, Ill., April 6, 1893-Jan., 1896.
Jas. A. Sexton, Chicago, Ill., April 6, 1893- Jan. 1. 1899. ( Died.)
Lewis B. Parsons, Flora, III., April 6, 1893- April, 1897.
Theodore Schaar, Beardstown, Ill., Jan., 1896- April 1, 1897.
William O. Wright, Freeport, Ill., April 1, 1897-June 1, 1901.
J. W. Niles, Sterling. II., April 1, 1897-June 1, 1901.
C. V. Chandler, Macomb, Ill., Jan. 1. 1899- May 31, 1902.
John C. Black, Chicago, III., June 1, 1901- Sept. 31, 1903.
C. W. Hawes, Rock Island, Ill., June 1, 1901. J. B. Messiek, E. St. Louis, Ill., July 1, 1902. C. C. Johnson, Sterling, Ill., Sept. 19, 1903.
SUPERINTENDENTS.
Chas. E. Lippincott, Dee. 1, 1886-Sept. 11, 1887. (Died.) J. G. Rowland (pro tem). Sept. 14. 1887-Oet. 4, 1887.
J. G. Rowland, Oct. 4, 1887-April 16, 1893.
B. P. MeDaniel (acting), Nov. 14, 1894-Jan. 3, 1895.
W. H. Kirkwood, Jan. 3, 1895-March 31, 1897. William Somerville, April 1, 1897, and pres- ent incumbent.
In 1903 the North Fifth street line of the Quincy Street Railway Company was extended into the Home grounds, following and parallel with the eurves of the main drive, from the bo- rust street entrance to the Headquarters build- ing, and a small but well built and convenient street ear station built within a few yards of the Administration building and hospital. This has been found a great convenience to members of the Home, saving a walk of about half a mile and enabling many of the more feeble to go to the city who would otherwise not be able to go at all.
Indications are that this extension has also been a good thing for the Street Car Company in the returns from inereased traffie.
The legislature of 1903 appropriated $10,000 for overcoats for members of the Home. This was a wise and charitable measure, as heretofore but few of the members had overeoats, those who
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could afford them buying their own, while many had heen obliged to do without.
ADAMS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
This society antedates by some two months the Illinois State Medical Society, and is with one exception the oldest medical society in Illi- mois. Its senior by about four years is the Aesculpian Society of the Wabash Valley, or- ganized at Lawrenceville in 1846, and which has drawn its membership from the whole south- easterly, and largely also from the southern, por- tion of the state and from western Indiana.
The Adams County Society was organized at Quincy, March 28, 1850, at a meeting presided over by Dr. Samuel W. Rogers, and also partic- ipated in by Doctors Warren Chapman, James Elliott, J. W. Hollowbush, F. B. Leach, Joseph N. Ralston, M. J. Roeschlamb, M. Sheperd, Louis Watson, and Isaac T. Wilson. Of these Dr. El- liott was a resident of Clayton, and Dr. Sheperd of Payson, the others lived in Quiney.
At the banquet commemorating the fiftieth an- niversary of the society, held at the Newcomb Hotel, Quincy, March 28, 1900, it was announeed that Dr. Wilson (who was on the program for a speech, but who was at the beside of his sister in Kentucky, then very ill) was the sole sur- vivor of the founders. Ile was one of the speak- ers at the annual dinner of the society, Feb- ruary 11, 1904, which he survived some four months, dying in Quiney, June 24, 1904.
The officers eleeted at the organization were: Joseph N. Ralston, president ; S. W. Rogers and M. Sheperd, vice-presidents: J. W. Hollowbush, recording secretary: Louis Watson, correspond- ing secretary ; F. B. Leash, treasurer: I. T. Wil- son, M. J. Roeschlamb and L. Watson, censors. Vice-President Sheperd was elected delegate to the American Medical Association meeting that year in Cineinnati.
The first president, Dr. Ralston, was one of the most prominent men of Quiney. For many years by common consent at the head of the general practitioners of medieine, and his home was for a long time a social center. He died in 1876, in his seventy-sixth year. Of his character and personality a memorial minute found in the records of the society thus speaks :
"He was rather tall and spare in figure, dig- nified in carriage, courteous almost to punetil- ious in manner, elean and precise in speech : self- poised. keen in his perceptions, steadfast in his eonvietions, sagacious in council, the sturdy vir- tues which commanded for him universal respeet were rooted in a kind and sympathetie nature which won for him the enduring love of kindred and the affectionate regard of those to whom he ministered."
Three daughters, all widely respeeted and be- loved, survive him-Mrs. Emilie Caldwell and Mrs. Margaret Charles, both widowed and resid- ing with the third and youngest sister, Mrs. Minnie Ilayden, wife of Philip C. Hayden, of Keokuk, Iowa.
Another of the earlier members deserving especial mention was Dr. Edward G. Castle, a native of England, who joined in 1856, and at orce left the impress of his aptitude for affairs, breadth of mind and high character upon the proceedings of the society. Ilis name disappears from the records January 14, 1867, to March 3. 1873, during which period he was absent from the country as United States consular agent at Carlisle, Eng., the early home of his wife. Ile never resumed the active practice of his profes- sion after his return, but retained all his old interest in its organie life, accepting a re-election to the presidency of the society, also the presi- deney of the medical staff of Blessing Hospital. both of which places he held at the time of his death, which oceurred September 20, 1880. Ilis personality as it impressed itself upon his co- workers is well reflected in the following from the memorial minute recorded by the society at his death : "Honored in his profession, honoring it by a dignified, faithful, and fearless discharge of its duties, wise in council, upright in charac- ter, ruling with firm yet gentle hand, carrying all the generosity and freshness of youth into the autumn of life, he has passed away in the matur- ity of years. The key to his life and character lies in a word: No man ever thought of doing a mean, unkindly, unmanly or unprofessional act in his presence."
Two children. Mrs. George Wells and Mr. George Castle, both well known residents of Quincy, survive him.
Owing to the small number of members of the society and the wide extent of the field then cov- ered by practice of Quincy physicians, it seems to have been impossible to get a quorum of the members together even for the annual meetings, and there is a break in the records from Novem- ber 10, 1850, to April 19, 1856, when at a special meeting called by the president at which a num- ber of new members were proposed, and at the annual meeting the following month fourteen were eleeted, and the society took on a new lease of active life, which has since remained prac- tically unbroken, although in the first year of the eivil war it was found expedient to omit the quarterly meetings owing to the absence of so many members in the army.
At the annual meeting (May 13) of 1861, reso- lutions were adopted tendering the gratuitous serviees of the members of the families of volun- teers from Adams County, and declaring that
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they heldl themselves in readiness to obey any call which the state or nation might make upon them as physicians or patriots.
Down to the elose of the civil war there had been enrolled fifty-seven members, of whom the following were in the military service :
Dr. Moses 3. Bane, colonel of the 50th Illinois infantry ; lost his right arm at Shiloh; subse- quently assessor of internal revenue and later register of the general land office at Salt Lake City, Utah ; Dr. Garner K. Bane (brother of Col. Bane, whose arm he amputated on the field), assistant surgeon, 50th Illinois infantry; Dr. Frederick K. Bailey, surgeon 20th Illinois infan- try, detached and in charge of division No. 3 of the Quincy military hospital; Dr. Leander D. Baker, surgeon 24th Missouri infantry, and later division surgeon of the Department of the Gulf; Dr. Moses F. Bassett, assistant surgeon of the board of enrollment of IVth congressional district, headquarters at Quincy: Dr. Edward (. Castle, not mustered, but temporarily sur- geon in charge of division No. 1, Quincy IIos- pital; Dr. Henry J. Churchman, surgeon, as- signed to the army of the Potomae: details not obtainable: Dr. Bartrow Darrack, surgeon, died soon after being mustered, of smallpox contract- ed while caring for his own family stricken with that disease: Dr. Samuel W. Everett, brigade surgeon on statt of Gen. B. M. Prentiss. was killed at Shiloh while rallying retreating troops; a nephew of the HIon. Edward Everett, the ora- tor and former secretary of state, a cousin of the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, the author of "The Man Without a Country," and a younger brother of Edward Everett, who during his long residence in Quincy was a soldier in the Mor- mon and Mexican wars, and an assistant to Gov. Wood, quartermaster general of Illinois from the outbreak of the civil war until the duty of equipping Illinois troops was taken over by the war department : Dr. A. M. D. Hughes, adjutant of the 50th Illinois infantry; killed at Shiloh ; Dr. I. R. Kay, surgeon 124th Ilinois infantry : Dr. Henry W. Kendall, surgeon 50th Illinois infantry ; Dr. Rus Kendall, assistant surgeon, regiment not ascertained; Dr. Samuel C. Moss. surgeon of the 78th Illinios infantry : Dr. Charles IT. Morton, major, and later lieutenant colonel of the 84th Illinois infantry : captured at Chick- amauga and confined in Libby Prison, and after the war became county clerk of Adams County and later police magistrate of Quincy ; Dr. Virgil MeDavitt. surgeon 1st Alabama (colored) eav- alry ; Dr. N. II. MeNeall. assistant surgeon 137th Illinois infantry: Dr. George O. Pond, surgeon 73rd Illinois infantry : Dr. Daniel Stahl, surgeon 7th Illinois cavalry : Dr. Toel G. Williams, assist- ant surgeon 2d Illinois cavalry : Dr. Louis Wat-
son, surgeon 16th Illinois infantry, and later medieal inspector of the Army of the Cumber- land; Dr. Isaac T. Wilson, contract surgeon in charge of division No. 2 of the Quiney Hospital during the war; Dr. Reuben Woods, surgeon 119th Illinois infantry, and later division sur- geon of the Department of the Gulf; against the name of Dr. Henry Douglass, one of the earlier members and at one time postmaster of Quincy, in an analytical roster in the back of the record book, stands the notation, "In the army," but of what his service was nothing seems now as- certainable, but it was probably professional.
Of those who joined after the elose of the war the following were in the service during its con- tinuance: Dr. D. Bryan Baker, private, 137th Illinois infantry ; Dr. P. A. Marks, subaltern in the navy; Dr. Robert W. MeMahan, who in the earlier part of the war was surgeon on the Mis- sissippi River Heet commanded by Col. Ellet. of whose gentle courtesy and apparent absolute unconsciousness of danger he was wont to speak with unbounded admiration, and later was sur- geon of the 146th Illinois infantry; Dr. J. B. Shawgo, private, 85th Illinois infantry, who was detailed as a scout on reaching the front and as such during the war; and Dr. Robert J. Chris- tie, Sr., senior surgeon of Gen. Price's brigade of Missouri (Confederate) infantry.
General sanitation early engaged the attention of the society. Pursuant to a resolution adopted November 22, 1865. Drs. E. G. Castle and Joseph Robbins appeared before the city council and asked that in view of a probable visitation of epi- demie cholera, steps be taken to put the eity in a proper sanitary condition. The authorities acted promptly, created a board of health of which Dr. Castle was made president, and under his direetion the city was put in such condition that when in the following sunner disease came up the Mississippi River, Quiney escaped with less than a dozen cases, and only two or three of these were fatal.
In August, 1866, the secretary, Dr. Joseph Robbins. presented to the city council a memorial adopted by the society asking the passage of the necessary ordinances to secure a complete record of deaths with the cause of death in each case, and to provide that no interment should take place without such a certificate from the prac- titioner in attendance or from the coroner after an inquest. The latter provision provoked oppo- sition in the council and it was not until three years later that the continued efforts of the society in this direction were crowned with sue- eess. The record. in which the first entry was made November 21. 1869. has since been kept up, not perfectly in its earlier years, but more accurately since a state law to the same end
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with stringent penalties for neglect, came into operation.
. Meanwhile the agitation of the record matter and the continned efforts of individual members led to the re-establishment of a board of health in place of the one which had fallen into desue- tude. During the administration of Mayor Row- land, which began in 1870, an efficient board was provided for, consisting of five members of which three were regular physicians, with one layman, like them appointed by the Mayor, who was him- self a member ex-officio. The high character and demonstrated efficiency of the board was main- tained for only a few years; it soon became an asyhun for lay politicians, wholly losing its pro- fessional character, and then giving way to the present organization in which there is no pro- vision for the participation of medical men. Within the past year (1904) the medical society has again taken action looking to the restoration of the professional character of the board. but no visible progress has been made. The society now has abont seventy members.
The present officers of the society are as fol- lows: President, John A. Koch : first vice-presi- dent. G. M. Grimes : second vice-president. Henry Hart ; secretary, George E. Rosenthal ; treasurer, R. J. Christie, Jr. : rensors, Joseph Robbins, L. B. Ashton, and E. B. Montgomery.
CHAPTER LVI.
THE COUNTY POOR FARM-COUNTY AND DISTRICT
OFFICERS. BY D. L. ILAIR.
Very early in the history of Adams County, the benevolence of its pioneer citizens began to be manifest in the provisions made for the indi- gent and deserving poor within its borders. At first, and for a number of years, the panpers were provided for in the several localities where they resided. But in the year 1847. the Board of Commissioners deemed it advisable. as a matter of economy to the county, and for the better pro- vision for these unfortunate objects of public charity. to purchase a farm to be devoted to their support, to which they could be removed and cared for in a body, and where those not entirely disabled might be furnished some employment, and thus in a measure. become self-supporting. Consequently. after some investigation, the board bought the eighty acre farm owned by H. T. Ellis, parts of the Northwest and Northeast quarter of Section 16, of township 1 north and 7 west, lying near the center of Honey Creek, the transfer hearing date March 16, 1847. and the
consideration being $700. The farm was under a fair state of improvement. and had a frame house containing several rooms and a shed kitchen. A barn and other outbuildings, and a blacksmith shop were on the premises.
The farm was under the supervision of a com- petent man, and the paupers were removed to it, and sustained there until May, 1855, when by order of the Board of Supervisors-the county having gone into township organization in 1849 -- the county poor farm was sold to John White, for $800. the board reserving the use of the farm until the next year.
At a session of the County Board of Super- visors held January 5, 1856, it was resolved to purchase 200 acres for a poor farm, and a com- mittee consisting of Win. Laughlin. A. II. Doan, and Baptist Hardy, were appointed to select and make the purchase. On June 10, the committee reported that they had bought of John F. Battell 160 acres, the northeast quarter of Section 11. in Gilmer township, for $5,000. The committee also reported, at the same meeting. the purchase of 50,000 brick and other material with which to erect buildings thereon. The following year, 1857. the farm was rented out and the paupers were hired, kept by contract, at a specified price per capita per week. Upon the completion of the buildings the paupers were removed to the county farm, where they have been provided for since.
This county house then consisted of a building 24 feet by 40 feet, two stories high, with a base- ment, and it is estimated cost about $2,500. In 1857, when the new home was entered, there were about fifteen persons brought from the old farm. In 1860, we find twenty-five members. and to make room for the increase of paupers in 1863, the county built an addition to the first building, 30x30 feet, two stories high and base- ment, at a cost of about $3,000. Osborne & Son did the brick work, and Ligget & Bachey, the car- penter work.
In 1861, the first barn was built at a cost of $300 by Ben Wegle. In 1862, the old building for the insane was built, at a cost of $1,000. This building, however, has been taken down, since it did not give satisfaction as a place to confine the insane.
In 1867, the county built a pest house at a cost of about $500. This building is still stand- ing.
In 1868, because of the increasing numbers, another building was erected, 24x48 feet, two stories high. costing $6.000.
In 1874 the city of Quiney went into township organization, prior to which time the paupers of the city had been under the charge of munici- pal officers, one alderman from each ward con- stituting the pauper committee, to which was
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added an overseer of the poor. Since 1874, the county has had charge of its pauper expenses, the same as the other townships of the county. The adoption of Quiney poor so increased the number of county dependents that the building on the farm became insufficient, and it became necessary to provide for them elsewhere. Ac- eordingly, an agreement was made with the Char- itable Aid and llospital Association of Quincy, to keep them during the ten months, from July 1, 1874, to May 1, 1875, for $8,000 and 200 cords of wood; and for a year, beginning May 1, 1875, for a sum not to exceed $12,000, the sum actually being expended was $10,400. During the latter year, there were on the book of the Association an average of 314 persons per month, represent- ing 226 families.
A committee of the Board of Supervisors was then authorized to examine and make a report of plans for a new building to be erected on the County Poor Farm. This committee recom- mended that a building three stories high, 32x43 feet area, be built at a cost of $8,000. It was finished in 1875, at a cost of $7,968. The build- ing committee consisted of Thomas Bailey, Win. Winkleman, E. Il. Turner, David Sheer and JJ. B. Weaver .. A steam heater was afterward put in the building at a cost of $1,290.
Again, in 1897, because of the great inerease in insanity, a new building 24x40 feet, was put up. This eost the county about $10,000. About the same time a barn scales and other outbuild- ings were erected at a cost of about $2,500. These are all now in good repair. A new heating ap- paratus has also been put in, in late years by Best, the Quincy plumber.
At first the paupers were put under the cus- tody of some one man, who boarded them for a certain priee per week. Later, the Board of Supervisors coneluded to manage the house and farm themselves, and furnish everything for the poor. Accordingly they appointed a superin- tendent. Under the old regime, Mr. Henderson had charge of the panpers two years, and Mr. Curtis one year. The first superintendent ap- pointed was D. L. Hair in 1860, serving six years ; second, A. L. Shiphard, seven years: third. As- bury Elliott, six years; fourth, Mr. Doren, one year ; fifth, W. Beeeott, one year : sixth, M. Doren, two years; Mrs. Doren, six years after her hus- band's death: eighth, William Bates, six years: ninth, Dave L. lair, six years; and tenth and last, Jacob Wolfe, the present superintendent.
At present there are between eighty and eighty- five inmates at the farm, and this number. it is said, is smaller than it has been for many years. The reason for this, we presume, is because of the very reeent removal of sixty patients to the asylum at Bartonville. Of course, the greater number of pauper expenses are incurred for the
city poor, but a great deal of expense is brought about by the feeding of transient paupers and for railroad passes. The average cost per head, For keeping the paupers, less the income from the farm, was at one time 86 eents per week, but this expense later came down as low as 67 cents per week.
The Adams County Poor Farm is well located -- the land is rolling, and the drainage good. There is penty of water, of the very best quality. It is said that there is not a better managed poor farm in the state, for the management has always been good. The poor are liberally provided for, and at the same time the management has been so economical that the County Poor Farm is a credit to the Adams county tax payers.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
The following is a list of county and district officials from the organization of the county in 1825, to the present time:
James Black, recorder July 8, 1825
Levi lleadley, sheriff Ang. 30, 1825
Asa Tyrer, coroner. Aug. 30, 1825
llenry II. Snow, judge probate .. . Sept. 15, 1825
Henry H. Snow, judge probate. .Jan. 23, 1826
Henry II. Snow, recorder Jan. 23, 1826
Ilugh White, surveyor Jan. 23, 1826
Earl Pierce, sheriff. Sept. 6, 1826
Asa Tyrer, coroner . Sept. 6, 1826
Herman Wallace, coro Sept. 6, 1828
Earl Pierce, sheriff. . Dee. 5, 1828
Earl Pierce, sheriff. Nov. 27, 1830
Thomas Moon, coroner Nov. 27, 1830
Earl Pierce, sheriff . Sept. 5, 1832
William P. Reader, coroner . Sept. 5, 1832
11. Patton, surveyor. April 28, 1834
Ilarris Patton, surveyor June 2, 1834
J. M. Whiting, coroner Ang. 22, 1834
Earl Pierce, sheriff. Aug. 29, 1834
Ilarris Patton, surveyor. Dec. 24, 1834
C. M. Billington, recorder Ang. 22, 1835
Harris Patton, surveyor. Ang. 22, 1835
Thomas C. King, coroner
Ang. 24, 1836
Earl Pierce, sheriff. Aug. 24, 1836
Win. G. Flood, probate judge . Feb. 17, 1837
WVm. Il. Tandy, sheriff. Nov. 29, 1837
Win. Il. Tandy, sheriff. Aug. 21, 1838
Jas. M. Hattan, coroner Ang. 23, 1838
Jno. H. Ilolton, recorder. Aug. 17, 1839
Joel G. Williams, surveyor Aug. 17, 1839
Thomas Jasper, sheriff Aug. 12, 1840
John T. Gilmer, coroner Ang. 12, 1840
Jonas Grubb, coroner. Aug. 12, 1842
Wm. Il. Tandy, sheriff Ang. 13, 1842
John II. Holton, recorder Ang. 29, 1843
Thomas II. Williams, surveyor Ang. 29, 1843
James M. Pittman, sheriff. Aug. 12, 1844
L. Frazer, coroner Ang. 16, 1844
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James M. Pittman, sheriff. Ang. 18, 1846
Thaddeus Monroe, coroner. Aug. 18, 1846
John H. Holton, recorder Ang. 19, 1847
Washington Wren, sheriff. Aug. 16, 1848
Thaddeus Monroe, coroner Ang. 16, 1848
Philo A. Goodwin, county judge. . Nov. 17, 1849
J. C. Barnard, county clerk . Nov. 22, 1849
Peter Gott, circuit clerk. Sept. 4, 1848
Abner E. Humphrey. sheriff .Nov. 20. 1850
Thaddeus Monroe, coroner Nov. 20, 1850
B. I. Chatten, surveyor. Nov. 22, 1851
Levi Palmer, sheriff Nov. 20, 1852
Thaddeus Monroe, coroner Nov. 20, 1852
C. M. Woods, cireuit clerk . Nov. 20, 1852
G. W. Luch, county elerk. . Nov. 21. 1853
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