Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 78

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1228

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Mr. Achelpolil is a man of marked business enterprise and in the commercial and industrial rireles of Quincy has found a wide field in which to give full seope to his ambition and industry- his dominant qualities. He possesses the reso- Intion, perseveronce and reliability so charae- teristic of his German ancestry and through his activity in business has not only contributed to his individual prosperity but has also been a promoter of the city's development and material upbuilding. As a citizen his loyalty to the pub- lie good is above question and his political in- tegrity stands as an unquestioned faet in his career. His work in behalf of the ordinance quoted above is certainly worthy of the high- est commendation and along other lines, too, his labors have proved far-reaching and bene- ficial.

THEODORE BENEDICT PAPE.

Theodore Benedict Pape, corporation counsel for the city of Quiney and a member of the law firm of Govert, Pape & Govert, was born in Quiney, September 17, 1860, his parents being J. Il. Nicolaus and Mary A. (Duker) Pape. They were natives of Germany and became resi- lents of Quincy in 1846. Here the father. fol- lowing his trade established a cooper shop, which he conducted for many years, but both he and his wife are now deceased.

Supplementing his early educational privil- eyes by an advanced course of study, Theodore B. Pape mastered the classical branches and was graduated from St. Francis College, of Quincy, and then, desirous of becoming a member of the legal profession, matrienlated in the law depart- ment of the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated with the elass of 1883. Thus qualified for the bar he has

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practiced continuously in Quincy since 1884. and has long ranked with the leading attorneys of the city. the extent and importance of the legal interests intrusted to his care bearing evi- dence of his ability and the position which he holds as a lawyer in the publie regard. He was first a law partner of the late Judge Joseph Sibley and in 1889 he became a member of the law firm of Carter & Govert, which relation was maintained until the elevation of Joseph N. Car- ter to the supreme bench of the state. The firm of Govert & Pape then continued and later became Govert, Pape & Govert.

The official honors which have been conferred upon Mr. Pape have also been in the line of his profession. He was city attorney of Quincy in the years 1887 and 1888 and he is now corpora- tion connsel of the city, having held the position continuously since May 1, 1895. In this posi- tion he has carefully guarded the legal interests of the city and in his official capacity he origin- ated the plan under which the city is now paying its debt, and also the plan under which the Quincy waterworks have been transferred to the Citizens' Waterworks Company upon condi- tions which insure the ultimate city ownership of the plant.

In religions faith Mr. Pape is a Roman Cath- olie. lle has pleasant social relations in his native eity, and his professional prominence is the deserved recognition of ability that has been fostered through close application, earnest effort and the exercise of strong mentality.

JOSEPH W. CALDWELL.

Joseph W. Caldwell, one of the substantial citizens of Adams county, living in Meyer, a town which he platted and surveyed in the fall of 1905. Embraced in the territory surround- ing Meyer are fifty thousand acres of reclaimed land, considered the most fertile area in the state, and which never fails to produce the fin- est wheat and corn on the market. Meyer is lo- cated three and one-half miles south of the northwest corner of Adams county, Illinois.

-Joseph W. Caldwell was born in Canton, Mis- sonri, October 4. 1855. He is a son of John C. and Harriott Caldwell. the former a native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. and the latter of Liverpool, England. In the spring of 1861, they came to AAdams county, Illinois, settling on a farm near what is now the town of Meyer, where they spent their remaining days. Mr. Cald- well died in 1882, at the age of seventy-nine years, while his wife died in 1873. at the age of forty-five years. They left three danghters, namely: Mrs. Lizzie Leeper, who resides in

Lima township: Mrs. Ida Lloyd, living in Meyer: and Mrs. Dora Edison.

Joseph W. Callwell is an energetic business man, having been engaged in the real estate business for about twenty years, and has nego- tiated many important real estate transfers. He is the owner of three farms in the Mississippi bottom and a large portion of the town of Meyer. As a real estate agent he has done much to improve that part of the county, and as a business man he has gained the success which is the goal of all endeavor. Ile is enterprising and progressive, possessing keen sagacity and strong determination, and whatever he undertakes he carries forward to a successful completion if it can be accomplished with diligent. honorable effort.

On December 6, 1882. in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Caldwell was married to Miss Mettie Hughes. who was born November 24, 1864, and was a graduate of Canton College, of Canton, Mis- souri. She died December 6, 1892, leaving four children : Mamie, Nellie, Fred and Earl. In Quiney, Illinois, on the 17th of March, 1902. Mr. Caldwell was again married, his second union being with Ella Jenkins, a school teacher of Loraine, Ilinois. She was a popular, ener- getic teacher, having taught in the public schools near her home for seven years previous to her marriage. She was born September 25. 1877, and is a daughter of James B. and Jane A. Jenkins. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell are members of the Episcopal church at Meyer. They have one child, Alice Lillian, born July 6, 1903.

Mr. Caldwell has served as levee commis- sioner for three years and during the high water of 1903 made a trip to New Orleans with a view to gaining information in regard to levees and pumping plants. On this trip he traveled more than seven thousand miles over the southern states. This trip was partly made in connection with his real estate business. He gives his polit- ical support to the republican party. His genial manner, kindly disposition and deference for the opinion of others, as well as his sterling worth, have made him popular with a large num- ber of the citizens of Adams county.

ALOIS JJ. BLICKHAN, M. D.

Dr. Alois J. Blickhan, physician and surgeon of Quincy, was born in this city, June 25, 1866, his parents being John and Louise Lambood) Blickhan, whose marriage was celebrated in Quincy. The father was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and in the early '40s came west- ward to Qniney, where he engaged in business as a carriagemaker under the name of the Blick-

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han Carmago Manufacturing Company. Ile

was thus identified with the industrial interests of the city for a number of years, bai subse- quently sold out. His careful management of his maunfacuring interests brought to him very desirable success and he is now living retired. merely giving his attention to the supervision of his property interests, for in former years he made judicions investments in real estate.

Dr. Bliekhan was a public school student and afterward entered the Gom City Business Col- lege, where he completed a course at the age of twenty-two. On leaving the public schools he learned the printer's trade in the office of the Job Printing Company and later spent several Years npon the road, working in various states. While in St. Joseph, Missouri, about 1887, being there engaged in work at his trade, he became interested in some medical works and while read- ing these formed the determination to become a member of the medical Fraternity. Accord- ingly he went to Chicago and matriculated in the Rush Medical College, working in a print- ing office in order to pay his expenses there for two years. In 1890 he entered the Keokuk Medical College at Keokuk, łowa, and was graduated from the latter institution in the spring of 1891. For a time, prior to going to Keokuk, he was clerk in Hotel Duncan at Bur- lington, Iowa, and thus as a, printer and hotel clerk he earned the funds necessary to meet the expenses of his college course and prepare him for the practice of his chosen profession. Com- ing to Quiney he opened an office and has since been engaged in general practice, having a large Isiness. Ile manifests in the discharge of his daily duties a conscientious purpose and a de- votion to his work which have been salient features in his prosperity and have won him a place among the leading members of the medical fraternity in this city.

Dr. Blickhan is independent in his political views, although he rather favors the democratie party. He is interested in various enterprises of the city, particularly in those measures and movements which have for their object the gen- eral good. His entire life has been passed here and that his has been an upright career is indi- rated by the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from his youth to the present time.

THOMAS BAILEY.

Thomas Bailey, a capitalist of Camp Point. who has been prominent in many business enter- prises and in advancing progressive measures

that prove of mneh benefit to the county, has been a resident of Illinois sinee March 20, 1840. He has now passed the eighty-seventh milestone on life's journey, and his career has been one of usefulness and honor. Ile was born in Poland, Cumberland county, Maine, on the 8th of Oeto- ber, 1817, and is a son of Levi Bailey, whose birth occurred in the same locality, in April, 1791. He represents one of the old New Eng- land families of English ancestry that was founded in America in August, 1635. Thomas Bailey, his grandfather, was born in Newhry, Massachusetts, February 14, 1746, and removed from that state to Maine. He was married to Elizabeth Kimball. Levi Bailey was drafted as a soldier in the war of 1812. He was a farmer by occupation and established his home in Cum- berland county. Maine. Ile was there married to Miss Nabby Haskell, who was born in the Pine Tree state in 1794. There they reared their family and spent their entire lives.

Thomas Bailey is one of a family of eleven children, ten of whom reached mature years, while three are yet living. His youth was passed in Maine, where he was afforded good common- school advantages and after he ceased to be a student he became a teacher in the public schools there. Attracted by the business opportunities of the growing west. he left New England on the 11th of March, 1839, and went to Boston, where he worked on a market farm for three months and also worked four months in a brickyard to get money to go west. He then went to Park- man, Ohio, and later to Troy, that state, where he taught one term of school. In March, 1840, he contimied on his westward journey until he reached Adams county, Ilinois, where he fol- lowed the profession of teaching for five years. Later he was engaged in teaching at intervals. although his time was largely devoted to farm- ing interests, improving two quarter sections of land where he now lives. In 1843 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land here and began the development of a Farm. The traet was wild and unimproved but he soon placed it un- der a high state of cultivation and carried for- ward the work of improvement, adding all mod- ern equipments and accessories as they were introduced. Ile ereeted a residence and con- tributed in a substantial measure to the growth and upbuilding of Camp Point by laying out several additions to the town, which has bene- fited materially by his efforts. From time to time he has purchased land and has been the owner of several hundred aeres. Ilis attention, however, has not been confined entirely to agri- enltural pursuits, for he engaged in merchandiz- ing and milling in Camp Point for a member of years. He has also figured prominently in finan- cial cireles and in 1867 was the founder of the

Thomas Bailey

Camelia &. Bailey

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Bailey Bank, a private banking institution which lie condueted with suecess for thirteen years. Throughout his entire life he has been a very active and enterprising business man, quick to note and utilize opportunities. He has made the most of the advantages which have surrounded him and as the years have passed has become one of the capitalists of Adams county through his judicious investments and his careful manage- ment of his business affairs. About 1873. in company with George W. Cyrus, he established the Camp Point Journal and continued its oper- ation Tor three years, when he sold out to Mr. Cyrus, present editor.

Publie interests have received the co-operation and support of Mr. Bailey, who in office has proved his loyalty to the general good. He was elected. in 1850. as the first supervisor of his township and served for five years. In 1858 he was elected for a term of three years, and about 1875 was once more chosen for that office. For two years he served as chairman of the board of supervisors and altogether acted as chairman for about five years. He is now the only survivor of the first county board. For forty years he filled the office of justice of the peace in Camp Point township and his decisions were strictly fair and impartial. being based upon the equity of the case and the law applicable thereto. He has been a delegate to county, state and national conventions and has ever been unfaltering in his support for the principles of his party.

Mr. Bailey was married in Camp Point, March 13, 1845, to Miss Rebecca Seaton, who was born in Kentucky but was reared mostly in Illinois. Her father was Richard Seaton, who came from Kentneky in 1835. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bailey was born a daughter, Eleanor, who became the wife of A. B. Kelley, a jeweler of Camp Point. She died in December, 1881, and Mr. Kelley has also passed away. In the spring of 1894 Mr. Bailey was called upon to mourn the loss of his first wife. lle was married again in 1895 to Pamelia J. Johnson, the widow of George R. Johnson. She was born in Kentucky but was reared in Illinois, coming to this state in 1831. By her first marriage she had ten children, eight of whom are yet living.

Mr. Bailey is a member of the lodge and chapter of the Masonic fraternity at Camp Point. Ile has served as master of his lodge and has also been its representative to the grand lodge. He was made an Odd Fellow in 1858 and a Ma- son shortly afterward. He has likewise filled all of the chairs in the Odd Fellows lodge, is past grand and is a member of the encampment. He has started a number of lodges and he gave most liberally toward the building of the Odd Fel- lows lodge hall in Camp Point. His fellow mem- bers showed their appreciation of his services

and personal worth. in 1892, by presenting him with a fine star medal, indicating a membership of a quarter of a century. In his political views Mr. Bailey was an old line whig and east his first presidential ballot For William Henry Harrison in 1840. In 1856 he supported John C. Fre- mont. the first candidate of the new republican party, and has since voted for each of its presi- dential nominees with the exception of the years 1872 and 1876, when he voted for Horaee Gree- ley and Sammel J. Tilden respectively.

Mr. Bailey gave to the town of Camp Point a tract of land of twenty acres adjoining the cor- poration limits on the north, which is known as Bailey Park. He also built and gave to the town its opera house and the income derived there- Trom is given to the worthy poor of the town. lle is a man of benevolent and kindly spirit, gen- erous to the poor, and indeed he cannot listen to a tale of distress unmoved. His sympathy is manifested in substantial assistance and many have reason to bless him for what he has done for them in their hour of need. As a pioneer settler he is familiar with the history of the county from the period when it was just emerg- ing from its primitive condition and taking on the evidences and changes of civilization. In 1844 he broke prairie here with four yoke of oxen, commencing this work with teams of wild steers which he continued driving until they were well broken to the work. He has seen great changes along agricultural lines, and in fact all departments of activity in Adams county, and has always favored progress and improvement. ITis name has been a synonym of integrity in business affairs, and he is to-day one of the most honored and respected residents of this portion of the state.

THEODORE C. POLING.

Theodore C. Poling, for a number of years a general practitioner of law in Quiney and since 1885 engaged in the conduct of a savings and loan office and mortgage banking business, was born in Middletown, New Jersey, JJanuary 10, 1840, his parents being Charles W. and Ann (Kelsey) Poling. In the paternal line he comes of English, Welsh and Holland ancestry and in the maternal line is of English and Irish de- seent. The Poling family dates its origin in Ameriea back to the middle of the eighteenth eentury, when representatives of the name set- tled in New Jersey, Richard Poling, great- grandfather of Theodore C. Poling. was born at Middletown Point, New Jersey, as was his son, Richard Poling, Jr., and his grandson, Charles W. Poling. The last named was there

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reared and educated and in his native state wed- ded Ann Kelsey, also a native of New Jersey. He was a farmer by occupation and upon his removal to Ilinois in 1856 he secured a tract of land near Mendon, where he carried on gen- eral agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death, which occurred about 1858, when he was forty-two years of age. His wife died in 1863 at the age of forty-nine years. They were the parents of eight children, of whom Theodore (. Poling was the second in order of birth. Three of the sons, George W., Theodore C. and James K. P. Poling, were soldiers of the Civil war and the first named died of disease contracted in the army, while the last was killed when participat- ing in the battle at Memphis, Tennessee.

Theodore C. Poling spent the first sixteen years of his life in New Jersey, Ohio and Iowa, and during that period acquired a good common- school education, which was afterward supple- mented by study in Knox College at Galesburg, Illinois. His course there, however, was inter- rupted by his service in the Civil war, for, aronsed by a spirit of patriotism, he enlisted on the 30th of August, 1862, as a member of the Seventy-first linois Regiment, with which he remained for three months. At the conclusion of that term he re-enlisted for one hundred days' service in the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Ilinois Infantry, joining Company C, and re- ceived an honorable discharge on the 24th of September, 1864. He was corporal in both reg- iments and was always true to his duty, so that he returned to his home with a creditable mili- tary record.

Following his military service Mr. Poling en- gaged in teaching in the district schools near Mendon, Adams county, for some time and was also principal of the graded schools at Payson, Illinois, his labors as an educator covering nine years. During his leisure hours he entered upon the reading of law and in 1870 he came to Quiney, where he entered the law office of Good- win & Davis, well known attorneys of this city. The following year he was admitted to practice at the Adams county bar and joined his former preceptors in a partnership under the firm style of Goodwin, Davis & Poling. After the death of Mr. Goodwin, two years later, the surviving members of the firm continued in practice to- gether under the firm style of Davis & Poling until 1885, when their business relations were discontinued in order that Mr. Poling might give undivided attention to the mortgage bank- ing business and to the conduet of a savings and loan office. He had only one predecessor in this line of activity and has been the pioneer in in- angurating and building up a business which has long since grown to extensive and profitable proportions. His clientage is large and he has

done much service in the settlement of impor- tant estates and in holding positions of honor and trust. In the business of loans which he has placed he has never had a client who has been obliged to take a piece of property on a loan of his making and not one of his customers has lost a dollar in principal or interest on his loans. This exceptional record, in itself a guarantee of the greatest security, has not been a matter of accident. It has been brought about through the utmost care exercised by Mr. Poling in the vonduet of his business affairs. He carefully examines all titles and investigates the value of every piece of property on which a loan is to be made and by assuring himself of every con- dition affecting the loan protects all of his patrons. He has been interested in several of the more important improvements projected in Quincy in the last two decades and has himself made judicious and extensive investments in property. In connection with Joseph N. Car- ter, William 11. Govert and G. A. Bauman, he built the Blackstone building in 1889 and in this building he maintains his offices. He has also assisted in the erection of other buildings and has recently completed the third residence in which he has successively made his home and has also erected three additional residences, one for each of his children. With others he was a promoter of the addition to Quincy known as Lawndale, where his comfortable home is sit- uated and with others he laid out and promoted the interests of the industrial addition known as Walton Heights in East Quincy.

Publie enterprises in no way associated with his business affairs and resulting in no personal benefit to him have received his support, aid and allegiance. Ile has been especially artive in this direction, now connected with worthy charities of the city, and is a director and treas- urer of the Anna Brown Home for the Aged. He drew the will by means of which this institution was founded and in many ways he has figured among those who have fostered it. lle is also one of the trustees of the Blessing Hospital and is a director of the Graceland Cemetery Asso- ciation of Quiney, of which he is treasurer.

In June, 1867, Mr. Poling was married to Miss Ella A. Wharton, a daughter of Benjamin and Amy Wharton, of Payson, Illinois, and they . have three children: Florence P., the wife of James G. Nielson, of St. Paul, Minnesota ; Otho C., associated with his father in business; and Theodore Chester, attending Colorado College at Colorado Springs. They also lost two chil- dren. The beautiful family home in Lawndale is one of the most pleasing and attractive resi- dences of Quincy.

Mr. Poling is a member of the John Wood post, G. A. R., also the Modern Woodmen camp

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and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In polities, while his sympathies are more strongly with the principles of the republican party, he often votes independently of party ties. llis attention has been largely given to business af- fairs and his advancement has been secured en- tirely through his own efforts, through striet attention to the duties that daily have devolved upon him and through honorable business meth- ods and dealings. To some he seems reserved, vet those who know him best speak of a kindly nature and social disposition that form the basis of strong and enduring friendship.

HENRY F. LUMMIS.

Henry F. Lummis, whose intense and well di- reeted activity has made him one of the fore- most representatives of trade interests in Quincy, stands to-day at the head of the Lum- mis Implement Company, controlling a business of large and profitable proportions that owes its development in a great measure to his discern- ment, enterprise and business sagacity. At the same time he has never been unmindful of the duties of citizenship and has contributed to pub- lic progress along many lines but notably in educational eireles.

Ilenry F. Lummis was born October 25, 1856, upon a farm in Adams county, which was the property of his father, JJoseph Unmmis, then a resident of Gilmer township and one of the hon- ored early settlers of this part of the state. Pre- viously a resident of Ohio he had come to Ulli- nois in 1844 and east in his lot with the early settlers of Adams county, where he successfully conducted agricultural interests and where he also became known for his activity and helpful- ness in public life. His efforts in this direction found recognition in his election to the office of county treasurer in 1868 for a term of two years. Ile married a Miss Lawless, a daughter of John Lawless, one of the pioneer residents of Adams county of 1835.

Ilenry F. Lummis, reared to the occupation of farming, was also provided with excellent edneational privileges and after completing a course in the graded schools he attended Chad- dock College, later became a student in a com- mercial college and afterward matriculated in the Illinois Normal University. Thus qualified for educational work. he entered the school- room as a teacher and for seven years followed the profession. Deciding. however, to enter the field of commercial activity, he resigned his po- sition as teacher in 1885 and became connected with mercantile interests in Quincy as a member

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Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 78

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1228

Author: Collins, William H. (William Hertzog), 1831-1910; Perry, Cicero F., 1855- [from old catalog] joint author; Tillson, John, 1825-1892. History of the city of Quincy, Illinois. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago, S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1228