Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 89

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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DR. A. A. WHIPPLE

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they have a son, Arthur Paul. They live in Rochester, New York, where Merritt P. Whip- ple is general agent for the Smith Premier Type- writer Company. Arthur B., born October 28, 1882, is at home. William, born Angust 10, 1886, is attending the high school.

The family attend the Baptist church and Dr. Whipple is a republican in his political views. Fraternally he is a Mason, very prominent in the order, belonging to various branches of Ma- sonry, and he is now past master of Quiney . bench of the circuit court, the district being then lodge, No. 296, A. F. & A. M .; past high priest of Quiney chapter, No. 5, R. A. M. ; past thrice illustrious master of Quincy council, No. 15. R. & S. M. ; past eminent commander of El Aksa commandery, No. 55, K. T .; past commander in chief of Quincy consistory; and past worthy patron of Grace Whipple chapter, No. 312, 0. E S. Ile is also past grand high priest of the Grand Royal Arch chapter and deputy grand commander of the Grand Commandery, K. T .. in Illinois, for two years. Mrs. Whipple was worthy matron of Grace Whipple chapter, O. E S., which was named for their daughter.

LAWRENCE W. MARSII.

Lawrenee W. Marsh, a well known resident of Quincy and a representative of one of its pioneer families, was born in this city, May 28, 1863, and is a son of Judge William Marsh, for many years a prominent resident of Adams county. Ile was of English descent, his ancestors having come to America at an early period in the devel- opment of the new world. His grandfather, Ebenezer Marsh, was born in Hampshire eounty, Massachusetts. and his father. Zimri Marsh, was also a native of the Bay state. He married Miss Crussa Hubbard, a daughter of Caleb Hubbard. familiarly known as Major Hubbard of the "plum trees," who resided in Massachusetts and was a minute man during the Revolutionary war, participating in the battle of Bunker Hill. When advanced in years Mrs. Crussa Marsh came to Quincy, where she died in 1864.

Judge William Marsh was born in Cayuga county, New York, May 11, 1822, and was the fourth in a family of seven children. He at- tended a private school in Tompkins county, New York, and was afterward a student in an acad- emy and in Union College, Skaneateles, New York, being graduated from the last named in- stitution in 1842 He studied law in the office of Judge Jewett, of Skaneateles, New York, and was admitted to practice at the New York bar in 1845. Ile began practice in Ithaca, New York, where he remained until 1854, removing in that year to Quiney. when he entered into a law part-

nership with William II. Benneson. Three years later Judge Skinner was admitted to the firm under the name of Skinner, Benneson & Marsh, and when Mr. Benneson joined the Union army as colonel of the Seventy-eighth Ilinois Infantry in 1862, the firm continued as Skinner & Marsh, this relation being maintained until the death of Judge Skinner in 1877. Judge Marsh became a partner of William MeFadon and in 1885 this partnership was dissolved by his election to the

composed of Adams, Pike, Brown, Schuyler, Ful- ton and Hancock connties For six years Judge Marsh served on the bench and his record there was in harmony with his record as a man and a lawyer, distinguished by unswerving fidelity to duty as well as by an unbiased administration of the law with due regard to equity as well as precedent. He was recognized, too. as one of the most prominent leaders in the democratic party in Illinois, laboring for its interests from the time he became a resident of this state to promote its growth and prosperity. He was ever a cham- pion in government reform and improvement and did much to uphold the legal and political status of the state.

On the 29th of August, 1848, Judge Marsh was married to Cornelia M. Woods, of Lockport, New York, a daughter of Hon. J. L. Woods, of that city. They became the parents of four chil- dren, but the third, William, died in infancy. The others are: Mary M., the wife of Don A. Sweet, of Amirillo, Texas, where he is general auditor of several branches of the Santa Fe Rail- road : Mrs. Babeock: Lawrence W., who resides at the old Marsh home in Quincy. Judge Marsh and his family were well known in social circles of this city and there his influence, as in other lines of life, was always for good. He was closely identified with many of the interests and enterprises which led to the commercial develop- ment and the consequent prosperity of Quiney. Tle was a stockholder in the First National Bank and the Quincy Gas Company, president of the Barlow Corn Planter Company, and other busi- ness enterprises felt the stimulus of his sound judgment and untiring energy. He died April 14, 1894, and his wife passed away September 14. 1901.

In his youth Lawrence W. Marsh acquired a good education and for eight years he followed railroading. during which time he traveled all over the United States, gaining an accurate and intimate knowledge of this country.

Lawrence W. Marsh was married April 23, 1902. to Miss Marie Steinbach, who was born in Quincy and is a daughter of Mayor Steinbach, of this city. They reside at the old Marsh home at No. 818 North Fifth street. It is a large two-

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story honse, built of brick and surrounded by beautiful grounds. It is one of the old homes of the city and has always been noted for its gener- ons and warm-hearted hospitality. Mr. Marsh is now living a retired life. He has a wide ac- quaintance in Quiney, where he has remained almost continuonsly from his birth to the present and the circle of his friends is extensive.

D. C. ILARRIS.

D. C. Harris, living on section 29, Camp Point township, is classed with the representative, thrifty farmers and stock-dealers of Adams county, where he owns and operates a tract of land of two hundred acres. Here he has resided since 1865. He was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, January 2, 1842, and is a son of J. Il. Harris, who was also a native of that county, born in 1804. The paternal grandfather, Wil- liam Harris, was one of the first settlers of Jef- ferson county and upon the old farm homestead there J. H. Harris was reared to manhood, being early trained to the habits of industry and econ- omy. When he had reached adult age he mar- ried Elizabeth David, who was born in Kentucky in 1856, they removed to lowa, settling in Davis county, where the father opened up a farm and reared his family. He spent his last days on the old homestead there and died in January, 1872, while his wife survived until October, 1877.

D. C. Harris was reared under the parental roof upon the lowa farm and attended the com- mon schools of the neighborhood. He worked in the fields through the months of summer and continued to assist his father until he reached man's estate, when he came to Illinois and was employed as a farm hand by the month for two or three years. After his marriage he rented land in Camp Point township, which he farmed for two years and then purchased sixty-five acres of his present farm on section 29. Camp Point township, a part of which was under cultivation. This he began to further develop and improve and from time to time he has extended the boundaries of his place until he now has two hundred aeres in the old homestead, whereon he has lived for more than a half century. Ile built a substantial residence. also good ontbuildings, fenced his place, planted an orchard and indeed has made all modern improvements and added the equipments and accessories which constitute a model farm of the twentieth century. He also owns a tract of land of fifty-seven aeres lying south of Camp Point In connection with gen- eral farming he raises and feeds stock and this is an important branch of his business. In 1889 he began the breeding of shorthorn cattle and

now has a herd of nearly fifty head of pure blooded shorthorn stock with a pure blooded male at the head of the herd

Mr. Harris was married April 11, 1868, to Miss Martha Ellen Hemrick, a native of Adams county, Illinois. She died June 22, 1876, leav- ing two children : JJohn F., who is married and follows farming; and George William, who is married and is engaged in railroading as engi- neer on the Wabash, with headquarters at Peru, Indiana. Mr Harris was again married Sep- tember 28, 1879, his second union being with Martha Ellen Welsh, a native of Adams county. They have three children : Lillie May, who is now a student in the Art Institute in Chicago; Mattie and Irene, at home. They also lost a son, Peter, who died when abont nine months old.

Politically Mr. Harris is a stalwart republican, who cast his first presidential ballot for General Grant and has since supported each nominee of his party at the head of the ticket. He has never desired or sought office but has been a member of the board of education for twenty- two consecutive years and is a warm friend of the public school system. He has been identified with the Odd Fellows lodge at Camp Point since 1865 and he and his wife are members of the Christian church there. His life has been quietly passed, though he has always been found faithful to every duty and upright and honorable in all relations of business, publie or private life.

CHARLES A. CHITTENDEN.

Charles A. Chittenden. who is engaged in the feeding and shipping of stock at Mendon, Illi- nois, was born on the farm two miles north of that place, April 7. 1857, his father being John A. Chittenden, who was a native of Guilford, Connectient, born December 24, 1827. John A. Chittenden arrived in Quiney in December, 1831, coming with his father. Colonel John B. Chitten- den, and became a resident of Mendon in the spring of 1832. On the 10th of June, 1852, he was married to Elizabeth P. Frisbie, a daughter of Lyman and Ann (Barker) Frisbie, and they resided on the old Chittenden farm, which he owned, there making his home until his death, which occurred October 26, 1872. He is still survived by his wife, who resides on the old home farm, where she has lived since her marriage, covering a period of more than a half century. John A. Chittenden was a man of sterling worth and upright character. who had the good of his followmen at heart. Ile held membership in the Congregational church, took an active part in the work of the Sunday-school and gave his political allegiance to the republican party. He had

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three children: Charles A .. of this sketeh, being the eldest. Emmeline F., born October 23, 1860, was married October 4, 1888 to Lewis L. Allen, now a resident of Pierce City, Missouri, and they have one child, Elizabeth C., who was born De- cember 25, 1892. Elizabeth R., the youngest in the Chittenden family, was born January 21. 1864, and is living with her mother.

Charles A. Chittenden was reared upon his father's farm and began his education in the local district sehool. Ile afterward attended the high school at Mendon and Denmark Academy at Denmark, Iowa. He was married on the 25th of December, 1884, to Miss Frances E. Young, a daughter of Dr. Peter and Virginia C. ( Miller) Young, of Mendon. Her father was born in But- ler county, Ohio, December 11, 1823, and died at Mendon, Illinois, January 6, 1891. Mrs. Chit- tenden was born at Mendon, Ilinois, Angust 4, 1861. She has one sister. Lanra A., born Jan- uary 14, 1857. married Daniel A. Bradley, No- vember 29, 1876. They now live at MePherson, Kansas. One brother. George W., born July 1, 1858, died at Leoti, Kansas, October 27, 1892.

Since his marriage Mr. Chittenden has made his home in Mendon. He gives his attention to farming and is also quite an extensive feeder and shipper of stock was for a number of years connected with the grain frade at Mendon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chittenden are members of the Congregational church, in his political views he is a republiean, having given his allegiance to the party since attaining his majority. As a citizen he is interested in all that pertains to publie progress and is ready to assist any enterprise cal- culated to prove of public benefit.

EMMOR E. THOMPSON.

Emmor E. Thompson, proprietor of a general store in Payson, is a native son of this place, born April 28, 1860, a son of Andrew IT. and Elizabeth (Yingling) Thompson. The father was of Irish and English lineage, his aneestors coming from Great Britain to America at an early day. He was born in Calhoun county, Illinois, in 1825 and removed from Madison county, this state, to Adams county about 1836. Hle was a blacksmith and followed his trade in addition to the enltivation and improvement of his wife's farm. He had three brothers and four sisters. One brother, Winston Thompson, set- tled near Columbus. Adams county, where he followed farming and coopering. Andrew U. Thompson was united in marriage to Miss Eliza- beth Yingling, who was deseended from an old

family of Pennsylvania. Representatives of the name came to Illinois at an early day, her father being one of the first settlers of Payson, where he conducted an inn called the Yingling Hotel. After several years he bought a farm three miles northwest of town, having there two hundred and forty acres of land. He was a public-spirited man, aided largely in the early development and substantial improvement of the county and filled the offices of constable and sheriff at a time when it required great courage to do so. Only one member of his family is now living, James .1. Yingling, who is now retired from business in Wynewood. Indian Territory. Andrew UT

Thompson continued a resident of Adams county until his death, which occurred April 1 1875, when he was forty-nine years of age. His wife, who was born in 1827, died June 2. 1902, at the age of seventy-five years. In their family were nine children. Charles, who is engaged in teach- ing in Quiney, is married and has six children ; Emma is the wife of Professor Robert Harris, of Chicago, and she has been a teacher for over thirty years. while their daughter is also a teacher; Annie T. is the wife of William How- ard, a farmer of Argonia, Kansas, and they have two sons and a daughter; JJoseph is married and lives on the Pacific coast : Emmor E. is the fifth of the family ; Edwin P., a blacksmith at Camp Point, Illinois, is married and has three sons and a daughter; Addie died in infancy ; Wilbur F., a musician of Quincy, is married and has one child; and Edith died at the age of two years.

Emmor E. Thompson pursued his education in Payson and when nineteen years of age began teaching, which profession he followed for ten years, spending the entire time in the sehools of Adams county, with the exception of two years near Bowen, Hancock county, Illinois.

Mr. Thompson was married in 1886 to Miss Minnie M. Morris, a daughter of W. IF. and Jen- nie ( Fowler) Morris, carly residents of this county, who lived on a farm southeast of Payson for forty years. For two years after his mar- riage Mr. Thompson continued teaching and then followed farming for two years. He was next engaged in a general store in Newton for two years, at the end of which time he traded his store and property in the town for a farm in Pike county, which he afterward sold, removing to a farm southeast of Payson, comprising eighty acres of land. There he carried on general farm- ing and dairying for five years. Selling his Pike county property he purchased the general store of G. W. Lawrence at Payson and has eon- ducted this for two years on a cash basis, finding it a profitable investment. He began with a stoek valued at thirty-five hundred dollars and at the end of a year his invoice showed his stock to be worth fifty-five hundred dollars. His trade

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is constantly growing and he now has a very de- sirable patronage.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been born three children: Loyal M., born February 23, 1888, is now a senior in the high school at Pay- son : Hazel, born February 1, 1892, is attending the grammar school; and one child died in in- fancy. Mr. Thompson, his wife and son hold membership in the Methodist church and he votes with the republican party. lle is wide- awake and enterprising. and in his well con- ducted business affairs is meeting with the suc- vess which is the goal of all business endeavor.

SAMUEL H. BRADLEY.

Samuel II. Bradley was born October 11, 1838, in what is now Mendon township, Adams coun- ty, Illinois, and is of New England ancestry. Ilis grandparents, Samuel and Elizabeth ( Brad- ley ) Bradley, were distantly related, each being a descendant of Isaac Bradley, who came from England to America in 1674, and settled in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1683. Through different lines the lineage of the Bradley family may be easily traced to several of the signers of the "Plantation Covenant" at East Haven in 1639. The great-grandfather of S. Il. Bradley, Daniel Bradley, served in the Revolutionary army dur- ing the whole war for independence. There are now in possession of the family parts of a diary kept by him during that time.

In 1831 Sammel and Elizabeth Bradley. be- fore mentioned, came from their home in East Haven, Connecticut, and located during the fol- lowing winter two miles west of where the vil- lage of Mendon now stands . They were accom- panied by their son Daniel and four daughters, Charlotte, Sarah, Elizabeth and Grace Ann. With them came Colonel J. B. Chittenden and family and others, the party consisting of thir- ty-five persons. A large part of the journey was made overland and it took months to make the trip. So far as known the only member of the party now living is Mrs. Grace Ann Harrison, the youngest daughter of Sammel Bradley. She was born February 15, 1820, and was only eleven years old when she came to Illinois. She mar- ried Marvin B. Harrison, who died in 1850, leav- ing two children : Marvin B., born August 23, 1847, is now a minister living in Scribner, Ne- braska, and his mother lives with him. Ile mar- ried Carrie Warner and has five children : John, Paul, Grace, Clinton and Henry, all living. Henry S .. the younger son of Mrs. Harrison, was born December 18, 1849, and married Ruth Stone. of Vermont. Charlotte, the oldest dangh- ter of Samuel Bradley, was born February 23.

1866, and died February 9, 1897. Sarah, born February 15, 1815, died March 20, 1903. Eliz- abeth, born September 12, 1817, married John L. Arnold, and died November 23, 1892. She had two children. Julia, who was born October 19. 1850, and married O. W. Bray, a resident of Mendon; and John, who was born February 25, 1853, and died November 28, 1860.

Daniel Bradley, the only son of Samnel and Elizabeth Bradley, bought land adjoining his father's farm on the west, and in 1834 he was married to Josephine B. Brown, who was born in Rensselaer county, New York, and was a daughter of Daniel and Hulda (Tanner) Brown, the former born January 21, 1780, and the latter June 1, 1783. She was also of New England ancestry, being a direct descendant of Stephen Hopkins through daughter Constance, passengers on the Mayflower in 1620, the former being a signer of the historical "Mayflower Compact." Others of her ancestors came on the Fortune in 1621 and on the Ann in 1623. Some of these lines of ancestry have been followed well back into the sixteenth century. Her two grandfathers. Daniel Brown and Abel Tanner, served through the war of the Revolution. She was identified with the early history of Quiney, as she was a niece of Major Jeremiah Rose. also of Rufus Brown, both pioneer settlers of Quin- ey. The last named for a number of years kept the log hotel or tavern, the forerunner of the Quincy House, later supplanted by The New- comb. This was the home of Josephine Brown from 1831 to 1834, when she was married to Daniel Bradley and went to live in the log cabin on the prairie.

They left the farm in 1852, removing to the village of Mendon, where Mr. Bradley engaged in mercantile business and where, with the ex- ception of one year, he continued to reside until the time of his death, which occurred JJanuary 26, 1867. Mrs. Bradley died April 10, 1896, at the age of ninety years. Mr. Bradley was promi- nent in public affairs locally and an enterprising publie-spirited citizen. Originally he was a whig politically, but being strongly opposed to the institution of slavery and its extension-in fact favoring its abolishment-he became a member of the free-soil party, but when the aggressiveness of the pro-slavery party cansed a general severing of party ties in the north he became an active and zealous republican and gave of time, influence and means toward the organization of the party in both county and state. In 1854 he attended the now historical Bloomington convention, when and where was organized the republican party of the state of Illinois.

Samuel Bradley, the grandfather of S. II. and the father of Daniel, was active and influential

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in his day, doing much through example, influ- ence and personal effort to buikl up and sup- port a strong moral and Christian sentiment in the community. It was in his little log cabin on the 7th day of February, 1833, that a band of devoted men and women met and decided to or- ganize a Congregational church in Mendon and such action was then taken as resulted in the organization being fully effected at a meeting held in the cabin of Colonel John B. Chittenden on the 20th of February, 1833. Interest in this action was at that time largely confined to those who participated in it and to the few other resi- dents of the sparsely settled community. Later it became of general interest, it having proved to be the first church of that denomination or- ganized in the state. This fact has become an incident of interest in the history of Congrega- tionalism in Illinois and is one in which the de- scendants and successors of the early settlers may justly feel much satisfaction,

The Bradleys in successive generations have been members of this church from its organiza- tion to the present time and have always been among its most active and liberal supporters. The old church through all these years has wiehl- ed an influence for good and continues to do so, reaching far beyond state lines. To-day it stands, and for untold ages should so continue, a well deserved momument to the courage, self- denial, industry, and devotion to duty, as they saw it, of a band of earnest Christian pioneers, who left their comfortable New England homes and endured the hardships and deprivations of, and ineident to, settling a new country and gave it the imprint of their own high standard of morality and Christianity.

Among other matters of a publie nature with which S. H. Bradley is now connected, and one in which he is much interested, is the erection of a Congregational church building, which will be the second successor to the one built by the grandfathers in the '30s, the present structure having been erected in the early '50s. Mr. Brad- ley is desirous, as are those who serve with him on the building committee, and also very many others, that the structure when completed shall be a credit to the church and community and at the same time a creditable memorial to its or- ganizers and fonnders.

S. HI. Bradley is one of a family of seven children. Sarah, born August 23, 1836, mar- ried W. W. Benton, of Mendon, and died Au- gust 7, 1866. S. II. is the next in order of birth. Ellen, born November 14, 1840, is a resident of Mendon. Augustus C., born October 1, 1842. died Angust 29, 1859. Amelia, born January 29, 1846, died in infancy. Josephine B., born June 11, 1847. was married December 1, 1868.

to E. S. Kimball, of Galesburg, Illinois, and they have two children: Edith B., who was born March 16, 1874, and was married December 6. 1899, to George M. Strain, of Omaha, Nebraska : and Daniel B., who was born December 1, 1878. and was married December 23, 1903, to Laura E. Dolbear, their home being in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Daniel A., the youngest of this family. was born February 26, 1855, and makes his home in McPherson, Kansas. He was married November 29, 1876, to Laura Yonng, a daughter of Dr. Peter and Caroline V. ( Miller) Young, both living. The three children born of this union all died in infancy. By their active inter- est in matters pertaining to the good of the com- mnnities in which they reside, as well as in wider interests, this family are not only following in the lines laid down by their ancestors, but ereat- ing personal influences which will remain after their work is done.

S. H. Bradley as a young man was associated with his father in mercantile business. Later for a mimher of years he engaged in milling. Since then his dealings have been, and are at the present time, in grain, coal, feed and along similar lines, also having interests in other local affairs of a business nature. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and has many times filled the highest positions in Mendon lodge, No. 449, and in Mendon chapter, No. 157, being a member of each organization. He has also been district deputy grand master for the district in which he resides, and is a member of El Aksa commandery, No. 55, K. T., of Quincy. Illinois. and of Mendon Star chapter, No. 153, Order Eastern Star. He is a member of Mendon post. (. A. R., having enlisted under General B. M. Prentiss, in April, 186], and was the first volun- teer from Mendon sworn into the I'nited States service under Lincoln's first call, following the fall of Sumter. He served at that time in the Tenth Ilinois Infantry, Company A, Captain John Tillson (later in the war a major-general). Later Mr. Bradley served in the One hundred and thirty-seventh (Colonel John Wood's regi- ment) as first sergeant of Company A. Captain Henry A. Castle,

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Past and present of the city of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois, Part 89

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