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In the autumn of 1846, he emigrated to Illinois and entered a quarter of section 24, township of Shabbona, this county, and engaged in the pursuits of agriculture. He was married in Clinton Town- ship, this county, Sept. 6, 1848, to Miss Mary J., daughter of James and Maria (Gott) Irwin, who was born at Albany, N. Y., May 22, 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Terry had six sons and one daughter, all of whom were born in Shabbona Township, in the fol- lowing order :
I. William W. was born Aug. 22, 1849, and mar- ried for his first wife Miss Emma Harmon, who died a little more than a year afterward, leaving one child, a daughter. His present wife was Miss Millie Cooper : they reside in Portland, Oregon.
2. Charles R. was born May 11, 1851, married Miss Annie Stickney and lives in Plano, Ill.
3. Althea H. was born April 16, 1853, and is the wife of Ira Smith, of Aurora, Ill.
4. Fred E. was born Aug. 10, 1856, married Miss Kate Setchel and lives at Little Sioux, Iowa.
5. Elias D., born June 7, 1858, lives at Beards- town, Ill.
6. Lincoln A., born April 20, 1860, married Ella V. Quinn, and lives at the old homestead in Shabbona.
7. Thomas S., born Oct. 18, 1864, is yet un- married and living at home.
On the breaking out of the late war Mr. Terry, the subject of this sketch, recruited Co. E of the 105th Ill. Vol. Inf., in August, 1862, and Sept. 2, was commissioned Captain. He served in the Army of the Cumberland, under Gen. Thomas, but in March following was compelled to resign his commission on account of physical disability; and after his return from the army he never fully regained his health.
In 1865 he removed with his family to Leland, Ill., where he resided until his death, which occurred March 7, 1868, at Earlville, Ill., while temporarily absent from home. While a resident of Shabbona he held various local offices, being Town Clerk and Supervisor several years, Justice of the Peace 12 years, and elected a member of the Legislature in 1860, when he resigned his justiceship. He was a Freemason of many years' standing, being one of the charter members of Shabbona Lodge, No. 374, and of De Kalb Chapter, R. A. M. He was a zealous temperance man, and was instrumental in founding a lodge of Good Templars at Shabbona Grove at an early day. In politics he was an earnest Republi- can. As a neighbor and citizen he was known as a man of strict integrity, patriotism and public spirit, whose influence was always good. His comrades in arms have paid appropriate tribute to his memory by naming their post at Shabbona after him, as "T. S. Terry Post, G. A. R., No. 463."
Immediately after the death of her husband, Mrs. Terry returned with her children to the old home- stead in Shabbona, where she still resides, with her two youngest sons.
illiam Leifheit, farmer, section 17, Squaw Grove Township, has been a resident of the State of Illinois since 1850, and since that date has resided successively in the counties of Kendall and De Kalb. He was born in Germany, in June, 1821, where he was bred a farmer. His parents, Frederick and Hattie (Borchas) Leifheit, were of German birth and emi- grated to America with their children in 1850. After a residence of two years in Kendall Co., Ill., they went to Iowa, where the mother died, about 1855. The father returned to Kendall County and died about two years later. They had six children,-
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Hannah, Mollie, Henry, William, August and Minnie. Mr. Leifheit removed from Kendall County to Squaw Grove Township in 1856, and bought 160 acres of land on sections 17 and 18, locating his residence on the former, on which he has continued to live. He now owns 565 acres of land in the town- ship, and has placed 460 acres under cultivation. He has held several township offices, is a Republican in political opinion and in religious views and con- nection a Lutheran.
He was married in July, 1850, in Kendall Co., Ill., Oto Caroline, daughter of Charles and Julia (Sholla) Eckhart. Her parents were natives of Germany, where she was also born, May 2, 1823. Mr. and Mrs. Leifheit are the parents of 11 children,-Will- iam L., Emmet A., Edward F., Caroline M., Adolph F., Charles F., Julia A., Harvey H., Emma L., Anna H. and Mary A. Julia died Sept. 12, 1881, aged 20 years. Mrs. Leifheit is a member of the Lutheran Church.
Mr. Leifheit's portrait appears on another page. He is a solid citizen of Squaw Grove Township and has earned the respect of his fellow citizens by a straightforward life of effort and unvarying rectitude.
harles Sanderson, Milan Township, has been a farmer on section 18 since 1874. He was born April 11, 1861, in the town- ship of Earl, La Salle Co., Ill. His father, Sander H. Sanderson, was a prominent farmer of that county, whence he came, when 18 years of age, to La Salle County, and where he was married to Anna Moland; and there he was en- gaged in agricultural pursuits until his removal to Milan Township, where he became an extensive landholder. His death occurred in December, 1881, and that of his wife took place one week previous to his own demise.
Mr. Sanderson acquired a fair education at the com- mon schools, and up to the date of his parents'decease he spent the summer seasons at work on the farm. He was married April 20, 1882, to Carrie, daughter of Theodore and Maria (Davidson) Berg. She was born in Henderson Co., Ill., June 19, 1861, and when she was three years of age came with her parents to Milan Township, where they yet reside, on section
19. She is the oldest of five children, and the mother of one,-Mabel,-born March 27, 1883.
Mr. Sanderson and his wife took up their resi- dence after marriage on 120 acres of land, in Milan Township, which has since become their property. They have recently built a commodious frame res- idence. Mr. Sanderson is an earnest Republican, and, with his wife, is a member of the Lutheran Church.
& harles H. Taylor, dealer in agricultural implements at Hinckley, was born April 13, 1830, in Tioga Co., N. Y., and is one of nine children born to his parents, David and Sarah (Tappen)Taylor, born in the following order : Nancy A., Malvina, Cornelius, Chas. H., Catherine, Tappen A., Sarah, David and Mary. The father and mother were born in Massachusetts, and settled after marriage in the State of New York, where their lives terminated.
Mr. Taylor is the son of a farmer, and passed the first 20 years of his life on the home place, engaged chiefly in farm labor, and operated several winters in the woods. He came West in 1850, and after prospecting in various localities about two years, he came in the spring of 1853 to Squaw Grove Town- ship, and bought 170 acres of land on section 4. He was its occupant one year, when he sold and for three years subsequent rented a farm. In 1858 he again bought a farm, and was engaged in the prose- cution of his agricultural interests until the spring of 1874, when he built a residence in the village of Hinckley, of which he took possession as soon as it was completed. In the spring of 1880, he engaged in the sale of agricultural implements, and conducts a successful business. In political views and actions he is identified with the interests and issues of the Republican party. At the time of the draft in 1862, he was Enrolling Officer for Squaw Grove Township. From 1862 to 1868 he held the position of Super- visor of his township, and has since officiated as Collector and Assessor and in other official positions. He was Census Enumerator in 1880. His marriage to Eliza Kellogg took place at Geneva, Kane Co., Ill., in March, 1855. She was a native of Ohio, and became the mother of six children,-Freddie, Dell,
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Wilton, Anna, Zac. and Frank. Mrs. Taylor died in Squaw Grove Township, in August, 1864. Mr. Tay- lor was a second time married, in the same township, to Maggie Murphy, who was born in Massachusetts, May 6, 1848.
saac F. Morse, farmer, section 27, Shabbona Township, settled in this county in 1846, and is now the possessor of 160 acres of land located on the section stated. He was born in Canaan, Marion Co., Ohio, Nov. 7, 1819, and is a son of William A. and Hannah (Finn) Morse. His parents took him to Franklin Co., Ohio, in his childhood, and in that county he grew to manhood. His minority days were spent on the farm and attending the common schools, in which he received a good education.
Mr. Morse was married Dec. 2, 1842, to Miss Sophia A. Park, in Worthington, Franklin Co., Ohio. She was a daughter of Jonathan and Aurelia (Slate) Park, and was born in Worthington, Franklin Co., Ohio, March 21, 1823, to which State her parents moved from Massachusetts.
Mr. Morse moved to this State in 1845, with his family, and located at Rock Island. He made the trip with teams and experienced all the trials inci- dent to such a tiresome journey, arriving at Rock Island May 12, of that year. He spent one year there, then came to Shabbona Township and located on the farm on which he is at present residing, and which he purchased from the Government.
Mr. and Mrs. Morse are the parents of II chil- dren, six girls and five boys. Ten of their children survive, namely : Mary A., born Oct. 19, 1843, be- came the wife of Samuel Galloway, at present re- siding in Tippecanoe City, Ohio; Sylvia L., born Oct. 29, 1846, became the wife of John N. Kittle, resident of Shabbona Township; Olive J., born Dec. 28, 1848, married Charles E. Brown and resides at Sibley, Iowa; Frank F., born Sept. 5, 1852, married Emma S. Morse, and lives in Shabbona ; Ida C., born Dec. 2, 1854, is the widow of Addison S. Slate, and resides with her father ; Willis P., born Aug. 5, 1858, married Eva R. Slocum, and lives in Sibley, Iowa ; Llewellyn H. H., born March 17, 1861; Althia E., born Jan. 4, 1863 ; Clara A. S., born Nov. 21, 1864;
and Clyde S., born Oct. 20, 1868. William S., born Nov. 7, 1849, died July 4, 1850.
Mr. Morse has held the office of Collector and also Constable for several years. Politically he is a Re- publican. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic Order, and was one of the charter members of Shab- bona Lodge No. 374, and also one of the first officers of that lodge. He was also a member of the I. O. O. F., and belonged to Fertile Lodge at Shabbona, which has been suspended for a number of years. He is a fair type of the early pioneer who in later life preserves the large-hearted, generous feelings of frontier days. His friends and the stranger are alike welcomed to his fireside. His wife is a member of the Congregational Church.
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rederick J. Troeger, farmer, section '32, Squaw Grove Township, has been identi- fied with the agricultural interests of De Kalb County and the township in which he lives for upwards of 30 years, having bought a farm here in 1853, when he arrived at the period of his legal manhood. He was born Aug. 14, 1834, in Lebanon Co., Pa. His father, George F. Troeger, who was a native of Germany, was a clergy- man in the interests of the Moravian Church, and transferred his family to the various places where he prosecuted the duties of his professional labors. They lived at different localities in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and in 1855 came to De Kalb County, where the father died Aug. 24, 1874. The mother, Magdalena E. (Rosethaler) Troeger, born in Pennsylvania, is yet living.
Mr. Troeger is the youngest of four children. Emina L., Bertha A. and Henry A. are the names bestowed upon the elder children. In 1853 he bought 80 acres of land on section 33, on which he operated until 1864, the date of his purchase of the farm on which he now resides. His real estate in the county comprises 175 acres. Politically he is identified with the Republican party. He has held the local offices of School Director and Overseer of Highways.
He was married Nov. 6, 1855, in Northampton Co., Pa., to Sophia M. Beitel, and they have eight children : Emily L., Alletta M., Clarena G., Ida O., Hortensia E., Octavie E., Benigna A. and Herman
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A. Mrs. Troeger was born in the county where she Was married, Nov. 15, 1833.
Mr. and Mrs. Troeger are members of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church and of the American Bible Society.
havid Smith, the oldest living pioneer of Shabbona Township, residing at Shabbona, was born in Chatham, Canada East, Dec. 10, 1820. He is a son of James and Sally (Straw) Smith, formerly residents of Waterbury, Vermont, and who were temporarily absent from that State, in Canada, at date of the birth of their son.
David was reared on a farm, and spent his years prior to 13 in farm labor and attending the common schools in Vermont. His father deceased, and his mother was married to Edmund Town, now deceased, who also was one of the early settlers in Shabbona Township.
When 13 years old Mr. Smith, accompanied by his mother, came to Paw Paw, Lee Co., this State, arriv- ing there in October, 1834. His stepfather arrived in December of the same year, and he and Mr. Smith erected the first house in Shabbona Township. The house was located on section 26, was con- structed of logs and was raised on the first day of January, 1835. They entered at once on the labo- rious task of improving the land and made that their home. In 1835 David, then only 14 years of age, improved a claim, the same being the land now owned by Peter V. Miller and known as the south- west quarter of section 24. He sold his claim and improved another, southwest of the last named, which he was compelled to relinquish on account of his minority. Later he improved still another claim, and subsequently traded it for the place he · now owns. Mr. Smith has added to his land until he is at the present time the owner of 400 acres, situated on sections 11, 27 and 34.
In 1850, when the news of the discovery of gold in California was received, Mr. Smith went overland to that State. He arrived there in safety, and at once engaged in placer-mining. He made a claim full of promise at the time, and did turn out rich in ore, but he was taken with a severe attack of typhoid fever
and lost the benefit of his discovery. His brother, who was with him, was stricken with the same disease and died, and Mr. Smith concluded to re- turn home. He returned, via the Isthmus, arriving here in December, 1852, and has since been residing on his farm and in Shabbona. He moved into the village in 1879, and has five acres of land and several village lots there.
Mr. Smith was married in Brooklyn Township, Lee Co., this State, June 7, 1839, to Miss Eliza J. Carr. She was born in the city of New York, Aug. 10, 1818, and was the danghter of James and Eliza (Johnson) Carr .. She came to Illinois when seven years old. Of their union six children were born : Mary A., the wife of Frank Crowell, of Waterman, this State. Rebecca, wife of Bradford Heath, resident at Shabbona. Israel married Miss May Thomas and resides in Shabbona. Henry married Miss Jennie Neal and resides in Shabbona. Warren married Cate McFadden and resides at Shabbona: Eliza, youngest daughter, is unmarried and resides at home.
Mrs. Smith died in August, 1880, in Shabbona, and July 7, 1883, Mr. Smith was again married, to Miss Annie Seyler, daughter of George and Mary Seyler. She was born in Cedarville, Stephenson Co., this State, Dec. 28, 1849.
Mr. Smith politically is a Republican. He is a member of Spartan Lodge, 272, I. O. O. F., at Paw Paw, Lee County.
harles Kittelson, general farmer on sec- tion 17, Milan Township, was born Oct. 28, 185 1, in Earl Township, La Salle Co., Ill. His parents were Kettle and Lavinia (Sanderson) Kittelson, and he was but II years of age when his father died, in March, 1863. He was mainly dependent on his own efforts for a livelihood after that event, previous to which he had received only a common-school education. He gave considerable attention to the proper train- ing of his mind, and also contributed to the family maintenance, as there were four children younger than himself. They are named : Austin, born Dec. 1, 1853; Emma, April 6, 1856; Adolph, Oct. 5, 1858; and Knute, Nov. 12, 1862. Emma is the wife of Goodman Jacobs, a farmer of Milan Town- ship. The mother and three brothers named live
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with Mr. Kittelson, of this sketch. The former is 62 years of age. Her mother, Adaline Sanderson, is still living in La Salle County, and is nearly 90 years of age, and is still healthy and sprightly to a remarkable degree.
Mr. Kittelson was married May 29, 1879, in Earl Township, La Salle Co., Ill., to Adelaide M. Sander- son, daughter of Knute and Augusta (Halverson) Sanderson. Her parents are natives of Norway and removed thence to La Salle County, where she was born April 20, 1857. They still occupy a farm in that county. Mrs. Kittelson has become the mother of three children, and one is now deceased,-Levi C.,-who died in infancy. Amos K. was born Aug. 28, 1881 ; Silas H. was born Dec. 28, 1883.
In 1881 Mr. Kittelson became by purchase the owner of the family homestead in Milan Township, and 80 acres additional from his brother Henry. The family are Lutheran in religious belief. He is a re- Republican in political principle and connection.
R ev. Frederick Witherspoon, deceased, formerly a resident of Somonauk, was born in Hillsborough, N. C., March 31, 1814. His father, Rev. John K. Witherspoon, an old- school Presbyterian minister, was a grandson of John Witherspoon, who signed the Declara- tion of Independence. Frederick's mother's maiden name was Susan Kallock.
The subject of this sketch was educated for the ministry in his native town, and ordained by the authorities of the Protestant Methodist Church. In 1834 he came to this county and spent a few months in Somonauk, and the next year he settled here per- manently, as an itinerant minister, at Somonauk, now Sandwich.
Nov. 3 of the latter year (1835), he married Miss Marietta Heath, a daughter of John and Mary (Powell) Heath, who was born in Medina Co., Ohio, April 7, 1820. They had five children, namely : John, who was born Aug. 5, 1837, married Mary Wheeler and is now living at Fremont, Neb .; Ed- mond S., born Jan. 3, 1840, married Julia Jones and lives at Hubbard, Iowa; Melissa H., born May 30, 1842, is now the wife of Darius Horton, of Water- man, this county ; Marietta B., born April 11, 1844,
is the wife of Frank A. Frost, of Shabbona; and Frederick N., born Feb. 22, 1847, became a member of the 58th Ill. Vol. Inf., and died at Camp Butler, March 18, 1864.
Rev. Witherspoon's field of labor was mainly in Southern Illinois, he being assigned to the Southern Illinois Conference. In 1848 he preached at Shab- bona Grove. He died at Somonauk April 5, 1849.
ames L. Eastabrooks, retired farmer, resi- dent at Hinckley, was born Dec. 9, 1818, in Tioga Co., N. Y. His parents, John and Elizabeth (Howard) Eastabrooks, were natives of Connecticut, where they settled after marriage. Later, they went to Pennsylvania, and afterwards to the State of New York. They went then again to Pennsylvania, whence they came in 1835 to De Kalb County and located in Squaw Grove Township, where they remained until their death. That of the father occurred March 14, 1850, in the 66th year of his age. The mother died Nov. 20, 1875, in her 93d year. They had nine children- Elizabeth H., Bradbury C., Ebenezer H., Bath- sheba A., Decatur M., Mary E., James L., Charlotte A. and Augusta A.
Mr. Eastabrooks was five years of age when his parents removed to Pennsylvania the second time. He received his early education in the common schools of that State. He came at 17 years of age, in 1836, to De Kalb County, a few months after his parents had taken up their residence in the county. He has since remained in Squaw Grove Township and lived on a part of the homestead farin until the fall of 1878, when he removed with his family to Hinckley and took possession of the residence he had built in the summer of 1877. He is. still the owner of 100 acres of land in Squaw Grove Town- ship. Politically, Mr. Eastabrooks is identified with the Democratic party.
He was married Oct. 21, 1847, to Elizabeth C. Cone. She was born July 12, 1830, in Oneida Co., N. Y., and is the daughter of Archibald and Rosetta (Cunningham) Cone. Her parents were natives of Scotland. Four days after their marriage, in Paisley, the latter emigrated to America and settled in the State of New York, living there until 1843, the year
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in which they removed to Squaw Grove Township, where the mother died May 9, 1874. The father died there Aug. 6, 1877. Following are the names of their 1 1 children-Jane, Jeannette, Mary, William, Margaret, Isabella, John (Ist), John (2d), Elizabeth C., Archibald and Rosetta. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Eastabrooks-Mary E., John H., Archibald C., Julia A., Delia E. and James A. Archibald and Julia are deceased. 'The parents are members of the Methodist Church.
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oseph Smith, farmer, section 25, Shabbona Township, has a well improved farm of 150 acres. He was born in the town of Provi- dence, Saratoga Co., N. Y., Sept. 18, 1818. His parents were Harmanius V. and Hannah (Westgate) Smith. His paternal grandfather, Abraham M. Smith, was a soldier of the Revolution and an enthusiastic patriot. His mother was a daughter of Sylvanus Westgate, of Holland descent, and a direct descendant of the Puritans of New Eng- land. She came to the State of New York in 1802. Joseph's father was born in New York, Nov. 7, 1790, and died in Sandwich, this State, June 15, 1868. His inother was born Dec. 28, 1789, in Massachusetts, and died in March, 1866, at Little Rock, Ill., where she had lived since 1855. She was the mother of three children,-Henry T. Nathaniel, Caroline E. and Joseph, the subject of this sketch, who is the only one living.
The latter received an academic education, and taught school during the winter seasons, alternating with farm labor the rest of the year, from 1840 to 1854, serving also as School Superintendent a portion of the time. His fondness for mathematics was a marked characteristic from early boyhood, and dur- ing his career as teacher he had but few equals in that branch of study. He still retains great aptitude in " figures," as well as a remarkable recollection of dates and facts.
He was married in Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 31, 1846, to Miss Lovina Fritts, daughter of John and Betsey (Bentley) Fritts. She was born in Providence, Sara- toga Co., N. Y., Nov. 12, 1827. Both her grand- fathers were soldiers in the War of the Revolution. Mr. Smith and family emigrated from New York to
Illinois in 1854. He bought land in Clinton Town- ship, this county, where he engaged in farming one year, and then removed to Little Rock, Ill., and from there to Shabbona in 1857, where he purchased the farm on which he now resides. This farm he man- aged until 1864, when he sold and entered the drug business at Plano, Ill. The latter occupation he abandoned in March, 1866, and commenced agricul- tural pursuits on a place near Sycamore; but in Oc- tober following he traded for his old farm in Shab- bona, since which time he has inade this place his home.
He is a member of the Ancient Order of Odd Fel- lows, of New York. On coming to this county he took the first degree of Masonry in the old lodge at West Paw Paw; but; owing to his removal to Plano, he failed to advance. In politics he has been a consistent Republican since the organization of that party.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had five children. The eldest, Frances E., was born in Saratoga Co., N. Y., March 25, 1852, and is now the wife of Jury J. Smith, of Sandwich, Ill. The younger children were born in De Kalb County. Charles, born Aug. 20, 1856, died Oct. 27, 1862 ; Mary, born July 27, 1863, is now the wife of Delos D. Clapsaddle, of Shabbona Township; Willie was born Dec. 23, 1866; and Jen- nie E., Aug. 27, 1868. The two youngest are living at home.
„harles Cruise, farmer, section 9, Milan Township, was born Aug. 22, 1882, in Mecklenburg, Germany. His parents had three children, of whom he was the eldest. His father died when he was little more than a child, and the widowed mother and the other children were substantially dependent on the exertions of the older son and brother for main- tenance. He devoted the years of his life after the decease of his father until he was 23 years of age to the fulfillment of that duty. At that time his mother died.
He was married three years later, in July, 1848, to Mary Amt. She is the daughter of Joseph and Sophia (Perry) Amt, both of whom were of German birth. Mr. Cruise removed in 1851, accompanied
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by his wife and two children, to America. They made their first stop at Chicago, where Mr. Cruise was occupied three years as a common laborer. In 1854 he came to the county of De Kalb and rented the farm of William Patton for some time. In 1864 he purchased the estate of which he is now the pro- prietor in Milan Township; and to this place he removed his family of three children. The farm is in excellent condition, and its prosperity is solely the result of the industry and judicious quality of the efforts expended upon it. Mr. Cruise is largely in- terested in raising fine grades of cattle, hogs and horses, and is ranked among the best and most skillful farmers in the township. Mr. and Mrs. Cruise have had six children, one of whom is de- ceased. Sophia married Erik Eriksen, a farmer in Milan Township; Amelia is the wife of Charles Rohr, a farmer of Dakota; John, the eldest child at home, is the manager of the homestead ; George is a practical farmer and is still at home; Lizzie is pre- paring for a business career in Chicago.
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