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Our subject was born in Davenport Township, Delaware County, N. Y., in 1819, and is the son of Adam and Catherine (MeKee) Gaddis, the former a native of County Down, Ireland, and of Seotel- Irish ancestry. The mother was a native of the same county as her husband where they lived until after the birth of two children. Then in the sum- mer of 1801 they sailed for America and took up their abode in Orange County, New York, whence they moved later to Delaware County. The wife and mother died at the age of sixty-three years. Mr. Gaddis lived to be seventy-three and both were members of the Seceders Chureh.
'The subject of this sketch was the seventh in a family of eleven children, eight sons and three daughters, the most of whom lived to mature years and were married. Thomas spent the first twenty- one years of his life in his native county, then came to Illinois and was 'first married in Morgan County to Miss Sarah MeCoy. This lady was born in Ohio, lived some years in Kentucky during the the time of Indian troubles and then came to Mor- gan County while still quite young. After the death of her mother, her father, David McCoy, re- moved to Warren County and died at about the age of eighty years near the city of Monmouth.
Mrs. Sarah Gaddis became the mother of five children and died at the homestead when seventy- one years old. She was possessed of all the Chris- tian virtues and greatly beloved by her family and friends. There is living only one of her chil- dren -- David-who married Miss Mary Leonard and is now a resident of Lancaster County, Ne- braska, where he follows mercantile pursuits. The
other four children died young. Mr. Gaddis was married a second time at Coneord, to Mrs. Fanny (Glasseoek) Ham; she was born and reared in Ken- tueky, where she was married to Mr. Ham with whom she came to Morgan County and where Mr. Ham died when past middle life, leaving three children. Mr. and Mrs. Gaddis live quietly in their comfortable home and have sufficient of this world's goods to provide for them in their old age. Mrs. Gaddis is a member of the Christian Church and our subject, politieally, belongs to the Demo- eratie party.
R. A. H. KELLOGG, one of the older resi- dent physicians and surgeons of Jackson- ville, has attained to more than his three- seore and ten years, having been born Sept. 3, 1811, in Hampshire County, Mass. His boyhood and youth were spent mostly upon a farm although at an early age he began clerking for a wholesale house in Cleveland, Ohio. He acquired his early education in the schools of his native county, and later attended Amherst College in Massachusetts. He commenced the study of den- tistry when a young man twenty-four years of age, and practiced several years in Ohio. Five years later he took up the study of medicine in Pickaway County, that State, and subsequently attended medical lectures in the Western Reserve College at Cleveland. He was admitted to practice in 1849.
From the Buckeye State Dr. Kellogg migrated aeross the Mississippi into Ashley, Pike Co., Mo., where he followed his profession until 1861. Early in that year the outbreak of the Rebellion furnished him unlooked for employment and he entered the army as Assistant Surgeon in the 8th Missouri In- fantry. Afterward he was sent to Benton Barraeks at St. Louis and from there to Mound City IIos- pital, in the vicinity of Cairo, where he remained three years. In the meantime he performed vari- ous other duties, gaining a rich experience in the details ineident to army life.
At the close of the war Dr. Kellogg located in Jacksonville, and since that time has been in active practice at this point and vicinity. He has been for many years the attendant physician of the
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Deaf & Dumb Asylum and is a member of the Morgan County Medieal Society.
The subject of this sketeh is the son of Giles C. and Euniee P. (Cottrel) Kellogg, natives of the Bay State. The paternal grandfather. William Kellogg, was also a native of Massachusetts, and of Scoteli deseent. On the maternal side of the house, grandfather Nieholas Cottrel, came directly from the Highlands of Seotland, crossing the At- lantie with his parents at an early age, and settling with them in Worthington, Mass. Both the grand- fathers did good serviee in the Revolutionary War.
Giles C. Kellogg, the father of our subjeet, was reared to farm pursuits, and left his native New England in 1832, settling on the Western Reserve in Ohio, about twelve miles from the eity of Cleve- land, where he became an extensive farmer. He reared a family of seven sons and two daughters of whom five are still living. Of these our subjeet is the eldest and was the second-born of the family. The sons became prominent men, holding positions of trust and responsibility in their several eom- munities, the eldest brother, Frank, being a member of Congress several terms, representing a Michigan distriet. Giles C. in early manhood was a Jeffer- sonian Demoerat. Later he felt that he had reason to change his opinions and allied himself with the opposition, the old Whig party. After its abandon- inent by the organization of the Republicans, he affiliated with the latter and remained in accord with them until his death. He spent his last years on the farm near Cleveland, Ohio. Both he and the devoted mother were members in good stand- ing of the Congregational Church. The mother died about 1863.
Miss Martha A. Holmes of Pickaway County, Ohio, beeamne the wife of our subjeet, Aug. 20, 1839, and of this union there was born three child- ren, one of whom died Oct. 2, 1863. The survi -- vors are James UI., a praetieing attorney of this eity, and Mary E., Mrs. Stillson, of Sandusky County, Ohio. Mrs. Martha A. Kellogg departed this life at her home in Ashley, Mo., May 1, 1861. Dr. Kellogg was subsequently married, in Septem- ber, 1862, to Miss Martha J. Orr, who at that time was a resident of Pike County, Mo. She was a daughter of Judge Phillip and Lucy (Draper) Orr,
who were natives of Tennessee, and are now de- eeased. Politieally, Dr. Kellogg votes the Repub- liean tieket, and with his estimable wife is a mem- ber in good standing of the Presbyterian Chureh. Their home is pleasantly located at No. 232 South East Street. Our subjeet is also a member of the Masonie fraternity. .. His practice has extended nearly all over this county where he is widely and favorably known.
ANIEL W. HASKELL. The home be- longing to this gentleman onee seen is not soon forgotten. It comprises 130 acres of highly eultivated farming land, but the chief feature of attraction is the residenee with its exquisite surroundings, comprising pro- bably the finest grounds in the township, em- bellished with shapely trees, evergreens and other choiee varieties, in the midst of which is built a greenhouse, wherein: are eultured some of the choicest exotics of the world. Mr. Haskell has been endowed by nature with an ardent love of flowers and simply for the gratifieation of his tastes in this direction, has spent a large amount of time and money, besides labor in beautifying his home. HIe makes a specialty of raising fine fruit of all kinds, both great and small, and has made this business a suecess and built up for himself an enviable repu- tation, second to that of no man in the eounty.
The eareer of our subject has been one of inore than ordinary interest. Ile was born in Scott County, at the homestead, which he now owns and oceupies, Jan. 3, 1840, and was bred to farming pursuits, aequiring his education in the common sehools. His father died when he was a lad of twelve years, but he remained at the homestead until he reached his majority, and in May of that year, about a month after the outbreak of the Civil War he proffered his serviee as a soldier of the Union. He entered the ranks as a member of Company K, 14th Illinois Infantry, under the command of Col. John M. Palmer, and was mustered in at Jackson- ville on the 11th. The regiment was at onee sent to the front and marehed through Missouri, skir- mishing by the way and participating in the battle
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of Springfield, which was surrendered and evacu- ated by the Rebel General, Price.
Young Ilaskell subsequently participated in many of the important battles of the war including Shiloh in which he was uninjured, hut later, while picking over some cartridges, an explosion occurred and he was seriously. burned about the face and hands and laid up in the hospital from March 17, to July 26. After rejoining his regiment he acted as Color Sergeant and participated in the battles at Ilatchie's Run, was at the seige of Vicksburg and at the capture of Ft. Beauregard, went on the Meri- dian raid and remained in the service until the ex- piration of his term of enlistment, when he was mustered out at Springfield, June 20, 1864, and there received an honorable discharge. Ile experi- enced some hairbreath escapes and at one time the simple point of a bayonet saved his life.
After retiring from the army Mr. Haskell re- turned home to the farm, where he sojourned until 1869. He learned the blacksmith trade at Exeter and purchased a shop in partnership with J. W. Covington and they operated together for two years, doing general blacksmithing. In 1871 he sold out and purchased his present homestead upon which he has effected nearly all the improvements which are viewed with such admiration by all who look upon it. A large area is enclosed with neat hedge fencing and about eighty acres are under the plow. The location is especially fine, with good springs and a sufficiency of timber. The residence was completed in 1875, the main part being 16x26 feet in dimensions and the wing 16x18. In his growing of small fruits Mr. Ilaskell has been re- markable successful and has made quite a little fortune. He is also considerably engaged in the breeding of live-stock, making a speciality of full- blooded Chester and Poland-China swine, raising about eighty head each year.
Our subjeet was married in Exeter Precinct, Nov. 18, 1869 to Miss Sarah E. Mills, a native of Scott County, and the danghter of Alford and Beda (Lowe) Mills, a sketch of whose parentage will be found in the biography of her brother, D. W. Mills, elsewhere in this volume. The Mills family were among the first settlers of Scott County, and Mrs. Haskell before her marriage was engaged
as a teacher some seven or eight years. Of her union with our subject there have been born three children: Maude, now deceased; Fritz and Dovie. Mr. Haskell meddles very little with public affairs, but gives liis undivided support to the Republican party. Ile at one time served as County Commis- sioner and Road Supervisor and has been on the Grand and Petit juries. Socially he belongs to the Modern Woodmen.
Benjamin Haskell, the father of our subject and Jolin Haskell, his paternal grandfather, were na- tives of Maine, where the latter carried on farming and stock-raising until his removal to Ohio. He was of English descent and spent his last days in the Buckeye State. Benjamin was a boy when his parents removed to Ohio. They settled near the present sight of Batavia, and during his early man- hood he employed himself at rafting, hunting and trapping along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. In 1826, he came to Illinois and while passing through this section of the country entered the land from which he afterward constructed a home- stead. Ile labored upon it during the summer sea- son, but did not give up his home in Ohio until some time later. He was married in 1838, in Scott County after coming here.
Upon his arrival here for the purpose of per- manent settlement the father of our subject put up with his own hands a house which is still standing and is well cared for by our subject. He was obliged to cut away a great deal of timber and he brought a goodly portion of the soil to a state of cultivation. He was an expert hunter in which pasttime he took much delight and kept both his own family and his neighbors supplied with the choicest of wild meats. Daniel W. has in his pos- session the gun used by his father and which is familliarly known as "Long Tom". This firearm in its day brought down many a deer of the forest as well as wild turkies and other game. The elder Haskell was the owner of 300 acres of land in dif- ferent parts of this State. Politically he was an old line Whig and conicided with the ideas of Webster and Clay. He departed hence in 1852 at the age of fifty-four years.
Mrs. Sarah (Coonrod) Haskell, the mother of our subject was born in Virginia in 1801, and was
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the daughter of George Coonrod, a native of Ger- many, who, after his emigration to the United States, became a Virginia planter. Later he re- moved to Ohio, where the family resided until 1820. They then came to Illinols by water and located on land in Seott County, where the father engaged in farming, but died soon afterward. The grandmother died in 1803; she was a woman remarkable in many respects and a» sineere Chris- tian.
Miss Coonrod was twiee married and by her first husband became the mother of six children- Ilenry, who is now deceased; James of Macoupin County, this State; Sarah of Morgan County ; Eliza, deceased; George, of Washington; and Julia, of Missouri. James and George during the Civil War served in a Missouri regiment, the former during the entire period of the war and the latter two years; both held the rank of Lieutenant. Of the second marriage of the mother of our subject there were born five children, viz: Daniel W., of this sketelı; Beda S., now deceased; John Il., in Cali- fornia; an infant, who died nnamed; and Elizabeth, a resident of Nebraska.
OHN H. COATS, the leading grocery mer- ehant of Winehester, is a native of Peters- burg, Pike County, Indiana, and was born Sept. 23, 1843. His father, William Coats, emigrated to Pike County, Ill., in 1844, thenee to Seott County, where he died in 1855 at the' age of sixty-one years. The maiden name of Mrs. Coats, the mother of John H., was Amelia Barrett. She died in 1862. Both she and Mr. Coats were na- tives of North Carolina, and they reared a family of four sons and two daughters, John H. being the youngest. It will thus be seen that our subject was left fatherless at a tender age, his mother an invalid, and he had no resourees except a brave spirit and a courageous heart.
The subject of this sketeh was educated at the common schools, advantages being denied him that would have aided him in proeuring a higher eduea- tion. Being of a studious and religious turn of mind, at the age of seventeen years, in 1860, lie
united with the Baptist Church. He remained a member of that church until 1869, when on account of certain doetrinal views of the denomination, he withdrew from that organization and became iden- tified with the Christian Church. In that ehureh he was ordained and began preaching at onee. Ile was so sueeessful in this, his ehosen ealling, that in twelve years he baptized into that faith over 1400 persons. Very much to the regret of himself and the members of his congregation, he was unfortun- ately forced by an irreparable failure of his voice and throat to abandon the pulpit in 1884, sinee which time, and for a year previous, lie has been exelusively engaged in his present business at Winehester.
In May 1861, Mr. Coats entered the army as a private soldier in Company A, 68th Illinois In- fantry, which regiment was called out by President Lincoln for the period of three months. After- ward as a member of Company K 14th Illinois Infantry he served gallantly until the elose of the war. Ile took part in the battles of Champion Hills, in the campaign in front of Atlanta, Big Shanty, and other engagements. At Big Shanty his regiment was captured by the rebel Gen. Ilood and in consequence Mr. Coats partook of the over- whelming and consuming hardships of that prison- hell, Andersonville. During his confinement he made two unsueeessful attempts to eseape, but the third attempt proved to be a suceess. Being de- tailed by Capt. Wirz, under whose immediate charge the prison was conducted, and who after- ward paid the penalty of his many misdeeds at the end of a rope, to make out exchange rolls, Mr. Coats, by answering to a dead man's name, flanked his way out, and on to Vieksburg, where he was permitted to go free.
After his return to Glasgow, Mr. Coats engaged in the ministry as above stated, and afterward in the mercantile business, which latter oeeupation he followed for several years. In 1873 being eleeted County Treasurer, he removed to Winchester, which has ever since been his place of residence. HIe served three full terms as Treasurer by eleetion, and held over one year by reason of a change in the law regulating the tenure. In 1880 he was a prominent candidate before the convention at
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Springfield for the office of State Treasurer, and in 1882 represented Scott County in the Legislature. In almost every State convention held since the war by the Republican party, he has been chosen as a delegate, and in 1884 he was the alternate delegate from this congressional distriet to the con- vention that nominated James G. Blaine. Mr. Coats has always been an active, influential, and eonselentious adherent of the Republican party and an enthusiastic worker in its ranks. He is now a member of the Republican State Central Committee. He is a forcible and pleasing speaker in public; a man of the highest integrity and a citizen whose daily life refleets credit and honor upon his com- munity. He is a Knight Templar; an Odd Fellow; an enthusiastic worker in the ranks of the G. A. R. and a member of the Mutual Aid Society.
Oet. 8, 1865 at Winehester, Mr. Coats was mar- ried to Miss Fannie McEvers, the accomplished daughter of James MeEvers, Esq., of Glasgow. Of this union there have been born three children, whose names follow: Charles B., Lillie B. and J. Harry. The first named died in 1879 at the age of twelve years.
OIIN W. CORINGTON, a native of Bour- bon County, Kentucky, may be usually found at his rural homestead on section 12, township 15, range 9, where he has operated successfully as a tiller of the soil and gathered around himself and his family all the eomforts of life. He was born Nov. 11, 1824, and when a lad of ten years came to Morgan County with his parents, of which he lias since remained a resident.
Joel Corington, the father of our subjeet, was likewise a native of Bourbon County, Ky., and born about 1795. Ile learned saddlery and har- ness-making, at which he worked in the Blue Grass State until coming to Illinois, then turned his at- tention to farming. Ile departed this life July 31, 1879. Mrs. Ella (Nichols) Corington, the wife and mother, was born in Ohio in 1805 and was of English descent. The parental household included eight children, only three of whom are living- James C., Emily E. and John W., our subject.
The deceased are Rosaline, Amanda, Wesley W. and two who died in infancy. James C. married Miss Mary Fiteh of Ohio, and lives on a farm in Buchanan County, Mo .; they have six children. Emily was first married to Daniel McCoy of Bour- bon County, Ky., and who died leaving his widow with one child-Fanny; she was then married to Joseph Cunningham, a retired farmer of Jackson. ville.
The subject of this sketch, upon reaching man's estate, was married to Miss Ann Cassell, of his native county. Iler parents, Robert and Mary Cassell, came to this county when their daughter was a eliild of three years. Of this union there were born ten children, eight of whom are living. William married Alice Tineher and is farming in this eounty; Mary E. is the wife of Thomas J. Coehran, a merchant of this county; John B. married Mamie Reeves, who became the mother of two children and died, and he was then married to Eugenia Thompson; he is farming in Morgan County. Charles married Miss Sadic Hurst and is a resident of Morgan County. Jennie is the wife of William Woods, a farmer and stoek-dealer. Emily E., Clifton and Kate complete the list of survivors.
Our subject, Oct. 13, 1887, was married to Miss Graee Curts. His father, when eoming to Morgan County, purchased 275 acres of partially improved land. John W., in addition to owning a home- stead, has a farm of 600 acres and makes a special- ty of breeding fine horses, while he also handles eattle and swine. Ile is a member in good stand- ing of the Christian Church, and has held the office of Trustee for a period of twenty-five years. Ile is a sound Demoerat, politieally, and labors earnestly in support of his party.
G EORGE II. RUSSWINKLE. This prosper- ous farmer and stoek-raiser, who is residing on seetion 17, township 16, range 12, was born in Morgan County, Feb. 23, 1860. His par- ents were Jolin H. and Ella Russwinkle, natives of Germany. The father came to this county when a young man, poor in purse, and occupied himself as a farm hand until he had laid up sufficient money
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to purchase the land which his widow now occupies and where he built a good home. But forty acres were broken at the time of purchase, and he added to his real estate until he was the owner of 300 acres, all of which he had aeeumulated through his industrions efforts. Not only did he come to this country without means, but was obliged to borrow $1.50 in order to get from New Orleans to St. Louis.
To the parents of our subject there was born quite a large family of children, of whom six survive, viz: John, George II., our subject, Will- iam, Mary, the wife of Henry Jording of Lafayette County, Mo., Annie, the wife of John Bullis of Broken Bow, Neb., and Ella. After the death of the mother the elder Russwinkle was married the second time, and there were born two more child- ren, Lizzie and Lotta. Mr. R. was a member of the Lutheran Church, in which he served as Trustee, and in polities was a Democrat. His sterling worth and integrity were the means of gathering around him many friends. He served as Sehool Director in his township and was numbered among the pros- perous German farmers of Morgan county.
The subject of this notiec was reared to man's estate in this county and received his education in the common school. He remained a member of his father's household until twenty-three years old, assisting in opening up the new farm, and remained unmarried until after the death of his father, which oceurred in October, 1885. On the 5th of May, 1887, he was married to Miss Lizzie, daughter of George Werries of Morgan county, and they have one son, George Il. Mr. Russwinkle owns eighty aeres of good land which he has accumulated by his own industry. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, like his father, and also like him belongs to the Democratie party. Mrs. Russwinkle died at the homestead, Oet. 3, 1888.
ESSE YOUNG. The Young family is one of the oldest and most prominent of Scott County, and this branch represents prop- erty to the amount of 468 aeres in town- ship 13, range 13. The subject of this notice
was one of the oldest settlers of this region, coming to what was then a part of Morgan County, but is now Seott, probably as early as 1831. HIc was a man of great industry and enterprise, and aeeumulated a fine property. The homestead is operated by his three sons-Robert, George and Charles, and, in addition to general farming, they make a specialty of stoek-growing, principally Shorthorn and Durham eattle.
The widow of our subject, Mrs. Elizabeth Young, was born in Clark County, Ky., April 4, 1822, and lived there until about ten years old, when she was brought by her parents to Illinois. Her father se- lected a traet of land, north of the present site of Winchester, some years before there were any in- dieations of a town. Her early educational advan- tages were exceedingly limited, but she was care- fully trained in all nseful housewifely duties, and at the age of eighteen years became the wife of Mr. Young, the wedding taking place at the home of the bride, March 4, 1841. Mr. Young was like- wise a native of the Blue Grass State, and eame with his father's family to what is now Scott County in his yonth.
, After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Young com- meneed life together in a modest manner on a farm, and worked their way steadily upward to a good position, socially and financially. Mr. Young, personally, was what might be ealled a good man in the hroadest sense of the term, kindly, generous and hospitable, who made for himself seores of friends. Ile was ever ready to lend a helping hand to those in need, and his whole career was dis- tinguished by those qualities which made him be- loved and revered by all with whom he came in eon - taet. He rounded up the ripe old age of seventy- six years, nine months and twenty-three days, de- parting hence on the 12th of April, 1889. Not only was he deeply mourned by his own family and immediate relatives, but by the whole eommu- nity, wherein his influence had been nothing but good.
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