Portrait and biographical album of Warren County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, Part 60

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Mr. Jewell was married in Roseville Township, April 10, 1843, to Mrs. Julia Harrison, nee Brooks, native of Richmond, Ky., and daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Lee) Brooks. Mr. Brooks enlisted in the Union army and served until he was honorably discharged. While in the service he received inju-

ries, for which he now draws a pension. The chil- dren of Mr. Jewell are mentioned as follows : Wil- liam, a farmer in Nebraska, born April 12, 1844 ; Charles B., born Dec. 17, 1844, and accidentally shot and killed April 1, 1882, leaving a wife and five children; this son, Charles Jewell, was the inventor of the famous twine binder, which he sold to the Mc- Cormick Reaper Company for $1.500 ; Henry, farmer, born May 19, 1847 ; Olive (Mrs. Chas. Blackburn of Monmouth), was born April 29, 1849 ; Dudley, farm- er in Kansas, born Sept. 7, 1850; Decatur, born March 25, 1852, died aged six months; and Emily (Mrs. Dr. W. S. Holliday), born July 9, 1853. The parents of Mrs. Jewell were natives of Kentucky, and her grandparents of Virginia. On her mother's side she is related to Gen. Robert E. Lee. Mr. J. had two brothers and three sisters. The brothers are now deceased. Two of the sisters live in War- ren County and one in Decatur Co., Kas.

Mr. Jewell began life a poor boy, but by untiring perseverance and labor he amassed a handsome for -? tune and has the good sense in his ripe old age to enjoy it. He has never been a speculator and has not grown rich at the expense of his neighbors, but his accumulation of wealth is strictly the product of honest toil.

Mr. and Mrs. Jewell are consistent members of the Baptist Church, and Mr. J. is an adherent of the Republican party.

& ugene J. Clarke, City Clerk of Monmouth, is the eldest son of the late Thaddeus S. and Octavia (Shaw) Clarke, and was born at Macomb, Ill., June 22, 1855. Here he was reared and educated, and under the eye of his father brought up and trained in the printer's art, in which, even when a very small lad, he became proficient. He has held all the various positions on a newspaper, or in the office, with the exception of the editor-in-chief He came to Mon- mouth with his parents in 1868, where he assisted his father in his newspaper enterprise, as well as worked in the offices of the other leading papers.

On the 5th of May, 1879, Mr. Clarke was married in Fort Wayne, Ind., to Miss Ella M. Killian. They subsequently moved to Cincinnati, where they re-

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mained for three years, when they returned to Mon- mouth. While living in Cincinnati, their only living child, Elizabeth June, was born to them. A son, Clarence Dave, born Sept. 3, 1884, died March 26, 1885, being a sufferer the few months 'of his life After lingering and suffering for many months from that insidious, though fatal disease, the consumption, Mrs. Clarke was relieved by death from further pain, on Sept. 4, 1885.

Upon Mr. Clarke's return to Monmouth, he was city editor from the starting of the Evening Gazette, until the fall of 1884. In April, 1885, while a re- porter on the Daily Atlas, he was elected City Clerk of Monmouth, which office he now holds. He is Vice Grand of Warren Lodge No. 160 I. O. O. F., and Captain of Philo E. Reed Camp, No. 31, Sons of Veterans. Politically, he is a Republican.

4 R ichard Haney, D. D. Prominent among those who have contributed to the spread of the gospel in this portion of Illinois, stands the nanie of Richard Haney, whose unceasing labors for many long years past in the Master's vineyard, and whose humble piety and Christian walk in life have endeared him to the thousands who have from time to time listened to his eloquent discourses and fervent prayers, as he told the story of the Cross and pointed their wayward feet to the realm of eternal bliss. Mr. Haney is a native of Cross Creek, Washington Co., Penn., born April 15, 1812. He is the ninth child and sixth son of Rev. James and Hannah (Freeborn) Haney, both of whom were natives of County Donegal, Ireland. They emigrated with their parents to this county soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, in the year 1792. They first settled in Lancaster Co., Pa., where they were married, and three of their children were born in that county. They were both of Scotch-Irish parentage. James. Haney was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over 60 years.

From Lancaster the family removed to Washington County, where Mr. Haney was for many years in- structor in an academy. He was a fine scholar and was recognized as an able educator. He served his adopted country as a soldier in the war of 1812, un- der the command of General Thomas Patterson, of Washington County, who figured conspicuously and

did signal service on the frontier in that memorable struggle, driving the combined forces of English and Indians back across the border into Canada. After the surrender of Detroit, peace being declared, he returned to the bosom of his family, and shortly thereafter removed to Richland County, Ohio. His wife, the mother of Richard Haney, our subject, died there in the year 1821, at the birth of her 12th child. Rev. Haney subsequently married Miss Mary Bev- ans, who was a native of Wayne Co., Ohio, by whom he had two sons-the Rev. Milton L. and Henry. The latter died Jan. 26, 1848. Four of the sons of Rev. Haney became Methodist ministers; two are dead and two survive.

Hr. Haney was a remarkable man in many re- spects, a mathematician of ability and a powerful, el- oquent and graceful speaker. He ranked for the period in which he lived among the able pulpit ora- tors of the country. In the year 1834 he removed from Richland Co., Ohio, to Fulton Co., Ill., where he died, on the 5th day of June, 1855.

Rev. Richard Haney received his rudimentary ed- ucation at the district schools and under the private instruction of his father. He subsequently became a student at Norwalk (Ohio) Seminary; and here it may be interesting to state, Mr. Haney was enrolled as the first student of that school, which was the first institution of learning west of the Ohio River owned by the Methodist Episcopal Church. He prosecuted his studies there about two years; a part of the time he served as tutor. He left the seminary when about the age of 21 years and joined the Ohio Con- ference. He was transferred the same year (1834) to the Illinois Conference, and stationed at Rush- ville, Schuyler County. The county being new and sparsely settled, the young preacher had to endure many of the privations and hardships which were in- cident to those early times. Preaching was fre- quently held in the log house of the settler, and oftimes the congregations would gather in the groves to worship together and listen to the fervid eloquence of the young pastor, who, even at that early day, was regarded as a strong and earnest worker in the cause of Zion. His first presiding elder was the celebrated Peter Cartwright, who was the most noted of the early Methodist preachers of the West and a man who is still revered for his piety and great force of character. To him probably more than to any other man the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Missis-

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sippi Valley owes its present prominence and great influence in the West. During the long period of his ministry, Mr. Haney has held the office of pre- siding elder for 25 years. This of itself will attest more than anything we can say the strong apprecia- tion in which he has been held by his coadjutors in the cause of Christ. In all positions to which he has been called by the church, his piety, unremit- ting labor and pronounced individuality of character have been the means of drawing multitudes of sin- ners from the error of their way. It was the pleas- ure of the writer of this brief sketch to have listened to the recital, by a gentleman well known to the peo- ple of Warren County, of how he, while listening to Brother Haney's eloquent and masterly presentation of the plan of salvation, as laid down by Holy Writ, was enabled to see clearly the road which led from sin's dark chaos into the effulgent light of Christian peace and happiness.

The last district in which Mr. Haney officiated as presiding elder was at Winona, on the east side of the Illinois River. He has been continuously in the ministry for over 5 1 years, having traveled four cir- cuits, and the balance of the time filling stations, prominent among which were the Methodist Episco- pal Church on Clark Street, Chicago; at Quincy, Bloomington, Rock Island and Peoria. During his pastorate at the Clark Street Church, Chicago, from 1848 to 1850, he called the meeting which projected and brought about the establishment of the North- western University, at Evanston, Ill. His name stands first as one of the incorporators, and he has been identified as one of the trustees ever since. By his wise counsel, he has contributed largely to the growth and development of that noted institution of learning, which, by the liberality of its many friends, has been handsomely endowed to the extent of about $2,000,000. It is the leading institution in the West, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, as one of its founders, Mr. Haney will ever be remembered.

During the dark days of the late slaveholders' re- bellion, when our nation's life seemed in danger, Mr. Haney came forward early, and laid his services and life, if need be, upon the altar of his beloved country. He enlisted May 24, 1861, and was made Chaplain of the 16th Ill. Vol. Inf., commanded by Col. R. F. Smith. Their first service was in Missouri. From thence they moved to Kentucky, and participated in

the breaking of the blockade of Island No. 10. Mr. Haney remained with the regiment until the last of June, 1862, when he resigned, his health having failed, and which he has never fully recovered. Shortly after his return home, he resumed active ser- vice in the ministry, being stationed at Bushnell.

In the years 1879-80, at the request of Gov. Cul- lom, of Illinois, and Gov. St. John, of Kansas, Mr. Haney traveled extensively over several Western States, collecting supplies and funds for the relief of the negro refugees from the South to the State of Kansas. He sent to them large quantities of lum- ber, agricultural implements, breadstuffs, clothing and household utensils, besides considerable money. The managers of railroads exhibited commendable liberality in furnishing free transportation of the goods to the destitute colored people. The efforts of Mr. Haney were crowned with success. The good people of the Mississippi Valley caine forward with their accustomed generosity and aided the worthy cause which he represented. It may here be men- tioned that the extensive establishment of John Deere, at Moline, gave 14 plows, and the Moline Plow Co., through its president, gave an equal num- ber.

At the session of the Central Illinois Conference, held at Galesburg, in 1862, Mr. Haney, as chairman of the committee on the state of the country, drafted the resolutions praying President Lincoln to proclaim the freedom of every slave in the United States. The resolution received wide circulation in the press and was forwarded to the President by Bishop Ba- ker and the secretary of the Conference. This was the first ecclesiastical body that ever passed such a resolution. - The patriotic efforts of the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church did much to inspire confidence in the great President and the soldiers in the field.

In 1834 Mr. Haney became acquainted with Abra- ham Lincoln, and voted for him both times that he was a candidate for the presidency. For many years before he became prominent, Mr. Haney had learned to admire the sterling qualities and marked ability of him, who, in after years, was the most illustrious of our Presidents.

On the 17th of July, 1838, Mr. Haney was mar- ried, near Quincy, Adams Co., Ill , to Adaline Mur- phy. She was a native of New Brunswick, New Jer- sey She came to Adams County with her parents

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in 1835. Her father was a native of Ireland; her mother, Mary (Allen) Murphy, was descended from the French Hugenots, who had been Protestants a hundred years before the revocation of the Edict of Nance.

Mr. Haney and his wife were the parents of ten children, three sons and seven daughters, three of whom are deceased. Their eldest son, Rev. James W. Haney, is a member of the Central Illinois Con- ference, now stationed in Blandinsville; Adaline is the wife of Rev. George Palmer, D. D., of the Cen- tral Illinois Conference; Emily the wife of George Baker, a merchant in Dwight, Ill .; Luella, wife of Prof. Robbins, who has charge of the high school at Joliet ; Mary and Elizabeth are unmarried ; Charles is married and a resident of Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Haney died on the 15th of January, 1865, in the city of Peoria, where they were residing.

Mr. Haney's second marriage occurred May I, 1877, when he wedded Mrs. Mary E. Quinby. widow of the late Judge Ivory Quinby (see sketch of Judge Quinby). They now reside at their elegant home in Monmouth. Mrs. Haney is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has been for nearly half a century.

In politics, Mr. H. was first a Whig, then a Re- publican, and was an active supporter of that party until the question of prohibition became prominent, when he became a promoter and advocate of that movement. While absent attending Conference he was nominated for Congress as the candidate of that party in this district, and received a flattering vote, many of them being cast by his old time friends of both parties. An excellent portrait of Mr. Haney is shown on page 580

illiam E. Hall, of the firm of Mundorff & Hall, hardware merchants at Kirkwood, this county, was born in the State of New York, Lewis County, in 1846. The parents of Mr. Hall, of this sketch, Gaylord N. and Hannah M. (Slocum) Hall, were also natives of York State. They came to this State in 1865 and located on section 32, Tompkins Township, where his father purchased 1 10 acres of land and followed the occupation of an agriculturist until 1878.

The gentleman whose name stands at the head of

this notice remained with his parents, receiving at the common schools a good education and assisting his father on the farm until he became of age. On becoming his own man, he worked out by the month until he accumulated some means, when he rented a farm and cultivated the same for a few years. In 1875, his accumulations and savings increasing, he purchased 79 a res on section 16, Tompkins Town- ship, and remained on the same for eight years, en- gaged in energetic and continuous labor as an agricul- turist. He then sold his land and came to Kirk- wood and, in company with Mr. Mundorff, engaged in the hardware business, which he has continued to the present time. He is the owner of a residence and lot in the village, and his firm, by strict attention to business and fair and honest dealings with their cus- tomers, have established a good and paying trade.

In 1869 Mr. Hall formed a matrimonial alliance with Miss Delilah Mundorff, a native of Pennsylva- nia, and of their union have been born two children -Myra E. and Leo M. In politics, Mr. H. votes with the Republican party, and in religion, he and his wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. As a business man, Mr. Hall stands prominent among the foremost of Kirkwood village.

illiam Cowan, blacksmith and an early settler of Monmouth, was born in Chester Co., Pa., Feb. 10, 1815, and was the sec- ond son of David and Margaret (Keyl) Cowan, natives of the Keystone State. The senior Mr. Cowan was a tanner and currier in Chester County, where he spent the last years of his life. His widow survived him a few years and died in Washington County, that State.

William Cowan was fairly taught in the common schools of his neighborhood when a boy, and at the age of 17 years began an apprenticeship with a blacksmith, named Hamilton Roney. After complet- ing his trade, he " joured " over the country, working at various places, finally returning to Pennsylvania, and at Lancaster worked some months for Hiram · Baldwin, now and for the past 40 years proprietor of the Baldwin House. He afterward worked in Phil- adelphia, for the Gas Company and locomotive shops, and from there jumped into the then Western

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State of Missouri. From Palmyra, that State, he made a short sojourn at Quincy, Ill., then back to Missouri and enlisted in the only Missouri regiment in the Seminole War. He was in the battle of Okee- chobe and served throughout that Indian war under Gen. Taylor. He returned to Palmyra, and in the year 1839 landed at Monmouth. In 1839 he settled down to blacksmithing in this place, and has since stuck to it. His shop is now (October, 1885) in the building erected as the first hotel in Monmonth. It is an old log structure, originally one and one-half stories high, now so decayed away at the bottom, a log. at a time, that it is scarcely one story from the ground to the roof.

Mr. Cowan served the people of Monmouth five years as Alderman from his ward, two terms as Mayor and one term as Marshall. He used to be an old time Whig, but drifted into the Republican party, and finally, as he is growing wiser, he is strictly independent. He is a member of no secret order, nor is he connected with any Church.

He was married in Marion County, Mo., Oct. 13, 1840, to Miss Nancy C. S. Parrish.

eth P. Stem, is a farmer, residing in Rose- ville, and a gentleman of more than or- dinary business ability, with an abundance of practical knowledge obtained by actual ex- perience. He is a native of Mercer Co., Pa., where he was born July 29, 1833, of parents by name Frederick and Sarah (Harris) Stem, natives of Westmoreland and Fayette Co.s, Pa., respectively. His parents came to this state in 1850 and located one and a-half miles east of Roseville on Section 28, of that township. His father was engaged in farming and stock-raising, and followed that vocation in this county until his death, which took place June 8, 1875, his wife having preceded him to the other world in January, 1868. 1

Seth P., the gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch, remained with his parents until he was 33 years old. He then rented land from his father, on shares, which he engaged in cultivating. Having received a good English education he taught school for several years, also buying and selling land,

in which he was rather fortunate, and was enabled to make a little money thereby.

The marriage of Mr. Seth P. Stem and Mrs. Mary Stem, nee McDermot, occurred Oct. 9, 1866. Mrs. Stem was a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., and of this union have been born two children, Elsie L., and Nellie B. After marriage Mr. Stem went to farming on a 160-acre tract of good land, on Section 17, add- ing 61 acres more by subsequent purchases, and where he farmed for about eight years, when he came to Roseville and purchased the property upon which he has since resided. Mr. Stem was a stockholder of the Roseville Union Bank for five years and one of its originators,. Having sold out his interest in the Bank he now lives a retired life, with the excep- tion of overseeing his farm and stock. He resided in Dakota one year, where he has 320 acres of land.

Mr. Stem enlisted in Company H, 2d Ill. Cavalry, on the 6th of August, 1862, and served his country until the close of the war, having participated in the battle at Bolivar, Tenn., and in all the battles fought by Gen. Grant up to the fall of Vicksburg. He then went to the Gulf under Gen. Banks, whose army was several times surrounded by the enemy, and had to cut its way out. At Holly Springs the 2d Ill. Cavalry was surrounded by the Rebel forces of Gen. Van Dorn, and all the Infantry captured, but the Cav- alry succeeded in escaping. Companies G, H, I, and K, of the 2d Ill. Regt. of Cavalry, were separa- ted during the early part of the war, and were not again together during the term of enlistment of Mr. Stem. His regiment first went to LaGrange, then Holly Springs and then Coffeeville, after which it fell back to Memphis; went down the river to Young's Point and was in several engagements between there and Grand Gulf, and participated in the battle of Champion Hills. It struck camp at Black River, destroying railroads and lying in wait for Johnson and foraging for supplies for the army. After the surren- der of Vicksburg his regiment followed Johnson, and after its return went to Natchez, where it raided the country. It then went to Carlton and bivouacked for a time. The next move of the regiment was to Morganza, where the command was under fire every day for some time. Gen. Green commanded the Rebel forces, and Maj. Montgomery the 6th Missou- ri Cavalry, and at that place Gen. Green captured the Infantry. After this Mr. Stem was at New Orleans, where he spent the winter, and then accompanied an

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expedition up the Red River. Returning from the latter expedition to New Orleans, he participated in the Mobile campaign, after which he went by way of the Gulf to Pensacola, from there back to Vicksburg, and was finally mustered out at Springfield, Ill., June 1, 1865.

Mr. Stem, with his wife, is a member of the Mis- sionary Baptist Church, and he belongs to the G. A. R. In politics he affiliates with the Republican par- ty. Mr. Stem is regarded as a solid and substantial citizen as well as a representative man, of Warren County.

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ordelia A. Tinkham, residing at Kirk- wood, is the widow of Ransom Tinkham, a native of Vermont, he having been born in the Green Mountain State, July 23, 1815, and his demise occurring in this county, Mar. 21, 1878. The parents of Mr. Tinkham, Ben- jamin and Anna (Gray) Tinkham, were natives of Vermont and the Pine Tree State respectively. Ran- som Tinkham, husband of the subject of this bio- graphical notice, remained with his parents until he attained the age of 21 years, receiving at their hands a good common-school education. In 1836 he came to Illinois and located at Monmouth, and while re- siding there was elected Constable, which position he filled with credit to himself and his constituents. He afterward moved to Tompkins Township and located on section 19, where he purchased 80 acres of land, which he at once began to cultivate and improve. Subsequently he added another 80-acre tract, mak- ing his landed interests 160 acres, and continued to reside there until 1876. During that year he moved to Kirkwood and purchased a residence and lot on the corner of Kellogg and Plum Streets, where he lived in retirement from the active labors of life, en- joying the peace, comfort and quiet which his accu- mulations permitted, until his death. . In politics, he was a staunch Democrat, and his life pursuit was that of an agriculturist, in which he met with financial success. He also gave considerable attention to music, and was leader of the first brass band organ- ized in Warren County.

The marriage of Mr. Tinkham to Miss Cordelia

A. Forwood took place April 23, 1842. She was a native of Maryland and bore her husband six chil- dren, five of whom survive, namely : Sarah A. A., Ophelia C. H., Ransom O. B., Cordelia C. A. and George W. P. Erastus W. D., the second child in order of birth, was born Dec. 17, 1845, and died Sept. 5, 1846. Mrs. Tinkham is residing in Kirk- wood with her two daughters and two granddaugh- ters. Sarah A. A. became the wife of Charles R. Barnett, and to them five children have been born- George W., Cora A., Addie O., Charles E. and Flor- ence A. Ophelia C. H. was united in marriage to Peter Barnett, and of their union two children, Con- stance O. A. and Ina C. A. were born. Mr. Barnett died in 1870. Ransom O. B. married Sarah F. Ack- erman, and they have four children-Lester L., Wil- fred C., Daisy M. and Guy R. are the names of their family. George W. P. chose for his life part- ner Adah L. Oaks, and they have become the par- ents of two children, who have been named Forrest G. and Ralph D.

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Gilliland, of the firm of Foster & Gilliland, druggists, at Kirkwood, was born in Hunt- ington Co., Pa., July 1, 1830, his parents be- ing Mathew and Elizabeth (Rogers) Gillliland, natives of Pennsylvania. His father came to .this state and settled at Sugar Tree Grove, Hale Township, Warren County, in 1850, and there resided following the peaceful pursuit of an agricul- turist until the date of his death, which took place in 1851.

Mr. Gilliland, whose name appears at the head of this biographical notice, remained under the care and instruction of his parents, receiving a good education in the common schools until he attained the age of majority. On becoming his own man in life he left the parental homestead and went forth to fight his battles single-handed and alone, and to acquire, if possible, a competency. He first worked out by tlie month, and continued to receive remuneration for his services as a laborer, until 1855. During that year he engaged with W. F. Smith, at Monmouth, as clerk in a drug store, and followed that occupation for three years. In 1859 he crossed the plains to California, and on arrival in the Golden State prospected for

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Portrait and biographical album of Warren County, Illinois : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, Part 60

Author: Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Chicago : Chapman Bros. Number of Pages: 794

Author:
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Chicago : Chapman Bros.
Number of Pages: 794