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Dr. Trible was born in Devonshire, England, November, 1821, and is the elder son of Samuel and Susan (Trible) Trible. The family came to America in 1836, and set up their home on a tract of raw prairie in this county. The mother died in September after their arrival, and the father lived only until August of the ensuing year, when he joined his companion on the other shore. In ac- cordance with his father's wish Samuel Trible re- mained on the farm and looked to the interests of his brother John, who was four years younger than himself. The younger son was aided to a thorough education and became a graduate from Shurtleff College in Alton. He studied law and practiced in Alton, of which city he became attorney. He resigned the position when the Civil War broke ont and entered the service as Captain. He was wounded at the battle of Arkansas Post and died a few days later. He left one son, now Dr. John
Our subject improved the farm, replacing the cabin that was first built thereon for a better dwell- ing, and gradually adding other structures, as the work carried on made necessary or convenient. He now owns four hundred acres of land all well improved and when, in 1885, he decided to take up his residenec elsewhere, he bought good prop- erty across the road within the limits of Piasa. His home is not only supplied with every comfort, but has some features very unusual. Perhaps the most conspicuous is a pipe organ which he bought while in England on a visit to his uncle. Mr Tri- ble sojourned in Europe eighteen months and greatly enjoyed the sights of the Old World, al- though he was quite willing to return to America to live.
The lady who presides over Dr. Trible's home bore the maiden name of Mattie Reynolds, and to them there have been born five ebildren. But one of these survives, a son, George. Dr. Trible has never desired public office, but is public spirited and liberal handed. He gave the ground on which
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the Methodist Episcopal Church stands and that which is used for the cemetery, donated a mile of right of way to the railroad and grounds for the depot. lle votes the Republican ticket and can give a good reason for so doing. His religious home is in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Ile was a hard worker in his early life, even keeping house for himself while he was improving the homestead, and he knows what it is to struggle and toil. He is able, therefore, to sympathize with others and to point out the honest industrious line of life which will lead to success. For the pioneer work he has done, the upright life he has lived, and the interest he has shown in progress, he is esteemed by all who know him.
ILLIAM E. P. ANDERSON, of the legal firm of Anderson & Bell, of Carlinville, and Master of Chancery (for Macoupin County ) stands well at the bead of his profession, his clear apprehension of the fundamental princi- ples of law, his success in his practice, and his high personal character, having early won him a prom- inent place at the bar of this State. Our subject is a native-born citizen of this county, and is a representative of a family whose name has been associated with the rise and progress of this sec- tion of Illinois from the early years of its settle- ment.
Mr. Anderson was born May 31, 1850, on the north half of section 7, Shaw's Point Township, in the home of his parents, Erasmus S. and Mary E. (Hogan) Anderson. His father was a native of Christian County, Ky., and was a son of Col. James C. Anderson, who was a Virginian by birth. The father of the latter was one of the three brothers who came to this country in Colonial times. The great-grandfather of our subject settled in Virginia, whence he subsequently removed to Bourbon County, Ky., of which he was one of the original pioneers. He entered a thousand acres of land in that wild region, and as far as known spent the re- mainder of his life there. He was unfortunate in
his later years and met with reverses whereby ile lost all his property.
Col. Anderson, who was an officer in a regiment of the Kentucky State militia while a resident of Christ- ian County, early had to assume the responsibil- ities of life on his own account after his father lost his property, and at the age of sixteen he left the shelter of the parental roof, and from that time cared for himself. He learned the trade of a hatter, but he did not follow it long, as a sedentary occu- pation was little to the taste of one of his active temperament. Ile went from Bourbon to Christian County in Kentucky, and there bought a tract of land. He carried on farming, and remained a resi- dlent of that county until 1834. In that year, ac- companied by his wife and six children, he started for Illinois with a pair of oxen attached to a wagon, which conveyed the household goods, and the family rode in a two-horse carriage. Bidding adieu to friends, they left their old Kentucky home behind them on the 12th of October, and traveling as fast as they could over the intervening wild country, camping and cooking by the wayside at night, they arrived at Carlinville, near the scene of their future dwelling place, fifteen days later. They found here but a small hamlet of houses where now stands a flourishing city, and in a log cabin which the grandfather of the subject rented, the family passed the winter.
The Colonel was well fitted by a bold, intrepid nature, a resolute will, and great capability to cope with the hardships of a frontier life, and he active- ly entered upon his pioneer labors of building up a new home in the primeval wilds that were the en- vironments of the location that be had selected. He had visited this region the June before, and had entered from the Government four hundred acres of land on section 11, of what is now Carlin- ville 'Township, and during the winter of 1834-35 he erected a log house on his land, riving boards to cover the roof, and splitting punelicon for the floor. The family moved into that typical pioncer abode in the spring of 1835, and there the Colonel and his wife dwelt in comfort and contentment until their untimely death of the cholera in 1851, she dying thirteen days after he had breathed his last. She was likewise a native of Virginia, and
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her maiden name was Ann Rice Harris. The grand- father was a man of more than ordinary intelli- gence, always a great reader, and well posted. He was especially interested in politics, giving hearty support to the Whig party, and he was an ardent admirer of Henry Clay. He and his wife reared these seven children-Crittenden II. C., Maria C., Erasmus S., Augustus E., Malcolm M., Henry Clay and Mary A.
Erasmus Anderson was a lad of twelve years when the family came to this county, He was reared to agricultural pursuits, and at the time of marriage had settled on a farm of two hundred and sixty acres, on the northern half of section 7, Shaw's Point Township. He was quite an exten- sive trader in live-stock and real estate, was one of the substantial men of the county who was a val- uable factor in its upbuilding, and by his prema- ture death of cholera August 26, 1851, in the full vigor of life that seemed to promise many more years of usefulness, it suffered a serious loss to its interests. His wife preceded him in death only a few days, dying of the same dread disease August 16, 1851. She was a native of Shelby County, Ky., and a daughter of Isaac and Nancy Hogan. Her father emigrated from her native county to this county, and was one of the early pioneers of North Palmyra Township. He was a prosperous farmer and trader. Ilis life was cut short when in its prime by his death on his homestead at the age of forty-four years.
The subject of this brief biography was the only child of his parents, and after their sad death when he was only fifteen months old he was taken in charge by his uncle, Crittenden H. C. Anderson, who cared for him tenderly, and reared him to an honorable life. As soon as he was old enough he made himself nseful in herding cattle on the open prairie and in working on the farm by the month. He attended the common schools as opportunity offered, and laid a substantial foundation for his after pursuit of knowledge. His aunt, Mary J. Anderson, was very desirous that he should have a good education, and it was through her interest in his behalf that at the age of fourteen he became a student at Blackburn University, which he attended six months of the year for two years. IIe then
worked in a woolen mill one year, but he had by no means abandoned the idea of securing a higher education, and at the age of seventeen he entered Wesleyan University at Bloomington, and was in attendance there two years.
Returning to Carlinville after he left the Uni- versity, Mr. Anderson studied law in the office of Jolin Mayo Palmer a part of the time the following year. In 1870 he went to Philadelphia, and was in a private school in that city six months. At the expiration of that time he came back to Carlin- ville and entered the office of Judge William R. Welch in April, 1871, and on August 31 of the same year he was admitted to the bar. Although he was fully equipped to enter upon his profession- al career, he preferred to prepare himself still further, and assiduously continued his studies until June 1872, when he opened an office in Carlinville, where he has practiced law ever since. September 1, 1877, Alexander H. Bell became his partner, under the firm name of Anderson & Bell, and the partnership still continues to their mutual advan- tage. Not only is our subject prominent in the professional and public life of this his native coun- ty, but he is one of its foremost agriculturists. He has an inherent love for farming, and now owns five hundred acres of highly cultivated land, in- cluding two fine farms in Carlinville Township.
Mr. Anderson and Miss Nellie D. Hamilton were united in marriage October 23, 1873, and their home is one of the most inviting and attractive in Carlinville, so full and free in its delightful bospi -! tality and the nameless charm of an all-pervading air of ease and comfort. Mrs. Anderson is a nat- ive of McLean County, this State, and a daughter of John and Rebecca ( Pritchard ) Hamilton. The following is the record of the three children that complete the household of our subject and his wife: William Hamilton was born August 8, 1874; Crittenden H. C., March 18, 1878; Walter Stratton .. October 4, 1881. Mrs. Anderson is a woman of fine character. filling in a perfect measure her posi- tion as wife and mother, and in her the Methodist Episcopal Church has a valued member.
Mr. Anderson, as a lawyer with a clear concep- tion of the legal questions involved, unites & won- derful industry and a tireless pertinacity which
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re invaluable. He is honest, conscientious and aithful always. He never wearies in a cause which e regards as just. Is always faithful to his trust, nd promptly and carefully attends to whatever nay be entrusted to his care. Honesty, industry nd unfailing promptness distinguish his character t all times. He has a frank and generous nature, s courteous and considerate in his intercourse with others, and both his public and private life s blameless.
llis fellow-citizens, admiring his talents and ap- reciating his fitness for responsible positions, have often honored him and themselves by electing him o some public office. He served as City Attorney n 1874 and 1875, and in 1877 was elected Assist- nt Supervisor to represent Carlinville Township on the County Board of Supervisors, and he was nfluential in securing the funding of the county lebt that year. He has interested himself in local educational matters, and for four terms was a mem- per of the Carlinville Board of Education. In Oc- ober, 1887, Mr. Anderson was appointed Master n Chancery by Judge Welch, he being regarded As the man best qualified in many respects for that position, and in October, 1889, he was re-appointed lo that office, by Judge Jesse J. Phillips, with the approval of the entire bar. We can but add that is able and faithful discharge of his duties as Master of Chancery since his appointment has jus- ified his selection. Mr. Anderson cast his first Presidential vote for Horace Greeley in 1872, and has been a confirmed Democrat ever since then.
ONIN W. HARRISON. The genial owner of the farm located on section 18, Nilwood Township, is conspicuous for the success he has attained by his close application to his business, of whose minutiae he has complete mast- pry. He is a go-ahead, pushing man, in fact a fair type of an American farmer, quick to turn every feature of nature to its own advantage. Mr. Har- rison is of English parentage, his father, being John W. Harrison who was born in England. His moth- er, Mary (Snyder) Harrison, was a native of Mary-
land. After their marriage they settled in Cov- ington, Ky., and from there moved to Shelby County, Ohio, where they lived. In 1852 Mr. Har- rison went to California with the iden of engaging in gold mining. He, however, died in Yuba County, Cal., in 1856. The mother, after her husband's death, removed from Shelby County, Ohio to Springfield, Ohio, where she died. They were the parents of four children, three daughters and one son. Our subject was the second child.
Mr. Harrison was born in Shelby County, Ohio, September 22, 1847. There he grew to manhood, and at the call for volunteers during the late war he enlisted, February 1862, in Company K, of the Twentieth Ohio Regiment. IIe served until the close of the war, his time covering a period of three years : he then re-enlisted as a veteran and served until he was discharged. He took part in many of the desperate battles for which the war of the rebel- lion will ever be noted. He was slightly wounded in the neck at the battle of Shiloh. He was appointed as Dispatch Orderly under Gen. Logan and after- ward held the same position under Gen. N. D. Leg- gett. After his discharge he returned to Shelby County, Ohio, where he remained about one and one-half years and then came to Girard, Ill. where he worked for Aaron Hickman for a space of one year and then rented some land which he farmed on his own account. He soon after this purchased eighty acres of land near Girard which he afterward sold and purchased two hundred acres. To this he has since added one hundred and forty acres.
Mr. Harrison does not believe in a divided affec- tion nor does he think that any enterprise can be a success unless it is made a specialty. He gives his attention wholly to farming with its legitmate branches. He is much interested in stock raising shipping his stock to metropolitan markets. This business he has found to be lucrative and satisfa- tory in that there is a better chance to attain a higher degree of perfection in breeding animals than in raising crops.
The original of this biography united himself for better or worse March 18, 1868, to Miss Mary C. Powers, a daughter of George and Casander (Brown) Powers. The nuptials took place in Girard. The parents of Mrs. Harrison are both natives of
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Pennsylvania. The father died in Park County, Ohio; the mother passed away in Nilwood Town- ship, at the residence of her daughter Mary, May 30, 1884. She was born in Rush County, Ind., September 18, 1849.
Our subject and his wife have welcomed into their home nine children whose names are as follow: Hugh W., Charles W., Edward C., Herbert M., Mand M., Lulu E., Nola E., and Ada M. Hugh and one other child were taken away from their parents in infancy. Mr. Harrison has been school Director for several years. Mrs. Harrison, who is a woman of unusual ability and intelligence main- taining herself in every position in which she may be placed with dignity and elegance, is a mem- ber of the Christian Church, and in her social rela- tions her genial and amiable temperament com- mend her most affectionately to all who are thrown in her daily pathway.
AMES G. HAGLER. One of the substan- tial men in Macoupin County, who owns a finely improved farm of three hundred and five acres on section 15, North Otter Town- ship, and which is devoted, as is so much of the fertile valley of Central Illinois, largely to the cul- tivation of fine stock as well as general farming. This place is owned by the gentleman whose name heads this sketch.
For a history of Mr. Hagler's parents see a sketch of John G. Hagler on another page of this volume. . Our subject was one of fourteen children, who were impartially divided, there being seven sons and seven daughters. Of these children our subject was the third child and second son. He was born September 28, 1820, in Madison County, this State. There he grew to manhood and lived until he was about twenty-four years old.
The years of our subject's adolescence were much like those of other farmer lads. He attended dis- trict school and got into mischief as boys will. The long summers were full of hard work, relieved by some frolics. The severity of winter lost its sting by the pleasure of looking forward to the
singing schools and frolics in the barns where country danees were participated in with vim if not, with elegance. Such pleasures as tliese varied the monotony and tedious routine of the life of the farmer boy until he reached his twenty-fourth year, when he felt that he must branch out for himself.
In 1845 Mr. Hagler went to Morgan County and for a time he lived on a farm which he had pur- chased on his arrival there. In four years he sold this out and came to Maconpin County, having been a resident in North Otter Township since that time, with the exception of two years, when he re- turned to Madison County. Ile has always been engaged in farming and agricultural pursuits and now owns the fine farm above mentioned, upon which he has erected at great expense buildings that are adequate for the demands of storage, ete.
Our subject was married in Morgan County, this State, to Miss Elvira E. Millen, a daughter of Arch- ibald and Polly (Graham) Millen, who died in Mor- gan County. Mrs. Elvira Hagler was born in Monroe County, October 9, 1825. She was the mother of five children, they being Mary E., who died in infancy; llarvey T., who is a farmer in Colorado; Jobn H., a miner; William I. and Hiram B., who died in childhood. Mr. Ilagler's wife died August 18. 1853, in the county in which was their residence. On the 23d of Novem- ber 1854, he gave his motherless children a new guardian, his second wife being Miss Clarissa Falls, a daughter of William and Sarah (Dixon) Falls. The mother died in North Carolina and the father in Bond County, Ill. The present Mrs. Ilagler was born in North Carolina, January 5, 1833. She is the mother of nine children, who are Sidney, Frances I., Homer B., Janette, Alice, El- mer E., George L., Arthur L. and Carrie M. The eldest son is the proprietor of a farm in North Ot- ter Township; his eldest sister is the wife of Homer B. Mitchell, of North Otter; Janette is the wife of Thomas Graham; Alice was united in marriage to Ellsworth Chaffin; Elmer is a physician in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Our subject has been elected School Treasurer of the township and held the position for eleven years, thereby demonstrating the confidence that the people have in his honor and integrity. He
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ROBERT JARMAN.
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was formerly an adherent of the Republican party, but of late has been an active worker in the Pro- hibition party. Mr. Hagler and his wife are mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has filled various offices. Ilis wife is highly es- teemed as being a woman of exceptional ability and intellectual gifts.
R OBERT JARMAN, a resident of Shaw's Point Township, was born in Devonshire, England, in May, 1833. There he passed the early years of his life, being employed upon a farm, and caring for horses, until he was twenty years old. Ile then came to America in 1853 and landing in Quebec, proceeded to Chicago, but resided there only a short time, going with a friend to Lake County, Ill. Ile was employed in Waukegan for a while and in the vicinity of that city on a farm until fall, and then came down the Illinois River to Altop, where for two years he was employed in a slaughter-house.
We next find our subject in Jersey County, Ill., where he hired out for nine months on a farm. Then buying a team and renting land in company with his cousin John Sloman, now a resident of Iloney Point Township, he farmed it for three years. He then engaged in running a threshing machine in company with two other men and car- ried on this kind of work for ten years in Jersey County. In the spring of 1860 he came to Ma- coupin County, and bought fifty acres in Honey Point Township, but returned to Jersey County for the threshing season and then came back to his farm in Honey Point. He set out an orchard, made var- ious improvements, and lived there for four years, removing thence to Shaw's Point Township.
Mr. Jarman became a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting in Company K, One Hundred and Forty- fourth Illinois Regiment in the fall of 1864. Ile served until May 25, 1865, when he was mustered out of the service. He then returned to his home in Shaw's Point Township, where he has since re- sided. Farming has been his chief occupation, al-
though he makes a specialty of fine stock of all kinds, and is the owner of some splendid speci- mens. He has four hundred acres and upon his farın he has erected an excellent set of buildings, which indicate the thrift and energy of the owner.
On March 4, 1861, Robert Jarman and Selinda McDow were united in marriage in Jersey County, and since that time the estimable wife may be justly said to have divided the sorrows and doubled the joys which have come to her husband. Mrs. Jar- man is a native of Jersey County and was born April 28, 1835. Of the children born unto them five survive, viz: Margaret M., born December 15, 1861; Elmer E., December 4, 1863, and now an engineer in California; Lura E., born in 1872; Charles O., May 18, 1875, and Emma M., July 8, 1880. Four children have been laid to rest by the mourning parents: Carrie E., who was born March 1, 1866, died when twenty years old February 27, 1886; Mary II., born July 28, 1870, died August 10, 1871; Willie born February 4, 1878, died Jan- uary 27, 1879; Freddie E., who was born October 27, 1867, died February 27, 1868.
In all matters calculated to advance the interests of the community where he resides, Mr. Jarman is intensely and actively interested. lle is a promi- nent member of the Republican party, and has filled various offices, among them that of Highway Commissioner. He belongs to the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association and to Shaw's Point Horse Thief Detective Society. His wife is a consistent and earn- est member of the Christian Church, and he con- tributes liberally to the support of every religious and benevolent enterprise.
The parents of our subject, were Philip and Eliza- beth (Sloman ) Jarman, both natives of Devonshire, England, where they died. Mr. Jarman was a ma- son and architeet by occupation. The parents of Mrs. Jarman were Thomas and Mary L. (Lofton) McDow, the former was born in North Carolina and the latter in Kentucky. They were among the early settlers of Jersey County, III., to which they came from Kentucky at an early day. He was a farmer by occupation. Mr. Jarman takes great pride in his fine stock, and also in the general con- dition of his farm. The buildings are first-class in every way and conduce not only to the happi-
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ness of the household but to the well-being of the farm stock. Mr. Jarman is a man with a deep fund of information and of broad intelligence, and his wife being a lady of great loveliness of character and refinement of taste, it is natural that they are universally esteemed. On another page of this volume the reader will find a lithographie portrait of Mr. Jarman.
b ENRY J. BOWN. Among the most prosper- ous and thrifty farmers of Bird Township. we may count a number who are of English birth or parentage, and who had learned farming in a most thorough and systematic manner in the old country. An English farmer is seldom careless and unsystematic in his plan of work. He has learned to economize space and to let nothing lie abont at loose ends. These methods of work transferred to the broad and fertile prairies of the West make the best of farmers. Among these British-Americans we may name Hlenry J. Bown, who resides on section 12.
The parents of our subject were Samuel and Jemima (Barnstable) Bown, who were natives of Somersetshire, England, where they were reared, married, lived and died. Mr. Bown was a farmer by occupation and trained his children in the prac- tical work of agriculture, This worthy couple were the parents of thirteen children of whom Henry is the youngest. Ilis birth took place in Somersetshire, England July 15, 1860. Ile had reached the age of thirteen years when he left home and went to London, England, to make his home for five years with his eldest brother, Samuel, Here he engaged in peddling milk. In the fall of 1878 he came to America, making an end to his long journey by settling in Macoupin County.
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