Quincy and Adams County history and representative men, Vol. II, Part 110

Author: Wilcox, David F., 1851- ed
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 952

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southwestern trade until 1902, when as a result of the consolidation of different interests the Plano Manufacturing Company became a part of the International Harvester Company. The latter corporation continued Mr. Leffingwell as divi- sion distriet sales manager and later appointed him as one of its four general travelers having charge of the southern agencies. In this position he went over the South building up the business. . In 1904 he assumed the duties of general agent at Memphis, Tennessee. In 1917 he was transferred in the same eapaeity at Terre Haute, Indiana. From there in 1913 he came to Quiney and took charge of the company's large distributing plant. Thus for over thirty-seven years he has been in one line of work, and during that entire period was never discharged, and there has never been a time when his abilities have not been fully equal to every demand upon his serviees.

As manager of the Quiney braneh he has had supervision over a large num- ber of counties in Illinois and Missouri. Under his direction there are a large number of travelers, office and warehouse employes. It is evident that business with Mr. Leffingwell is a hobby as well as a source of livelihood. If he has one important recreation away from business it is Masonry. He lives, praetiees and carries its principles and rituals into his daily life. He takes pleasure in giving his mother, who died at the age of eighty, the eredit for his being made a Mason at his majority. She herself at her death was an Eastern Star as well as a True Kindred, both Masonic Lady Auxiliary Lodges. His wife is an Eastern Star.

Mr. Leffingwell was married to Miss Abbie S. Wheeler of Chicago, Illinois. One ehild, Harold W., eame from this union, and who was liberally educated at St. Albans, Knoxville, Illinois, and is a thirty-second degree Mason, having taken his Blue Lodge degree upon reaching his majority. He now is the family's representative in the great European war, enlisting in 1916, before the declaration of war, as a member of the Quiney Machine Gun Company, and re- mained with this company until arriving at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, when he was appointed orderly to Brig .- Gen. Henry R. Hill (who was killed in action October 16, 1918). Before leaving Houston he was appointed orderly for Gen- eral Bell, Jr., commander of the Thirty-third Division, in which position and with whom he remained not only during the war but during the oceupation period.

Mr. Leffingwell is an Episcopalian, a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner, an Elk, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and Travelers' Protective Association, and a director in the Quincy Country Club. His seeming regrets are that he was not born in Quiney, for of all eities he has been in, he considers, without exeeption, that Quiney is one of the prettiest and best in proportion to its population of any eity in the Union, that there never was a finer people taking them individually than right here. and it is his one wish that he may spend his remaining days in the eity and .among the people he loves so well.

ORIE FRANK SCHULLIAN, M. D., F. A. C. S. Quiney has only two surgeons who on the basis of skill and reputation for thorough ability have attained membership as Fellows in the American College of Surgery. One of these is Doctor Schullian, who as a citizen and Christian gentleman is not less esteemed in his community than as a leader in his profession.

Doctor Schullian is a native of Quincy and finished his medieal education in the Illinois University Medical Department at Chicago with the elass of 1905. Ile then served a full term as house physician and surgeon to St. Mary's Ilospital at Hoboken, New Jersey, and began praetiee at Quiney in the fall of 1907. Nearly all his work for several years has been in the field of surgery, and it was his recognized talents that gained him membership in the College, admission to which is limited to men of thorough qualifications and sound prae- tical experience as surgeons. He is also a member of the County and State Med-

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ical societies, the American Medical Association and the Rochester Surgieal Society. For twelve years Doctor Schullian has been a staff member of St. Mary's Hospital at Quincy.

He was born in this eity October 8, 1883, and as a boy attended the Cath- olie parochial schools. He finished his literary education in the University of Missouri, and from there entered the Medieal Department of Illinois Uni- versity.

Ile is a son of Frank and Louise . (Haug) Sehullian, both natives of Ger- many. His mother was reared and educated in Paris and was sixteen years old when she came with relatives to the United States. Doctor Sehullian's father came with his parents by way of New Orleans up the Mississippi River to St. Louis and from there to Quiney. Several members of the family have long fbeen well known in Quiney, the old family home being at 1117 Jersey Street, where Doetor Sehullian's parents began their married life. The father is a veteran machinist, and for forty-five years was connected with the Gardner Governor Works at Quiney. He is now seventy and his wife seventy-one, and both are still active and vigorous, and they and all their family are prominent in St. Boniface Parish of the Catholic Church.

Doetor Sehullian was the only son of his parents. His four sisters Agnes, Luey, Pauline and Emily, are all married and have children of their own.

Doetor Sehullian married at Boulder, Colorado, Sophia M. Tenk, member of the well known Tenk family of Quincy elsewhere referred to. Doetor and Mrs. Schullian are members of St. Peter's Catholic Church. Ile is prominent as a fourth degree member of the Knights of Columbus and is also active in the Western Catholic Union.

JOHN H. Cox. secretary of the Tenk Hardware Company, has been a resi- dent of Quiney for a quarter of a century and active in several organizations before he concentrated all his time and abilities with the Tenk Company.

Mr. Cox was born near Burlington, lowa, on a farm, in 1872, was educated there and completed a course in the Gem City Business College at Quiney. Ile remained in Quiney and for some years was eonneeted with the wall paper firm of Young Brothers. Then for several years he was with the Tenk Company, and from here went to Spokane Falls, Washington, where he had service with the largest retail store in the Northwest, the Greenough Company. In 1910 Mr. Cox returned to Quincy, and since that date has been associated with the Tenk Hardware Company and was elected secretary of the business in 1913. He has done much to inerease and extend the aetivities of this great hardware house and has proved an invaluable member of the company in or- ganizing and providing a thorough system for all office detail, eolleetions. credits and similar departments of the business.

Mr. Cox married at Quincy Miss Fannie M. Crew. Mrs. Cox was born and reared in Wheeling, West Virginia, and came to Quiney as a student of the Gem City Business College. After finishing her course there she was employed as a stenographer for the Taylor Brothers Milling Company and later with the State Savings Loan & Trust Company. Mr. and Mrs. Cox had one ehild, Richard Melvin, who was killed in a street car accident June 12, 1914, at the age of ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is affiliated with Lambert Lodge No. 651, Aneient Free and Accepted Masons, of Quiney, and in polities is independent.

VANDELEUR ORTON is one of the steady going progressive farmer citizens of Coneord Township. proprietor of a fine farm, mueh interested and successful in livestoek husbandry, and of even more importanee the head of a home from which radiates many of those distinctive influences that give tone and character to a community. The Orton home is 41% miles southeast of Clayton.

Mr. Orton is a son of the late Clark Orton, who was born in the Genesee

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Valley of New York December 23, 1826, and died on the old farm now owned by his son in February, 1896, in his seventieth year. As a young man he set- tled in Morgan County, Illinois, and on September 11, 1856, he married Mary A. E. Kellar. Mrs. Clark Orton is still living, and has her home on a farm adjoining that of her son. She was born in Warren County, Indiana, March 4. 1832, and was three years old when her parents moved to Quincy and four years later went to Brown County, Illinois. Her father was a farmer in that locality and died in 1872 at the age of seventy-six, while her mother passed away in 1898, aged ninety-four. Clark Orton was a farmer all his active career. Ile was much interested in local affairs, serving as school director, and was a republican in politics. Clark Orton and wife had eight children : Rosella, born December 13, 1857, is the wife of William B. May, and now lives in Texas; Berinthia, born in 1859, married John D. Black, and died in September, 1892; Charles F., born in 1861, lives on a farm adjoining his brother Vandeleur; Ida, born in 1863, died in infancy; Eva, born in 1865, married Harvey A. Williams and died in 1901; Vandeleur is the next in age; Clark died in infancy in 1871; and Elsworth, born in 1874, died at the age of thirty-four.

Vandeleur Orton was born on the old farm June 10, 1868, and has spent all his life in that one community. He acquired his education in the local district schools and had charge of the farm during part of his father's life- time.

March 18, 1896, he married Miss Alta C. Robbins, daughter of Jasen and Sarah (Walker) Robbins, of LaPrairie in Adams County. Her parents are still living near Golden. Mrs. Orton was twenty-three years of age at the time of her marriage. After their marriage they spent six years on an adjoining farm, and then returned to the old homestead, buying out the other interests in the płace. They now have 125 acres, and Mr. Orton has constructed a neat home. The barn was built by his brother after the father's death. The first frame build- ing on the land was erected about seventy years ago and was christened "the City of David," its owner being David Orton. That old frame building is still in use. There is an apple tree on the farm that has attained the age of seventy-seven years and is still bearing perfect fruit every two years. This tree is large and vigorous. Mr. Orton does general farming and has been especially successful with livestock. He keeps Shorthorn cattle, Poland China hogs, and has recently developed his swine industry to greater proportions. Mr. Orton is a republican, as was his father, and lives in a democratic township. During the last two years he has been active in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan drives, and all other measures for a vigorous support of the war. He is a member of the Adams County Farm Bureau. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church at Timewell, four miles from their home. This was the same church where his father worshiped. He has been active in the Sunday school.

Mr. and Mrs. Orton have two talented daughters; Hazel V., the older, is a graduate of the Clayton High School and is now the wife of Otis R. Beckman, a farmer in Concord Township. Mary H., the younger daughter, is in the second year of the Clayton High School. She has a state wide distinction as a student, particularly as a speller. In 1916, when she was only twelve years old, she won the first prize and the banner at Springfield during the state spelling con- test. She was chosen out of a large class in Adams County for her proficiency in that line, and thus her triumph was an honor appreciated by the entire county. She was subjected to an extensive written test at Springfield and carried away the honors, though being the youngest contestant in the county and also in the state. Her work has been equally praiseworthy since she entered high school.

HUMPHREY O. LARIMORE has been a member of the County Board of Super- visors for five years, representing Richfield Township, and his special qualifi- eations as a business man and long experience on the board make him one of

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its most influential and useful members. Mr. Larimore had one of the fine farms in Richfield Township, located three miles east of Plainville.

As the Larimore family have been in Adams County more than seventy years and receive attention on other pages it is not necessary here to recount in detail the family history of Mr. Larimore. He was born on the home farin in Payson Township June 28, 1886, and is a son of W. O. Larimore. He was edueated in the Payson High School and for four years was a successful teacher. He then took up farming as his regular vocation, and after renting about two years bought his present place, comprising 2011/2 acres. He has made many improvements, including the erection of a new house. He handles his farm largely for stock purposes, feeding cattle and hogs.

Mr. Larimore is a republican in polities and is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having passed all the chairs in the latter lodge.

At the age of twenty-one he married Miss Edna Inman. Mrs. Larimore was born in Kansas and is a daughter of Samuel Inman now living retired at Plainville. They have three children : Carl, Maurice and Donald.

WILLIAM J. REESE is one of the oldest foundrymen of Quiney. He has been in business for himself since 1896 and at his present location at 820 South Twenty-first Street since 1900. He has a well equipped plant for all kinds of brass foundry work, which he supplies to Quincy and other neighboring terri- tories. His business is entirely a produet of his own energies and capabilities. He learned his trade during the thirteen years he spent as an employe of the Gardner Governor Works at Quincy. He never served a real apprenticeship. Mr. Gardner took a good deal of interest in developing his natural ability along this line, and he was afforded much opportunity by the owner of that plant to acquire a thorough foundryman's experience.

Mr. Reese was born at Lafayette, Indiana, December 3, 1857. His father, James Reese, died at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1865, when about fifty-four years of age. He was a cigar maker by trade. He had served three enlist- ments in the Civil war and had previously served in the Mexican war. He carried to his grave a bullet he had received while in the Mexican war. He was shot in the head, the bullet passing partly through his skull and lodging in his temple. Mr. Reese's mother died in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1910, at the age of seventy-four. Her only daughter, Ella, died just ten days later in the same city.

William J. Reese was nine years old when he began to work in a tobacco factory at Pittsburgh. Eighteen months later he found other employment as a messenger boy, and was at that two years. In 1872 he came to Decatur, Illinois, and on July 5, 1873, arrived in Quiney, which city has been his home and the center of his interests for the past forty-five years. For a few months after coming to Quiney he worked in a printing office, also served a three years' apprenticeship at pipe fitting, and worked at that trade for a time in Kansas City. In 1882 he formed his important connection with the Gardner-Governor Works, and thirteen years later took up business for himself.

In November, 1880, at Quiney, Mr. Reese married Amelia Goodapple. She was born May 13, 1859, in Quiney, at the corner of Seventh and State streets, and was reared and educated here. Mr. and Mrs. Reese are the parents of two children, a son, A. Arthur, and a daughter, Mabel. The son Arthur was born in Quiney January 20. 1888, had a high school education, learned the foundry- man's trade with his father, and in January, 1917, was taken in as a partner in the business. As a boy he manifested a great interest in military affairs. At sixteen he joined a local company of the National Guards, Company F, and later for a time was in Troop A of the Cavalry at Chicago. He took a course in a preparatory school at Washington, D. C., for a commission in the reg- ular army. He was one of the first to join the Machine Gun Company at Quiney

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four years ago when it was organized. He went to Camp Logan at Houston, Texas, early in the present war activities, and was a non-commissioned officer there and just before his command was ordered overseas he was commissioned a seeond lieutenant, and as such is now serving in France.

The daughter Mabel is a graduate of the Quincy High School with the class of 1910 and is now the wife of W. A. Rothgeb, formerly of Quiney, but now an auditor with the City Light and Power Company at Danville, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Rothgeb have a son, William, four years old.

CHARLES K. KELLY has long been one of the successful farmers and orehard- ists of Adams County, and has a most attractive home and farm a quarter of a mile east of Beverly Village.

Mr. Kelly was born in the Village of Beverly March 11, 1850. He is a son of Frazy and Hannah ( Raymond) Kelly. The Kelly family in several branehes has been prominent in Adams County from pioneer times to the present. Frazy Kelly was born in New Jersey in 1818 and came from Woodbridge, that state, to Adams County in 1835. Ile located in Beverly Township and soon acquired forty acres four miles northeast of the village. The house he built on tliat land was blown down in a hurricane, and later he sold, and about 1853 bought the place where his son Charles now lives, just east of Beverly Village. This is in section 21. He came to own 135 aeres in that vicinity, and he died on the old farm at the advanced age of ninety years and six months. He built a part of the present residenee about 1853. Ile was an ardent democrat, though he never held a publie office, and was member of no ehureh or fraternity. He was a good conversationalist. and enjoyed the presence of some genial friends as they enjoyed him. His mental and physical faeulties were preserved almost to the end. He and his wife had three sons and one daughter: Josiah R., who was educated in the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, prac- tieed at Bowen, and later at Angusta, Illinois, and for thirty years was a sue. cessful physician at Quincy, where he died at the age of sixty-three ; John Kelly, who also attended the University of Michigan but graduated from the Medical School at Keokuk and praetieed in Quiney for a number of years; Charles K., and Hannah, who was an infant when her mother died and she became the wife of William Funk.

Charles K. Kelly grew up on the old homestead and at the age of twenty-one took charge of the farm. He has forty aeres in the home place and also owns 9334 aeres just north of the Village of Beverly. He still gives his active super- intendence to the farm and orehard. In the line of stoek he raises Polled Angus and Hereford cattle. Mr. Kelly has a highly developed orchard of fourteen aeres, planted to well tested market varieties of apples. He has long been looked upon as one of the most successful apple growers in the county. He was one of the first to adopt a regular routine and policy of spraying his fruit. He demonstrated its importance and value and for a number of years he has made a standing offer of a dollar for every wormy apple that could be found in his orchard. He gives his personal supervision to the pruning, spraying. fertilizing and cultivating the orchard. In 1917 he and his two sons shipped 2,300 barrels of choice fruit.

At the age of twenty-two Mr. Kelly married Mary Predmore. She died seven years later, leaving one son, Alvadore Kelly, who is now a farmer near Beverly. Mr. Kelly married for his second wife Martha G. Bonham. That companionship was continued for thirty years, until Mrs. Kelly's death. She was the mother of two sons, Emmet F. and Raymond. Raymond is now a sue- eessful dairyman at Modesto, California. Emmet F. owns a farm of 303 aeres west of Beverly, his brother Alvadore being in partnership as owner of the farm. These brothers are also proprietors of a large fruit and vegetable store in Chicago, Emmet living in that city and giving his personal supervision to business. The store specializes in the home grown apples raised in the Kelly

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orchards in Adams County. Nearly all the fruit that Mr. Kelly ships goes to the Chicago store.

CARL PEINE. Thousands of Adams County people knew Carl Peine as the genial proprietor and most successful manager of the Quiney resort known far and wide as "No. 9" at 526 Ilampshire Street. The business which he estab- lished and built up, beginning during the Civil war, has been continued through his eapable son, and altogether "No. 9" has been patronized by the publie for over seventy years. There was a saloon at that number as early as 1845.

Carl Peine was born in Westphalia, Germany, August 10, 1829, and repre- sented an old and prominent Catholic family of that provinee. One of his uneles was a bishop in the Catholic Church in Westphalia. Carl Peine grew up there and saw some severe serviee as a soldier. He took part in the war against Denmark, and during the siege of Schleswig was wounded seven times, having six wounds in the legs and one just over the heart. For several weeks he lay uneonseious, but finally recovered and saw service again as a soldier in the revolution of 1848. In 1858 he eame to the United States on a sailing vessel and was seven weeks on the voyage to New Orleans. While on that boat he met Miss Johanna Thieleman. She was born at Goslar, Hanover, July 14, 1836. She is still living at the advanced age of eighty-two. As a young girl in Germany she was awarded a gold medal for her skill as a cook. She had mueh to do with the success of "No. 9," especially in its kitehen and service. Some years ago she entertained a large party of eity eouneilmen from Chicago, and was given a fine token of their appreciation of her repast.

From New Orleans Carl Peine and Miss Thieleman eame up the river to St. Louis, and shortly afterward to Quiney. They were married at Quiney in 1860, in St. Boniface Church. Carl Peine was first employed in the Lubbe general merchandise house, and his wife was employed as a maid. Later he established Unele Sam's Headquarters, but lost the building and stock during the war by fire. Then, in 1864, he acquired the property known as "No. 9" and continued it as a high class resort for over thirty years. He erected a substantial building, 29x70 feet, and also had a summer garden. He was diligent in looking after his business until ten days before his death. He died July 14, 1897, on his wife's sixty-first birthday. Carl Peine also owned considerable other property, ineluding a farm in the Indian Graves Drainage Distriet, and some property in the eity. He was a lifelong republiean, and while never an office holder was much interested in local affairs.

He and his wife had five children. Carl Anton died in 1910, at the age of fifty years. He married Anna Huston Hinehman, who now lives in California, and has two children, Carl and Norma. The second son,, William, died in in- fancy. Henry, who died in 1893, at the age of thirty, married Rose Pfirman, his death oeeurring just six months after their marriage. Robert H., who is asso- ciated with his brother Frederick A. in managing the business, married Anna Glazes, and they have a son Robert H., Jr., a student in high school. Fred- erick Albert, the youngest ehild, was born at the old home place at 526 Hamp- shire Street, April 2, 1873. His brothers were also born there. He grew up and was edueated in the city schools and after his father's death beeame manager of "No. 9," and its continued success is largely a tribute to his energy. IIe also manages the farm of 120 aeres formerly owned by his father.

In the late '60s or early '70s Quiney had a great saengerfest or singfest, during which the minister from Prussia took part and was a guest of Carl Peine and when he left he gave Mrs. Johanna Peine as a token for services a beautiful fan, which she still retains. In 1858 when Lincoln and Douglas held their famous debate in Washington Park "No. 9" had the honor of having both visit it, and the same posts that both stood elose to and the bar top are still there and in nse. The place during the '60s and '70s was patronized also by some of the most prominent attorneys of the country as well as some very prominent

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members of the State Legislature, who if still living, will remember some very pleasant hours spent in "No. 9."

FRED WILLIAM ECHTERNKAMP. When a man starts life as a hard worker and struggling against adverse eireumstances at an age when most boys are in school, and finally masters the problems of life so as to gain the objeet of his ambition for material suecess, it is with genuine admiration that people regard the results of his enterprise and diligenee.

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Quincy and Adams County history and representative men, Vol. II, Part 110

Author: Wilcox, David F., 1851- ed Publication date: 1919 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 952

Author: Wilcox, David F., 1851- ed
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 952