Quincy and Adams County history and representative men, Vol. II, Part 99

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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Fred Hufnagel, only child of his parents, married in Adams County Miss Rachel Marshall. She was born in the same German town as her husband and they had been students in the same school. When she was twelve or thirteen years of age she came with her parents by way of New Orleans and up the Mississippi River to Quincy. Her father was John C. Marshall. The German spelling of the name was Marschell. The Marshalls located on new land in section 21 of Columbus Township, and lived there the rest of their days. John C. Marshall died at the age of fifty-seven and his wife at fifty-three. They also were members of the Lutheran Church.

Fred Hufnagel after his marriage farmed in Burton Township, but later moved to Columbus Township. His wife died at the age of sixty-seven.

Oscar L. Hufnagel is the youngest of seven children. Matilda married William Heckrodt, of Steffenville, Missouri, and they have two sons living, Charles and George, both married and with children. Amelia is the wife of Martin Eckert, and they live in New Mexico and have five children. Alvena is the widow of William Turner, lives in Houston Township, and has a daughter, Mrs. Myrta Beer. Alexander Hufnagel died at the age of twenty-eight, and his widow, Annie Erke Hufnagel, has a son, Walter A., now an architectural in- speetor in the Government service, married and has a son, William. Albert lives at Clayton in Adams County, is a farmer, and by his marriage to Eliz- abeth Kramberg has three daughters. The next in age is Oscar L. Linna died at the age of eighteen after completing her education.

Oscar L. Hufnagel was born on the old farm September 28, 1867. The vil-

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lage schools afforded him his education, and since reaching his majority he has steadily devoted his energies to farming and with success, as has already been noted. In 1890, in Houston Township, he married Miss Lora Strickler. She was born in that township in 1870, and was edueated at Camp Point. Mr. and Mrs. Hufnagel have three children. Eula, formerly a teacher, born in 1891, is the wife of Ilenry Schultz. They are farming people, and their two children are Emerson, born in 1909, a sehoolboy, and Lora O., born in 1914. Jeremiah F. Hufnagel, born in 1893, attended the local public schools, completed his edu- eation at Camp Point, and is now a soldier in Franee. Osear Striekler, born in 1903. is a student in the Maplewood High School at Camp Point. The fam- ily are all members of the Christian Church.

DANIEL TREDWAY is an old time resident of Adams County, has lived here fully half a century, and his efforts as a farmer have brought him sueeess and independence He owns one of the good farms of Burton Township, located twelve miles east of Quiney.

Mr. Tredway was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Angust 15, 1836. He grew up as a farm boy, had a common school education, and represents old English and old American stoek. When a young man, in 1863, he enlisted in the Ninth Maryland Infantry, and saw active service in the Virginia eam- paigns. He was wounded in the face by an exploding shell while saving an offieer in the Court House at Charlestown, Virginia. It was in this Court House that the famous John Brown was tried and in the yard was hanged. Mr. Tred- way has seen the old stump of the tree where the hanging took place.

At the elose of the war he was discharged and soon located in Butler County, Ohio, and from there in 1868 eame to Adams County. He first rented a farm in Gilmer Township two miles north of his present home, and rented different farms for thirteen years, finally buying the Timmons farm of 160 aeres in sec- tion 12 of Burton Township. For this land he paid $57.50 an aere, but it is now worth over three times that sum, largely as a result of the improvements made by Mr. Tredway. He built a good house, barn and other buildings, and has kept the land in first class condition. It is a general farm, and in the way of livestock its ebief output has been from thirty-five to fifty hogs annually, also a fine herd of White Face cattle.

Mr. Tredway is a republican. At the age of thirty he married in Ohio Miss Harriet Mand, who was born in Butler County, Ohio. She died October 25, 1906, the mother of two children, Frank and Anna. Anna is the wife of John Metz, of Gilmer Township. Frank Tredway, who was born in Liberty Town- ship of this county October 18, 1876, has spent all his life on the farm with his father and has never married. He now has aetive charge of the farm and is one of the suecessful and progressive men of the community. He takes a great interest in lodge work as an Odd Fellow at Liberty. He and his father are both members of the Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church.

FRANK B. PARKER, M. D. The Village of Clayton has not been without the serviees of a physician named Parker for over thirty-five years. Dr. Frank B. Parker recently took over the large praetiee which his father has enjoyed for so many years, and in his new field a recognition acquired by skillful work and earnest study follow him from other sections of Adams County. He has been an active member of the profession for a quarter of a eentury.

Dr. Frank B. Parker was born in Montgomery County, Missouri, June 14, 1871. a son of Henry J. and Mary (Busby) Parker. His father was born in Missouri October 5, 1845. His mother was born June 17, 1850, and died at Clayton Oetober 9. 1900. IIenry J. Parker was educated in the common schools of Missouri and graduated from the Missouri Medieal College in 1870. His first professional work was done in Southern Illinois at Carlyle, where he re- mained about six years. then for three years he was located at Hannibal, after which he returned to Carlyle and was there until 1882, when he removed to

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Clayton in this county. In this community his name and services are held in the highest regard. He practiced almost until the time of his death, on May 5, 1918. He was a man of high standing among his professional brethren, and was a good citizen in all that phrase implies. IIe and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Henry J. Parker and his first wife had three sons : Frank B., Harry A. and Bert D. In February, 1902, the father married for his second wife Miss Ethel Rhodes, of Livingston, Illinois. By that union were born two daughters, Lucrece, born in 1907, and Atys, born in 1909.

Frank B. Parker was reared partly in Missouri and partly in Illinois. He attended school in the former state, and after his parents located in Clayton in 1882 he entered the high school. He gained his higher education in the Illinois College at Jacksonville, and in 1893 graduated from the Keokuk Medical College. For about two years he practiced at Clayton, but in September, 1893, accepted an appointment as assistant physician to the Southern Illinois Peniten- tiary at Chester. He was employed in that work two years, practiced at Joplin, Missouri, about two years, and then returning to Adams County located at Lima, where he enjoyed a successful business and remained in most congenial surroundings for fifteen years. When his father died he returned to Clayton and took up the practice which the senior doctor had carried for so many years.

Doctor Parker is a member of the County and State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. He votes independently, and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1904 he married Miss Effie V. Harness, of Lima. She is a daughter of Richard Harness, a well known farmer of that community, who was born and reared on the place that he still occupies as a home. Doctor and Mrs. Parker have two children: Helen, born in 1908; and Henry J., born in 1913.

FRISBY S. FINLEY is a farmer and stock man, with a large and well appointed place under his control and management in Houston Township. He is mem- ber of one of the old and well known families of the county.

He was born in Gilmer Township July 19, 1866, son of the late William D. and Adelia (Judy) Finley. His father was boru in Kentucky in 1840, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, a son of Eli Finley, who in an carly day moved to Lewis County, Missouri. William D. Finley as a young man came to Adams County, and married here Adelia Judy, daughter of Paris T. Judy, one of the most conspicuous names in the early settlement and history of Gilmer Township. Mrs. Adelia Finley is still living, and resides with her daughter in a fine home at Quincy. William D. Finley was greatly prospered in his activities, and besides his home farm in Gilmer Township of 371 acres he owns 720 acres in Houston Township and 160 acres in Kansas. He died in 1908. Further particulars regarding his interesting career will be found on other pages. He was the father of five children: Eli, deceased; William J., of Houston Township; Frisby S .; Sarah Agnes, who lives with her mother ; and Ora Belle, who died at the age of two years.

Frisby S. Finley grew up on the old homestead in Gilmer Township, and attended the district schools and also the Maplewood High School at Camp Point. His activities since young manhood have been directed to farming and stock dealing. In 1888 he located on his present place in Houston Town- ship, where he has 220 acres, and its improvements and facilities make it one of the best farms in that locality. Mr. Finley is raising much live stock, including pure bred Duroc Jersey swine.

He is a democrat, but has been too busy with his private affairs to seck office. He is interested in Christian Science. His mother is an active mem- ber of that faith in Quincy.

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She died June 12, 1917, and in Mareh, 1918, he married Miss Esther Zigler, of Adams County.

ALEXANDER R. FRAZIER, whose place in Adams County is that of a pros- perous farmer and stoek man in seetion 21 of Mendon Township, ten miles northeast of Quiney, has accomplished those things in life that Adams County people in general have come to expeet of members of the Frazier family.

The Fraziers were among the very first settlers in northwestern Adams County. They came here over ninety years ago. Nine decades is a long time in the history of any Middle West community. It takes us baek to the ad- ministration of President John Quiney Adams, when Illinois as a state was less than ten years old, before the first American railway had been built, only a short time after the Erie Canal had been opened to traffie, and when it was more difficult to communicate with a person 100 miles away than it now is to send a message around the globe.

The pioneer of the family in Adams County was George Frazier, who was of Scoteh-Irish ancestry and had formerly lived in Kentucky. When he set out from Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky, for Western Illinois, he was accompanied by some sturdy young sons and daughters. This family traveled overland in wagons, and George Frazier in prospeeting the country was especially on the lookout for timber land and springs. When he passed through Qniney there was nothing to distinguish that site except two log eabins. Going on north, he eventually settled in what is now Ursa Township, seven miles north of Quincy, and there he obtained land sufficient to give each of his sons a quarter section. His family arrived in the township April 13, 1827. About a year before the Campbell family and one or two others had also extended their pioneer efforts to this locality. George Frazier later moved three miles east of his first place, and his old home was occupied by his son James, who lived on that farm in seetion 31 of Ursa Township the rest of his life, dying at the age of seventy-five. Part of the land had been in cultivation sinee 1826. The old farm of James was later oeenpied by Joel, son of James, and it is now owned by George and Carl Frazier, great-grandsons of George Frazier. The second homestead occupied by George Frazier is now known as the Whipps farm, and it adjoined on the west the farm of his son Lemuel G. At this second location George Frazier spent his last years, and he was laid to rest in the family burying ground on the farm of his son Lemuel. His wife died when about seventy-three.

George Frazier had five sons and three daughters. Joel his oldest son, spent most of his life in Mendon Township, where he died at the age of sixty, and none of his deseendants are now in the county. Joel Frazier is remem- bered as the teacher of the first sehool in Ursa Township. That sehool, taught in the fall of 1828, was held in a little log schoolhouse in seetion 31. James B. Frazier, the second son, was born in Kentucky in 1807, and, as above noted, died at the original Frazier farm at the age of seventy-five. He married Emelia Nesbitt, and they had nine children. Lemuel G. Frazier. the third son, was the father of Alexander R., and further mention of his eareer is made below. George Frazier, who died at the age of sixty-five on his farm in Mendon Township, left a daughter, Carrie, now widow of Washington Taylor. Richard Frazier died near Lima at the age of seventy, and his old place is owned by his grandchildren. The farms which George Frazier provided for these sons cost $1.25 an aere. George and Joel's farms were in Mendon Town- ship, Richard's in Lima, and James and Lemuel's in' Ursa Township. Louisa, oldest of the three daughters of George Frazier, married John Seott, and she died at Warsaw, Illinois, at the age of seventy-five. Lueetta, who died near Lima at the age of sixty-five, had two husbands, the first named Whitney and the second Fletcher. Polly Ann, who died at Quiney at the age of seventy, married Thomas Jasper, a distiller and merchant of Quiney.

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1811, and was sixteen years old when he accompanied his father to Adams County. He spent all his aetive life on his farm in section 29 of Ursa Town- ship, and was steadily prospered in his affairs and helped his children to get a start in life. Ile was a democrat and was active in the Christian Church of Ursa, helping build the first church. He also served at one time as county coroner. On October 28, 1843, Lemuel G. Frazier married Mary Roberts, of Butler County, Ohio. She died March 22, 1851, aged twenty-four years, two months and three days. She was the mother of three children. Theophilus, who died at Canton, Illinois, in 1914, at the age of sixty-eight, served through the Civil war as a member of Company B, Seventy-Eighth Illinois Infantry, having enlisted at the age of seventeen. He finished his education at Ahing- don. Illinois, and for a number of years was a druggist at Table Grove in Fulton County. He was elected and served two terms as circuit elerk of Ful- ton County. He married Dora Durham, and they had two children, Libbic, who is married and lives in California, and Clifford, an attorney at Peoria. Montgomery B., second child of Lemuel Frazier by his first wife, married Jane Taylor, of Ursa, and afterwards lived for some years in Andrew County, Missouri, and in Nebraska, then returned to Illinois for five years, and eventu- ally went to Oklahoma, where he died at the age of sixty-nine, and his widow is now living at Ursa. His daughter Winnie is the wife of John Loomis, of Loraine, Illinois. He has a son, Christian, in Oklahoma. Libbie, the third child of Lemuel and his first wife, married Rev. Marion Ingles, of the Chris- tian Church, who died in Kansas, where his widow is still living.

On August 19, 1853, Lemuel G. Frazier married Eva M. Ahalt, who was born in Frederick County, Maryland, September 10, 1829, and was a small girl when her family eame to Ursa Township. She died December 9, 1902, at the age of seventy-three. She became the mother of nine children, five boys and four girls. The oldest is Alexander Ransberg. Josie is the wife of Tom B. Smith, a farmer in Ursa. Thomas J. has a farm in Ursa Township adjoin- ing the old place of his father. Ida married Ellis Dornbaugh, a Nebraska farmer. Charles also farmed in Nebraska. Rosa married George Ford, a grain dealer of Hhopolis, Illinois. Etta Belle married Judas T. Wilderman, a farmer of Freeburg, Illinois. John owns the old homestead of his father, but lives on a place adjoining it in the same township. George is a stoek- buyer and shipper of Ursa.

Alexander R. Frazier was born on his father's farm in Ursa Township May 16, 1854. He lived at home with his parents until he was twenty-six. In the meantime he had acquired a good education in local schools and in the Gem City Business College. Mr. Frazier married Anna King, of Gilmer Township, daughter of Elijah M. and Ruth (Chase) King of that township. Mrs. Frazier has always taken a great interest in educational affairs, and has to her credit twelve years of teaching, both before and after her marriage. Most of her work in the schools was done in Gilmer, Honey Creek and Mendon townships. She attended high school at Clayton and at Camp Point and also Abingdon College.

After his marriage Mr. Frazier rented a nearby farm for twelve years, and then bought the first place of his own, the old MeBann farm of 160 aeres cornering the place of his father in Ursa Township. The house was built in 1881 by Mrs. William Nicholson. Mr. Frazier paid $80 an acre for his first eighty acres, and in 1890 for the second eighty paid $90. He has done much in the way of general farming and stock raising, and for many years has been an importer and breeder of Percheron horses. He feeds all his crops on his own farm and every year turns out a bunch of hogs for market. In polities he is a democrat, but has never sought the honors of office. He has been a member of the Masonic order since the age of twenty-one and is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America and with his wife belongs to the Royal Neighbors. IIe and his family are members of the Ursa Chris- tian Church.

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Mr. and Mrs. Frazier had a family of six children, but had the misfortune to lose three of them in infancy. Their three daughters living are all women of thorough education, and all of them have taught school. The two oldest attended high school, and taught in Adams County, while the youngest is a graduate of the State Normal at Normal and received a state certificate, and for four terms was a teacher in Sangamon County. She is a special teacher of reading and still conducts private classes in that art. The oldest daughter, Ora, married August Isaacson, of Ursa, and of their three children one died in infancy, and the two surviving boys are Sherill D. and John. Eva Ruth, the second daughter, is the wife of Frank Shriver, of Mendon Township, and they have three children, Helen, Mildred and Henry Franklin. Elizabeth is now the wife of Robert Funderburk, a farmer in Sangamon County, Illinois.

ANTHONY LANZA, who died December 12, 1918, was an interesting per- sonality in the commercial life of Quincy, and a man of real achievement. His career is an illustration of how big things frequently grow from small beginnings. A number of years ago he was selling fruit from a pusheart in Buffalo, New York. For some years before his death he was head of the firm A. Lanza & Sou, wholesale dealers in fruits and produce, one of the leading firms of its kind in the Mississippi Valley. This firm established its com- pletely equipped store and plant at 624 Jersey Street about 1913. The busi- ness handled fruits produced all the way from Mexico to the northern borders of the United States, and supplied a retail trade over two states.

Anthony Lanza was born in Italy June 21, 1853. He grew up there and was educated in his native city. When he was a small boy he went to sea, and altogether had nine years of seafaring experience. For three years of that time he was a steward on a boat. He left the sea at Philadelphia in 1874, worked there for a time, but sold his first fruit, as above noted, at Buffalo, New York. Thrift and hard work took him through the successive stages on the way to success. For several years he had a retail store at St. Louis, Mis- souri, and for two years was a fruit and produce wholesaler at Springfield, Illinois. In 1887 he started business at Quincy with a small place on Maine Street, and had various other locations until he established the plant above noted.

He and his wife were married at St. Louis. Her maiden name was Miss Carmelia Foti. She was born in 1864, not far from where her husband was born. She came with her parents to America, and from New York the family went to St. Louis, where she grew up and lived until her marriage.

The late Mr. Lanza was a devout communicant of St. Peter's Catholic. Church, of which his widow and children are members. The interest he took in his family and in his church was one of the chief incentives to his business effort. His oldest daughter, Catherine, is the wife of J. F. Rao, sales agent for the National Cash Register Company at Joliet, Illinois. Mary, like her sisters, graduated from St. Mary's Academy, and is now deceased. Sarah died after her marriage to Joseph Stephens, and left twin daughters, Lois and Lucille. The next in age of the family is Bruno. Josephine is now man- aging the Central Market Fruit Store. Samuel married Alice Stickler, and has a son, Anthony. Nancy is the wife of Frank Defavia and lives at Peoria. Vincent and Joseph are the youngest children, the latter still a student in high school.

Bruno Lanza had for several years prior to his father's death carried most of the responsibilities of the business, and much of its growth and develop- ment is to be credited to his youth, enthusiasm and enterprise. He was born in Quincy January 1, 1888, was educated in parochial schools, in St. Francis College and the Gem City Business College. He began work as clerk for his father and rapidly acquired a comprehensive knowledge of every detail of the fruit business. Mr. Bruno Lanza is still unmarried.

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JOHN II. ADAMS. A well remembered tragedy in Adams County which took away one of its best citizens and a substantial farmer of Columbus Town- ship occurred July 19, 1917, when as a result of an automobile accident John H. Adams while on his way home from Quincy was so severely injured that he died a few days later iu St. Mary's Hospital July 27, 1917.

Mr. Adams is survived by his widow and children, who still occupy the fine farm which he developed in section 27 of Columbus Township. Mr. Adams was born in Walker Township of Hancock County, Illinois, July 1, 1860, and was in the prime of life when he died. When twelve years of age he was brought to Fall Creek Township, Adams County, by his parents, Fred and Mary Adams. They were farming people there and the father died in middle life. His widow afterwards married Henry Brackensiek, and both died in Columbus Township. They were members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church.

John H. Adams grew up in Columbus Township at the home of his mother and stepfather. He took farming as a serious vocation early in life, and eventu- ally acquired the homestead farm of 110 acres in section 27. He made many improvements, including a substantial seven-room house, located on a high hill overlooking much of the surrounding country. The farm is well named Valley View. The house was built in 1902. Other improvements consist of barn and outbuildings. Mr. Adams was a very capable farmer and a good business man, and generally held in high esteem all over that part of the county. He was a democrat, had served as constable and in other minor offices. He was a confirmed member of the Lutheran Church.

In Columbus Township he married Miss Carolina Hollenstein. Mrs. Adams was born in Lippe Detmold, Germany, August 15, 1861, daughter of August aud Carolina (Bierman) Hollenstein, natives of the same place. Two chil- dren were born to them in Germany, August, Jr., and Carolina. They then brought their family on a sailing vessel to New York and thence to Quincy, locating on a farm in Columbus Township, where Mrs. Adams' mother died. Mr. Hollenstein spent his last years with Mrs. Adams and died March 14, 1914, at the venerable age of ninety-one. The Hollensteins were among the original members and founders of St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Mrs. Adams had the following brothers and sisters boru in this country : Mary, wife of Henry Wilke, a farmer in Liberty Township, and the mother of Florian, Willard and Lloyd; William, a farmer in Columbus Township, married Mary Frerge and has children named Laura, Etta, Harry, Mabel and Sadie; Henry, a farmer in Columbus Township, married Anna Wilke, and they have a daughter, Viola.

Mrs. Adams became the mother of five children. Emma died when nine months old; Fred also died in childhood; Elmer W., who has been the capa- ble manager of the home farm since his father's death, was educated in the local schools; Myrtle L., who was educated in the schools near the old home, married Floyd Koch, and they live on a farm in Columbus Township; Elsie was well educated in the local schools and is at home with her mother. The family are members of the Lutheran Church except the son Elmer, who has united with the Christian Church.

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Quincy and Adams County history and representative men, Vol. II, Part 99

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