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To Hooper Warren, an intimate friend of General Henry, is due the credit of suggesting the name.
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A public sale of lots was held a week after the survey in Hennepin, by Nathaniel Chamberlain, School Commissioner. There was but little com- petition by speculators, the lots generally being bought by citizens and settlers of Putnam County, at prices equivalent to $1.25 per acre, or one dollar per lot. When the real estate mania broke out in 1837 these lots were snapped up by speculators and held at high prices, and the growth of the town sadly retarded.
As before stated, the first farm in Henry Township was made by Elias Thompson and his son David in the spring of 1833, that of the former now being known as the "Davis place."
Sampson Rowe and William Lathrop came in 1834. Elias Thompson soon after built the old Henry House, and had a small garden, patch broken the year previous. He subsequently sold out and went to Cali- fornia, where he died. He was a preacher, bee hunter and man of vari- ous trades.
John Hale, a preacher, came to Henry soon after, in about 1835, and did some work as a carpenter on Thompson's tavern, besides keeping a grocery store, and Mr. Burr or Bradley succeeded him in the latter busi- ness in 1836. He afterward went to Kansas and is reported to have died there.
David B. Culver and Orson Culver, sons of Orsemus Culver, broke ground for their places in 1835. The Mallorys came very early, in 1835. Loten Frisbee in 1835, and Andrew Styles the same season. Styles brought the first threshing machine to the Township.
In 1836, William Kidney and Simeon Pool arrived.
George Klein arrived in 1837, and Fred W. Bell the same year, as also did George Hiller, Fred Reinbeck, J. W. Jones, Dr. Templeton, Andrew Styles and Anton Appel.
Valentine Weis came in 1838, and Augustus C. Asherman the same year. Also Anton Sidel, James Dennis and Walter Plato.
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In 1839 Fred W. Troenly and Balser Klein. In that year lands first came into market here.
We cannot give the year in which Major Thompson built the "Henry House " and the postoffice was established. It seems to have given the first impulse to business and enterprise.
The first prominent merchant was a man named Bradley, who came here under the pseudonym of Joseph Burr. He had failed in business in the East and to escape his creditors, changed his name, came to this locality with the remnants of his fortune and opened a business in which he was very successful. He was strictly honorable, and when sufficient means were accumulated went back to his former home and paid every dollar. Returning, he assumed his full name and was known as Joseph Burr Bradley. He was the first Postmaster of the place and built the first warehouse.
Another firm was Lloyd Brothers, who came here in 1849 from St. Louis, and did a flourishing business; Harless & Lancaster, Cheever & Herndon, Thomas Gallaher, and Ben. Lombard, were well known merchants. The last named made extensive improvements and then removed to Chicago, where reverses overtook him. He now lives in Gales- burg. In 1837-8 a blacksmith shop was started on the site of Lloyd's land office.
In this year a frame building was erected on the site of B. Yeager's saloon by Sampson Rowe; and the building known as the Paskill House was built about 1839.
In 1837 two accidents occurred-that of Reuben Converse, who was drowned from off the ferry, and a Mr. Lyon, who fell from a hotel win- dow and was killed.
Hooper Warren, in an article in the Gazette, published August 12, 1848, says: "Up to 1844 there were but two or three families permanently settled in Henry, but now there are twenty-four. Here are four stores at which general assortments of merchandise are kept, one drug and medi- cine store, one lumber yard, one shoemaker's shop, four carpenters, two blacksmiths, two coopers, one gold and silver smith, and a wagon-maker's shop soon to be built. There are four churches for worshipping congre- gations, viz: Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist and the Protes- tant Methodists building or meeting house. . A Catholic Church is to be erected, also a Female Seminary, by the Presbyterians, on the prairie, one mile north-west of town.
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THE VILLAGE OF HENRY -EARLY IMPROVEMENTS.
The first school house in the place was a log building that stood at the head of the ravine east of town. It was built in 1838, but the new settlers needing the services of their children, it was turned into a smoke house by an enterprising merchant, and when not required for this pur- pose was used for religious meetings.
Dr. Boal, of Lacon, for many years was the only physician for all this section.
When the canal was opened, in 1848, J. C. Rolla, for Wm. H. Kellogg, loaded and shipped the first boat load of grain that ever left Putnam Counly for Chicago. Mr. Kellogg had a small office, and bought grain at what was known as Hall's Landing, four miles above Henry, on the east side of the river Shortly after, a second shipment was made in the same direction, for the same owner.
The first canal boat load of wheat ever sent to Chicago from Henry was shipped by the same individual, in 1852.
The first flour mill was built by Ben Bower & Bro., in 1850. The only mill for grinding corn on the west side of the river for years was one built in 1833 by John Hamlin.
Henry began to make substantial progress in 1844, and in 1850 had 401 inhabitants ; in 1851, 789; in 1853, 1,009; in 1854, 1,306, and at the last census 2,000.
The cemetery of Henry, is one of the neatest burial grounds in Marshall County. It is laid out with artistic taste and when ornamented to the full measure of its original design will be exquisitely beautiful. It was platted by the Henry Cemetery Association, under whose super- vision the various improvements have been made, is attended with care, and is a credit alike to its managers, to the citizens of Henry, and the Township.
Henry was incorporated as a city under the general act, at the session of 1854.
In 1858 Henry and Lacon competed for the location of the Fair Grounds of the County Mechanics' Institute, and the former won, having raised $3,600, while Lacon fell short $500.
Opposite the town is a magnificent lock and dam, erected by the State as part of a general system for improving the navigation of the river.
Beside the magnificent lock and dam before alluded to, a costly bridge spans the river, with a high embankment reaching to the bluff a mile dis- tant. It has been of great value to the city, opening up as it does at all
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seasons, the fertile country on the east, that otherwise might seek other markets.
CHURCHES.
The first church organized here so far as can now be told was by the Rev. Mr. Devore in 1840.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
In the spring of 1849 William Wycoff removed to Henry, his wife being an active member of the Protestant Dutch Church. In the fall of. the same year they were followed by. Richard Lloyd. Mrs. Lloyd was likewise a believer, and through their influence, in the winter of 1850 the Rev. E. S. High, under the direction of the Board of Missions, preached once in four weeks to such congregations as came to hear, continuing his labors for two years.
In 1855 came Rev. John Marquis, and steps were taken which resulted in an organization August 17, 1855. The Ruling Elders were Lucas V. Hoagland, James Petrie and William P. Williams. The following per- sous presented certificates of membership: Mrs. Elizabeth Wycoff, Lucas V. Hoagland, Anna M. Hoagland, Amelia Hoagland, Sarah W. Hoag- land, Harriet N. Hoagland, Win. P.\Williams, and Petronella his wife, Harriet C. Black, Harriet Robertson, Abagail Nock, Elizabeth Marquis, Clementina M. Marquis and James Petrie.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The First Christian Church and Society, of Henry, were organized the 9th day of February, 1850, in the Protestant Methodist Church, in Henry, by Elder S. L. Pervier, with sixteen members, namely : Thomas Harless, Henry B. Burgess, William Bell, Henry Harless, John S. Scott, S. L. Pervier, Isaac Rickets, Adna Buckout, Polly Scott, Viletta Bell, Abeliny Wiley, Catharine Rickets, Polly Burgess, Clarisa Burgess, Rebecca Harless and Philena Pervier.
Their place of worship was in the Protestant Methodist Church, until they built a substantial brick 35 by 50 feet (some twenty-five feet from ground to roof), which was dedicated in June, 1851, Elder Josiah Knight, of Ohio, preaching the sermon of dedication. Thomas Harless and Rich-
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ard Garretson were the principal contributors to the fund for the erection of this building.
S. L. Pervier was the first pastor; Thomas Harless, Henry B. Bur- gess and S. L. Pervier, the first Trustess ; H. B. Burgess, first Church Clerk ; Thomas Harless and B. F. Carpenter, first Deacons; Wm. D. Rob- inson, first Collector; Richard Garretson, first Treasurer.
In 1852 Elder Chester Covell, of New York, was called to take charge of the Church, and in 1860 Elder J. C. Goff, of Irvington, N. J., 'was chosen, who remained some thirteen years as pastor.
In June of 1852 this modest edifice was the scene of a nine-days dis- cussion which attracted wide attention at the time, the subject being The Divinity of Christ. The participants were Revs. Luccock, of Canton, and Phelps, of Princeton, Ill., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, affirmative ; Rev. Oliver Barr, of Aurora, Ill., and Revs. H. Summerbell and A. L. Mckinney, of Ohio, of the Christian Church, negative. A reporter was employed with a view to the subsequent publication of the proceedings and arguments in full, but his notes were never prepared for the press.
THE NEW JERUSALEM OR SWEDENBORGIANS.
On the 22d of March, 1857, Rev. J. R. Hibbard, Superintendent of the Illinois Assembly of this denomination, at the request of Charles Davis, Henry Vogelsang, Joseph Holmes and others met the persons de- sirous of organizing a church, and after services did so organize. Their "platform" as laid down is in substance: Belief in the Divine word and the ten commandments, and doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. Their officers were : Charles Davis, Joel Morgan, Joseph Holmes, Trustees; O. H. Tyler, Treasurer; and J. W. Taber, Secretary. These officers were elected March 28, 1857, and Rev. 'Thos. Story was invited to lecture once a month.
In 1865-6 a church was built capable of seating two hundred persons, and dedicated July 30, 1866.
The ministers who have officiated here were the Rev. Thos. Storey, of Peoria, Rev. A. I. Bartels, and R. B. Edminster, who officiated nine years. The Rev. O. L. Barler, of Canton, next took charge, coming here once each month.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The Catholics of Henry had no regular place of worship or established
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priest until about 1850. Up to that time priests from abroad came occa- sionally to say Mass, visit the sick, bury the dead and perform like offices.
In 1852 the foundation of a church building was laid, now known as the German Catholic Church, and after a rest of two years a fine brick structure arose thereon .. It is 35x56 feet and 22 feet to the ceiling. A graceful steeple adorns it, and its interior is tastefully ornamented. It has a gallery and is well and comfortably seated; it has a good organ, bell and altars. Near by is a still larger building, devoted to the sister's school. It was erected not many years ago.
The different priests who from time to time officiated at Henry for the Catholics before and since the church was built, were in the order named: Father Montori, 1848; Father Joseph Staley, 1849, who came pretty reg- ularly till about 1851, when Father Kramer came. There being no bishop at Chicago, when the Catholics of Henry wanted clerical help they had to apply to St. Louis.
Other priests came here occasionally, among them Fathers Lynch and Powers, of Lacon. The resident priests were: Father O'Garry, Louis Cartaville, Lightner, Koehne, Reck, Schreiber, Albrecht, Von Schwerdler, and Schamoni, the present clergyman.
In 1874 the congregation becoming too large for the building, and many of them being Germans, an arrangement was made by which the two people separated, the Germans retaining the building and paying $4,000. The Irish portion then built St. Mary's Church, a very fine structure, and a priest of their own nationality was given them. The congregation has since largely increased and the Society is in a flourishing condition.
The priests who have ministered to them are : Fathers Heafy, Mur- taugh, Corcoran, and the present Rev. Father Thos. Quigley.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
THE HIGH SCHOOL.
The fine building occupied by the Henry High School owns its exist- ence to Rev. Mr. Fowler, of the Protestant Methodist Church, who conceived the plan of founding a first-class educational institution under
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the auspices of that denomination. He traveled and lectured extensively, meeting with success.
It was finished in 1854 at a cost of $28,000, and opened the same season under the name of the "North Illinois University." Rev. G. B. McElroy was the first principal, with Goff and Fox assistants.
For a time it was quite successful, but the hard times of 1857 came and its patronage fell off. After several attempts to revive it, the build- ing was sold to the city of Henry and devoted to public school purposes.
ST. MARY'S SCHOOL.
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The Catholics of Henry and vicinity have long been noted for their religious zeal. About twenty-five years ago, recognizing the importance of beginning an early training of their children in the faith, they started schools in their behalf, at first supporting small private schools in different localities of the town. In 1859 Mr. Oner taught a select Catholic school in a private house a few months and was succeeded by Mr. Hertzog, who had a respectable and well attended gathering of Catholic pupils in Weis' building, a few doors above Warren's grocery store.
In 1860 a frame building was put up near the German Catholic Church and used for school purposes. The attendance was large for some time. school was also taught in the church itself at times. The frame building, originally built as a stable, was used some time, until the applicants became too numerous for its capacity, when the project was started of erecting a fine Catholic primary school which should be a credit to the place and ac- comodate that portion of the rapidly increasing population holding to this faith.
A large two-story brick structure was built near the Church, dedicated to this purpose, and taken in charge by the sisters of the Notre Dame So- ciety of Milwaukee, who had conducted the former schools in the old frame building. These zealous sisters relinquished the charge to "The Sisters of the Precious Blood" in 1871, who now manage the educational interests of the Catholics in a highly creditable manner, the school being very pop- ular. The building is substantially built and well furnished, costing about $5,000. The school is simply an elementary one, where the rudi- ments of the English and German languages are taught, the latter to such as wish it. It is patronized by about ninety families, mainly the member- ship of the German Church, and is under the general superentendence of
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Rev. Father Schamoni, the resident priest. A neat and comfortable par- sonage stands in a large lot near the church and school.
BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.
The Masonic organization of Henry is a large and influential society, and is in excellent working order. The first steps toward a lodge here were taken in 1857. October 25, of that year, a dispensation was obtained from the Grand Lodge, and the 119th Society of their Order in the State was duly instituted, with the following officers: Amos Bonney, W. M .; W. J. Culton, S. W .; H. H. Graves, J. W.
The Masters of Henry Lodge since its organization in 1851 embrace the following: 1851, Amos Bonney; 1852, Daniel McNeal, M. D .; 1853-4, W. B. Smith; 1855, John J. Higgins; 1856, W. B. Smith; 1857, J. W. Sinclair; 1858-9, G. Frank Lloyd; 1860, G. F. Harpst; 1861-2-3, W. B. Smith; 1864, Lewis Kaufman; 1865-6-7, G. F. Harpst; 1868, S. C. Hyndshaw; 1869-70-71-72-73, James G. Hull; 1864, J. K. McCon- nell; 1875, J. D. Culton; 1876-7-8-9, J. C. Wooley.
Until recently Marshall Lodge, No. 63, I. O. O. F., occupied the same room, but retired in the fall of 1878, when the Masons re-arranged and dressed their hall anew, at an expense of several hundred dollars, and now are very elegantly located. The hall is draped in blue, the ceilings, walls, curtains, carpet, chairs, etc., being also of that color. The carpets were made to order, and covered, as are the curtains and walls, with rich and tasteful emblems, peculiar to the fraternity.
NEWSPAPERS IN HENRY.
The first newspaper in Henry was the Henry Courier, commenced by Robert H. Ruggles, December 23, 1852. The material he brought up by steamboat from Edwardsville, Madison County, in this State. Its size was a five column folio. Afterward it was enlarged to an eight column paper, and again reduced to a six column. July 1, 1862, the material and good will was sold to Jonas D. Woodward, as proprietor, and until June, 1866, was edited by C. S. & J. D. Woodward.
The Marshall County Democrat was commenced April 11, 1863, by Charles R. Fisk; in July or August, 1864, F. M. Mills become purchaser,
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continuing the paper but a few months. The material of this office was purchased by Spencer S. Burdick, in April, 1865, who commenced the publication of the Marshall County Telegraph, a seven column folio. In September, same year, George Burt, Jr., purchased an interest, the firm name being Burdick & Burt.
In June, 1866, a consolidation of the Henry Courier and the Marshall County Telegraph was effected and the paper changed to the Marshall County Republican, with S. S. Burdick, Geo. Burt, Jr., and J. D. Wood- ward as proprietors, under the firm name of Burdick, Burt & Woodward (the interest of C. S. Woodward being purchased by the new firm.) Three months later the interest of S. S. Burdick was purchased by the other partners, Burt & Woodward continuing the Republican until Jan- uary, 1869, when Geo. Burt, Jr., became sole owner, who is still its pub- lisher. At one time the paper was run as the Marshall County Republi- can and Putnam County Register. The name was finally changed to the Henry Republican. It has an engraved head, giving an accurate view of the Illinois River, the bridge, and lock and dam at this place. It is a six column quarto, and furnishes more reading matter than any of its county cotemporaries.
The Republican is equipped with a Campbell cylinder press and other material necessary to the outfit of a first class job and newspaper office. A's a local newspaper it is unsurpassed, and in circulation, business and influence it leads most country papers in the State.
The Henry Bulletin, a small paper, was published here several years.
The Reformed Missionary, edited by Rev. C. Coit, was printed at the Republican office for some time; it was afterward moved away, and is now defunct.
The Coming Woman, an eight page paper, was printed at the Repub- lican office for a couple of years; editress, Mrs. M. E. De Geer. It was afterward moved to Chicago, and is discontinued.
The Normal Institute, an educational paper, is now being printed at the Republican office, Prof. J. A. Holmes, editor. It is an eight page journal, and devoted to the interests of school teachers.
CROW MEADOW PRAIRIE.
At the north-west corner of this Township there lies a beautiful
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and fertile region known as Crow Prairie. Its first settlers were Benaijah and Russell Mallory, who made a claim here in 1834 and put up the first cabin, and sold to Col. Snyder in 1835.
In the latter year Loton Frisbee came, and after a short time opened his farm, near the corner of the town at the edge of the timber. At that time there was neither fence nor house on the prairie, save Mallory's or Snyders, and no frame house in Henry. David and Orsemus Culver had begun breaking ground at the lower end of the prairie, and there were cabins at Bonham's and Rowe's.
There were no settlers on the west side of this prairie near Frisbee's till 1838, when Jerry Jones came. A man named John Smith made a claim in 1835-6 to lands afterward owned by Ward and Wilson, latterly by Mr. Emerick.
Mr. Templeton built a sod house in 1837. Mr. Snyder's was the first frame house built on the prairie. The pioneer school house was built of logs in 1838, and was known as the "Snyder School House." It was replaced by a frame structure in 1848-9. Two of Mr. Lyons' daughters were among the earliest teachers in the old building, where Preacher Devore and Father Cummings held forth to the Methodists and Elder Chenowith to the Baptists.
The first marriage was that of one of Mr. Snyder to Miss Lyons.
The first child born on Crow Prairie was Hiram, son of Mr. and Mrs. Loton Frisbee, July 25, 1836, and about the same time but shortly after, one was born to Mr. Kellogg.
The prairie was named from the plentifulness of crows, but why they were more numerous here than elsewhere is not known.
During the summer and fall of 1838, billious fevers and ague pre- vailed to a fearful extent, and the few well persons, especially among the pioneer women, found their time and services constantly in demand. Mrs. Frisbee and Mrs. Williams were constantly "on the go" on errands of mercy to the families of their neighbors, and neighbors in those days sometimes lived five to seven miles apart.
Between Henry and Webster is an old graveyard, where lies interred Mrs. Dennis, Mr. Plato, Mr. Latta, Sallie Snyder and others.
DORCHESTER.
This town, whose existence is only remembered by the early settlers,
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was laid out by Stephen F. Gale, July 26, 1834, Wm. H. Adams being the surveyor. The land in the vicinity had been purchased by others, when one Richareson, a lawyer of Chicago, and a German named Ginder, bargained for the site and laid out the town, expecting to realize from the sale of lots sufficient to make all concerned wealthy. No lots were sold and the property reverted to its original possessors.
WEBSTER.
This was another paper town of great promise and small perfomance. A man named Lorenzo Stacy, said to have built the first cabin in Henry, is known to have lived here in 1830-31. A man known as Esq. Dennis also lived on the ground, and burried his wife here, whose grave can still be seen. About 1836-7 a fractional quarter section was laid off into lots by Robert Latta, Alvin Dascomb, Walton Plato and Maj. P. McAllister, and named Webster in honor of the great expounder. It occupied a beau- tiful plateau two miles above Henry, and had a very convenient steam- boat landing accessible at all seasons. The projectors of the town were energetic business men, and lots sold readily. A saw and grist mill to be propelled by steam were contracted for, and machinery brought upon the ground, but sickness of the proprietors suspended operations and they were never completed. A blacksmith shop was set up, a dozen cabins erected and a small store opened by Josiah Hayes, better known from his diminutive size and certain characteristics as "Little Hayes." He after- ward moved to Olathe, Kansas, and, as Shakspeare says, " achieved great- ness," becoming a Colonel in the Union army and Secretary of State. His first wife was a Miss Fanning and his second a Miss Nancy Potter, a school teacher. The death of Col. Latta gave the place its finishing blow. The settlers left and the cabins were removed elsewhere. In 1837 it was honored with a call from the " god-like Daniel," whose critcism up- on it was that it was " a good place for a farm, but had been badly dam- aged by driving sticks (corner stakes) into it." Some slight depressions in the soil are all that remain of this supposed rival of Henry.
HOOPER WARREN.
Among the many distinguished individuals who in early times espoused the anti-slavery cause, one who deserves especial mention because of his
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devotion and zeal was Hooper Warren, of Henry. He was a co-worker with the leading spirits of the country in behalf of freedom, and by a long life of useful, though to himself most unprofitable labor, earned a high niche in the temple of fame.
Mr. Warren was born at Walpole, N. H., in May, 1790, and brought up in Woodstock, Vt., where he learned the trade of a printer. In 1817, when twenty-seven years old, he removed to St. Louis, and in 1819 estab- lished himself at Edwardsville, Madison County, Ill., where he started the Edwardsville Spectator, the third newspaper published in the State. It was a fearless abolition organ, assailing the slavery question from that standpoint in front and rear, and soon obtained prominence and influence, not only in this State, but in the entire North. No newspaper in the Union was more liberally quoted from, either to criticise and condemn or approve and applaud its doctrines. Hitherto the few publications which had objected to slavery had been mildly expostulatory with their Southern brethren, and touched the vexed subject in a gingerly and apologetic manner, while his was boldly aggressive, denouncing not only the system itself, but all who upheld it. All manner of personal abuse and ill-treatment fell to his lot in the hot pro-slavery section around him, and even personal violence was not only repeatedly threatened by known as well as anonymous persons, but actually committed upon him. At length finding himself too far from the capital of the State, the scat of news and headquarters of politicians, in 1825 he removed his paper to Springfield and called it the Sangamo Spectator. It was the pioneer paper of that region, and its publication was continued with varying suc- cess about three years.
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