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ENOCH GEO. GREEN.
Mr. Grcen is a wealthy and influential farmer of Whitefield, born in Saratoga county, New York, in 1827, and son [of Philip and Nancy Adddington Green, to whom. twelve sons and daughters were born, nine of whom suvive. Their names are Malissa Pettitt, Isaac A .. Susan M. Lake, Sally Berry. Caroline Hepperly, Philip H., Samuel L. and Elizabeth M. Doty. Mr. G. came west in 1837 with his parents, and lived in Peoria county until 1849, when he moved to Henry. Has been a resident of Whitefield township 13 years. In 1849 he married Harrict M., daughter of J. B. Coykendall, of Allegany county, N. Y .. and to them were born nine children, seven of whom survive as follows: Braganza and Andrew J., living at Yates City: Jonathan at San Jose, Cal .; Mary Grayson at Russell. Iowa, formerly eight years a teacher in Farmington and Lewiston): John R. Tecumseh, Kansas, and Ho- ratio G,, at Bismark, Dacotah. One sister, Augusta, died in infancy, and Elizabeth W, was a very successful
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teacher in Peoria county, who died in 1861. Jonathan is engaged in the packing business at San Jose, and John R. Was a gallant soldier in the 11th Ill Cav., serving until the close of the war. Horatio went into a Wisconsin bat- tery as private and returned with a captain's commission. Mr. Green was for a number of years in the lumber trade at Henry, and has always acted a conspicuous part in the business and politics of the county. He tilled the offices of supervisor, justice and several others, and bears a high reputation for ability, loyalty and integrity. He owns a large farm, and is " well to do " in the world.
WILLIAM FOUNTAIN. Whitefield, Ill.
S. P. HILL. Whitefield, III.
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APPENDIX.
The following articles and biographies were omitted, for accidental causes, from their proper places in the body of the work, and are inserted here.
SANDY CREEK OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST CHURCH.
This church was organized September 3, 1836, at Caledonia, Putnam county, Ill., the Presbytery being com- posed of Elders Jeriel Root and James B. Chenoweth ard Deacon Jesse Sawyer.
Following are the names of the original members: Wm. E. Larkins, John Brumsey, Joseph Ash. Joel Corbel, J. D. Glenn, Rachel Larkin, Elizabeth Ash, Marian Graves, Sarah Glenn.
Of this number but two are living. After the church was constituted Wm. E. Larkins was chosen deacon, and J. D. Glenn clerk, the latter holding this office in the church until his death. In the November following the or- ganization Jas. B. Chenoweth was chosen pastor and moderator.
The church now has a membership of 55.
CLEAR CREEK CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The Clear Creek congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian church was organized by Rev. S. E. Hudson, of Pennsylvania Presbytery, Nov. 26, A, D., 1854, with twenty-four members, the following names comprising the original membership: Able Campbell, Eliza Campbell, Able W Campbell, Oliver P, Price, Eliza A. Price, Melissa McCall, Greenberry Bosley, Huldah Bosley, Jacob S. Bosley, Lucinda A. Bosley, Martha J. Harford, Maria Wise John Taylor, W. H. Brown, John N. Wood, Sarah J. Wood, Isaac Ong, Mary Ong, H. C. Morris, Elizabeth Morris Dr. Jas. M. Barber, Mary Ann Price, Matilda Mills, Benonia Harford.
In 1874 the membership had increased to forty.
EMANUEL CHURCH OF GRANVILLE.
This church is the result of a union of the Evangelical and Methodist Protestant denominations, and was organized in 1867. The present membership is fifteen.
MT. PALATINE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
This church was organized February 7, 1869, Rev. J. E. Roy officiating, assisted by Revs. J. West and H. V. Warren.
The first pastor was Rev. Wm. Baldwin. Present pastor, Rev. R. E. Robinson.
The original membership was thirteen in number. Present membership, twenty-eight.
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LACON.
The First Baptist Church of Lacon was organized March 31st, 1855, with eight constitutent members, viz: L. Holland, L. G. Thompson, James Mc Whinney, B. T. Baldwin, I, S. Mahan, Jane Mahan, Jane McWhinney and
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E.ther Bonham. The organization was effected mainly through the labors of Rev. I. S. Mahan, who became the first pastor,
In 1857 the present church building was erected and dedicated the same year, free of debt excepting a small amount due some of the members of the church. The house and lot cost about $4.500. The adjoining lot was bought and the present parsonage placed upon it in 1871.
At the outbreak of the great Rebellion in 1851 the male membership of the church was less than a dozen, all told. Of this number four offered up their lives a sacrifice on the altar of their conntry. George Wright was the first from Marshall county to lose his life during the war, dying near Cairo, Ill., June 6, 1861. Deacon Martin Hoag- land and John S. Stockton fell in the charge at Vicksburg, May 22, 1862. James M. Powers, jr., died on a hospital boat on the Mississippi, and rests in an unknown grave. How many churches can show a better war record, actu- ally losing one half its male membership?
Since the organization of the church about four hundred persons have been received into its membership, a little more than half of this number being received by baptism.
The Sunday school connected with the church was organized May 1, 1855, and has been maintained withont intermission to the present time.
The church has had the pastoral labors of the following ministers in the order in which they are named: Revs. I. S. Mahan, A. P. Graves, J. P. Agenbroad, S. H. D. Vaun, D. Heagle, J. H. Parmelee, L. M. Berry, J. Cairns, A. B. Tomlinson, J. P. Agenbroad, G. C. Vanosdel and W. D. Shields.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF EVANS TOWNSHIP.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church on Sandy was organized by Rev. Patton Mitchell, in 1835 or '36. The Society when first organized consisted of John S. Hunt and wife, J. Morley and wite, and - Gates and wife. J. S. Hunt was the first Ruling Eider elected by the Society. In the winter of 1836-7 the Society was strengthened by the addition of Samnel Cox and wife, George Beatty, Anna Paget, James Caldwell and wife, Wm. Brown and wife, James Beatty and wife, Jacob Myers and wife, Wm. Swarts and wife, and Jane Bowman. Soon after Charles Paget, Albert Bowman and Sarah Bowman joined the Society, and Albert Bowman was elected an Elder in the church, Mr. Mitchell was in charge of the Society for three years, and was then sncceeded by Archibald Johnson,
The first camp meeting ever held in this Township, and perhaps in the county, was under the administration of Mr. Johnson, in the summer of 1841, and was held on the Adams farm, then owned by Samuel Cox. Robert Tay- lor succeeded Mr. Johnson, and in the summer of 1842 held another camp meeting on the same gronnd. These meetings and other special occasions were attended by Cornelius Johnson, a brother to Archibald Johnson, and a man of much more than ordinary ability. At the camp meeting in 1842. Mr. Taylor at the close of a very earnest sermon drove the people all from the encampment nnder a peremptory order for all to retire to the woods for prayer. While the sinners began to scatter for their homes, the faithful obeyed the order, and in a few minutes in every direction was heard the voice of earnest supplication. Toward the close of the same meeting Mr. Taylor chose for his text: " Rejoice, O young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes." He began by telling the people that he had been trying to tell them how to get to heaven, but they were not disposed to hear him, and now he proposed to tell them how to go to hell.
Other pastors that followed were W. Lorance, D. Vandevender, D. Curry, W. Hutchinson, W. Bishop, P. Bishop, Patten Trowedale, S. Andson, J. J. Houston, S. Shull. Marlow, Kreider and Rogers.
The Sandy Cumberland Presbyterian Church was erected in 1868, under the administration of John J. Hous- ton. The present pastor, Mr Rogers, is serving that Church in connection with the Society at Clear Creek.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Wenona was organized in 1861, by S. R. Shull. The Ruling Elders were John Taylor, Robert Snodgrass and John N. Wood. The following ministers have since been in charge of the Church: S. R. Hudson, [. K. Hedges, D. M. Harris, L. R. Woods, R. T. Marlow and J. C. Mornyea. For the past three years the Church in Wenona has had no pastor.
BETHEL CHURCH, STEUBEN.
Rev. Zadok Hall preached and organized an M. E. Church at Joseph Thompson's, appointing James Tanquary class-leader in 1836. About that time Rev. Palmer, from Crow Creek, also organized a Christian church at Warford Bonham's Sr .. where dinner was always prepared for the congregation, who had an invitation to stay for afternoon services. Shortly after Margaret Thompson (daughter of Joseph T.) taught school in a house built by Mr. McGuier, of Virginia, near the former location of Bethel church, the first school in that vicinity.
In the year 1837 the people built a respectable log school house on the hill near Sparland, Mrs. Elizabeth
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Moffit first teacher. The people there organized a Sabbath School, which was attended by people from Lacon, who crossed the river in canoes, and also from other directions, who walked miles to help carry on the work.
The contract to build Bethel church was taken by Asa Thompson in the fall of 1848, to be located on his land near his residence, and framed of oak or black walnut, having four pair of principal rafters, with oak sheeting and pine shingles, to be built in a substantial, work manlike manner, and completed by the first of November, 1849, for six hundred and fifty dollars. The Trustees were John S. Hoskins, James Tanquary. Jehial Watkins. Leonard Timmons and I. Q. Tanquary.
THE VILLAGE OF SPARLAND.
The pioneer of Sparland was Franklin Ward Graves, whose tragic fate is told in these pages, He was succeeded by George Sparr, who gave it a name. The opening of valuable coal mines here laid the foundation for the village. and the building of the Bureau Valley Railroad gave it life and animation. In course of time came a grain ware- honse and stores, and it became one of the most important points of shipment along the road. It is the ontlet of the large and productive territory west of it, and here is annually shipped immense quantities of grain, cattle, hogs, etc. It contains two dry goods and two grocery stores, one hardware, one drug store. one lumber yard, an elevator, and several mechanic shops. It has a fine school building, several churches, an Odd Fellows and Masonic hall, a number of fine private residences, and an intelligent, enterprising population.
ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHIES.
GREENBERRY L. FORT, Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill.
Green berry Lafayette Fort was a son of Benjamin and Margaret Fort, and born October 11th, 1825, in French Grant, Sciota connty, Ohio, where he lived until May, 1834, when they removed to Round Prairie, now Marshall county, Illinois. Steamboats rarely ascending above Peoria, a keel-boat was procured, upon which they embarked, and landed at the month of Crow Creek, from whence they obtained transportation by wagons to the family of James Dever, a brother cf Mrs. Fort, then living in the old stockade erected as a defence against the Indians during the Black Hawk war, where they remained nntil his father built a house on land he purchased. Greenberry at this time was about nine years old, and the first labor he performed was dropping corn and driving a breaking team of seven yoke of oxen for his father. His first school was taught by Elizabeth Orr, now Mrs. Hancock. He likewise attended schools taught by A. Johnson, Jesse B. Bane, Samnel Work. S. P. Ogle. Jas. H. Brown, Harvey Scott, and others. His education was finished at Rock River Seminary. He was a good worker on the farm, an i occasionally hunted deer and other game with hounds, but did not take kindly to carrying a gun. Their own harvest, over, he assisted others. Has hauled wood to Lacon and sold it for 50 cents a cord, helped run a threshing machine, and once hanled wheat to Chicago and sold it for 49 cents a bushel, camping at night where the city hall and court house now stand. He studied law in Lacon, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. His first " brief " was in the Woodford circuit court, where he appeared for a Dr. Barney. Judge (now Senator) David Davis presided, and Abraham Lincoln was the opposing counsel. In 1850 hè was nominated by the Whigs for sheriff, and ran against Addison Ramsay, Democrat. The election was sharply contested, and he was elected. In 1852 he ran for county clerk on the Whig ticket, and was elected over S. J. McFaddin, Democrat. His father died in August. 1854, aged 80, and his mother in June, 1855, and both are buried in the family cemetery on a high bluff overlooking the valley of Crow Creek. He was much attached to them, and a fine monument marks their resting place. In 1857 he ran against P. M. Janney, of Henry, for jndge of the county court, and was elected. He was married May 25th, 1858, to Clara E. Boal, daughter of Dr. Robert Boal, and to them two children have been given,-Nina, born in November, 1861, and died in April, 1563, while he was in the army. He was tenderly attached to this little girl, and still grieves for the loss. A son, Robert B., was born April 25th, 1867. and is attending school. April 17th, 1861, upon the first call for troops, he enlisted as a private, was elected 1st lieutenant of Company B, 11th Reg. Ill. Vols., was mustered in at Springfield April 22d, and served three months. Returning, he recruited Co. I for the three years service. Owing to the exigencies of the times no arrangements for transporting men to the field had been made, and these expenses, amounting to over $1200, were paid by him, and have never been returned. He served in the army of the Tennessee on both field and staff dnty throngh all its campaigns, and was chief quartermaster of the 15th army corps on the famous march from "Atlanta to the Sea," and until the final surrender of Johnson's army. He par- ticipated in the grand military review at Washington, and was ordered with Sheridan's command to Texas, where he was mustered out as Colonel at Galveston, returned to Lacon and resumed the practice of law. In 1866 he was sent to the Illinois State Senate, was made chairman of the penitentiary committee, and secured the passage of a law giving persons credit for good behavior, to be deducted from their term of service. Was elected to the 43d
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Congress in 1872 as a Republican over Geo. O. Barnes, Independent; was re-elected to the 44th over Jas. G. Bayne, Independent; to the 45th over Geo. W. Parker, Independent, and to the 46th over C. C. Strawn, Greenbacker, and T. M Shaw, Democrat. During his time in Congress he has endeavored to do his duty and serve his constituents, representing not them alone, but the whole Northwest. He is now a partner with Joseph E. Ong and J. C. Boal in the practice of law. Col. Fort is now in the very prime of life, and coming from a line of long lived ancestors and blessed with good health, will probably live for many years.
WILLIAM FORD, Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill.
Mr. Ford was born in Tompkins county, N. Y., in 1805. The family were farmers and came from Connecti- cut. His life was like that of most boys in a new country, laboring on the firm in summer and attending school in winter where he picked up a scanty education. With the first money earned he bought a sheep, to which he af- terward added a calf aud next a colt. This laid the foundation of his fortune. Having a natural aptitude for me- chanics he learned the carpenter's trade and followed it thirty years, though his money was made mainly by farm- ing. In 1830 he married Rachel Hollister, who brought him nine children all of whom are dead, and in 1867 his wife died also. In 1868 he married Mrs. Emily W. Loveland (Gould), wich whom he has happily lived until the present time. While living in the state of New York he cleared np a fine farm which he sold at a round price and removed to Valparaiso, Ind., from whence he came to Lacon in 1869. He owns a fine farm across the river and has a good sum at interest, while Mrs. Ford owns 230 acres of land in her own right, besides other valuable property. They take the world contentedly, accept the blessings God has given them thankfully, and live happily in the enjoyment of their pleasant heme and the society o their friends.
ERASTUS R. MCKINNEY, Nursery, Florist and Gardener, Lacon, Ill.
Mr. Mckinney was born in New York state in 1834. He moved to Lacon in 1847 and worked at the carpenter trade until 1861, when he enlisted in Company 1, 11th Ill. Vol. Inf., Angnst 20, 1861, and served nntil wounded at Pittsburg Landing, April 16, 1862, and was discharged through disability arising from the effect of his wounds Aug. 19, 1862. He returned to Lacon, and as soon as sufficently recovered returned to the quartermaster's department as overseeing clerk in the repair shop, where he remained until April 20th 1863. He married Cynthia Cooper in 1857, born in Ohio. They have six childien-Sarah 4., Belle I .Nellie A., Minnie M., Arthur W. and Aluah R.
SMITM M. GARATT, Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill.
Mr, Garatt is of French descent, the ancestor of his family in this country having been an officer in the French army, who came here long before the Revolution. He was the engineer who constructed a work of defense, in Connecticut, known as" The Old Stone Fort." His descendants served in the war of the Revolution, one of whom, Major John Garatt, was an officer in a Connecticut regiment, killed at the massacre of Wyoming, Pa. Smith M. Garatt is a cousin of Amasa Garatt, of Stenben township, in this county, their fathers being brothers Corinth Garratt, the father of the subject of this sketch, came from Connectiont abont 1820, and afterwards settled in Spencer, N. Y., where Smith M. Garatt was born. He was educated at Alfred University, graduated at the Al- bany Law School in the class of 1861, and the same year came west and opened a law office at Lacon, Ill From 1868 to 1872 he served as State's attorney of the then 23d circuit composed of Marshall. Woodford and Putnam connties. In 1862 he married Bell V. Cook, danghter of Hon. W. E. Cook, of Lacon, Ill., by whom he has three ohildren-Cor- inth C., Leonora J. and Eunice Monroe, (the name Monroe being conferred because it was the maiden name of the mother of Mr. Garratt. He is a Republican in politics, h's first vote having been cast for Abraham Lincoln for president when he run the second time. He voted twice for General Grant for the same office, and is decidedly in favor of nominating him again.
WILLIAM J. FORT; Judge of the County Court of Marshall County.
Mr. Fort was born in Richland township, on the place where he now resides, in 1844, and was a son of the late G. W. Fort, The family name was formerly LaFeurt, and traces its lineage back to LaBelle France. He obtained his education in the schools of the vicinity, and was bronght np on a farm, having followed the plow more or less nntil 1852. when he entered the army as quartermaster's agent, and filled the position np to the close of the war, having followed its movements and witnessing many notable events. After the peace he returned to the farm again, and for a short time was engaged in merchandising, but the death of his father threw the care of the large estate left on his hands, and he remained on the farm until elected to the position he now holds. In politics Mr. Fort is like his family, uncompromisingly Republican, and takes an active part in politics. He is an indefatigable worker, and one of the strongest men in the party. As a judge, he is clear-headed and logical, making his decisions only after thoroughly comprehending the case, and seldom seeing them disturbed by the higher conrts. In 1872 he married Emily O. Stevens, danghter of Phineas Stevens, formerly a well known banker and merchant of Lacon, now of Marshalltown, Iowa.
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JAMES HOYT., Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill.
Mr. Hoyt was born in Stamford, Conn., in 1807, and comes from an old family that traces its lineage back to Simon Hoyt in the days of the New England Pilgrims. His father died when he was six years old, and when 15 he was put to learning the tailor's trade, at which he served six years. When 21 he went south and found a situation in New Orleans. Staid seven years, and then went to New York and opened a merchant tailoring establishment, which he conducted five years. In 1834 he married Maria Hitchcock and went to Ohio, where he lived three and &
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half years, working at his trade. Nine children were born to them, fonr of whom survive. His wife died in 1850. He came to Springfield, Ill., in 1837, staid one winter, and in the spring of 1838, with wife, two children and three dollars and fifty cents cash, landed in Marshall connty. At first they lived in Joe Bennington's cabin, rented land for three years, and then bought 60 acres from Jesse Kestor. Worked at his trade winters and farmed summers. Saw hard times. Lived on cornmeal and fat pork for six months, without a penny in the house. In 1853 married Eliza J. Mathis, of Oxbow, by whom he has two children, Charles and Jennie. Of the children by his first mar- riage, J. H. Hoyt lives in Dade county, Mo., and is connty judge; Seymour is a surveyor; Julia (Mrs. Bobbitt) lives in Nebraska, and Sarah (Mrs Clifford) on Sandy. Mr. Hoyt is a good financier and able manager. He has realized from the products of his farm as high as $6,000 in a single year. He owns 421 acres of land, the greater portion un- der cultivation.
WILLIAM WRIGHT, Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill.
Mr. Wright was born near Russellville, Brown county, Ohio, in 1826, and comes from a long line of patriotic ancestors who settled in Virginia prior to 1750. In the war of the Revolution they fought with the colonists and sev- eral were killed in battle. In the second war with Great Britain, two or three of his uncles lost their lives, and in the last war four brothers volunteered, one of whom died in the service, and another from disease contracted there. Gev. Wright was the first soldier from this county that lost his life. He died near Bird's Point, Mo., June 6, 1861. The father of Mr. Wright was born near Paris, Bonham connty, Ky., in 1797. and in 1800 emigrated with his parents to Brown county. Ohio, where in 1820 he wedded Rebecca McLaughlin, who still survives. Mr. William Wright set- tled in Lacon in 1851, and in 1853 married Julia A. German, born in Ohio in 1830. He learned the trade of a cooper and followed it a number of years, was engaged in merchandising with the late Edwin Jones, and later by himself. Was appointed U. S. storekeeper in 1871, and has held the position for nine years. Is a member of the Baptist church, a friend of temperance and education, and a respected and valned citizen.
DAVID MUIR, Lacon, Marshall Co., Ill.
Mr. Mnir was born in Ulster connty, New York, and lived there and in an adjoining connty until 'he had nearly reached man's estate. His parents dying when young he was early thrown npon his own resources for a livelihood and education. Drifting west he engaged to labor for G. L. Barnes, who became his friend, and through him made the acquaintance of G. O. Barnes and entered his office as law student. He was a hard worker, and ap- plied all his energies to a mastery of its principles. He read early and late, picking no information valnable for the future, and storing it away in memory's receptacles. He passed a brilliant examination and began practice. It was no experiment, he knew just what he was abont. The tools he had been forging and sharpening were at command, and forthcoming when wanted. He took rank at once with old lawyers, and his right to the place has never been disputed. His cases are worked up with care, and he never goes into conrt until fully prepared and strongly fortified, and the result is he seldom fails
JERRY R. FEAZEL, Hopewell Township, Marshall Co., Ill.
Mr. Feazel was born in Ohio, July 4th, 1832. The family is of German-Scotch descent, and emigrated from Virginia to Ohio soon after marriage. When thirteen years old they moved to Illinois, lived one season on the Bullman place, went to the Larkin's farm in Hopewell and lived six years, and then on to the prairie, where he lived until his death. His father died in 1860. His mother was Hannah Murphy. They had 12 children of whom Jerry R., William and Hiram reside in this vicinity. He was bronght np on a farm, and received his education in part at the old log school house on the Broaddns place. In 1855 he married Eliza Wright, born in Madison connty, Ohio. They have no children, but are educating a nephew and neice. Mr. Feazel is one of the best farmers in the town- ship owning 420 acres of good land. He owns the Edward Harris farm, one of the first located in the county. His attention is largely devoted to feeding and dealing in stock, of which he is an excellent judge. In 1876 himself and wife made an extended jonrney to the Pacific coast, visiting all the places of interest and spending considerable time in the mining district, where he made some investments. They are genial and hospitable,
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