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ALBERT COMPTON, retired, Charleston ; one of the early settlers of Coles county ; was born in Fairfax Co., Va., Sept. 24, 1812; in the fall of 1830, he left home and came to Vincennes, Ind., thence to Terre Haute, and from the latter place, in 1833, to Charleston, arriving on the 3d of March ; he worked at his trade of a shoemaker for about two years, and
then engaged as a clerk in the employ of Baker & Norfolk ; in 1835, he was elected Constable and served two years ; in August, 1838, he was chosen Sheriff of Coles County, which office he held four success- ive terms of two years each, or eight years in all; on the expiration of his term of office, he engaged in the dry goods trade, which he followed until 1861, when, hav- ing accumulated a comfortable competency, he retired from active business ; he has also held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Master in Chancery. He owns some 280 acres of land in Coles Co., and two business houses and a dwelling in Charles- ton. He was married in January, 1836, to Miss Catherine Easton, daughter of the late David Easton, of Charleston ; they have five children living-Rhoda, now Mrs. S. M. Shepard, of Indianapolis, Ind. ; Nancy, wife of Randall Alexander, of Charleston ; Rufus, Mary, wife of Felix Johnston, of Charleston, and Allie.
ISAAC N. CRAIG, retired farmer ; P. O. Charleston ; one of the early settlers of Coles County ; was born in Montgomery Co., Ky., Sept. 25, 1810; his father removed with his family to Illinois in 1828, and purchased a farm in Clark Co .; Isaac N. remained at home on the farm until 1831. On the 14th of April, 1831, he was married to Miss Catherine Henson, of Edgar Co., Ill., who died May 1, 1841, leaving five children, three of whom are living-La Fayette, Elizabeth-Mrs. Har- mon Gregg-and Harriet, wife of Harvey Fowler; Mr. Craig, after his marriage, settled in Clark Co. On the breaking-out of the Black Hawk war, Mr. Craig enlisted in the 2d Brigade, under Gen. Milton Alexander, and served through the war. In 1835, he removed to Coles Co., where he has been a prominent farmer and stock-raiser ever since; Mr. Craig began life poor, and has met with some reverses of fortune, but has, nevertheless, accumu- lated a handsome property ; he owns some seven hundred acres of land in the county, and a fine residence, with twenty acres of land, in the city of Charleston, where he resides ; he is a Director and stockholder in the Second National Bank. He married his present estimable wife July 1, 1841 ; she was Miss Elizabeth Bloyer, of Coles Co .; they have had eight children, six of whom are now living-Catherine (wife of
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Robt. McMullen), James W., Andrew J., Eliza E. (wife of Newton Swango), Isaac B. and Thomas J .; all of Mr. Craig's children are living in Coles Co.
COL. A. P. DUNBAR, retired, Charles- ton ; with one exception, the oldest living in- habitant of the city ; was born in Fleming Co., Ky., July 4, 1810 ; his father, Alexan- der Dunbar, was a soldier in the war of 1812 and participated in the battles of the River Raisin and the Thames, and was pres- ent at the famous Perry's victory on Lake Erie. The subject of this sketch, after receiving an English education and read- ing law to some extent, came to Clay Co., Ill., in 1828, at the age of 18 years, and engaged in teaching; after two years, he returned to Kentucky, where he completed his law studies, and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1831 ; he at once came to Coles Co., located at Charleston, and began the practice of his profession, which he continued for forty-six years ; he was the first lawyer in the counties of Coles, Cumberland and Douglas ; he assisted in carrying the chain at the second survey of lots in Charleston in 1831. On the break- ing, out of the Black Hawk war in 1832, he received a commission as Colonel and rendered valuable service in recruiting and forwarding the troops from this vicinity. In 1832, he was appointed Circuit Clerk and Recorder to fill out an unexpired term ; in 1834, he was elected Justice of the Peace, and held that office eight years ; in 1836 and 1837, he represented Coles Co. -then including Cumberland and Douglas Cos .- in the State Legislature, and occu- pied the same seat with the lamented President Lincoln, Hon. Stephen A. Doug- las being also a member of the same House ; he was again elected to the Legislature in 1844, serving two years; he was ap- pointed, in 1870, Prosecuting Attorney, to fill out the unexpired term of Gen. John Boyle, and has held other offices of trust, among which may be mentioned that of Police Magistrate from 1868 to 1874. Col. Dunbar was first married in 1834 to Miss Ellen Monroe, a native of Glasgow, Ky .; she died in 1835; and on Sept. 27, 1836, he married Mrs. Susan F. Harrison, the widow of Matthew T. Har- rison, of Kentucky; they have had eight children-Alexander Mason Dunbar (of Charleston), Mary Ellen (now Mrs. I. N.
Cutler, residing in Missouri), Imogene Caroline (afterward wife of Bruce Ander- son, and who died in 1870), Lucian Syl- vester (of Charleston), Albert Perry (who died in 1876), Lucy Arabella (now Mrs. Wm. O. Peake, of Charleston), Susan Virginia (who died when less than 2 years of age) and Charles Ulysses, of Charleston. Col. Dunbar's law library, together with many valuable papers, was destroyed by fire in 1877, upon which he retired from practice. Col. Dunbar was an Old Line Whig, and joined the Repub- lican party on its organization in 1856; he stumped the county and vicinity for the Republican candidates at every Presidential election since that time; he is a fluent, effective public speaker and an able lawyer.
JEWELL DAVIS, M. D., physician and surgeon, Charleston ; was born in Athens Co., Ohio, Oct. 27, 1811 ; he was raised on a farm, and followed that calling until about 1838, when he removed to Middleport, Meigs Co., Ohio, having a few years pre- viously married Miss Cynthia Jones, of that place; they have three children- Mary V. (wife of E. L. Kelly), Curtis L., Teller of the First National Bank, and Reuben J., all of whom are residents of Coles Co. Dr. Davis followed coopering and carriage-making for a while in Middle- port ; owing to illness in his family, he was induced to study medicine, studying suc- cessively all the various systems of practice -allopathy, homeopathy, eclecticism, hy- dropathy and chromo-thermalism, and during his forty years' practice he has con- fined himself to no particular school, but has seized upon any remedy, from whatever source, which would accomplish his object -the relief of the patient and the cure of disease ; his favorite system, however, is the eclectic ; Dr. Davis came to Charleston in 1854, and began practice with Dr. A. M. Henry, now of Mattoon, with whom he also engaged in the drug business ; after a few years, Dr. Henry disposed of his interest to Dr. H. C. Barnard ; he afterward practiced with Dr. H. R. Allen, now one of the proprietors of the National Surgical Institute of Indianapolis, and with Dr. J. B. Denman up to the begin- ning of the war, since which he has prac- ticed alone ; Dr. Davis is also largely in- terested in bee culture, having about a hundred colonies, and is the inventor of
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the queen nursery for propagating queen bees.
JACOB K. DECKER, far. and stock- raiser ; P. O. Charleston ; was born in Knox Co., Ind., Aug. 7, 1817 ; his parents, Isaac and Margaret Decker, were Vir- ginians, and left that State in 1811, and were living in Fort Knox, on the Wabash, when the battle of Tippecanoe was fought; when he was 7 years old, his father died, and at about the age of 15, he was appren- ticed by his guardian to a merchant in . Crawford Co., Ill .; in 1836, he came to Charleston and engaged in the grocery business, with a capital of $250; about two and a half years later, he went to farming, which he has continued, in con- nection with other business, to the present time; in 1842, he engaged in the dry goods trade, which he followed until 1855 ; he then farmed exclusively until 1859, when he resumed the dry goods business, continuing till 1863, since which time he has been engaged solely in farming and stock-raising; he owns a fine farm of 750 acres adjoining the city on the north, al- though he resides in the city, where he owns a good residence with ten acres of land; he also owns a fine brick store on the east side of the public square, occu- pied by S. Barnes, besides which he owns 250 acres of land in Northern Iowa. In politics, he is a Republican. He has served one term on the Board of Supervisors, and for over twenty years has been Treasurer of the Coles County Board of Agriculture. He was married Sept. 23, 1839, to Miss Mary A. Morton, daughter of the late Charles S. Morton, of Charleston ; they have 7 children living-Charles V. (of Hutchinson, Kan.), Hannah H. (wife of Dr. W. R. Patton, of Charleston), Annie (now Mrs. Silas Barnes, of Charleston), Demetrius J. (now a resident of Cali- fornia), Ion B. (now Mrs. T. H. Duncan, of Oakland, Ill.), N. Ella and Mary A.
GILES DAVIS, deceased, late of Charleston ; although not one of the early settlers, was yet a citizen and business man who enjoyed in so large a measure the con- fidence of his fellow-men and was held in such universal and high esteem by the entire community, that it is with pleasure that we give a brief sketch of his life ; he was born in Union Co., Ind., Nov. 7, 1824; he was the son of Elisha and
Elizabeth (Shafer) Davis, both of whom were natives of Ohio ; his youth was spent in the usual manner of farmers' sons. On the 1st of October, 1845, when not quite 21 years of age, he was married to Miss Louisa Jinks, a daughter of Samuel and Phœbe (Winchell) Jinks, of Franklin Co., Ind. In 1868, he removed with his family to Jasper Co., Ill., and engaged in farm- ing ; in 1871, he came to Coles Co., and, until 1873, kept a meat market in Charles- ton ; he then located on a farm in Seven Hickory Tp., where he resided two years, at the end of which time he returned to Charleston and resumed business ; in 1878, just previous to his death, he engaged in the grocery business, which is still con- tinued by his son, Warren R. Davis. He died Oct. 19, 1878, leaving a wife and eleven children-Sarah E. (Mrs. E. B. Wooden, of Charleston), Phoebe J. (wife of T. J. Hedrick, of Rush Co., Kan.), Robert S. (a teacher, of Rush Co., Kan.), Richard E. (a telegraph operator in Litch- field, Ill.), Giles O. (in business in Charles- ton), Warren R. (also in business in Charleston), Louisa J., Emily M., Harry E., Wilber M. and Effie L .; their first-born, Samuel J., died Sept. 3, 1847. Mr. Davis was a highly-respected member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights- of Honor.
HON. ORLANDO B. FICKLIN, at- torney at law, Charleston ; he was born in Kentucky Dec. 16, 1808, being the son of William and Elizabeth Kenner (Will- iams) Ficklin, both of Virginia. His early education was obtained in country schools, in Kentucky and Missouri, except about one year, which he spent at Cum- berland College, located at Princeton, Caldwell Co., Ky., under the auspices of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. His parents having removed to Potosi, Washington Co., Mo., he commenced the study of law with Henry Shurlds of that place, who was afterward elected to the Circuit Court bench, and at a later period removed to St. Louis and engaged in bank- ing until his death ; Mr. Ficklin spent the winter of 1829 and 1830 in the law office of Gen. Robert Farris, of St. Louis; in March, 1830, he was admitted to the bar at Bellville, St. Clair Co., Ill., having been examined by Edward Cowles, then an old and well-established lawyer of that place;
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from thence he went to MeLeansboro, Hamilton Co., Ill., meeting there with Chief Justice William Wilson, who ad- vised him to locate in Mount Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill. ; Mr. Ficklin attended the courts of that circuit commencing at Carmi. and when the circuit closed, he located at Mt. Carmel. In 1832, he went to the Black Hawk war in Capt. Elias Jurdon's Company, and at the organiza- tion of the regiments and brigades, was appointed Quartermaster, and was attached to the brigade of Gen. Milton R. Alex- ander, then of Paris, Ill .; in 1833, he was elected Colonel of the militia of Wa- bash Co., under the old militia system, long since exploded. At the election in August, 1834, Mr. Ficklin was elected to the Lower House of the Legislature, and was chosen by that body State's Attorney for the Wabash Circuit. In 1837, he removed to Charleston, Coles Co., where he has ever since resided. At the election on the first Monday of August, 1838, he was elected as Representative in the Legislature from that county, and was again elected to the same place in August, 1842; at the August election in 1843, he was elected to Congress from the Wabash district ; his colleagues were Robert Smith, John A. McClernand, John Wentworth, Joseph P. Hoge, John J. Harding and Stephen A. Douglas ; he was re-elected to Congress in August, 1844, and again in 1846, and declining to be a candidate at the next election, he resumed the practice of law in Charleston ; in 1850, he was again a can- didate for Congress, and was elected at the August election ; on the expiration of his term, March 4, 1853, he engaged again in the practice of law; in 1856, he was a member of the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, that nominated James Buchan- an for President ; in 1860, he was a mem- ber of the National Convention, held at Charleston, S. C., and was present at the disruption of that body, and also attended the adjourned meeting at Baltimore, where Stephen A. Douglas was nominated; in 1864, he was a delegate to the National Convention, held at Chicago, that nominated Gen. George B. McClellan for President ; he represented the countics of Coles, Moul- trie and Douglas in the State Constitutional Convention, in the winter of 1869-70; after which, he gave his attention to the
practice of law, and was not a candidate for any office in the gift of the people until the fall of 1878, when he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. While in Congress, he was married to Miss Elizabeth H. Colquitt, a daughter of Sen- ator W. H. Colquitt, of Georgia, and has four children living.
FREDERICK FROMMEL, Charles- ton, of the firm of Weiss & Frommel, proprietors of the Charleston Woolen-Mill ; was born in Ravensburg, Kingdom of Wur- temberg, Germany, Dec. 5, 1825 ; at the . age of 14, he was apprenticed in a woolen- factory to learn the trade, and worked there until he came to this country in 1854; he spent several years in Philadelphia, New York and Connecticut; after which, he came West to Cincinnati, where he was engaged in traveling for two of the prin- cipal woolen houses in that city until 1869; he then removed to Charleston, and en- gaged with Henry Weiss, proprietor of the Charleston Woolen-Mill. On the death of Mr. Weiss, in the fall of 1869, he be- came a member of the firm of Weiss, Ginther & Co., till 1874, since which time it has been Weiss & Frommel ; they em- ploy about thirty hands, and manufacture all kinds of woolen goods and yarns. Mr. Frommel was a member of the City Coun- cil of Charleston, from 1874 to 1878. He was married May 16, 1860, to Miss Annie Stuber, of Cincinnati, and has five children living-Emma K., Albert G., Ernst H., Minnie Ch. and Otto H.
AARON FERGUSON, M. D., deceased, late of Charleston ; was born in Wilkes Co., N. C., Dec. 11, 1802; he was a son of Joel and Lydia { Chambers) Ferguson, and the oldest of a family of nine children ; when he was quite young, his parents emi- grated to Bloomington, Ind. ; he obtained a collegiate education in the Bloomington College, after which, he studied medicine under Dr. Maxwell, of that place, and at- tended a course of medical lectures in Cin- cinnati ; in 1830, he came to Charleston and entered upon the practice of his pro- fession. He was married May 21, 1832, to Miss Susan P. Morton, daughter of Charles S. Morton, the original proprietor of the city of Charleston ; she was born in Fayette Co., Ky., May 31, 1814, and came to Coles Co. with her parents in 1829 ; all their children, three in number,
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are still living ; William C. resides in St. Louis ; Irvin B., in Rockerville, Dakota Territory, and Aaronella L. is the wife of G. W. Parker, of St. Louis. Dr. Fergu- son, not content with previous attainments, afterward pursued a course in the Medical Department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., where he graduated about 1837 ; his practice was an extensive one, extending a distance of thirty miles in all directions ; he was a close student all his life, retiring in his disposition, seeking no notoriety, and accepting no public offices, but devoting himself to study and the duties of his profession. He was, how- ever, an earnest Republican, believing firmly in the principles of his party, and ready to advocate them on all suitable oc- casions. For about five years previous to his death, he was confined to his room by paralysis ; he died April 10, 1876 ; as a physician, he occupied an exalted position, and as a citizen was held in universal re- spect. Mrs. Ferguson still resides in Charleston.
WM. E. GINTHER, dealer in hardware and farm machinery, and general insur- ance agent, Charleston ; was born in the province of Saxony, Prussia, May 2, 1834 ; his father was a wagon and carriage manu- facturer, and he attended school and worked in his father's shop till he was 16 years old, when he came to this country, landing in New York on the 4th of July, 1850; coming to Chicago, he worked on a farm and on the old Galena & Chicago R. R. for awhile; afterward engaged in farming for himself; in 1861, he engaged as a traveling salesman for H. W. Austin, of Chicago, his route lying through Central and Southern Illinois, and Missouri ; in 1864, he removed to Charles- ton, and, until 1869, followed the hard- ware and lumber business, the firm being McGee & Ginther ; he then became a partner in the firm of Weiss, Ginther & Co., proprietors of the Charleston Woolen- Mill; in 1874, he resumed the hardware business, and in September, 1877, started in the insurance business also; he repre- sents fifteen first-class fire insurance com- panies, and three life and accident com- panies. He represented a part of Cook Co. in the State Legislature in 1861 and 1862, his district comprising the West Di- vision of Chicago and the western portion
of Cook Co .; for four years previously, he had been a member of the Cook County Board of Supervisors; since coming to Charleston, he has abstained from political life, and with the exception of serving in the City Council, has held no public office. He was married in 1853 to Miss Cather- ine Jacobs, of St. Charles, Ill., a native of Bavaria, Germany ; she died in 1858, leaving one son-Francis W., now U. S. Postal Clerk from Pittsburgh, Penn., to New York City ; Mr. Ginther was mar- ried again in 1859, to Miss Christina Schneider, of Oak Park, Ill .; they have five children-Emma L., Anna, Clara A., Minnie C. and William E., Jr.
CHARLES GRAMESLY, dealer in wines and liquors, Charleston ; was born in Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., June 2, 1842 ; he is a son of William S. and Phebe J. (Hildreth) Graniesly ; his father was born in Orange Co., N. Y., Nov. 17, 1809, and his mother in Bridge- hampton, Long Island, March 5, 1819 ; in 1-57, his parents removed with their family to Coles Co., and settled in Charles- ton Tp., where his father now resides ; his mother died in January, 1876, leaving two sons -- Charles and Henry ; on becom- ing of age, Mr. Gramesly engaged in teach- ing school, and followed it during three successive winters ; in 1872, he entered the Charleston post office as deputy, under John A. Miles, and remained till Decem- ber, 1873, when he left the office to attend to his duties as collector of the township, to which office he had been elected in the spring of that year ; in the spring of 1875, he started his present business. He was married Aug. 28, 1877, to Miss Katurah Hildreth, a daughter of John Hildreth, of South Onondaga, Onandaga Co., N. Y .; they have one child-Margaret.
J. P. HARRAH, attorney at law, Charleston ; is a native of Putnam Co., Ind .; he was born near Greencastle June 4, 1848; and is a son of Daniel F. Harrah ; in 1858, he removed with his father's family to Jasper Co., Ill., where he remained on the farm until 1867; he then engaged in teaching school in Jasper Co .; in August, 1868, he entered Westfield College, Ill., and remained as a student in that institu- tion two years ; returning home in 1870, he began reading law, and, in the fall of 1871, went to Newton, the county seat of
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Jasper Co., as deputy in the office of | Co., Ky., and settled in Coles Co. in 1835, the County Treasurer, continuing his law studies under the direction of Col. John H. Halley, a prominent attorney of that city ; in November, 1872, he was elected State's Attorney for Jasper Co., although he was not admitted to the bar until Octo- ber. 1873, owing to a rule of the Supreme Court of the State requiring candidates for admission to spend two years in an attor- ney's office ; he continued to hold the office of State's Attorney until 1876 ; he also served one term as City Attorney ; he was appointed a Justice of the Peace in De- cember, 1876, by Gov. Cullom ; in 1877, he came to Charleston and has since been engaged in the practice of law in this city. He was married Jan. S, 1873, to Miss Emma L. Gill, a daughter of Thomas Gill, of Cumberland Co., Ill. ; she died Oct. 6, 1878, leaving two children-Edith A. and Hattie A.
ELI HURON, dealer in books, station- ery, musical instruments, toys, etc., Charles- ton ; was born in Hendricks Co., Ind., Oct. 14, 1836 ; up to the breaking-out of the rebellion he remained on his father's farm. In February, 1862, he entered the Union army as a member of Co. A, 53d Ind. V. I., serving in the Army of the Cumberland ; he participated in the siege of Corinth, and was wounded at the second battle of Corinth, on the 5th of October, 1862, from which he lost his right arm. He spent the spring and summer of 1864 as a student in Bryant & Stratton's Busi- ness College, Indianapolis, after which he went to Washington, D. C., and entered the office of the Indiana State Military Ageney as a clerk under Gen. Hannaman ; here he remained several months and then obtained an appointment in the War De. partment as a clerk in the Quartermaster General's office, where he remained till 1869, when he resigned his position and came to Charleston ; he entered upon his present business, starting at first with a small stock; his business has continued to increase until he now has the largest busi- ness in his line in the city. He was mar- ried July 1, 1869, to Miss Annie Harding, of Charleston, and has one son-Rolph E.
RICE P. HACKETT, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Charleston ; was born in Coles Co., Ill., Nov. 28, 1838 ; he is a son of Levi Hackett, who came from Scott
and now lives in Douglas Co., to which he removed in 1861. Mr. Hackett is the sec- ond of a family of eight children, five of whom are living. He was married Feb. 25, 1857, to Miss Ann M. Waltrip, of Hutton Tp., also a native of the county, and a daughter of John Waltrip, one of the early settlers of the county. They have nine children-William J., Eliza E., Noah M., Legrand A., Henry M., Ida J., Lula E., Eva R. and Reason A. In August, 1862, Mr. Hackett enlisted in Co. K, 123d I. V. I., and served three years, participating in all the principal engagements of that regi- ment; he was severely wounded at the battle of Milton, Tenn., and carries to this day a bullet in his hip as a memento of that engagement ; he was again slightly wounded during a skirmish while on a foraging expedition below Murfreesboro ; he settled on his present farm in 1872, where he owns 205 acres of land, well improved. Mr. Hackett and family are members of the Church of God, of which he is a Trustee and Deacon ; he took an active part in the erection of their house of worship in 1876, donating a lot for that purpose from the corner of his farm.
ISAIAH H. JOHNSTON, President of the Second National Bank, Charleston ; was born in Russell Co., Va., April 24, 1827 ; his father, Abner Johnston, came to this county in 1830, and settled in what is now Pleasant Grove Tp., and lived there until his death, which occurred in 1848. Mr. Johnston followed farm- ing until he was 27 years old, and then engaged in merchandising, and, in 1857, removed to Mattoon, and continued in business there till 1860; he was then elected Sheriff, of Coles Co., and removed to Charleston; he served as Sheriff two years, and afterward served out the unex- pired term of John H. O'Hair. He afterward followed the dry goods trade one year, and during this time was engaged also in farming and dealing in stock. In 1869, he built the first pork-packing house in the city, and the same year, in company with T. A. Marshall and John W. True, he established the banking house of T. A. Marshall & Co., which was superseded by the Second National Bank two years later. In 1871, he, with John B. Hill and Thomas Stoddert, erected the Charleston
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