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J. W. NEAL, M. D., physician and surgeon, Charleston ; was born July 22, 1851, in what is now Cumberland Co., Ill., but then a part of Coles Co .; his father, William Neal, is a prominent and wealthy farmer and stock-raiser, who came to the
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State fifty-five years ago, at the age of 8 ; years, from Bourbon Co., Ky .; Dr. Neal remained at home on the farm till he was 19 years old, then entered Lee's Academy, in this county, graduating in 1871, and at once began the study of medicine with Dr. T. B. Dora, of Mattoon. The winter of 1872-73 he attended a course of lectures in the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio; in the spring of 1873, he began practice with Dr. Dora, and the following spring removed to Stockton; in Septem- ber, 1874, he entered Bennett Medical College, Chicago, graduating and receiving his degree of M. D. in January, 1875. On the 19th of May following, he married Miss Lizzie McCrory, daughter of James McCrory, of Stockton, and removed to Hutchinson, Kan. On the 17th of Feb- ruary, 1877, he was elected Vice Presi- dent of the State Eclectic Medical Society, at Topeka ; in October, 1877, he returned to the Eclectic Medical College, in Cincin- nati, where he graduated Jan. 22, 1878, receiving the first honors of the institution, being selected by his class to deliver the valedictory address ; he at once located at Charleston, and entered upon the practice of his profession. They have had two children-Gertrude, born March 7, 1876, and Fred. M., born Feb. 18, 1878, and died March 26, of the same year.
JAY F. NEAL, dealer in groceries and provisions, Charleston ; was born in Tuf- tonborough, Carroll Co., N. H., June 24, 1835 ; he is a son of Nathaniel Neal, a farmer of that town; his early life was passed in farm labor among the granite hills, but at the age of 19 years he went to Great Falls, and engaged in teach- ing just across the river in New Berwick Me. ; he continued teaching during a por- tion of the year for twelve years. He graduated at the New Hampshire Confer- ence Seminary at Tilton, N. H., in 1859, and entered the Sophomore class of the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. At the end of a year, however, his health becoming impaired, and an opportunity presenting itself to engage in teaching in the South, he left college, and, going to Bourbon Co., Ky., taught in the Millers- burg high school until 1861. He then came to Charleston and taught two years in the public schools, after which he en- gaged in clerking for Henry Weiss in the
hardware business, and afterward as book- keeper for the Charleston Woolen-Mill, engaging in his present business in 1870. He was married by the Rev. W. B. Ander- son on the 25th of March, 1863, to Miss Sarah E. Blakeman, of Charleston Tp., a daughter of Even Blakeman, now of Os- wego Co., N. Y. They have one child- Mary E.
JACKSON M. OLIVER, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Charleston ; was born on the old homestead in Charleston Tp., June 16, 1851. He is a son of George and Fannie (Lumbrick ) Oliver ; his father was a native of North Carolina ; born in Rockingham Co., in that State, June 16, 1819 ; his parents afterward removed to Putnam Co., Ind .; there he lived until 1840, and then came to Coles Co., where, on the 28th of August, 1840, he married Miss Fannie Lumbrick, a daughter of James Lumbrick, one of the early settlers of the county ; she was born in Rocking- ham Co., N. C., April 7, 1820, and came to Coles Co. when about 11 years of age. Of eleven children of this marriage, seven are still living, viz .- James A., of Charleston Tp .; Samuel A., of Texas ; George M., of Morgan Tp .; Jackson M., of Charleston Tp .; Rosanah, wife of J. W. Padget, of Ashmore Tp .; Mary, wife of Franklin Alexander, of Hutton Tp .; and Stephen A., of Charleston. Mr. Oliver died March 6, 1870 ; Mrs. Oliver resides in Charleston. Jackson M. Oliver was raised on the farm, and was married Sept. 20, 1874, to Miss Biddie J. Jones, a daughter of William Jones, of Cumberland Co., Ill. ; she was born in that county Sept. 3, 1856 ; they have one child living -- Mollie E .; one child, Marion H., died Aug. 20, 1878. Mr. Oliver is at present Collector of Charleston Tp., to which office he was elected in the spring of 1878.
JUDGE A. M. PETERSON, attorney at law, Charleston ; was born in Westmore- land Co., Penn., Jan. 15, 1825 ; leaving there in 1845, he went to Canton, Ohio, and began the study of medicine, attend- ing a course of lectures at the Cleveland Medical College. He came to Illinois in 1849, and began practice as a physician in Edgar Co., and the following year removed to Newton, Jasper Co., Ill. On the 18th of April, the same year, he married Miss Nancy Whalen, of Edgar Co., a native of
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Nelson Co., Ky. The practice of medicine proving distasteful to him, and having a natural preference for the law, in 1853, he abandoned the former and engaged in the practice of the latter profession, which he continued till May, 1861. He then en- tered the Union army, as Captain of Co. K, 21st I. V. I., of which Gen. Grant was then Colonel ; he served until November, 1862, when, owing to ill health, he re- signed. In the spring of 1863 he located in Charleston, and resumed the practice of the law. He was elected a member of the City Council in the spring of 1864, and again in the spring of 1866; the same year he was elected Mayor of Charles- ton, but the duties of the office being un- congenial, he soon afterward resigned. In 1869, he was elected County Judge, and held that office four years, since which time he has confined his attention to the practice of his profession.
W. R. PATTON, M. D., physician, and surgeon, Charleston ; is a native of Illinois ; he was born in Palestine, Crawford Co., Oct. 14, 1836 ; he is a son of Dr. E. L. Patton, a prominent physi- cian of Palestine, who came from Wash- ington Co., East Tenn., to Crawford Co., about the year 1833, and practiced medi- cine there until his death, which occurred in December, 1864. Dr. Patton was educated in the public schools, and at Hanover College, Ind., and, in 1858, began the study of medicine in his father's office. In 1860, he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago; graduating in the spring of 1862. He practiced two years in Palestine, and, in the winter of 1864, came to Charleston, where he has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since; he is a mem- ber of the Esculapian Society of the Wabash Valley. He was married May 4, 1864, to Miss Hannah Decker, a daughter of Jacob K. Decker, a well-known citizen and early settler of Charleston ; they have two children-Fredrick Lieth and Jacob Allen. Dr Patton served two years on the Board of Aldermen, and is the present Mayor of Charleston, to which office he was elected in 1877.
ALEXANDER PERKINS, dealer in groceries, Charleston ; is an early settler of the city, having emigrated from Marion Co., Ind., in September, 1836 ; he was born near Newcastle, Henry Co., Ky., Feb. 22, 1814;
when quite young he accompanied his par- ents to Marion Co., Ind. ; he was raised to agricultural pursuits ; he was married Oct. 8, 1835, to Miss Jane Griffith, of New Bethel, Marion Co., Ind., and, in 1836, removed to Charleston; they had five chil- dren, two of whom are living-Amanda, wife of Daniel Curd, and Margaret L., now Mrs. John James, both residing in Charleston; two sons, William G. and Daniel A., lost their lives during the late war. On arriving in Charleston, Mr. Per- kins engaged in manufacturing brick, aft- erward followed the clothing business for a year, and then engaged in the grocery busi- ness, which he still continues ; his wife died July 22, 1851, and on the 5th of February, 1852, he married Miss B. F. Curd, daugh- ter of Daniel Curd, late of Charleston ; they have five children-Kate, wife of W. W. Bishop, of Kansas, Edgar Co., Richard S., Daniel, Joseph and Minnie. Mr. Perkins has served as Street Commissioner, and for several terms on the Board of Al- dermen, and was a portion of the time President of the Board.
A. H. PREVO, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. O. Charleston ; was born in Randolph Co., N. C., Jan. 5, 1833 ; he is the only son of Alson H. and Pheriba (Phelps) Prevo, both natives of that State, the former of whom died when the subject of this sketch was a child, and the latter of whom now resides with her son, at the age of 70 years. At the age of 18 years he left the farm, and obtained employment in one of the lumber mills in the vicinity. In 1854, he came West as far as Fountain Co , Ind., and there engaged in teaching school. He was married Oct. 23, 1854, to Miss Mary E. Richmond, the only daughter of Henry and Sophia J. (Keller) Richmond, of that county ; they have two children- Jennie and Alson H. Mrs. Richmond, now 66 years of age, is a member of her daughter's family. Removing to Coles Co. in 1856, Mr. Prevo hired out to drive oxen at $20 a month, and board himself, and after following that for two years, he worked in the mill for two years more, when, having accumulated a sufficient sum, he purchased the mill in which he was em- ployed, which he ran for a number of years. In 1867, he removed to Charle-ton, and fitted up the Charleston Stave-Factory, with a new engine, and continued that
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business one year ; the next year, he built the Prevo & Spence Elevator, into which he removed the engine and machinery of the stave-factory ; after continuing the grain business one year, he engaged in the stock business, shipping horses and mules to the Southern States, which he followed three winters. In 1869, he purchased a mill a few miles south of Charleston, which he ran for three years ; then, after looking after the interests of his farm for a year, he, in 1873, purchased the mill which he still continues to own, and which he ran up to 1877 ; he then retired to his farm on Sec. 18, where he makes a specialty of fine stock, keeping from one hundred to two hundred Poland-China hogs, and from fif- teen to twenty horses ; he owns 325 acres in his home farm and 120 acres in Hutton Tp., all but 40 acres of which he im- proved himself, cutting off and sawing the timber in his mills. Mr. Prevo served three years as School Director of his district, previous to his removal to Charleston in 1867. and while a resident of that city, served four years on the Board of Alder- men, two of which he was a member of the Water Works Board ; he served one year on the Board of Supervisors, and three years on the Board of Education ; he was one of the organizers of the Second Na- tional Bank, and for two years a Director in that institution.
S. E. RAY, dealer in dry and fancy goods, boots and shoes, etc., Charleston ; was born near Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 5, 1833 ; in early childhood, he accompanied his parents to Geauga Co. (now Lake), Ohio; there, his father resided until his death, and his mother still resides there ; at about the age of 20 years, Mr. Ray went to La Fayette, Ind., and engaged as a traveling salesman for Luce Brothers in the stationery business; and, after remain- ing with them four years, went to Chicago, and for about six years traveled for the well-known stationery house of Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co., establishing the Mem- phis branch of that house, under the name of C. H. Chamberlain & Co., which con- tinued until after the breaking-out of the war; in 1862, he returned to Chicago, and the following year came to Charleston and engaged in the livery business ; in 1875, he disposed of his business, and en- graged in merchandising. Mr. Ray was
married March 31, 1863, to Miss Josephine Bunnell, of Charleston ; she died Sept. 18, 1867, leaving one child-Heurictta, since deceased. He was married again Dec. 10, 1867, to Mrs. Elizabeth J. Will- hoit, of Edgar Co., Ill., and has one child -Samuel A. Mr. Ray is President of the Board of Education of Charleston, of which he has been a member for the past two years, and has served two terms on the Board of Aldermen.
WILLIAM RICKETTS, land agent and conveyancer, Charleston ; was born in Alleghany Co., Md., March 3, 1813; his father, Joshua Ricketts was of an old Mary- land family in Colonial days ; his mother was Sarah Taylor, a daughter of John Tay- lor, of Connecticut, who was a soldier of the Revolution, and was wounded at the bat- tle of Bunker Hill and afterward at the bat- tle of Brandywine ; Mr. Ricketts' parents removed, in 1813, to Zanesville, Ohio ; he is the seventh in age of a family of thir- teen ; he was raised on a farm. He was first married Sept. 11, 1834, in Putnam, Ohio, to Miss Ellen Alexander of that place, who died Sept. 8, 1850, leaving five children-John A., Ann (wife of T. E. Wood), Andrew A., Joshua T. and William G .; they are all residents of Charleston except Andrew A., who is a traveling agent for the Chicago & Paducah Railroad Co. ; and resides in Windsor, Shelby Co., Ill. Mr. Ricketts was married again Sept. 11, 1851, to Miss Susan Falls of Zanesville, Ohio ; they have four children living- Charles L., Emma (now Mrs. Henley Anderson, of Charleston), Ella and Edward W. In April, 1854, Mr. Ricketts removed with his family to Charleston, and engaged with his brother Joshua Ricketts in the marble business, in which he continued until about the breaking-ont of the late war, when he opened an office as U. S. Claim Agent, which he has continued in connection with a general real estate and conveyancing business to the present time. He is at present Township School Treasurer, to which he was elected in 1874 ; he was appointed U. S. Commissioner some twelve years ago, and still acts in that capacity.
A. F. SHAW, Police Magistrate, Charleston ; is a native of Illinois ; he was born in Paris, Edgar Co., Feb. 10, 1824 ; he is a son of Smith and Elizabeth Shaw ; his father was born in North Carolina;
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was raised in South Carolina, and when a young man, emigrated to Tennessee, and from there to Kentucky ; he was one of the pioneers of Missouri, from which State he was several times driven by the In- dians ; he afterward came to Illinois, long prior to its admission as a State, and finally, in 1822, settled in Paris, where he died about sixteen years later ; Mr. Shaw learned the saddler's trade at the age of 15, and followed it till the breaking-outof the Mexican war; he then volunteered in Col. Baker's 4th I. V. I., and was elected 2d Lieutenant of Co. H; he marched with Gen. Taylor's army through Mexico, from Matamoras to Tampico, and afterward participated in the siege of Vera Cruz and the battle of Cerro Gordo; returning at the end of a year's service, he engaged in business in Paris. In 1850, he crossed the plains to California, and engaged in min- ing; on his return, three years later, he went to Carthage, Hancock Co., Ill., where he carried on the saddlery business till 1856. He was married in May, 1854, to Miss Lucy A. Bunnell, a daughter of William Bunnell, of Charleston ; in 1856, he removed to Charleston, and after a short time returned to Paris, where he resided till 1869, since which time he has been a resident of Charleston ; he kept the Union House till 1874, when he was chosen Police Magistrate. He has three children living-Franklin F., Oro E., and Bessie N.
L. L. SILVERTHORN, M. D., phy- sician and surgeon, Charleston ; was born in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Co., Penn., Oct. 21, 1830 ; his early life was passed upon a farm; he was the youngest of a family of twelve children, and his father being in moderate circumstances, he was thrown upon his own resources, and obtained only such an education as the common schools afforded; in 1850, he began teaching school, which he continued at intervals for three years ; in 1852, he entered upon the study of medicine, in Fond du Lac, Wis .; in 1854, he came to Charleston and con- tinued his studies under the instruction of Dr. T. B. Trower ; in September, 1855, he went to Philadelphia, and attended a course of lectures in the Jefferson Medical College, in that city ; returning to Charles- ton, he began the practice of his profession, which he has continued for twenty-two
years; he is a member of the Æsculapian Society of the Wabash Valley, of which he has been Vice President, and also of the American Medical Association. He was married October 8, 1856, to Miss Amerial Trower, a daughter of the late Dr. T. B. Trower, of Charleston, and has two children-John T. and Clara M.
RICHARD STODDERT, far., stock- dealer and merchant, Charleston; was born in Grayson Co., Ky., March 28, 1812; his early life was passed on his father's farm, and when quite young, he was apprenticed to learn the tanner's trade ; about the year 1831, he went to Madison- ville, Hopkins Co., Ky., where he re- mained until 1838, when he came to Charleston ; he engaged in the tanning business with his brother, Thomas Stod- dert, the firm being R. & T. Stoddert, the partnership continuing for about thirty years in tanning, merchandising, farming and dealing in stock ; they had at one time about 800 acres of land in the county ; in 1870, Mr. Stoddert began the hardware and lumber business with W. S. Minton, who afterward disposed of his interest to George Steigman ; since 1876, the firm has been R. Stoddert & Sons; Mr. Stod- dert still continues his farming and stock operations, having a farm of nearly five hundred acres in Charleston and Hickory Tps. His first county office was that of Treasurer of Coles Co., to which he was elected in 1839, serving two terms, after which he was for two years Sheriff of the county ; he has served as Commissioner of Highways, School Trustee and two terms on the Board of Supervisors; in 1873, he was elected County Clerk, and held that office four years. He was first married Dec. 25, 1844, to Miss Catharine Rizor, of Charleston ; she died in February, 1872, leaving five children-Benjamin (who was born in Charleston Feb. 4, 1846, and is now in the hardware and lumber business with his father), Harry (who was born Dec. 8, 1847; educated in the public schools and at Westfield College, Ill ; mar- ried Nov. 12, 1873, to Miss Zulima Pin- atel, daughter of Charles Pinatel, of Charleston, and has two children-Charles Richard and Catharine ; he is of the firm of R. Stoddert & Sons), Thomas (a law student in Charleston), Frank and Fremont. Mr. Stoddert was married a
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second time, April 27, 1875, to Mrs. G. H. Robinson, of Madisonville, Ky. THOMAS STODDERT, merchant, farmer and stock-dealer, Charleston; among the early settlers of Coles Co. was the Stoddert family, consisting of the mother, Mrs. Mary Stoddert, and nine children, who came from Grayson Co., Ky., at dif- ferent times from 1836 to 1838; they are descended from the old Massachusetts family of Stodderts, their grandfather, Benjamin Stoddert, being a Major in the Revolutionary war, and was wounded at the battle of Brandywine; he was after- ward the second Secretary of the United States Navy ; Gen. Ewell, of the Confed- erate army in the war of the rebellion, was a cousin ; their father, Benjamin Stod- dert, removed to Kentucky about 1810, and died about 1833; of the nine children who came to Coles Co., as above stated, Richard and Thomas reside in Charleston ; Benjamin, William and Campbell are de- ceased; Sarah is living in Covington, Ind .; Harriet lives in Charleston, the wife of C. R. Briggs; Elizabeth is the wife of Dr. A. M. Henry, of Mattoon, Susan (Mrs. Glover) resides in Ottawa, Kan., and the youngest, Artimisia, died in Charleston ; their mother died in Charleston some ten years ago ; Thomas Stoddert was born in Grayson Co., Ky., Feb. 28, 1815 ; he was the first of the family to come to Coles Co .; he came in 1836, and engaged in tanning, continuing in that business till 1851; in 1849, he drove an ox-team across the plains to California, returning the following year, and engaging in merchandising; in 1854, he went into stock-raising and farming, which he continued till 1875 ; he then resumed mercantile business, the firm being T. Stod- dert & Son ; he is now engaged in farming and stock business, in connection with his merchandising, owning a farm of 363 acres adjoining the city ; he also owns consider- able town property ; in 1871, he, with John B. Hill and I. H. Johnson, built the Charleston Pork-Packing Honses. Mr. Stoddert was married Dec. 25, 1850, to Miss Melissa Olmstead, of Coles Co., and has three children living-William (now in business with his father), Mary and Thomas.
ARTHUR C. SHRIVER, of the firm of A. C. Shriver & Sons, dealers in stoves, tinware and house-furnishing goods,
Charleston ; was born in Fleming Co., Ky., Jan. 30, 1813 ; when he was about 10 years old, his parents removed to Adams Co., Ohio; at the age of 18, he went to Hillsboro, in Highland Co., Ohio, to learn the tinner's trade ; after which, he worked as a journeyman in Ohio and Kentucky for a number of years; in 1836, he began business for himself in Augusta, Ky., re- moving a few years later to Felicity, Cler- mont Co., Ohio, and there carried on the stove and tinware business for nearly twenty years with the exception of a short time when he was in the same business in Cin- cinnati ; in 1858, he removed to Charles- ton, and engaged in business, Dr. Byrd Monroe being his first Western partner ; since then, many changes have occurred, but Mr. Shriver has remained the leader in his line of business during all the changes of the past twenty years; the firm now consists of himself and two sons -George A. Shriver and Charles W. Shriver; they do the largest business in their line of any house in the smaller towns of Illinois, carrying a well selected stock of stoves, tinware, qucensware, glassware, silverware and cutlery ; they keep every- thing of the kind that any one could want, are polite to their customers, and make it a point to sell lower than any one else. Mr. Shriver was married May 4, 1837, to Miss Nancy Maffett, who was born Jan. 17, 1815. We give the following sketch of their children : William F. Shriver was born Nov. 14, 1839, and married June 10, 1862, to Miss Mary F. Hanks, a niece of President Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln giving her her own name of Mary ; they have two sons; Ann Eliza Shriver was born Feb. 11, 1842, and died May 31, 1843; Albena Shriver was born July 11, 1845, and married O. B. Murray, a navy banker and claim agent of Baltimore, Md., Jan. 30, 1865 ; he died in Chicago Aug. 10, 1870, leaving one daughter Alice, born in Baltimore, Md .; Mrs. Murray married R. B. Anderson, of Charleston, in 1873, and moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1876; George A. Shriver was born in Felicity, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1847, and married Miss Julia Hamlin, in 1871; he learned the tinner's trade when quite young, and as a workman and salesman is very successful'; he is book-keeper of the firm of A. C. Shriver & Sons, of which he is a member ;
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Charles W. Shriver was born in Felicity, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1851 ; he isa member of the firm, is an expert in his business, and honorable in his dealings ; he was mar- ried in September, 1876, to Miss Ida V. Ramsey, of McConnellsville, Ohio; they have one son, Arthur C., born March 31, 1878; Callie Shriver was born April 6, 1854; was married Jan. 31, 1872, to Joseph Landers, of Charleston ; they have had one daughter Katie, who died about a year ago, at 3 years of age.
GEORGE STEIGMAN, Charleston, of the firm of Steigman, Wilson & Co., pro- prietor of the Charleston Pork-Packing Houses ; was born in Dimboch, County of Weinsberg, Kingdom of Wurtemberg, Germany, Aug. 5, 1827 ; he was raised on a farm, and, in 1853, came to the United States, spent one year in Meadville, Crawford Co., Penn., and coming thence to Owen Co., Ind., where he followed farming one year ; in 1855, he came to Charleston and engaged in farming, which he continued eight years ; he then kept a meat-market until 1871, when he revisited his native country, spending eight months; returning, he followed the hardware and lumber business four years; in August, 1878, he became one of the proprietors of the Charleston Pork-Packing Houses, a full description of which will be found in the historical part of this work. Mr. teigman has been prosperous in business, and is one of the solid men of the community, own- ing two farms in the county besides his property in town; he has served three terms as a member of the City Council, and has been City Treasurer for the past three years. He was married Feb. 26, 1854, to Miss Rosina Ernst, of Wurtem- berg, Germany ; they have had one child -- John C., born Dec. 3, 1854, and died March 22, 1856.
R. A. TRAVER, of the firm of Traver & Nixon, manufacturers of and dealers in brooms, brushes, etc., Charleston; was born in Schenectady Co., N. Y., Aug. 19, 1837 ; he was raised on a farm ; in 1856, he removed with his parents to Brooklyn, N. Y., where, for two years, he was em- ployed as a book-keeper for A. W. Heu- drickson & Co., coal-dealers; in 1858, he went to Harrison Co., W. Va., where he was engaged in farming and carpentering till 1867 ; he then came to Clark Co., Ill., and
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