The History of Peoria County, Illinois. Containing a history of the Northwest-history of Illinois-history of the county, its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc., etc., Part 131

Author: Johnson & co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Chicago : Johnson & Company
Number of Pages: 932


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MILLER OLIVER M. farmer, Sec. 16, P.O. Chillicothe ; was born in Knox county, O., August 29, 1837, and is the son of Jacob Miller and Mary Buyher. Ilis father was a private in 10th Regt. U. S. Inf. dur- ing the war of 1812, and died in Putnam county, O., about thirty years ago. llis mother was born in Pennsylvania, July 11, 1793, is still alive, and resides with him. When about thirteen years old he came West with his people and settled in Fulton county, Ill., where he remained for about two years, and removed to Peoria county in different parts of which he has since resided ; owned at one time a farm on Sec. 16 which he worked for about four years, and in 1869 sold out and removed to his present location where he owns


116 acres of land ; also owns a farm of eighty acres good land in Vermillion county, Ind. Ile was married January 1, 1860, to Amelia Rebecca Van Tassel, a na- tive of Medina township, by whom he has had eight children, six now living -- Augustus Orton, born No- vember 10, 1860; Sarah Jane, horn January 8, 1862; Amos Elison, born September 13, 1863 ; George W., horn July 30, 1869 ; Orin Melville, born December 3, IS71, and Lewis Omer, born May 1, 1875. His eldest son and daughter are at present taking care of his farm in Indiana, and he thinks of selling out his present home and moving there in the near future.


Nurs G. Mrs. P.O. Hallock.


NURS HENRY H. farmer, Sec. 3, P. O. Hal- lock ; was born on his father's farm in this township, October 26, 1843, and has remained there all his life except what time he spent in the army. Isaiah Nurs, his father, was born in Bainbridge, now Afton, Chen- ango county, N. Y., March 19, 1815, and was the son of Roswell Nurs and Jerusha Barton. His father was born in Ringe, N. 1I., April 3, 1787, and his mother was born and raised in Canaan, Litchfield county, Conn. Isaiah Nurs was raised on a farm till twenty- one years old, when in company with his father and Ebenezer Stowell, he came to Illinois, walking all the way with rifle on shoulder, except from Buffalo to Toledo, which they came by steamer. They were about three weeks making the journey, and after zigzagging over a large part of Illinois during the next three weeks in search of a desirable location, they finally, in the last days of June, 1836, settled on their present farms, and entered it at the land office at Quincy. Mr. Nurs remained on the land, and his father returning to his home in the East, brought out his whole family in the next Spring. Mr. Nurs still lives on the old home- stead ; owns 300 acres land, about 220 acres under cultivation, and the rest in timber, worth about $40 an acre right through. His father died on the farm, March 9, 1863, and his mother August 16, 1838. Mr. Isaiah Nurs married January 1, 1838, May M. Hill, who was born in Peru, Vt., October 3, 1813, and who came to Peoria county and Hallock township in IS34 ; has had four children, three now living-Jerusha B., born October 3, 1838. died June 16, 1870 ; Martha C. born July 13, 1842 ; Henry H., born October 26, 1843, and Newell E., born June 17, 1848. Those alive are married and resident in the neighborhood. Henry H. Nurs whose name heads this sketch, enlisted August 13, 1862, in Co. C, 86th 1. V. I., and with his regiment, served under Gen. Thomas in the Army of the Cumber- land till the Fall of 1864, and took part in the many brilliant engagements fought by that army, among them Perryville, Ky., Chickamauga, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, with Sherman on his march to the sea, through N. and


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S. Carolina under the same general, and at \verys- burgh, March 16, 1865, where he was wounded by a rifle ball shattering his left knee, entailing the loss of his leg by amputation immediately afterwards. He lay in hospital at Port Schuyler, N Y., nearly three months, and wa, discharged June 26 1565. returning home July 24th, of the same year. He married No- vember 5, 1569, Miss lucinda A. Stevens, who was born November S, 1842, at Columbus, Adams county, Ill., by whom he has one child, a boy, born July 27, 1877, and named Elbert I. Nurs.


NURS ISAIAH, farmer, Sec. 3, P. O. Hallock.


Overen Joshua, 1.0. Southampton. Percy M. S. farmer, 1ª. O. Lawn Ridge.


PERKINS S. P. farmer, Sec. 6, P. O. Lawn Ridge ; was born in Dover, Stafford county, N. H1 . May 16, 1821, and is the son of Morris Perkins and Abigail C. Paul, who were both natives of same county and State. His father was a mechanic, ship carpenter and builder, and Mr. l'erkins learned his trade of ma- chinist, and worked at it in his native town till twenty- four years of age, when he moved to Philadelphia, and there for seven years took charge of a large machine shop. In the Fall of 1851, an offer was made to him to come to Kennelton, Ind., and take charge of a machine shop connected with a factory there ; the offer was accepted, all his affairs were settled and household goods packed, ready to start for his destination, when a serious disagreement occurred between the owners of the factory and the agent they had empowered to man- age their business, engage help, etc., resulting in the resignation of the agent, and consequent lapse of the arrangements he had purposed, among them the trans- ference of Mr. Perkins to Kennelton. But a mischance of this kind was not allowed to stand in the way of his coming West, and he started with his family and came straight to his present farm, which he had some years previously bought, and where he has ever since resided. lle married in Dover, N. 11 .. July 2, 1845, Lydia l'ierce, a native of Maine, born March 3, 1519. by whom he has had five sons, three of them now living Morris, born June 4, 1847 ; Edwin, born in 1549, and died in following year ; George, born in May, 1551, died November 3, 1861 ; Charles W., born September 11, 1853 : Sumner, born March 14, 1857. Mr. Perkins owns 320 acres fine prairie land, worth $00 an acre, and sixty acres timber ; has been for five years super- visor of township, and has filled in turn almost all the township offices : is in politics a radical Republican. llimself and wife are members of Congregational Church at Lawn Ridge.


PHILLIPS C. O. postmaster and general mer- chant, Northampton, was born in Plainfield, Conn., July 30, 1536, and is the son of Jesse C. Phillips and Amanda Brown, both natives ofthat State. He remained


at home till about nineteen years of age and received his education at the common and high schools, and in the Fall of 1555 came to Peoria county and settled on Hallock township, there engaging in farming pursuits ; after- wards bought a farm in Sec. 16, Groveland township. LaSalle county, where he stayed three years, and then removed to Montgomery county, where he worked at his trade of carpenter for two years, and kept a general store for about three months, when he sold out, and in 1369 returned to Peoria county, and has since resided there. Since coming back he has farmed and worked at his trade till about one year ago, when he again entered mercantile business, and received the position of postmaster ; carries a stock of about $1,200 and does a good business. On February 22, 1860, he married Miss Mary Evans, daughter of Walter Evans, of Hal- lock township, by whom he has had two children, Euphemia N. and Peter E., both of them now living. Mr Phillips is in politics a Republican, and he and his wife are members of the Union Baptist Church.


Phillips Mary S. res. Northampton. Potter L. E. farmer, P. O. West Hallock.


POTTER DANIEL, (deceased.) Sec. 30, address of widow P. O. West Hallock, was born in Rensselaer county, New York, February 20, 1816, and is the son of Ephraim Potter and Wealthy Hall, natives of that State. His father was by trade a blacksmith. and Mr. Potter learned the trade of wagon-maker, and worked at it for about eight years in Brookfield, Mad- ison county, New York, removing, in 1838, to Alle- ghany county, New York, where he continued to work at his trade until April, 1865. when he came to Peoria county and bought a farm in Hallock township, which was worked by his son, he himself continuing to work at his trade as long as his health permitted. Hle was married in Brookfield, New York, January 14. 1836, to Rebecca I. Bowler, daughter of William Bowler and Nancy Coon-the latter a daughter of Elder Abraham Coon-who was born Nov. 28, 181h, by whom he had six children-William R., born O.sego county, New Vork, March 2, 1538, Albertus D., born May 21, 1540, in Friendship, Alleghany county, New York, Julius A., vorn April 16, 1844, in Genesse, same county, Daniel E., June 22, 1846, in Wirt, same county, N. Arvilla. sorn March 6, 1853, in Alfred, same conuty, and George F., born in Alfred, same county, April 29, 1556, Mr. Potter died May 23, 1875, in West Hallock, and has widow now resides upon the homestead with her young- est son. He was almost all his life a member of the Seventh day Baptist Church, and served as deacon in the . ongregation at Alfred, and also in the church at West Hallock. He was for four years justice of the peace in Alfred, and was township collector in Hallock for one vear.


Potter R. black smith, 1º. O. Wral Hallock. l'on.l A. Jlıs. farmer, 1. O. Hallock.


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Prentice A. A. farmer, P. O. Hallock. Rankin H. farmer, P. O. Southampton. Reed C. farmer, P. O. Northampton. Reed Foster, farmer. P. O. Northampton. Reed J. farmer. P. O. Northampton. Reed Lyman, farmer. P. O. Chfillcothe. Reed P. II. farmer. P. O. Chillicothe.


REED SIMON, (deceased,) farmer, late of Hal- lock township, was born in Rensselaer county, New York, September 11, 1795, and was raised on father's farm in Delaware county, New York, where he married, October 13, 1816, Currance Sanford, who was born September 20, 1799 in New York State. A few years after marriage he removed to Jackson county, Ohio, where he resided until 1825, removing at that date, in company with two other brothers, to Peoria county, and settling on the farm now occupied by his sons, on Sec. 26. By his marriage he had fifteen children, and he also adopted one child-Sanford, born Sept. 16, 1817. died April 29, 1879, Jerusha, born March 17, 1819, Harriet, born Nov. 19, 1820, Esther, born Dec. 2, 1822, Anna, born Sept. 19, 1824, Amos, born April 23, 1827, Emily, born Nov. 23, 1829, died Feb. 16, 1880, Lyman, born Feb. 5, 1832, Norman, born Oct. 8, 1833, Clarissa, born Dec. 21, 1835, Phoebe (adopted), July 7, 1836, died March 19, 1862, Marion, born Jan. 9, 1838, Har- rison, born April 6, 1840, Semantha, born Aug. 2, 1842, died Sept. 18, 1842, Henry, born Oct. 14, 1843, died October 10, 1844, Barbara, born Nov. 9, 1845. Simon Reed died on the old homestead in Sept., 1869, and his wife followed him April 6, 1876. At the date of his settlement within the hounds of Hallock township, there was no other settler there but Lewis Hallock, and he has the deserved credit of bringing to it many of the prominent families whose untiring labor has brought it to its present high state of cultivation. He was the pioneer of the colony from Jackson county, Ohio, among them the Moffitts, Sillimans, Roots and Hicks. His brothers, Samuel and Thomas, came West and settled, the former in Ogle county, 111., and the latter in Medina township, a few years after Simon and Aaron Reed came here. Ile volunteered in the Black- hawk war of 1832 ; was detailed to act as teamster, and returning home for his team, served with it till the close of the war. He was the first justice of the peace resi- dent within the present limits of the township; was a man of large, warm heart and generous sympathies, ever ready to help and encourage, never sparing him- self where the public weal was conserned, and the mem- * ory of his social qualities and public spiritedness is warmly cherished by the older settlers.


REED HARRISON, farmer, Sec. 26, P. O. Chillicothe, was born in Hallock township, Peoria Co., April 6, 1840, and is the youngest living son of Simon and Currance Reed, who came to Peoria Co. in No- vember, 1825. In 1861 his father divided the home farm between his sons Harrison and Marion, and the ormer got 100 acres prairie and forty acres in bluff,


which constitute his present farm. Much of this land has since been greatly improved, and he values it together with another lot of about forty acres recently acquired, at about $10,000. He married March 3, 1861, Sarah Adeline Hammond, born in Ogle Co., Ill., Jan- uary 4, 1842, by whom he had three children, of whom, only one, Charles Sanford, born March 17, 1864, now survives. The other children by this marriage were Lewis Edwin, born Nov. 29, 1861, died October 14, 1875, Herbert Irving, born Nov. 1, 1865, died Oct. 2, 1866. His wife died January 18, 1869, and he married November 1, 1869, Martha E. Scroggs, a native of Mis- souri, born June 30, 1846, who bore him one child, Lena M., born Nov. 13, 1870, and died November 28, of same year. On February 2, 1874, he married Clar- issa Jane Pierce, born Aug, 27, 1845 in Medina town- ship, Peoria county. Mr. Reed has been for one term, township commissioner, and is at present a school trustee. Himself and wife are members of the Union Baptist Church.


REED MARION, farmer, Sec. 26, P. O. Chillicothe, was born January 9, 1838, in Hallock township, and is the fifth son of Simon Reed and Cur- rance Sanford, natives of New York State, who came to Peoria Co. in 1825, and settled on Sec. 27, where they built a log cabin and commenced clearing land. There were only thirteen white families on the present site of Peoria at that time. On this farm Marion Reed was born, and there be remained till Feb. 16, 1862, when he married Amanda Jane Dunbar, who was born in Champaign Co. O., March 28, 1847, by whom he had two children, Amy Jane and Amos Reed. His wife died Feb. 9, 1867, and in July 21, 1871, he married Elizabeth Ellen Dunbar, the half sister of his first wife. who was born August 20, 1855, in Peoria Co., by whom he has two children, John Edward, and ;Minnie May, born respectively, Feb. 16, 1877, and May 11, 1879. Owns 161 acres land, about 70 acres of which are under cultivation and worth about $50 an acre. His eldest daughter was married Dec. 31, 1879, to Thomas Pur- cell, farmer in Chillicothe township.


Ridgway Jonathan, farmer, P. O. Northampton. Robinson N. L. farmer, P. O. Hallock. Roll C. farmer, P. O. Lawn Ridge. Rott Margaret, P. O. Lawn Ridge.


ROOT ALONZO M. farmer, Sec. 3, P. O. Hal lock, was born March 2, 1851, and is the son of Erastus C. Root and Barbara A. Reed, who were among the earliest settlers in Hallock township, was raised on the farm and educated at Lombard University, Galesburg, where he spent two years. Married Aug. 18, 1874, in Lacon, 111., Miss Lillian H. Ellsworth, who was born in Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1854, and is the daughter of Lucien D. Ellsworth and Maria Bird. They have two children, Julius D. born July 13, 1875, and Gertrude, born May 11, 1877. Mr. Root is a young


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man of energy and force of character. Has been town. ship assessor, and at present has charge of his father's home farm.


ROOT CYRUS, farmer, Sec. 24, La Prairie township, P. O., Sparland Marshall Co., Ill., was born September 4, 1833, on his father's farm in Sec. 3, of Hallock township, Peoria Co. Was raised upon it and devoted all his energy to it until the year 1862, when on August 27, he enlisted in Co. C. 86th 1. V. I., and formed part of the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, under command of Gen. George HI. Thomas. He took part with his regiment in its many battles and skirmishes among them that of Perryville, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Kenesaw, in which he was severely wounded on June 27, 1864, and was confined to the hospital at Nashville for about four months. After recovery took part in the battle of Nashville, and was mustered out at Washington, D. C., June 6, 1865. Ile married Dec. 29, 1869, Miss Mary Cornelia Stowell, who was born in Hallock townsbip, April 4. 1845, and four years afterwards moved to his present farm in Marshall Co. The fruit of his mar- riage is one child, a boy, who was born in June, 1574. Hle owns 100 acres of land, twenty of which are under timber.


ROOT ERASTUS C. farmer. Sec. 3, P. O. Hallock, was born in Roxbury, Delaware Co., N. Y., July 26, 1805, and is the son of Jeriel Root and Sarah Coleman, both of whom were born and raised in Coven- try, Conn. Ilis father after marriage moved into Duchess Co., N. Y., where for some time he taught school, and afterwards moved to Delaware Co., where he bought a farm, upon which the subject of this sketch was born and raised. Ile was third in a family of ten children. In the year 1817 the family removed to Ross Co., O., where they resided till 1830, when the whole family again removed further West to Illinois, settling in Hallock township of l'eoria Co., in the Fall of that year, and took up the N. E. 44 of See. 24, township 11, N. range 8 E. Ile married in Ilallock township, Dec. 16, 1830, Barbara A. Reed, a native of Middle- town, Delaware Co., N. Y., born Sept. 15, 1S11, and in the Summer of 1832 moved on to the present site of the town of Chillicothe, being the first resident within its bounds. There he remained till April, 1836, and in the same Summer came to his present farm, where he has since resided. His farm consists of 240 acres in Marshall Co., and 160 acres in l'eoria Co. A great part of the original farm has been given to his sons, who have left home and set up for themselves. Two hundred acres of his land in Marshall Co. are under plough, and his farm is worth $40 an acre right through. The fruit of his marriage was ten children, Jeriel l'erry, Caroline (deceased), James Lucas, Cyrus, Erastus, William, Sarah Lorina, Ann Eliza, Alonzo,


and Charles B. Root. All but one of those alive are married, and two sons live at home. Mr. Root has been township assessor, and school trustee for many years, but has not held any office of late. He is in poli- ties a Republican.


Rose A. farmer, P. O. Southampton. Ruib Arthur, farmer, P. O. Chillicothe.


SANGER WILLIAM M. farmer, Sec. 7, P. O. Lawn Ridge, was born at Honeoye Falls, Monroe county, N. Y., November 22, 182S, and is the son of James Sanger and Maria Wheeler, both natives of Ver- mont, who settled in Monroe county in 1815, was raised on home farm until about fifteen years of age, and io October, 1849, came to Peoria county, and settled in the vicinity of his present farm. He afterwards made a farm of 160 acres raw land in section 12, of Akron town- ship, and in 1864 sold out and bought his present fine farm ; owns 320 acres prairie worth about $60 an acre, and 340 acres bluff land worth about $15 per acre. His farm is finely improved and has a handsome dwelling house upon it, which was built in 1867. Married May 13. 1853, Semirimis Kemble daughter of Colin B. Kemble and Elizabeth Harlow, both natives of Ken- tucky ; who was born in Paducah, Graves county, Ky., June 28, 1835, by whom he has had five children, three of whom now survive - James W., born February 2, 1856; Francis M., born August 31, 1859, died June IS, 1864; Willie, born July 25, 1864, died October 21, 1865 ; Carlisle B., born September 10, 1566 ; Semirimis E., born December 10, 1868. Mr. Sanger was at one time for five successive years township assessor. lle and his wife are members of M. E. Church.


Saunders T., dalry farmer, 1'. O. West Hallock. Saxton Sarah. P. O. Northampton. Schrader Herman, farmer, l'. O. Ilallock. Seeley Danforth, farmer. P. O. Southampton.


SILLIMAN MARSHALL B. (retired,) Sec. 32, P. O. Southampton, was born in Delaware county, N. Y., May 12, 1812, and is the son of Gershom Silli. man and Polly Coleman, both of whom were natives of Connecticut. llis parents were married in Delaware county, October 9, 1809, and had nine children, of whom Marshall is the second child and son. Five are now living. Ilis father served in the United States army until the close of the war of 1812, and while in the service saw much fine farming land, and becoming disgusted with the rough and stony country in which his family awaited his return, after being discharged he removed with them, and in company with many of his neighbors, in wagons, crossed the Alleghany moun- tains to Ohio, settling at first in Ross county, and afterwards in Harrison township. Jackson county. Here he was followed in a few years by many of his old neighbors from Delaware county, some of whoni were afterwards pioneer settlers in Peoria county, among them the families of Reeds, Roots and Hicks, After a residence of some thirteen years in Ohio, dur-


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ing which Simon and Aaron Reed had removed west to Peoria county, Mr. Silliman's father became smitten by the Illinois fever, caught from Simon Reed, who had returned with glowing accounts of the land to be had in that State, and in the year 1828 the family left their farm in Ohio, and started in their wagons for Illinois, piloted on their way by Simon Reed. The journey occupied twenty-days, camping out every night, but two, in a tent. They arrived in Peoria, September 21. Simon Reed had a double log cabin upon his farm, and gave up one-half for the accommodation of his newly arrived friends. As soon as possible a log cabin of one and a half stories was built upon their claim, on section 35, and there the family resided for about two years, and then moved to what is now section 2, of Medina township, where they remained till 1837, and again re- moved to section 3, of same township. While there, Mr. Silliman commenced an improvement for himself at his present location, and on November 16, 1837, married Clarissa, daughter of Calvin and Mary Hyde, natives of Massachusetts; who was born in Broome county, N. Y., November 1, 1812, by whom he has two two sons - Edwin C., born November 18, 1840 ; and Norman H., born October 30, 1842. His wife died November 5, 1842, and he married February 6, 1844, Nancy Y., daughter of Truman and Betsey Hawley ; who was born in Otsego county, N. Y., March 27, 1816. Mr. Silliman has resided ever since bis first marriage on his present farm, composed of 160 acres of fine land ; also owns fifty acres in section 21, of Chillicothe township; a farm of 320 acres in Vermillion county, Ill. ; and another of 400 acres in Iroquois county, Ill. All this land, except about 100 acres, is fine farming land, and under good improvement. Mr. Silliman's father died December 2, 1856, aged seventy-three years upon the old homestead in Medina township, and his mother died December 24, 1864, at the age of seventy- seven, while on a visit near Chillicothe. His eldest son is in business at Chenoa, Ill., and his younger is en- gaged in the grain business at Dunlap, and also runs a general wagon and carriage repair shop there. Mr. Silliman has of late years enjoyed but poor health, but has been an active and useful man in his township, filling many offices, among them that of supervisor, which he held for seven successive years. In religious faith he is a Universalist, and in politics a consistent Democrat.


SIMPSON JOHN, farmer, Sec. 19, P. O. West Hallock, was born in Banffshire, Scotland, June 14, 18II, and is the son of John Simpson and Elizabeth Howie, both of same county. His mother's father was in the English service during the Revolutionary war, and his mother was born in New York in 1778, return- ing with the army to Scotland, where she was raised. He worked on a farm till 1832, when he came to


America, landing at Quebec June 3d of that year. Went to Vermont for about one year, thence removed to New York State and to Illinois in Fall of 1847, settling near Farmington, Fulton county, for two years, and came to his present farm in the Fall of 1849, where he has since resided. He married November 16, 1842, Ann Saunders, a native of Rensselaer county, N. Y., by whom he has had a family of ten children, five now living - Pheobe R .. born January 6, 1844 ; Robin M., born March 19, 1845; Eva L., born November 16, 1854; Murray W., born December 28, 1863 ; Rena Bell, born February 13, 1865. Ile owns 135 acres of land, worth $65 per acre, all well improved; and twenty acres under timber. Himself, wife and family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, and he has for many years been a church trustee. Sims Chas., farmer, P. O. Chillicothe.


SIMS FRANK L. farmer, Sec. 25, P. O. Chil- licothe, was born in Salem county, N. J., January 8, 1832, and is the son of John Sims and Susan Long ; was raised on a farm till about twenty years of age, when he came west and settled in Trivoli township, Peoria county, where he farmed on rented land for seven or eight years, and in 1860 came to his present farm in Hallock township. Married in the same year Lucinda Booth, who was born in Champaign county, O., in 1840, by whom he has had eight children, five of whom are now living - Lilly, Laura, Frederick, Earl, and one as yet unnamed, and born November 25, 1879. He has 160 acres in home farm, and twenty acres in the bluff, which he values at about $50 an acre. His farm was raw land when he bought it, and all the ex- isting improvements have been made by himself. Is in politics a Republican, and is at present a school trustee. Mr. and Mrs. Sims are members of the Union Baptist Church. Mrs. Sims is a daughter of Isaac and Sarah Booth, who were natives of Champaign county, Ohio.




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