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year, however, he was obliged to resign on account of a con- Grand Lodge and the Grand Encampment. He is consid- tinued and serious enfeeblement of health. From 1863 to ered generally the ablest surgeon in southern Illinois, and 1865 he was engaged in the banking business at Morrison, his practice extends over a wide section of that country. He was married three times-to Estelle Sloan, of Boston, who died three years after marriage; to Mrs. Harriet Needham, of New Albany, who died in 1870, after twenty years of wedded life; and in 1871 to Hattie Coney, of Indiana, who is still living.
in connection with E. B. Stiles, of Dixon. During the same period he was also engaged .in the practice of law, in partnership with O. T. Woodruff. In May, 1865, the First National Bank of Morrison was organized, and he became the Cashier of that institution, a position which he still re- tains. In 1875 he was elected Mayor of Morrison. He was married in 1864 to Jane Quakenbush, of Morrison, Illinois.
E FOE, AUGUSTUS, M. D., was born in St. Eustache, Canada, January 18th, 1824. He is of French extraction. His parents were Augustin De Foe and Margueritta De Foe. He received his education in the schools of his native city. At the termination of his allotted course of earlier studies he became employed as foreman in a hat establish- ment in Newark, New Jersey, where he remained for two years. He then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, and therc filled a similar position. He removed thence to Evansville, and during the ensuing eighteen months engaged in mer- cantile business. He subsequently relinquished his mercan- tile relations, and deciding to embrace the medical profes- sion, began the study of medicine under Professor Weaver, with whom he remained for one year, and later under the supervision of Professor William H. Byford, then of Evans- ville, now of Chicago, with whom he remained for two years. In 1852 he graduated from the Evansville Medical College, and at once engaged in the civil practice of his profession, in which he has since, excepting only the period of time spent in the service of the United States, been unin- terruptedly engaged. He began his practice originally at Owensville, Indiana, where he remained for twelve months, and then, in 1853, removed to McLeansboro', where he has since permanently resided. In 1862 he entered the army as Chaplain of the 6th Regiment of Illinois Cavalry, serving actively until 1865. During the whole of that time he acted in the double capacity of Assistant Surgeon and Chaplain, and was with his command at the battles of Coldwater and Ripley, at the two engagements on the Tallahatchie river, at Memphis when Forrest made his notable raid, at Nashville, and at various other minor skirmishcs and conflicts. After the close of the rebellion he returned to his home and re- sumed the practice of his profession, meeting with marked success. In 1868-69 he attended a course at the Louisville Medical University, finally graduating from that institution. IIe is a member of the Medical Society of Hamilton county, also of the Southern Illinois Medical Society, and was the first President of both societies. He is an influential and a zealous member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in the subordinate lodges has in turn occupied all the chairs in the order. He has also been a member of the
ENRY, BEVERLY WALTER, Lawyer and Banker, was born in Shelby county, Illinois, in April, 1834. His parents are Bushrod W. Henry and Elizabeth Henry, natives of Virginia, who, emigrating in 1827 to Tennessee, removed lo Illinois in 1830. He received his education in the schools of the latter State, principally at the Sullivan Academy, located in Moultrie county. Upon attaining his nineteenth year he began the study of law with Hon. John R. Eaton, and graduated subsequently at a law school in Tennessee, when he was admitted to the bar. He soon after established himself at Vandalia, Illinois, where he began the active practice of his profession, and rapidly sccured an extensive clientage, which has since becn con- stantly increasing in proportions and improving in character. Upon the outbreak of the rebellion he entered the service of the United States, in 1861, as an Adjutant, and prior to his discharge was promoted to a Captaincy. In 1869 he was elected a Delegate to the Constitutional Convention which framed the present Constitution of the State of Illinois, and was an influential and efficient member of that body. He is also an active and energetic business man, being a Director and Vice-President of the Farmers' and Mechanics' National Bank of Vandalia, and the principal owner and operator of the large flouring mill of B. W. Henry & Bro., situated in Vandalia. He has held at various times several minor county offices, and invariably discharged their attend- ant duties with perfect satisfaction to all concerned. In politics he is a Democrat, and on many occasions has ably sustaincd the policy of his party. He is a man of great mental vigor, with a varied fund of scholarly attainments, and a lawyer of more than ordinary ability. He was mar- ricd in 1863 to Sarah Johnson, a resident of Vandalia, Illinois.
WEET, HON. MARTIN P., Lawyer, sometime Itinerant Methodist Minister, was born in Delphi, Onondaga county, New York, December 31st, 1806. His parents were John Sweet and Mary Sweet. In 1838, believing that in the West was to be found a wider field for the profitable exer- cise of skill and energy, he came to Illinois and established himself temporarily in Winnebago county. In 1840 he abandoned his farm and agricultural pursuits, and removed
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to Freeport, in the same State. In this place he opened a time given annually nineteen courses of lectures. He is law office, immediately upon his arrival, and soon acquired an extensive and remunerative clientage. From that date until 1858 he participated prominently in every political campaign of importance, delivered many forcible and brilliant speeches and in many ways controlled various elections by the sweeping power of his oratory. From 1845 until the close of 1848 he acted in the capacity of an itinerant Methodist minister, and while thus employed in disseminating the gospel, and seeking by Christianly precept and example to save the souls of his brethren, was instrumental in effecting much good throughout the sec- tions of country through which he travelled. Prior to this, in 1844, he was the Whig candidate for Congress. Alike in the forum, the pulpit and on the "stump," he was a gifted and eloquent speaker. He died March 5th, 1864.
OLLISTER, JOHN HAMILCAR, M. D., was born in Monroe county, New York, August 5th, 1824. His ancestors, New England people on both the paternal and the maternal side, were active and efficient participants in the Revolu- tionary struggle for independence. His father, John B. Hollister, was Government Surveyor of large sections of Missouri and Arkansas; was in the United States service during the War of 1812, and, severely wounded at Lundy's Lane, died at the early age of thirty- five; his mother, Mary Chamberlin Hollister, still survives, aged seventy-eight years. While in his infancy he removed with his parents to that section of the State of Michigan now known as Romeo, Macomb county. Upon attaining his fourteenth year he returned to Rochester, New York, and subsequently passed his literary course at the Rochester Collegiate Institute. He then pursued the required line of studies in the Normal department of that institution and fitted himself for the proper fulfilment of the duties of a teacher, and was thus engaged more or less for five years. January Ist, 1844, he commenced the study of medicine, and in November, 1847, graduated at the Berkshire Col- lege, Massachusetts. Immediately upon beginning the practice of his profession, at Grand Rapids, Michigan, he met with gratifying success, and during the ensuing five years became one of the most trusted physicians of that section. In 1855 he removed to Chicago, and throughout the years 1857-58 and 1859 filled the position of Demon- strator of Anatomy in the Rush Medical College. Upon the founding of the Chicago Medical College he was appointed Professor of Anatomy, and at the expiration of four courses was transferred, by request, to the chair of Physiology ; at the expiration of four courses, he was again, by special request, transferred to the chair of Gen- eral Pathology and Pathological Anatomy, which latter important office he still fills, having down to the present
now President of the Steele Medical Society, of which he was formerly Treasurer for fourteen consecutive years, and a valued and honored member. He is also Clinical Pro- fessor of Medicine in Mercy Hospital, where, during the college term, he annually gives instruction to the members of the various medical societies of the city; while in the performance of those onerous and important functions his deportment has ever been characterized by modesty and learning. Also, he is a member of various medical asso. ciations, the Academy of Sciences, and of many other societies of a scientific and literary character. While travelling in Europe he secured the esteem and friendship of many of the leading foreign physicians and savants, and gleaned much useful knowledge concerning the details of management and treatment adopted in the European hospitals and infirmaries ; also a valuable store of informa- tion relative to methods of instruction. He is the author of many papers upon medical subjects, which have ap- peared from time to time in various organs, and is the possessor of a vigorous and masterly style. The great fire, which destroyed his residence, consumed also his library, a large and valuable collection of books and manuscripts, which it will be almost impossible to replace and which had been the fruit of judicious and careful research both in this country and abroad.
URNER, COLONEL TIIOMAS I., Lawyer, Journalist, first Mayor of Freeport, Stephenson county, Illinois, and Congressman, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio, April 5th, 1815. His parents removed to Butler county, Pennsylvania, when he was about ten years of age, where he was employed in working on a farm. At the age of eighteen he left his home and travelled westward, halting at Chicago, then a small and secluded village, from where he moved to Laporte county, Indiana, in which place he resided during the en: uing three years. Later, he removed to the mining districts of Galena and southwestern Wis consin, with head-quarters at Dubuque, occupying himself in constructing bellows and other machinery for the furnaces. In the spring of 1836 he located himself in Stephenson county, and, being a wheelwright, engaged in building mills. In May, 1837, in pursuance of an act of the General Assembly, an election was held at the house of William Baker, at Freeport, for the civil organization of Stephenson county, and on this occasion he was selected as one of the judges of election, the first office ever held by him. On the following December 6th he entered into a contract with the county commissioners to build a county court-house and also a log jail. This contract he faithfully fulfilled before the fall of 1838, and erected the frame court-house which was subsequently in existence until
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April, 1870. In the spring of 1340 he was admitted to the | was then regarded as extremely doubtful; but through a delicate surgical operation his health was apparently restored, although it is believed that he never fully rc- covered from the shock sustained by his system in general. After his return to Illinois he again resumed, in 1863, the practice of his profession; and in November, 1869, was elected a member from his district to the Constitutional Convention to revise the Constitution of the State of Illinois. Many of the most important provisions of that instrument were drafted by him and arc the direct result of his arduous labors. He was recognized as the leader of that body, and his counsel shaped many of the articles which have made the new Constitution of Illinois an ad- mired model for other States. He was also indefatigable in securing the adoption of the Constitution by the people. In 1871 he was again elected to the House of Representa- tives at Springfield, and was the Democratic candidate for United States Senator against Logan. In July, 1871, he opened an office in Chicago for the practice of law. Dur- ing the Presidential campaign of 1872 hc was the candidate in Chicago on the Liberal ticket for State's Attorney, against Mr. Reed, but failed to secure an election. Feb- ruary 22d, 1873, the new court- house of Freeport was dedi- cated, and he was selected by the Building Committee to officiate, and delivered the dedicatory address. " In that address he reviewed the history of Stephenson county. Being prominent in the organization of the county, and identified with nearly every change and act of its early history, his address furnished many reminiscences and inci- dents of this city and county of which to-day there is no further record. It was the crowning act of his life in the very city where he commenced his public career a quarter of a century before." At the city election in Chicago, in the fall of 1873, he was induced to accept the nomination of the Law-and-Order party for the office of City Attorney, and, with the balance of the ticket, was defeated. In February, 1874, being greatly afflicted with neuralgia of the shoulder, he went to the Hot Springs, Arkansas, fail- ing, however, to secure the object for which he had gone ; the disease, leaving his shoulders, settled in his hips, and from that time until death supervened his sufferings were unremitted and extreme. He was a member of the Pres- ¡byterian Church, and for many years prominent in Masonic circles, having held during two years the office of Grand Master of the State of Illinois. IIc died at Hot Springs, in the State of Arkansas, Friday, April 3d, 1874, aged fifty-eight years, eleven months and twenty-eight days. Upon the receipt of the news of his death by Governor Beveridge of Illinois, he detailed Adjutant-General Hig- gins to receive the remains and escort them from St. Louis to Chicago. Subsequently, the remains lay in state in the Circuit Court room, whence they were cscorted by an enormous concourse of people to the First Presbyterian Church of Freeport, where the last rites were performed by bar; rapidly secured an extensive and lucrative clientage, and early in 1841 was elected to the office of Justice of the Peace and Probate Justice. He was also appointed by Governor Ford State's Attorney, and by his energy and assiduous application to the duties attendant on that office was eminently successful as a prosecutor of dangerous offenders. During his term of office the gang of assassins and robbers who infested the Rock river country was routed and destroyed, and the murderers of Colonel Daven- port were tried and executed. In 1846 he was elected to Congress on the Democratic ticket from the Congressional district composed of Stephenson and other counties, and known as " the Joe Daviess District." In December, 1847, and while a member of Congress, he cstablished the Prairie Democrat, with S. D. Carpenter as publisher, the first and only newspaper in the county. In July, 1853, the name of that journal was changed to the Freeport Bulletin, and under this it has been published ever since. At the expiration of his first term he returned to private life, and again resumed the practice of law. In 1850, on the initia- tory organization of the village of Freeport, he was selected to fill one of the five trusteeships of the village; and at the first meeting of the trustees, held in the court-house, Sep- tember 2Ist, 1850, they completed their organization by electing him to the Presidency of the Board. In 1854 he was elected to the State Legislature and chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives. The General Assembly, at its session in 1854-55, chiefly through his influence, passed an act for the incorporation of the city of Freeport. The first municipal election for city officers was held April 2d, 1855, and its result was his election to the Mayoralty, a position for which he was admirably qualified and whose numerous functions he performed with unswerving recti- tude and notable ability. He was a member of the Peace Conference, held in Washington in 1861, and there con- ducted himself with moderation and inflexible loyalty amid many tumultuous scenes. Upon his return from the Capital he was commissioned Colonel, and organized the 15th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers, rendezvousing in the fair grounds of Stephenson county. May 24th, 1861, the regiment was mustered into service, being the first three years regiment mustered in the war for the support of the Union cause. He was ordered to the South with his com- mand, but not being sufficiently robust for active service, and being unable also to endure the fatigue of forced marches and exposed camp-life, he was ultimately assigned in command of a camp of instruction at Alton, Illinois. Later, he was assigned to the command of the Ist Division of the Army of the West, and remained in active service until the fall of 1862, when he was compelled to resign on account of the serious enfeeblement of his health. Ile then removed temporarily to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in order to secure the care and treatment of the eminent Dr. Pancoast for cancer of the chest. A permanent cure |Rev. Isaac E. Carey. The after tributes of respect and
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sorrow were many in number, and forwarded from in- numerable localities throughout a wide area of country ; at various general meetings of Masons special committees were appointed to draft resolutions of respect for the memory of their deceased brother ; and the members of the Stephenson county bar, assembled at the office of James S. Cochran, State's Attorney, also passed resolutions of a most complimentary naturc, reflecting additional lustre on the merits and achievements of the deceased.
ASE, SPENCER M., Lawyer and State's Attorney of Illinois, was born in Rush township, North- umberland county, Pennsylvania, August 2d, 1833. His father, William H. Kase, was a native of Pennsylvania; his mother, Elizabeth (Haughanrout) Kase, of New Jersey. His earlier and preparatory education was acquired in the Lafayette College, at Easton, where he graduated in 1851. In the same year he became a member of the military organization known as the " Philadelphia Grays," holding the rank of Sergeant; later, he was promoted to the Cap- taincy of his company, his commission being given him by Governor Pollock. Upon abandoning college Jife he resolved to embrace the legal profession, and entered the law office of Joshua W. Comly, at Danville, Pennsylvania, under whom he studied for a period of three years. At the termination of his probationary course he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1855. Prior to this, in 1852, he acted as State's Attorney for Northumberland county. In June, 1855, he was sent by the Democratic State Central Committee to Kansas, as cor- respondent for the Pennsylvanian, and remained in that country until May, 1856, when he returned to Pennsyl- vania and identified himself with the political campaign of the hour, associated with Governor Bigler under the cognomen of " Occasional." In 1857, after the clection, he removed to Belleville, St. Clair county, Illinois, which is now his home. Shortly after establishing himself in this town he became a law partner of Governor Reynolds, con- tinuing in association with him during the ensuing two AINEY, HON. JEFFERSON, State Senator of the Forty-ninth District of Illinois and Coal Operator, was born in Randolph county, Illinois, April 20th, 1820. His father, Isaac Rainey, a veteran of the War of 1812, emigrated to Illinois in 1817 and engaged in farming, first in Ran- dolph county, and afterward in St. Clair county, which was his home until his decease, in 1872. His education was acquired at the district school of the latter place. Upon abandoning student life he was occupied for a brief period in teaching school, and afterward engaged in farming on government land, which he entered and which remained years. He then connected himself in a similar partnership with Hon. P. B. Fouke, with whom he was associated for six years, during which time he officiated as State's At- torney. He was afterward the law partner of Hon. John Hinchcliffe for four years, then of A. S. Wilderman for three years, after which, at the dissolution of the last-named partnership connection, he again became the partner of Hon. John Hinchcliffe, with whom he has since acted in concert. In 1873 he was elected to the Legislature from St. Clair county, his term of office expiring in 1874. In May, 1875, he was again made State's Attorney, and still retains that position, performing its functions with vigor ! in his possession until very recently. The first few years
and thorough efficiency. Since his earliest days he has been a supporter of the Democratic party, and was recently a member of the Democratic State Central Committec. Throughout a career of varied experiences his conduct has invariably been such as to redound to his credit, and both in public and in private life he is known as a trustworthy citizen and a man of unusual powers. He was married, in December, 1356, to Elizabeth Sumner, of Milton, Penn- sylvania.
USTACE, JOIIN V., Lawyer and Judge, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 9th, 1821. His parents were Rev. Thomas Eustace, a well-known Presbyterian minister, and Fanny (Ingersoll) Eustace. His education was acquired at the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated in 1839. Having dc- cided to embrace the legal profession, he began the study of law under the supervision and able guidance of Charles D. Drake, of St. Louis, Missouri. Upon the completion of his probationary course of legal studies, he passed the required examination and was admitted to the bar in 1842. In August, 1843, he removed to Dixon, Illinois, where he has since permanently resided, possessing not only an ex- tensive and remunerative clientage, but also the confidence and esteem of the general community of which he is a prominent and an honored citizen. In 1856 he was elected a member of the Legislature, and while acting in that capacity evinced the possession of efficient and useful abilities. In 1857 he was elected a Judge of the Circuit Court, serving one term. Republican in politics, he was one of the electors for Lincoln, and brings to the support of his party talents of no mean order. He is a skilful prac- titioner and ranks with the more prominent and influential lawyers of the town and county. He is an active mover, also, and a valued coadjutor in all movements and enter- prises affecting the status, social and political, of his State and-the general body of his fellow-citizens.
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of his life on the farm were occupied principally in stock- [ than to those fostered by the unscrupulous office-seeker. raising, dealing extensively in stock of all kinds, and As the candidate of the Low-License party for the office of mayor he was the successful opponent of the High-License candidate. In religion he is a pronounced and fearless Materialist ; and, while his past and present record denotes a kindly nature and a charitable mind, he is a partisan of no form of religion. Recognizing the value of the restrain- ing power exercised by churches and religious organiza- tions, however, he is a liberal supporter of such institutions, and is noted for his freedom from prejudice and section- alism. He was married, February 6th, 1866, to Martha E. McCord, of Woodford county, Illinois. making that, in fact, his principal business down to 1865. He has been the owner of farming lands nearly 3000 acres in extent, and at the present time has under thorough cul- tivation over 1700 acres. In September, 1867, he removed to Belleville, where he now permanently resides, while giving careful attention to the operation of his farming and agricultural interests. In 1869 he was elected Alderman for Belleville, and this position he filled for six consecutive years. He now officiates as the acting Mayor. In 1874 he was elected State Senator, for a term of four years, from St. Clair county. He was elected on the Democratic ticket, and to the party which he espoused at an early date he has invariably given his support, as did also his father prior to his demise. While living on his farni he acted as Justice of the Peace for eleven years successively. He is QUITEAU, LUTHER W., Merchant and Bank Cashier, was born at Utica, New York, in 1810, his parents being Dr. Francis Guiteau, a well- known physician of Oneida county, New York, and Hannah (Wilson) Guiteau, of Charlotte, the present owner of the White Oak Coal Mine, in St. Clair county, which is being successfully worked. While acting in a public capacity he has never failed to protect the interests of his constituency, and by his able and vigorous tactics has been instrumental in securing many advantages to his neighboring fellow-citizens. He was married, in 1840, to Miss Lyons, of St. Clair county.
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