The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 41

Author: Robson, Charles, ed
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy
Number of Pages: 770

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had seriously crippled both the paper and its financial sup- port, and it was at length sold to its present proprietors. Dr. Patton then ceased to be connected with it in any managerial capacity, though a regular contributor to its editorial and other columns at this date. He is at present engaged in various literary labors, besides preparing a book for the press. He also acted for one year, after ceasing to be editor of The Advance, as Corresponding Secretary of the American Missionary Association. He was also a dele- gate to the great National Council of Congregational Churches, held at Oberlin. His first wife died March 23d, IS50. He was married to his present wife, Mary B. Smith, daughter of Norman Smith, Jr., of Hartford, October Ist, IS51. He has a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters. The oldest son, by his first wife, is a banker and broker in New York ; the second son, a graduate of Amherst College, is now studying architecture; while still another son is in the senior class in Amherst. Dr. Patton has a sister living in London, and has himself been abroad, making a tour in Europe and the East of nearly a year. He is permanently engaged as Lecturer on Modern Skepti- cism in the Chicago Theological Seminary, and also in the Theological Department of Oberlin College.

SAHIL, FREDERICK, Merchant, was born Febru- ary 28th, ISog, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, of German parentage. He received his education in his native place, principally from German teachers. When twenty years of age he removed to G.ilcna, Illinois, thus becoming one of the earliest settlers of that section. Shortly after his arrival there he entered the store of a mercantile firm, and in 1831 he established himself in business on his own account as a general trader. During the following year he took part, in common with most of the inhabitants of the district, in the campaign against the Indians, familiarly known as the " Black Hawk War." The country around Galena abounds in lead ore, the word " galena " being generally applied to the sulphuret of that metal, which is the charac- ter of ore chiefly mined . the word " mineral," however, in that locality, being employed to describe the ores which are sold to the smelting furnaces. In 1336 he became in- terested in the latter industry, and was one of several who embarked in this enterprise. About the same time also he engaged in the steamboat trade, which was then very ex- tensive in Galena. Indeed, in later years, the port of Galena owned more tonnage, proportionately, than any other in the United States, New York not excepted. In 1339 lie became President of the Galena branch of the State Bank of Illinois. IIe retired from active business pursuits in 1852, although he continued to take part in the direction of the various public companies with which he has been connected for many years past. In 1857 the

Galena Marine Insurance Company was established, of which he became President. This corporation was merged, about. 1865, into the Merchants' National Bank of Galena, of which latter institution he was elected a director, and still continues to hold that position. IIe has been for many years intimately connected with an insurance agency, in which he takes a great interest. In IS58 he was elected Mayor of the city of Galena, being the only official position he ever held. He has thus resided in this section for nearly half a century, and is justly claimed as one of the pioneers of this portion of the Northwest, being thoroughly identified with its progress and development. He is of quiet, unassuming manners, and greatly respected for his sterling worth and integrity.

ANE, WILLIAM, Lawyer, Judge, was born in IIackettstown, New Jersey, September 8th, 1828. His parents were John H. Lane and Mary (Nightser) Lane. His education was acquired in the common schools in the vicinity of his resi- dence. In 1837 he removed with his parents to Knox county, Ohio, and was there apprenticed to learn the trade of shoemaking. Subsequently he engaged in a gen- eral mercantile business, and removed to Morrison, Illinois. At the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted, in 1861, in Company E of the 46th Illinois Volunteers, and was elected First Lieutenant. He was attacked by sickness, however, in the following year, and his health finally became so enfeebled that he was granted a discharge. In 1862 he was appointed Deputy United States Assessor, and in the same year, having decided to embrace the legal profession, began the study of law. IIe was admitted to the bar in 1863, and shortly after entered upon the active practice of his profession in Morrison, in which he has since continued, meeting with great success. In 1869 he was elected County Judge, and still holds that position, performing its functions with marked ability and unswerving rectitude. He was married in 1849 to Selina W. Woodcock of Fredericktown, who died in 1872. In 1874 he was again married to Jane Shafer, formerly a resident of White county, Indiana.

FOULARD, JAMES G., retired Merchant, was born, July 15th, 1798, in St. Louis, Missouri, then the province of Upper Louisiana, under the Spanish flag. IIe is a son of the late Antoine and Julia (Cerry) Soulard, his father being a native of France. He was educated in the com- mon schools of the place, and then entered a store as a clerk. In 1819 he established himself in business on his own account as a general trader. The following year he set out on a trading expedition to Fort Snelling, then the

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Ultima Thule of American territory, remaining there for one year, and then returned to St. Louis. His father had been a surveyor of the province of Upper Louisiana under the Spanish rule, and afterwards under the American government, that territory having been ceded to the United States by the first Napoleon in' 1803. The son succeeded the father as a United States Deputy. Surveyor, and under and through the latter became likewise engaged in the sur- vey of both the public and private lands in the District of Missouri, chiefly in and around St. Louis ; he was so occu- pied in 1823-25. In 1827 he removed to Galena, and thus became one of the very earliest settlers of that section. He here engaged in mercantile pursuits and also in mining lead and smelting its ores. He was commissioned Post- master of the town in 1832, and filled the post for two years; and subsequently was appointed County Recorder and County Surveyor, which positions he filled till 1836. For the next twenty years he was engaged in farming, horticulture, and the nursery business, in and near Galena, and planted the first vineyard in Joe Daviess county. During this period, also, he was interested in many real estate operations in St. Louis, both on his own account and in connection with his father's estate. In 1856 he relin- quished all active business life and devoted the years since that date to horticulture and other Arcadian pursuits.

EWHALL, HORATIO, Physician and Editor, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1798. His par- ents were Joel Newhall and Lucy (Mansfield) Newhall. He studied at Harvard University, and graduated in 1817, in the same class with George Bancroft, Caleb Cushing, and Rev. Dr. Tyng, of New York. He took the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the Medical Department of Harvard in 1821. After graduating he came West, to Illinois, and settled at Greenville, Bond county. In 1827 he removed to Galena, being one of the earliest pioneers and settlers of the place. During 1828-29 he edited the Miners' Journal, the first newspaper published in the Northwest, and continued its publication for about two years. In 1830 he relinquished his editing and mining operations, and resumed the practice exclusively of the medical profession. While in Greenville he engaged very actively and zealously in the debates and discussions engendered by the question as to whether Illinois should be a free or a slave State, and, in conjunc- tion with Rev. James Peck, was, in a great measure, instru- mental in securing the adoption of a free Constitution for the State. He was for many years President of the Joe Daviess County Medical Society, and during the continu- ance of the Black Hawk Indian War was Surgeon in the United States army in 1832-33. He was an esteemed and influential member of the Presbyterian Church, and for a period extending over a quarter of a century one of its most

valued ruling elders. Prior to his death, in 1870, he had practised medicine in Illinois for a much longer time than any other physician, and was the possessor of an extensive business, and the veneration and love of all that knew him. He was a scholarly gentleman, and an accomplished physi- cian. Upright and Christianly in all his dealings with his fellow-townsmen, he was regarded by them as a wise counsellor in affairs political, social, and religious ; while, so entirely was he in their confidence, an admonition from his lips would often arrest in mid career some movement or measure in which he had detected the germ of evil. His death occasioned widespread regret, and left vacant one of those places which are difficult to fill.

ROWN, HON. WILLIAM, Lawyer and Jurist, was born June Ist, 1819, in Cumberland, Eng. land, and is a son of Thomas and Mary (Mor- ton) Brown, who emigrated to the United States in 1827, first locating in Hudson, and thence re- moved, three years subsequently, to Western, Oneida county, New York. Here he was educated, and having embraced the legal profession he studied law in Rochester, where he was admitted to the bar in October, I845. He immediately removed to Illinois, and settled at Rockford in that State, where he commenced the practice of his profession. In 1852 he was elected State's Attorney for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, for the term of four years. In 1857 he was elected Mayor of the city of Rock- ford, and in 1865-66 served in the Legislature of the State. In 1870 he was elected Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, composed of the counties of Winnebago, Stephenson, and Joe Daviess. In 1873 he was re-elected for a term of six years, which position he continues to fill at the present time (1875).

AWSON, MANASSEH M., Hardware Merchant, was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, March 26th, IS41. He is the son of Manasseh Lawson, a native cf Ohio, and Agathe Lawson, a native of France. His education was acquired at the Ohio Wesleyan University, located at Delaware, Ohio. Immedi- ately upon leaving school, he engaged in mercantile busi- ness and stock-shipping at Oakland, Coles county, Illinois, being then twenty-four years of age. In this business he remained for a period of three years, then removed to Tus- cola, Douglas county, resuming the business of stock-ship- ping, and continuing in it until the following year. He then established himself in the hardware trade, in which he is still engrossed, and has succeeded in building up, within a remarkably short period, the most extensive business rela- tions in that trade in this section of the State, and his ele- gant storeroom is a conspicuous object among the buildings

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of Tuscola. As a business man he ranks with the most re- liable, as well as with the most prosperous tradesmen of the county, and is noted for his energy and enterprise. Al- though one of the youngest of the more prominent resident merchants he exercises much influence in business circles, and is honored as an able and upright citizen. He was married, April 14th, 1864, to Mary Burr, a former resident of Oakland.

UINE, WILLIAM E., son of William and Mar- garet (Kinley) Quine, was born in the Isle of Man, February 9th, 1847, and removed with his parents to Chicago in 1853. Having enjoyed the usual educational advantages of the public schools and the High School of the city, he entered a drug store and devoted four years to the study of materia medica, pharmacy, and chemistry. In 1856 he commenced attending lectures in the Chicago Medical College, gradu- ating from that institution in 1869. Six months previous to graduation he was elected, from a competitive examination, to the House Staff of the Cook County Hospital, and served in that relation for a year and a half. He entered private practice as the partner of Dr. T. D. Fitch, the partnership continuing one year. In 1870 he was chosen as Lecturer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Medi- cal College, and in 1871 he was regularly installed as the Professor of that chair. In 1872 he was elected to the

Medical Board of the Cook County Hospital, as the At- law studies with the legal firm of Smith & Page, in Circle-

tending Accoucheur of that institution. In 1874 he was elected Treasurer of the Illinois State Medical Society, and soon after was chosen for the Presidency of the Chicago Medical Society. Though still a very young man Dr. Quine has had a somewhat remarkable career, and he is now regarded as one of the most rapidly growing-physicians of Chicago and its vicinity.

with whom he found a home while pursuing a student life at the Iowa State University, where he became noted for his versatile powers of oratory and debate. During the vacations he was engaged in teaching school, and was occu- pied also in the law office of Justice William E. Miller, where he read with attention and profit the works of Black- stone and various elementary treatises on law, which im- planted in him a great fondness for the legal profession. During the first year of his residence in Iowa City he was furnished by his brother with a sum of money which he took with him .to Kanc county, Illinois, and where, though but a boy of sixteen, he bought and shipped by rail to the former town, ten cows, which he kept during the season, milking them himself, and selling the milk, thus securing the means of defraying his current expenses. In the spring of 1858, then the possessor of $200, he speculated in fruit trees, sending them up the Mississippi river, but in this enterprise failed to secure profitable returns. He removed subsequently to St. Louis, where he purchased various books, and travelled about the country in order to dispose of them advantageously. Later, he was engaged in teach- ing school again for three terms, in St. Charles county, Missouri. He then returned to his home in Ohio, and was temporarily employed in running a country butcher wagon, and succeeded in laying aside a sufficient amount of his earnings to meet his expenses on a journey to Pickaway county, in the same State, where he became the occupant of a well-salaried position in a school, and also resumed his

ville, Tazewell county. Being the possessor of considerable knowledge concerning politics, and also a fluent spcaker and ready debater, he soon became widely known as the " Boy Orator." On the outbreak of the rebellion in 1861 he raised and organized a company for the United States army, but, guided by pro-slavery proclivities, and becoming dissatisfied with the conduct of the administration, he dis- banded this body of troops, and resolved to take no part in the war. Upon the retirement of General Fremont from command in Missouri, however, his patriotism was again aroused, and he enlisted as a private in Company E, of the 73d Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, then being per- fected. He was afterward appointed Orderly Sergeant, and then promoted successively to a Second Lieutenancy and a First Lieutenancy, in the latter capacity commanding his company for a considerable length of time. July 3d, 1863, while in command of a skirmishing line, he was se- verely wounded at Gettysburg. In consequence of after disability, arising from his wounds, he was discharged from the service. Later, he was tendered by Governor Todd, of Ohio, the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of a new regiment, but being unable to take the field was compelled to decline the appointment. While in the army he was constantly with his command, and, in addition to the wound received at Gettysburg, was upon four other occasions slightly wounded.

LARK, HORACE S., Lawyer, Ex-Judge, was born in Huntsburg, Geauga county, Ohio, August 12th, 1840. His father, Captain J. M. P. Clark, emigrated to Ohio from Vermont at an early day ; his mother is Charlotte (Brainard) Clark, a native of the latter State. At the age of fifteen years, with a fair common school education, he took leave of the old homestead, and, with money earned by industry and thrift, was enabled to reach Chicago, Illinois, where, with- out a friend, he sought employment, and worked for a brief period in a livery stable. Becoming dissatisfied with city life he removed to Kane county, where he labored on a farm during the summer season, and in the winter months attended school, paying for his board by the performance of various commissions. In the following spring he reached Iowa City, westward bound, where an older brother lived, | He then removed to Nashville, Tennessee, and occupying

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himself there in business pursuits, met with much and de- served success. In 1865 he removed to Mattoon, Illinois, where he resumed his legal studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1868, while still holding the position of City Police Magistrate, to which he had previously been ap- pointed. Upon engaging in the active practice of his pro- fession he met at once with success, and rapidly acquired an extensive and remunerative clientage. In 1870 he was a candidate for the Legislature on the Republican ticket, but failed to secure an election, being defeated, however, by but a meagre majority. Later he was elected Judge of the Common Pleas Court of the city of Mattoon, holding that office during an unexpired term. Ultimately he resumed his practice, and, particularly as a criminal lawyer, won an extended and favorable reputation. At the present time his business circuit comprises not only the town of Mattoon, but also a wide circle in the environing region, and his ser- vices are eagerly sought for by those requiring a practitioner of skill and learning.

ARDNER, HORACE, M. D., was born in Perry county, New York, August 25th, 1829, being the eldest of a family of six children. When he was two years of age his family moved to Alle- gheny county, where he spent his boyhood on his father's farm. He early evinced a liking for literature, and was seldom without a book at hand to which he would devote all of his unemployed moments. The desire for knowledge increasing with his years, he soon de- termined upon a profession, and as liberal an education as circumstances and time would permit. His father being of limited means, with a large family to support, was unable to afford him the facilities so much coveted, and, at the age of sixteen, it was arranged that he should leave home, and, relying exclusively upon his own efforts, seek those advan- tages necessary to the accomplishment of his purposes. Six or seven months spent at labor brought him the means to commence his studies at Alfred University, New York. During the following six years he pursued his course of studies there and at Cayuga, New York, with the exception of such intervals spent in teaching as became necessary to supply the means of defraying expenses. In 1852 he com- menced the study of medicine with William B. Alley, M. D., at Almond, New York, applying himself studiously to acquiring a knowledge of the rudiments of the science there, and during the year 1853 at Milwaukee, and 1854 at Geneva, Wisconsin, where he was also engaged in teaching. In the fall of the latter year he located in Chicago, becom- ing a pupil in the office of Professors A. B. Palmer and De Laskie Miller. He entered Rush Medical College at the opening of the lecture course of 1854-55, and graduated from that institution in the spring of 1856. After spending one year in the Mercy Hospital, where, under excellent in- structors, he made a thorough study of disease and its

treatment at the bed-side, he "hung out his shingle " at Libertyville, Illinois, where he rapidly made friends, and readily commanded a fair practice. After several months, however, he disposed of his office and practice to another physician and returned to the city of Chicago, and there located, as he supposed, permanently, and entered at once into the practice of his profession. In 1858, in conjunction with Professor Edmund Andrews, M. D., he opened a pri- vate anatomical room, where classes consisting of students, artists, and professional men were received and instructed in human anatomy. In the spring of 1859 the institution, now known as the Chicago Medical College, was organized, and Dr. Wardner was elected to the position of Demon- strator of Anatomy. He occupied that position until the outbreak of the civil war of 1861, when he entered the military service as Surgeon of the 12th Illinois Volunteers. In April, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Brigade Surgeon, and assigned as Medical Director of a division, under the command of General U. S. Grant. He remained with the army, in the field, until after the battle of Corinth, in October, 1862, participating in seven engagements, viz. : Belmont, Fort Henry, Fort Donaldson, Pittsburg Landing, Siege of Corinth, Iuka, and Corinth, rendering services for which he received complimentary notice in the reports of his superior officers. He was then ordered to take charge of the United States General Hospital at Mound City, Illinois, and continued in charge of that establish- ment until the close of the war, and the abolishment of the hospital, in August, 1865. He was afterward ordered to the post of Cairo, and placed in charge of its medical affairs, and continued in that position until August, 1866, when the post was permanently closed. Before being mus- tered out of the service he was promoted to the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel " for meritorious services." Pleased with the mild climate of southern Illinois, and finding Cairo a much healthier locality than general re- port abroad attributes to it, or its first appearance to a stranger would indicate, he chose to remain in that place, now his home, and resumed the civil practice of his profes- sion. In 1867 'he was instrumental in establishing the hos- pital known as the St. Mary's Infirmary, and since that time has continued to be its chief medical officer. It being a marine hospital of the third class, places him on the list of surgeons in the United States Marine Hospital service. He is an officer of the Southern Illinois Medical Society, and a member of the American Medical Association. For several | years he has been Surgeon of the Illinois Central Railroad ; is Examining Surgeon for the United States Pensioners, and Medical Supervisor, Referee, or Examiner for a number of life insurance companies. He was married in 1858 to Louise Rockwood of Wisconsin, a lady well adapted to fill a wife's part in the position a professional man occupies in the community. In his profession he has been successful, having gained an extensive practice to which he devotes his entire time and energies, and from which he enjoys a

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liberal income. He has made frequent contributions to medical literature ; has prepared and delivered several lec- tures on scientific subjects, which called forth favorable notices from the press and the people. As a citizen he is respected, and is favored with the esteem and confidence of the people.

ATTERSON, JOSEPH M., Banker, was born at Mount Joy, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, August 12th, 1837. His father was Samuel S. Patterson, before mentioned. His education was acquired at the academy, situated in his native place. In 1857 he moved, with his parents, to Sterling, Illinois, and there acted in the capacity of clerk in his father's dry-goods store-Patterson & Witmer. In the fall of 1857 he was admitted into that firm as a partner, and its style was changed to Patterson, Witmer & Co. In 1861, at the breaking out of the civil war, he entered thc service of the United States in the 13th Regiment of Illi- nois Volunteers, and served gallantly with that body until it was mustered out in 1864. In 1867, in a partnership asso- ciation with his father and Julius Rogers, under the firm- name of Rogers, Patterson & Co., he commenced the bank- ing business. In 1870 the firm was reconstructed, Rogers retiring and William L. Patterson being admitted as part- ner, when the style of Patterson & Co. was adopted, and has since been retained. In 1873 he was elected a mem- ber of the State Senate, and served one term. He has also been a member of the Board of Supervisors. In politics he is a Republican, and brings to the support of his party abilities of no mean order. In all matters concerning the status, social and political, of his adopted State and county, he is an active and an efficient co-worker. He was mar- ried in 1864 to Catharine A. Manahan, of Sterling, Illinois.

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The biographical encyclopedia of Illinois of the nineteenth century, Part 41

Author: Robson, Charles, ed Publication date: 1875 Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy Number of Pages: 770

Author: Robson, Charles, ed
Publication date: 1875
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy
Number of Pages: 770