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Mr. Carter was united in marriage to Miss Mary J. Wethered, of Alpha, Missouri, on the 30th of January, 1860. By this union they have five chil- dren; namely, Minnie M., Elizabeth A., Luther D., Samuel W. and Martha C. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have been members of the Christian Church of Trenton for nineteen years.
R. O. CARSCADIN
Is the present master mechanic of the southwestern division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, at Trenton. He was born in Moravia, Caynga county, New York, December 17th, 1825, and was there reared, and educated until his fifteenth year was reached when he was apprenticed for three years, to learn the machinist's trade, in Auburn, and was to receive for his services fifty dollars for each year. He readily acquired the knowl- edge and skill of his chosen trade and became proficient as a machinist long before his time expired, and received the compensation of a skillful journey- man. From 1842 until 1846 he worked in several prominent machine-shops in New York, and next began to run a locomotive, as engineer, on the Buf- falo & Attica Railroad, which he did until 1848, when he went to New Or- leans, Lonisana, and was employed on the steamboat, "76," plying between New Orleans and Nashville, Tennessee, until 1851. Returning north
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he received employment in Roger's locomotive works at Paterson, New Jersey, and was sent out with locomotive engines to all parts of the Union. He left the shop in 1852 and was employed on the Lake Shore Road as an engineer until 1856 when he went to Bolivar, Tennessee, and became master mechanic of the Mississippi Central & Tennessee Railroad and that road consolidating with the Mobile & Ohio, soon after he went to Jack- son, Mississippi, as master mechanic of the same road and continued until November, 1861. On account of the disturbed condition of the South he went north and accepted the position of division master mechanic for the Michigan Central Railroad, with headquarters at Michigan City. Serving in that capacity until 1863, he was employed in the same position on the New York Central and Erie roads at Corning, and Rochester, New York. In 1871 he came to Trenton and became master mechanic of the southwestern division of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, February 8th, 1851, Mr. Carscadin married Miss Maria Lonisa Smith, of Buffalo, New York. She was a graduate of Mrs. Willard's Female Seminary, of Troy, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Carseadin have four children; viz., Fred. S., an engineer on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Emma, wife of Myron Shearwood, also an engineer on the same road; Bessie, and Robert St. John.
R. A. COLLIER.
Robert A. Collier was born in Fayette, Missouri, March 19, 1838. In 1844, when he was six years old, his parents came to Grundy county and settled in Trenton, then a small hamlet, where he was reared and edu- cated and has lived ever since with the exception of four years spent in travel in Colorado, Utah and Illinois. His father being a bricklayer he learned that trade but followed it only a short time after attaining his ma- jority. In 1861 he enlisted in company B, Twenty-third Missouri volun- teer infantry under Colonel Tindall, and participated in the battle of Shiloh, where he was taken prisoner and held as such seven months, during which time he was confined at Corinth, Memphis, Mobile, Montgomery, Chatta- nooga, Macon, and in Libby Prison; was patroled at Aiken's Landing, Vir- ginia, October 19, 1862; was twice promoted, first as orderly sergeant and next as second lieutenant. In 1863 he was detailed assistant commissary for the district of Rolla, Missouri, and was mustered out in 1864, serving six months longer than the term enlisted for. Returning to Trenton he was deputized county and circuit clerk by Hon. George H. Hubbell. In 1866 he engaged in the mercantile business with W. T. Wisdom, under firm name of Wisdom & Collier, and retired from the firm the following winter. In the fall of 1870 he was elected county treasurer of Grundy county and was elected his own successor. In 1875 he was appointed township trustee of Trenton, which he was legislated out of by a change made in the law. Since that time he has been variously employed, becoming book-keeper for
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N. Shanklin & Brother in 1880. In 1862 Mr. Collier married Miss A. E. Cooper, of Trenton. They have four children: Willie C., Robert E., Leon E., and Mary Ellen.
F. C. CONRADS.
Frederick Charles Conrads was born at Coblentz, Prussia, January 26, 1835. When thirteen years of age he began to learn the tinner's trade, and served four years. In 1852, then in his seventeenth year, he left home, maintaining himself by working in Hesse Darmstadt, Ems, Cologne and Muelheim, up to 1854, when he went to London, England, and failing to find employment after a two months' sojourn, started for the United States, landing in New York City, October 23, 1854. Again failing to find work at his trade, he went to the country, in New Jersey, and worked as a farm hand until June, 1855, then came to Missouri and secured employment at Glasgow, Howard county, in the tinshop of John R. Carson, and worked for him, at that place and at Carrolton, one year, and with Mr. Carson's successor, J. J. Heisel, at Carrolton, until the spring of 1857. From Car- rolton he went to Linneus, Linn county, and worked in the tinshop of Smith & Melmein until the spring of 1858, when he came to Grundy county and engaged with his brother Clemens in the stove and hardware business at Lindley, under style of Conrads & Brother. In 1862, his brother, on ac- count of declining health, retired from the firm and went to Colorado. He continued in business at Lindley until 1864, when he came to Trenton and established himself in the hardware, stove and tinware business. In Octo- ber, 1865, his brother returned from Colorado, improved in health, and again associated with him and formed the present firm of Conrads & Bro. January 1, 1861, he married Armecie B. Cooper, of Lindley. They have eight children; viz., Joseph W., clerking with his father; David W., a printer, and at work in the Trenton Republican office; John R., a student in the high school; Gussie G., Elizabeth C., Claudie A., Winthrop C., and Clementine. He is an Odd Fellow, and a member of Grand River Lodge No. 52, of Trenton.
D. W. COON
Was born on a farm, near Princeton, Mercer county, September 19, 1854. He received his primary education in the district school, and finished in the high school at Princeton during his sixteenth and seventeenth years. After leaving schiool he was employed in the dry goods store of Hunt & Coon, of Princeton, remained with them some five or six months, and then began to learn the drug business in the drug store of Dr. G. W. Newman, of Prince- ton, and was with him and his successors, G. T. Newman & Co., three years. Leaving them in 1876, he went to Half Rock, in Mercer county, and car- ried on the drug business for himself until April, 1879, when he removed to Spiekardsville, in Grundy county, and there engaged in the drug business
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until 1880. Selling out he came to Trenton and established his present drug business in January, 1881. Mr. Coon's course in life is, indeed, com- mendable. When seventeen he bought his team of his father, agreeing to pay $200 out of his first earnings. Without receiving any pecuniary aid from any one he has succeeded in establishing himself in business with a well-earned reputation. January 1, 1877, Mr. Coon married Miss M. E. Lewis, of Princeton. They have two children, Claude and Cleo.
COMER BROTHERS.
H. S. and E. T. Comer, founders of the firm of Comer Brothers, estab- lished their business in February, 1881. They were born on a farm near. Wilton Junction, Muscatine county, Iowa-the senior, August 30, 1855, and the junior, November 28, 1856. They lived in their birthplace until 1868, when their parents moved to Tipton, Iowa, so that their children might have the opportunity to attend school, and they completed their ed- ucation in the Tipton high school in 1869. In 1870 their father had the misfortune to lose his property, when they returned to Muscatine county, and went to Texas to retrieve his losses and improve his health, but he was taken down with the yellow fever, from which he never recovered. With their mother and two sisters to be supported, they began working as farm hands for different farmers. During the winter of 1869 and '70 they bought standing timber, chopped it into cord-wood and sold it. From that time until 1872 H. S. was variously employed. He came to Trenton in the year last named, and was employed in the drug store of his unele, W. P. Cowans, until 1873, when he accepted a position in the brick- yard of W. W. Gordon and worked for him until the following May, when he went into the Eagle Mills to learn the milling business, working there and in the City Flouring Mills of Trenton until January, 1881. E. T. also worked in the vicinity of Wilton Junction until December, 1872, when he came to Trenton and was employed in the grocery store of S. D. Saxby as. delivery clerk until February, 1873, when he went on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway as train-boy, but disliking that he quit the next May and accepted a clerkship with Shanklin Brothers, of Trenton, and was with them and their successors until February, 1879, when he began work for G. D. Smith in the agricultural implement and grain business. The following year he became associated with his employer in the same business as Smith & Comer, he retiring from the firm January 1, 1881, and became as- sociated with his brother, H. S., in the grocery business. March 16, 187S, Mr. E. T. Comer married Miss Mildred Smith, daughter of G. D. Smith, of Trenton. These brothers, although young men, have built up a good busi- ness reputation. Thrown upon the world empty-handed, without a father's aid or counsel, they have manfully battled with the world, and by their tem- perate habits, persevering efforts, and unflinching energy have gained a standing that men many years older might envy.
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HON. R. A. DEBOLT.
Rezin A. DeBolt, of Trenton, is a native of Fairfield county, Ohio, born January 20, 1828. Reared on a farm, his time up to his seventeenth year was divided between agricultural pursuits and acquiring an education in the common schools of the county, the first of which was the foundation of his present rugged and vigorous constitution, and the last the beginning of future attainments. In 1845, in his seventeenth year, he was apprenticed for three years to a tanner, served his time, and followed his trade for a few years, and in the meantime gave his nights to study, "many times and oft" burning the "midnight oil," as he eagerly pored over dry volumes of legal lore. Ceaseless diligence and tireless study were at last rewarded, and in February, 1856, the whilom tanner's apprentice was admitted to the bar, to practice in the courts of Ohio. Two years he practiced in his native State, then following the tide of immigration which was flowing rapidly westward, he joined the throng, hoping to take the tide "at the flood which leads on to fortune." Arriving in Missouri he settled in Trenton and began the successful practice of his profession in 1858. The following year he was appointed commissioner of common schools of Grundy county, and was elected to the same office in 1860, but still continuing his practice which the duties of his office did not interfere with. When the dark clouds of dread civil war first hovered over the land, he was among the first to come to his country's aid, and his voice grew strangely eloquent when he raised it in behalf of the Union and the stars and stripes. In 1861 he recruited a company; was elected captain in the Twenty-third Missouri vol- unteer infantry. At the head of his men he participated in the battle of Shiloh, and was captured April 6, 1862, and held a prisoner until the fol- lowing October. His health had become impaired and he resigned his com- mission in 1863, but again entered the United States service in 1864, and was commissioned major of the Forty-fourth Missouri volunteer infantry, remaining until mustered out in August, 1865. November, 1863, he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of the Eleventh judicial circuit, which office he held by reelection until Jannary 1, 1875, and by his impartial rul- ings won many encomiums. In 1877 Judge DeBolt again entered the arena of political life, as a candidate for congress, and after an exciting and bitter canvass was elected a member of the Forty-fourth Congress, as a Democrat, defeating his opponent by two hundred and seventeen votes. Since the expiration of his term in Congress, he has given his entire attention to his large law practice. He is a man fearless, independent and outspoken in his advocacy of what he believes to be right. By hard battles against desper- ate resistence, he has won his way to his high position in the esteem of the people among whom he lives.
Judge DeBolt has been twice wedded. His first marriage was to Miss
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Maria M. McCleery, of Fairfield county, Ohio, near Lancaster, June 19, 1849. By this marriage they had a family of six children, three only of whom are living. Mrs. DeBolt died February 4, 1869. His second mar- riage was to Miss Laurestine U. Dinsmoor, a native of Canada, but reared in New York. The ceremony was performed October 12, 1869. Five children have been the issue of this union, all living.
Judge DeBolt has a fine residence in the sontheastern portion of the city, with grounds covering ten and a half acres, handsomely laid off with shade trees and shrubbery in front of the house. With his wife and family gathered around, it makes one of the most pleasant and comfortable homes in Trenton.
JAMES R. DEVAUL
Was born near Elkton, Christian county, Kentucky, March 28, 1814. His parents came to Missouri in 1820 and after stopping in Chariton county one year, went to Ray county where they settled. They removed in 1834 to Daviess county, being one of the first five families that settled in that county, and thence to Grundy county in 1835. He lived with them until attaining his majority in 1835, and in the spring of 1837 staked his first claim on government land which he afterward improved and entered- the same land is now a part of the site of Trenton city. He has, in his time, improved five farms in Grundy county. He was among the pioneers and took an active part in the organization of Grundy county, is now the only surviving member of the first grand jury of the county, and was elected and held the office of justice of the peace four years. March 7, 1837, Mr. De- vaul married Miss Sarah Howell, of Linn county, Missouri. They have ten children living; namely, William A., and Jasper N., of California; Luther C., of Oregon; Martha A., wife of William Cornwell, of Grundy county; Louisa, wife of John H. Roberts, of Oregon; Green C., and Oscar remain- ing at home. Two have died, Daniel P., in the United States army, and Sarah J., in Grundy county. Mr. and Mrs. Devaul are members of long standing in the Baptist Church, he for fifty-five years, and she for forty years, being one of the original members of the Trenton Church. The pub- lishers of this work extend their thanks to him for the valuable information he has given to their historian and for the interest manifested in its compila- tion.
ABNER DRINKARD
Was born near Glasgow, Howard county, Missouri, February 1, 1826. He came to Grundy county with his parents in 1841 and settled at the forks of Grand River, five miles northwest of Trenton. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army, Captain Hugh's company and Col. Perkins's regiment, and in October of the same year was taken prisoner at Roanoke, Missouri, and kept in prison at St. Louis, and Alton, Illinois, until February, 1865,
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when he was liberated on parole. He went to Quincy, Illinois, and from there to Roanoke, Missouri, returning to Grundy county in 1872, settled in Trenton and worked at earpentering until 1876, when he was employed in the repair shops of the C., R. I. & P. R. R. company, and remained four- years. In 1880 he went to live with his son, William E., assisting him in his grocery store at Trenton. He has been twice married, the first time to Miss Effie Maston in 1842, who died in 1843; and the second time to Miss Caroline E. Clark, in 1847, and by whom he has five children: Mary J., wife of C. Sires, of Grundy county, William E., grocer of Trenton; John W., employé in C., R. I. & P. R. R. shops; James M., and Fronie, wife of New- ton Ratliff, farmer of Grundy county. In 1852 he was elected county as- sessor holding the position for two years, and in 1858 was elected one of the county judges, holding that position until 1862, when he was legislated out of office.
CORNELIUS J. DRISCOLL
Was born in the county of Cork, Ireland, November 1st, 1843. His parents left their native isle during the famine of 1847, and went to. London, England, where his father died the following year, and where he lived with his mother until March, 1852, then came west with her to America, landing in New York City in April of that year. They settled at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he lived until 1875. In 1861 he began to learn the painter's trade, under W. H. Allis, and followed it until 1866, when he began to work at the carpenter and joiner's trade, with Hogan & Keeff, of Springfield, and worked with them until 1870, then began contracting and building for himself in the same place, and continned that business until he came West in 1875. He settled at Trenton, and engaged in contracting and building, where can be seen many beautiful struct- ures designed and built by him, among which are the Hodge Presbyterian, and the first Presbyterian churches, the Baptist church, and the residences of Messrs. Geo. F. Walker, and C. E. Peckham. The beauty of his handi- work is displayed in the altar of St. Joseph church (Catholic) which he- designed and built.
On the 15th of August, 1871, he married Miss Mary A. Sheehan, of East Hampton, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll are members of St. Joseph Catholic Church of Trenton.
Mr. Driscoll now holds the position of foreman of the carpenter shops of the C., R. I. & P. R. R. Co. at Trenton.
A. DUBACH
Was born in Lorraine, France, July 15th, 1847; when about three years old, his parents came to the United States and settled in Chicago. When our subject was fourteen he began working in the planing-mills of Abbott & Kingman, of Chicago, making his home with his parents, to whom he gave-
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his wages. When eighteen he began to learn the trade of machinist in the shop of John Schlacks, of Chicago, and was with him up to 1869, when he was employed as machinist in the shop of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, at Chicago. He worked there until 1872, when the same company sent him to work in their shops at Trenton, where he continned until 1876, when he left them and engaged in the saloon busi- ness at Trenton. In 1871 he married Miss Margaret Schneider, of Chicago. They have three daughters, Maggie K., Barbara E., and Gertrude F., and two sons, Franklin and Louis H.
WILLIAM E. DRINKARD
Established his business in Trenton in October, 1880. He was born on a farm near Trenton, March 22d, 1850. In 1864, when fourteen years of age he went to Illinois and worked on a farm near Quincy, until 1866, when he went to Roanoke, Missouri, and worked at the carpenter's trade with his father. In 1871 he came to Trenton and worked at carpentering until 1874, when he was employed in the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad shops where he worked until 1879. This latter year he began clerking for D. E. Lilly and was in his employ until he opened business for himself in 1880. In 1875 he married Miss Sarahette Fleak, of Trenton. They have two children, Rella and Pearl.
CORWIN A. FREEMAN, M. D.
Corwin A. Freeman was born in LaGrange, Lorain county, Ohio, Decem- ber 11th, 1850. While an infant, his parents removed to Newark, Ken- dall county, Illinois, where he was reared and educated, attending the district schools of Newark until his twelfth year, when he entered Fowler's Insti- tute, of Newark, taking an irregular course preparatory to the study of medicine. His father, being a physician, had him educated especially for the profession, and he began the study when he was fifteen in his father's office and continued three years, when he attended one course of lectures at the Bellevue Hospital College, of New York City, then returned home and began practice with his father. Ile intended returning to New York and finishing his course, but the support of his mother and three younger brothers was unexpectedly thrown upon him and he was prevented, yet lie persevered in his study and practice and was enabled to complete a course in the Long Island Medical College in 1876, when he graduated as M. D., second in his class. He returned to Newark and continued practice until October, 1878, when he came to Trenton and established himself in his pres- ent practice. In 1876, October 18th, he married Miss Lottie Wright, of Newark, Illinois, who died at Trenton, October 13th, 1879, from congestion of the lungs brought on by exposure while convalescing from typhoid fever. October 18th, 1880, Dr. Freeman married Miss Mary Odom, grand- daughter of Rev. John Evans, of Grundy county. 27
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J. B. FARNAM.
J. B. Farnam came to Trenton in 1872, having been sent there from Chi- cago by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company to act as passenger and freight agent temporarily, and also agent for the United States express company. Soon after, he was permanently employed, and kept the position until 1875, when he established himself in the drug busi- ness at Trenton, in which he has since been engaged. J. B. Farnam was born on a farm near Lockport, Niagara county, New York, June 25, 1826. When fourteen years of age he went into the drug store of G. W. Merchant, the celebrated Gargling Oil manufacturer, of Lockport, to learn the drug business, and remained with him in the store until 1845, and during 1846 and 1847 was traveling salesman for the same house. In 1848 he was em- ployed in the drug house of Scanmon & Haven, of Chicago, and was in their employ until 1851, when he became station and express agent at Hud- son, Michigan, appointed by the Michigan Southern Railroad Company. He acted in that capacity until 1860, and from that time until he came to Trenton, in 1872, was at Decatur, Illinois, employed by the United States and Merchants' Union express companies. Mr. Farnam, on October 18, 1852, married Miss Sarah A. Ryerson, of Chicago.
JOHN FITTERER
Was born near Dayton, Ohio, March 25, 1852. His mother dying when he was eighteen months old, he was placed by his father with different fami- lies until he was eight years old, when he began living with C. A. Hoffman, now his partner in business, who married his sister, and was then living near Carthage, Illinois. Ile lived with Mr. Hoffman. until he was twelve, when he went to live on a farm with William Fruze, near Carthage, and worked for him until he was fourteen, when he came to Trenton, in 1865, with an older brother, Enos Fitterer, and his brother-in-law, C. A. Hoffman. With them he learned the trade of baker, being with them about two years, when he went to Chillicothe and was employed by Leach Brothers as stage- driver from that place to Trenton for one year. In 1869 he went to Keo- kuk, Iowa, and was employed as baker by Stahl & Saltzer, wholesale bakers and cracker manufacturers, until 1871, when he returned to Trenton and worked at his trade with Fitterer & Range. In 1873 he went to Chicago, and was employed in the fancy bread and cake bakery house of Samnel Gourley, until 1875, and again returned to Trenton and went into the bak- ery and grocery business with his brother Enos, under the firm name of Fitterer & Brother. In 1877 they sold out to Hyde & Crandall, and he remained as baker with them some two months, when he purchased Mr. Crandall's interest, changing the firm name to Hyde & Fitterer; and in 1879 his present partner, C. A. Hoffman, bought Mr. Hyde's interest, and the present firm of Fitterer & Hoffman was formed.
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Mr. Fitterer obtained his education by attending district schools in vari- ous places, and being born of German parents had to attend school to learn the English language, which he learned to speak fluently by the time he was eight years old. Mr. Fitterer married Miss Lillie Cline, of Trenton. They have two children, Ethel and Alouis.
J. E. FULKERSON
Was born on a farm eight miles northwest of Trenton, April 3, 1848, where he was reared. His father died when he was twelve years old, and from that time he and three brothers remained on the farm with their widowed mother, and by their labor the farm work was carried on, thereby support- ing her and a sister. In 1869, when he was twenty-one, he rented a farm in Fayette county for one year, at the expiration of which time he returned to Grundy county, and during 1871 he and two brothers farmed the home- stead. In the spring of 1872 he attended T. J. Bryant's commercial eol- lege at St. Joe, graduating from that institution in June of the same year, then came to Trenton and began clerking for J. M. Bailey and was with him until June, 1874, when he made a pleasure trip to Denver, Colorado, with R. P. Carnes, who made the trip for his health, many of his friends accompanying him. The excursion was called " the Carnes expedition." After returning in August, he worked for a short time on the home farm, when he was employed as book-keeper in the First National Bank of Tren- ton, and was so employed for three years, and when it was changed to the Union Bank he became book-keeper and assistant cashier and continued to hold that position until the fall of 1878. He was the nominee of the Re- publican party in 1878 for sheriff and was defeated by only twenty-nine votes. In December of the same year he was employed as salesman and book- keeper in the lumber yard of H. S. Carnes, and was with him until 1879, in March of which year he went to Colorado and prospected in various places and assisted in surveying and platting Gothic City, near the Elk Mountains, Colorado. Returning to Grundy county in August, the follow- ing October he began to travel for a drug house of St. Joe, traveling in twenty-eight States in all parts of the Union, and returning to Trenton in April, 1881. He then purchased of H. S. Carnes his interest in the boot and shoe business of Carnes & Nichols, changing the firm to B. C. Nichols & Co. October 24, 1876, Mr. Fulkerson married Miss Georgia Shannon, of New Market, Missouri, by whom he has two boys, Hugh Floyd, and a younger son, not named.
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