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HISTORICAL  SOUVENIR 


OF 


GREENVILLE,  ILLINOIS. 


Being  a  Brief  Review  of  the  City  from  the 
Time  of  its  Founding  to  Date 


COMPILEP   AND    EDITED 


WILL  C.   CARSON 


ILLUSTRATED 


PRICE,  ONE  DOLLAR. 


PUBLISHED      BY 

THE     LeCRONE     press.     EFFINGHAM.     ILL. 
1905 


BIRD'S     EYE     VIEW     OF     GREENVILL' 


FOREWORD 


fJV  presenting  this  little  volume  to  the  cnttcal  gaze  of  the 
people  of  Greenville,  the  author  fully  realizes  that  there 
are  many  of  her  citizens  who  arc  better  equipped  by  ten- 
ure of  years  and  by  ripe  experience  to  lay  bare  the  story  of  her 
life  and  growth. 

Che  tash  of  assembling  the  historical  data  has  been  a  great 
one,  but  when  once  assembled,  the  work  of  confining  it  to  a  vol- 
ume the  size  of  this,  without  losing  sight  of  the  essential  facts, 
was  even  greater.  In  order  to  confine  the  story  of  Greenville  to 
a  volume  of  this  size  it  became  necessary  to  treat  the  subject  in 
a  general  way.  Chis  was  never  intended  to  be  a  biographical 
record,  but  a  history  of  Greenville  could  not  be  written  without 
frequent  illusions  to  many  of  her  citizens  who  have  contributed 
materially  to  her  growth,  perhaps  mention  of  some  of  these 
has  been  omitted.    If  so,  it  is  unintentional. 

Che  illustrating  of  this  book  has  been  conducted  by  Mr. 
Byron  K.  LeCrone,  of  effingham,  and  Mr.  Lon  S.  Matherly,  of 
Tandalia.  'Che  people  of  Greenville  have  responded  most  gener- 
ously in  many  ways  to  make  this  work  a  success.  Co  single  out 
any  one  individual,  or,  for  that  matter,  any  dozen  individuals,  as 
having  given  valuable  assistance  in  this  work,  would  be  to  over- 
look scores  of  others,  who  have  done  equally  as  much.  Of 
course  there  have  been  some  who  have  contributed  vastly  more 
than  others  in  its  compilation,  but  to  the  whole  people  we  are 
indebted  for  whatever  measure  of  success  this  little  book  attains 
and  to  them  we  wish  to  express  our  sincere  appreciation. 

«iill  C.  Carson. 

Greenville,  Illinois,  December  15,  1905. 


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LINOIS.      AS      IT     APPEARED      IN      1905 


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Erected  in. the  vcar  1905  at  a  cost  of  $11,000. 


BOXU   COUNTY   SOLDIERS'   MONUMENT 
Unveiled  September  19,  1903. 


A  Condensed  History  of  Greenville,  Illinois 


BY    WILL    C.     CARSON. 


COUNTLESS  changes  have  taken 
place  in  the  ninety  years  that 
have  elapsed  since  a  lone  log 
cabin,  on  the  brow  of  the  hill  at  the 
west  end  of  present  Main  Avenue, 
constituted  the  whole  of  Greenville. 
In  those  good  old  days  of  IS  15, 
when  Greenville  was  young,  the 
public  road  ran  past  the  cabin,  and 
down  the  hill,  and,  crossing  the 
creek  at  the  Alton  ford,  was  swal- 
lowed up  by  the  forest. 

Truthfully  to  relate  how  Green- 
ville, from  that  rudely  constructed 
log  cabin,  steadily  advanced  through 
the  years  and  has  earned  her  place 
on  the  map,  and  how  she  has  been 
evolved  from  the  forest  primeval 
into  a  bustling  city  of  twentieth 
century  attainments,  is  to  tell  again 
the  story  of  the  unspeakable  hard- 
ships of  the  pioneers,  and  of  the  de- 
termination of  the  settlers,  who  fol- 
lowed  them. 

It  was  ninety  years  ago  that  a 
sturdy  pioneer,  by  name  George 
Davidson,  attracted  by  the  rolling 
hills  and  clear  spring  water,  set 
about  to  clear  the  forest  and  make 
himself  a  home,  and.  camping  on 
the  edge  of  the  big  ravine  that 
yawns  about  the  western  confines 
of  the  town,  he  paved  the  way  for 
a    "Greater    Greenville." 

The  history  of  Greenville,  the 
third  and  present  county  seat  of 
Bond  county,  is  so  closely  inter- 
woven with  the  history  of  the  coun- 
ty itself,  that  a  slight  digression  is 
here  and  now  pardonable,  that  we 
may,  at  the  outset,  note  the  begin- 
nings of  the  then  new  country  of 
the  Northwest  Territory,  of  which 
Bond  county,  and  by  inference. 
Greenville,  formed  no  insignificant 
part. 

Wrested  from  the  clutches  of 
Great  Britain  by  the  indomitable 
will  of  George  Rogers  Clark,  to 
whom  we  of  today  owe  a  mighty 
debt  of  gratitude,  the  Illinois  coun- 
try became  a  county  of  Virginia  in 
177S  and  so  remained  until  the  deed 
of  session  of  17S4,  and  from  that 
time  on  the  great  territory  of  Illi- 
nois was  pared  down  until  it  reach- 
ed its  present  dimensions,  and  the 
great,  overgrown  county  of  Bond, 
that  then  extended  to  the  shores  of 
Lake  Michigan,  the  fifteenth  county 
to  be  formed,  gave  generously  of  its 
territory  to  the  formation  of  Mont- 
gomery, Fayette  and  Clinton  coun- 
ties: in  fact  so  liberally  that  it  was 
finally  compelled  to  borrow  from 
Madison,  in  sheer  self-defense,  find- 
ing itself  shaved  down  to  its  present 


Old  Brick  House  which,  until  recent- 
ly stood  at  the  corner  of  Main  and 
Si.xth.  Ft  was  the  home  of  Samuel 
White  and  the  first  postotfice  was 
kept  therein.  One  of  the  iirst  hous- 
es budt  in  Greenville. 


unpretentious  dimensions.  Beyond 
a  doubt  the  spirit  of  broad-minded- 
ness and  liberality  that  now  charac- 
terizes the  county  and  city  was  born 
of   that   period. 

Bond  county  was  organized  in 
ISlC  an  I  was  named  for  Shadrach 
Bond,  the  first  governor  of  Illinois. 
It  was  one  of  the  original  fifteen 
counties   represented    in    the    Consti- 


tutional Convention  of  181S.  Thos. 
Kirkpatrick  and  Samuel  G.  Morse 
represented  the  county  in  the  con- 
vention that  formed  the  first  state 
constitution.  At  this  election  for 
conventioners  there  were  three  can- 
didates, Morse,  Kirkpatrick  and 
Martin,  although  but  two  were  to  be 
elected.  The  issue  was  slavery  or  no 
slavery.  Morse  and  Kirkpatrick  were 
against  slavery  but  Martin  was  non- 
committal. Some  lively  Tennessee- 
ans  concocted  a  scheme  to  ascertain 
Martin's  views.  They  called  him  to 
one  side  and  told  him  that  they,  as 
well  as  some  of  their  friends  In 
Tennessee,  wanted  slavery  admitted 
so  that  they  might  bring  their  slaves 
here.  Their  plan  was  successful, 
for  Martin  said,  "Boj-s,  don't  say 
anything,  but  I  am  for  slavery." 

The  boys  did  say  something,  how- 
ever, and  Martin  was  defeated. 
George  Davidson,  founder  of  Green- 
ville, was  one  of  the  clerks  at  this 
election. 

In  giving  of  her  territory  and  in 
being  represented  at  the  first  con- 
stitutional convention.  Bond  county 
is  justly  entitled  to  be  denominated 
one  of  the  corner  stones  on  which 
has  been  laid  the  superstructure  of 
present  day  prosperity  of  the  great 
northwest. 


Cyki's  Hikge.  Deceased. 
Greenville  Merchant  in  1824. 


early  Settlements. 

p  ERMANENT  settlement  of  Bond 
'  county  was  made  prior  to  ISll, 
but  the  exact  date  is  not  fixed.  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Harbour,  who  lived  at 
Chatham,  Illinois  in  1S90,  declared 
that  her  family  settled  near  Green- 
ville in  1808,  and  that  there  had 
been  white  settlers  before  them. 
The  lady  named  Isaac  Hill,  Tom 
Ratan,  Billy  Jones,  John  Pinley 
and  Henry  Cox  as  having  been  here 
at  that  time.  It  is  an  established 
fact  that  settlement  was  made  at 
Hill's  Fort  in  the  summer  1811. 
This  fort  covered  an  acre  of  ground 
and  was  situated  on  the  present 
farm  of  John  O'Byrne,  eight  miles 
southwest  of  present  Greenville.  The 
mother  of  James  H.  White,  of 
Greenville,  was  an  inmate  of  this 
fort,  her  father  having  taken  her 
there   for   safety. 

In  early  days  the  Indians  made 
annual  incursions  into  the  country 
in  and  around  Greenville.  They 
usually  came  in  the  autumn,  because 
they  then  could  get  game  and  corn 
on  which  to  subsist.  A  mile  and  a 
half  south  of  Hill's  Fort  was  Jones' 


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Fort,  built  about  the  same  time. 
These  two  feeble  bands  of  settlers, 
at  that  time,  composed  the  entire 
population  of  Bond  county.  These 
forts  were  not  only  a  place  of  de- 
fense but  the  residence  of  the  fam- 
ilies belonging  to  the  neighborhood. 
The  stockades,  bastions,  cabins  and 
block  house  walls  had  port  holes  at 
proper  heights  and  distances.  The 
whole  of  the  outside  was  made  £.b- 
solutely  bullet  proof  and  the  fort 
was  built  without  the  use  of  a  single 
nail   or   spike. 

Some  families  were  so  attached 
to  their  farms  that  they  remained 
on  them  as  much  as  possible,  de- 
spite the  constant  danger  of  an 
Indian  attack.  In  the  event  of  the 
approach  of  Indians,  an  "express" 
from  the  fort  was  sent  out  to  arouse 
the  settlers,  who  at  once  hastened 
to  the  stockade  and  thus  it  often 
happened  that  the  whole  number  of 
families  belonging  to  a  fort,  who 
were  in  the  evening  at  their  homes, 
were  all  in  the  fortress  before  dawn 
the  next  morning.  During  the  suc- 
ceeding day  their  householl  effects 
were  brought  in  by  parties  of  armed 
men  sent  out  for  that  purpose.  Some 
families  were  more  foolhardy  or 
adventurous  than  others  and  in 
spite  of  every  remonstrance  they 
would  remain  on  their  farms,  or,  if 
in  the  stockade,  would  return  pre- 
maturely to  their  property,  thus  en- 
dangering  their   lives. 


'Cht  Cox  Massacre. 

THE  Cox  massacre  is  frequently 
confused  with  the  killing  of 
Henry  Cox  and  his  son,  south  of 
Greenville,  by  the  Indians.  Henry 
Cox  and  his  son  were  killed  and  by 
Indians,  but  the  Cox  massacre, 
which  is  eommemorateJ  by  a  monu- 
ment in  the  country  west  of  Green- 
ville, was  the  occasion  of  the  death 
of  another  Cox,  and  the  taking  into 
captivity   of  a  young  woman. 

The  Cox  family  moved  from  near 
Alton  and  settled  north  of  Poca- 
hontas a  distance  of  two  miles.  They 
had  been  there  two  or  three  years 
and  were  building  a  horse  mill  at 
the  time  of  the  murder,  which  was 
on  June  2,  ISll.  Several  Indians 
of  the  Pottawattomie  tribe,  having 
heard  a  considerable  amount  of 
money  was  in  possession  of  the  fam- 
ily went  to  the  cabin  while  the 
father  and  mother  were  away.  They 
killed  the  son,  cutting  out  his  heart 
an!  placing  it  on  his  head.  They 
then  threatened  his  sister,  Rebecca 
Cox.  who  had  been  a  witness  of  the 
terrible  deed,  with  a  like  vengeance, 
unless  she  revealed  the  hiding  place 
of  the  money.  The  girl  went  to  a 
chest,  and  fumbling  around  in  it, 
in  order  to  conceal  the  principal 
packages,  handed  them  a  small  par- 
cel, which  they  accepted.  The  Ind- 
ians then  stole  the  horses  and  tak- 
ing  the   girl   prisoner,   started  north 


up  the  Shoal  Creek  timber.  Rebecca 
was  shrewd  enough  to  tear  strips 
from  her  apron  and  drop  them 
along  the  trail  as  a  guide  for  her 
rescuers. 

As  soon  as  the  family  returned 
and  found  the  mutilated  corpse  of 
their  son  lying  in  the  cabin,  and  the 
daughter  gone,  they  went  to  Hill's 
Station,  sent  messengers  to  alarm 
the  settlers  in  Bond  and  Madison 
counties  and  as  soon  as  possible 
Captain  Pruett,  Davy  White  and 
seven  others  went  in  pursuit.  The 
Indians,  having  had  several  days 
start,  were  overtaken  near  where 
Springfield  now  stands.  The  girl 
was  tied  on  a  pony.  At  sight  of  her 
rescuers,  she  loosed  her  bands, 
jumped  from  the  pony  and  started 
to  meet  them.  An  Indian  threw  a 
tomahawk.  It  stuck  squarely  in  her 
back  and  thus  her  saviours  found 
her.  The  girl  afterward  recovered, 
married  and  moved  to  Arkansas, 
where  her  husband  was  killed  by 
Indians.  Three  miles  north  of  Po- 
cahontas is  the  grave  of  Cox  and 
above  it  stands  a  monument  erected 
by  the  people  of  that  community  a 
few  years  ago. 

The  killing  of  Henry  Cox  by  the 
Indians  is  an  entirely  different 
story.  Cox  was  an  inmate  of  Hill's 
Fort  but  had  built  a  cabin  nearly  a 
mile  south  of  where  Dudleyville  now 
stands.  One  morning  in  August, 
1S15,    Cox    took    his    son,    aged    15, 


Scene  at  the  dec 


cation  of  the  Cox  monument,  west  of  Greenville,  October  9,  lyno.     The  moiuiinent  commemorated 
the  massacre  of  Mr.  Cox,  by  the  Indians,  in  181 1. 


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and  went,  each  on  horseback,  to  his 
cabin.  All  appeared  quiet  when 
they  rode  up  to  the  cabin.  Cox 
told  his  son  to  ride  down  to  the 
creek  and  water  the  horses,  while, 
rifle  in  hand,  he  went  to  the  door 
of  the  cabin.  Pushing  the  door 
open,  he  saw  an  Indian  in  the  house. 
Quick  as  a  flash  he  raised  his  rifle 
and  fired.  He  missed  the  Indian 
and  his  ball  sunk  In  the  log  over 
the  fireplace.  At  the  same  instant 
another  Indian,  concealed  behind  a 
tree,  fired  at  Cox,  the  ball  passing 
through  his  body  and  killing  him 
instantly.  Spattering  the  blood  of 
Cox  all  over  the  door,  the  bullet 
imbedded  itself  in  the  wood.  The 
Indians  then  ran  to  catch  the  boy 
with  the  horses  and  keep  him  from 
giving  the  alarm  at  the  fort.  In 
their  attempt  to  capture  him  they 
became  alarmed  at  the  delay  and 
finally  shot  him  and  buried  him 
without  going  back  to  the  body  of 
his  father.  The  boy  was  not,  rouna 
and  it  was  believed  that  he  was 
taken  prisoner  until  after  peace  was 
made,  when  the  Indians  revealed  the 
fate  of  the  boy.  The  bullet  holes 
and  the  splotch  of  Cox's  blood  on 
the  cabin  door  were  seen  years 
afterward,  when  the  property  was 
ownel    by    Abraham    McCurley. 

There  Is  a  tradition,  handed  down 
by  James  Mc.  Gillespie,  who  came  to 
Bond  county  in  ISIC.  and  who,  in 
18G0,  made  written  report  of  his 
reminiscenses  to  the  Old  Settlers' 
Association,  that  one  Benjamin 
Henson  came  to  Bond  sometime  be- 
fore the  war  of  1S12.  Living  in  a 
hollow  sycamore  tree  in  Shoal  Creek 
bottom,  he  feared  no  man  and  was 
content.  It  is  related  that  at  one 
time    during    the    war    of    1812.    the 


Seth  Bl.vnch.\rd,  Ueccascrl. 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1S20,  after  selling  the  land  where 

the  St.  Louis  court  hou.se  now  stands. 


WiLLARD  Twiss.  Deceased. 
A  Greenville  Merchant  of  the  Twent- 
ies, who  empliived  John  \.  Logan 
as    a   jockey    on    the    farm     now 
known  as  the  A.  J  Sherburne  farm. 


forts  were  all  abandoned  on  account 
of  the  Indian  hostilities  and  Hen- 
son  alone  was  left  in  his  is  by  lu 
sycamore  tree,  the  only  white  In- 
habitant of  the  county.  When  the 
hostilities  were  over  the  settlers  re- 
turned to  find  Henson  unmolested. 
Henson  is  said  to  have  piloted 
people  across  Shoal  Creek  at  the 
foot  of  Mill  Hill,  Greenville,  until 
the  state,  in  1824,  gave  $200  for  a 
bridge  to  be  placed  across  the 
stream    at    that    point. 

Xear  Jones'  fort,  in  those  early 
days,  an  Indian  concealed  himself 
in  the  dense  foliage  of  a  tree  anl 
picked  off  five  men  before  he  was 
discovered  and  shot.  In  August 
1814,  Major  Journey,  in  command 
of  Hill's  Fort,  flung  open  the  gates 
and  marched  forth  to  look  for 
Indians,  leaving  the  garrison  ab- 
solutely defenseless  and  the  women 
milking  the  cows.  The  Indians  sur- 
prised them,  killed  the  Major  and 
three  of  his  men,  and  wounded  the 
fifth,  Thomas  Higgins.  whose  escape 
was  almost   miraculous. 

These  are  some  of  the  scenes  that 
went  toward  the  making  of  Green- 
ville, and,  though  the  .graves  of  the 
heroes,  who  fell  at  Hill's  Fort  and 
Jones'  Fort,  less  than  a  hundred 
years  ago,  now  go  unmarked,  the 
memory  of  their  valorous  deeds 
sticks  deep  in  our  min-ls,  for  they 
blazed  the  way  for  the  founding, 
only  a  few  miles  to  the  northward, 
of  the  puny  settlement,  out  of  which 
our  own  fair  city  of  Greenville  has 
been   evolved. 


At  the  close  of  our  last  war  with 
England,  a  treaty  of  peace  was 
made  with  the  Indians,  the  forts  in 
Bond  county  were  abandoned  and 
straggling  settlements  began  to 
form.  The  settlers  came  but  slowly 
however,  and  in  ISIG  Bond  county 
numbered   but    twenty-five   cabins. 


Mrs   Mh.licent  Clay  Birge,  Deed, 

Wife  of  .\usel  Birge.  Greenville's  first 

postmaster,  who  lived  in  and  near 

Greenville  for  69  vears.     She    died 

July  12,  1896. 


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George  Donnell,  Deceased, 
Who  came  to  Greenville  in  181 8,  and 
who  was  one  of  the   pioneer   resi- 
dents. 


Mrs  George  Donkell,  Deceased, 


Samuel  White,  Deceased, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1818,  and 

built  one  of  the  first  houses  here. 


^hcn  6rccnviUc  das  tourg. 

HISTORY  bears  evidence  that 
great  achievements  are  wrought 
through  much  tribulation,  and  so  it 
was  in  the  founding  of  Greenville, 
for  be  it  known  that  milk-sickness 
in  Madison  county  caused  George 
Davidson  to  sell  his  farm  there  and 
move  to  Bond  county  in  ISlo.  The 
records  show  that  he  entered  160 
acres  of  land,  where  Greenville  now 
stands,  September  27,  ISIG.  He 
obtained  the  patent  from  His  Ex- 
cellency    James     Monroe,      Presilent 


John  Greenwood,  Deceased. 
Came  to  Greenville  in  1838,   and   a 
few    years  later    laid    out     Green- 
wood's Addition. 


of  the  United  States,  April  29, 
1S25.  This  land  is  described  as  the 
southeast  quarter  of  Section  No. 
10,  Township  5,  north.  Range  3, 
west  of  the  third  principal  meridian. 

Mr.  Davidson's  cabin  was  built 
on  the  primitive  style  of  logs  with 
weight  poles  to  hold  the  clap-board 
roof  in  place.  The  puncheon  floor 
was  made  of  slabs,  split  and  hewn, 
and  the  carpenter  had  no  use  for 
nails,  glass,  putty,  nor  plaster.  Mr. 
Davidson's  cabin  was  located  in  the 
extreme  western  part  of  town,  near 
the  present  residence  of  H.  H. 
Staub.  His  family  consistel  of  his 
wife,  Jannet,  two  sons  and  two 
daughters.  One  son,  Samuel,  died 
of  consumption,  soon  after  coming 
here.  One  daughter,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Caroline  Blundell,  lived  at  Healds- 
burg,  California  in  187  6,  and  in  a 
letter  to  one  of  the  Greenville 
papers  stated  that  her  brother  and 
the  Reverend  Green  P.  Rice,  who 
followed  George  Davidson  here, 
laid  out  some  lots  in  the  western 
part  of  Greenville.  This  plat  of  the 
old  town  was  never  recorted  and 
there  is  a  story  to  the  effect  that 
George  Davidson,  one  day,  in  a  fit 
of  anger,  tore  the  plat  up  and 
watched  it  burn  to  ashes  in  the  fire- 
place. 

The  existence  of  this  plat  after- 
wards made  trouble  for  the  people 
who  purchased  lots,  when  the  town 
was  finally  laid  out.  This  part  of 
the  town,  then  laid  out,  as  the 
original  town,  is  now  Davidson's  ad- 
dition. 

Not  long  after  he  built  his  first 
cabin,  George  Davidson  moved  to 
the  lot  at  the  southwest  corner  of 
Sixth    Street    and    Main   Avenue    (as 


it  is  to  "ay)  directly  across  the 
street  south  of  the  John  Baum- 
berger,  Sr.,  homestead,  and  open- 
ed a  tavern.  In  opening  the 
first  tavern  in  Greenville,  Mr.  Dav- 
idson again  proved  himself  a  public 
benefactor,  for  it  was  for  many 
years  a  mecca  for  the  wayfaring 
man,  as  well  as  a  most  convenient 
loafing  place  for  those  of  the  early 
gentry,  who  were  wont  to  whittle 
and  spit  through  the  long  winter 
evenings. 

About     this     time     the     Reverend 


Seth  Fuller,  Deceased, 
Who  came  to  Greenville  in  the  thir- 
ties; an  early  surveyor  and  trustee 
of  Alraira  CoUese. 


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James  Enloe,  Deceased, 
Who    came    to    Greenville    with   his 
father,  Asahel  Enloe,  in  3  818,  and 
helped  clear  oft'  the  land  where  the 
court  house  now  stands. 


Mks.  Jane  Williford,  Deceased, 
Who  was  born  in  Greenville  March 
17,  1822,  and  who  resided  here  nil 
her  life.  Died  May  14,  1905,  the 
oldest  native  born  resident  of 
Greenville  at  that  time. 


Isaac  Enloe,  Deceased. 

Came  to   Greenville   soon   after    the 

town    was    lard    out    and     helped 

clear    the    land    where   the    court 

house  now  stands. 


Green  P.  Rice  arrived  from  Ken- 
tucky. He  bought  a  part  of  George 
Davidson, 's  Ian  i  and,  together  with 
Samuel  Davidson,  opened  the  first 
store  in  Greenville.  It  is  said  that 
this  store  was  only  large  enough  to 
hold  comfortably  one  wagon  load 
of  goods.  The  store  was  located  on 
what  is  now  Main  Avenue  and  Sixth 
Street.  Mrs.  Blundell,  in  her  let- 
ter, stated  that  Mr.  Rice  became  in- 
volved in  some  trouble  about  some 
slaves  he  brought  from  Kentucky, 
and,  selling  his  interests  to  Cyrus 
Birge,  left   the  country. 

James,  Ansel  and  Cyrus  Birge, 
three  brothers,  came  to  Greenville 
from  Poultney,  Vermont.  Cyrus 
kept  the  store  until  1824,  when  he 
sold  his  stock  to  his  brother,  Ansel. 


who  carried  on  the  business  for 
eight  years.  Ansel  Birge,  during 
this  time,  married  Miss  Millicent 
Clay  Twiss,  a  sister  of  Willard 
Twiss,  to  whom  he  sold  the  store  in 
1833,  and  moved  to  his  farm  one 
mile  south  of  Greenville.  This  store 
was  the  chief  public  institution  of 
the  town,  when  Greenville  became 
the  county  seat  in   1821. 

Seth,  Samuel  and  Elisha  Blanch- 
ard  came  to  Greenville  in  182  0  and 
entered  IGOO  acres  of  land,  a  part 
of  which  is  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Mrs.  L.  K.  King,  a  mile  east  of  town, 


at  the  top  of  "Blanchard's  Hill," 
which  derives  its  name  from  them. 
They  built  a  cabin  in  town  and 
opened  a  store.  Seth  managed  the 
farm,  Elisha  conducted  the  store 
and  Samuel  traded  to  New  Orleans, 
and  they  prospered.  Soon  after  Mr. 
Blanchard  opened  the  store,  travel 
became  more  general  and  a  tavern 
was  opened  in  connection.  A  huge 
pair  of  antlers,  erected  over  a  sign 
made  of  a  hewn  board,  printed  with 
a  coal  from  the  hearth,  announced 
the  welcome  news  that  here  was  the 
"Buck  and  Horn  Tavern."     This  in- 


Dr.  J.  B.  Drake,  Deceased, 
One  of  the  earliest  Greenville  Phj-si- 

cians. 


The  Drake  House, 
Built  bv  Dr.  I.  B.  Drake  in  the  earfy  thirties,  and  dismantled  in  1905. 


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Maj.  William  Davis,  Deceased.  Mrs.  Lucy  Davis,  nee  Mayo,  Judge  Enrico  Gaskins,  Deceased. 

Who  came  to  Greenville  i:i  1831  and  Wife  o<  Major  Wm.  Davis.     Died  in  Twenty    _vears    county    clerk,   eight 

opened  a  tavern.    He  died  in  Green-  Greeuvilleiu  1S91.  vears  county  judge  of  Bond.   Came 

viUe.  here  in  1835.     Died  in  1879. 


stitution  with  a  tew  o;her  log  cab- 
ins formed  the  origiual  town  of 
Greenville.  Davii  Berry  later  be- 
came owner  of  the  tavein  and  then 
it  passed  into  the  hands  of  Thomas 
Dakin,  who  owned  it  many  years. 

There  were  no  saloons  in  Green- 
ville in  those  days,  but  the  mer- 
chants all  kept  whiskey  and  treated 
the  customers,  who  called  for  it. 

In  the  summer  of  ISIS,  many 
families,  including  Samuel  White 
and  George  Donnell,  moved  here 
from  North  Carolina  and  Kentucky. 
The  principal  families  in  Greenville 
then  were,  in  addition  to  those  al- 
ready mentioned,  the  Kirkpatricks, 
Camps,  Goss,  Rutherfords,  Fergu- 
sons and  old  Father  Elam,  who  lived 
where  the  old  graveyard  is  now  lo- 
cated. At  his  home  were  held  the 
religious  meetings,  which  always 
ended  with  the  minister  shaking 
hands  with  everybody  during  the 
singing  of  the  last  song. 

Good  Old  Father  Asahel  Enloe 
was  the  singing  school  teacher  ana 
the  school  master,  and  many  a  time 
in  early  days,  did  the  youngsters  of 
Greenville  willingly  obey  his  dic- 
tum, as  he  stood  in  the  doorway  of 
the  school  house  and  cried,  "Books, 
books,  come  to  books."  His  copies 
were  equal  to  Spencer's  best  copper 
plate  and  his  chirography  is  still 
well  preserved  in  the  county  records. 

In  a  letter  dated  at  Paola,  Kan- 
sas, June  20,  1876,  Mrs.  Almira 
Morse,  one  of  the  best  known  wom- 
en the  city  has  produce  1,  and  for 
whom  Almira  College  was  named, 
stated  that  the  first  school  house  in 
Greenville  was  on  the  northeast  cor- 
ner of  the  public  square.  The  square 
was  laid  out  in  1821,  and  Samuel 
Blanchard    assisted    John    Russell    in 


making     the     survey.       Mrs.     Moi'se 
says : 

"Once  a  year  came  "Parade  Day," 
when  Colonel  Stout,  accoutered  in 
regimentals,  epaulets  and  white 
cockade,  mounted  on  a  charger,  was 
marshal  of  the  motley  company. 

"There  was  one  colored  family  in 
the  place.  Old  Aunt  Fanny,  with  her 
three  children,  bought  her  freedom 
of  her  master  in  Kentucky,  and  in 
Greenville  earned  a  good  living  by 
washing  and  nursing.  One  day 
while  she  was  washing  at  Mr. 
Blanchard's  two  men  suddenly  rode 
up  on  horseback,  and  demanded 
Aunt  Fanny  and  her  children,  as 
runaway  slaves.  She  declared  she 
had  her  free  papers  at  home,  and 
with  prayers  and  tears,  besought 
them  to  leave  her,  but  her  entreaties 
were  unheeded  and  Aunt  Fanny  was 
bound  to  a  horse  and  with  her  chil- 
dren behind  them,  the  men  rode 
away.  They  were  armed  with  rifles, 
pistols  and  knives  and  no  one  dared 
to  interfere.  When  part  way  to  St. 
Louis,  however,  a  party  from  Reno 
overtook  them.  The  family  was 
rescued    and    returned    home. 

"Our  town  once  had  a  visit  from 
Lorenzo  Dow,  who  stopped  at  the 
tavern,  and  old  Mr.  Twiss  went  over 
'to  argue  him  out  of  his  religion," 
but  the  eccentric  old  saint  got  the 
better  of  him.  He  preached  upon 
the  hill  north  of  town.  He  sat  in 
his  chair,  while  preaching,  for  two 
hours  or  more." 


6r«cnvtllc  Becomes  the    County 
Scat. 


W^ 


THEN     in     1817,     Bond     county, 
which     previous   to   that   time 
had  been  a  part  of  Edwards,  was  es- 


tablished by  an  act  of  the  territor- 
ial legislature,  the  county  seat  was 
flxei  at  Hill's  Fort  until  a  commis- 
sion appointed  for  that  purpose, 
could  choose  a  permanent  location. 

On  April  15,  1817,  this  commit- 
tee reported  that  they  had  selected 
a  site  on  the  west  bank  of  the  Hur- 
ricane, which  on  account  of  its  nat- 
ural advantages,  the  commission 
considered  a  desirable  location  for 
the  seat  of  justice.  Accordingly  the 
new  county  seat  was  platted  and 
named  Perryville.  Three  years 
later,  however,  the  formation  of  new 
counties  out  of  the  then  pretentious 
Bon:i,  left  Perryville  In  Fayette 
county,  and  unfortunate  for  the 
youthful  city,  with  its  court  house 
and  jail,  remote  from  the  geograph- 
ical center. 

The  undoing  of  Perryville,  how- 
ever, redounded  to  the  good  of 
Greenville,  and  Bond  county  in 
1821,  reduced  to  nearly  her  pres- 
ent dimensions,  turned  her  eyes  to 
the  center  of  her  domain  and  there 
beheld,  sitting  loftily  on  the  bluffs 
of  Shoal  Creek,  the  town  laid  out  in 
1819    by   George  Davidson. 

The  selection  of  Greenville  as  a 
permanent  seat  of  justice  for  Bond 
county  came  about  by  legislative  en- 
actment and  the  same  legislature 
that  placed  Perryville  in  Fayette 
county,  also  appointed  James  B. 
Moore,  Samuel  Whitesides,  Abra- 
ham Eyeman,  Joshua  Ogelsby  and 
John  Howard  commissioners  to  lo- 
cate the  county  seat  in  Bond,  pro- 
vided the  proprietor  of  the  land  se- 
lected would  donate  to  the  county 
for  the  purpose  specified,  at  least 
twenty  acres  of  land.  This  commis- 
sion was  also  detailed  to  fix  the 
damages    sustained    by    the    proprie- 


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Joel  Elaxi,  Deceased, 
One  of  the  early  business  men,  who 
learned  the  blacksmith  trade  from 
his  brother,    Edward   Elam,    who 
was  Greenville's  first  blacksmith. 


tois  of  Perryville,  in  consequence  of 
the  removal  of  the  county  seat  from 
that  place.  After  due  deliberation, 
the  commissioners  fixed  upon  a  tract 
of  twenty  acres  of  land  in  the  north- 
east corner  of  the  original  town  of 
Greenville,  then  belonging  to  George 
Davidson.  The  act  provided  for  the 
land  to  be  selected  in  a  body.  Wil- 
liam Russell.  Robt.  McCord  and  Jno. 
Kirkpatrick,  then  county  judges, 
held  a  session  of  the  county 
court  on  April  18,  1S21,  and  having 
under  consideration  the  said  loca- 
tion, made  a  demand  on  Mr.  Da- 
vidson for  the  twenty  acres  imme- 
diately around  and  contiguous  to  a 
stake  driven  by  the  commissioners. 
Mr.  Davidson,  by  his  attorney,  Ben- 
jamin Mills,  executed  a  bond  to  the 
county  commissioners  with  Peter 
Hubbard  and  John  Kirkpatrick  as 
securities,  agreeing  to  transfer  the 
land  for  the  purposes  selected,  ex- 
cepting therefrom  a  small  tract  pre- 
viously sold  to  Samuel  Whitcomb, 
and  for  which  Whitcomb  held  Da- 
vidson's bond  for  a  deed.  The  court 
declined  to  act  at  this  time,  but  at 
a  session  held  June  5,  1S21,  Mr. 
Davidson  was  permitted  to  withdraw 
and  cancel  the  bond  previously  exe- 
cuted by  him  to  the  court,  and  sub- 
stitute a  new  bond  for  the  same  pur- 
pose with  Samuel  G.  Blanchard, 
Robert  G.  White.  Samuel  Whitcomb, 
Daniel  Ferguson.  Milo  Wood  and 
Samuel  Houston  as  securities.  The 
court  accepted  this  bond  and  Green- 
ville was  henceforth  acknowledged 
to  be.  in  fact  and  in  law.  the  per- 
manent seat  of  justice  of  Bond 
county. 

The  first  county  court  held  at  the 


Elder  Peter  Long,  Deceased. 
Pastor  of  Mt.  Nebo  Church,  and  one 
of  the  best  known  pioneer  preach- 
ers in  the  west.  Came  to  Green- 
ville in  1816,  and  was  in  the  min 
istry  59  years. 

new  county  seat  of  Greenville  was 
on  June  4  and  5,  1S21,  William  Rus- 
sell, Robert  McCord  and  John  Kirk- 
patrick being  the  judges.  The  first 
circuit  court  was  held  at  Greenville 
on  July  12,  1S21,  with  Hon.  Joseph 
Phillips,  judge:  Samuel  Houston, 
sheriff;  and  James  M.  Johnson, 
clerk.  The  petit  jury  was  composed 
of  John  D.  Alexander.  John  White, 
George  Denny,  James  Wafer,  An- 
drew Pinley,  Alexander  Robinson, 
James  McCord,  Richard  Worley, 
John  Prickett,  William  Gracey,  Si- 
las Lee  Wait.  Abel  Sparks,  Charles 
Gillham,  Jr.,  Wm.  M.  Stewart,  Phil- 
ip Moore.  James  B.  Rutherford, 
Milo  Wood,  Wm.  Black.  Samuel 
Whitcomb,  Harrison  Kirkpatrick, 
James  Kirkpatrick,  Jr.,  Absolom 
Watkins,  John  Loughlan  and  Wyatt 
Stubblefield. 

By  order  of  the  county  court  part 
of  the  land  donated  by  Davidson 
was  laid  off  into  town  lots,  and  on 
the  first  Monday  in  July,  1821,  thir- 
ty lots  were  exposed  for  sale,  the 
town  having  been  surveyed  by  John 
Russell  the  June  previous.  The  pro- 
ceeds from  the  sale  of  these  lots 
was  used  for  the  erection  of  a  court 
house. 

Mr.  Davidson,  in  many  ways  one 
of  Greenville's  greatest  benefactors, 
and  his  wife  Jennet,  remained  in  the 
town  until  1827,  when  they  moved 
to  Galena.  Jo  Daviess  county,  real- 
izing but  little  for  their  property. 

In  1821,  when  the  sale  of  public 
lots  was  held,  the  present  public 
square  was  covered  with  a  dense 
growth  of  Cottonwood  and  sycamore 
trees.  This  was  all  cleared  off  by 
Asahel     Enloe     and    his    sons,    who 


Kend.^ll  p.  Morse,  Deceased. 
Who    came    to    Greenville    in    1834; 
member  of  the  firm  of  Morse   and 
Brothers.     Died  here  in  1867. 


planted  the  land  in  corn.  At  a  ses- 
sion of  the  county  court  in  Septem- 
ber, 1821,  it  was  ordered  that  a 
court  house  for  Bond  county  be  let 
to  the  lowest  bidder  and  when  the 
bids  were  opened,  it  was  found  that 
Robert  G.  White's  bid  of  $2,135  was 
the  lowest.  This  bid  was  accepted 
September  19,  1821,  and  he  gave 
bond  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
his  duties.  The  sale  of  the  town 
lots  brought  $1,338  and  the  judges 
of  the  county  court  entered  into 
bond  for  the  remainder.  The  court 
house  was  made  of  a  poor  quality  of 
brick  and  was  badly  damaged  by 
storms  before  it  was  completed, 
which  was  not  until  1822.  The  court 
room  was  heated  by  an  old-fashion- 
ed fire  place.  No  stoves  were  in  use 
in  Greenville  at  that  time,  nor  for  a 
long  time  afterward. 

There  was  little  respect  for  the 
temple  of  justice  and  its  custodians 
were  sorely  beset  for  means  for  its 
preservation.  It  was  the  delight  of 
the  small  boy,  hiding  behind  tree  or 
bush,  to  hurl  stones  through  the 
eight  by  ten  window  panes,  just  to 
hear  the  glass  fall  crashing  before 
their  aim.  Nevertheless  the  build- 
ing of  this  court  house  was  the  first 
real  impetus  given  the  town,  outside 
the  start  given  it  by  Davidson  him- 
self. The  population  of  the  county 
at  this  time  was  2,931  and  the  vil- 
lage of  Greenville  contained  but  a 
few  houses,  a  hotel  and  a  store  or 
two. 

Origin  of  GrccnviUc's  Name. 

AT'THORTTIES   differ  as  to  the  or- 
igin of  the  name  given  Green- 
ville.    There  is  a  story  to  the  effect 


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Mr    and  Mrs.  William  S.  Wait,  Deceased, 
William  S.  Wait,  who  came  to  Greenville  in  1818.     An  early  writer  and  journalist;  chairman  of  the  National  In- 
dustrial Convention  at  New  York  City  in  1845;  in  184-8  he  was  nominated  for  Vice  President  on  the  National  Re- 
form ticket  but  declined.     He  was  the  prime  mover  in  the  projection  of  the  Vandalia  Railroad  and  was  one  of  the 
leaders  who  drafted  much  of  the  Illinois  Constitution  of  1845.     He  died  in  18G5. 


that  Mr.  Thomas  White,  the  oldest 
man  present  when  the  town  was  first 
surveyed  in  1S21,  was  asked  to 
name  the  town  and  thereupon,  cast- 
ing his  eyes  over  the  green  woods, 
readily  answered: 

"Everything  looks  so  green  and 
nice,  we  will  call  it  Greenville." 
Others  say  that  Mr.  White  named  it 
for  Greenville  in  North  Carolina. 
Another  legend  is  to  the  effect  that 
Greenville   took   the  name   of   Green 


P.  Rice,  the  Cumberland  Presbyter- 
ian minister,  who  resided  here  at  an 
early  date,  and  was  the  first  Green- 
ville merchant.  Allen  Comer,  who 
came  here  in  1S17,  is  authority  for 
the  last  story,  but  Mr.  White  is  com- 
monly given  credit  for  having  named 
the  town.  At  any  rate  it  was  well 
named  and  to  this  day,  as  in  the  be- 
ginning, Greenville  is  noted  far  and 
wide,  for  the  many  beautiful  trees 
that  surround  and  interlace  it — a 
city  in  a  veritable  green  forest. 


Caxcs  and  Slavery  tn  i8i8. 

r\  LD  records  show  that  the  assess- 
^  ment  of  tax  for  the  year  1817 
was  $161.50,  which  was  charged  to 
the  sheriff  for  collection.  It  is  also 
recorded  that  one  Samuel  Hill  paid 
a  tax  of  one  dollar  on  one  negro. 
Of  the  $161.50  tax,  $106  was  used 
to  pay  for  the  killing  of  fifty-three 
wolves. 

The  tax  of  1818  was  $279.50.  The 
first    county    order    ever    issued   was 


Wm.  S.  Wait,  Jr.,  OcccnsciJ, 
For  many   years   a  prominent  resi- 
dent of  the  cf)unty. 


Residence  of  Mrs.  Adele  Wait,  South  Third  Street. 


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Rev.  Robert  Stewart,  Deceased. 
Who  came  to  Greenville  iu  1840  and 
was  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
church.  His  home  was  a  refuge 
for  escaping  slaves  during  the  Civil 
War  days. 

to  Moses  Shipman,  for  a  wolf  scalp 
and  the  amount  was  |2.00.  In  ISIS 
the  following  tax  was  assessed  on 
property  owned  in  the  county:  "For 
each  bond  servant  oi-  slave,  16  years 
old,  100  cents:  for  each  young  man, 
21  years  old  and  upwards,  100 
cents;  for  each  Horse  creature,  three 
year  old,   50  cents." 

In  IS  17  there  were  seven  slaves 
in  Bond  county,  under  the  age  of 
15  years,  registered,  as  provided  by 
law,  in  the  office  of  the  county  clerk. 
They  were  owned  by  Martin  Jones, 
William  Vollentine,  Hardy  VoUen- 
tine,  one  each,  and  H.  Kirkpatrick, 
four.  In  1S24  a  vote  on  the  ques- 
tion of  slavery  was  taken  in  Illinois 
and  Bond  county  voted  63  for  and 
240  against. 


Some  6arly  Industries. 

A  SHORT  time  after  George  Da- 
•''  vidson  came  here,  Paul  Beck 
arrived  and  located  near  the  pres- 
ent site  of  the  old  cemetery.  He 
was  one  of  the  first  to  follow  David- 
son here  and  was  Greenville's  first 
manufacturer.  He  built  the  first 
mill  in  Bond  county  in  1S17,  near 
the  old  cemetery.  It  is  described 
as  a  "little  band  horse  mill"  and 
every  customer  had  to  hitch  his  own 
horse  to  the  mill  and  grind  his  own 
corn.  The  bolt  for  the  flour  was 
turned  by  hand.  Some  people  car- 
ried their  grain  in  a  sack  on  horse- 
back, a  distance  of  ten  miles,  to 
Beck's  mill  and  were  compelled,  in 
many  cases,  to  wait  for  three  days 
before  their  turn  at  the  grind.  Near 
the  mill  was  a  fine  spring,  which 
was  named  "Beck's  Spring." 


In  ISIS  Asahel  Enloe  settled  on 
the  highest  point  of  the  present  old 
cemetery,  but  a  short  time  after- 
ward he  and  his  sons  Ezekiel  and 
James  moved  to  a  point  about 
eighty  rods  southeast  of  the  present 
Vandalia  railroad  depot,  living  near 
each  other  in  separate  houses.  Sam- 
uel Davidson,  a  son  of  the  founder 
of  Greenville,  married  Miss  Violet 
Enloe,  a  daughter  of  Asahel  Enloe. 
Wyatt  Stubblefield  was  another 
early  settler.  He  entered  the  land 
adjoining  old  Greenville  on  the  east 
and  operated  a  cotton  gin  and  a 
horse  mill. 

In  those  early  days  Samuel  and 
Thomas  White  came  to  Greenville. 
Thomas  White  taught  one  of  the 
first  schools,  in  1S19,  in  a  little  log 
cabin  near  the  tanyard,  which  his 
brother,  Samuel  White  put  in  op- 
eration. This  was  the  first  tannery 
in  the  county  and  was  located  in 
the  western  part  of  Greenville. 
Soon  after  he  and  Moses  Hinton  put 
in  operation  a  spinning  machine  in 
Greenville,  but  it  was  soon  demon- 
strated that  cotton  could  not  be 
raised  with  any  success  here  and  the 
mill    was   closed    down. 

In  1S22  James  Rutherford  com- 
menced the  manufacture  of  hats  in 
Greenville,  and  carried  on  the  busi- 
ness for  several  years.  Edward 
Elam  was  Greenville's  first  black- 
smith. He  opened  a  shop  in  1819, 
and  was  assisted  by  his  younger 
brother.  Joel. 

Among  the  other  early  residents 
of  Greenville  and  vicinity  although 
they  were  not  engaged  in  industrial 
work,  were  George  Donnell,  who 
came  here  in  1S19  from  North  Car- 
olina and  was  the  leader  of  the  first 
Sunday  school  ever  taught  in  the 
county:  Samuel  G.  Morse,  who  was 
the  first  sheriff:  Daniel  Converse, 
the  first  county  clerk:   Francis  Trav- 


Mrs.  L.  K.  King, 
A  resident  of  Greenville  since  1837. 


is,  the  first  county  treasurer;  James 
Wafer,  Daniel  Ferguson,  Robert 
Gillespie.  Williamson  Plant,  William 
Robinson,  William  S.  Wait  and 
others. 


6rcenvillc  in  the  twenties. 

T^HE  ground  already  covered  takes 
^  up  to  the  2  0's  and  marks  the 
first  epoch  in  the  history  of  Green- 
ville. With  the  location  of  the 
county  seat  in  Greenville  in  1S21  a 
spark  of  new  life  was  infused  into 
the  settlement  and  more  people 
were  attracted  to  the  place,  because 
of  the  fact  it  had  arisen  to  the  dig- 
nity of  a  county  seat  town. 

The  earliest  records  on  file  in  the 
county     clerk's    office    bear    date    of 


Residence  of  Mrs.   Lofis.\   Ravold. 


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Historica.!  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Col.  Richard  Bentley, 
Who  came  to  Bond  county  in  1829 
and  moved  to  Greenville  in  184-7; 
deputy  sheriff  in  1848  and  sheriff  a 
few  vears  later;  one  of  the  first 
presidents  of  the  village  board  in 
the  early  fifties;  representative  in 
the  state  legislature  with  Lincoln 
and  died  in  1873. 


May  7,   1821,  and  read  as  follows: 

"Agreeable  to  an  act  of  the  gen- 
eral assembly  to  remove  the  seat  of 
justice  from  Perryville  to  Green- 
ville, Bond  County,  the  court  of  pro- 
bate met  at  the  clerk's  oflBce  on 
Monday,  the  seventh  of  May,  1821, 
with  Thomas  Kirkpatrick  as  judge." 
The  records  show  that  the  probate 
court  held  its  sessions,  or  at  least 
some  of  them,  at  the  dwelling  of 
Seth  Blanchard  in  1822.    Judge  Ben- 


J.    P.    G.\RLAND, 

Who  canie  here  in  1839  and  who 
lived  here  continuouslY  until  his 
death  in  1903. 


jamin  Mills  presided  at  this  time. 
In  1823  John  Gillmore  was  judge. 
The  earliest  records  on  file  in  the 
ofBce  of  the  circuit  clerk  bear  aate 
of  July  18,  ISIT,  three  years  before 
Greenville  was  the  county  seat.  This 
record  shows  that  Simon  Lindley, 
of  Madison  county,  transferred  IGO 
acres  of  land  for  $100  to  John  Lind- 
ley. The  land  is  described  as  the 
northwest  quarter  of  section  32, 
township  5,  range  3,  west  of  the 
third  principal  meridian.  There 
were  no  more  transfers  until  Sep- 
tember 2,  1817,  when  Robert  Gilles- 
pie sold  320  acres  to  Jonathan 
Crowley,  of  Virginia,  for  $960. 

The  census  of  182  0  gives  Bond 
county  a  population  of  2,931. 
Greenville  was  still  confined  to  the 
extreme  western  part  of  the  present 
city,  now  known  as  Davidson's  Ad- 
dition, which  includes  the  greater 
part  of  Greenville  west  of  Fourth 
Street,  between  North  and  Summer. 
Present  Main  Avenue  and  Sixth 
Street  was  the  business  center  then 
and  for  many  years  afterwards. 
During  the  period  of  the  twenties 
Seth  Blanchard,  Cyrus  and  Ansel 
Birge,  Thomas  Long,  Samuel  White 
and  William  Durley  operated  stores; 
most  of  them  in  the  old  brick  build- 
ing on  the  southwest  corner  of  Main 
and  Sixth,  which  stood  south  of  the 
John  Baumberger,  Sr.,  homestead 
until  a  few  years  ago,  when  it  was 
torn  down.  Dr.  J.  B.  Drake  was  a 
physician  and  merchant  of  this 
period. 

In  182  7  Bond  county  gave  but 
2  50  votes,  but  in  the  following  year 
immigration  from  Tennessee  and 
Kentucky  increased  the  population 
to  a   considerable  extent. 

In  the  twenties  Greenville  was  a 
typical  frontier  town,  composed  of 
a  cluster  of  log  cabins,  a  tumble- 
down brick  court  house  and  a  frame 
building  or  two.  All  east  of  the 
present  square  was  "out  in  the 
country,"  and  was  merely  a  dense 
growth   of  hazel  brush. 

During  the  twenties  Samuel 
White  sold  his  tannery  to  J.  Harvey 
Black  and  opened  a  store  in  1829, 
on  the  northeast  corner  of  Sixth  and 
Main.  Thomas  Long  bought  out  Mr. 
Blanchard's  stock  of  goods  and  for 
a  while  his  brother.  Rev.  Peter 
Long,  clerked  for  him.  Mr.  Long 
soon  sold  otit  to  Dr.  J.  B.  Drake  and 
William  Durley,  who  continued  the 
business  where  the  present  Drake 
House  now  stands.  Dr.  Drake,  in  a 
few  years,  bought  the  entire  stock 
and  continued  in  business  for  twenty 
five   years. 

Cyrus  Birge  kept  a  store  on  lot 
No.  8,  Davidson's  Addition  from 
1819  to  1824,  when  he  sold  out  to 
his  brother,  Ansel,  who  continued 
in  business  for  at  least  eight  years. 
In  182  2,  by  order  of  the  court,  a 
"stray  pen"  was  built  in  Greenville. 
It  was   40   feet   square   and   six  feet 


Mrs.  Richard  Bentley, 
Born  in  Virginia  in  1799;  died   here 
in  1876. 

high  and  was  built  for  the  purpose 
of  confining  stray  stock.  On  court 
days  and  other  public  occasions  the 
people  who  had  lost  stock,  would  go 
to  the  stray  pen  and  endeavor  to 
identify  their  property. 

An  abstract  of  the  poll  books  of 
an  election  held  in  Greenville  Aug- 
ust 2,  1824,  for  county  oflicers 
shows  that  for  Sheriff,  Hosea  Camp 
had  151  votes,  William  White  97, 
Henry  Williams,  47;  for  County 
Commissioners,  Ransom  Geer  had 
2  2  4,  Robert  McCord,  2  09;  Asahel 
Enloe,  171:  George  Donnell,  107 
and  George  Davidson  101.  For 
Coroner,  Robert  W.  Denny  had  122, 


Mrs.  J.  P.  Garland, 
Who  came  here  iti  1830  and  is  still  a 
resident;  married  in  1848  to  J.  P. 
Garland. 


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17 


Wxi.  Watkins,  Deceased, 

A  resident  in  1860.  Former  sheriff 
and  ex-member  of  the  legislature, 
as  he  looked  41  years  ago. 

Edwin  A.  Mars,  8  and  James  Durley, 
6.  The  returns  were  attested  by 
Asahel  Enloe,  J.  P.  and  Leonard 
Goss,   J.    P. 

6recnvillc  from  1830  to  1840. 

THE  census  of  IS 30  shows  but  a 
small  gain  in  ten  years  in  Bond 
county,  nevertheless  the  county  seat 
had  made  some  advancement  both 
in  point  of  business  and  population. 
The  town  was  now  beginning  to 
reach  out  timidly  toward  the  east. 
A  new  frame  court  house  succeeded 
the  crumbling  brick  structure  and 
was  completed  in  1S32  on  the  pres- 
ent square.  A  new  jail  had  also 
been   built. 


Mrs.  M.\irrn.\  O.  \V,\tki.\s,  Dec'd, 

Whose  father  once   owned   much   of 
the  laud  where  Greenville  stands. 


Greenville  in  the  thirties  is  best 
described  by  Joseph  T.  Fouke,  who 
came  here  in  1830,  and  who  is  still 
a   resident   of   Greenville. 

Mr.  Fouke  sa.vs  that  his  earliest 
recollection  of  Greenville  in  1830 
was  the  digging  of  a  public  well  at 
the  corner  of  Main  and  Sixth  streets, 
by  "Black"  Jim  Davis,  Royer  and 
Hicks.  The  men  quarreled  over  a 
dog  fight  and  finally  fought  and 
Miss  Hicks  came  out  of  the  house 
and  threatened  to  whip  all  the  men 
and  the  dogs  thrown  in.  The  fol- 
lowing is  Mr.  Fouke's  description  of 
Greenville  in    1830: 

"In    1830    Seth   Blanchard   kept   a 


Alexander  Kelsoe,  Deceased, 

Circuit  Clerk  1848  to  1860;  a  prom- 
inent character  in  Greenville  for 
many  years. 


hotel  across  the  street  south  of  the 
old  Drake  House.  The  south 
half  of  the  building  was  log  and  the 
north  half  frame.  It  was  two  stories 
and  a  porch  extended  along  the  west 
side  of  the  building.  Mr.  Blanchard 
had  his  log  stables  on  the  ground 
where  Sheriff  Floyd  now  resides. 
South  of  Blanchard's  tavern  was  a 
square  room  where  Dr.  J.  B.  Drake 
ran  a  store.  This  square  room  is 
still  standing  with  additions  built 
to  it,  on  the  same  ground,  and  in 
my    opinion    is    the    oldest    house    In 


The  Old  Mill  at  the  Foot  of  Mill  Hill. 


\Y.  X.  Kelsoe, 

A  Greenville  boy  of  the  sixties,  many 
years  a  prominent  St.  Louis  news- 
paper man,  manager  of  the  local 
press  bureau  of  the  Louisiana  Pur- 
chase Exposition.  Now  a  resident 
of  St.  Louis. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Charles  Hoiles, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1S40,  and  who,  with  his 
son,  C.  D.  Hoiles,  established  the  State  Bank  of 
Hoiles  and  Son  In  1869.  A  member  ot  the  Illinois 
Legislature  at  the  time  of  the  Lincoln-Douglas 
contest;  delegate  from  Illinois  to  the  Charleston 
convention.  Died  at  Union  Station,  St.  Louis,  May 
14,  18S4,  and  is  buried  at  Montrose  cemeterv. 


town.  Across  the  street,  west  of  the 
tavern,  Samuel  White's  brick  resi- 
dence stood.  This  building  was  also 
used  as  a  store  in  the  early  days  and 
was  torn  down  only  a  few  years  ago. 
South  of  Mr.  White  lived  John  T. 
Walker  in  a  log  cabin,  near  the 
present  residence  of  Leitle  Mc- 
Cracken.  Still  farther  south  lived 
Mr.  Benson  in  a  log  cabin  and 
opposite  the  present  residence  of  W. 
A.  McLain  lived  John  Maddux  in  a 
log  cabin.  There  was  a  cabin  in  the 
middle  of  the  street  in  front  of  the 
residence  of  Fritz  Streiff,  and  Mr. 
Perigen  lived  in  a  cabin  near  the 
old  cemetery.  Back  of  the  present 
residence  of  Mrs.  Agnes  J.  Mulford 
"svas  a  log  cabin,  where  the  school 
-was  taught.  It  was  the  first  school 
of  which  I  have  recollection.  Q.  C. 
Alexander  was  the  teacher.  Where 
"H.  H.  Staub  lives  was  the  cabin  of 
"Harvey  Black.  This  was  probably 
the  first  cabin  ever  built  in  Green- 
-ville,  the  one  built  by  George  Dav- 
idson in  1815,  although  this  fact  is 
not  definitely  established.  Mr.  Dav- 
idson, however,  built  his  cabin  on 
this   spot  and   Black's   cabin   is   sup- 


posed to  have  been  the  same  one. 
Straight  west,  at  the  bottom  of  the 
hill,   Mr.   Black   had   his  tanyard. 

"Where  the  present  residence  of 
Mrs.  John  H.  Jett  stands  was 
Berry's  tavern,  where  circuit  court 
was  sometimes  held.  On  the  site  of 
the  present  Baumberger  homestead, 
Ansel  Birge  had  his  store.  The 
Drake  house  was  not  then  built. 
East  of  the  site  of  the  present  Drake 
house  lived  John  Ackeridge,  a 
famous  hunter,  who  scarcely  ever 
went  out  for  a  tramp  without  bring- 
ing home  a  deer.  Near  the  present 
residence  of  Peter  Hentz,  Major 
Davis  kept  a  tavern  and  lived 
across  the  street  east,  where  Emil 
Brice  now  resides.  There  were  no 
other  houses  until  the  west  side  of 
the  present  square  is  reached  and 
there,  in  about  the  center  of  the 
block,  James  B.  Rutherford  lived  in 
a  frame  house  and  to  the  north  had 
a  log  house  in  which  he  made  hats. 
This  hat  manufacturing  establish- 
ment stood  on  the  site  of  the  pres- 
ent post  office  building.  There 
was  a  log  cabin  near  the  pres- 
ent residence  of  Mrs.  K.  M.  Bennett 
and  Daniel  Ferguson  ha1  a  cabin 
at  the  north  end  of  Fifth  Street,  as 
it  is  today.  That  constituted  the 
village  of  Greenville  in  1830.  Near 
the  present  residence  of  E.  E.  Cox 
was  the  suburban  home  of  Samuel 
Whitcomb,  a  frame  building,  and 
one  of  the  aristocratic  residences  ot 


THEi;s'lATE  BANK  UF   HOILES  AND  SONS. 
What   is  now   the   State   Bank   of   Hoiles  and  Sons  was  established 
Charles  Hoiles  and  Charles  D.  Holies,  under  the  firm 
Hoiles  was  admitted  to  the  firm  in  18.2  and  the  firm  i 
Charles  Hoiles  retired  from  business  in  1881  ard  died 
continued  the  business  under  the  old  firm  name  and  in 
State  Bank  of  Hoiles  and  Sons  with  a  capital  of  iKM, 
Septembe_.;,  1903,  to  |^50,000,j._n£theje__isjij.w  abo^it^S.,(tt 


present  officers  are  CD.  Hoile 


sident;  C.E.  Hoiles,  V 


August,  1S69,  by 
s  and  Son.  Stephen  M. 
iged  to  Hoiles  and  Sons. 
C.    D.   and  S.   M.   Hoiles 

1S95,   incorporated  as  the 

e  capital  stock   was  increased   in 
plus  fund,  undivided  profits.  The 


name  of  Holl 
lame  was  chi 
May   14,   18S4 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


19 


C.  D.  HoiLES, 

A  native  of  Greenville,  ex-member  of  the  Illinois   Legislature.     Mayor   of 

Greenville  from  1879  to  1887,  President  of  the  State  Bank  of  Hoiles  and 

Sons.     Delegate  to  National  Democratic  conventions  of  1S72,  1884-  and 

1892.     Member  of  State  Democratic  Central  Committee  for  eight  vars. 


the  village.  This  Whitcomb  house 
■was  in  later  years  moved  to  the  lot 
south  of  the  residence  of  Judge  A. 
G.  Henry,  where  it  stood  until  a 
a  tew  years  ago,  when  it  was  torn 
down.  The  court  house  stood  where 
the  present  one  stands,  but  it  prac- 
tically marked  the  eastern  confines 
of  the  town.  To  the  east  and  south, 
there  was  nothing  but  underbrush 
and  a  few  forest  trees.  One  of  the 
two  main  roads  into  town  came  in 
on  the  south,  up  present  Fifth  street 
to  present  College  Avenue  and  up 
through  the  present  lawn  of  Dr.  B. 
F.  Coop  to  Oak  street,  thence 
through  the  middle  of  what  is  now 
Moss  Addition  and  through  the 
south  part  of  S.  S.  Trindle's  eighty 
striking  the  main  road  at  the 
present  suburban  home  of  C.  B. 
Cook.  Another  road  came  in  from 
the  direction  of  the  present  farm  of 
Mrs.  L.  K.  King,  down  Blanchard's 
hill,  past  the  public  school  building 
and  on  the  north  side  of  the  old  elm 
that  stands  near  the  residence  of 
George  O.  Morris  and  up  to  the 
business  center  and  down  the  hill 
back  of  the  barn  of  Samuel  White 
and  thence  to  the  spring  at  the  tan- 
yard,  past  Wash  I^ake.  to  the  Shoal 
Creek  ford  and  westward.  There 
were  no  hollows  and  ravines  in  the 
■west  end  of  town  then,  as  now. 
"Religious    services    were   held    in 


the  court  house  in  those  days  and 
there  were  no  churches  in  Greenville 
until  later.  Dr.  J.  B.  Drake  built 
the  Drake  House  about  1833,  and  it 
was  considered  the  finest  house  in 
town  by  far.  In  this  Dr.  Drake  lived 
and  kept  store  for  many  years.  At 
that  time  the  whole  county  voted  at 
Greenville  and  most  of  the  elections 


were  held  in  the  east  end  of  the 
Berry  House.  The  voting  was  done 
by  voice  and  the  name  of  the  voter 
and  the  party  for  whom  he  voted 
were  recorded.  Seth  Blanchard  sold 
out  his  tavern  and  store  to  Thomas 
Keyes  and  William  S.  Smith,  who 
came  here  in  1832  from  Virginia. 
Mrs.  Keyes  kept  tavern,  while  her 
husband  farmed  and  Mr.  Smith  re- 
mained in  the  mercantile  business 
in  this  location  for  18  years. 
Thomas  Smith  ran  a  store  on  the 
southwest  corner  of  the  public 
square,  and  conducted  it  as  a 
branch  of  the  old  store  until  1845 
when  the  old  store  was  closed  and 
the  two  brothers  joined  venture  on 
the    square. 

"Long  rows  of  wagons  cou'.d  be 
seen  in  the  thirties  unloading  at  the 
old  store,  after  returning  from  St. 
Louis,  laden  with  goods.  Keyes  and 
Smith  sold  the  hotel  to  Thomas 
Dakin  who  kept  it  many  years  and 
it  afterward  was  kept  a  year  or  two 
by  Enrico  Gaskins.  who  later  moved 
to  the  north  side  of  the  square  into 
the  house  built  by  John  T.  Morgan. 

"Later  on  in  the  thirties  other 
buildings  were  erected,  among  them 
the  Franklin  House  and  in  1S42 
Charles  Hoiles  erected  the  frame 
building  now  standing  on  the  south 
side  of  the  square  and  used  as  a 
barber    shop." 

Stephen  Morse  taught  school  in 
the  court  house  in  the  thirties.  Miss 
Prime  taught  in  a  log  house  in  the 
village  and  Almira  Morse  for  whom 
Almira  College  was  named,  taught 
in  a  frame  school  house  two  miles 
south  of  Greenville.  A  little  frame 
school  house  was  built  in  1832  on 
the  road  to  Vandalia,  and  John 
Buchanan,  father  of  John  T.  Buch- 
anan, helped  build  it.  It  was  used 
minus  doors  and  windows  that  sum- 
mer,   and    snakes    and    lizards   often 


Residence  of  C.  D.  Hoiles. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Judge  S.  A.    Phelps, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1843,  and 
who  has  resided  here  ever  since. 
Ex-County  Judge  and  uestor  of  the 
Bond  county  bar 

whisked  in  close  proximity  to  the 
bare  feet  of  the  children.  The  old 
court  house,  which  had  been  used 
as  a  school  house,  fell  down  that 
summer.  The  next  year  the  little 
frame  school  house  was  moved  upon 
land  owned  by  Daniel  Ferguson  and 
the  doors  and  windows  put  in.  Dan- 
iel Ferguson's  land  was  on  the  site 
of  the  residence  of  Dr.  W.  T.  Easley. 


RiisiDENCE  11F  Judge  S.  .\.    Pheli's. 


During  the  thirties  the  leading 
merchants  in  aidition  to  those 
already  named  were  Willard  Twiss, 
L.  D.  Plant,  Morse  and  Brothers,  J. 
M.    Davis   and   Albert   Allen. 

The  well  alluded  to  by  J.  T. 
Fouke  was  the  only  well  in  Green- 
ville in  1830.  It  was  public  property 
and  was  very  deep  and  was  also 
frequently  out  of  repair.  The  wells 
and  water  system  of  Greenville  are 
treated  in  a  separate  chapter,  of 
this  history. 

During  the  thirties  the  stage 
route  was  in  operation.  It  was  a 
common  expression  of  warning  in 
those  days  to  say  "Look  out  for  the 
stage,"  for  the  stage  would  look 
out  for  no  one.  The  route  came  in- 
to Greenville  along  the  Old  National 
roa1  and,  passing  along  the  north 
side    of   the     square    and     down    the 


west  side,  turned  west  on  Main  to 
the  Berry  tavern.  Frank  Berry,  son 
of  mine  host,  was  one  of  the  stage 
drivers.  After  a  rest  and  change  of 
horses,  the  lumbering  old  coach 
would  go  clattering  out  of  town  on 
the  St.  Louis  road.  There  was  one 
stage  each  way  every  day,  with  re- 
lays every  ten  miles.  The  driver 
whipped  along  at  a  gallop  and  the 
ten  or  a  dozen  passengers  were 
rocke  1  from  side  to  side  with  a 
recklessness  born  of  the  early  stage 
drivers. 

In  1S38,  R.  F.  White  cut  the  trees 
off  the  ground  where  the  State  Bank 
of  Holies  and  Sons  now  stands  and 
established  a  blacksmith  shop  on 
the  ground.  He  was  a  cousin  of 
Prof.  J.  B.  White  and  a  brother-in- 
law  of  John  S.   Hall. 

Parker.  Keyes  and  Lansing  had  a 


i'lSEl'll    T.    l-'dlKE, 

Who  c.nme  to  Greenville  in  183  ),  and 
who  still  lives  here. 


Hotel  Eirek.\, 

Better  known  as  the  Franklin  House.     Lincoln  stopped  at  this  hotel  when 
he  visited  Greenville  in  1858.  during  the  Lincoln  and  Douglas  campaign. 


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Nathaniel  Dressor, 

Who  came  to  Bond  County  overland  from  Maine 
in  October,  1837,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  the 
county  ever  since.  He  settled  on  two  and  one-half 
acres  of  cheap  land  in  a  log  cabin,  and  is  now  one 
of  the  largest  property  owners  of  the  county.  Di- 
rector First  National  Bank,  State  Senator  1897-8- 
9.     Now  in  his  eightieth  year. 


R.  K.  Dewey, 

Came  to  Greenville  in  April,  1854-.  One  of  the  two 
oldest  continuous  residents  of  the  city.  Judge  Hen- 
ry being  the  other.  Justice  of  the  P'eace  four  years, 
city  clerk  several  terms,  bookkeeper  and  assistant 
cashier  First  National  Bank  for  ten  years,  Notary 
Public  since  1867,  Grand  Patriarch  of  the  Grand 
Encampment  I.  O.  O.  F.  in  1872,  Secretary  Bond 
Countv  Old  Settlers'  Association. 


"still  house"  in  1S3S  in  the  hollow 
northwest  of  the  old  graveyard. 
They  piped  water  from  the  spring 
in  wooden  pipes  to  the  distillery. 
They  male  a  great  deal  of  whiskey 
and  shipped  it  away  to  St.  Louis. 

C.  H.  Stephens,  an  old  settler, 
read  his  reminiscenses  of  Greenville 
as  he  remembered  it  in  1834,  before 
the  Old  Settlers' Association  in  1890. 
He  stated  that  on  the  west  side  of 
the  St.  Louis  road  Edward  Elani 
and  his  father  lived.  The  house 
stood  where  the  present  residence  of 
W.  A.  McLain  now  is.  They  carried 
on  the  only  blacksmith  shop  in 
Greenville  and  Joel  Elam  was  learn- 
ing the  trade  of  his  brother  Edward. 
Mr.  Stephens  says  that  in  1834  pro- 
visions were  low  in  Greenville.  Hogs 
sold  for  $1.50  per  hundred,  corn 
for  25  cents  per  bushel,  wheat  37 
1-2  cents  per  bushel  "  and  as  for 
potatoes"  he  says,  "we  could  not 
get  them  for  love  nor  money.  I  was 
on  the  grand  jury  in  the  fall  of 
1S35  and  the  jurors  received  fifty 
cents  per  day  and  boarded  them- 
selves." Mr.  Stephens,  in  his  rem- 
iniscenses, says  there  were  no  bug- 
gies in  1834  and  very  few  two-horse 
wagons.  For  the  most  part  people 
traveled  on  foot  or  on  horseback, 
and  it  a  young  man  wanted  to  take 
his   best    girl     to   church,     he   would 


take  her  up  on  his  horse  behind  him 
anl  trot  off  four  or  five  miles  an:l 
think   nothing  of   it. 


Greenville  in  the  ■Forties. 

I  N  the  forties  the  business  center 
'  was  transferred  from  the  west 
end  to  the  public  square  where  it 
has  since  remained.  The  population 
of  the  county  had  jumped  to  o.Oimi 
but  Greenville  was  still  under  3  00 
inhabitants.  The  slow  settlement 
of  the  country  and  the  location  of 
railroads  on  each  side  of  the  town 
held  Greenville  back.  In  1846  the 
subject  of  railroads  was  agitated. 
A  charter  was  proposed  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  for  a  road  from  Terre 
Haute  to  St.  Louis,  but  the  policy 
of  the  state,  at  that  time,  was  to 
give  Alton  the  benefit  of  being  the 
terminus  of  all  railroads  that  termi- 
nated on  the  eastern  bank  of  the 
Mississippi  river  near  St.  Louis,  in 
order  to  overshadow  the  latter  city. 
.\nd  so  it  was  that  the  Greenville 
railroad  project  was  knocked  in  the 
heal  by  the  mistaken  idea  of  up- 
building Alton  to  the  detriment  ot 
St.   Louis. 

By  Judge  S.  A.  Phelps. 

"In  the  fall  of  1843,  I  first  came 
to  Illinois  and  first  formed  the  idea 
of  becoming  a  settler  of  Bond  coun- 


ty. I  came  iiom  Mississippi,  but 
was  a  sort  of  a  York  yankee.  When 
I  reached  St.  Louis,  I  got  in  a  stage 
foach  and  was  ferried  across  the 
river.  Where  East  St.  Louis  now 
stpnds  the  ferry  boat  butted  itself 
agamst  the  bank.  There  was  no 
platform  and  nothing  to  receive  the 
stage  except  dirt.  The  stage  went 
up  the  bank  of  the  Mississippi  and 
on  the  roal  to  Edwardsville,  we  did 
not  see  a  fence,  nor  a  field  of  corn 
or  wheat  in  all  that  trip.  The  next 
day  I  hired  a  horse  and  came  to 
Greenville,  putting  up  at  the  old 
stage  house,  on  the  northwest  cor- 
ner of  the  square,  where  the  store 
of  Weise  and  Bradford  now  stands. 
It  was  the  best  house  in  town,  two 
stories  high,  with  a  double  porch  on 
the  front,  and  withal  a  fine  building 
for   those   days. 

"East  of  this  hotel  on  the  north 
side  of  the  square,  was  a  small 
frame  house  in  which  Enrico  Gas- 
kins  afterwards  livei.  On  the  spot 
where  Joy  and  Go's  store  now 
stands,  was  a  blacksmith  shop  run 
by  Isaac  Smith,  a  brother  of  Wm. 
S.  Smith  On  the  corner  immediate- 
ly south  was  a  small  store  kept  by 
S.  B.  Bulkley,  and  afterwards  by 
Alexander  Buie.  A  little  way  below 
that  was  a  one  story  frame  building 
afterwards  used  as  a  hotel.     On  the 


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Samuel  Colcord,   Deceased, 

Who  came  overland  from  Maine  to 
Greenville  in  1840.  A  prominent 
resident  for  50  years. 


corner  where  Masonic  Temple  now 
stands  was  an  old  two  story  frame 
house.  It  was  the  headquarters  for 
every  unlicensed  saloon  that  was 
started.  These  unlicenseS  saloons 
always  ran  until  the  grand  jury  met. 
In  a  hollow  where  Dixon's  store 
now  stands,  there  was  a  small 
frame  house  in  which  D.  P.  Hagee 
lived,  and  had  a  tailor  shop.  A 
blacksmith  shop  stood  on  the 
ground  where  the  State  Bank  of 
Hoiles    a:id    Sons     is     now.      It    was 


operated  by  a  man  by  the  name  of 
White.  Next  to  the  alley  on  the 
south  side  of  the  square  was  the 
frame  building,  which  is  still  stand- 
ing and  is  now  known  as  the  Miller 
building.  In  this  bull  ling  lived 
Charles  Hoiles,  father  of  C.  D. 
Hoiles,  President  of  the  State  Bank, 
and  of  S.  M.  Hoiles,  now  deceased. 
In  the  corner  room  of  this  building 
Mr.  Hoiles  had  started  a  store. 
Later  on  he  moved  to  the  site  of  the 
present  Thomas  House.  There  were 
no  buildings  from  the  alley  west  to 
the  corner.  On  the  corner  was  a 
small,  one  story  building  which  was 
conspicuously  labeled  "Allen"  but 
was  vacant.  On  the  corner  where 
Hussong's  store  stood  prior  to  the 
iire  of  Oct.  27,  1904,  was  the  store 
of   Morse  and   Brothers,   a  one  story 


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Otis  B.   Colcord,  Deceased, 

\Who  came  fiom  Maine  to  Greenville 
in  1838  and  who  lived  here  more 
than  CO  years. 


Rev.  S.\muel  Colcord, 

.\  former  resident;  now  a  resident  of 
New  York  City. 

brick  and  frame,  and  a  little  farther 
to  the  north  was  a  story  and  a  half 
hewed  log  building  used  as  a  furni- 
ture store.  Still  a  little  farther 
north  was  the  one  story  law  office  of 
M.  G.  Dale.  On  the  present  Post 
Office  corner  was  another  log  house. 
Dr.  J.  W.  Fitch  had  his  office  where 
Mulford  and  Monroe's  drug  store 
now  stands  and  his  house  where  the 
Bennett   residence   now   Is. 

"The  people  were  moral  and  up- 
right. Very  little  use  was,  there 
for  constables,  marshals,  juries  or 
courts.  They  had  no  marshal  and 
no  mayor  In  Greenville  in  those 
days,  only  a  constable  and  a  justice 
of  the  peace.  Of  course  there  were 
occasional  offenses  against  the  law 
but  as  a  whole  the  people  compared 
favorably  in  morality,  honesty  and 
intelligence  with  the  people  of  to- 
day. 


Mrs.  Samuel  Colcord,  Deceased. 


"When  I  came  to  Greenville,  I 
found  that  the  county  was  a  tem- 
perance county  and  there  was  not  a 
licensed  saloon  in  it.  It  so  con- 
tinued for  thirty,  if  not  forty  years. 
People  could  vote  any  where  in  the 
county  for  the  judges  took  it  for 
granted  that  we  would  vote  but 
once.  That  was  before  the  days  ot 
"repeaters." 

"There  were  plenty  of  good 
springs  here  and  that  was  the 
reason  Greenville  was  located  here. 
When  I  came  to  Greenville  there 
was  a  spring,  a  kind  of  reservoir  at 
the  bottom  of  the  hill   and   we  used 


Wm.  S.  Colcord, 

Who  came  here  from  Maine  in  18-iO. 
Former  postmaster  of  Greenville, 
and  a  prominent  resident  lor  many 
j-ears.     Now  deceased. 


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23 


Mrs.  \.  W.  McLain, 

Aged    87  years,  probably  the  oldest 
native  born  resident  in  the  county. 


to  ride  down  and  water  our  horses. 
The  spring,  however,  was  rather 
inconvenient  and  so  a  public  spirit- 
ed man  sunk  a  well  on  the  south 
west  corner  of  the  square.  It  was 
70  feet  deep  but  was  not  much  of  a 
success  on  account  of  quicksand, 
and  the  bucket  invariably  came  up 
only  half  full.  They  had  just  com- 
menced the  fad  of  making  cisterns 
when  I  came  to  Greenville. 

"The  schools  scattere  1  through- 
out the  country  gave  evidence  of 
the  intelligence  of  the  country.  They 
had  commenced  the  church  building 


Sa.miel  H.  Crocker,  Dcceaseil. 

Three  times  elected  Sheriff,  and  was 
Ex-Postmaster. 


which  was  torn  down  in  1903.  Sub- 
scription papers  were  circulated  for 
this  church,  with  a  school  under 
I  he  basement,  and,  when  I  came  to 
Creenville,  the  church  was  com- 
pleted and  in  use,  but  they  had  not 
rompleted  the  school  part  and  there 
were  those  who  did  not  relish  this 
action.  So  in  1.S42,  Deacon  Saunders 
made  his  trip  to  the  east  on  foot  to 
raise  money  to  complete  the  build- 
ing. He  was  successful  and  the 
basement  was  finished.  The  school 
in  IS 4. 5  was  held  in  a  little  brick 
building  that  was  torn  down  a  few 
years  ago  at  the  west  end  of  Main 
Street.  When  the  church  with  the 
school  building  under  it  was  com- 
pleted, the  event  was  properly  cele- 
brated with  dedicatory  exercises. 
Among  others  I  received  an  invita- 
tion and  all  the  best  men  and 
women  of  Greenville  were  there.  I 
was  called  upon  to  make  a  few  re- 
marks and  did  so  apparently  to  the 
satisfaction  of  those  assembled.  The 
school  was  commenced  that  fall  and 
was  continued  in  the  basement  of 
that  church  for  a  good  many  years. 
That  was  not  the  only  case  of  the 
public  spirit  of  the  people  of  Green- 
ville. When  Wm.  S.  Wait  laid  out 
his  land  into  lots  he  laid  out  a  large 
lot  as  Academy  Square.  This 
Academy  Square  is  the  site  of  our 
present  magnificent  school  building. 
The  same  spirit  was  shown  by 
others. 

"Greenville  has  progressed  and  is 
an  entirely  new  town.  Greenville  of 
IS 44  has  passed  away;  a  new  town 
has  come. 

"Greenville  was,  however,  quite 
a  thriving  business  place  in  '44, 
having  four  good  stores  and  no  sa- 
loons. There  were  no  factories,  ex- 
cept the  blacksmith  shops,  where 
they  made  plows  and  now  and  then 
a  wagon.  Now  we  have  factories 
and  the  volume  of  business  has  in- 
creased ten-fold  or  more.  In  '4  4 
we  had  an  every  other  day  stage. 
It  went  east  one  day  and  the  next 
day  west.  It  carried  all  the  passen- 
gers and  the  driver  had  the  mail 
sack  under  his  feet.  When  he  drew 
near  the  post  office,  he  heralded  his 
coming  with  a  tin  horn.  This  was 
our   best    means   of   transportation. 

"Compare  this  with  the  great 
Vandalia  railroad,  running  its  long 
trains  of  palace  coaches  through  the 
city  many  times  a  day  and  you  have 
a  proper  comparison  of  the  business 
between  the  dates  of  1.S4  4  and  19n.S. 
A  little  stage  coach  represents  1S4  4 
and  the  Vandalia  Railroad  repre- 
sents 190.5.  This  is  the  kind  of 
progress  we  have  been  making  and 
I  want  you  to  look  forward  with  me 
to  the  future  with  the  same  degree 
of  hope  and  the  same  degree  of  con- 
fidence. I  can  see  no  reason  why 
we  cannot  look  forward  to  this 
same  continued  prosperity:  why  the 
coming  years  may  not  hold  achieve- 


N.  W.  McLain, 

Who  came  here  in  1831,  and  has 
lived  here  and  at  Elm  Point  ever 
since. 

ments  as  great  or  greater  than  those 
of  the  century  of  1800,  right  here 
in  Greenville." 

Cholera  Epidemic  of   1849. 

IN  1849,  Greenville  was  visited  by 
'  a  terrible  epidemic  of  cholera 
and  many  deaths  resulted.  The  only 
account  of  this  scourge,  the  worst 
that  has  ever  visited  Greenville,  is 
preserved  by  Mr.  Jacob  Koonce,  in 
the  Western  Fountain,  which  paper 
copied  the  following  from  the  issue 
of  the  Greenville  Journal  of  July 
2n,    1849. 


Joseph  M.  Do.\.\i;ll,  Deceased, 

Who    lived    in    and   near    Greenville 
from  1819  to  1894. 


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James  Bradford, 

Founder  of  the  banking  house  of  Bradford  and  Son,  who  came  to  Green- 
ville in  1 824  and  served  in  the  Black  Hawk  war.  He  was  circuit  clerk 
and  recorder,  county  clerk,  master  itl  chancery,  county  commi-^sioner, 
member  of  the  Illinois  Legislature,  and  county  judge.  He  was  the  first 
mavor  of  Greenville,  elected  in  1872.     He  died  January  29,  1889. 


"The  Cholera,  this  mighty  agent 
of  death,  has  spread  destruction  in 
our  village  since  our  last  issue.  Our 
lively  and  business  like  town  has 
put  on  the  habiliments  of  mourning 
and  sadness. 

"The  first  case  of  cholera,  in  our 
town,  was  the  stage  driver  to  whom 
we  referred  last  week.  He  is  re- 
covering. The  next,  we  also  alluded 
to  last  week — a  young  woman 
named  Sarah  Woosley,  living  with 
the  family  of  Charles  Holies  Esq. 
She  was  taken  on  Friday  morning 
last  and  died  on  Saturday  morning 
about  two  o'clock.  This  was  the 
first  death  from  cholera. 

"Early  the  same  morning  a  child 
of  Dr.  Sprague's,  two  or  three  years 
old  was  taken  and  died  in  five  or  six 
hours.  The  same  day  Charles  Hor- 
ton  Esq.,  an  infant  child  of  C. 
Holies,  Esq.,  a  daughter  of  Mrs. 
Kellam's  aged  11  or  12  years,  and 
I.  N.  Reed  were  all  taken.  The  in- 
fant died  in  the  afternoon  some 
time;  Mr.  Horton  died  about  11 
o'clock  and  Isadora  Kellam  about 
12  o'clock  the  same  night.  Mr.  Reed 
■died  about  four  o'clock  Sunday 
rafternoon. 

"There  have  been  other  cases  of 
cholera  but  these  are  all  the  deaths, 
and  these  all  occurred  in  less  than 
48   hours." 

In  the  issue  of  the  Journal  of 
July  27,   1849  the  editor  says: 


"Since  our  last  Issue  there  have 
been  two  more  deaths  from  cholera, 
Mrs.  Park  and  Mr.  Hopton,  but  no 
cases  have  come  to  our  knowledge 
since  Monday  last." 

There  were  13  cases  of  cholera 
and  eight  deaths.  The  Journal  says: 
"Some  of  our  citizens  have,  perhaps, 
become  unnecessarily  alarmed  and 
a  number  have  left  with  their  fam- 
ilies. It  is  due  to  our  physicians  to 
state  that  they  have  attended  the 
sick  during  the  present  crisis,  with 
an  industry  and  self-denial  worthy 
of  all  praise.  Some  of  our  citizens 
have  also  distinguished  themselves 
for  their  unyielding  and  disinterest- 
ed care  for  the  sick  and  if  from 
this  worthy  number  we  were  re- 
quested to  designate,  we  might 
speak  the  names  of  Rev.  Robert 
Stewart   and   Elam   Rust,   Esq." 

To  these  names  we  may  also  add 
the  names  of  J.  P.  Garland,  Wyatt 
Causey,   Isaac  Enloe  and  others. 

Greenville  had  splendid  physic- 
ians in  the  forties  and  fifties.  Dr. 
Drake,  Dr.  Fitch,  Dr.  Brooks  and 
Dr.  Brown.  Dr.  Brooks  met  death 
by  suffocation  in  1874  at  his  home 
in  the  brick  buildin'?  that  stood 
across  the  alley  east  of  the  old  Bap- 
tist   church. 


ercctivtllc  tn  the  fifties. 

1 NCREASED  business  on  every 
'  hand  marks  the  period  from  18  50 
to   18  60.      In    1S50   the  first   govern- 


Bradford  and  Son's  Bank 
The  bank  of  Bradford  &  Son  was  founded  by  James  Bradford  and 
son  Samuel  in  1867,  in  the  frame  building  one  door  south  of  the  present  lo- 
cation, but  moved  into  the  present  location  soon  after  the  business  was 
established.  At  the  death  of  James  Bradford  on  January  29,  1889,  Samu- 
el Bradford  became  the  head  of  the  institution  and  so  remained  until  his 
death  September  14,  1891.  John  S.  Bradford,  who  was  admitted  to  the 
firm  in  1890,  then  became  the  head  of  the  banking  house  and  so  remains 
at  the  present  time. 


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25 


Residknce  of  John  S.  Bradford,  East  College  Avenue. 


ment  census  was  taken  in  Green- 
ville, the  population  being  378.  The 
census  of  ISGO  shows  a  population 
of  1000  which  tells  the  story  of  the 
growth  of  this  period. 

W.  S.  and  T.  W.  Smith,  Morse 
and  Brother,  Charles  Holies  and  G. 
W.  Hill  were  still  in  business  and 
E.  A.  Floyd,  Elliott  and  Kershner, 
A.  W.  Hynes,  Barr  and  Elliott  and 
many  others  come  upon  the  scene. 
The  hotels  had  by  this  time  center- 
ed at  or  near  the  public  square.  The 
St.  Charles  Hotel  was  kept  by  E.  R. 
McCord  and  the  Franklin  House  by 
Franklin  G.  Morse,  from  whom  it 
took  its  name.  From  this  time  on 
business  increased  to  such  an  ex- 
tent that  it  would  be  practically  an 
impossibility  to  note  all  the  changes 
in  detail. 

All  south  of  the  brick  building 
now  used  as  Plant's  Livery  stables 
on  Third  street  was  timber  and 
brush  in  18  57.  A  few  years  later 
R.  L.  Mu^'d  built  a  home  near  the 
present  residence  of  George  O.  Mor- 
ris, and  everybody  told  him  he  was 
building  so  far  out  in  the  timber 
that  none  of  his  friends  could  find 
him.  Some  of  the  big  trees  that 
formed  the  forest  of  the  fifties  are 
still  standine;  on  this  property.  The 
eastern  limits  of  the  town  then  were 
about  the  present  site  of  the 
Methodist  parsonage,  and  east  of 
that  was  the  farm  of  Samuel  White. 

The  Drake  house  was  one  of  the 
finest,  even  then,  and  the  present 
Wirz  building  on  the  south  side  of 
the  square  was  the  largest  business 
house,  except  the  Sprague  block, 
which  was  built  by  Dr.  Anson 
Sprague  in  18.57.  The  Sprague 
block  was  so  large  that  no  one  ha1 
the  courage  to  occupy  it.  until 
Charles  Holies  bought  if  and  open- 
ed a  store  therein. 

Robert  G.  Ingersoll  came  to 
Greenville  with  his   father   in   1S.51, 


remaining  here  a  year.  His  father, 
the  Reverend  John  Ingersoll,  was 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  church. 
The  old  gentleman  was  quite  eccen- 
tric. One  son  Clark,  was  a  clerk  in 
G.  W.  Hill's  store  and  was  afterward 
elected    to   Congress. 

Ingersoll  and  his  father  boarded 
for  a  time  with  the  family  of  Wm. 
S.  Colcord.  They  also  boarded  with 
the  Reverend  W.  D.  H.  Johnson. 
"Bob"  was  then  seventeen  years  of 
age  and  was  extraordinarily  bright 
for  one  of  his  age.  For  six  months 
he  was  seatmate  of  E.  J.  C.  Alex- 
ander, who  now  lives  on  his  farm 
north  of  Greenville.  They  attended 
school  in  the  basement  of  the  old 
Congregational  church,  Socrates 
Smith  being  the  teacher.  "Bob" 
was  very  devout  in  those  days.  He 
lived  in  Greenville  for  about  two 
years  and  it  was  while  here  that  he 


commenced  writing  poetry,  some  of 
which  was  printed  in  the  Greenville 
Journal,   at   the  time. 

Some  of  Greenville's  citizens  were 
not  deaf  to  the  wants  of  the  refugee 
slaves,  who  were  on  their  way  from 
the  sunny  south  to  Canada.  It  has 
been  handed  down  by  tradition  that 
the  Reverend  Robert  Stewart  gave 
many  a  slave  shelter  and  food  and 
helped  him  on  his  way.  Such  as- 
sistance in  those  days  was  called 
the    "Underground    Railroad." 

Several  times  an  effort  has  been 
made  to  mark  with  marble  the  spot 
where  Lincoln  and  Douglas  deliver- 
ed their  memorable  addresses  in 
Greenville.  The  visits  of  these  in- 
tellectual giants  were  coveted  by 
many  towns  but  were  secured  by 
but  few.  Greenville,  however,  was 
one  of  the  favored  ones  and  Lincoln 
and  Douglas  spoke  at  different  times 
in  Greenville  in  1858,  near  the 
residence  property  of  Miss  Sallie 
Colcord. 

In  the  course  of  his  speech  Lin- 
coln said  that  although  Bond  county 
was  called  the  "Widow  Bond"  and 
was  in  the  way  of  territory  one  of 
the  most  insignificant  in  Illinois, 
she  towered  way  above  many  larger 
ones  in  the  intellectuality  of  her 
people.  He  said  he  had  practiced 
law  all  around  Bond  county  but  had 
little  occasion  to  practice  in  it,  for 
there  seemed  so  little  contention 
among  the  people,  that  litigation 
was  scarcely  known. 

Douglas  had  ridden  twenty  miles 
through  the  heat  and  dust  and  after 
pushing  his  way  through  a  throng, 
such  as  Greenville  never  had  har- 
bored before,  he  sought  opportunity 
to  refresh  and  re-clothe  himself  in 
his  room  at  the  old  McCord  House, 
on  the  east  side  of  the  square.  But 
the  cries  of  the  multitude  were  so 
great   and  so  persistent,   that   it   was 


Residence  of  Mrs.  Samuei,  Hioaih  urij,  I'ast  CulkL^c  .\venut 


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J.  M.  Miller,  Attorney-at-Law  and  Capitalist. 
Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1856,  and  who  has  been  prominently  iden- 
tified with  the  citv  ever  since;  ioined  the  Federal  Army  in  1862;  was 
hospital  Stewart  I'SOth  111.  Infty.;  First  Lieut.  93rd  U.  S.  C.  I.;  Vice 
President  First  National  Bank;    Mayor  of  Greenville  1891  to  1893. 


deemed  best  that  he  should  say  a 
few  words  to  them  at  once.  He 
stepped  out  on  the  upper  floor  of 
the  two  story  veranda,  which  aiorn- 


ed  the  front  of  the  hotel  and  talked 
probably  Ave  minutes.  He  was  in 
his  stocking  feet,  bareheaded  and  in 
his   shirtsleeves.      The   sight   of   him 


and  the  words  he  spoke  brought 
forth  the  most  enthusiastic  applause 
and  so  reassured  the  surging  throng 
that  they  were  content  to  disperse 
until  after  dinner,  when  the  speak- 
ing was  held.  While  here  he  was 
the  guest  of  his  warm  personal 
friend,    Charles   Holies. 


6rcenxnUc  in  the  Sixties. 

THE  period  of  Greenville's  history 
from  1860  to  1870  stands  out 
prominently  because  of  two  things, 
the  participation  of  its  citizenship 
in  the  Civil  War  and  the  great  in- 
dustrial impetus  given  the  city  by 
the  building  of  the  Vandalia  Line. 
Both  of  these  subjects  are  fully 
treated  in  separate  chapters,  in  this 
history. 

The  early  sixties  were  troublous 
times  in  Greenville  as  elsewhere  in 
this  country.  The  people  lived  on 
excitement  and  news  from  the  front 
was  eagerly  sought. 

News  from  the  battle  field  usually 
came  by  mail  from  St.  Louis,  reach- 
ing Greenville  with  the  stagecoach 
from  Carlyle  in  the  afternoon.  Vic- 
tories were  celebrated  at  night  with 
bonfires  in  the  court  yard  and  the 
ringing  of  church  bells  by  the 
youngsters,  until  most  of  the  grown 
people,  patriotic  as  they  were,  wish- 
ed there  ha1  been  no  battle  and  no 
victory   to    celebrate. 

One  day  in  1S63  the  mail  brought 
the  news  of  a  great  victory  for  the 
Union  arms  and  the  patriots  were 
celebrating   in   the   southeast   section 


View  of  Main  Avenue,  looking  east  from  the  southwest  corner  of  the  public  square  in  1892. 


Historical   Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


27 


J.  H.  Livingston, 

A    prominent   business    mnn    and    a 

large  land  and  property  owner. 

of  the  court  yard,  when  a  premature 
explosion  of  the  cannon  killed  a 
Mr.  Zimmerman,  one  of  the  gunners 
and  badly  injured  a  man  named 
Bates. 

Every  night  the  streets  were  pa- 
trolled and  many  were  the  nights  of 
vigil  in  the  homes  of  Greenville's 
citizens.  One  hundred  guns  and 
ammunition  were  procurel  and  at 
one  time,  in  December  1SG4,  a  mili- 
tary post  was  established  in  Green- 
ville, in  charge  of  Lieutenant  R.  H. 
Moses,  with  quarters  in  the  court 
house.  Even  in  1S61  a  company 
was  formed,  primarily  for  the  pur- 
pose of  combating  Clingman's  Band. 
Clingman    was   a   noted    guerilla   and 


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WiLLI.i.M    H.    DaWDV, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  August  1868  and  has  practiced  law  here  ever 
since.  Was  City  Attorney  from  1872  to  1874;  State's  .\ttorney  1872- 
80;  Master-in-Chancerv  for  six  years;  Assistant  United  States  Attornev, 
1887-9;  Member  Illinois  Legislature  1890-92;  Judge  Illinois  Court  of 
Claims  1892-6;  Candidate  for  Democratic  Presidential  elector  1896. 


\ViLLi.\M  Morris, 
A  pioneer  real  estate  man,  now   de- 
ceased. 


horsethief  and  operated  in  Bond, 
Montgomery  and  Fayette  counties. 
His  real  name  was  said  to  be  Eras- 
mus  Wood. 

On  August  4,  1S61.  a  band  of 
Greenville  and  Bond  county  men 
formed  a  party  to  attack  Clingman, 
who  was  thought  to  be  encampei 
near  Van  Burensburg  from  fifty  to 
one  thousand  strong.  The  attacking 
party  numbered  six  hundred,  in- 
cluding those  from  Montgomery 
county.  Some  fifteen  or  twenty 
men,  said  to  have  been  under  the 
leadership  of  John  H.  Jett,  were 
scouring  the  county  near  its  north 
boundary  line,  when  a  squad  of 
some  thirty  five  men,  under  com- 
mand of  Lieutenant  Joel  B.  Paisley, 
a  veteran  soldier,  were  discovered  at 
a  halt,  watering  their  horses.  Each 
party  mistook  the  other  for  Cling- 
man's Band.  Paisley,  at  once,  made 
a  strategetic  movement  upon  Jett's 
party  for  the  purpose  of  hemming 
them  in  the  lane  and  forcing  a 
surrender.  It  did  not  take  long  for 
Jett's  force  which  was  the  smaller 
and  was  composed  entirely  of  citi- 
zens, to  decide  upon  a  retreat.  Ac- 
cordingly they  put  whip  and  spur  to 
their  horses  in  order  to  pass  out  at 
the  mouth  of  the  lane  before  the 
others  could  reach  it.  They  barely 
escaped  and  the  race  continued  for 
seven  miles,  with  the  swiftest  spee  1 
(if  which  the  horses  were  capable. 
T.  S.  Hubbard,  one  of  Jett's  men 
was  overtaken  and  asked  to  sur- 
render and  failing  to  do  so  was 
shot  twice.  Paisley's  men.  at  first, 
did  not  recognize  Hubbard,  and 
Hubbard,  on  the  other  hand,  did  not 
recognize  his  captors.     Finally,  how- 


ever, the  recognition  was  mutual 
and  further  hostilities  were  averted. 

The  Greenville  company,  under 
the  able  leadership  of  Sheriff  Plant 
made  a  brilliant  campaign  but 
Clingman  was  never  encountered 
and  he  finally  left  the  country,  but 
not  until  he  had  done  considerable 
damage. 

One  of  the  tragedies  of  this  period 
in  Greenville  was  the  murder  of 
Captain  Samuel  G.  McAdams. 
Among  others  Captain  McAdams 
was  summonel  by  Provost  Marshal 
Murdock  to  assist  in  the  arrest  of 
one    Jacob    Sanner,    who    lived    near 


Robert  C.  Morris, 
A  former  real  estate  man,  now  living 
at  Toledo,  Ohio. 


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D.  H.  Kingsbury, 

A  prominent  lawver  from  1856  until 
his  death  in  1893. 


Bethel.  They  went  to  Banner's 
house  at  nine  o'clock  the  night  of 
December  8,  18G4,  with  the  expec- 
tation of  Binding  some  deserters,  as 
it  was  said  that  Banner  harboured 
such  persons.  The  marshal  first  ap- 
proached the  door  and  made  his 
business  known,  and  being  refused 
admittance,  the  Captain  stepped  up, 
and,  taking  hoU  of  the  door  knob, 
said  to  Sanner  that  he  had  better 
not  offer  any  resistance  but  comply 
with  the  law  and  he  would  be  treat- 
ed like  a  man.  Sanner  refused  and 
at  the  same  time  made  some  threat. 
Captain  McAdams  replied  that  he 
was  not  afraid  but  that  he  insisted 
on  what  he  had  a  lawful  right  to 
do.  At  that  Sanner  fire!  a  musket 
through  the  door  shutter,  the  en- 
tire load  taking  effect  in  the  Cap- 
tain's abdomen,  making  eight  holes 
in  his  person,  there  being  one  ball 
and     seven     buck    shot    in    the    gun. 

The  Captain  fell,  but  soon  arose 
and  helped  himself  off  the  porch 
and  then  fell  again. 

Five  or  six  men  were  seen  to  pass 
from  the  ■  house  at  the  time,  two 
more  than  were  with  the  Provost 
Marshal.  Several  shots  were  fired 
by  the  marshal  and  his  men  but  to 
no  effect.  Captain  McAdams  was 
conveyed  to  the  home  of  D.  B.  Har- 
ned,  where  he  lived  nineteen  hours. 
There  was  probably  not  another 
man  so  universally  loved  in  the 
county  as  was  Captain   McAdams. 

Sanner  was  arrested  four  miles 
southeast  of  Salem,  111.,  January  7, 
IS 62.  He  started  to  run  but  was 
wounded  and  halted.  He  was 
brought  to  Greenville  where  he  was 
an  object  of  much  curiosity.  He 
was  later  taken  to  Springfield  and 
his  trial  was  postponed  and  he  was 
finally  acquitted  on  a  technicality. 
In  May  1865   a  stranger  rode  up  to 


Banner's  house  and  aske  i  for  lodg- 
ing and  without  further  conversa- 
tion, drew  a  pistol  and  shot  Sanner 
through  the  head.  Three  other  balls 
were  then  fired  into  his  body  and 
the  stranger  deliberately  rode  away. 
It  was  never  known  who  killed  San- 
ner, although  there  were  various 
rumors  as  to  the  identity  of  the 
party. 

The  bodies  of  Captain  William 
Colby  and  Lieutenant  Ives,  who 
were  killed  in  battle,  arrived  in 
town  June  29,  1863.  There  was  a 
great  sorrow  because  of  the  death 
of  these  two  beloved  men.  The 
funeral  was  held  at  the  court  house, 
addresses  being  made  by  the  Rever- 
end G.  W.  Goodale  and  Prof.  J.  B. 
White.  There  were  thirty-four  pall 
bearers,  and  the  bodies  were  laid 
away   with   military  honors. 

Feeling  was  high  in  war  times 
and  such  feeling  culminated  in  the 
killing  of  Terrell  Reavis  by  Lawyer 
J.  P.  ShieHs  on  August  12,  1861. 
Reavis,  who  was  said  to  be  a  south- 
ern sympathizer  and  Shields,  who  es- 
poused the  cause  of  the  Union, 
met  near  Wm.  S.  Smith's  store, 
and  after  some  harsh  words.  Shields 
drew  a  poinard  from  his  cane  and 
stabbed  Reavis  near  the  heart. 
Reavis  died  in  a  few  hours. 

Turning  now  to  the  industrial 
side  of  this  period  of  the  sixties,  it 
may  be  stated  without  fear  of  suc- 
cessful contradiction  that  from  the 
time  the  first  passenger  train  was 
run  from  Greenville  to  St.  Louis,  on 
the  morning  of  December  S,  1868, 
the  improvement  in  Greenville  was 
more  marked  than  ever  before.  The 
population  nearly  doubled  and  the 
effect  of  the  railroad  was  very  per- 
ceptible, as  these  figures  show.  The 
advent  of  this  road  gave  Greenville 
an   impetus    such     as   it  had     never 


Dr.  D.wiD  WiLKiNS,  Deceased, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1854  and 
practiced  medicine  until  a  few 
vears  priur  to  his  death  July  22, 
1905. 


before  known.  As  soon  as  the 
farmers  found  here  a  market  for 
their  products,  they  came  here  to 
trade,  and  merchants  soon  discover- 
ed that  a  new  order  of  things  had 
been  inaugurated.  Business  increas- 
ed, brick  blocks  replaced  frame 
buildings  in  the  business  center  and 
an  uncertain  and  transient  trade  be- 
came augmented  and  permanent. 

The  railroad  awakened  a  spirit 
of  enterprise  that  hat  been  lying 
dormant  for  want  of  opportuni*y  or 
development.  Old  stage  coach  lines 
offered  no  chance  for  an  expansKa 
of  business  of  any  kind.  But  with 
the  railroad  came  progress  and  ex- 
pansion. 


JSvBURi!.\N  Residence  of  James  F.  Carroll 


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29 


A  resident  since  1835. 
ville  Collesc. 


James  H.  Moss, 

Trustee  and  one  of  tbe  founders  of  Green- 
Owner  of  large  property  interests. 


During  the  year  1869  no  less  than 
75  buildings  were  erected  in  Green- 
ville— more  than  all  the  improve- 
ments of  the  previous  decade. 
Among  the  new  blocks  and  buildings 
were  the  Morse  block,  (destroyel 
by  fire  October  27,  1904)  the  J.  B. 
Reid  block,  A.  Buie's  addition  to 
his  store,  Holies  and  Sons'  brick 
bank  building,  the  brick  with  the 
mansard  roof  by  Wm.  S.  Smith  & 
Co.,  known  later  as  the  National 
Bank  building,  and  many  other  busi- 
ness houses,  besides  residences,  as 
well  as  two  new  flouring  mills,  one 
by  McLain  and  Wafer  and  the  other 
by  C.  P.  Staub,  and  .1.  M.  McDow- 
ell's   elevator. 

In  these  days  of  the  sixties  Green- 
ville boasted  a  county  fair,  which 
thrived  for  several  years  but  finally 
succumbed.  It  was  held  where 
"Buzzard  Roost"  now  stands. 

Among  the  most  important  indus- 
tries in  the  sixties  were  Stahl's 
woolen  mill,  Lansing  and  Ostrom's 
flour  mill,  Elam's  carriage  factory, 
the  sorghum  molasses  mill  of  Sam- 
uel Colcord  on  the  site  of  the  pres- 
ent post  office,  and  a  turning  lathe 
operated  by  a  Mr.  Alexander,  called 
Buffalo,   and   his  boys. 

6rccnx»inc  in  tbc  Seventies. 

THE   spirit   of    public    improvement 
continued  through  the  seventies, 
although    at   the    beginning    of   the 


decade  there  was  at  first  a  lull,  and 
then  a  decline,  in  the  city's  growth 
and  prosperity.  But  Greenville 
weathered  the  panic  of  1873,  and 
though  she  stood  still,  she  did  not 
retrograde.  In  the  fall  of  1873 
there  was  a  pressing  demand  for 
houses  an  1  the  town  began  to  go 
forward   again. 

In    the   year    187  4    there   were   so 


many  burglaries  that  the  business 
men  met  at  the  First  National  Bank 
and  arranged  for  a  night  watchman 
and  Greenville  has  not  been  with- 
out such  an  official  since.  In  1S7G, 
the  centennial  year,  the  Greenville 
Advocate  paid  special  attention  to 
the  early  history  of  the  city  and 
county,  and  through  the  efforts  of 
the  Reverend  Thomas  W.  Hynes, 
George  M.  Tatham,  R.  O.  White  and 
others,  much  of  this  early  history 
was  collated  and  some  of  it  was 
published.  Toward  the  end  of  the 
decade,  in  1877,  to  be  exact,  many 
new  residences  spoke  of  Increased 
population.  Greenville  then  had 
three  banks,  the  First  National, 
Bradford's  and  Holies'. 

Greenville  in  tbe  Gigbtice. 
■^S/  E  are  now  coming  rapilly  to 
'  '  days  well  remembered  by 
many  people  who  now  live  in  Green- 
ville and  as  we  approach  the  pres- 
ent there  is  less  to  be  said,  without 
going  into  an  exhaustive  resume  of 
the  times. 

The  eighties  opened  up  in  Green- 
ville with  a  cyclone,  the  most  se- 
vere winlstorm  in  the  city's  history. 
At  eight  o'clock  Sunday  evening 
April  17,  ISSO,  a  terrific  wind 
storm  broke  over  Greenville  and 
great  was  the  damage  resulting. 
The  steeple  of  the  Methodist  church 
was  blown  off,  as  was  also  the  roof 
of  the  National  Bank  building  and 
many  business  houses  and  resi- 
dences were  damaged:  in  fact  but 
few  escaped.  The  damage  was  esti- 
mated at  $20,000.  The  storm  was 
the  third  tornado  to  visit  the  city 
within  the  year,  the  others  being  of 
lesser  importance.  Fortunately  no 
one  was  severely  injured  in  the 
storm    but    there    was    great    excite- 


ResIDENCE   of   E.    V.   G.^SKINS. 


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rather  its  evolution  from  the  log 
cabin  in  1815  to  the  growing  city 
of  today,  has  been  the  result  of 
carefully  laid  plans  and  persistent 
execution   of   those   plans. 


Dr.  W.  a.  Allen,  Deceased, 
Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1855,  and  formed  a  partnership  with 
Dr.  T.  S.  Brooks.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  March,  1891,  he 
•w&s  Mayor  of  Greenville,  President  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
and  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Congregational 
Church. 


ment  and  services  at  the  church 
were  dismissed,  while  people  rushed 
frantically  about  searching  for  their 
loved  ones,  and  finding  all  safe,  al- 
though some  were  bruised.  Several 
years  later  when  Mt.  Vernon  was 
visited  by  a  cyclone  Greenville  sent 
$257.30  to  the  sufferers  of  that 
city. 

This  was  a  good  year  for  wheat, 
for  the  local  papers  tell  us  that  in 
one  week  the  last  of  July  ISSO,  two 
Greenville  banks  paid  out  $84,245 
for  wheat  and  this  did  not  include 
the  business  of  the  mills  and  small 
buyers. 


Gncnxnllc  in  the  JVtnctica. 

THE  opening  of  this  decade  marks 
a  new  era  in  the  history  of 
Greenville.  It  is  chiefly  the  in- 
dustrial spirit  that  predominates  in 
the  nineties,  and,  in  fact,  up  to  the 
present  time.  It  was  in  the  period 
of  the  nineties  that  nearly  all  of 
Greenville's  present  thriving  indus- 
tries  were   launched. 

As  early  as  March,  1890,  the  busi- 
ness men  organized  and  subscribed 
money  for  the  purpose  of  a'lvertis- 
ing  Greenville  in  the  eastern  papers. 
Up  to  this  time  the  growth  had  been 
slow  but  steady.  After  the  Van- 
dalia  Line  had  been  safely  launch- 
ed,   the   people    sank   back    on    their 


laurels  and  the  usual  course  of 
business  was  allowed  to  run  smooth- 
ly and  without  interruption.  And 
there  was  really  no  especially  mark- 
ed advancement  until  the  industrial 
period  of  a  few  years  ago  swept 
over  the  city  and  the  era  of  factories 
dawned  in  Greenville.  Since  then 
the  advancement  has  been  by  rapid 
strides  and  the  city  is  eagerly  seek- 
ing the  rolling  lands  to  the  north- 
east, east,  southeast,  and  south, 
where  modern  homes  are  almost 
daily   being  built. 

In  1890  the  Postal  Telegraph 
came,  and  the  same  fall,  when  dingy 
street  lamps  cost  the  city  $250  a 
year,  the  agitation  for  electric  lights 
commenced,  nor  did  it  cease  until 
June  1,  1895,  when  the  first  electric 
lights  were  turned  on  in  the  streets 
of    Greenville. 

The  telephone  exchange  came  in 
189  4.  The  factory  of  DeMoulin  and 
Brother  was  established  in  1896 
and  the  Helvetia  Milk  Condensing 
Company  came  in  1898.  The  Green- 
ville Milk  Condensing  Company 
commenced  operations  in  1902,  but 
all  these  have  enlarged  and  are 
still  enlarging  and  their  history  in 
detail  is  given  elsewhere  In  this  vol- 
ume. 

The  growth  of  Greenville  has  not 
been  of  the  mushroom  character,  nor 
has    it    been    by   fits   and    starts   but 


6rccn\nUc  of  "Coday. 

AND  now  we  come  to  the  Green- 
ville of  1905,  with  its  popu- 
lation of  at  least  3,000,  and  with  its 
prosperous  business  houses  and 
hundreds  of  happy  homes.  In  the 
institutions  of  this  city  and  in  the 
many  channels  of  business  are  each 
day  seen  evidences  of  increasing 
opportunities  for  intellectual,  mor- 
al, financial  and  spiritual  gain  and 
growth. 

We  all  know  what  Greenville  of 
the  present  day  is  and  we  will  use 
no  space  in  telling  present  day  his- 
tory, for,  as  has  been  truthfully 
said,  the  history  of  any  community, 
is  the  history  of  its  men  and  women, 
and  in  the  pages  which  follow  there 
is  portrayed  by  pen  and  picture 
what  Greenville  is  today. 


■Cbc  Civic  Ristory  of  6rccnvtUc. 

GREENVILLE  was  one  of  the 
first  towns  in  the  state  to  take 
advantage  of  the  laws  to  incorpor- 
ate under  special  charter.  Just  fifty 
years  ago,  to  be  exact  February  15, 
1855,  Greenville  was  incorporated 
by  special  act  of  the  Illinois  Legis- 
lature. The  special  act  incorporat- 
ing the  village  clearly  indicated 
that  the  town  of  Greenville  was  al- 
ready in  existence,  as  a  municipality, 
incorporated  under  the  general 
laws  in  force  at  that  time.  Section 
2,  of  the  act  of  1855,  provided  that 
"the  boundaries  of  said  incorpora- 
tion   shall     be   those     as   established 


Dr.  T.  S.  Brooks,  Deceased. 
K    Greenville    practitioner     for     40 


years;  a  Yale  graduate. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


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AIks.  Dukcas  Dii.N.w,  Deceased, 
Wife  of  J.  S.  Denny,  Deceased. 

by  the  first  ordinances  passed  by 
the  present  board  of  trustees  of 
said  town,  which  said  ordinances 
are  hereby  legalized  for  that  pur- 
pose." 

Section  5,  of  the  same  act,  provid- 
ed that  "the  corporate  powers  and 
duties  of  said  town  shall  be  vested 
in  five  persons,  who  shall  form  a 
board  for  the  transaction  of  busi- 
ness, and  the  persons  who  may  be 
in  office  as  trustees  of  said  town 
under  the  general  incorporation  act 
of  this  state  shall,  after  the  passage 
of  this  act,  be  deemed  to  hold  their 
offices  by  virtue  of  this  act  until  the 
first  Monday  in  May,  1S55,  and  un- 
til their  successors  In  office  are 
elected  and  qualified,  and  to  dis- 
charge their  duties  in  conformity 
to  this  act." 

There  are  no  records  of  the  doings 
and  acts  of  the  board  prior  to  the 
act  of  1855,  and  the  first  three 
years  records  of  the  new  board, 
from  1855  to  1858  have  been  lost 
and  diligent  research  has  failed  to 
reveal  who  were  the  first  officers 
under  the  special  act  of  1855,  but 
from  old  newspaper  files  the  names 
of  the  officers  from  1856  to  185  8 
have  been  obtained  and  the  city 
records,  complete  from  1858  to  date 
supply  the  necessary  information 
from  that  time  to  date. 

As  early  as  1856,  the  first  year 
of  the  new  village  government,  the 
question  of  license  or  no  license 
was  raised  and  it  has  been  the 
chief  issue  at  all  municipal  elec- 
tions ever  since.  The  first  board  of 
trustees  passed  an  ordinance  de- 
claring "the  sale  of  ardent  spirits 
a  nuisance  when  sold  as  a  bever- 
age." At  the  election  in  1856,  ac- 
cording to  the  American  Courier, 
149    votes    were    cast    and    the   anti- 


license  ticket  had  a  majority  of  37. 
The     following     is     a     complete 
record     of     the     elective     officers   of 
Greenville  from   1856   to  date. 
Boards   of  Trusti-es. 
1856 — J.     Burchsted,     J.    K.    Mc- 
Lean,    M.    P.    Ormsby,     L.    P.    Little- 
lield,  J.  W.  Elliott. 

1857 — President,  Col.  R.  Bentley, 
J.  T.  Barr,  Wm.  S.  Smith,  A.  G. 
Henry,  J.   B.   Reid. 

1858 — President,  Alexander  Buie: 
Clerk,  Joseph  H.  Birge;  Treasurer, 
J.  B.  Reid:  J.  T.  Barr,  A.  G.  Henry. 
Samuel  White. 

1S59 — President,  J.  K.  McLean; 
Clerk,  Joseph  H.  Birge;  Treasurer, 
J.  B.  Reid;  James  Bradford,  W.  S. 
Colcord,   George   Gibson. 

18G0 — President,  J.  K.  McLean; 
Clerk,  James  Bradford;  Treasurer, 
J.  B.  Reid;  W.  S.  Colcord.  Alexan- 
der Buie. 

ISGl — President,  J.  Burchsted; 
Clerk  and  Attorney,  L.  C.  Hawley; 
Treasurer,  J.  S.  Denny;  W.  S.  Col- 
cord, Wm.  M.  Colby,  S.   R.   Perry. 

1862 — President,  Alexander  Buie; 
Clerk,  L.  C.  Hawley  and  M.  V.  Den- 
ny; Treasurer,  J.  B.  Reid:  H.  B. 
Alexander,  Wm.  M.  Colby,  Joel 
Elam,    S.    R.    Perry. 

1863 — President,  J.  S.  Denny; 
Clerk,  M.  V.  Denny;  Treasurer,  Al- 
exander Buie;  H.  B.  Alexander, 
Lemuel  Adams,  D.  H.  Kingsbury, 
W.    H.   Williams. 

1864 — President,  J.  S.  Denny; 
Clerk,  M.  V.  Denny;  Treasurer, 
James  Bradford;  Alexander  Buie, 
M.  Ives,  J.  P.  Shields,  S.  R.  Perry, 
J.   T.    Laws. 

1865 — President,  Seth  Fuller: 
Clerk,  M.  V.  Denny;  Treasurer, 
James  Bradford:  Othnie!  Buchanan, 
M.  B.  Chittenden,  W.  S.  Colcord,  J. 
W.    Elliott. 


J.  S.  Denny,  Deceased, 

N'lllage  President  in  18G3;  Mayor  in 
1873. 


18  66- — President,  O.  Buchanan; 
Clerk,  M.  V.  Denny;  Treasurer, 
James  Bradford;  M.  B.  Chittenden, 
D.  H.  Kingsbury,  J.  W.  Elliott,  E. 
B.   White. 

1867 — President,  Rev.  Thomas 
W.  Hynes:  Clerk,  Edward  Bigelow; 
Treasurer,  J.  B.  Reid;  R.  C.  Spra- 
gue.   E.   B.  White. 

1868 — President,  Wm.  S.  Smith, 
Sr.:  Clerk,  M.  V.  Denny:  Treasurer, 
Lemuel  Adams;  J.  E.  Walls,  John 
Wenting:  Police  Magistrate,  James 
Bradford. 

1SG9 — President,  S.  A.  Phelps: 
Clerk,  M.  V.  Denny  and  R.  K.  Dew- 
ey; Treasurer,  Wm.  S.  Smith  Jr.: 
P.    Boll.    C.    A.   Darlington. 

1870 — President,  R.  C.  Sprague; 
Clerk   and  Attorney,  W.   H.   Dawdy; 


The  old  jail  on  Third  Street,  Ijuill  in  1859,  and  now  used  as  a  tene- 
ment house. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Burning  of  the  court  house  at  Greenville, 
Photograph  loaned  by  J, 

Treasurer,  Samuel  Bradford;  S.  E. 
Black,  J.  N.  Pogue,  Wm.  S.  Smith, 
Jr. 

1S71 — President,  W.  S.  Thomas: 
Clerk  ana  Attorney,  W.  H.  Dawdy; 
Treasurer,  George  M.  Tatham;  J.  C. 
Gericks,  J.  Perryman,  B.  B.  White. 

IS 72 — President,  John  T.  Barr; 
Clerk  and  Attorney,  W.  H.  Dawdy; 
Treasurer,  C.  D.  Hoiles;  A.  G. 
Henry,  J.  B.  Reid,  Stephen  Wait. 

Incorporated   As   a   City. 

At  a  special  election  held  August 
13,  1S72,  Greenville  was  incorpor- 
ated as  a  city  under  the  state  law, 
the  vote  heing  140  for  the  propo- 
sition to  5  against.  The  first  elec- 
tion under  this  law  was  held  Sep- 
tember 17,  1S72.  The  following 
paragraphs  give  the  names  of  all 
elective  officers  at  regular  munici- 
pal elections  from  that  time  to  date. 
In  each  case  the  first  named  alder- 
man represented  the  first  ward;  the 
second  named,  the  second  ward;  and 
the  third  named,  the  third  ward. 


Saturday,  March  24,  1883. 
H.  Hawiey. 


1872 — (Special  Election)  Mayor, 
James  Bradford;  Clerk,  R.  K.  Dew- 
ey; Treasurer,  C.  D.  Hoiles;  Attor- 
ney, W.  H.  Dawdy;  Aldermen,  P.  C. 
Henry  and  P.  C.  Reed,  first  ward; 
Joseph  W.  Dewald  and  C.  D.  Harris, 
second  ward;  W.  A.  Allen  and  G. 
W.  Miller,  third  ward.  License 
119;    Anti-license,    S5. 

1873 — (Regular  Election)  Mayor, 
J.  S.  Denny;  Clerk,  R.  K.  Dewey; 
Treasurer,  M.  V.  Denny;  Atto-ney, 
W.  H.  Dawdy;  Aldermen,  C.  D.  Har- 
ris and  John  T.  Barr,  Sr.;  Wm.  Koch 
and  R.  L.  Mudd;  G.  W.  Miller  and 
P.    C.    Reed. 

187  4 — Clerk,  George  Berry; 
Treasurer,  M.  V.  Denny;  Attorney, 
W.  H.  Dawdy;  Aldermen,  C.  D.  Har- 
ris, J.  T.  Barr,  Jr.,  R.  C.  Sp-ague. 

1875 — Mayor,  James  Bradford; 
Clerk,  D.  B.  Evans;  Treasurer,  M. 
V.  Denny;  Attorney,  J.  H.  Dawdy; 
Aldermen,  Lemuel  Adams,  R.  L. 
Mudd,   Stephen  Wait. 

187G — Attorney,  D.  H.  Kings- 
bury; Police  Magistrate,  M.  B.  Chit- 
tenden; Aldermen,  Ed  Birge,  Wm. 
Koch.   R.   C.   Sprague. 

1877 — Mayor  G.  W.  Miller;  Clerk, 
D.  B.  Evans;  Treasurer,  M.  V.  Den- 
ny: Attorney,  D.  H.  Kingsbury; 
Aldermen,  J.  L.  Wood,  R.  L.  Mudd, 
J.   H.   Davis. 

1878 — Aldermen,  J.  R.  Whitta- 
Uer,  M.  W.  Van  Valkenburg,  R.  C. 
Sprague. 

1879 — Mayor,  C.  D.  Hoiles: 
Clerk.  D.  B.  Evans:  Treasurer,  J. 
H.  Davis;  Attorney,  George  S. 
Phelps:  Aldermen,  W.  H.  Williams, 
J.  G.  Taylor.  W.  F.  Robinson. 

ISSO — Aldermen.  F.  Parent,  M. 
W.  VanValkenburg,  W.  A.  Allen; 
Police  Magistrate,  M.  B.  Chitten- 
den. 

1881 — Mayor,  C.  D.  Hoiles; 
Clerk.  J.  T.  Fouke;  Treasurer,  Jo- 
seph Dewall:  Attorney.  L.  H.  Craig: 


Bond  County  Jail,  built  in  1897. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


33 


E.  B.  Wise,  Deceased, 

A  prominent  merchant  for  many  years.     Former  Al- 
derman and  Member  Board  of  Education. 


Aldermen,  W.  H.  Williams,  John 
Schlup,  G.  W.  Miller.  (Wm.  S. 
Smith  was  elected  to  fill  the  unex- 
pired term  of  G.  W.  Miller,  who 
died.) 

18S2 — Treasurer,  Wm.  Koch,  (to 
fill  vacancy)  Aldermen,  S.  Hutch- 
inson, John  A.  Elam,  W.  A.  Allen. 

1SS3 — Mayor,  C.  D.  Holies; 
Clerk,  Ward  Reid;  Treasurer,  D.  B. 
Evans;  Attorney,  L.  H.  Craig;  Po- 
lice Magistrate,  Henry  Howard; 
Aldermen,  W.  H.  Williams,  M.  W. 
VanValkenburg,   E.    B.    Wise. 

1SS4 — Aldermen,  C.  D.  Harris, 
John   Baumberger  Sr.,   W.   A.   Allen. 

18S5 — Mayor,  C.  D.  Hoiles; 
Clerk,  Ward  Reid;  Treasurer,  F. 
Thraner;  Attorney,  S.  A.  Phelps; 
Aldermen.  W.  H.  Williams,  T.  L. 
Vest,  W.  H.  H.  Beeson. 

ISSG — Aldermen,  J.  Seaman,  E.  U. 
Wallace,  W.  A.  Allen.  For  Saloon 
license,  137;   against,  38. 

1887 — Mayor,  U.  B.  Harris; 
Clerk.  Ward  Reid;  Treasurer,  W.  O. 
Holdzkom;  Attorney,  S.  A.  Phelps; 
Aldermen,  F.  P.  Joy,  James  Vollen- 
tlne,  E.  P.  Justice.  Majoritj'  for 
anti-license  S3. 

ISSS — Aldermen,  J.  Seaman, 
Clayton  Travis,  A.  Maynard;  Police 
Magistrate,    Henry   Howard. 

1889 — Mayor,  Dr.  W.  A.  Allen; 
Clerk,  Ward  Reid;  Treasurer,  J. 
Seaman;  Attorney,  Solon  A.  Enloe; 
Aldermen,  J.  C.  Sanderson,  J.  P. 
Thompson.  M.  S.  Oudyn. 


1890 — Aldermen,  J.  A.  Harris, 
Ed  Baumberger,  J.  F.  Watts.  In 
18  90  Mayor  Allen  died  in  office  and 
M.  S.  Oudyn  was  Mayor  pro  tem 
for  one  month. 

1891 — Mayor,  J.  M.  Miller; 
Clerk,  Ward  Reid;  Treasurer,  W.  A. 
McLain;  Attorney,  C.  E.  Cook;  Ald- 
ermen, Emil  Broeker,  Clayton  Trav- 
is,  A.   W.   Mahle. 

1892 — Police  Magistrate,  J.  J. 
Sutton;  Superintendent  of  Streets, 
S.  W.  Robinson;  City  Marshal,  Fay 
Z.  Dibble;  Aldermen,  John  L. 
Rogier,  L.  L.  Tice,  (to  fill  vacancy) 
George  W.  Hickman,  Ed  DeMoulin. 
For  electric  lights,  16G;  against, 
137.  On  July  6,  1892,  at  a  special 
election  W.  V.  Weise  and  J.  A.  Har- 
ris were  elected  aldermen  to  fill 
vacancies. 

1893 — Mayor,  J.  Seaman;  Clerk, 
Frank  T.  Reid;  Treasurer,  W.  E. 
Robinson;  Attorney,  C.  E.  Cook; 
Aldermen,  L.  L.  Tice,  W.  O.  Holdz- 
kom, H.  A.  Hubbard. 

189  4 — City  Mar.shal,  W.  E.  Davis, 
Superintendent  of  Streets,  Cleve 
McVey;  Aldermen,  H.  C.  Birge, 
John  Dagen,  E.  B.  Wise. 

1895 — Mayor,  J.  Seaman;  Clerk, 
John  L.  Bunch;  Treasurer,  H.  W. 
Park;  Attorney,  C.  E.  Cook;  Alder- 
men, L.  L.  Tice,  N.  H.  Jackson,  H. 
A.   Hubbard. 

1896 — Aldermen,  Horace  McNeill, 
E.  M.  Gullick,  Alfred  Blizzard;  Po- 
lice Magistrate,  J.  J.  Sutton. 


18  97 — Mayor,  Ed  DeMoulin; 
Clerk,  John  L.  Bunch;  Treasurer, 
S.  D.  Hoiles;  Attorney,  C.  E.  Cook; 
Aldermen,  W.  H.  Williams,  P.  Boll, 
Charles  Ingles. 

1S9S — Aldermen,  F.  P.  Joy,  S. 
VanDeusen,  E.  B.  Wise;  Treasurer, 
C.  D.  Hoiles,   (to  fill  vacancy.) 

1S99 — Mayor,  Ed  DeMoulin; 
Clerk,  L.  A.  Holdener;  Attorney, 
C.  E.  Cook;  Treasurer,  Guy  B. 
Hoiles;  Aldermen,  W.  H.  Williams, 
James  T.  Kirkham,  H.  W.  Blizzard, 
A.  C.  Gulp,   (to  fill  vacancy). 

1900 — Aldermen,  Frank  N.  Blan- 
chard,  Daniel  Lulz,  E.  E.  Wise; 
Superintendent  of  Streets,  Ben 
Hull;  City  Marshal,  E.  D.  Wallace; 
Police  Magistrate,  J.  J.  Sutton.  The 
seat  of  F.  N.  Blanchard,  alderman 
of  the  first  ward  was  contested  by 
N.  B.  Jernigan,  who  was  finally 
seated. 

1901 — Mayor,  F.  P.  Joy;  Clerk, 
S.  M.  Harnetiaux;  Attorney,  W.  A. 
Orr;  Treasurer,  Abe  McNeill,  Jr.; 
Aldermen,  W.  H.  Williams,  Sam 
JIueller,   Ell   Armstrong. 

1902 — Aldermen,  J.  A.  Warren, 
Daniel  Lutz,  Fred  Durr;  City  Mar- 
shal,  C.   C.  Smith. 

1903 — Mayor,  Ed  DeMoulin; 
Clerk,  Frank  N.  Blanchard;  Treas- 
urer, R.  W.  Wilson;  Attorney,  C.  E. 
Cook;  Aldermen,  G.  W.  Bass;  S. 
Van  Deusen,  J.  E.  Wafer.  For 
Mayor  Ed  DeMoulin  and  J.  H.  Liv- 
ingston each  received  316  votes. 
The  two  men  cast  lots,  DeMoulin 
winning. 

1901 — Aldermen,  W.  D.  Donnell, 
F.  O.  Leidel,  John  S.  Bradford:  City 
Attorney,  J.  H.  Allio;  Police  Magis- 
trate, W.  H.  Taylor. 

19  05 — Mayor,  W.  A.  Orr;  Clerk, 
J.  Finis  Johnston;  Treasurer,  Abe 
McNeill  Jr.;  Attorney,  J.  H.  Allio; 
Aldermen,  G.  W.  Bass,  Horace  Mc- 
Neill, (to  fill  vacancy)  Charles 
White,   James  E.   Wafer. 

1905 — Special  Election  to  fill  va- 
cancy, caused  by  the  resignation  ot 
Mayor  Orr  and  his  removal  to 
Springfield,  held  September  12, 
1905,  resulted  in  the  election  of 
Edmond  DeMoulin  as  Mayor  to  fill 
the  unexpired  term. 

Greenville's     Geograpliical    Growth. 

The  original  plat  of  Greenville 
was  made  by  John  Russell,  in  June, 
1S21.  The  exact  date  is  not  known, 
but  it  must  have  been  before  June 
6th.  of  that  year,  for  on  that  day  a 
sale  of  thirty  of  the  lots  was  order- 
ed, "for  the  benefit  of  the  county." 
The  land  platted  by  John  Russell 
belonged  to  George  Davidson,  the 
founder  of  Greenville.  In  this  plat 
was  embraced  what  is  now  David- 
son's Addition,  and  was  bounded  on 
the  north  by  College  Avenue,  on  the 
east  by  Fourth  Street,  on  the  south 
by  Summer  Street  and  on  the  west 
by  the  west  city  limits.  It  is  related 
that    Davidson     became     dissatisfied 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


with   this   plat   and   thrust    it    in   the 
fireplace. 

Then  the  original  town  of  71  lots 
was  laid  out  and  stands  today 
bounded  on  the  north  by  Oak 
Street,  on  the  east  by  Mulberry 
Alley,  on  the  south  by  the  first  tier 
of  lots  south  of  South  Street  an  1 
on  the  west  by  Fourth  Street. 

The  area  of  Greenville  is  a  mile 
square,  640  acres,  and  includes  the 
south  half  of  the  northeast  quarter 
of  Section  10,  the  south  half  of  the 
northwest  quarter  of  Section  11. 
the  southeast  quarter  of  section  10. 
the  southwest  quarter  of  section  11. 
north  half  of  the  northwest  quar- 
ter of  section  14  and  the  north  half 
of  the  northeast  quarter  of  section 
15.  The  additions  to  the  city,  or 
original  town  have  been  as  follows: 

Davidson's  Addition  of  Gl  lots 
was  made  October  7,  1831,  by  Vance 
L.  Davidson  agent  for  George  Dav- 
idson, who  had  moved  to  JoDaviess 
county.  This  was  the  first  addition 
made  to  the  original  town,  now  city 
of  Greenville. 

On  May  29,  1839,  "a  plat  of  the 
town  of  Greenville,  laid  out  in  a 
re-survey  by  Asahel  Enloe.  county 
surveyor,"  was  recorded.  Then 
came  the  additions  in  order  as  fol- 
lows: 

East  Addition  by  Timothy  P.  Eld- 
rege,  Ariel  Eldrege  and  Edward 
Cotton,  April  25,  1839;  Asahel  En- 
loe,  surveyor;    2  8   lots. 

Greenwood's  Addition  by  John 
Greenwood,  proprietor,  September 
28,  1S41,  Seth  Fuller,  surveyor: 
40   lots. 

Dallam's  Addition,  by  Aquilla  P. 
Dallam,  by  Richard  B.  Dallam,  his 
attorney,  September  11.  1848;  Seth 
Fuller,  surveyor:    29   lots. 

South  Addition  by  William  a. 
Wait,  April  29,  1854;  John  Hughs, 
surveyor:    121   lots. 

White's  First  Addition,  by  Samuel 
White,  February  14,  1855:  Seth 
Fuller,  deputy  surveyor;    6  8  lots. 

College  Addition  by  John  B. 
White,  Stephen  Morse,  Seth  Fuller, 
W.  D.  H.  Johnson  and  William  T. 
Hull,  trustees  of  Almira  College, 
July  29,  1857:  Seth  Fuller,  survey- 
or. An  addition  of  the  lots  across 
the  street  south  of  the  college  was 
made  in  a  subsequent  survey  by  A. 
Buie,  president  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees;    72   lots. 

Smith's  Central  Addition  by  Wil- 
liam S.  Smith  and  Willam  S.  Smith 
Jr.,  March  12.  18  66:  R.  K.  Dewey, 
surveyor:    18   lots. 

Stewart's  .\ddition  by  Robert 
Stewart,  J.  F.  Alexander  and  Ed- 
ward Bigelow  April  6,  1869;  Ira 
Kingsbury,  surveyor;    14  lots. 

White's  Second  Addition  by  Sam- 
uel White  July  21,  1869;  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor;    32  lots. 

Railroad  Addition  by  William  A. 
Allen,   and   Belle   E.    Holcomb,   Aug- 


ust  7,    1S69:    R.    K.    Dewey,   survey- 
or;  65  lots. 

Hutchinson's  Addition,  by  Sylva- 
nus  Hutchinson,  September  18, 
1869,  R.  K.  Dewey,  surveyor;  32 
lots. 

Montrose  Cemetery  was  surveyed 
by  R.  K.  Dewey  April  29,  1877  and 
was  given  to  the  city  by  the  Mont- 
rose Cemetery  Association. 

Evans  Addition  by  Mary  A.  Ev- 
ans and  Margaret  J.  Hubbard  Oc- 
tober 4,  ISSl;  R.  K.  Dewey,  survey- 
or. Evans  addition  was  vacated 
January  9,  1886,  and  is  now  Mc- 
Lain's   Addition. 

Justice's  Addition  by  E.  P.  Jus- 
tice, W.  S.  Robinson,  G.  S.  Haven, 
J.  F.  Dann,  W.  H.  Dawdy  and  Caro- 
line Childers,  October  4,  1881;  John 
Kingsbury,  surveyor;    16  lots. 

Koch's  Addition  by  William  Koch, 
April  19,  1883:  John  Kingsbury, 
surveyor:    12   lots. 

Vest's  Addition  by  T.  L.  Vest. 
March  29,  1884;  John  Kingsbury, 
surveyor;    40  lots. 

McCasland's  Addition  by  John 
McCasland  October  3,  1884;  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor;    17   lots. 

Douglas  Place  by  C.  D.  Holies  and 
Ward  Reid,  April  15,  1887;  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor;    7  5   lots. 

Moss's  First  Addition  by  James 
H.  Moss.  October  13,  1892;  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor:   35  lots. 

Moss's  Second  Addition  by  James 
H.  Moss.  April  21,  1894:  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor;    58  lots. 

Moss's  Third  Addition  by  James 
H.  Moss.  June  2,  1S9S:  R.  K.  Dew- 
ey, surveyor;   2  0  lots. 

Colcord's  Addition  by  Hattie  J. 
Colcord  and  Otis  T.  Colcord,  Sep- 
tember 5,  1S9S;  R.  K.  Dewey,  sur- 
veyor:   2  9    lots. 

"Baumberger's  Out  Lots,"  by 
John  Baumberger  Sr.,  August  31, 
1899:   R.  K.  Dewey,  surv.;    16  lots. 

Rutschmann's  Addition  by  Chas. 
Rutschmann  October  8,  1900;  R. 
K.  Dewey,  surveyor;    11   lots. 

McLain's  Addition  by  Thomas  R. 
McLain  by  N.  W.  McLain,  agent. 
May  2,  1902;  John  Kingsbury,  sur- 
veyor;   32   lots. 

Sherman's  Addition  by  Washing- 
ton Sherman,  June  G,  1902:  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor:    40   lots. 

Hockett's  Addition  by  Oliver 
Hockett  December  8,  1902;  R.  K. 
Dewey,   surveyor;    20  lots. 

College  Second  Addition  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  Greenville  Col- 
lege June  8,  1903;  R.  K.  Dewey, 
surveyor;    12   lots. 

Moss's  Fourth  Addition  by  James 
H.  Moss  August  18,  1903:  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor;    38   lots. 

Ashcraft's  Addition  by  Franklin 
H.  Ashcraft,  March  17.  1905;  R.  K. 
Dewey,  surveyor;    92   lots. 

DeMoulin's  Addition  by  Ed  De- 
Moulin,  March  22.  1905;  R.  K.  Dew- 
ey, survevor;    3  4  lots. 


Dixon's  Addition,  by  Cyrus  C. 
Dixon  and  H.  Harrison  Dixon,  April 
3,  1905;  R.  K.  Dewey,  surv.;  41  lots. 

Woodlawn  Addition  by  Dr.  B.  F. 
Coop,  George  V.  Weise,  Ernest  E. 
Wise,  E.  W.  Miller  and  Cicero  J. 
Lindly,  April  6,  1905,  John  Kings- 
bury, surveyor;    123  lots. 

Armstrong's  Addition  by  Joseph 
H.  Armstrong,  Elizabeth  J.  Arm- 
strong and  Ward  Reid,  April  2  0, 
1905;  Jno.  Kingsbury,    surv. ; 20  lots. 

Bradford's  Addition  by  Franklin 
H.  Ashcraft,  Rose  B.  Dixon,  Cyrus 
C.  Dixon  and  Otto  Schafer,  May  4, 
190  5;    R.   K.   Dewey,   surv.;    GS    lots. 

Kimbro's  Addition  by  Daniel 
Kimbro,  May  16,  1905;  R.  K.  Dew- 
ey, surveyor;    10  lots. 

College  Avenue  Addition  by  F.  H. 
Ashcraft,  June  24,  1905;  R.  K. 
Dewey,   surveyor;    254   lots. 

The  city  of  Greenville  is  com- 
posed of  three  wards,  the  boundary 
lines  of  which  have  been  changed 
several  times.  The  present  first 
ward  is  all  that  part  of  Greenville 
east  of  First  Street,  the  line  turning 
east  from  First  Street  down  the  cen- 
ter of  College  Avenue,  thence  east 
on  College  to  Spruce,  thence  north 
on  Spruce  one  block,  thence  east 
on  Oak  to  the  city  limits.  The  sec- 
ond ward  is  all  south  of  Main  Ave- 
nue and  west  of  First  Street.  The 
third  ward  from  the  west  city  lim- 
its is  all  north  of  Main  until  the 
intersection  of  Main  and  First  is 
reached  from  which  point  the  line 
runs  north  on  First  to  College  Ave- 
nue and  so  on  through  as  detailed 
in  the  first   ward  boundaries. 

Greenville  Census  Report. 

United  States  government  census 
reports  show  that  the  first  census 
taken  in  Bond  county  was  in  18  20, 
when  the  county  had  a  population 
of  2931,  but  no  government  census 
of  Greenville  village  was  taken  un- 
til 1850.  The  government  census 
reports  here  given  bear  out  the 
statement  made  in  the  history  of 
the  Vandalia  Railroad,  that  the 
greatest  increase  in  population  was 
during  the  building  of  the  road. 

ISHO 

isiis 

2504 

Since  the  federal  census  of  19  00. 
there  has  been  material  increase  in 
the  population  of  Greenville  and  to- 
day the  city  shelters,  at  a  conser- 
vative estimate,  at  least  3,000  souls, 
although  the  figure  is  placed  much 
higher  by  many.  The  rapid  in- 
crease in  population  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  many  families  are  moving 
here  to  take  advantage  of  the  city's 
superior  educational  advantages, 
while,  at  the  same  time  the  city 
supplies  employment  to  many, 
through  its  flourishing  and  ever  en- 
larging industries. 


i'50 :i7S    iSRn  . 

I860 1000  1X90 

1870 19S9  1900. 


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Greenville's  Military  History 

By  Col.   J.    B.   Reid. 


CAPTAIN  PAUL  BECK,  Green- 
ville's first  miller  was  also 
Greenville's  first  military  captain. 
He  was  commissioned  captain  May 
12,  1817,  and  mustered  a  company 
in  the  prairie  near  Greenville. 

Samuel  Davidson,  a  son  of  the 
founder  of  Greenville,  was  made  an 
ensign  at  the  same  time.  On  June 
14,  1817,  John  Laughlin  was  elect- 
ed captain,  John  Hopton,  lieutenant, 
and  John  Whitley,  Jr.,  ensign. 

These  military  companies  were 
organized  for  the  purpose  of  keep- 
ing alive  the  spirit  of  patriotism, 
engendered  by  the  Revolutionary 
War  and  the  War  of  1812,  both  of 
which  were  only  a  few  years  in  the 
past,  at  this  time  and  also  for  the 
purpose  of  combating  the  Indians, 
if  necessary.  In  this  way  the  mili- 
tary spirit  was  cultivated  until  the 
Black  Hawk  war  of  1831-2,  when 
Greenville  sent  some  of  her  sons  to 
the  front,  among  whom  were  James 
Bradford,  Wiliam  Black,  J.  Perry- 
man,  Thomas  Stout  and  others. 
MEXICAN   WAR. 

When  the  United  States  engaged 
in  war  with  Mexico,  Greenville  was 
again  in  the  front.  The  Protestant 
Monitor  states  that  on  June  4,184t;. 
citizens  of  the  county  assembled  in 
Greenville  to  respond  to  a  call  from 
the  Governor  for  three  regiments  of 
volunteers  to  go  to  the  front.  Al- 
though the  day  was  unfavorable  the 
meeting  was  large  and  eighty-five 
citizens,  chiefly  young  men,  enrolled 
and  elected  'Wilson  W.  Willey  cap- 
tain; James  M.  Hubbard,  first  lieu- 
tenant; Benjamin  E.  Sellers,  second 
lieutenant;  Matthew  Harvey,  John 
A.  Washburn,  James  I.  Adams  and 
Josiah  F.  Sugg,  sergeants;  Richard 
Roberts,  Lemuel  Washburn,  Larkin 
Jackson  and  Allen  Harris,  corporals. 
The  privates  who  volunteered  were: 

Samuel  G.  McAdams,  John  M. 
Smith,  R.  B.  Alexander,  John  C. 
Mackey,  R.  O.  White,  Samuel  J.  Sw- 
ing, Stephen  White,  Thomas  A.  Ew- 
ing,  N.  D.  Higinbotham,  Robert 
Patterson,  George  P.  Etzler,  John 
Patterson,  W'illiam  Alderman,  Henry 
D.  Rhea,  William  Wood.  Nelson  H. 
Elam,  Joseph  A.  Jay,  Sowel  Smith. 
Joel  H.  Sherrob,  Robert  Booth, 
Henry  C.  Thacker,  James  Blanken- 
ship.  Thomas  L.  Smith,  Henry  H. 
Hill,  George  A.  Reed,  John  C.  Gas- 
ton, Nathan  McCracken,  Daniel  Roy- 
er,  John  P.  McCracken,  Elias  Cole- 
man, Samuel  Roberts,  Thomas  Wel- 
don,  James  Hignight,  Peter  S.  Lyt- 
taker,  James  Kuykendall,  Theophi- 
lus  Short,  James  W.  Alderman, 
Charles  Hilllard,  David  Phipps,  John 
Alexander,      John      Little,      William 


Ray,  Isaac  Redfearn,  Nathan  B. 
Willis,  Alexander  McCollum,  Isaac 
N.  Reed,  William  Madray,  John 
Holland,  John  A.  Laws,  Thomas  J. 
Jett,  Felix  Gower,  William  M.  Hun- 
ter, Robert  Arnold,  Andrew  Gilbert, 
Henry  B.  Alexander,  Hardin  Elmore, 
Henry  Cruthis,  William  Lucas,  Sam- 
uel Gray,  Robert  Willeford,  Milton 
F.  Neatherly,  Francis  Webster,  Wil- 
liam Allen,  Calvin  Brown,  John  H. 
Gilmore,  Andrew  J.  Steel,  Calvin 
Denson,  James  C.  Cruthis,  Hampton 
Cruthis,  Enoch  M.  Noland,  H.  W. 
Jarvis,  George  Allen,  Michael  Tuck- 
er, John  Spratt,  and  Joseph  W. 
Grigg. 

The  above  list  is  taken  from  the 
Protestant  Monitor  of  June  19, 
1846. 


These  volunteers  departed  from 
Greenville  June  19,  1846  for  Alton. 
Before  departing  they  were  adressed 
in  the  court  house  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Stafford.  The  company  was  given  a 
dinner  at  the  home  of  John  West, 
four  miles  west  of  Greenville  and 
after  the  meal  speeches  were  made 
by  Mr.  West,  J.  M.  Davis  and  Judge 
M.  G.  Dale.  The  Protestant  Moni- 
tor says:  "The  amateur  musicians, 
Messrs  Garland,  Lane,  and  Humes, 
with  martial  music,  and  the  Green- 
ville band,  in  their  spacious  band 
carriage,  drawn  by  four  bays,  kindly 
furnished  by  our  enterprising  citi- 
zen Mr.  F.  Berry,  accompanied  the 
volunteers  to  Alton." 

The  ladies  of  Greenville  aided  in 
equipping  this  company  and  the 
volunteers  passed  resolutions  thank- 
ing the  ladies  for  their  generous  as- 
sistance and  kindly  feeling.  The 
company  left  Alton  July  2  2  for  New 
Orleans. 

When  the  war  was  over  and  the 
veterans  returnel  in  1848  from  con- 


CuL.  JuH 
Who  has  had  a  prominent  part  in 


.N   B.  Keu), 

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Group  of  old  veterans  taken  on  the  occasion  of  the  15th  annual  reunion  of  the  Bond  County  Soldiers'  and   Sailors' 
Association  held  at  Greenville  October  19  and  20,  1904.     Photo  by  McLeod. 


quering  the  Montezumas  on  the 
plains  of  Mexico,  they  were  given  an 
ovation  in  a  grove  about  a  mile  and 
a   half  southwest   of  Greenville. 

William  M.  Hunter,  who  lives  on 
his  farm  about  four  miles  west  of 
Greenville,  was  one  of  the  veterans 
of  the  Mexican  war.  The  others  of 
the  company  named  above  have  all 
passed  away. 


Greenville's  Civil  Cdar  Ristory 

In  the  history  of  Greenville,  there 
should  be  no  chapter  of  more  gen- 
eral interest  than  that  which  tells 
of  the  "brave  boys  in  blue"  who 
went  out  in  Gl  to  'Go  to  fight  for 
the  perpetuity  of  the  American  Re- 
public. 

This  history  is  familiar  to  the 
most  of  us.  and  that  very  fact 
proves  its  value.  It  is  presumable 
that  no  enlightened  parent,  no  true 
liearted  American  citizen  will  wish 
to  have  his  sons  and  daughters 
grow  up  without  becoming  more  or 
less  familiar  with  the  heroism  of 
these  gallant  men. 

It  is  impossible  to  enter  into  de- 
tail  and   give  a   complete  history  of 


each  soldier  who  enlisted  from 
"Little  Bond,"  but  the  writer  has 
endeavored  to  give  a  brief  sketch 
of  each  company  and  the  officers  of 
each. 

This  civil  war  in  a  land  so 
peculiarly  blessed,  between  a  people 
so  enlightened  and  refined,  this 
fratricidal  war,  as  we  now  review  it, 
having  seen  its  commencement,  its 
continuance  and  its  close,  seems 
only  a  dream  of  the  past :  yet  it  was 
to  many  hundreds  of  thousands  a 
fatal    dream. 

Bond  county  was  in  the  front  in 
furnishing  her  full  quota  of  brave 
and  patriotic  soldiers  to  defend  and 
uphold  the  flag  and  honor  of  our 
whole  country.  They  went  promptly 
at  every  call  for  volunteers,  carry- 
ing with  them  the  prayers  of  sympa- 
thizing friends  and  relatives,  many 
of  whom  never  returned,  some  re- 
turning with  lost  or  shattered  limbs 
or  a  diseased  body  as  can  be  attest- 
ed by  a  large  pension  roll  in  our 
count}'. 

There  is  no  official  history  of  the 
men  who  went  from  Bond  county 
except  that  furnished  by  the  state, 
through  the  Adjutant  General's  of- 
fice.     The   history   of   the    civil   war 


soldiers  who  went  from  Greenville 
cannot  be  separated  from  those  who 
went  from  the  county  and  though 
this  history  in  general  is  confined 
principally  to  Greenville,  it  will  be 
impossible  for  me  to  make  the  dis- 
tinction in  this  article  as  Greenville 
was  the  central  point  in  the  county, 
where  soldiers  from  various  parts 
of  its  confines  came  to  enlist. 

Companies  D  and  E  serve  1  in  the 
2  2nd.  infantry.  Company  D  was 
mustered  in  May  11,  ISGl  and  the 
following  served  as  officers:  Cap- 
tains, J.  A.  Hubbard,  John  H.  Phil- 
lips: First  Lieutenants,  E.  J.  C. 
Alexander,  Lemuel  Adams,  John  H, 
Phillips,  and  E.  J.  File:  Second 
Lieutenants,  Lemuel  Adams,  Ed- 
ward Stearns,  J.  H.  Phillips,  C.  M. 
Galloway.  E.  F.  File  and  Joel  B. 
Paisley.  Company  E  was  organized 
June  17,  ISGl  and  the  following 
served  as  officers:  Captains,  Samuel 
G.  McAdams,  George  Gibson:  First 
Lieutenants,  James  M.  Hamilton. 
George  Gibson  and  J.  M.  McAdams: 
Second  Lieutenants,  George  Gibson 
and  J.  M.  McAdams.  Capt.  P.  E. 
Holcomb  was  elected  captain  of  Co. 
E  in  Greenville  by  the  company  but 
failed  to  qualify  as  a  member  of  the 


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OI-riCEKS  AND   MEMBERS  OF  COLBY   POST   NO.   Mill,   i,     \     I 

First  Row:— (Reading  from  left  to  right),  John  H  Hawley,  R.  K.  Dewey,  J.  T.  Buchanan,  Officer  of  the  Day; 
Ransom  Pope  Junior  Vice  Commander;  Miss  Helen  Reid,  Daughter  of  the  Post;  J.  H.  Ladrl.  Commander;  W.  W. 
Lowis.  Adjutant;  H    H    Staub;  Oliver  Hockett,  Chaplain. 

Second  Ro^v:— W.  A.  McLain,  George  F.  Harlan.  J.  L.  Koonce,  A.  C.  Jett,  S.  G.  Enloe,  Colonel  J.  B.  Reid, 
Thomas  J.  Long,  J.  C   Sanderson,  \Vm.  D.  Matney. 

Third  Row:— Samuel  Spratt,  Frank  Parent,  G.  B.  Keesecker,  Jacob  Dowell,  O.T.Lee,  M.F.  Hook,  C.  I.  Young, 
J.  W.  Anthony,  Joseph  L.  Turner.  George  Sherer,  P.  B.  Sells. 

Fourth  Row:— Joseph  Armstrong,  Joseph  F.  Watts,  A.  A.  Thompson,  Xoah  Vaughn,  John  W.  Miles,  H.  C. 
Burton,  Dr.  David  Wilkins,  Surgeon;   Philip  Leidner,  Archie  Swing. 

Fifth  Row:— I.  M.  Alexander,  George  \V.  Grigg,  H.  W.  Wait,  Nelson  .Adams,  E.S.Valentine,  T.  R.  Logging, 
James  Ewing.  William  Ingles,  H.  E.  Sapp. 

Si.xth  Row:— Wm.  Green,  Francis  Kinney,  \Vm.  M.  Goad,  Fred  Dommert,  L.  T.  Ellingsworth.  H  F.  Schweitzer, 
Rufus  Cox,  George  Johnson,  John  A.  Finney. 


regiment  at  the  muster  in,  having 
received  an  appointment  in  the  reg- 
ular army. 

The  22nd.  regiment  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  for 
three  years  June  25,  1S61  and  was 
mustered  out  July  7,  1864.  The 
veterans  were  transferred  to  the 
42d  111.  and  were  mustered  out  and 
discharged  Jan.  12,  1S66.  The  22d. 
and  42nd.  served  their  country  well 
at  Belmont,  Charleston,  New  Ma- 
drid, Island  No.  in.  Farmington, 
siege  of  Corinth  and  Stone  River. 
December  31,  1862  and  January 
1-2,  1863,  the  regiment  was  in  the 
battle  of  Chickamaugua.     Here  they 


lost  l;^5  officers  and  men  out  of  300 
engaged.  In  storming  the  heights 
of  Mission  Ridge,  they  lost  40  men 
out  of  their  reduced  ranks;  were 
engaged  at  Resacca  and  lost  20 
men  killed  and  wounded.  On  June 
10,  they  were  ordered  to  Springfield. 
111.,  and  were  mustered  out.  The 
county  may  be  proud  of  the  record 
made  by  this  grand  regiment.  The 
22nd.  111.,  was  one  of  the  regiments 
mentioned  in  "Fox's  History  of  the 
Rebellion,"  that  lost  the  greatest 
number  of  men  during  the  three 
years  of  service. 

July   7,   1861   a  squad  of   18   men 
of  Co.  E  of  the  1st.  111.  Cavalry  were 


from  Bond  county.  They  were  cap- 
tured at  Lexington,  Mo.,  which  was 
the  principal  engagement  of  the  1st 
Cavalry,  after  a  siege  of  52  hours 
of  hard  fighting;  2500  Union  men 
under  General  Mulligan  to  10,000 
of  the  enemy.  They  were  mustered 
out  of  the  service  July  '62  and  join- 
ed other  commands.  Among  the 
contingent  from  Bond  county  were 
the  Dennys.  Gordons,  Potters.  Ran- 
kins,  and  Knights  and  others  just 
as  worthy  and  brave,  who  did  their 
whole  duty  at  Lexington,  Mo. 

August  20,  1861,  Co.  D.,  3rd.  111. 
Cavalry  was  organized  in  Greenville 
under    command    of    Capt.    Thomas 


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Charles  W.   Watson, 

A  leading  druggist  from  1881  to 
1902,  member  of  Colby  Post,  and 
connected  with  many  lodges  and 
organizations  in  Greenville. 


M.  Davis  and  was  assigned  to  the 
3rd.  111.  Cavalry  imder  Col.  Eugene 
Carr  of  the  regular  army.  All  those 
•who  at  different  times  served  as 
officers  of  Co.  D.  were:  Captains, 
Thomas  M.  Davis,  and  James  K. 
McLain;  First  Lieutenants,  J.  K. 
McLain  and  Jonathan  Keshner; 
Second  Lieutenants,  Moses  Lytaker, 
Jonathan  Keshner  and  Solomon  M. 
Tahor.  The  regimental  organiza- 
tion took  place  at  Camp  Butler  in 
August,  1S61  and  after  an  eventful 
career  of  fighting,  raiding  and  scout- 
ing, were  mustered  out  of  service 
October  18,  1865,  having  borne  an 
honorable  part  in  the  battles  of  Pea 
Ridge  to  Vicksburg  and  from  Vicks- 
burg  to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  they 
took  part  in  driving  Forrest  from 
that  city  the  night  of  August  21. 
and  did  many  other  good  things  not 
to  be  mentioned  in  history;  but 
with  all  that  was  accomplished  by 
this  grand  organization,  by  both  of- 
ficers and  men,  it  may  be  said  in 
all  candor  that  as  a  patriotic  body 
of  men,  soldiers  and  citizens,  they 
deserve  well  of  the  state  and  na- 
tion. We  met  them  at  Port  Gibson, 
Champion  Hills,  Black  River  Bridge 
and  Jackson,  Miss.  Co.  D  was  al- 
ways ready  when  the  bugle  sounded 
"Boots   and   Saddles." 

Company  C  was  mustered  in  Aug- 
ust 31,  ISGl  and  assigned  to  the 
26th.  111.  Infantry  at  Camp  Butler, 
111.  The  various  officers  of  the  com- 
pany were  Captains.  G.  M.  Keener. 
James  A.  Dugger,  Owen  W.  Walls, 
and  Isaac  N.  Enloe;  First  Lieuten- 
ants, T.  L.  Vest,  J.  A.  Dugger,  O.  W. 
Walls,  James  Means,  and  John  Mc- 
Alister;    Second    Lieutenants,    J.    A. 


Dr.  J.  B.  Cary, 

Born  and  raised  in  Bond  County. 
Member  of  Colby  Post.  For  many 
years  a  practicing  physician  in 
Bond  County. 

Dugger  and  E.  B.  Wise.  The  2  6th. 
regiment,  of  which  Company  C  was 
a  part,  went  from  Hannibal,  Mo.,  to 
New  Madrid,  Mo.,  March  3,  and 
were  engaged  at  Farmington,  where 
they  lost  5  killed,  30  wounded. 
From  Missouri  to  Tennessee  and 
Mississippi  they  went  and  were  in 
the  siege  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  which 
was  disastrous  to  Co.  C.  They  lost 
Capt.  Dugger,  killed,  and  also  a 
number  of  men  were  killed  and 
wounded  at  the  same  time.  The 
regiment  of  which  Co.  C  was  a  part 
marched  6,931  miles,  fought  28 
battles,  among  them  New  Madrid, 
Farmington,  Island  No.  10,  Corinth, 
Holly  Springs,  luka,  Jackson,  Miss., 
Vicksburg,  Mission  Ridge,  Resacca, 
Kenesaw  and  many  others.  Their 
service  was  hard  and  honorable. 

On  August  28,  1861,  part  of  Co. 
I,  45  men,  were  recruited  in  Bond 
county  and  were  mustered  into  the 
30th.  111.  Volunteers,  by  Col.  Phil- 
lip B.  Fouke.  Wni.  C.  Kershner,  of 
Bond  county  was  commissioned  Cap- 
tain, November  29,  1861.  They 
were  in  the  battle  of  Belmont,  Mo., 
at  the  taking  of  Fort  Henry  and  at 
the  siege  of  Fort  Donnellson,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  14,  15,  1862;  were  with 
Grant  on  the  Vicksburg  campaign, 
were  engaged  at  Raymond,  Jackson. 
Champion  Hills  and  Black  River 
Bridge,  arriving  at  Vicksburg,  May 
19,  1863:  moved  to  Jackson,  July 
2  5,  marched  with  Sherman  through 
the  Carolinas  to  Richmond,  Va.,  and 
took  part  in  the  grand  review  at 
Washington.  They  were  discharged 
-at  Camp  Butler  July  27,  1865.  The 
men  from  Bond  county  in  the  3  0th. 
did     their    whole     duty     and     under 


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Charles  Taylor,   Deceased, 

A  member  of  Colby  Post,  G.  A.  R., 
who  was  on  his  death-bed  when 
the  picture  of  Colby  Post  was 
taken. 


Bond  county  officers,  Capt.  Kersh- 
ner and  Lieutenants  Taylor  and 
Fouke  made  an  honorable  record. 

July  3,  1S61  a  squad  of  25  men 
was  recruited  and  assigned  to  the 
35th.  111.  under  Capain  Han,  of  Van- 
dalia.  The  3  5th.  was  mustered  out 
of  the  service  September  27,  1864, 
after  serving  their  country  well  for 
three  years  and  three  months.  The 
total  distance  marched  by  this  regi- 
ment was  3,0  5  6  miles,  and  they 
saw  hard  service  in  their  country's 
defense  from  secession  and  ruin. 
Some  of  the  boys  from  Bond  county 
in  the  35th.  111.  were  A.  A.  Thomp- 
son, J.  M.  Brown,  G.  W.  Woodling, 
and  many  others. 

In  1862,  April  3,  I  find  a  squad 
of  14  men  went  from  Bond  county 
and  were  assigned  to  the  65th.  111. 
Infantry,  under  Col.  Cameron,  of 
Chicago  and  were  -mustered  out  July 
26,  1865.  The  65th.  was  known  as 
the  "Scotch"  regiment  under  Daniel 
Cameron,  Jr.,  and  did  grand  service 
for  the  country.  The  squad  from 
Bond  county  had  such  men  as  Com- 
rade J.  T.  Buchanan,  our  Past  Post 
Commander,  the  Sprague  brothers, 
Tate,  Frampton,  Prouty,  Sanders, 
Tom  K.  White  and  others  just  as 
true  and  brave,  who  did  their  whole 
duty  and  honored  the  county  from 
which  they  went.  They  were  in 
battle  at  Knoxville,  Lost  Mountain, 
Rough  and  Ready  Station,  Jones- 
boro,  Columbia.  Franklin,  Nashville, 
and  Smithtown  Creek,  and  the  part 
taken  by  the  Bond  county  boys  is 
an  honor  to  our  state  and  county. 

Company  E  was  organized  August 
12,  1862.  The  men  were  from  Mil- 
lersburg.  Beaver  Creek.   Pocahontas, 


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and  Old  Ripley.  The  different  of- 
ficers of  Co.  E,  were  Captains,  U.  B. 
Harris  and  W.  C.  Harned;  First 
Lieutenants,  Wm.  Harlan,  W.  C. 
Harned,  and  C.  W.  Johnson;  Second 
Lieutenants,  \V.  C.  Harned  and  C. 
\V.   Johnson. 

Company  F  was  organized  in 
Greenville,  August  7,  1S62  by  John 
B.  Reid  and  was  assigned  to  the 
130th.  111.,  then  being  recruited  in 
camp  at  Belleville,  by  Col.  Nathan- 
iel Niles  of  that  city.  The  various 
officers  of  Co.  F  were  Captains, 
John  B.  Reid,  W.  M.  Colby,  John  D. 
Donnell  and  F.  W.  Phillips;  First 
Lieutenants,  W.  M.  Colby,  J.  D. 
Donnell,  Charles  Ives  and  F.  D. 
Phillips;  Second  Lieutenants,  Chas. 
Ives,  F.  D.  Phillips,  and  John  Mur- 
dock;  Rev.  W.  D.  H.  Johnson  of 
Greenville  was  Chaplain  of  the 
130th,  and  Dr.  David  \Yilkins  was 
one  of  the  surgeons. 

Both  companies  E  and  F  were  as- 
signed to  the  130th.  111.,  under  Col. 
Niles.  The  regiment  was  mustered 
into  the  United  States  service  Oc- 
tober 2  5,  1862  and  left  Camp  But- 
ler, Nov.  11  for  Memphis,  Tenn., 
where  they  remained  on  duty  the 
winter  of  ■62-'63,  doing  provost  and 
garrison  duty  at  Memphis  and  Fort 
Pickering.  The  regiment  left  Mem- 
phis for  Milliken's  BenJ  and  was 
assigned  to  the  13th.  Army  Corps, 
commanded  by  Gen.  J.  A.  McClern- 
and,  and  with  a  grand  army  under 
Grant,  swept  on  to  Vicksburg,  met 
the  enemy  at  Port  Gibson,  Cham- 
pion Hills,  Raymond,  Baker's  Creek, 
Black  River  Bridge  and  invested 
the  city  on  May  IS,  IS 63  and  dur- 
ing the  siege  and  until  the  surren- 
der, July  4,  was  on  the  firing  line 
or  in  the  trenches.  On  July  5.  the 
regiment  marched  to  Jackson,  Miss., 
and  was  at  its  surrender  after  a 
ten  day's  siege  and  vigorous  defense. 
The  Confederates  burned  and  sacked 
the  town  before  they  left.  The  regi- 
ment returned  to  Vicksburg  and 
from  there  was  transferred  to  the 
Department  of  the  Gulf  and  shipped 
from  Xew  Orleans  to  Texas,  where 
they  spent  the  winter  of  'G3-'64  on 
the  Rio  Grande,  returning  to  Louis- 
iana in  '64  and  entering  on  the  Red 
River  expedition,  which  resulted 
disastrously  for  the  regiment.  In 
'65  they  were  at  Spanish  Fort  and 
Blakeley  and  the  capture  of  Mobile. 
They  returned  to  Illinois  .\ugust 
29th,  1S69,  and  were  mustered  out 
and  paid  at  Camp  Butler  August 
31,  having  served  their  country 
well.  For  faithful  service  a  num- 
ber of  the  officers  were  promoted, 
among  them  Lieutenant  Col.  Reid 
to  Colonel,  Captain  Wilkins  to  Maj- 
or, and  Adjutant  Dewey  to  Captain. 
They  were  engaged  at  Port  Gibson. 
Champion  Hills,  Raymond,  Black 
River  Bridge,  capture  of  Vicks- 
burg and  Jackson,  Miss.,  Mansfield, 
La.,  Cane  River,  Atchafalaya,  Span- 


ish Fort  and  Blakeley,  Ala.,  and  at 
the  surrender  of  Mobile.  The  com- 
panies from  Bond  in  the  louth.  did 
their  whole  duty  to  their  country 
and  their  flag.  Modesty  will  not 
permit  me  to  saj'  more,  as  I  was 
identified  with  it  from  August  '02 
to  August  '65. 

June  6,  1S64  Co.  F  of  the  135th. 
111.  was  recruited  in  Bond  county 
for  three  months  service  and  was 
under  Capt.  S.  G.  McAdams,  former- 
ly of  the  22d.  111.  The  other  officers 
were  James  A.  Hubbard,  first  lieu- 
tenant; Edward  Stearns,  second 
lieutenant  and  C.  W.  Holden,  ad- 
jutant. The  command  of  which  Co. 
F  was  a  part  was  on  out-post  duty 
in  Missouri  on  the  Iron  Mountain 
railroad  and  other  parts  of  Missouri 
and  was  mustered  out  of  the  service 
at  Camp  Butler,  September  28, 
186  4.  Of  the  service  performed  by 
these  100  day  troops.  Governor 
Yates,  in  his  last  message  paid  a 
high  compliment  to  the  men  of  the 
13  5th.,  and  all  others  who  respond- 
ed to  his  call  for  men  to  garrison 
the  posts  and  forts  and  relieve  the 
veterans   for   field   service. 

February  14,  1865  a  squad  of  ten 
Bond  county  men  was  recruited  for 
Co.  F,  150th.  regiment,  for  one  year 
and  was  discharged  Jan.  16,  1866,  at 
Atlanta,  Ga.,  and  arrived  at  Spring- 
field. III.,  having  served  11  months 
in  the  state  of  Georgia,  on  guard 
duty  most  of  the  time.  Their  ser- 
vice was  disastrous  to  both  officers 
and  men.  I  find  the  names  of  Cole, 
Keshner,  Lytle.  Pierson.  Xorman, 
Barcroft  and  Howard  among  the 
Bond   county   boys. 

February  25,  1865,  Co.  D  was 
organized  in  Bond  county  by  Cap- 
tain Henry  A.  White  and  was  as- 
signed to  the  154th  regiment.  Wm. 
H.  Ellis  was  1st  Lieutenant  and  John 
E.  Sawrey,  2nd  Lieutenant.  This 
was  a  one  year  regiment  and  served 
in  Tennesse  most  of  the  winter  and 
summer  and  suffered  a  great  deal 
by  sickness  and  w-as  mustered  out 
at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  September  IS, 
1865.  A  majority  of  the  men  was 
recruited  from  Bond  county. 

I  find  a  squad  from  Bond  county, 
Co.  K,  in  the  54th.  of  which  our 
late  comrade  George  P.  Stahl  was  a 
lieutenant  and  the  President  of  the 
Monument  Association,  Dr.  W.  D. 
Matney,  was  also  a  member  of  the 
54th.,  as  were  also  Humphrey  Jett, 
S.   P.  Laws  and  L.  J  Myers. 

I  also  find  in  the  29th.  Colored, 
Co.  H.  three  brothers,  George, 
Archie  and  James  Ewing,  who  were 
recruited  at  McCord.  now  Reno, 
January  28,  1864,  and  were  muster- 
ed out  November  6,  1S65.  who  like 
their  brothers  in  the  south,  knew 
the  issue  was  the  freedom  of  their 
race. 

During  the  summer  and  fall  of 
1S63  General  Thomas  visited  Gen- 
eral Grant  at  Vicksburg  and  recom- 


mended the  organization  of  a  color- 
ed regiment  with  white  men  to  be 
detailed  as  officers.  Dr.  D.  Wii- 
kins  of  the  130th.  was  made  surgeoj 
of  the  5  0th.  Colored  Infantry; 
James  M.  Miller,  hospital  steward 
of  the  130th.,  became  first  lieuten- 
ant and  Edward  Bigelow,  Fred 
Jones  and  W.  P.  Wattles  of  Co.  F 
130th.  became  first  and  second 
lieutenants   of   <he    50th.    Colored. 

Greenville  had  the  distinction  of 
furnishing  the  first  brass  band  for 
the  state.  The  offer  was  made  by 
the  Greenville  Mechanics  band  in 
May  1S61,  and  was  promptly  ac- 
cepted by  Governor  Yates.  Among 
the  musicians  in  this  band  were 
Wyatt  Causey,  Cary  Darlington  and 
Thomas  R.  Phillips.  The  band  was 
assigned  to  the  20th.  Infantry.  A 
band  from  Jamestown  went  with  the 
2  6th.   111.   Yolunteers. 

Bond  county  was  required  to 
furnish  1,161  men  during  President 
Lincoln's  calls  from  '61  to  '65  in- 
clusive, and  according  to  the  Ad- 
jutant General's  report,  December 
31,  1865,  the  county  had  furnished 
1,148,  leaving  a  deficit  of  13  men. 
But  this  is  more  than  made  up  by 
men  in  this  county  credited  to  other 
counties:  to-wit,  Co.  I,  of  Montgom- 
ery, 18  men,  all  credited  to  that 
county.  Others  from  Bond  were 
credited  to  Clinton  and  Madison, 
when  to  Bond  really  belonged  the 
honor. 

The  history  of  the  men  who  went 
from  Bond  county  is  not  as  com- 
plete, as  I  would  like  to  have  it,  for 
the  names  of  many  good  men  and 
true,  whose  names  I  cannot  find  are 
of  necessity  omitted,  a  fact  that  I 
greatly  regret. 

The  people  of  Bond  county  have 
honored  themselves  by  erecting  a 
monument  of  granite  that  will  be  as 
enduring  as  the  everlastin.g  hills, 
in  memory  of  the  men  who  never 
returned  to  home  and  friends. 


Cbc  RtlUard  Rifles. 

A  company  of  state  militia  was 
organized  in  Greenville,  December 
30.  1878  and  for  want  of  a  better 
name  called  themselves  the  "Green- 
ville Blues,"  until  it  was  later  voted 
to  name  the  company  the  Hilliard 
Rifles,  in  honor  of  Adjutant  General 
Hilliard.  Major  P.  E.  Holcomb  was 
captain,  S.  M.  Inglis,  first  lieutenant 
and  Dr.  C.  H.  Beatty,  second  lieu- 
tenant. 

The  company  later  became  Com- 
pany F.  It  had  headquarters  in 
Armory  Hall,  the  present  opera 
house.  The  company  was  called  out 
at  the  time  of  the  East  St.  Louis 
railroad   strike. 

The  company  w-as  disbanded  July 
6,  1896  by  Captain  John  F.  Harris, 
upon  orders  of  the  Adjutant  Gen- 
eral. At  the  time  the  company  was 
disbanded  J.  P.  Harris  was  captain, 
F.  T.  Denny  was  first  lieutenant  and 


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Will   J.    Brunei'   was  second   lieuten- 
ant. 


Spanish  Hmcrican  CHar. 

When  war  with  Spain  commenced 
in  1S9S,  E.  Trautman  organized  a 
company  of  volunteers  but  there 
was  no  call  for  them  and  hence 
they  did  not  go  to  the  front.  Green- 
ville, however,  had  many  repre- 
sentatives in  the  thick  of  the  fray. 

Lyman  Puller,  a  grandson  of  Seth 
Fuller,  Greenville's  early  surveyor, 
and  a  son  of  Lyman  Puller,  a  Civil 
War  veteran,  was  with  Admiral 
Dewey,  on  his  flagship  at  the  battle 
of  Manila  on  the  memorable  first 
of  May,  1898.  Lyman  Fuller  was 
a  gunner  and  was  at  his  post  during 
the  fight,  when  the  Spanish  squad- 
ron was  sunk  and  the  city  of  Manila 
was  captured. 


Arthur  Rogier  was  a  seaman  on 
the  "Iowa"  and  participated  in  the 
naval  engagements  around  Santiago. 

John  Heston,  grandson  of  a  Mexi- 
can War  veteran  of  the  same  name, 
was  in  the  navy  and  was  an  eye 
witness  of  the  Maine  disaster  in  the 
harbor   at    Havana,   Cuba. 

Harry  Williams,  now  of  Californ- 
ia, was  on  board  the  "Yale"  during 
the  war  with  Spain  and  saw  some 
service. 

Among  the  boys  in  the  land  forces 
were  Lieutenants  L.  E.  Bennett  and 
A.  O.  Seaman,  now  U.  S.  A.  officers. 
Sergeant  Major  W.  H.  Boughman, 
Harry  and  Berl  Murdock,  Charles 
Dixon,  Orlay  Larrabee,  Will  Foster, 
Will  Bruner,  Charles  Rowdybush, 
Charles  Stearns,  Edward  A.  Stearns, 
George  N.  Koonce,  Charles  Kings- 
bury and   many  others. 

The  four  last  named  died  of  di- 
sease while   in   the  service. 


COUNTY   BUILDINGS. 


GREENVILLE  has  had  four 
court  houses,  all  located  with- 
in the  present  public  square.  For  a 
year  or  two  after  Greenville  became 
the  county  seat  there  was  no  court 
house  and  court  was  held  in  the 
dwellings  in  the  west  end  of  town, 
and  there,  also,  the  county  officers 
were  located. 

In  1821  when  the  sale  of  lots  was 
held,  the  present  public  square  was 
covered  with  a  dense  growth  of 
sycamore  trees.  At  a  court  held 
the  September  of  that  year,  it  was 
duly  ordered  that  a  court  house  for 
Bond  county  be  let  to  the  lowest 
bidder  and  on  September  19,  when 
the  bids  were  opened,  Robert  G. 
White's  bid  of  $2,135  was  found  to 
be  the  lowest,  and  he  at  once  enter- 
ed into  bond  for  the  fulfillment  of 
the  contract,  and  was  paid  in  notes 
of  purchasers  of  the  thirty  town 
lots.  These  lots  sold  at  an  average 
of    $44.60    each. 

The  court  house  was  made  of  a 
poor  quality  of  brick  and  was  badly 
damaged  by  storms  before  it  was 
completed.  The  building  stood  on 
a  natural  mound  where  the  present 
one  now  stands  and  was  practically 
completed  in  1823.  The  eight  by 
ten  window  panes  proved  too  great  a 
temptation  for  the  small  boy  of 
that  time,  and  hidden  from  view  be- 
hind tree  or  bush,  he  would  watch 
•with  delight  the  accuracy  of  his 
aim  as  the  stones  from  his  sling 
shot  crashed  through  the  glass  and 
sent  It  flying  in  every  direction. 
There  was  little  respect  for  the 
temple  of  justice  and  its  custodians 
were  sorely  beset  for  means  for  its 
preservation.  In  a  few  years  this 
Jjrick  court  house  was  so  shaky  that 


it  was  necessary  to  build  a  new  one. 

The  same  foundation  was  used 
for  the  second  court  house,  which 
was  a  frame  building.  The  brick 
from  the  old  building  was  used  for 
flooring.  Eben  Twiss  was  given  the 
contract  of  putting  up  the  frame 
building,  on  October  9.  1832.  It 
was  completed  in  September  1833 
and  was  used  as  a  court  house  for 
twenty  years.  J.  T.  Pouke,  who 
came  here  in  1830,  says  this  frame 
court  house  had  a  large  chimney 
and  fireplace  on  the  north  side  and 
a  brick  floor,  except  on  the  south, 
where  there  was  a  plank  floor,  sur- 
rounding the  judge's  seat.  On  the 
second  floor  were  four  rooms  with 
low  ceilings.  The  circuit  clerk 
and  the  county  clerk  had  the  two 
rooms  in  the  north  part  and  on  the 
south  were  two  jury  rooms. 

This  frame  court  house  was  too 
small  for  the  county's  needs  ani 
was  so  badly  out  of  repair  that  on 
April  14,  18  53  the  contract  for  a 
new  one  was  let.  The  frame  build- 
ing was  sold  by  the  county  at  public 
auction  July  20,  1853,  and  was  pur- 
chased by  E.  B.  White  for  $193. 
Mr.  White  moved  it  to  the  lot  east 
of  Williams'  blacksmith  shop,  where 
it  was  still  used  by  the  county  until 
the  new  court  house  was  completed. 
Afterwards  it  was  used  as  the  home 
of  the  Greenville  Journal,  a  store, 
a  carpenter  shop,  livery  stable  and 
marble  shop.  It  was  the  first  in- 
vestment in  Greenville  real  estate 
made  by  J.  M.  Miller,  now  one  of 
the  city's  largest  property  owners. 
The  cyclone  of  1880  unroofed  it  and 
it   was  later  torn  down. 

Daniel  W.  Norris,  of  Carlyle,  was 
the   contractor    who   built    the   third 


court  house  an  1  James  Bradford, 
Rufus  Dressor  and  M.  G.  Dale  were 
the  county  commissioners,  who  let 
the  contract.  The  building  was  of 
brick  on  a  sandstone  foundation,  40 
by  GO  feet,  two  stories  high.  The 
contract  price  was  $9750  but  sub- 
sequent improvements  ran  the 
amount  up  to  $12,000.  It  was 
turned  over  to  the  county  commis- 
sioners as  completed  September  1, 
1854.  In  1SG9  a  new  roof  was  put 
on  the  building  and  a  large,  shapely 
dome  took  the  place  of  a  little  hen 
coop  observatory  on  the  building. 
In  1880  the  offices  on  the  ground 
floor  were  remodeled  and  vaults  for 
the  county  records  were  made.  The 
hallway  running  east  and  west 
through  the  building  was  closed  up 
and  the  space  thus  gained  was  uti- 
lized  for   the   vaults. 

This  building  was  becoming  too 
small  for  the  county's  needs  when 
it  was  destroyed  by  fire  on  Saturday, 
March  24,  1883.  A  defective  flue 
probably  caused  the  fire,  which 
started  in  the  southwest  corner  of 
the  attic  about  9:15  a.  m.,  and  was 
first  discovered  by  Ernest  Bigard, 
who  was  in  an  upper  room  on  the 
south  side  of  the  square.  He  gave 
the  alarm  and  soon  the  entire  popu- 
lace was  out  trying  to  cope  with  the 
flames.  The  fire  had  burned  some 
time  before  it  was  discovered. 
There  were  no  water  works  and  a 
bucket  brigade  with  State's  Attor- 
ney W.  A.  Northcott,  County  Treas- 
urer A.  J.  Utiger  and  Robert  Donnell 
in  the  attic  pouring  on  water,  fought 
the  flames,  but  the  dense  smoke 
strangled  them  and  the  fight  had 
to  be  abandonel.  All  the  records 
were  saved  by  the  systematic  man- 
agement of  Circuit  Clerk  T.  P. 
Morey  within  fifteen  minutes  and 
then  the  crowd  watched  the  court 
house  burn.  All  day  long  it  burn- 
ed, but  the  walls  remained  standing. 
The  loss  was  covered  by  $8,000  in- 
surance, of  which  $0,981.80  was 
paid  by  the  insurance  company.  The 
county  officers  had  their  offices 
scattered  around  in  various  places 
until  the  new  court  house  was  com- 
pleted. 

Soon  after  the  burning  of  the 
court  house  some  of  the  people  of 
Smithboro  started  an  agitation  to 
move  the  county  seat  to  that  place, 
but  it  did  not  materialize.  The  mat- 
ter went  so  far,  however,  that  pe- 
titions were  drawn  up,  and  a  paper, 
advocating  the  change,  was  started 
at  Smithboro.  One  hundred  eighty- 
four  of  the  signers  of  the  petition, 
however,  withdrew  their  names  by 
power  of  attorney  to  C.  D.  Holies 
and  the  court  decided  the  petition 
was  insufficient  to  warrant  the  order- 
ing of  an  election  on  the  ouestion. 

At  the  election  on  November  6, 
1883,  the  proposition  to  appropriate 
$20,000  for  the  building  of  a  new 
court    house    carried    by    a    vote    of 


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Laying  of  the  cornerstone  ol  the  presmt  court  house  by  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  June  4, 1884.     Photograph 
Loaned  by  J.  H.  Hawley. 


13GS  to  7GS.  The  county  commis- 
sioners on  January  5,  1SS4,  accept- 
ed the  plans  of  W.  R.  Parsons  and 
son,  of  Quincy,  111.,  for  the  present 
court  house,  91  by  S2  feet.  From 
the  grounJ  to  the  cornice  the  dis- 
tance is  42  feet  and  from  the  ground 
to  the  flag  staff  the  distance  is  S9 
feet.  The  contract  for  building  this 
temple  of  justice  was  on  March  2(i, 
18S4,  awarded  to  M.  T.  Lewman,  of 
Greencastle,  Ind.,  for  $20,000.  The 
corner  stone  was  laid  on  June  4, 
18S4  by  Greenville  Lodge  No.  245 
A.  F.  and  A.  M. 

John  Buchanan,  father  of  J.  T. 
Buchanan,  helped  build  two  court 
houses  and  two  jails  in  Green- 
ville. 


"Jail  Buildings. 

At  least  three  jails  had  been 
built  in  Greenville  before  the  one 
now  in  use.  The  first  jail  was  built 
by  Andrew  Moody  and  Thomas 
Stout  near  the  location  of  the  oil 
Sargeant  House  on  College  Avenue. 
It  was  built  of  square  logs  at  a 
cost  of  $244. ."50,  in  state  paper,  and 
the  contract  was  dated  July  4. 
1829. 

The  second  jail  was  built  by 
Richard  Tatom  on  the  southeast 
corner  of  the  public  square  for 
$321.74   in   1S?,5. 

The  third  jail  was  a  brick  build- 
ing and  was  built  in  1R.59  on  Third 
street  and  is  still  standing  and  used 
for  a  tenement  house.  It  was  built 
at  a  cost  of  $5000  and  R.  H.  Phil- 
lips &  Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  was  the  con- 
tractor. 

The  present  jail  is  an  up-to-date 
and    commodious     structure     in    the 


northwest  part  of  town  and  was  oc- 
cupied for  the  first  time  June  IG, 
1S9T,  by  Jailer  J.  E.  Wright  and 
family  and  five  prisoners.  It  re- 
quired two  elections  to  secure  this 
jail.  The  first  time  the  proposition 
was  voted  on  it  was  defeated  by  a 
vote   of   1087    to   0.59.      This   was   in 


November  1894.  In  November  189G 
the  proposition  to  issue  $50  00  jail 
bonds  carried  by  a  vote  of  895  to 
767.  The  bonds  were  taken  by 
Holies  and  Sons.  The  jail  is  located 
on  the  brow  of  Mill  Hill  on  a  two 
acre  tract  purchased  by  the  county 
of  E.   M.   Gullick   for   $2  90. 


The  present  Bond  county  court  house,  built  in  1884.     In  front  are  the  pres- 
ent county  officers  and  members  of  the  Board  of  Review. 


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0  The  Greenville  Public  Shoools  iz/ 


the  place  made  vacant  by  Mr.  Clark, 
whose  wife,  Mrs.  Phoebe  F.  Clark, 
took  charge  until  the  vacancy  could 


THE  first  school  in  this  city  and 
county  was  probably  taught  in 
the  old  brick  house  that  stood  for 
many  years  in  the  west  end  of  town. 
This  was  probably  in  IS  19,  the 
school  being  taught  by  Thomas 
White. 

At  this  time  the  school  was  nec- 
essarily small,  but  as  years  passed, 
and  the  town  grew  the  interest  in 
education  Increased  and,  although 
school  was  taught  in  several  log 
cabins  at  different  places  about  the 
town,  the  school  trustees  finally 
combined  interest  with  the  members 
of  the  Congregational  church  and 
erected  the  building  on  West  Main 
Ave.,  that  stood  for  more  than  sixty 
years,  and  was  recently  dismantled 
to  make  room  for  the  new  Carnegie 
Library.  The  upper  portion  of  the 
Congregational  church  was  used  for 
a  house  of  worship  and  the  base- 
ment was  used  for  a  school  house 
and  was,  for  a  time,  called  the 
Greenville  Academy.  Considerable 
difficulty  was  experienced  in  raising 
the  necessary  amount  of  money  to 
carry  out  this  project  and  it  was 
only  after  Captain  A.  L.  Saunders 
had  been  dispatched  to  Boston,  on 
foot,  to  raise  funds  that  it  was  a 
success.  For  a  time  the  school 
flourished  under  the  management  of 
Socrates  Smith,  John  Marston  and 
others. 

When  the  common  school  law  was 
passed  by  the  legislature  the  trus- 
tees concluded  to  take  the  advan- 
tages it  offered,  so  they  deeded  their 
part  of  the  building  to  the  church, 
but  the  academy  proper  was  used 
as  a  school  room  for  many  years 
after,  and  was  used  as  a  primary 
room  until  the  present  new  school 
building  was  erected  in   1894. 

The  oldest  schedule  in  possession 
of  Mr.  C.  F.  Thraner,  school  treas- 
urer, of  this  district,  who  a  few 
years  ago  classified  all  his  records 
and  filed  them  away  in  proper  shape, 
is  signed  by  William  Cunningham 
as  principal  and  is  dated  in  lSo5. 
Mr.  Cunningham  taught  for  seven 
years  at  a  salary  of  $50  a  month. 
H.  B.  Taylor  followed  him  as  prin- 
cipal, and  was  employed  for  two 
years,  the  last  year  receiving  a 
salary  of  $60  a  month.  He  was  a 
Methodist  minister  and  diviied  his 
time  between  teaching  and  preach- 
ing. While  gathering  apples  he 
met  with  an  accident  and  was  forced 
to  give  up  his  duties  and  return  to 
New  England. 

Charles  Clark,  for  many  years  a 
resident  of  Greenville,  next  took 
the  school,  but  resigned  after  three 
months  and  opened  a  book  store. 
The  school  board  had  some  difficulty 
in  securing  a  suitable  person  to  take 


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—  i*  I    .ilill.tiW WH»<P«r--» 


Old  PfiiLic  School  Building. 


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Old  High  School  Building, 
Built. in  1859,  dismantled  in  1894. 


Old  Public  School  Biilding. 


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43 


be  filled.  Rev.  Thoiiuis  W.  Hyue-s, 
who  recently  died  here  and  who  was 
so  well  known  to  all.  was  induced  to 
take  the  position.  Mr.  Hynes  had 
been  professor  of  mathematics  at 
Hanover,  Ind.,  and  was  well  quali- 
fied for  the  place.  He  taught  but  a 
few  months,  however,  and  in  order 
that  he  might  preach  the  Gospel,  re- 
signed in  favor  of  R.  L.  Mudi.  Mr. 
Mudd  taught  for  a  year  at  a  salary 
of  $75  a  month  and  resigned  to  ac- 
cept  the  oiBce   of  county  clerk. 

The  next  principal  was  an  inova- 
tion  in  the  matter  of  sex.  Miss  Flor- 
ence Holden  accepting  the  princi- 
palship  at  a  salary  of  $40  a  month. 
Miss  Holden  finished  the  school  year 
and  then  accepted  a  position  in  St. 
Mary's  Institute  in  St.  Louis  where 
she  remained  for  eight  years,  be- 
coming the  principal  of  the  institu- 
tion. Miss  Holden  married  a  gentle- 
man named  Houghton,  who  was 
connected  with  the  Alton  schools. 
Mr.  Hou'^hton  died  soon  after  and 
Mrs.  Houghton,  in  connection  with 
James  P.  Slade,  purchased  Almira 
College.  Marrying  a  Mr.  Addis  she 
sold  her  interest  in  Almira  College 
to  Mr.  Slade  and  moved  to  Emporia, 
Kansas,  where  she  died. 

James  A.  Dean  was  the  next  prin- 
cipal at  a  salary  of  $S0  a  month. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Prof.  S.  M.  In- 
glis,  who  held  the  principalship  for 
fifteen  years,  and  to  his  untiring 
zeal  and  ability  as  a  teacher  is  due. 
in  a  lar'^e  measure,  the  high  stand- 
ard which  the  school  has  attained 
and  which  has  given  it  a  reputation 
for  excellence  all  over  Illinois.  Mr. 
Inglis     introduced    the    graded    sys- 


tem and  added  the  high  school.  Dur- 
ing his  term  of  service  he  organized 
the  Alpha  Society,  members  of  the 
high  school,  and.  in  about  1S73,  the 
Alumni.  Mr.  Inglis  received  $133 
a  month.  He  resigned  to  accept  the 
chair  of  mathematics  at  Carbondale. 
which  position  he  heli  until  elected 
state  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction. 

A.  K.  Carmichael  came  next  and 
was  followed  by  J.  B.  Burns,  who 
added  Latin  to  the  course.  He  cul- 
tivated a  taste  for  horticulture 
among  the  pupils  and  as  a  result 
the  school  grounds  were  beautified 
with  flowers  and  growing  trees.  D. 
W.  Lindsay,  a  graduate  of  Carbon- 
dale,  was  next  employed  upon  the 
recommendation  of  Prof.  Inglis. 
Prof.  Linisay  made  a  special  feat- 
ure of  music,  and  remained  in 
Greenville  for  six  years  going  from 
here  to  California.  He  received  a 
salary  of   $10  0   a  month   while  here. 

Prof.  J.  T.  Ellis  of  Carbondale 
was  next  employed.  He  introduced 
several  new  features,  increasing  the 
high  school  course  to  four  years. 
He  received   $125   a  month. 

M.  G.  Clark  succeeded  Prof.  Ellis, 
who  resigned  to  accept  the  chair  of 
history  in  the  Southern  Illinois  Nor- 
mal at  Carbondale.  Prof.  Clark, 
who  was  formerly  principal  of  the 
business  department  at  the  college 
was  principal  for  two  years  and  was 
succee'ed  by  Prof.  \V.  Duft  Piercy. 
fresh  from  McKendree  College  at 
Lebanon.  Prof.  Piercy  remained 
for  two  years  and  went  to  Harvard 
to  take  a  special  course  in  English 
and    was    succeeded    by    Prof.    E.    B. 


Prof.  S.\muel  M.  Inglis, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1868  and 
took  charge  of  the  Greenville 
schools,  remainino;  for  15  years, 
and  graded  the  schools;  State  Su- 
perintendent of  Public  Instruction 
in  189-t,  serving  until  his  death  in 
June 189S. 

Brooks,    who     after    two   years     was 
succeeded   by   Prof.   C.   N.    Peak. 

In  1S59  the  brick  school  building 
was  built  on  the  site  of  the  present 
school  building  and  its  erection  was 
quite  a  local  event.  Many  at  that 
time  opposed  the  erection  of  that 
buil'ing  as  a  wasteful  expenditure. 
The  present   modern  school  building 


The  Greenvii.i.i-:  Puhliu  Sciiikh.  I'.rii.niNc;,  Built  in  ls',t4. 


44 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


was  erected  in  1S94.  The  building 
was  proposed  by  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation that  was  elected  in  the  spring 
of  1893.  The  proposition  was  sub- 
mitted to  a  vote  of  the  legal  voters 
of  the  district  with  the  result  that 
the  proposition  to  issue  the  neces- 
sary bonds  carried  by  thirty  major- 
ity. The  members  of  the  Board  of 
Education  at  that  time  were  Col. 
J.  B.  Reid,  president:  W.  E.  Robin- 
son. C.  E.  Cook.  T.  P.  Morey,  .1. 
Seaman,  E.  B.  Wise  and  Dr.  W.  T. 
Easley.  In  the  following  spring 
Col  Reid  and  T.  P.  Morey  retired 
and  Dr.  E.  P.  Poindexter  was  elect- 
ed president  and  H,  B.  Henninger 
a  member  instead  of  T.  P.  Morey. 

The  initiatory  steps  to  secure  the 
new  building  were  taken  by  the  cir- 
culation of  a  petition  by  Ward 
Reid  and  R.  C.  Morris,  asking  for 
a  special  election.     The  election  was 


Prof.  C.  N.  Peak, 

iuperlntendent  of  the  Greenville  ] 
schools,  1905,  succeeding  E.;.B.  Brooks 
resigned. 


held  on  February  23,  1S94.  The 
vote  stood  315  for  and  285  against. 
The  bull  ling  cost  $19,600,  the 
bonds  being  taken  by  Holies  and 
Sons  at  their  face  value.  The  con- 
tract was  awarded  to  W.  B.  Brads- 
by  and  Chas.  Stewart,  of  Greenville. 
The  corner  stone  was  laid  by  the 
Masonic  fraternity  Friday,  August 
10,  1894.  The  building  was  ready 
for  occupancy  about  the  first  of  the 
year    1895. 

For  the  school  year  19  0  5-6  the 
following  teachers  were  employed: 
Superintendent,  C.  N.  Peak;  Princi- 
pal, Miss  Mame  Graft:  Assistant 
Principal,  J.  C.  Hemphill;  Latin, 
Miss  Louise  McCord:  Grade  teachers, 
Misses  Emma  Streuber,  Pearl  San- 
derson, Lillie  Apple,  Mary  Lewis, 
Mrs.  Ida  Travis,  Misses  Neva  Young, 
Mary  Mulford,  Anna  Leppard,  Anna 
Mulford    and    Esther    Chapman. 


Faculty  of  the  Greenville  Piulic  Schools.  1904-5. 

Reading  from  left  to  right,  top  row— Miss  Pearl  Sanderson,  J.  C.  Hemphill,  Miss  Marv  Lewis,  Miss  Esther  Chap- 
man, Prof.  E.  B.  Brooks,  Miss  Marae  Graff,  Miss  Louise  McCord. 

Second  Row— Miss  Lillie  Apple,  Miss  Neva  Young,  Miss  Mary  Mulford,  Miss  Emma  Streuber,  Miss  Anna  Mul- 
ford, Miss  Anna  Leppard,  Mrs.  Ida  Travis. 


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45 


Prof.  John  B.  White,  Deceased, 

President  of  Almira  College  23  years 
and  one  of  its  largest  supporters. 


Almira  Blancharu  Morse,  Dcc'd. 

Who  gave  $6,000  to  Almira  College 
and  for  whom  it  was  named. 


Stephen  Morse,  Deceased, 

A  successful  merchant  and  large  ben- 
efactor of  Greenville  College. 


Almira  College 


T^HE  conception  of  the  work  of 
'  building  up  this  institution  for 
the  higher  education  of  women  had 
its  origin  in  the  minds  of  two  young 
New  Hampshire  lads,  Stephen  Morse 


and  John  B.  White,  between  whom 
a  strong  and  lite-long  friendship 
began  while  preparing  for  college 
at  New  Hampton,  N.  H. 

They  were  each  the  eldest  son  of 
a  large  family  with  sisters  whose 
educational  advantages  were  in 
their  day  very  limited.      It   must   be 


remembered  that  while  colleges  and 
universities  opened  their  doors  un- 
wittingly to  young  men,  they  were 
closed  against  young  women.  Girls 
must  be  content  with  an  education 
which  only  prepared  their  brothers 
for  college.  This  injustice  these 
young    men    keenly    felt    and    deter- 


Greenvilli; 
Built  as  Almira  College  in  1855,  now  owned  by  the  Central  Illinois  conference  of  the  Free  Methodist  Church. 


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mined  to  accomplish  something  to- 
ward elevating  the  educational 
standard   for  women. 

They  entered  Brown  University  in 
the  fall  of  1S2S,  where  they  were 
room-mates  and  class-mates  for 
four  years,  graduating  in  1832  under 
Dr.  Francis  Wayland.  Both  at  that 
time  began  to  pursue  a  course  of 
law,  and  in  1S3G  Mr.  White  came 
west,  and  practiced  law,  first  in  Al- 
ton, 111.,  and  later  in  Greenville, 
where  he  became  probate  judge.  In 
1838  he  married  Miss  Mary  P.  Mer- 
riam  and  went  south,  having  ac- 
cepted  the  presidency  of  a   flourish- 


cessful  teacher,  but  In  1S40  came 
west  to  Greenville  and  turned  his 
attention  to  mercantile  pursuits, 
under  the  conviction  that  in  this 
way  he  could  do  more  for  the  cause 
of  education  and  make  himself  more 
permanently  useful.  As  a  business 
man  he  was  very  successful.  The 
mercantile  firm  known  as  Morse  and 
Brothers  was  for  many  years  the 
leading  firm  of  Bond  County  and  at 
one  time  was  estimated  to  be  worth 
$100,000. 

Mr.  Morse  was  a  man  of  high  in- 
tellectual ability  and  of  rare  repose 
and    courtesy    of    manner.      He    was 


the  work  and  Greenville,  on  the  high 
table  land,  between  the  Wabash  and 
Mississippi  rivers,  was  selected  as 
the  location,  because  its  elevation 
and  natural  drainage  afforded 
healthy  surroundings  and  lovely 
landscape  views. 

Mrs.  White  died  in  the  spring  of 
1855,  and  Prof.  White  came  in  the 
summer  of  that  year  with  his  chil- 
dren, four  daughters  and  two  sons, 
and  entered  upon  the  work,  it  be- 
ing understood  that  Mr.  Morse  was 
to  be  relied  upon  for  the  financial 
arrangements  and  Prof.  White  for 
the  development  of  the  character  of 


Rkv.    \V.   T.    HUGIE, 

First  President  of  Greenville  College,  1892  to  1904.  Now 
General  Superintendent  of  the  Free  Methodist  church. 


Mrs.  W.  T.  Hogie, 

For  several  j'ears  prominently  connected  with  Green- 
ville College,  as  a  teacher. 


ing  college  for  young  men  at  Wake 
Forest,  N.  C,  which  had  been  ten- 
dered him,  and  remained  at  the 
head  of  that  institution  for  fifteen 
years.  He  became  a  Christian  in 
early  life  and  united  with  the  Bap- 
tist church,  and  while  at  Wake  For- 
est consecrated  himself  to  the  gos- 
pel ministry,  not  with  the  intention 
of  taking  charge  of  churches,  but 
to  better  eiuip  himself  to  the  wants, 
intellectual  and  spiritual,  of  the 
young  men  and  women  under  his 
influence. 

Mr.  Morse,  raised  by  an  unusu- 
ally intelligent  Christian  mother, 
was  from  childhood  very  conscien- 
tious and  grew  up  with  an  earnest 
desire  to  be  useful.  He  was  a  good 
scholar   and    for   some   years   a    suc- 


married  in  184  3  to  Miss  Almira 
Blanchard,  a  Christian  lady  of  thor- 
ough and  accomplished  education, 
who  was  fully  in  sympathy  with  her 
husband  in  all  efforts  for  good. 

In  1854,  at  the  request  of  his  old 
class-mate.  Prof.  White  visited 
Greenville.  Enthusiasm  for  their 
long  cherished  scheme  was  re-kind- 
led and  the  initiatory  steps  taken  to 
establish  a  school  for  young  wom- 
en. .  The  citizens  of  Greenville  en- 
tered heartily  into  the  project  and 
gave  liberally  toward  it,  but  Mrs. 
Almira  Morse,  who  had  that  year 
come  into  a  legacy  of  $6,000,  from 
an  uncle's  estate,  gladly  donated  it 
all,  as  a  free-will  offering  to  the 
new  project  so  dear  to  her  heart. 
This  gift   made  it  possible   to   start 


the  school.  He  devoted  four  years 
almost  exclusively  to  travel  in  or- 
der to  awaken  an  interest  in  the  in- 
stitution and  secure  pupils  and 
funds  for  its  up-building. 

It  is  difficult  to  go  back  a  half 
century  and  give  a  clear  idea  of 
what  Southern  Illinois  was,  as  an 
educational  field,  at  that  time.  To 
raise  the  necessary  funds  for  a 
building  in  those  days  was  no  easy 
matter.  The  country  was  sparsely 
settled,  few  of  the  people  were 
wealthy,  farm  lands,  now  valued  at 
$50  or  $60  per  acre,  were  then 
worth  $10  or  $15.  But  there  was 
need  of  the  work,  for  a  field  more 
destitute  in  advantages  for  higher 
education  than  this  section  could 
not  be  found  elsewhere  in  the  state. 


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47 


Rev.  a.  L.  ^YHITCOMB, 
President  of  Greenville  College. 


But  these  early  promoters  worked 
with  determination,  the  citizens  of 
Greenville  and  friends  in  the  east 
generously  responding  with  finan- 
cial aid  and  the  school  was  founded 
in  1S55  and  chartered  in  1S57,  un- 
der the  name  of  Almira  College,  in 
honor  of  her  whose  large  donation 
at  the  beginning  of  the  work  made 
the  institution  possible.  Mrs.  Al- 
mira Blanchard  Morse. 

In  this  year  Miss  Elizabeth  R. 
Wright,  a  native  of  Vermont,  but  for 
twelve  years  a  teacher  in  Spring- 
field, 111.,  came  to  Greenville  as  the 
second  wife  of  Prof.  White.  She 
quietly  and  wisely  assumed  the  oare 
of  his  family  and  enthusiastically 
entered  into  and  made  it  her  es- 
pecial work  to  create  an  atmos- 
phere of  home  for  the  girls,  who 
leaving  their  own  homes,  came  year 
after  year  to  obtain  an  education 
On  account  of  the  motherly  interest 
which  she  took  in  each  one,  and  es- 
pecially in  those  with  limited  finan- 
cial resources,  who  were  obtaining 
an  education  by  their  own  efforts, 
she  holds  today  an  exalted  place  to 
which  few  could  attain,  in  the  hearts 
of  hundreds  of  women  scattered  over 
many  states. 

When  she  had  made  the  new 
building  comfortable  within,  she 
turned  her  attention  to  the  campus, 
which  was  literally  a  brick  and 
lumber  yard,  without  even  trees, 
for  every  brick  (and  there  were 
more  than  1,000,000  used  in  the 
walls  and  partitions)  was  made  on 
,  the  ground.  Elms,  maples  and 
'  evergreen  trees,  choice  shrubs,  vines 
and  flowers  Prof,  and  Mrs.  White 
planted  with  their  own  hands  and  in 
a  few  years  the  place  was  transform- 
ed into  a  garden  of  beauty.  Her  en- 
thusiastic love  for  flowers  and  her 
great,  success     in    their     cultivation 


strongly  inspired,  in  the  girls,  a 
love   for  horticulture. 

Ten  years  elapsed  before  the 
building  was  completed,  during 
which  time  it  was  crowded  to  its  ut- 
most capacity  to  accommodate  those 
who  applied  for  entrance,  and  dur- 
ing the  twenty-three  years  Prof. 
White  was  closely  identified  with 
the  school,  there  was  always  a  good 
attendance  and  the  interest  and 
patronage  was  always  very  flatter- 
ing to  his  administration,  especially 
as  a  depression  was  felt  in  all  enter- 
prises consequent  upon  the  Civil 
War. 

The  corps  of  teachers  was  selected 
with  care,  usually  being  brought 
from  the  east  because  of  the  super- 
ior advantages  there  for  education, 
culture  and  refinement.  The  course 
of  study  was  made  as  extended  as 
possible  under  existing  conditions. 
There  were  few  high  schools  out- 
side of  the  large  cities  and  the  dis- 
trict schools  were  a  lower  grade 
than  those  of  the  towns,  consequent- 
ly the  majority  of  the  pupils  were 
obliged  to  spend  two  years  in  the 
preparatory  department  before 
entering  upon  the  college  course, 
which    required    four    years    longer. 


Prof.  E.  G.  Burritt, 
Nice  President  of  Greenville   College. 

and  yet  the  records  show,  out  of  an 
attendance  of  2.000  students,  an 
average  of  4.2  graduated  for  each 
year,  although  there  were  none  the 
first   two  years. 


Rev.  F.  H.  Ashck.\et, 
Financial  .\geut  of  Green villoColKgc. 


48 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Wm.  E.  Milliken,  Ezra  Whitten, 

Of  the  Class  of  1905,  Greenville  Col-     Of  the  Class  of  1905,  Greenville  Col- 
lege, lege- 


H.  K.  McGearv, 
Now     Secretary     to     Congressman 
Martin,  Deadwood,  S.  D. 


The  college  also  made  its  impress 
on  the  social  life  of  the  town.  This 
was  made  possible  by  the  custom  of 
monthly  receptions  at  which  time 
the  parlors  and  halls  were  thronged 
with  old  and  young,  promenading 
and  music  being  favorite  amuse- 
ments. 

Rules  and  penalties  were,  of 
course,  necessary  to  secure  the  besi 
results  where  so  many  types  of 
character  composed  the  family. 
Some  girls  lacking  promptness  in 
heeding  the  rising  and  breakfast 
bells,  were  required  to  commit  lines 
of  "Paradise  Lost"  to  memory,  while 
others  became  far  more  familiar 
with  verses  of  Scripture  than  they 
otherwise  would  have  been,  save  for 
some  remissness  in  duty. 

Prof.  White  won,  in  a  remarkable 
degree,  the  confidence,  esteem  and 
love  of  his  pupils.  He  was  thorough 
and  clear  in  his  manner  of  instruc- 
tion, original,  kind  but  firm  in  disci- 
pline, and  invariably  made  his 
pupils  his  friends  for  life.  He  was 
away  for  two  years  while  serving 
in  the  army  as  chaplain  of  the  117th. 
Illinois  Infantry,  during  which  time 
Rev.  D.  P.  French  had  charge  of  the 
school. 

Heavy  reverses  of  fortune  came 
to  Mr.  Morse  in  1S70,  and  he  moved 
with  his  family  to  Paola,  Kansas. 
Although  the  attendance  continued 
to  be  large  and  the  school  flourishing, 
yet  the  debt  which  they  had  carried 
since  the  building  was  completed 
still  embarassed  them.  Prof.  White 
was  no  longer  a  young  man,  and 
broken  in  health  as  a  result  of  army 
life,  withdrew  from  active  manage- 
ment, and  the  property  was  sold  to 
Prof.  James  P.  Slade  and  Mrs.  Flor- 


ence K.  Hough. on,  who  conducted 
it  until  1892,  when  it  passed  into 
the  hands  of  the  Free  Methodist 
Conference. 


Greenville  College 

Bv  President  A.  L.  Whitchmh. 


THE  Institution  known  and  legally 
incorporated  as  Greenville  Col- 
lege is  located  at  Greenville,  the 
county  seat  of  Bond  Co.,  111.  The 
city  is  on  the  St.  Louis  and  Terre 
Haute  Railroad  line,  fifty  miles  east 
of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  twenty  miles  west 
of  Vandalia,  111.,  and  in  close  prox- 
imity to  other  important  railroad 
centers,  thus  making  it  easy  of  ac- 
cess from  nearly  all  parts  of  the 
Union.  Greenville  is  an  attractive 
city  of  3000  inhabitants,  situated  on 
the  highest  table  lands  between  the 
Wabash  and  Mississippi  Rivers,  and 
is  the  center  of  a  thriving  agricul- 
tural district. 

The  College  is  situated  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  city  and  com- 
mands a  fine  view  of  the  surround- 
ing country.  The  grounds  comprise 
several  acres,  consisting  of  a  beauti- 
ful shaded  campus  in  front  of  the 
building,  and  lands  in  the  rear  for 
domestic  purposes.  The  main  buiKl- 
ing  is  a  fine  brick  structure  erected 
especially  for  educational  purposes. 
Its  entire  length  is  144  feet,  and  it 
has  an  average  width  of  44  feet.  It 
is  a  four-story  building  and  contains 
seventy-two  rooms.  Within  this 
building  are  the  recitation  rooms, 
chapel,  reading  room,  and  library  of 
COno      volumes,       business      rooms. 


physical  and  chemical  laboratories, 
music  and  art  rooms,  and  also  a 
fully  developed  boarding  depart- 
ment; a  veritable  beehive  of  in- 
dustry during  the  school  season. 

The  College  was  established  in 
1S55  as  a  school  for  young  ladies 
only  and  in  185  7  was  legally  incor- 
porated as  Almira  College,  by  which 
name  it  was  known  until  its  trans- 
fer to  the  present  owners.  In  1892 
the  property  was  purchased  for 
$12,200  by  the  Central  Illinois  Con- 
ference of  the  Free  Methodist 
church  with  a  view  to  establishing  a 
college  for  the  higher  education  of 
both  young  men  and  young  women, 
"which  should  be  conducted  on 
strictly  christian  principles." 

Greenville  College  is  held  in 
trust  by  a  Board  of  fifteen  trustees 
and  its  affairs  are  directed  by  an 
executive  committee  consisting  of 
five  members.  The  members  of  the 
original  board  of  trustees  were  as 
follows:  Rev.  R.  W.  Sanderson,  Rev. 
F.  H.  Ashcraft,  Rev.  T.  H.  Marsh, 
Rev.  W.  B.  M.  Colt,  Isaac  Kesler, 
Rev.  C.  A.  Fleming,  Milton  Rowdy- 
bush,  James  H.  Moss,  Wm.  Neece, 
W.  T.  Branson,  J.  M.  Gilmore,  W. 
S.  Dann,  Francis  Schneeberger, 
Shell  D.  Young,  J.  D.  Springer,  Rev. 
W.  T.  Hogue.  Ex  Officio. 

On  the  purchase  of  this  property 
in  189  2,  the  Rev.  W.  T.  Hogue  of 
Buffalo,  New  York,  a  prominent 
clergyman  in  the  Genesee  Confer- 
ence of  the  Free  Methodist  church, 
was  elected  President  of  Greenville 
College.  On  the  nomination  of 
President  Hogue,  the  following  per- 
sons were  elected  and  constituted 
the  faculty  for  the  year  1S92-3,  the 
first   year   in    the   history   of   the   in- 


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49 


\Vm.  E.  White 


Now   Superinttndent   of  Coal    City, 
III.,  Schools. 


stitution:  A.  H.  Stillwell.  Prof,  of 
Latin  and  Philosophy;  E.  G.  Bur- 
ritt,  Prof,  of  Greek;  Melvin  G. 
Clark,  Prof,  of  Business  Science  and 
Mathematics:  Charles  W.  Hogg,  As- 
sistant in  Greek  and  Latin;  Miss 
Helen  O.  Shay,  Preceptress  and  In- 
structor in  English;  Miss  Emma 
Adine  Phillips,  Mathematics  and 
Natural  Science;  Miss  Jessie  Au- 
gusta Duff,  Director  of  Music;  Miss 
Catherine  H.  Duff,  Assistant  in  In- 
strumental Music;  Miss  Anna  Brod- 
head.  Instructor  in  Art;  Mrs.  Em- 
ma Luella  Hogue,  Principal  of  Pri- 
mary School;  Mrs.  Marcia  A.  Jones, 
Governess;  Mrs.  Henrietta  B.  Max- 
son,   Matron. 

School  opened  in  September  1892 
with  about  80  students,  the  attend- 
ance increasing  to  163  for  all  de- 
partments for  the  school  year 
Greenville  College  has  had  a  healthy 
and  possibly  slow  but  steady  growth 
from  its  origin  to  the  present  time. 
About  200  students  have  graduated 
from   all   departments  since   1893. 

The  prosperity  of  the  school  is 
due  not  only  to  its  careful  manage- 
ment by  President  Hogue  and  his 
assistants,  but  also  to  the  generous 
bequests  of  the  friends  of  the  in- 
stitution. In  addition  to  the  splen- 
did gift  of  $60nn  made  by  Mr.  J.  T. 
Grice,  of  Abingdon,  111.,  a  gift  that 
made  the  purchase  of  the  property 
a  possibility,  other  friends  have  re- 
membered the  school  and  its  needs. 
Mrs.  Ellen  Roland,  of  Cowden,  111., 
in  August  1S96.  deeded  a  farm  to 
the  institution,  valued  at  |4000. 
The  late  W.  S.  Dann,  of  Greenville, 
gave  $1000  toward  the  purchase  of 
the  building  and  later  donated  a 
vocalion    organ     for    which    he    paid 


\V.   Upton, 

Graduate  of  Greenville  College,  Su- 
perintendent of  Stronghurst,  111  . 
scboois. 


$705.  Mr.  James  Moss,  of  Green- 
ville, has  also  contributed  upwards 
of  $2000  and  .Mr.  John  A.  Augsbury, 
of  Watertown,  N.  Y.  has  donated 
$7000  in  all  to  the  College,  to  assist 
needy  students  and  enlarge  the  li- 
brary. Other  friends  iust  as  loyal 
though  not  as  able  financially,  have 
given  to  the  institution  their 
thought,  their  prayers  and  their 
gifts. 

In  1903  the  General  Conference 
of  the  Free  Methodist  church  elect- 
ed President  Hogue  to  the  office  of 
General  Superintendent  in  said 
church  and  hence  in  Feb.  1904 
President   Hogue  tendered  his  resig- 


nation    and     Kev.    A.    L.    Whitcomb 
was  elected   to  fill   the  vacancy. 

The  following  persons  were 
chosen  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  as 
members  of  the  College  Faculty  for 
1905-6:  Rev.  Augustin  L.  Whit- 
comb, M.  S.,  President,  Ethics;  El- 
don  Grant  Burritt,  A.  M.,  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Philosophy  and  Greek;  Archi- 
bald Edmund  Layman,  A.  M.,  Dean, 
Latin  Language  and  Literature; 
Rev.  John  La  Due,  A.  M.,  Hebrew 
and  Theology:  Luella  Helen  Eakins, 
.\.  M.,  Greek,  English  and  Peda- 
gogy: Charles  August  Stoll,  Ph.  B., 
Preceptor,  German  and  History:  Al- 
fred Clay  Millican,  A.  B.,  Economics 
and  Mathematics;  Emma  Baldwin 
Stoll,  Ph.  B.,  Preceptress,  French; 
Clara  Wilmot  Uglow,  Science  and 
Mathematics;  Zilpha  Mae  Barnes, 
Ph.  B.,  Academic  English;  William 
Edward  Milliken,  B.  C.  S.,  Ph.  B., 
Principal  of  Commercial  School, 
Shorthand  and  Penmanship;  Rumsey 
Osmen  Young,  B.  C.  S.,  Commercial 
Branches;  Emily  Grace  Kay,  Di- 
rector of  Music,  Piano,  Organ  and 
Harmony;  Alice  Leta  Hull,  Voice 
Culture:    Tutor,  Ernest  Lesley   Bost. 

At  the  June  1904  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  the  Rev.  F.  H. 
Ashcraft  was  appointed  financial 
agent  with  a  view  to  raising  funds 
for  the  erection  of  a  new  Adminis- 
tration Building  for  the  College,  and 
also  a  heating  plant  to  heat  both  the 
old  and  the  new  buildings.  On  Sab- 
bath, Jan.  29th,  1905,  Rev.  Ash- 
craft presented  the  needs  of  the 
school  to  an  audience  in  the  Free 
Methodist  church  at  Greenville  and 
in  response  to  the  appeal  made, 
$S0OO  was  soon  pledged  by  the 
faculty  and  students  of  the  College 
and  by  members  of  the  Free  Meth- 
odist church. 


R.  N.   Thompso.n,    '05. 


George  \V.  Eakins,  '05. 


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OCTAVO  MERKIMO. 

Reading  from  left  to  right— Alfred  H.Joy,  instructor  ia  tBe  Syrian  Protestant  College,  Beirut  Syria;  John  M. 
Smith,  student  at  Greenville  College;  \Vm.  F.  Murden,  assistant  editor  of  Waterloo  Gazette,  Waterloo,  Nebraska; 
Walter  A.Joy,  with  F.  P.  Jov  and  Co.,  Greenville,  111  ;  Wm.  E.  White,  Superintendent  of  Public  Schools,  Coal  City, 
111.;  Wm.  E.  Milliken,  Ph.  B.  B.  C.  S.,  Principal  of  Greenville  Business  College;  Herbert  K.  McGeary,  Secretary  to 
Congressman  Martin,  Deadwood,  South  Dakota;  Robert  Neil  Thompson,  Student  at  Harvard  University;  Robert 
E.  Adams,  B.  A.,  M.  A.,  Professor  of  Science,  Meridian  Male  College,  Meridian,  Miss. 

The  Octavo  Merrimo,  composed  of  nine  young  men  who  were  associated  together  in  Greenville  College,  is  one 
of  our  well  known  Literarv  and  Social  Clubs.  It  has  had  a  continuous  and  flourishing  existence  since  eight  of  the 
college  boys  founded  the  organization  in  1898.  In  spite  of  peculiar  difficulties  and  wide  separation,  the  Merrimo 
has  grown  stronger  from  vear  to  year,  while  similar  aims  and  ideals,  frequent  correspondence  and  annual  reunions 
have  kept  the  members  in  closest  touch  with  each  other.  The  Merrimo  stands  for  a  perpetuation  of  the  congenial 
friendship  of  college  days,  for  mutual  helpfulness  in  all  possible  ways,  and  for  the  highest  ambitions  and  worthiest 
endeavors  in  life. 


Class  of  1905  of 
Greenville  College 


A  male  quartet  foniied  the  class 
of  190  5  from  Greenville  College,  and 
as  they  are  strong  and  hardy  in  sex, 
so  are  they  in  robust,  mental  attain- 
ment  and   achievement. 

William  Edward  Milliken,  Green- 
ville, Illinois,  class  treasurer,  took 
his  intermediate  work  in  the  pre- 
paratory department  of  the  college 
and  has  finished  the  Ph.  B.  course  in 
the  college. 

Ezra  Whitton,  Newmansville. 
Penn.,  vice-president,  and  a  village 
curate,  took  his  preparatory  course 
in  the  High  School  at  Sheffield.  Pa., 
and  has  completed  the  A.  B.  course 
in   the   college. 

Robert  Neil  Thompson,  of  Dallas. 
Texas,  class  secretary,  after  a  pre- 
-paratory  course  in  Chili  Seminary. 
-Chili.  N.  Y..  has  finished  the  A.  B. 
course  in  the  college. 

George  Woodruff  Eakins,  after 
■graduating  from  Wilkesbarre  High 
School.  Penn.,  took  one  year  in  the 
"University  of  Pennsylvania  and  has 
■completed  the  Ph.  B.  course  in  the 
college. 


The  class  had  a  remarkable  career 
while  in  the  college,  holding  all  the 
posts  of  honor  the  student  body  could 
bestow,  and  its  members  being  ac- 
knowledged    as   exceptionally     profl- 


ROBEKT  E.   Ad.\ws. 

Class  of  1903,  Greenville  College. 
Member  of  the  facultj-  of  Meridian 
Male  College,  Meridian,  Miss. 

cient  in  scholastic  and  literary  ef- 
forts; the  Ph.  B's.  for  special  science 
work,  and  the  A.  B's.  for  extraor- 
dinary  rhetorical    accomplishments. 


Class  Song. 

By  Robert  E.  Adams. 

Our  joy  and  our  gladness 

On  reaching  our  goal, 
Is  mixed  with  a  sadness 

That's  filling  our  soul; 
For  year  after  year,  as 

We  held  on  our  way, 
All  things  became  dearer 

With  each  passing  day. 

We  think  of  the  struggles 

And  conflicts  we've  met, 
But  the  joy  of  our  triumph 

Is  tinged  with  regret; 
For  the  faces  of  class-mates 

And  kind  friends  so  dear. 
Will  never  more  greet  us 

Our   lone  hearts  to  cheer. 

To-morrow  we  leave  them 

And  bid  tliem  farewell. 
And  turn  to  the  future 

That  none  can  foretell; 
To-morrow  we  leave  thee, 

Our  dear  College  Home, 
May  Heaven  protect  thee 

In  days  that  shall  come! 

In  far  away  countries 

And  far  away  climes. 
We'll   think  of  the  College 

And  all  the  old  times. 
Where'er  we  may  wander 

And  what  be  life's  part. 
These  bands  we'll  not  sunder 

Nor  loose  from  our  hearts. 


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0  History  of  Greenville  Churches  0 


Methodist  eptecopal  Church. 


By  Rev.  Theodore  Cates. 


churcli  was  let  May  29,  1S77,  to  Jno. 
H.  Perry  for  $4885.  The  corner 
stone  was  laid  by  Greenville  Lodge, 
245,  A.  F.  and  A.  M.,  July  10,  1877, 
Rev.  W.  H.  Scott,  of  Troy,  acting  as 


NO  early  records  of  the  Greenville 
M.  E.  church  have  been  kept 
and  it  is  therefore  impossible  to 
give  anything  like  a  complete  his- 
tory of  it.  It  is  recorded,  however, 
that  the  first  sermon  preached  in  the 
county  by  a  minister  of  any  denomi- 
nation was  by  Rev.  John  Powers,  a 
Methodist  minister  at  Jones'  Fort  in 
February  1816.  The  first  Methodist 
meetings  were  conducted  by  Rev. 
John  Kirkpatrick.  The  first  Meth- 
odist church  was  built  about  a  mile 
and  a  half  southwest  of  Greenville, 
where  camp  meetings  were  held  for 
several  years.  For  more  than  twenty 
years  after  the  settlement  of  the 
country  services  were  very  irregular 
and  it  is  related  that  those  who 
attended  church  stacked  their  guns 
outside  the  door  while  two  sentinels 
stood  watch  to  give  the  alarm,  at 
the  first  approach  of  Indians. 

John  H.  Benson  conducted  meet- 
ings at  the  house  of  Mr.  Knapp. 
Next  came  Rev.  Thomas  Brown,  who 
died  in  1844,  and  then  for  several 
years  there  were  none  to  take  up 
the  work  except  transient  preachers. 
Until  this  time  class  meetings  and 
other  religious  services  were  held 
at  private  homes,  in  Odd  Fellows' 
Hall  and  in  the  old  court  house. 

In  1S4S  the  trustees  of  the  church 
bought  two  lots  in  Davidson's  Ad- 
dition of  Thomas  Kirkpatrick  for 
$3.00  which  indicates  that  he  gave 
the  lots  to  the  church.  The  build- 
ing was  finished  the  following  year. 
In  May  1S4S  the  trustees  of  the 
church  bought  their  first  parsonage 
of  Seth  Fuller  for  $425.  It  was  the 
property  on  Second  street  north  of 
the    present    Garland    residence. 

Until  187  2  this  church  belonged 
to  the  circuit  consisting  of  Dudley- 
ville,  Centenary  and  Greenville  and 
only  had  preaching  regularly  twice 
a  month,  but  at  that  time  the  church 
was  able  to  support  itself  with 
preaching  every  Sabbath.  Rev. 
House  was  the  last  minister  of  the 
circuit  and  Rev.  Van  Treese  the  first 
minister  of  the  station.  Soon  after 
the  old  church  was  sold  to  the 
Christian  denomination  for  $600 
and  the  old  parsonage  was  sold  to 
George  Hill  for  $l.non.  A  lot  on 
Second  and  Summer  streets  was  pur- 
chased for  $1,000,  and  the  present 
brick  edifice  was  built  at  a  cost  of 
$S,onn.  Rev.  Cyrus  Gibson  was 
pastor  at  that  time  and  did  much 
toward  pushing  the  movement. 

The  contract  for  building  the  new 


Key.    liiiiODOKE  C.\tes, 
Pastor  of  the  M.  E.  Church. 

Grand  Master.  The  church  was  ded- 
icated December  17,  1877,  by  Bishop 
Bowman. 


The  church  was  without  a  parson- 
age from  1877  until  1892,  when  C. 
D.  Hoiles  and  Ward  Reid  donated  u 
lot  in  Douglas  Place  and  a  house 
of  eight  rooms  was  built  and  was 
occupied  by  Rev.  L.  W.  Thrall,  who 
was  pastor  at  that  time.  Later  the 
property  was  sold  and  the  present 
parsonage  on  Main  Ave.  was  pur- 
chased. 

The  following  ministers  have  serv- 
ed the  church  between  the  dates 
mentioned:  V.  Ridgly,  1852;  J.  W. 
Caldwell,  1853;  J.  S.  Estep,  1854; 
W.  G.  Moore,  1855-7;  C.  M.  Holli- 
day,  1857;  V.  D.  Lingenfelter,  1858- 
9:  Levi  Walker,  1860;  F.  M.  Wool- 
ard,  1861;  H.  B.  Taylor,  1862-3:  G. 
W.  Waggoner,  1864-6;  J.  S.  Morri- 
son, 1867;  M.  N.  Powers,  1868-9; 
M.  House,  1870-71;  F.  M.  Van 
Treese,  1872-3;  I.  A.  Smith,  1874; 
R.  H.  Massey,  1875;  J.  Gibson,  1876- 
7:  J.  A.  Robinson,  1878-9;  J.  W. 
Van  Cleve,  IS 80;  E.  A.  Hoyt,  1881; 
W.  F.  Davis,  1882;  F.  L.  Thompson, 
1883;  W.  E.  Ravenscroft,  1884-6; 
S.  P.  Groves,  1887-8;  L.  W.  Thrall, 
ISS9-92:  C.  W.  Bonner,  1893;  C. 
D.  Shumard,  1894-98;  J.  B.  Ravens- 
croft, 1899-1901;  J.  G.  Dee,  1902; 
C.  B.  Besse,  190  2-3;  Theodore  Cates, 
1904  and  the  present  pastor. 

The  following  are  the  present  of- 
ficers of  the  church:  Pastor,  Rev. 
Theodore  Cates;  Board  of  Trustees, 
J.  Seaman,  J.  S.  Bradford,  Dr.  Wm. 
T.  Easley,  Dr.  J.  A.  Warren,  Samuel 
McGowan,  Jesse  McAdams,  T.  R. 
Robinson,  W.  W.  Hussong  and  A. 
L.  Bone;  Board  of  Stewarts,  J.  H. 
Ladd      Dr.     Fred     C.    Jones,     R.    W. 


The  M.  E.  Church, 
Built  in  1877.     South  Second  Street. 


il.  OF  ILL  LIB. 


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Rev.  Thomas  VV.  Hynks,  D.  D., 

Who  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1815,  and  who 
died  in  Greenville  July  26,  1905.  Came  here 
in  1S51;  County  Superintendent  ot  schools  for 
20  years,  a  minister  60  years. 


Wilson,  H.  W.  Blizzard,  E.  R.  Gum, 
Mrs.  N.  R.  Bradford,  Mrs.  K.  M. 
Bennett,  Mrs.  E.  A.  Gulllck,  Mrs. 
Jennie  Warren,  Mrs.  Lena  Davis, 
Mrs.  Minnie  Easley,  Mrs.  Alma  Dav- 
is; Superintendent  of  the  Sunday 
School,  J.  Seaman;  Assistant  Sup- 
erintendent, Dr.  Wm.  T.  Easley; 
Treasurer,  Dr.  Fred  C.  Jones;  Sec- 
retary of  the  church.  J.  H.  Ladd. 


Presbyterian  Church. 


(EMUR.\CING  THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  CONGRE- 
GATIONAL Church.) 


By  the  Reverend  W.  B.  Minton. 

MARCH  10,  1819,  a  church  was 
formed  in  Bond  county  called 
"Shoal  Creek  church,"  embracing 
all  the  Presbyterians  in  the  county. 
The  center  of  this  congregation  was 
in  what  was  called  the  "Ohio  Settle- 
ment" about  six  miles  north  of 
Greenville.  In  1S2  5,  Shoal  Creek 
-was  divided  into  three.  Bethel, 
:Shoal  Creek  and  Greenville  church- 
es. In  1832,  Greenville  and 
Shoal  Creek  were  united  under  the 
name  of  Greenville.  This  church 
■  enjoyed  the  labors  of  Rev.  Solomon 
Hardy,  William  J.  Eraser,  A.  Ewing, 
William  K.  Stewart  and  James  Staf- 
ford up  to  1S3S.  The  house  of  wor- 
■.ship.    which    was    built    at    the    time 


Shoal  Creek  church  and  Greenville 
church  united,  was  located  about 
two  miles  north  of  the  village  of 
Greenville,  on  the  left  hand  side  of 
the  Killsboro  road,  near  what  is  now 
known  as  Hazel  Dell  Cemetery.  This 
was  known  as  an  old  school  church. 
In  183S.  under  the  leadership  of  Dr. 
D.  C.  Lansing  and  those  who  sym- 
pathized with  his  views  a  new  school 
church  was  organized  in  Greenville. 
They  commenced  a  house  of  wor- 
ship in  1S39  and  dedicated  it  Jan- 
uary 1,  1843.  This  is  the  building 
which  stood  for  sixty  years  on  the 
site  of  the  present  Carnegie  Library. 
In  1846  the  congregation  worship- 
pins;  in  this  house  became  Congre- 
gational in  its  internal  government, 
though  still  retaining  its  exterior 
Presbyterian  connection.  In  1870 
those  members  preferring  complete 
Presbyterian  polity  united  with  the 
old  school  people,  who  had  erected 
a  church  in  Greenville  in  IS 4 4-5. 
The  remainder  took  the  entire  Con- 
gregational order.  The  ministers 
who  have  served,  for  a  year  or  more, 
this  church,  which  passed  through 
the  different  changes  in  form  of 
government  just  mentioned,  are  as 
follows:  Revs.  D.  C.  Lansing,  1838- 
41;  Robert  Stewart,  1841-9;  John 
Ingersoll,  1850-1;  George  C.  Woods, 
1852-7:  F.  A.  Armstrong.  1857-9; 
G.  W.  Goodale,  1862-5;  M.  M.  Long- 
ley,  1868-72:  M.  A.  Crawford.  1879- 
Sl;   Isaac  Wolfe,  18S2-3;   R.  Adams. 


1883-6;  A.  L.  Grindley,  1887-90; 
L.  E.  Jesseph,,  1891-3;  J.  P.  Pres- 
ton,  1893-5. 

As  has  been  stated,  in  1845  the 
old  school  Presbyterian  church 
people  erected  a  building  in  Green- 
ville. The  union  of  1871  wiped  out 
all  distinctions  of  new  school  and 
old  school,  and  the  Presbyterian  and 
Congregational  churches  of  Green- 
ville remained  as  the  outgrowth  of 
all  the  past  fifty  years  of  changes 
from   1819  to  1871. 

In  1840  Rev.  James  Stafford  be- 
came pastor  the  second  time  of  the 
church  worshipping  near  Hazel  Dell, 
and  was  pastor  when  the  new 
church  building  was  erected  in  town, 
during  the  years  1844  and  184  5, 
and  continued  with  this  church  un- 
til 1850.  He  was  followed  by  these 
brethren:  William  Goodner,  1850; 
William  Hamilton,  1851-2;  T.  W. 
Hynes,  1852-07;  Arthur  Rose,  1867; 
George  Fraser,  1809-7  2;  N.  S.  Dick- 
ey, 1873-6;  Albert  B.  Byram,  1877- 
80:  Wm.  H.  Hillis,  1881-3;  O.  G. 
Morton,  1884-7;  Joseph  Swindt, 
1887-1891;  George  J.  E.  Richards, 
1891-1900;  W.  B.  Minton,  1900  to 
the  present  time. 

Going  back  once  more  to  1870 
and  1871.  we  find  the  Presbyterian 
and  Congregational  churches  exist- 
ing side  by  side  with  varying  success 
until  October  23,  1897,  when  the 
Presbyterian  house  of  worship  burn- 
ed. The  Congregational  people  at 
once  invited  the  homeless  Presby- 
terians to  share  with  them  the  Con- 
gregational church  building  and  to- 
gether it  was  arranged  that  Rev. 
George  J.  E.  Richards,  then  pastor 
of  the  Presbyterian  church,  should 
become  the  minister  of  the  two  con- 
gregations, which  were  like  two  rain 
drops  on  the  window  pane,  very 
close  together,  yet  distinct.  On  the 
first  Sabbath  in  April.  1898,  the  two 
drops  got  so  close  together  that  they 
coalesced  around  the  communion 
table  and  as  a  united  church  have 
since  had  place  and  influence  in 
Greenville,  under  the  name  and 
polity  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
In  1902  and  1903  the  united  church 
erected  the  present  commodious  and 
comfortable  house  of  worship  at  a 
cost  of  $9,000.  The  membership  of 
the  church,  according  to  the  last 
report  to  the  General  Assembly,  is 
377. 

The  present  elders  are  James 
Hepburn,  Dr.  N.  H.  Jackson.  H.  C. 
Burton,  S.  S.  Trindle,  Prank  P.  Joy, 
S.  Curtis  White,  Alfred  Maynard, 
W.  D.  Donnell,  Geo.  Colcord.  W.  T. 
Carson,  Col.  J.  B.  Reid,  Robert  Fan- 
genroth.  Of  these  James  Hepburn 
has  been  in  continuous  service  since 
1872. 

The  deacons  are  W.  O.  Holdzkom. 
W.  A.  McLain,  Walter  Joy  and  H. 
Allendorph.  The  trustees  are  W.  O. 
Holdzkom,  James  Wafer,  Horace 
McNeill.  Walter  Joy  and  A.  D.  Ross. 


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Rev.  \Y.  B.  Mintox, 

Pastor  of  the   Presbyterian   Churih 
since  June,  1900. 

The  Sunday  School  officers  are,  Sup- 
erintendent, Alfred  Maynard;  As- 
sistant Superintendent,  W.  A.  Mc- 
Lain;  Superintendent  of  Primary 
Department,  Mrs.  W.  A.  McLain; 
Assistant  Superintendent  Primary 
Department,  Miss  Eula  Carson: 
Superintendent  of  Home  Depart- 
ment, Mrs.  W.  T.  Carson:  Superin- 
tendent of  Cradle  Roll,  Miss  Ola  Co- 
en:  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Miss 
Lizzie  Colcord;  Librarian,  Bertha 
Drayton:  Organist,  Misses  Hattie 
Carson  and  Mabel  Grube. 

Including  Home  Department  and 
Cradle  Roll,  the  school  reports  3(59 
members. 

The  Senior  and  Junior  Christian 
Endeavor  Societies  are  well  attend- 
ed    and     doing     good   service.      The 


The  Presbyterian  Church. 


Women's  Home  and  Foreign  Miss- 
ionary society  is  progressive  and 
faithful. 

Rev.  T.  W.  Hynes,  D.  D.,  who  died 
in  July,  1905,  in  his  ninetieth  year, 
had  the  honor  of  serving  the  church 
for  the  longest  time,  1852  to  1SG7. 
fifteen  years  consecutively,  and  for 
short  periods  since,  for  a  few  weeks 
or  months  as  the  church  had  occas- 
ion to  look  to  him  for  his  always  ac- 
ceptable services. 

The  present  minister  is  Rev.  W. 
B.  Minton,  who  began  his  ministry 
with  the  church  in  June,  1900. 
Since  his  coming  the  new  church 
has  been  built  and  dedicated  free  of 


debt.     The  outlook  is  full  of  encour- 
agement. 

Baptist  Church. 

By  Mrs    Ellen  R.  Stearns. 


THE  Baptist  church  of  Greenville 
was  organized  September  18, 
1S36,  with  six  members:  Lemuel 
Blanchard,  Charles  Norton,  Eunice 
Norton,  A.  N.  Norton,  Elizabeth 
Norton  and  Sibbel  Blanchard.  In 
1842  the  total  membership  was 
forty-two.      From      that      time      the 


The  Old  Presbyterian  Culri^h, 
Built  in  184-5  and  destroyed  by  fire  in  1897. 


E.  Richards, 


Pastor  Presbyterian  church  from 
December  15.  1891,  to  April  1, 
1900,  noy\'  a  resident  of  Mt.  Car- 
mel,  Illinois. 


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church  declined  in  numerical 
strength.  During  these  eleven  years 
of  its  existence,  it  never  had  a  regu- 
lar pastor  and  with  one  brief  ex- 
ception never  had  preaching  ser/ice, 
oftener  than  once  a  month. 

In  May  1S47  it  was  decided  to 
dissolve  the  church  relationship  and 
enter  into  a  new  church  organisa- 
tion. July  4,  1847,  the  church  was 
re-organized  by  Rev.  Ebenezer  Rod- 
gers  and  Rev.  I.  D.  Newell,  with  fif- 
teen members:  K.  P.  and  Elizabeth 
Morse,  Sibbel  Blanchard,  Elizabeth 
Foster,  C.  J.  and  Almira  Wightman, 
John  and  Sophia  Jett,  Benjamin 
Floyd,  Susan  Morse,  Priscilla  Morse, 
Elizabeth  Hoiles,  Serena  Hull,  \Vm. 
T.  and  Maria  Hull.  Of  these,  one, 
Mrs.  Sophia  Jett,  survives.  Six 
hundred  twenty-two  names  have 
been  enrolled.  The  present  mem- 
bership is   121. 

Prior  to  1S54  meetings  of  the 
church  were  held  in  private  houses, 
in  the  court  house,  or  in  the  Pres- 
byterian church.  From  1S47  to 
April  1854,  the  meetings  were  held 
in  the  Presbyterian  church  and  for 
more  than  three  years  of  that  time 
we  occupied  that  building  one  half 
of  the  time.  In  April  1854  a  build- 
ing 32x50  feet  was  completed  at  a 
cost  of  $2500.  This  building  was 
called  at  that  time,  the  prettiest 
church  building  in  southern  Illinois. 
This  house  was  occupied  till  Sep- 
tember 1902,  when  it  was  sold.  In 
October,  1902,  our  present  house  of 
worship  was  completed  but  was  not 
dedicated  till  July  12,  1903,  at  a 
cost  of  $5,000.  The  first  pastor  of 
the  new  organization  was  Rev. 
Moses  Lemen,  who  served  one  year. 
In  February  1851  a  call  was  extend- 
ed to  Rev.  W.  D.  H.  Johnson,  of 
Woodburn,  111.,  and  in  December 
1851  he  moved  his  family  to  Green- 
ville, with  the  condition  that  a  meet- 
ing house  should  be  built  as  soon  as 
possible.  He  continued  as  pastor 
till  October  1858.  Other  pastors 
were  Rev.  J.  B.  White,  1858  to  1861: 
Rev.  D.  P.  French,  1862  to  1866; 
Rev.  R.  G.  Hall,  1867  to  1869:  Rev. 
M.  D.  Bevan,  1870  to  1875:  Rev.  R. 
M.  Neil,  1876  to  1877:  Rev.  George 
Kline,  1877  to  1879.  In  1881  Rev. 
M.  D.  Bevan  was  again  called  to  the 
pastorate,  serving  until  1884.  when 
Rev.  P.  Reynolds  came,  remaining 
till  1886.  Then  Rev.  H.  W.  Thiele 
from  1887  to  1890;  Rev.  J.  W.  Tit- 
terington,  1890  to  1893;  Rev. 
Stephen  Crockett  1893  to  1S94; 
Rev.  W.  L.  Jones,  1895  to  1S9S: 
Rev.  R.  Wiley,  1900  to  1903;  Rev. 
■G.  E.  Milford,  1903  to  1905.  Our 
present  pastor.  Rev.  E.  M.  Ryan, 
'Commenced  his  labors  in  October 
1905. 

As  early  as  February  183  8  initial 
steps  were  taken  towards  building 
an  academy  but  the  effort  failed  at 
that    time.      However    the    desire    of 


The  Old  Congregation.\l  Church, 
Builtlin  1839,  and  dismantled  in  1903,  for  the  site  of  the  Carnegie  Library 


the  church  to  do  something  in  the 
line  of  education,  strengthened  and 
matured  and  in  the  fall  of  1854  de- 
veloped in  plans  for  the  erection  of 
Almira  College,  now  Greenville  Col- 
lege. This  effort  was  not  luade  by 
the  church  in  its  church  capacity  but 
all  of  its  originators,  except  one. 
were  members  of  the  church  and  its 
members  always  took  a  deep  inter- 
est in  the  advancement  of  the 
school.  About  one  hundred  of  the 
pupils  of  the  school  were  converted 
and  united  with  the  church  so  that 
the  church  and  school  were  closely 
linked  together  as  long  as  the  school 
remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Bap- 
tist denomination  and  the  history 
of  the  church  would  be  incomplete 
without  reference  to  the  College. 

The  Sunday  School  was  held  in 
connection  with  the  Presbyterians 
until  1854,  when  we  occupied  our 
own  house  of  worship.  A  school  of 
forty-three  members  was  then  or- 
ganized with  Alexander  Buie  as 
Superintendent.  In  1860-5  the 
average  attendance  was  115.  Dur- 
ing the  Rebellion  thirty-eight  of 
those   who   were   or  had   been   mem- 


bers of  this  school  joined  the  Union 
army,  eight  of  whom  gave  their 
lives  for  their  country.  The  present 
officers  of  the  school  are:  Superin- 
tendent, Fred  Scheele;  Assistant 
Superintendent,  Miss  Lizzie  Blanch- 
ard; Secretary.  Delia  Jett:  Treasur- 
er, A.  B.  Scheele;  Organist.  Mrs.  A. 
B.  Scheele.  The  present  enrollment 
is  ninety. 

The  young  people  of  the  church 
are  organized  into  a  B.  Y.  P.  U. 
with  thirty  members.  The  officers 
are:  President,  Miss  Lizzie  Blanch- 
ard: Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Miss 
Lola  Nevinger;  Organist,  Mrs.  A.  B. 
Scheele. 

The  ladies  of  the  church  maintain 
a  mission  circle  which  meets  once 
a  month.  It  has  a  membership  of 
twenty.  The  officers  are:  President, 
Mrs.  E.  R.  Stearns:  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  J.  B.  White. 

The  present  officers  of  the  church 
are;  Trustees,  Fred  Scheele,  G.  B. 
Hoiles,  E.  Sohn,  F.  N.  Blanchard. 
J.  W.  Blanchard,  J.  W.  Wrightsman 
and  Erastus  DeMoulin:  Deacons,  P. 
Scheele,  E.  Sohn,  John  Wenting, 
Ransom  Pope.  W.  Donnell  and  G.  B. 


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Keesecker;  Clerk,  Mrs.  E.  R. 
Stearns;  Treasurer,  G.  B.  Holies; 
Organist,   Miss   Lizzie   Blanchard. 


8t.  Lawrence  Congregation. 

By    The    Reverend    Wni.    Pathlliot'er. 

THE  first  mass  known  to  have 
been  celebrated  at  Greenville 
was  said  by  a  Franciscan  Father  of 
Teutopolis,  III.,  at  the  home  of 
Frank  Seewald  in  the  year  1875. 
On  May  6,  IS 7 7  a  small  congrega- 
tion was  organized  under  the  di- 
rection of  Rev.  L.  Quitter,  of  Van- 
dalia,  and  services  were  held  at  first 
in  a  hall  on  the  third  floor  of  the 
First  National  Bank  Building  on  the 
southwest  corner  of  the  square, 
which  is  now  the  property  of  J.  M. 
Miller. 

Prominent  among  the  first  pro- 
moters of  the  new  mission  were 
Lawrence  McGinness,  Peter  Pepin, 
Frank  Parent,  Frank  Seewald,  Phil- 
ip Cable,  Patrick  Clare  and  Louis 
Lehn.  Several  months  after  the 
opening  of  the  services  in  the  hall 
arrangements  were  made  for  the 
building  of  a  special  house  of  wor- 
ship. A  suitable  site  was  secured 
at  the  corner  of  present  Prairie  and 
Spring  streets  and  a  small  brick 
church  was  erected  thereon,  which 
was  given  the  name  of  St.  Lawrence 
the  Martyr,  a  compliment  to  Law- 
rence McGinness.  On  completion 
of  the  church  the  congregation  con- 
tinued to  be  visited  about  once  a 
month  as  an  out-mission  of  Van- 
dalia,  viz.,  1S77-S1  by  Rev.  L.  Quit- 
ter; August  14,  1881-85  by  Rev. 
Charles    Geier;     in    the    summer    of 


The  First  Baptist  Church,  built  in  1902. 


1885  by  Rev.  John  J.  Higgins;  No- 
vember 1SS5-SS  by  Rev.  Hy.  Beck- 
er, D.  D. ;  October  1888  to  December 
189  3  by  Rev.  P.  M.  Bourke;  Janu- 
ary 189  4  to  June  18  95  by  Rev.  Ber- 
nard Lee. 

In  June  1S95  the  congregation  re- 
ceived its  first  resident  pastor,  in 
the  person  of  Rev.  John  P.  Moroney, 
who  enlisted  for  his  work  the  good 
will  and  co-operation,  not  only  of 
the  regular  parishioners,  but  also 
of  numerous  non-Catholic  friends. 
With  their  aid.  Father  Moroney 
erected  a  parsonage  in  1895  and 
built  a  front  addition  to  the  church 
in  1897.  He  likewise  placed  in  the 
church  the  present  main  altar  which 


was  donated  by  the  congregation  of 
Jacksonville,  HI.  When  Father  Mo- 
roney was  transferred  to  Vandalia 
in  June  1898,  he  was  succeeded  by 
Rev.  S.  P.  Hoffman,  who  proceeded 
to  appropriately  furnish  the  parson- 
age and  improve  the  premises  of  the 
church  property.  At  the  same  time 
he  established  several  church  so- 
cieties, and  founded  a  library  for 
the  use  of  the  congregation.  In  1900 
a  tract  of  land  was  purchased  on  the 
southwest  limit  of  the  town  and 
adopted  for  the  purpose  of  a  ceme- 
tery. 

Moreover  during  Father  Hoff- 
man's term  the  sanctuary  of  the 
church  was  artistically  frescoed,  and 
side  altars  with  statues  and  a  new 
organ  placed  in  the  edifice.  When 
in   October   1901,  the  zealous  pastor 


The  Old  Baptist  Church, 
3uilt  in  1847  and  used  continuously  for  more  than  50  3'ears. 


Rev.  E.  M.  Ryan, 
Pastor  First  Baptist  church. 


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Rev  M.  D.  Bkvan,  D.  D.,  Deceased, 

Pastor  of  the  Greenville  Baptist 
church  from  1870  to  1875  and 
from  1881  to  1884. 


was  compelled  by  ill-health  to  re- 
sign his  charge,  he  was  temporarily 
replaced  by  Rev.  A.  Hochmiller.  On 
October  1,  1902,  Rev.  William  A. 
Pachlhofer,  the  present  incumbent, 
was  appointed  rector  of  the  church. 
Since  his  arrival,  it  has  been  his  en- 
deavor to  continue,  with  the  assist- 
ance of  his  flock,  the  work  perform- 
ed by  his  predecessors  in  further- 
ing the  spiritual  and  material  pro- 
gress of  the  congregation.  During 
the  last  two  years  the  congregation 
has  secured  additional  church  fur- 
niture, renovated  the  interior  of 
the  parsonage,  notably  reduced  the 
church  debt,  and  added,  in  Septem- 
ber 1904,  a  commodious  sacristy  to 
the  church. 

Although  comparatively  small  and 
with  the  majority  of  its  members 
living  at  considerable  distance  from 
church,  St.  Lawrence  congregation 
has,  especially  during  the  last  ten 
years,  slowly  but  steadily  progress- 
ed and,  as  the  Catholic  population 
of  the  seat  of  Bond  county  is  in- 
creasing, bids  fair  to  contribute 
even  more  in  the  futvire  to  the  hon- 
or of  God,  the  salvation  of  souls, 
and  the  general  welfare  of  the  com- 
munity. 


Grace  €pt8copal  Church. 


By    The    Reverend    .1.    G.    Wright. 


Rev.  W.  D.  H,  Joh.nsux,  Deceased. 

Pastor  of  the  Greenville  Baptist 
Church  from  December,  1851,  to 
October,  1858. 

city  in  the  summer  of  that  year. 
He  was,  in  all  probability,  the  first 
Episcopal  minister  to  visit  our  com- 
munity. On  July  20th,  1S7S,  Messrs. 
W.  S.  Ogden,  C.  K.  Denny,  M.  B. 
Chittenden,  Henry  Howard  and 
Henry  M.  Chittenden,  (now  Arch- 
deacon of  Alton)  met  at  Esjuire 
Howard's  office  and  there  decided  to 
organize  a  mission  to  be  known  as 
Grace  Church.  To  the  above  named 
gentlemen,  seventeen  others,  who 
had  been  baptised  in  the  Episcopal 
church,     and    twelve,    who    were   not 


'THE  Greenville  papers  of  1877 
■*  announced  that  the  Reverend 
W.  M.  Steel  of  Rantoul,  a  pioneer 
missionary  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
^copal    church,    held    services    in    this 


connected  with  any  religious  or- 
ganization in  the  city,  may  be  added 
as  constituting  a  part  of  the  nucleus 
of  the  mission. 

The  Reverend  Mr.  Van  Duzen,  of 
Paris,  Edgar  county,  visited  Green- 
ville in  August  1S7S,  and  held  ser- 
vices in  the  Congregational  church. 
\V.  S.  Ogden  attended  the  Diocesan 
convention  of  that  year  held  at 
Springfield  and  conferred  with 
Bishop  McLaren  about  the  mission. 
He  carried  with  him  the  petition  for 
admission,  and  this  being  accepted, 
the  mission  was  canonically  estab- 
lished. W.  S.  Ogden  and  C.  K.  Den- 
ny were  selected  as  Wardens;  M. 
B.  Chittenden,  Treasurer  and  H. 
A.  Stephens,  Clerk.  At  the  same 
time  Henry  M.  Chittenden  received 
a  license  to  act  as  lay  reader.  Morse 
Hall  was  rented  and  fitted  up  for  use 
and  Mr.  Henry  Chittenden  conduct- 
ed for  a  while,  the  Sunday  services, 
his  sister,  Miss  Hattie  Chittenden, 
playing  the  organ.  In  the  same 
year  the  Reverend  R.  E.  G.  Hunting- 
ton, of  Collinsville  took  charge  and 
began  fortnightly  services.  He  re- 
mained in  charge  until  May,   1881. 

The  first  list  of  communicants  of 
the  church  is  as  follows:  W.  S.  Og- 
den and  wife,  C.  K.  Denny,  C.  R. 
Jones  and  wife,  M.  B.  Chittenden, 
Henry  M.  Chittenden,  Hattie  E. 
Chittenden,  Mrs.  S.  M.  Hoiles,  and 
H.  F.  Stephens.  To  these  were  add- 
ed in  the  first  confirmation  Henry 
Alexander,  Mrs.  W.  H.  Williams, 
and  Misses  L.  E.  Daniels,  Hattie  E. 
Ogden,  May  Ellis,  Emma  Jones  and 
Louisa  Jones.  At  the  following  visit- 
ation of  the  Bishop,  Mmes.  W.  S. 
Smith,  S.  Blanchard.  C.  K.  Denny 
and      the    Misses    Minnie   Blanchard, 


C.  j.  \ViGHrM.\N,  C.J.  \ViGHTM.\N,  Deceased. 

One   of  the  first  teachers  in  Alniira,  One  of  the  founders  of  the  Greenville 

and    one    of  the    founders   of    the  Baptist   church    and   a  prominent 

Ladies'  Library  .Association,  citizen  for  many  years. 


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St.  La\vki:nli-;  (Jathch.ic  Chlkcii,  built  in  l.s^ 


Emma  Williams,  and  Carrie  Ogden 
were  added.  It  may  be  here  noted 
that  one  hundred  and  six  others 
have  since  been  confirmed  in  Green- 
ville  by   Bishop  Seymour. 

On  Easter  Sunday,  1S82,  the  Rev- 
erend J.  G.  Wright  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  mission.  He  was  at 
that  time  principal  of  the  public 
schools  in  Altamont  and  came  over 
everv    Sunday    to    condiict    the    ser- 


vices. During  the  administration  of 
his  predecessor  a  lot  had  been  pur- 
chased on  Third  Street,  midway  be- 
tween the  Vandalia  depot  and  the 
public  square,  and  soon  after  Mr. 
Wright  took  charge,  a  movement 
was  made  to  begin  the  erection  of  a 
church  building.  "So  built  we  the 
wall  for  the  people  had  a  mind  to 
work,"  and  on  the  following  Easter 
Sunday,  1SS3,  the  congregation  as- 
sembled for  the  first  time  in  their 
new  church,  a  small  but  beautiful 
Gothic  structure,   well   suited   to  the 


Rev.  \Vm.  1'.\chlh(>fi;r, 

Pastor   of  St.    Lawrence     congrega- 
tion. 


needs   of   a   small   congregation. 

In  June,  1883,  the  Reverend  J.  G. 
Wright  moved  from  Altamont  and 
took  up  his  residence  in  Greenville, 
the  first  resident  clergyman  of  the 
mission.  He  is  still  in  charge, 
(1905)  having  complete;!  twenty- 
two  years  of  service.  The  church 
now  has  a  membership  of  sixty. 

To  this  brief  note  it  may  well  be 
added  that  much  support  has  been 
given  to  this  struggling  mission  by 
the  organization  of  the  Ladies'  Aid 
Society.  This  society  purchased  the 
lot  on  which  the  church  stands,  and 
have  from  the  very  first  supported 
every  movement  made  to  advance 
the  church's  interest.  Mainly  by 
their  efforts  the  debt  upon  the 
church    building  was   cancelled,   thus 


Rev.  J.  G.  Wright, 


Pastor  of  the   Episcopal   church  for 
more  than  22  vears. 


Grace  Ei'iscopai,  Cuukch,  built  in  ISS'. 


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The  Christian  Church,  built  in  1891. 


enabling  the  Bishop  to  consecrate 
the  church.  This  ceremony  took 
place  March  25,  1S97.  It  is  also 
a  matter  of  interest  that  Henry 
Chittenden,  whose  name  occurs  in 
the  foregoing  note  as  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  mission,  was  or- 
dained deacon  in  this  church,  by 
Bishop  Seymour,  January  16,  1S87, 
and  in  the  same  church  and  by  the 
same  Bishop  was  advanced  to  the 
Priesthood    October    15,    1891. 

The    interior    of    the    church    has 
from    time    to   time    been    much   im- 
proved.    A  handsome  carved  memor- 
ial  Altar,   the   gift   of   Mr.   and   Mrs. 
A.   L.   Hord,   has   replaced   the   more 
modest     altar    of    the    earlier    days. 
The  altar  cross  thereon   is  a  memo- 
rial    of   Lieut.    C.    C.    Ogden    of    the 
13th  Infantry,  a  faithful  and  devot- 
ed  son   of   the  church,   who   died   in 
1S93.     A  memorial  brass  altar  desk 
has  been  presented  by  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
W.  W.  Lowis,  a  brass  lectern  by  Mr. 
and     Mrs.     Walter    von    Weise    and 
brass   memorial   alms   basins  by   Mr. 
and     Mrs.    George   von  Weise.      The 
chancel   chairs  were   the   gift   of  the 
Ladies'  Aid  Society  and  the  book  of 
altar    services    and    book    for   prayer 
desk   were   given,   as   a   memorial   to 
his  wife  and  mother,  by  Charles  W. 
Watson.     In  addition  to  these  hand- 
some    gifts,    the    church    has    lately 
purchased  a  pipe,  organ  of  excellent 
quality  and  tone,  and  the  same  La- 
dies' Aid  Society  which  has  been  so 
fruitful  in  good  works,  is  now  stead- 
ily   diminishing  the   small   indebted- 
ness that   rests  thereon.     The  choir, 
as  at  present  constituted,  consists  of 
Messrs     R.    S.    Denny,    H.    C.    Diehl, 
Frank     E.     Watson     and     Will     C. 
Wright.      Miss    Louise   Morey   is   or- 
ganist. 


T:bc  Chriattan  Church. 


By  Mrs.   Alice  Ferryman. 


ELDER  J.  CARROLL  STARK,  pas- 
tor of  the  Christian  church  at 
Augusta,  111.,  arrived  in  Greenville 
February  7,  1878,  and  commenced 
a  series  of  meetings  which  led  up 
to  the  organization  of  the  Greenville 
Christian  church  on  Sunday,  Febru- 
ary 24,  1878.  The  meetings  were 
held  in'  the  old  M.  E.  church  on  the 
southwest  corner  of  College  and 
Fourth  Streets.  The  trustees  of 
the  First  M.  E.  church  of  Greenville 
deeded  this  church  to  M.  V.  Denny, 
R.  C.  Sprague  and  Wm.  Koch,  trus- 
tees of  the  Christian  church  on 
October  12,  1877,  for  $600. 

Large    audiences     greeted     Elder 


Stark  and  the  local  papers  at  the 
time  stated  that  people  came  six  and 
seven  miles  through  the  mud  and 
darkness  to  hear  him. 

As  above  stated  the  church  was 
organized  February  24,  1878,  with 
twenty-six  members.  Seven  more 
united  a  few  days  later  and  there 
were  many  additions  every  week, 
during  the  labors  of  Elder  Stark 
here.  In  April  of  that  year  a  Sun- 
day School  was  organized  with  M. 
V.  Denny  as  superintendent  and 
Miss  Cornelia  Dry  as  secretary. 

Elder  Stark  remained  with  the 
church  as  pastor  for  about  two  years 
during  which  time  under  his  labors 
and  the  labors  of  Elder  Trickett,  in 
a  protracted  meeting  held  early  in 
fhe  year  1879  there  were  added  to 
the  congregation  about  63  persons. 
In  April  W.  S.  Errett  came  to  Green- 
ville as  pastor  of  the  church. 
Others  who  have  served  as  pastor 
have  been  J.  M.  Tennison,  John  A. 
Williams,  H.  R.  Trickett,  W.  S.  Er- 
rett, a  second  time.  Dr.  Collins,  H. 
H.  Peters,  E.  N.  Tucker,  J.  E.  Story 
and  Tallie  Defrees,  the  present  pas- 
tor. At  present  E.  E.  Wise  and  E. 
W.  Miller  are  the  deacons  and  E.  W. 
Miller  is  clerk.  The  present  church 
on  the  corner  of  Main  Avenue  and 
Prairie  Street  was  dedicated  on 
Sunday,  August  23,  1891,  by  Elder 
F.  M.  Rains  of  Topeka,  Kansas,  as- 
sisted by  the  pastor.  Elder  W.  S.  Er- 
rett. The  new  church  cost,  with  the 
furnishings,  $3,500. 


So-Callcd  Plymouth  Brethren. 


By  One  of  the  Brethren. 


T 


HE  origin  of  the  Plymouth  Breth- 


they  do  not  own,  dates  from  the 
year  1827  and  started  in  Dublin, 
Ireland,    where   four   men,    who   had 


Rutschly's  Hall, 
In  which  the  Plymouth  Brethren,  (so-called)  worship. 


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Rev.  J.  H.  Flower, 

Who  was  pastor  of  the  F.  M.  church 
EJfor  several  years  and  who  built  the 
t  present  church.  Now  a  resident  of 
}^  St.  Louis. 


been  troubled  about  the  state  in  the 
established  church,  left  it  and  met 
together  to  study  the  Scriptures. 
This  resulted  in  their  being  gather- 
ed unto  the  name  of  the  Lord  alone, 
and  instead  of  forming  another 
unity,  and  thus  adding  to  the  di- 
visions in  Christendom,  they  simply 
recognized  the  unity  of  the  church 
of  Christ,  and  so  were  standing  on 
a  ground  that  embraced  all  Christ- 
ians. 

In  the  year  1S2S.  Mr.  .1.  N.  Darby 
published  his  first  pamphlet  en- 
titled: "The  Nature  and  Unity  of 
the    Chu'ch    of    Christ."      This   tract 


may  be  considered  as  a  statement  of 
what  these  brethren  believed  and 
practiced,  yet  not  in  the  form  of  a 
confession. 

In  the  spring  of  ISISd  they  com- 
menced breaking  bread  in  their 
first  public  meeting  room  on  the 
first  day  of  the  week  and  the  truths 
which  seemed  to  get  most  notice 
were  the  divinity  of  the  Lord  Jesus, 
the  efficacy  of  redemption,  the  know- 
ledge of  pardon  and  acceptance,  the 
oneness  of  the  body  of  Christ,  the 
presence  of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  the 
assembly,  and  the  Lord's  second 
coming. 

The  first  public  meeting  room  in 
Plymouth  was  called  "Providence 
Chapel"  and  as  they  refused  to  give 
themselves  any  name,  they  were 
known  as  "Providence  People." 
But  when  the  brothers  began  to  go 
outside  the  town  and  preach  the 
gospel  in  the  villages — then  a  rare 
thing — they  were  spoken  of  as 
"Brethren  from  Plymouth,"  which 
naturally  resulted  in  the  designation 
"The  Plymouth  Brethren."  This 
new  title  spread  rapidly  over  Eng- 
land and  elsewhere  but  was  never 
accepted  by  them,  as  they  refuse 
both  the  position  and  name  of  a 
sect. 

This  company  has  spread  all  over 
the  civilized  world,  and  the  first 
meeting  in  Greenville  was  in  1S54. 
when  there  were  only  a  few  gather- 
ed together  and  the  meetings  were 
held  in  a  private  house.  After  a 
while  they  rented  a  hall,  when  the 
number  increased  to  about  forty  or 
fifty.  They  do  not  accept  the  term 
or  name  of  member  of  church  but 
only  members  of  the  body  of  Christ. 
Hence,  there  is  no  such  thing  among 
them  as  members  of  Plymouth 
Brethren  church  as  they  only  recog- 


Rev.  C.  a.  Fleming, 

Pastor  of  the  Free  Methodist  church 
in  1881  and  again  in  1904-  and 
1905. 

nize  one  church,  composed  of  all 
true  believers  in  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,   no   matter   where  they  meet. 


free  Methodist  Church. 


By   The    Reverend   C.   A.    Fleming. 


The  Free  Methodist  Church,  built  in  1899. 


I  X  the  fall  of  18S0  C.  A.  Fleming, 
1  who  was  appointed  to  the  Wo- 
burn  and  Walnut  Grove  circuit, 
which  included  Dudleyville  and  Mul- 
berry Grove,  first  began  preaching 
in  Greenville,  in  the  private  house 
of  Mr.  Fleeharty,  and  continued  un- 
til the  following  July,  at  which  time 
a  tabernacle  meeting  was  arranged 
by  him.  The  services  of  F.  H.  Hal- 
ey, T.  H.  Agnew,  Lon  B.  Myers  and 
Addie  Durham  were  secured  to  as- 
sist in  the  meeting. 

At  the  close  of  the  tent  meeting, 
W.  B.  M.  Colt,  district  elder  of  the 
Litchfield  district,  organized  a  class 
consisting  of  seven  members,  name- 
ly W.  S.  Dann,  A.  J.  Huffman, 
Lewis  Wright,  A.  L.  Aired  and 
Sarah  Dann,  Hulda  Huffman  and 
Clara  Wright.  The  organization 
took  place  in  the  rooms  of  W.  S. 
Dann,  over  his  store  which  is  now 
occupied  by  Joy  &  Co.  This  was 
about  July  20,  1881.  C.  A.  Fleming 
acted  as  pastor  to  the  end  of  that 
conference  year,  at  which  time  the 
circuit  was  divided.  Then  C.  C. 
Brunner  was  appointed  to  the 
Greenville  circuit  and  served  from 
ISSl  to  October  1SS2,  at  which  time 
C.  A.  Fleming  was  re-appointed  and 
served  the  following  year.  During 
this  year  the  first  Free  Methodist 
church  was  built  at  the  corner  of 
Prairie  and  Vine  Streets,  at  a  cost 
of  $1,300.  The  church  was  dedi- 
cated  by   B.    F.    Robert,   one   of   the 


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'  iitiH^IHHI^H 

The  African  M.  E.  Chukch. 


General       Superintendents       of     the 
Free  Methodist  church. 

The  membership  of  the  church  at 
this  time  had  increased  to  about 
twenty-nve,  all  being  in  poor  circum- 
stances but  one.  The  succeeding 
pastors  were  as  follows:  M.  C.  Bal- 
lew,  18S3-5;  H.  F.  Ashcraft,  1885- 
6;  R.  Adams,  October  1S86  to  June 
1SS7;  M.  C.  Ballew,  June  to  Octo- 
ber 1887;  J.  W.  Kelly,  1887-8;  W. 
C.  Kelly,  1888-90;  H.  G.  Ahlemeyer, 
1890-92;  W.  T.  Hogue,  1892-3;  J.  H. 
Flower,  1893-4;  John  LaDue,  1894- 
5;  J.  n'.  Eason,  1895-6;  B.  S.  Dewey, 
1896-7;   J.  H.   Flower,   1897-1900. 

Under  the  pastorate  of  J.  H. 
Flower,  the  present  church  at  the 
corner  of  College  and  Elm  Streets 
was  built  at  a  cost  of  $4,000.  This 
church  was  dedicated  at  the  close  of 
the  annual  conference  by  Superin- 
tendent E.  P.  Hart,  September  18, 
1899.  The  membership  of  the 
church  at  this  time  consisted  of  122 
full  members  and  24  probationers, 
making  a  total  of  146.  The  succeed- 
ing pastors  were  as  follows:  S.  K. 
Wheatlake,  1900-2;  W.  R.  Bonham, 
1902-3;  A.  L.  Whitcomb,  September 
1903  to  July  1904;  W.  P.  Ferries, 
July  to  September  190  4;  C.  A. 
Fleming,  September  190  4  to  Sep- 
tember 1905.  The  present  pastor 
is  Rev.  A.  L.  Whitcomb  and  the 
membership  is  2  80.  The  Board  of 
Trustees  are  J.  H.  Moss,  J.  H.  Max- 
ey,  W.  B.  Fink,  H.  R.  McAdams  and 
S.  M.  Bilyeu;  class  leaders,  Wm. 
Baker,  Wm.  Freidlein,  Mrs.  Minnie 
Ashcraft  and  Mrs.  G.  R.  White; 
Superintendent  of  Sunday  School, 
J.  M.  Daniels,  with  a  membership 
of  about  300;  Woman's  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary Society — President,  Mrs.  C. 
A.  Fleming;  this  society  raised  a 
total  of  $336,70  for  foreign  mis- 
sions last  year.  The  Junior  Mission- 
ary Society,  Mrs.  Emma  Haverland, 
president.      This    society    is    raising 


yearly    $15    for    the   support    of    one 
of  the  Indian  orphans. 


€be  Hfrican  M.  6.  Church. 

THE  African  M.  E.  church  was  or- 
ganized in  18  81  by  Rev.  Mor- 
gan. Meetings  were  held  at  the 
private  homes  until  the  Congrega- 
tional denomination  offered  the  use 
of  their  church  basement  which  was 
used  until  the  present  building  was 
erected.  In  1882,  Henry  Nowell, 
Jacob  Bristow  and  Eli  Spriggs  bought 
a  lot  of  Dr.  Ravold  and  donated  it 
in  part  to  the  A.  M.  E.  denomination 
and  Rev.  D.  A.  Wilkerson,  the  pas- 
tor in  charge,  built  the  present 
church  at  a  cost  of  $500. 


Che  Second  Baptist  Church. 

THE    Second    Baptist    church    was 
organized    July    19,    1S90,    at    7 
p.  m.     Rev.  J.  W.  Feat  was  the  mod- 


erator and  Rev.  J.  H.  Bell  secretary. 
Rev.  Metcalf,  Rev.  Groase,  L.  D. 
Blanchard,  J.  B.  Reid,  J.  H.  Jett  and 
C.  Anderson  sat  in  the  counsel.  The 
church  was  organized  with  four 
members,  Archie  Ewing,  James  Ew- 
ing,  Julia  Dukes  and  Martha  Wilson. 
The  present  church  was  erected  a 
few   years   later. 


THE    PRESS 


Che  Protestant  Monitor. 

T-HE  PROTESTANT  MONITOR  was 
1  the  iirst  newspaper  published  in 
Greenville  and  the  earliest  copy  of 
the  paper  preserved  is  Volume  1, 
No.  2  7,  bearing  date  of  December  8, 
1845.  As  the  name  indicates  it  was 
a  religious  paper  and  was  started  in 
Vandalia  the  June  previous,  but  was 
moved  soon  after  to  Greenville.  The 
paper  was  owned  and  edited  by  E. 
M.  Lathrap.  Incomplete  files  of  the 
Monitor  are  preserved  in  Greenville 
newspaper  offices.  The  subscription 
price  was  $2  per  year,  if  paid  in  ad- 
vance; $2.50  at  the  end  of  three 
months,  or  $3  if  payment  was  de- 
layed to  the  end  of  the  year.  The 
paper  espoused  the  cause  of  the 
Protestant  Methodist  denomination 
and  paid  but  little  attention  to  local 
news.  The  local  news  was  contained 
principally  in  the  quaint  advertise- 
ments and  the  death  of  a  prominent 
citizen  was  disposed  of  in  three  lines 
in  a  remote  part  of  the  paper. 

In  March  IS 4 6  James  Shoaff  be- 
came associated  with  Mr.  Lathrap 
and  in  November  of  that  year  the 
name  of  John  Waite  appears  as  as- 
sistant. Mr.  Waite  was  a  Protestant 
Methodist  minister.  He  was  drown- 
ed in  Shoal  Creek  in   1S53.     He  re- 


The  Second  Baptist  Church. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


61 


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Othmhi.   HrcHANAN,  lifceascd, 

Editor  of  the  American  Courier  in 
1856-7.  A  resident  of  (ireenville 
for  58  vears. 


tired  in  August  1847  and  J.  McPike 
became  associated  witli  Mr.  I>athrap. 
The  following  October  Stephen  Fisk 
was  associate  editor  for  a  short 
time.  The  Protestant  Monitor  was 
moved  to  Alton  in  January  1S4S 
and  was  published  there  for  several 
years. 

While  in  Greenville  the  Protest- 
ant Monitor  was  published  on  the 
site  of  the  present  residence  of  T. 
R.  Robinson,  in  the  west  end  of 
town. 


Cbc  Barn  Burner. 

Jediah  F.  .Alexander,  who  came 
to  Greenville  in  1S4S.  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  years,  started,  during 
the  memorable  campaign  of  that 
year,  a  Free  Soil  paper,  called  the 
Barn  Burner,  supporting  Martin  Van 
Buren  for   President. 

The  publication  was  intended  only 
as  a  campaign  paper,  and,  having 
served  its  purpose,  was  discontinued. 
Nothing  of  the  Barn  Burner  is  pre- 
served. It  was  the  first  journalistic 
venture  of  Mr.  Alexander,  afterward 
promoter  and  president  of  the  Van- 
dalia  Line  and  founder  of  the  Green- 
ville  Advocate. 


t^hc  SlcBtcm  fountain. 

John  Waite  was  editor  of  the 
Western  Fountain,  published  semi- 
monthly and  "devoted  to  Christian- 
ity, sacred  literature  and  religious 
intelligence."       A     part     of    Volume 


One  is  now  in  possession  of  Mr. 
Jacob  Koonce  of  Greenville.  Num- 
ber 3,  bears  date  of  December  6, 
1S4S.  It  is  not  definitely  known 
how  long  Mr.  Waite  continued  the 
publication  of  this  paper  but  it  was 
probably  not  long  for  he  was  con- 
nected with  othei-  journalistic  vent- 
ures. Mr.  Waite  published  the 
Western  Fountain  in  connection 
with    the   Journal. 


Rev.  peter  Long's  publications. 

From  1S45  to  185G  Elder  Peter 
Long  published  the  Western  Evan- 
gelist a  monthly  religious  paper, 
which  had  a  circulation  of  2,000  in 
this  and  other  states.  The  paper 
was  first  published  from  the  press 
of  Lathrop  and  Waite,  in  a  house 
where  T.  R.  Robinson's  residence 
now  stands.  It  was  then  moved  to 
Rockwell,  a  postoffice  on  Elder 
Long's  farm,  six  miles  west  of 
Greenville.  It  was  afterwards  again 
printed  in  Greenville.  Elder  Long 
also  published  the  Primitive  Preach- 
er, 1S50-51,  quarterly.  It  consisted 
principall}'  of  a  reprint  of  standard 
religious  works. 

From  1S60  to  1S7G  he  issued 
"The  Visitor"  occasionally,  for 
gratuitous  distribution.    He  was  also 


the  author  of  "The  Western 
Harp"  a  book  of  about  two  hundred 
hymns  and  sacred  poems.  Six 
editions  were  printed  and  about 
4000  copies  were  distributed,  many 
of  which  are  still  in  use. 


Cbc  6rccnviUc  Ifournal. 

While  Mr.  Alexander  was  running 
the  Barn  Burner,  the  Journal  was 
started  by  John  Waite,  former  as- 
sistant editor  of  the  Monitor.  After 
he  had  discontinued  the  publication 
of  the  Barn  Burner,  J.  F.  Alexander 
became  connected  with  the  Journal, 
first  as  a  partner  of  Mr.  Waite,  and 
afterward,  in  IS 50,  as  sole  propri- 
etor. In  January  1852  John  Waite 
again  became  the  editor  of  the  Jour- 
nal, and  the  following  June  the 
paper  published  a  poem  entitled 
"The  Wavy  West,"  from  the  pen  of 
Robert  G.  Ingersoll,  then  a  boy  in 
Greenville. 

On  September  9,  1S53,  E.  J.  C. 
Alexander,  who  is  still  living  on  his 
farm  north  of  Greenville,  together 
with  his  brother,  J.  H.  Alexander  be- 
came editors  and  proprietors  of  the 
Journal.  In  1S56  the  old  flies  of 
the  paper  show  that  D.  W.  Alexan- 
der was  publisher  and  J.  F.  Alexan- 
der was  editor.     The  paper  changed 


E.    J.    C.    .Al.EX.\.\DER, 

Editor  of  the  Greenville  Journal  in  the  fifties  and 
war  time  editor  of  the  .Advocate. 


62 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


The  Greenville  Advocate  Office. 

Reading  from  left  to  right  are  J.  H.  Hawley,   Miss  Myrtle 
McHenry,  George  E.  Hities  and  Will  C.  Carson. 


ins^,  J.    H. 


hands  many  times  and  was  event- 
ually sold  to  a  Scotchman,  who  mov- 
ed it  to  Staunton,  111.  It  was  inde- 
pendent in  politics  until  1856,  when 
It  hoisted  the  Freemont  standard. 


Che  Hmcncan  Courier. 

Thomas  Russell  and  Othniel  Bu- 
chanan were  the  editors  and  owners 
of  the  American  Courier,  which  was 
launched  in  the  field  May  22,  185G, 
the  entire  outfit  having  been  pur- 
chased new  in  St.  Louis.  The  paper 
ardently  supported  the  Native  Amer- 
ican party  and  Millard  Fillmore,  its 
nominee  for  the  presidency.  On 
March  26,  1857,  Mr.  Russell  retired 
and  Mr.  Buchanan  subsequently 
bought  the  Greenville  .Journal  of  J. 
F.  Alexander  and  then  sold  both  the 
Journal  and  Courier  to  Parson 
Percy,  who  moved  the  two  plants  to 
another  town. 


the  principles  of  this  party.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  civil  war  Mr.  Alex- 
ander made  personal  investigation 
of  the  situation  at  Washington,  and 
at  the  various  seats  of  war,  and 
wrote  his  impressions  for  the  bene- 
fit of  his  readers.  During  this  time 
and  for  years  afterward  an  "Edu- 
cational Department,"  was  conduct- 
ed by  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Hynes.  In  all 
his  career  as  a  newspaper  writer  Mr. 
Hynes  urged  with  vigor  the  preser- 
vation of  the  local  history  of  the 
city   and   county. 


In  June  18G3  E.  J.  C.  Alexander 
succeeded  his  brother  as  publisher 
of  the  Advocate,  remaining  editor 
until  July  20,  18G5,  when  he  sold 
the  paper  to  S.  C.  Mace.  In  April 
18  65  T.  O.  Shenick  became  associat- 
ed with  Mr.  Mace  as  publisher.  All 
this  time  the  paper  was  published  in 
the  second  story  of  a  frame  building 
where  Masonic  Temple  now  stands. 
In  October  1866  Mace  and  Shenick 
moved  the  plant  to  the  rooms  over 
Denny  and  Dressor's  corner,  where 
J.  V.  Dixon's  store  now  is.  T.  O. 
Shenick  left  the  paper  in  March 
1867,  selling  his  interests  to  Mr. 
Mace.  In  October  1S70  Wm.  Boll, 
afterwards  one  of  the  editors  of  the 
Sun,  was  made  publisher  of  the  Ad- 
vocate, remaining  in  that  capacity 
until  January  1871,  when  Mr.  Shen- 
ick again  returned  and  bought  back 
his  old  interest.  In  1871  the  office 
was  moved  over  Smith's  bank  where 
Hawley's  jewelry  store  now  is  and 
the  proud  and  happy  day  dawned 
when  the  paper  announced  that  it 
was  "all  printed  at  home." 

In  August  1871  Mr.  Shenick  again 
severed  his  connection  with  the  pa- 
per and  the  following  month  the  sub- 
scription price  was  reduced  from  $2 
to  $1.50  a  year  and  has  since  re- 
mained  that  price. 

In  November  1871  Mr.  Mace  sold 
the  paper  to  Samuel  B.  Hynes,  under 
whose  proprietorship,  his  father. 
Rev.  Thomas  W.  Hynes,  was  editor. 
S.  B.  Hynes  himself  was  the  local 
editor.  The  paper  was  in  1S72 
changed  from  an  eight  column  folio 
to  a  six  column  quarto,  retaining 
this  form  two  years  and  then  return- 
ing to  its  former  dimensions.  April 
24,    1872,    the  publication   day    was 


Cb«  Greenville  Hdvocatc. 


By  W.  W.   Lowis. 


On  February  11,  1858,  the  Green- 
ville Advocate  made  its  initial  ap- 
pearance under  the  editorship  and 
ownership  of  J.  F.  Alexander.  The 
paper  was  born  in  time  to  take  a 
stand  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Union,  which  it  did.  The  Advocate 
witnessed  the  birth  of  the  Republic- 
an party  and  has  come  down  through 
the     years     a    staunch     supporter   of 


Reside.\cf.  of  W.  W.  Lewis,  North  Third  Street. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


63 


W.  W.  LOWIS, 

Publisher  of  the  Greenville  Advocate;  President 
of  the  Building  and  Savings  Association;  Di- 
rector of  the  Carnegie  Library;  Adjutant  Col- 
by Post. 


changed  from  Friday  to  Wednesday. 
In  July  1S72  the  office  was  moved 
to  Col.  Reid's  block,  up  stairs  over 
McLain  and  Wafer's  store,  where  F. 
E.   Watson's  store  now   is. 

George  M.  Tatham  purchased  the 
paper  and  became  editor  and  pub- 
lisher October  1.  1873.    He  straight- 


way made  a  specialty  of  local  news. 
The  last  week  in  December  1875  he 
changed  the  publication  day  to 
Thursday   and    increased   the   size   to 


seven   columns,   four   pages. 

Early  in  the  eighties  Mr.  Tatham 
moved  the  paper  from  the  south  side 
to  the  second  floor  of  the  Smith 
building,  on  the  west  side  of  the 
square,  where  it  remained  until 
1S9S. 

John  H.  Hawley  is  the  nestor  of 
journalism  in  Greenville.  He  first 
commenced  work  on  the  Advocate 
November  14,  1860,  when  J.  F. 
Alexander  was  editor  and  remained 
till  January  1SG2,  when  he  enlisted 
and  went  to  the  front.  He  went 
back  on  the  paper  November  11, 
1878,  and  has  continued  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  force  until  the  present 
time  with  the  exception  of  five 
months  he  was  engaged  in  other 
business.  • 

Numerous  others  have  served 
their  apprenticeship  on  the  Advo- 
cate and  are  now  engaged  in  the 
newspaper  business  in  many  distant 
cities. 

In  February  1893  Mr.  Tatham 
slipped  on  the  ice  and  fell,  receiving 
injuries  which  caused  his  death, 
May  21,  1893.  During  his  illness 
and  for  several ,  months  after  his 
death,  Mr.  Hawley  was  in  charge  of 
the  business  and  editorial  depart- 
ment  of  the  office. 

The  Advocate  was  sold  at  auction 
June  2G,  1893  to  W.  W.  Lowis.  of 
Lena,  111.,  who  moved  to  Greenville 
and  took  charge  of  the  paper.  Mr. 
Lowis  at  once  changed  the  style  and 
make-up  of  the  paper,  making  local 
news  the  predominating  feature.  In 
1S95  it  took  its  present  form.  In 
July  1898  the  office  was  moved  from 
the    Smith    building     to    the     second 


Will  C.  Wright, 
Former  Editor  of  the  Sun. 


Office  of  the  Greenville  Sun. 


64 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Mrs.  Alice  Enlok  Perkvman. 

floor  of  the  Weise  building,  on  the 
north  side  of  the  square,  where  it 
remained  till  July  1901,  when  the 
plant  was  moved  to  its  present  lo- 
cation on  the  ground  floor  two  doo- 
west  of  the  postoffice. 


Cbc  6vccnviUc  Sun. 


By  Will  C.  Wright. 


The  Greenville  newspaper  now 
known  as  The  Sun  was  originally 
The  Bond  County  Democrat.  J.  B. 
Anderson,  a  practical  printer,  es- 
tablished the  Democrat  here  in 
1876  and  the  first  issue  appeared 
June    2d    of    that   year.      The    paper 


espoused  the  cause  of  Democracy. 
The  office  was  then  located  on  the 
second  floor  of  the  Holies  buildint;. 
just  over  the  store  now  occupied  liy 
A.  H.  Krause,  the  jeweler.  Thr 
paper  consisted  of  eight  pages,  six 
columns  to  the  page.  Local  news 
appeared  on  only  four  of  these,  the 
remaining  four  being  "patent  in- 
sides."  Mr.  Anderson  conducted 
the  Democrat  until  February  2,  187  7, 
when  it  was  purchased  by  William 
Boll  and  Fordyce  C.  Clark.  Both 
these  gentlemen  had  previously 
been  employed  in  the  composing 
rooms  of  the  Advocate.  The  new 
proprietors  promptly  changed  the 
name  of  the  paper  to  The  Sun  ami 
its  policy  also  was  changed  so  thai 
it  became  more  independent  in  tone 
However,  it  still  retained  its  denid 
cratic  proclivities  and  in  188  0  it 
again  became  a  recognized  organ  of 
that  party,  remaining  so  up  to  the 
present  time.  Messrs.  Boll  &  Clark 
retained  possession  of  The  Sun  for 
seven  years  and  sold  it  in  18  84  to 
Vallee  Harold,  of  St.  Genevieve, 
Missouri.  Mr.  Harold  presented  the 
first  issue  under  his  management 
July  4,  1884.  He  continued  the 
publication  of  the  paper  in  the  same 
location  for  about  three  years  and 
then  moved  it  to  the  rooms  over  J. 
Seaman's  hardware  store,  on  the 
southeast  corner  of  the  square. 

The  next  change  in  The  Sun's 
management  took  place  Nov.  9,  1891, 
when  Chas.  E.  Davidson,  who  had 
been  associated  with  Mr.  Harold,  be- 
came its  editor  and  proprietor.  Mr. 
Davidson  retained  charge  of  the  pa- 
per until  Jan.  5,  1901,  when  ill 
health  compelled  him  to  dispose  of 
it.  The  Sun  then  passed  into  the 
ownership  of  Will  C.  Wright,  the 
present    proprietor,    who    had    been 


Georoe  Perrvman, 
Editor  of  the  Item. 

doing  local  work  under  Mr.  David- 
son for  the  four  years  and  a  half 
preceding. 

During  Mr.  Davidson's  regime  the 
paper  was  moved  to  the  second  story 
of  the  old  First  National  Bank 
building  on  the  south  side  and  here 
it  remained  until  the  fall  of  1898 
when  a  new  building  was  erected 
for  it  on  the  east  side  of  the  square 
and  it  was,  for  the  first  time,  located 
on   the   ground   floor. 

Editor's  note. — Since  the  above 
was  written,  Mr.  Wright  has  sold 
The  Sun  to  Charles  E.  Maynard,  who 
is  now  the  editor  and  publisher.  The 
sale  was  made  in  November,  190  5. 


Che  6recnvtUc  Item. 


By  George  Perryiaan. 


Residence  of  George  Ferryman. 


The  Greenville  Item  entered  the 
journalistic  field  of  Bond  county 
May  28,  1896.  It  was  received  by 
the  public  with  many  doubts  and 
misgivings  and  few  believed  it 
would  survive  longer  than  three 
months,  as  it  came  in  direct  compe- 
tition with  two  old-established  and 
well-equipped  newspaper  offices, 
which  seemingly  filled  every  want, 
but  it  lived  and  grew  in  size  from  a 
five-column  quarto  to  its  present 
size,  seven-column  quarto,  the  larg- 
est paper  published  in  the  county, 
and  is  now  recognized  as  one  of  the 
permanent  institutions  of  the 
county. 

Much  of  it's  success  is  due  to  the 
efforts  of  the  publisher's  wife,  Mrs. 
Alice  Ferryman,  who  has  assisted  in 
every  department  of  the  paper.  The 
Item  is  now  in  its  ninth  year  and  is 
enjoying  a  lucrative  patronage. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


65 


Mrs.  Abraham  McXeili.,  Hcccu sccl. 
Who    was   a   resident    of   Greenvilli- 
and  vicinity  for  65  years.      A   na- 
tive of  Virginia. 


The  Bench  and  Bar 

BV    FOKMER    LiKL'TEiNA.ST    GO\  tRNOR    W. 
A.    N'ORTHCOTT. 


BOND  COUNTY  was  organized  by 
an  act  of  the  territorial  legis- 
lature passed  January  4,  1S17,  and 
at  that  time  extended  as  far  north 
as  the  Wisconsin  line  and  was  one 
of  the  fifteen  counties  comprising 
the  territory  of  Illinois  at  the  time 
of  its  admission  as  a  state. 

The  first  court  was  held  June  30, 
1S17,  at  Hill's  Station,  a  fort  on 
Shoal  Creek  about  eight  miles  south- 
west of  Greenville.  Judge  Jesse  B. 
Thomas,  afterward  United  States 
Senator  from  Illinois,  presided.  The 
legal  business  of  the  county  from 
this  date  until  about  1837  was  con- 
ducted by  visiting  lawyers,  and  no 
record  can  be  found  or  tradition  giv- 
en of  any  resident  attorney.  In 
1838  Judge  M.  G.  Dale,  then  a 
young  attorney,  located  in  Green- 
ville and  remained  until  a  short 
time  prior  to  the  war.  when  he  re- 
moved to  Edwardsville,  and  con- 
tinued practice  until  his  death  in 
1896.  He  was  a  remarkable  man 
in  many  respects,  and  one  who  re- 
tained during  his  entire  life  the  re- 
spect and  good  will  of  the  people  of 
both  Bond  and  JIadison  counties. 
He  always  dreaded  to  speak  in 
public  and  was  not  strong  as  an 
advocate  before  a  jury,  but  as  county 
judge,  at  different  times  in  each  of 
these  counties,  he  was  a  strong 
judge  of  law  and  a  most  impartial, 
upright     official.        He    was     a   very 


active    man,    continuing    in    practice 
up  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

James  M.  Davis,  the  next  resident 
lawyer  of  the  Bond  county  bar  was 
a  man  of  fiery  eloquence  and  his 
particular  delight  was  in  presenting 
a  case  to  the  jury  or  in  making  a 
liolitical  speech  in  the  public  forum. 
Ill  1.S49  he  went  to  Vandalia  to  take 
a  position  in  connection  with  i 
Inited  States  land  office,  afterwards 
removing  to  Hillsboro,  where  he  was 
the  tutor  and  benefactor  of  Con- 
gressman Ed  Lane,  who  read  law 
under  him  and  who  received  his  law 
library  as  a  legacy.  Until  the  be- 
ginning of  the  war  Mr.  Davis  was 
an  active  Whig,  but  at  that  time 
became  a  Democrat  and  a  radical 
sympathizer  with  the  rebellion.  He 
was  a  man  of  considerable  talent 
and    great    social    qualities. 

At  the  beginning  of  1S50  the  fol- 
lowing were  resident  lawyers  of 
Greenville  and  members  of  the  Bond 
county  bar:  Cornelius  Lansing. 
Elam  Rust,  Tevis  Greathouse,  Judge 
S.  P.  Moore  and  Samuel  Stevenson. 
Of  these  Judge  Moore  continued  his 
residence  the  longer  in  Greenville, 
not  removing  until  during  the  war 
or  shortly  thereafter.  Tevis  Great- 
house  was  a  man  of  much  more  than 
ordinary  ability,  fond  of  literature 
and  an  omniverous  reader.  After 
leaving  Greenville,  he  practiced  law 
until  his  death,  in  Vandalia. 

Between  1855  and  1S60  many 
new  additions  were  made  to  the 
membership  of  the  bar  the  most  not- 
able being  the  enrollment  of  Salmon 
A.  Phelps,  who  can  very  approp- 
riately be  called  its  nestor.  Judge 
Phelps  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Mississippi  in  1841  and  moved  to 
Pocahontas,  Bond  county,  in  1S44, 
living  on   a  farm  but  practicing  law 


.\iiK.\H.\M   McXeill,  Sr., 

One  of  the  stockholders  of  the  Van- 
dalia Railroad,  former  banker,  and 
a  resident  of  Greenville  -10  years. 


both  before  justices  of  the  peace  and 
the  courts  of  record  at  Greenville 
until  1855,  when  he  moved  to  the 
county  seat  and  was  actively  en- 
gaged in  practice  up  to  a  few  years 
ago.  From  the  years  1859  to  1879 
he  and  his  sons  had  the  bulk  of  the 
civil  business  of  the  county  bar. 
Judge  Phelps  never  liked  the  crimi- 
nal practice  and  while  he  was  fre- 
quently retained  in  the  defense  of 
cases,  yet  it  was  always  distasteful 
to  him.  His  honorable  conduct, 
strict  integrity,  and  disposition  to 
discourage  litigation  has  left  Its 
impress   upon   the  younger   members 


R|:^iiii;nci;  <'1    A  i.kaham  McNeil:,,  Sr.,  Fnurtb  Street 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Mrs.  Alice  Lindly, 
Daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abraham  McNeill,  one  of  Green- 
ville's best  known  literary-  women. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


67 


Hon.  Cicero  J.  Lindly, 
Bond  County's  present  member  of  the  House  of  Representatives;  ex-chairman  of  the  Illi- 
nois Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commission;  ex-county  judge  of  Bond  countv  A  promi- 
nent figure  in  Illinois  state  campaigns  for  the  past  twenty  years;  was  presidential  elect- 
or in  1884-  received  the  solid  Republican  vote  of  the  Illinois  Legislature  in  1890  for 
United  States  Senator  in  the  memorable  contest  against  John  M.  Palmer  which  vote 
was  within  two  votes  of  election.    Judge  Lindly  is  extensively  engaged  m  farming. 


68 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Charles  E.  Davidson, 

Former  editor  of  the  Greenville  Sun, 
ex-Master  in  Chancery  of  [lond 
county;  stockholder  anil  manager 
of  the  Greenville  Lumber  Company 


of  the  county  bar.  He  has  been  a 
man  of  exemplary  habits,  kind  and 
courteous  and  has  the  honor  of  liv- 
ing in  his  old  age  in  the  county 
where  he  had  resided  for  sixty-two 
years,  having  the  respect  and  love 
of  all  his  neighbors.  Two  of  his 
sons  were  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Greenville.  One  of  them,  .Judge  Al- 
fred Phelps,  living  in  Denver,  is  one 
of  the  leading  lawyers  of  the  state 
of  Colorado,  where  he  has  by  his 
marked  ability  and  high  demand  as 
a  lawyer,  accumulated  a  large  for- 
tune. Another  son,  George  S. 
Phelps,  was  at  one  time  State's  At- 
torney of  Bond  county  but  later 
moved  to  Leadville,  Colorado,  where 
he  held  the  positions  of  city  judge 
and  district  judge.  He  died  at 
Leadville  about   two  years   ago. 


Reside.nci-:  of  Charles  E.   Davidso.\,  South  Fourth  Street 


Four  sons  of  Ira  Kingsbury  were 
at  different  times  members  of  the 
county  bar.  The  first  to  be  admitted 
was  Judge  A.  N.  Kingsbury  in  1S55. 
After  practicing  a  few  years  in  this 
county,  he  moved  to  Hillsboro, 
where  he  was  one  of  the  leading 
lawyers  until  the  time  of  his  death. 
Dennis  H.  Kingsbury  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  about  1S5G  and  continued 
practice  here  until  his  death  in 
1893.  He  was  a  natural  born  law- 
yer, with  all  the  instincts  for  special 
pleading  and  forms  of  law;  besides 
he  was  an  aggressive  debater  and  a 
hard  fighter  before  a  jury.  He  was 
a  man  of  strict  integrity  and  while 
of  a  combative  disposition,  which 
frequently  led  him  into  personal  en- 
counters with  his  enemies,  he  was 
strong  in  his  friendships  as  well  as 
his  enmities.      He  always  command- 


ed a  fair  share  of  the  clientage  of 
the  bar.  He  never  allowed  politics 
or  love  for  place  to  interfere  with 
his  profession,  but  was  its  devotee 
to  the  exclusion  of  all  other  masters. 
Darius  Kingsbury,  after  admission, 
moved  to  Carlyle  where  he  is  still 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  John 
Kingsbury,  after  practicing  in 
Greenville  for  a  number  of  years, 
retired,  and  lives  on  a  farm  south 
of  Greenville. 

J.  F.  Alexander  and  A.  G.  Henry, 
who  afterwards  became  two  of  Bond 
county's  most  distinguished  citizens, 
were  admitted  about  the  same  time,, 
in  1S57.  Mr.  Alexander  was  at  one 
time  a  member  of  the  state  senate 
and  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  building  of  the  Vandalia  rail- 
road and  the  Louisville  and  Nash- 
ville  railroad.      He   was  also   at   one 


The  Pressed  Brick  Hlakt  of  the  Gree.wille  Lumber  Company. 


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69 


Residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Northcott. 

The  Greenville  residence  of  Hon.  and  Mrs.  W.  A.  Northcott  for  many  years.     Recently  sok 
H.  Livingston. 


ly  them    to  J. 


70 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Hon.  W.  a.  Northcott, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1879  and  commenced  the  practice  of  law;  Supervisor  of 
the  Census  in  1880;  elected  State's  Attorney  of  Bond  in  1882,  and  re-elected  for 
two  terms;  elected  Head  Consul  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  in  1890  and 
unanimously  re-elected  for  six  terms,  finally  resigning  on  account  of  ill  health; 
elected  Lieutenant  Governor  of  Illinois  in  1896,  and  re-elected  in  1900.  Moved  to 
Springfield,  111,  in  June,  1905,  to  accept  the  United  States  district  attorneyship. 
Member  of  the  law  firm  of  Northcott,  Hoff  and  Orr. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


71 


Miss  Amv  Northcott. 


72 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Nathaniel  D.  Northcott,  now  in  business  at  Huntington,  \V.  Va. 


Former  Law  Office  of  \V.  A.  Northcott. 
Now  occupied  by  Ward  Reid  and  Sou. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois 


78 


Williamson  Plant, 

First  Secretary  of  the  Vandalia  Rail- 
road, who  held  that  office  for 
many  vears  with  marked  success. 


time  grand  master  of  the  Odd  Fel- 
lows of  Illinois.  He  devoted  but 
little  attention  to  the  practice  of 
law,  but  was  one  of  the  best  parlia- 
mentarians in  southern  Illinois,  and 
had  a  wide  and  extensive  acquaint- 
ance throughout  the  state.  He  was 
a  man  of  elegant  manners  and 
strong   intellectuality. 


Samuel  B.  Hynes,  Deceased. 

Son  of  the  late  Rev.  Thomas  \Y. 
Hynes;  was  first  station  agent  at 
Greenville  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  foreign  freight  agent  for 
the  Burlington  system.  Died  on 
March  30,  190-i.  ' 

Judge  A.  G.  Henry  was  county 
judge  of  Bond  county  for  two  terms, 
and  also  served  two  terms  in  the 
Illinois  legislature.  He  is  a  man  of 
strong  native  ability  and  uncompro- 
mising in  his  devotion  to  his  politi- 
cal beliefs.  Although  at  an  ad- 
vanced age  and  confined  to  his  house 
most  of  the  time  by  sickness,  yet  his 


Jediah  F.  Alexander, 

First  President  of  the  St.  Louis,  Van- 
dalia and  Terre  Haute  Railroad; 
county  treasurer  in  1853,  state 
senator  in  1870. 


mind  is  clear  and  his  memory  good, 
he  being  a  ready  and  entertaining 
conversationalist. 

Job  A.  Cooper  was  born  in  Bond 
county  and  admitted  to  practice  in 
1S59,  was  at  one  time  circuit  clerk 
of  the  county  and  was  an  active 
member  of  the  bar  during  the  few 
years     he    was     connected     with     it. 


Burning  of  the  Vandalia  Line  depot, 
Nellie  Morris. 


;30  p.  m.  July  22.  18S4-.     Photograph  loaned  by  Miss 


74 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


D.  B.  Evans,  Deceased. 
Circuit  Clerk  from  1884  to  1892. 


E.  E.  Elliott, 

Present  agent  for  the  Yandalia  Rail- 
road; in  service  of  the  company  18 


P.  Bull, 
Postmaster  from  1870  to  1882. 


Shortly  after  the  war,  he  moved  to 
Colorado  and  rapidly  rose  in  dis- 
tinction, becoming  Governor  of  the 
state  and  one  of  its  wealthiest  and 
most  prominent  citizens.  He  died 
there  a  few  years  ago. 


William  H.  Dawdy  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  while  residing  in  Vandalia 
but  shortly  afterward,  in  IS 68,  lo- 
cated in  Greenville,  where  he  has 
practiced  law  ever  since  and  is  still 
one  of  the  most  prominent  members 


of  the  bar.  Judge  Dawdy  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Court  of  Claims  of 
the  state  and  also  assistant  United 
States  district  attorney  and  state's 
attorney  of  Bond  county.  He  is  a 
strong   advocate    before    a    jury    and 


View  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Station. 
Reading  from  left  to  right  are  L.  S.  Matherly,  R.  I.  Clarkson,  Agent  Elliott  and  John  Clanton. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


75 


J.  Seaman, 

One  of  Greenville's  leading  business  men.  Mayor  from  1893 
to  1897.  President  of  the  Library  Board,  and  former 
President  of  the  Board  of  Education.  Head  of  the  J.  Sea- 
man Hardware  Company. 


LlElTENAN'T    A.   OWEN  SeAMAN,    U.   S.   A. 

Son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  Seaman;  a  veteran  of  the 
Spanish-.American  war  and  an  extensive  traveler. 
Now  stationed  at  Monteray,  Cal.,  with  the  15th 
Infantrv. 


EwiNG  Hunter, 
Member  J.  Seaman  Hardware  Co. 


Residence'of  J     Seaman,  East  College  .\venue. 


76 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Emil  Brice, 
Member  J.  Seaman  Hardware  Co. 


Saml'el  Wallace, 
Member  J.  Seaman  Hardware  Co. 


Marcel  Calame, 
Member  J.  Seaman  Hardware  Co. 


during  the  thirty-five  years  of  prac- 
tice at  this  bar  has  been  on  one  side 
or  the  other  of  nearly  every  im- 
portant contest.  He  is  very  fond  of 
a  story  and  is  of  a  sociable  and  cour- 
teous disposition.  He  and  Judge 
Phelps  have  done  much  toward 
giving  the  county  bar  its  deserved 
reputation  for  fairness  and  honesty, 
both  toward  the  court,  jury  and 
clients. 

William  A.  Northcott,  former 
Lieutenant  Governor  of  Illinois,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  West  Virginia 
in    1S77    but   removed   to   Greenville 


in  1S7  9  and  has  continued  in  the 
practice  of  law  ever  since.  Shortly 
after  coming  to  Greenville,  he  form- 
ed a  partnership  with  Dennis  H. 
Kingsbury  which  continued  until 
Mr.  Northcott  was  elected  State's 
Attorney  in  1SS2.  He  held  this 
oflBce  for  three  successive  terms. 

Judge  Cicero  J.  Lindly  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  law  in  Green- 
ville in  1SS2  and  held  the  office  of 
county  judge  from  1S86  to  1892. 
For  a  time  he  lived  on  his  large  and 
profitable  farm  three  miles  south  of 
Greenville,  but  he  has  been  engaged 


in  many  prominent  cases.  He  now 
resides  in  Greenville.  Judge  Lindly 
is  widely  known  throughout  the 
state  of  Illinois,  having  been  chair- 
man of  the  state  railroad  and  ware- 
house commission  and  also  having 
received  the  entire  Republican  vote 
for  United  States  Senator  in  1S90, 
when  Governor  John  M.  Palmer  was 
elected.  Judge  Lindly  is  an  orator 
with  a  state  reputation  and  is  well 
grounded  in  the  principles  of  law. 
He  has  been  twice  elected  repre- 
sentative in  the  Illinois  Legislature 
from    the    Forty-seventh    Senatorial 


W^M.  H.  Williams,  Deceased, 

Fifty  years  a  resident  and  business 
man  of  Greenville.  Alderman  from 
First  Ward  for  17  vears. 


J.  C.  Merry,  Deceased, 

For  many  years  a  prominent  farmer 
near  Greenville. 


Phineas  B.  Chapman, 

Wiio  came  to  Greenville  in  1867,  and 
manufactured  brick  until  his  death 
Mav  12,  1901. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Claren'ce  G.  Jackson, 

Member  of  the  firm   of  Davis    and 
Jackson,  Druggists. 


district,  and  is  now  serving  his 
second  consecutive  term  as  such 
representative. 

F.  W.  Fritz  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1S89  and  immediately  formed 
a  partnership  with  \V.  A.  N'ortlicott 
which  lasted  until  several  years  ago. 
He  has  been  three  times  elected 
state's  attorney  of  Bond  county  and 
has  the  past  year  retired  from  that 
office  to  pursue  the  practice  of  law. 
he  having  built  a  commodious  law 
office  on  the  north  side  of  the  public 
square.  He  is  a  man  of  strict  in- 
tegrity,    a     true     friend,     and     hard 


Dr.  N.  H.  Jackson, 

For  twenty-five  years  a  leading  dentist.  Former 
Alderman  and  former„Mcmljer  Board  of  Edu- 
cation. 


worker  in  his  profession.  Mr.  Fritz 
is  a  public  speaker  of  considerable 
merit.  He  is  prominently  connected 
with  his  party,  having  advocated  its 
principles  from  the  stump  since 
1SS8. 

C.  E.  Cook  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Montgomery  county  and  prac- 
ticed for  a  few  years  at  Raymonl. 
locating  at  Greenville  in  1SS9,  where 
he  is  still  a  member  of  the  bar.     He 


has  a  good  clientage  and  is  an  in- 
dustrious lawyer.  He  has  been  city 
attorney  and  also  attorney  for  the 
Greenville  Building  and  Savings  As- 
sociation nearly  all  the  time  since 
coming  to  Greenville.  He  is  at 
present  holding  the  office  of  Master- 
in-Chancery  of  Bond  county,  having 
been  appointed  by  Judge  Burroughs. 
H.  W.  Park  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  Richmond  county  and  located 


Wafer, 


Contractor  and  builder;  Alderman 
from  the  Third  Ward,  and  Mayor 
Pro  Tern  during  summer  of  1905. 
A  resident  of  Greenville  for  many 
years. 


Reside.nce  ok  Dr.  N.  H.  Jackso.s,  West  College  Avenue. 


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Historical  Souvenir  ofJGreenville,  Illinois. 


T.    P.    MOREY, 

Circuit  clerk  from  1876  to  18S4;  two  terms  as 
county  superintendent  of  schools;  ex-member 
Board  of  Education  and  member  of  the  40th 
General  Assembly  of  the  Illinois  Legislature.  A 
real  estate  dealer  and  prominent  citizen 


In  Greenville  in  1S91  and  was  con- 
nected with  the  firm  of  Northcott, 
Fritz   and   Holies    until    1897.    when 


he  opened  an  office  by  himself.  He 
later  formed  a  partnership  with 
Judge  Joseph  Story,  which  continues 
to  this  day.  Mr.  Park  is  well  learn- 
ed in  the  law  and  was  the  tutor  of 
Alfred  Adams,  Joseph  Streuber  and 
C.  E.  Hoiles. 


Henry  H.  Morey, 

Graduate   of  the   University    of  Illi- 
nois and  now  a  law  student  there. 


James  M.  Miller,  L.  H.  Craig,  H. 
H.  Craig,  Thomas  Tiffin,  Charles  E. 
Davidson,  Solon  A.  Enloe,  L.  E. 
Bennett,  Joseph  Streuber  and  Alfred 
Adams  were  all,  for  short  periods 
members  of  the  Greenville  bar. 

Clarence  E.  Hoiles  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  189  6  and  soon  became 
a  member  of  the  firm  of  Northcott, 
Fritz  and  Hoiles.  He  is  a  grandson 
of  Charles  Hoiles,  who  founded  the 
banking  house  of  Hoiles  and  Sons 
and  belongs  to  one  of  the  oldest  and 
most  prominent  families  in  Bond  Co. 
Mr.  Hoiles  was  for  several  years  a 
member  of  the  law  firm  of  Fritz  and 
Hoiles  and  recently  retired  from  the 


D.  R.  Grigg, 

Who  came  to  Greenville  in  1857;  in 
business  16  years,  13  j'cars  in  his 
brick  building  on  the  east  side  of 
the  square. 


Residence  of  T.  P.  Morey,  East  Main  Avenue. 


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79 


Mrs.  E.  a.  Gillick, 
Wife  of  the  late  A.  J.  Gullick. 


firm  to  take  the  position  of  Vice 
President  of  the  State  Bank  of 
Holies  and  Sons,  which  he  held  until 
February  1,  1905,  when  he  and  Mr. 
Fritz    again    formed   partnership. 

Joseph  H.  Story  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  the  summer  of  1897  and 
was  appointed  county  judge  by 
Governor  Tanner  in  December  of 
that  year,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  resignation  of  John  F.  Harris 
who  was  elected  in  1894  but  who 
moved  to  Montana  in   1897. 

J.  H.  Allio  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  November,   1897,  but  did  not 


A.  J.  Gullick,  Deceased 


Sherifl'of  Bond  County  from  1872  to 
1S78,  and  from  1880  to  1882. 
Died  iu  1894. 


commence  active  practice  until 
April,  1903,  when  he  moved  to 
Greenville  and  opened  a  law  office. 
He  was  elected  City  Attorney  of 
Greenville  without  opposition  April 
19,  1904. 

George  L.  Meyer  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  June,  1898,  and  has 
practiced  in  Greenville  ever  since. 
He  was  elected  State's  Attorney  of 
Bond  County  in  November,  1904, 
running  ahead  of  the  county  Repub- 
lican ticket.  He  is  a  native  of 
Greenville,  having  been  born  here 
February  7,   1865. 

W.  A.   Orr,  while  principal  of  the 


commercial  department  of  Green- 
ville College,  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  December, 
1899.  He  was  elected  City  Attor- 
ney in  1901,  serving  two  years.  On 
February  1,  190  4,  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  Lieutenant  Governor 
Northcott,   which   still   exists. 

Editor's  Note — Since  the  history 
of  the  Bench  and  Bar  was  written 
by  Mr.  Northcott,  he  has  received 
the  federal  appointment  of  United 
State's  District  Attorney,  and  he 
and  Mr.  Orr  have  moved  from 
Greenville  to  Springfield,  111.,  where 
they  are  still  associated  together, 
in  the  practice  of  law.) 


Ansel  Birge,  father  of  the  Misses 
Emma  and  Alice  Birge,  was  the  first 
postmaster  of  Greenville.  He  was 
commissioned  December  12,  1825, 
and  his  daughters  still  have  the  or- 
iginal commission.  Tradition  has 
it  that  the  first  postoffice  was  lo- 
cated In  the  brick  house  that  stood 
across  the  street  south  of  the  John 
Baumberger  homestead  in  the  west 
part  of  town.  For  years  it  was  kept 
by  the  various  storekeepers  as  a 
"side  line"  to  their  mercantile  busi- 
ness and  it  was  moved  about  to  dif- 
ferent buildings  in  the  west  end 
until  it  finally  was  located  on  the 
public  square,  where  it  has  since  re- 
mained. 

Lawson  Robinson  was  the  second 
postmaster,  having  been  commis- 
sioned    September     2S,    1829.       The 


Wm.  T.  Cakson, 

A  merchant  of  Greenville  from  1869 
to  1873.  Now  justice  of  the  peace, 
real  estate  and  insurance  agent. 


Residence  of  Mks.  E.  A.  Gullick,  West  Main  Avenue. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


E.    M.   GlLLlCK, 

A  prominent  business  man;  director  of  the  Elec- 
tric Light  Co.,  and  former  Alderman. 


M.  V.  Denny,  Deceased, 

Former  Cashier  of  the  First  National   Bank;  Ex- 
County  Superintendent  and  Ex-County  Clerk. 


office  again  reverted  to  Ansel   Birge 
April   26,   1831. 

William  S.  Wait  was  the  fourth 
postmaster,  commissioned  February 
14,  1839.  Albert  Allen,  a  merchant, 
was  commissioned  as  the  fifth  post- 
master, February  24,  1841.  Charles 
Holies,  father  of  C.  D.  Holies,  was 
the  sixth  postmaster,  commissioned 
February  21,  1844,  and  had  the  of- 
fice in  the  building  now  owned  by 
J.  M.  Miller,  and  used  a?  a  barber 
shop  on  the  south  side  of  t..e  square, 
east  of  the  alley.  Parmenas  Bond 
was  commissioned  as  the  seventh 
postmaster  April  30,  1849.  The 
eighth  postmaster  was  Franklin  G. 
Morse,  commissioned  April  21. 
1851;  the  ninth  was  Dr.  T.  S. 
Brooks,  May  26,  18.53,  who  had  the 
office  where  J.  V.  Dixon's  store  now 
is:  the  tenth  Samuel  H.  Crocker. 
November  2  4,  1854.  Mr.  Crocker 
had  the  office  in  the  Denny  building 
on  the  south  side  of  the  square. 
He  was  succeeded  by  J.  B.  Reid. 
August  5,  1856.  Mr.  Reid  had  the 
office  in  the  building  where  Stubble- 
field's  store  now  is.  It  was  a  frame 
building  and  afterwards  burned. 
Mr.  Reid  resigned  in  1861  and  W^m. 
S.  Colcord  was  commissioned  the 
twelfth  postmaster.  February  12, 
1861,  and  had  the  office  on  the  west 
side  of  the  square  in  the  E.  A. 
Floyd  building. 

Pangratz      Boll      was     postmaster 


from  September  17,  1870,  until 
1SS2.  It  was  a  fourth  class  office 
in  1870,  but  in  a  year  Mr.  Boll  made 
it  a  third  class  office.  He  first  had 
the  office  in  his  frame  building, 
where  the  Schott  building  now 
stands  on  Second  street.  After  sev- 
en years  he  moved  it  to  the  build- 
ing where  F.  E.  Watson's  drug  store 
now    stands   and    after   two   or   three 


years  moved  it  to  the  frame  build- 
ing south  of  J.  M.  Hawley's  jewelry 
store.  A  year  later  he  moved  it  to 
the  building  now  used  as  Joj-'s 
cloakroom  and  kept  it  there  until 
he  resigned  and  Lemuel  Adams  was 
appointed  his  successor  February  5, 
1SS2.  Mr.  Adams  moved  the  office 
after  several  years  to  the  George 
Hill  building,  where  the  H.  H.  Wirz 


Residence  of  K.   M.  (Ullick,  West  College  .\vcnui. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


81 


S.  M.  Thomas, 
Proprietor  of  The  Thomas  House. 

cigar  store  now  does  business.  Col. 
Raid  was  again  postmaster  from 
March  15,  1886,  until  March  1,  1890, 
■when  C.  K.  Denny  was  commis- 
sioned and  conducted  the  office  in 
the  Hill  building  until  about  six 
months  before  the  end  of  his  term, 
when  he  moved  the  office  to  the 
Sprague  block,  now  occupied  by  the 
State  Bank  of  Holies  and  Sons.  Mr. 
Denny  was  succeeded  by  Frank  T. 
Reid,  June  21,  1S94.  Mr.  Reid  kept 
the  office  in  the  Sprague  block  for 
several  years  and  then  moved  it  to 
the  Kingsbury  building  on  the  east 
side  of  the  square,  where  it  remain- 
ed until  July   1,   1901. 

A.    L.   Hord,   the   eighteenth   post- 


master, was  commissioned  March 
31,  1S98.  He  appointed  C.  F. 
Thraner  assistant  postmaster.  On 
July  1,  1901,  Mr.  Hord  moved  the 
office  to  the  new  DeMoulin  building 
on  the  west  side  of  the  public  square, 
where  it  now  remains.  New  fix- 
tures replaced  the  old  ones  pur- 
chased by  Postmaster  Adams.  The 
office  was  raised  to  second  class  on 
July  1,  1900.  As  the  business  of 
the  office  increased,  rural  carriers 
and  then  city  carriers  were  added, 
the  latter  on  September  1,  1903. 
Now  the  work  of  the  office  is  done 
by  Postmaster  Hord,  Assistant  Post- 
master Thraner,  Clerks  Harry  N. 
Baumberger  and  Robert  Potter, 
City  Carriers  J.  L.  McCracken  and 
Oscar  Wafer;  Rural  Carriers,  H.  H. 
Staub,  Marshall  Kirkham,  J.  C.  San- 
derson, C.  T.  Myers  and  Samuel 
Mueller. 

For  the  year  ending  March  31, 
1905.  5363  money  orders  were  is- 
sued for  $35,659.14,  and  5326  were 
paid  for  $43,683.05.  The  postal  re- 
ceipts for  the  year  amounted  to 
$11,062.00.  The  amount  paid  out 
in  salaries  and  rents  was  $10,410.- 
00. 

The  revenue  in  the  matter  of  sal- 
aries brought  into  the  town  through 
the  post  office  when  Mr.  Hord  be- 
came postmaster  was  $2,22  0  a  year, 
whereas  in  the  year  1905  it  in- 
creased   to   the   sum   of   $10,410. 


Greenville  RaLilroads 


GREENVILLE    was  the   nestor   of 
the  Vandalia  Line,  one  of  the 
country's     greatest    trunk    line    rail- 


Mrs.  S.  M.   Thomas, 


roads,  and  in  turn  the  Vandalia 
Line  has  been  one  of  the  principal 
makers  of  Greenville.  The  early 
settlers  of  Greenville  had  an  eye 
single  to  the  good  of  the  town,  for 
we  read,  in  our  early  history,  that 
the  people  of  Greenville,  in  mass 
convention  assembled,  passed  reso- 
lutions condemning  the  Internation- 
al Improvement  System  before  it  be- 
gan to  wreck  the  state  treasury. 
With  judgment  equally  as  good  as 
that  which  prompted  oppositiin  to 
this  reckless  expenditure,  the  peo- 
ple of  Greenville  took  an  interest  in 
the  old  national  road  from  Washing- 
ton  City  to   St.   Louis. 

Then  came  the  agitation  of  the 
Mississippi  and  Atlantic  railroad,  a 
staunch  supporter  of  which  was  Hon. 


J*'*i 


i=^vV        ^t:fe> 


Mrs.  Mary  Tho.mas,  Deceased. 
Founder  of  The  Thomas  House. 


The  Thomas  House, 
Established  by  Mrs.  Mary   A.   Thomas  in    1880,   and   now   owned  by 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  M.  Thomas. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Dk.  Wm.  T.  Easley, 

Twentv  years  a  leading  physician. 
Member  Board  of  Health,  ex-mem- 
ber and  ex-president  Board  of  Edu- 
cation. Surgeon  for  Vandalia  Rail- 
road 18  years. 


William  S.  Wait,  one  of  Green- 
ville's foremost  citizens.  This  road 
was  projected  in  IS 35  and  was  agi- 
tated until  February,  1S54,  when 
work  was  actually  commenced,  the 
intention  being  to  connect  Terra 
Haute  with  St.  Louis,  through 
Greenville,  but  the  "Schuyler 
Fraud,"  which  shocked  all  railroad 
enterprises,  is  assigned  by  Mr.  Wait 
as  the  cause  of  the  abandonment  of 
the   enterprise. 

A  charter  for  the  "Highland   and 


Residence  of  Dr.  Wm.  T.  E.\sley,  West  College  Avenue. 


St.  Louis  railroad  company"  was 
obtained  in  1S59.  The  civil  war 
was  one  of  the  causes  of  the  failure 
of  this  road. 


JZhe  Tandalta  Line. 

On  February  10,  1SG5,  a  liberal 
charter  was  granted  for  the  build- 
ing of  the  present  "Vandalia  Rail- 
road," then  known  as  the  "St. 
Louis,  Vandalia  and  Terre  Haute 
Railroad."  Among  the  persons 
named  as  incorporators  were  the  fol- 
lowing Greenville  men:  William  S. 
Smith,  Charles  Holies,  William  S. 
Wait,  John  B.  Hunter,  Williamson 
Plant,   Andrew   G.   Henry,  Jediah   F. 


Alexander   and   Thomas   L.   Vest. 

Greenville  and  Bond  county  men 
led  in  the  enterprise  of  building  the 
road  and  were  for  many  years  the 
officers  of  the  road.  On  Tuesday, 
January  17,  1867,  the  vote  in  Bond 
county  to  determine  whether  or  not 
the  county  would  take  stock  in  the 
railroad  resulted  1,018  for  and  143 
against  taking  stock.  In  the  city  of 
Greenville  the  vote  stood  323  for 
and  only  2  against.  Bond  county 
subscribed  $100,000  and  individuals 
in  Greenville  subscribed  $46,000 
more,  besides  $2,000  for  a  depot 
building.  The  $100,000  subscribed 
by  Bond  county  was  payable  in  fif- 
teen annual  installments,  with  10 
per  cent   interest   per  annum,   all  of 


W.    O.    HOJLDZKOM, 

Former  Alderman.  Proprietor  of  the 
Red  Front  Notion  Store,  in  busi- 
ness in  Greenville  manv  vears. 


Kksiiihn'ci;  111-    Prof.   U  .   ii.   .\lii. liken, 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


83 


Kk^iuk.nck  ok  C.  \V.  Skawkll. 


which  was  promptly  paid.  Green- 
ville people  paid  their  first  sub- 
scription to  Williamson  Plant  at  his 
office   in   the   Holies   Block. 

At  a  meeting  held  at  Vandalia, 
April  27,  1S65,  J.  F.  Alexander  and 
William  S.  Wait  were  appointed 
commissioners  to  take  stock  in  Bond 
county  and  ,1.  Ravold,  H.  H.  Wait 
and  H.  H.  Smith  were  elected  mem- 
bers of  the  Board  of  Incorporators 
for  Bond  county. 

R.  K.  Dewey  and  S.  B.  Hynes  pro- 
cured much  of  the  right  of  way 
through  Bond  county,  and  Mr.  Hynes 
went  on  through  to  East  St.  Louis 
In  this  work.  In  the  spring  of  1867, 
the  surveyors  were  at  work   and  by 


U.  S.  Internal  Revenue  Agent;  Member  Illi- 
nois Legislature  in  1887  and  again  in  1894. 
.\  resident  of  Greenville  32  vears. 


December,  1868,  the  rails  were  laid 
to  the  depot  in  Greenville,  "thanks 
to  the  energy  and  indomitable  per- 
severance of  a  few  Greenville  peo- 
ple." One  of  the  first  locomotives 
on  the  Vandalia  Line  was  named 
"Greenville." 

Greenville  made  the  first  move 
for  the  Vandalia  Line.  Greenville 
kept  the  matter  agitated  and  Green- 
ville and  Bond  county  advanced  the 
money    required    to    build    the    first 


twenty  miles  of  the  road,  and  that  at 
a  time  when  great  doubts  were  con- 
tinuously expressed  as  to  the  suc- 
cess of  the  enterprise,  by  the  stock- 
holders themselves. 

On  Tuesday,  December  8,  1868, 
the  first  regular  passenger  train  left 
the  Greenville  depot  at  6:30  a.  m. 
in  charge  of  Mr.  Gwynn,  for  St. 
Louis.  It  was  a  big  event  but  ow- 
ing to  the  extreme  cold  Greenville 
was    not     extensively      represented. 


T.  R.  Robinson, 

.Manager  of  the  local  Postal  Tele- 
graph office.  Member  Board  of 
Education. 


Residence  of  J.  E.  Hii.lis,  East  College  Avenue. 


84 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


IvEiiDiixci:  ui-   I.  F.   Watts,  East  College  Avenue. 


Joseph  F.  Watts, 
Sheriff  of  Bond   County  from   1886  to 
1890;  county  treasurer  from  1894  to 
1898,   ex-alderraan,   and   resident  of 
Greenville  18  years. 

nevertheless  quite  a  number  board- 
ed the  train  and  made  the  trip  to 
St.  Louis  and  return.  It  being  the 
first  trip  the  passengers  kept  com- 
ing and  the  conductor  kept  holding 
the  train,  waiting  for  such  as  were 
in     sight     until    the   train   was   late. 


But  at  last  the  bell  sounded  and  the 
first  passenger  train  in  the  history 
of  Greenville  moved  off. 

After  that,  track-laying  progress- 
ed rapidly  to  the  eastward.  The 
good  people  of  Greenville  gave  the 
knights  of  the  pick  and  shovel  fre- 
quent suppers  and  entertainments. 
At  first  there  were  only  two  trains 
a   day,   one   each   way. 

In  1869  the  town  authorities  voted 
$3,000  for  depot  improvements.  On 
Wednesday,  June  S,  1870,  the  first 
through  passenger  train  went 
through  from  Indianapolis.  Green- 
ville people  boarded  the  train  and 
the  trip  was  made  a  festive  occasion. 
Soon  after  the  Vandalia  Line  put 
on  fourteen  trains  a  day. 

The  first  wreck  at  Greenville  was 


on  October  20,  1870,  when  the  ex- 
press due  at  11:15  a.  m.,  collided 
with  an  extra  freight,  killing  M.  P. 
Mansheam,  the  express  messenger, 
and   injuring  two  others. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Board  of 
Corporators  held  at  Vandalia  No- 
vember 14,  1865,  elected  nine  direc- 
tors, among  whom  were  William  S. 
Smith,  and  Williamson  Plant  of 
Greenville.  J.  P.  M.  Howard,  of 
Effingham,  was  the  first  president, 
and  Williamson  Plant,  of  Green- 
ville, was  the  first  secretary  of  the 
road. 

The  railroad  received  its  first  se- 
vere blow  in  the  death,  on  July  17, 
18  65.  of  Hon.  William  S.  Wait,  the 
father  of  H.  W.  Wait,  F.  F.  Wait  and 
Mrs.  Louisa  Ravold  of  this  city  and 


J.    E.    DONNELL, 

A  former  Greenville  contractor,  now 
a  resident  of  California. 


Residence  of  K.  E.  Grigg,  West  College  Avenue. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


85 


JoHX  L.  Watts, 

Deputy  county  treasurer  1894-7.  Now  chief  clerk 
of  the  U.  S.  district  and  circuit  courts  at  Peoria, 
Illinois. 


Edward  E.  Watts, 

Chief  Deputy  U.  S.  Marshal  at  Danville,  111.,  having 
held  the  office  from  1889  to  1893,  and  from  1895 
to  that  date. 


W.  S.  Wait,  deceased,  whose  widow 
Mrs.  Adele  Wait,  and  children,  now 
live  in  Greenville.  Mr.  Wait  was 
the  earnest  leader  and  judicious 
friend  of  the  enterprise  and  his  la- 
mented death  robbed  the  promot- 
ers of  his  wise  and  mature  judg- 
ment. 


At  a  meeting  in  January,  1S(J7, 
a  code  of  laws  was  adopted  and 
Greenville  was  designated  as  the 
general  office  of  the  company.  At 
the  annual  election  in  January, 
1S6  7,  J.  P.  M.  Howard  was  re-elect- 
ed president,  Williamson  Plant,  sec- 
retary and  William  S.  Smith,  treas- 
urer. The  following  April  Mr. 
Howard  gave  up  the  presidency  and 


J.  F.  Alexander,  of  Greenville,  was 
chosen  in  his  place.  This  gave 
Greenville  all  the  officers  of  the  com- 
pany besides  three  of  the  nine  di- 
rectors. At  the  ISGS  election  five  of 
the  nine  directors  were  Greenville 
men  namely,  J.  F.  Alexander,  W.  S. 
Smith,  A.  G.  Henry,  Wm.  S.  Wait, 
Jr.,  and  Francis  Dresser.  Mr.  Alex- 
ander   continued   as   president  until 


William  BAfMBEKGER, 
A  former  resident,  now  of  Peoria,  111. 


Residence  of  Fra.nk  Abra.ms. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


W.  V.  Weise,  Deceased. 

For  many  years  President  of 
the  Weise  &  Bradford  Cor 
poratiou.  Prominent  in  busi- 
ness and  soeial  life  for  manj' 
years. 


Weise  and  Bradford's  Greenville  Stoke. 


Cbc  firm  of  Cdctac  &  Bradford. 

The  firm  now  known  as  Weise  & 
Bradford  was  started  by  the  present 
management  in  1879  when  W.  V. 
Weise  bouglit  the  interest  of  P.  C. 
Reed,  in  the  firm  of  Jandt  &  Reed, 
the  name  being  changed  to  Jandt  & 
Weise.  This  name  was  continued 
a  number  of  years  wlien  the  entire 
interest   of   Mr.   Jandt   was  absorbed 


George  V.  Weise, 

Secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Weise 
and  Bradford  Corporation,  and 
resident  manager  of  the  Greenville 
Jarauch. 


by  W.  V.  Weise  &  Geo.  D.  Bradford, 
who  was  then  a  member  of  the  firm 
in  charge  of  the  parent  store  at 
Pocaliontas,  111.,  the  name  of  the 
Pocahontas  store  being  changed 
from  H.  A.  Jandt  &  Co.  to  Weise, 
Bradford  &  Co.,  and  the  Greenville 
store  to  Weise  &  Bradford.  This 
management  was  continued  until 
1S92  when  Mr.  Bradford  opened  the 
third  Star  store  in  Waverly,  111.  At 
this  time  Henry  Ballman  and  J.  M. 
Appel  were  admitted  as  partners  in 
the   Pocahontas  store.      In   189  3   the 


business  was  incorporated  and 
Walter  White  and  Henry  Hair  were 
admitted  as  stockholders  in  the 
Greenville  store.  In  1996  Mr.  White 
was  transferred  to  Vandalia.  111.,  to 
manage  the  fourth  Star  store  and 
Chas.  V.  Weise  and  Geo.  V.  Weise 
absorbed  the  stock  held  by  him.  In 
1890  the  management  of  the  Green- 
ville store  was  assumed  by  the  two 
latter  named,  Mr.  W.  V.  Weise  re- 
tiring from  the  active  life  he  had 
led   so   long. 

In  November  of  1901  occurred  the 


Residence  of  George  V.  Weise. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville, 'Illinois. 


87 


CHAKLKS    \.    WeISE, 

Member  of  the  Weise  and  Bradford 
Corporation  and  manager  of  the 
Tuscola,  111.,  branch. 


death  of  W.  V.  Weise,  senior  mem- 
ber and  founder  of  the  business. 
No  change  occurred  in  the  business 
until  the  summer  of  19  02  when 
Chas.  V.  Weise  opened  the  fifth  Star 
store  in  Tuscola,  III.,  Geo.  V.  Weise 
assuming  full  control  of  the  Green- 
ville store.  This  arrangement  still 
exists. 

It  has  always  been  the  policy  of 
this  firm  to  advance  capable  em- 
ployees and  three  branches  of  the 
original  firm  are  now  managed  by 
men  who  were  formerly  salesmen. 
They  are  Joe  Murdock,  of  Bradford 
and  Murdock,  Virden,  111.:  W.  C. 
White  of  Bradford  &  White,  Van- 
dalia.  III.  and  E.  V.  Buchanan  of 
Bradford  &  Buchanan,  Sumner,  111. 
The  Greenville  store  which  is  more 
closely  related  to  this  history  has 
increased  its  outlet  very  materially 
during  the  last  few  years  and  is 
recognized  everywhere  as  one  of 
the  most  complete  stores  of  its  kind 
in  Southern  Illinois.  The  officers  of 
the  concern  are  Geo.  D.  Braford, 
President:  Chas.  V.  Weise,  Vice 
President  and  Geo.  V.  W^eise,  Secre- 
tary and  Treasurer. 


February  15,  1871.  William  S. 
Smith  was  treasurer  from  January 
18,  1867,  to  April  14,  1869.  He 
was  succeeded  by  Williamson  Plant, 
who  was  treasurer  until  February 
15,  1871.  Mr.  Plant  was  also  sec- 
retary for  many  years.  C.  D.  Holies 
was  assistant  secretary  for  several 
years  and  his  son,  Guy  B.  Holies, 
was  assistant  secretary  at  the  time 
of  the  merger  of  all  the  lines  in  De- 
cember,  1904. 

S.  B.  Hynes,  a  son  of  Rev.  Thomas 
W.  Hynes,  was  the  first  station  agent 
and  was  afterwards  one  of  the  most 
prominent  railroad  men  of  the  west. 


W.\RD  Reid, 

Ex-City  Clerk;  Circuit  Clerk  from  1892  to  1904; 
Secretary  Building  and  Savings  .\ssociation; 
now  in  the  real  estate,  loan,  abstract  and  in- 
surance business. 


holding  high  and  responsible  posi- 
tions with  some  of  the  greatest  rail- 
roads in  the  country.  He  was  fol- 
lowed as  station  agent  by  J.  E.  Hunt. 
M.  W.  Van  Valkenberg  was  the 
third  station  agent  serving  until 
1876,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  W. 
S.  Ogden,  who  held  the  place  for 
twenty  years  and  died  in  1896,  in 
office.  John  Geismann  was  the  next 
agent,  serving  until  August  1,  1903, 


when  he  was  succeeded  by  Edgar  E. 
Elliott,  who  holds  the  position  at 
the  present  time.  Mr.  Elliott  was 
born  August  6,  1866,  entered  the 
service  of  the  railroad  March  12, 
1888,  as  clerk;  was  promoted  in 
April,  1893,  to  the  position  of  cash- 
ier at  the  Brazil,  Ind.,  freight  sta- 
tion; in  October,  1898,  to  the  posi- 
tion of  Agent  at  Greenup  and  on 
August   1.    1903,   to   the   position  of 


Reside.sce  of  W.\rd  Reid,  East  College  .\ venue. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Frank  P.  Jov, 

Head  of  the  tirni  of  F.  P.  Joy  &  Co.  Mayor  of 
Greenville  from  1901  to  1903'.  Member  of  the  Li- 
brary Board. 


agent    at    Greenville. 

The  name  "Pennsylvania  Line"  is 
now  used  instead  of  "The  Vandalia 
Line,"  the  change  having  been  made 
recently. 


"jfacksonvillc  it  St.  Louis  R.  R. 

President  W.  S.  Hook  in  Septem- 
ber, 1880,  wrote  to  Wm.  S.  Smith  to 
confer  with  the  people  of  Green- 
ville about  a  road  known  as  the 
Jacksonville  and  St.  Louis,  then 
built  as  far  as  Litchfield.  On  Octo- 
ber 1,  of  that  year,  Mr.  Hook  came 
to  Greenville  and  twenty-five  busi- 
ness men  met  him  at  the  First  Nat- 
ional Bank.  He  wanted  a  bonus  of 
$25,000  and  the  right  of  way  in 
consideration  of  coming  to  Green- 
ville. After  several  months  parley- 
ing Greenville,  in  1S.S2.  offered 
$15,000,  the  complete  right  of  way 
and  ample  depot  grounds,  but  the 
offer  was  rejected  and  the  road  went 
to   Smithboro. 


Chicago,  Greenville  &  Soutbcm. 

After  the  J.  &  St.  L.  had  passed 
Greenville  by  and  had  been  in  oper- 
ation for  several  years,  President 
Hook,  on  November  23,  1891,  offer- 
ed to  build  a  "spur"  from  Durley  to 
Greenville,  a  distance  of  four  miles, 
for  $25,000  and  the  right  of  way. 
The  solemn  promise  was  made  that 


the  road  would  be  extended  south 
ir.  a  few  years  to  Carlyle.  The  of- 
fer was  accepted  and  the  road  was 
named  the  Chicago,  Greenville  and 
Southern,  but  as  years  passed  and  it 
went  no  farther  south,  the  name 
was  facetiously  changed  to  the 
"Chicago.  Greenville,  and  Stop." 
The  first  train  over  this  road  was 
run    in   August,    1892.      In   honor   of 


the  completion  of  the  road  and  be- 
cause of  their  liberal  subscriptions, 
the  people  of  Greenville  were  given 
a  free  ride  to  Springfield  in  Octo- 
ber, 1892,  and  425  people  took  ad- 
vantage of  the  opportunity  to  visit 
the  capital.  The  road  continued  in 
operation  until  January  3.  1903, 
when  it  suspended  business  after 
having  been  sold  in  pursuance  of  a 
decree  of  the  Federal  Court.  The 
four  mile  stretch  of  track  was  torn 
up  by  the  purchaser  in  April,  1903, 
and  now  nothing  remains  to  show 
for  the  $25,000  invested  in  it  by 
Greenville's  citizens. 

Numerous  other  railroad  projects 
have  been  agitated  in  Greenville, 
among  them  the  St.  Louis,  Shelby- 
ville  and  Detroit,  and  the  "Black 
Diamond  Line"  as  well  as  some 
other  north  and  south  railroads. 

Greenville  can  feel  proud  of  the 
part  it  played  in  the  origination  and 
construction  of  the  Vandalia  Line. 
From  the  start  this  line  became  one 
of  the  greatest  railroads  in  the 
country,  having  been  leased  and 
operated  by  the  great  Pennsylvania 
System  until  1900,  when  it  became 
by  purchase  a  part  of  the  great  par- 
ent trunk  line.  It  is  the  connect- 
ing link  between  Indianapolis  and 
St.  Louis  and  as  such  carries  the 
traffic  of  the  great  Pennsylvania 
System.  This  traffic  now  supports 
ten  passenger  trains  each  way  per 
day.  an  aggregate  passenger  ser- 
vice not  equalled  by  any  other  line 
in  the  west.  There  is  no  nook  or 
corner  in  the  country  where  this 
popular  railroad  is  not  known  and 
it  enjoys  a  reputation  of  possessing 
the  best  roadbed,  the  best  passenger 
service  and  the  finest  as  well  as  the 
fastest    trains   in    the   country. 


Reside.nck  of  F.  p.  Jov,   East  College  .\vctui'.'. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Residence  of  \V.  A.  |ov.  East  Main  Avenue. 


f .  p.  Koy  &  Co. 


This  firm  is  one  of  our  largest 
busii'.ess  houses  doing  a  general  mer- 
chandise business  throughout  the 
city  and  entire  county. 

F.  P.  Jov  &  Co.  in  connection  with 


W.  S.  Dann  &  Co.,  whom  they  suc- 
ceeded without  a  change  of  man- 
agement, has  done  a  continuous  and 
ever  increasing  business  for  thirty- 
five  years.  On  the  ground  where 
now  stands  the  building  devoted  to 
their   general   merchandise   stock,   in 


1870,  stood  a  small  one  room  store, 
where  Mr.  W.  S.  Dann,  in  that  year, 
opened  a  stock  of  general  merchan- 
dise. Within  a  few  months  Mr. 
F.  P.  Joy,  who  now  heads  the  firm, 
became  associated  with  Mr.  Dann 
and  for  the  last  twenty-five  years 
he  has  had  the  larger  part  of  the 
active   management  of  the  business. 

The  store,  thus  started  in  the 
seventy's,  soon  became  widely 
known  throughout  the  county.  In 
ISSO  and  again  in  1886  additions 
were  made  that  more  than  trebled 
their  space.  Then  in  189  9  the  ne- 
cessity for  still  further  room  com- 
pelled the  firm  to  move  their  cloth- 
ing stock  into  the  large  and  splend- 
idly equipped  room  on  the  east  side 
of  the  square,  known  as  the  Kesler 
building.  They  now  have  a  com- 
plete Clothing  Emporium  under 
the  management  of  three  of  the 
firm's  best  salesmen,  Mr.  Harry  E. 
Maynard,  Mr.  K.  E.  Grigg,  and  Mr. 
Wm.    H.   Fink. 

In  the  year  just  passed  extensive 
improvements  have  been  made  in 
their  general  store  building,  includ- 
ing a  remodeling  of  the  shoe  room, 
a  new  office,  also  a  rest  and  toilet 
room  and  a  room  in  the  rear  of  the 
dry  goods  room  for  their  stock  of 
ladies'  ready  made  garments. 

Mr.  W.  S.  Dann  died  in  1893.  and 


F.  P.  Joy  &  Co.\ii'.\ny's  Stoke. 


90 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Firm  Members  and  Clerks  of  F.  P.  Joy  &  Company. 

Top  Row  reading  from  left  to  right— Miss  Lizzie  C.  Colcord,  bookkeeper;  George  W,  Christiau,  member  of  firm; 
Clyde  Tate,  shoe  department;  Will  Hobbs,  grocery  department;  Clifford  Borror,  deliveryman;  Samuel  Spratt, 
deiivervman. 

Second  Row— P.  H.  Tate,  underwear,  hosiery  and  notions;  W.  B.  Fink,  grocery  department;  L.  Barnes,  grocery 
department;  Wm.  H.  Fink,  clothing  department.  Miss  Bertha  J.  Drayton,  saleslady  dress  goods  department; 
Miss  Alice  J.  Colcord,  cashier. 

Third  Row— Walter  A.  Joy,  dress  goods  department;  K.  E.  Grigg,  clothing  department;  G.  A.  Colcord,  staple  de- 
partment; A.  Maynatd,  shoe  department;  S.  C.  White,  carpet  department;  Harry  E.  Maynard,  clothing  de- 
partment. 


in  1S95  the  name  of  the  firm  was 
changed  to  F.  P.  Joy  &  Co.,  the 
"Company"  consisting  of  several  of 
the  firm's  oldest  salesmen.  It 
might  be  of  interest  to  insert  that 
Jlr.  Dann  was  one  of  those  most  in- 
terested in  the  founding  of  Green- 
ville College.  While  he  only  lived 
to  see  the  opening  of  the  College,  he 
was  very  deeply  interested  and  gave 
liberally  and  was  intending  to  do 
much  larger  things  for  the  college 
when  he  was  called  from  this  earth. 
F.  P.  Joy  &  Co.  in  their  general 
store  employ  fifteen  to  eighteen 
clerks,  and  in  their  clothing  depart- 
ment, three  or  four  more,  all  of 
whom  are  thoroughly  interested  in 
making  a  success  of  the  business. 
The  stock  carried  comprises  all  gen- 
eral merchandise,  including  grocer- 
ies, shoes,  carpets,  clothing,  fancy 
and  staple  dry  goods  and  ladies' 
ready  made  goods  of  all  kinds. 


F.  P.  Joy  &  Company's  Annex,  Clothing  store. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


91 


Mr.  and  Mks.  C.  K.  Dennv, 
Mr.  Dennv  was  Postmaster  of  Greenville  from  1890  to  1894. 


Greenville's  Big  Fires 


THE  first  fire  of  which  there  is 
record  took  place  in  1824, 
when  Mr.  Kirkpatrick's  log  house 
burned.  A  woman  had  been  picking 
over  cotton,  which  was  raised  here 
then,  and  while  she  was  absent  some 
of  the  children  set  the  pile  on  fire. 
The  nearest  water  was  supplied  by  a 
spring,  far  down  the  long  sand  hill 
to  the  west  and  the  log  house  was 
destroyed  before  water  could  be 
thrown  on  the  flames.     It  was  about 


this    time    that    fire    obliterated    the 
boundary   lines   of   the   place. 

There  were  no  other  big  fires  un- 
til the  brick  court  house  burned 
March  24,  1883.  Smoke  was  first 
seen  issuing  out  of  the  southwest 
corner  of  the  roof.  W.  A.  North- 
cott,  Robert  Donnell  and  others 
went  into  the  garret  to  fight  the 
flames,  but  there  was  no  water  sys- 
tem and  the  bucket  brigade  was  in- 
adequate. The  energies  of  the  crowd 
were  directed  toward  saving  the 
records  and  this  was  accomplished. 
In  half  an  hour  the  roof  was  all 
ablaze  and  in  an  hour  the  dome  fell 
in  with  a  crash,  sending  embers  fly- 
ing high  in  the  air.  These  fell  on 
adjacent    buildings    and    they    were 


Samuel  McGowan, 
A  resident  of  Greenville  for  forty-four 
years,  justice  of  the  Peace  for  six- 
teen years. 


preserved  only  by  dint  of  hard  fight- 
ing. The  building  cost  $9,000.  The 
insurance  was   $7,000. 

The  next  fire  of  consequence  oc- 
curred February  4,  1891,  on  the 
west  side  of  the  square.  The  frame 
building  of  J.  H.  Livingston,  occu- 
pied by  Philip  Diehl,  Charles  Wol- 
ridge's  notion  store,  the  Yarbrough 
property  owned  by  J.  M.  Miller  and 
occupied  by  C.  H.  Shields,  photo- 
grapher, F.  Parent's  building,  oc- 
cupied by  J.  W.  Hastings,  the  Mc- 
Cord  hotel,  owned  by  J.  M.  Miller 
and  D.  H.  Kingsbury,  were  de- 
stroyed.    The  loss  amounted  to  sev- 


M.  S.  Oldyn, 

Former  Mayor  Pro  Tem.  One  of 
tlie  proprietors  of  Oudyn's  Book 
Store. 


Residence  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Jett,  West  College  Avenue. 


92 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


A   \n.\v  tiF  MoNTKOSH  Cemetery. 


College  Avenue,  Looking  West  from  Greenville  College. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


93 


Some  Views  In  and  Near  Gkeenvii.le. 


94 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


The  DeMoulin  Block. 
The  Postoffice  is  located  in  this  building 


A.  L.  HoKi), 

Postmaster  of  Greenville;  a  prominent   business 
man  and  citizen  for  many  years. 


Employees  of  the  Greenville  Postoffice. 
Left  to  right-y.  L.  McCrackeu,  citv  carrier;  J.  O    Wafer,  city  carrier;  H.  N.  Baumberger,  clerk;  Robert  Potter, 
clerk;  C.  F.  thraner,  assistant  postmaster;  H.  H.  Staub,   Marshall  Kirkham.  J.  C.   Sanderson,   Will   Hair, 
and  Samuel  Mueller,  rural  carriers. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


95 


\V.    L).    Dt)NXELL, 

A  leading  business  man.      Ex-.\lder- 
nian  from  the  First  Ward. 


Residence  of  W.  D.  Do.s.\ei,l,  North  Third  Street. 


eral  thousand  dollars.  The  fire  was 
caused    by   a   defective    flue. 

On  September  25,  1S91,  the  fine 
Export  Mill  and  Peter  Saile's  apple 
evaporator,  both  the  largest  indus- 
tries of  their  kind  in  this  section 
of  the  state,  were  totally  destroyed 
by  fire,  which  originated  in  the 
evaporator  from  an  unknown  cause. 
The  mill  was  70x160  feet  and  was 
owned  by  Charles  Valier.  C.  H. 
Seybt.  Charles  and  Emil  Broeker. 
The  loss  was  $150,000.  Mr.  Saile's 
loss  was  $4,000.  This  was  the  most 
expensive  fire  in  the  history  of  the 
city. 

November  2,  1892,  Jernigan's 
livery  stable  and  some  small  build- 
ings nearby  were  destroyed,  several 
horses  perishing.  John  Schlup,  Sr., 
a  well  known  citizen,  died  during  the 
fire,  of  heart  failure,  superinduced 
by   over-exertion  and  excitement. 

Fire     of    unknown    origin    started 


in  the  rear  of  J.  M.  Miller's  shoe 
store  on  the  southwest  corner  of  the 
square,  July  31,  1893.  The  third 
story  of  the  Miller  building,  known 
as  the  old  National  Bank  building, 
was  destroyed,  and  the  Sun  office. 
Wm.  Akhurst,  grocer,  C.  W.  Watson, 
druggist,  and  Holies  and  Sons  suf- 
fered damage  to  the  extent  of  $11.- 
000. 

Breuchaud's  elevator  was  burn- 
ed June  10,  1S94,  with  a  loss  of 
$18,000.  A  spark  from  an  engine 
started  the   fire. 

Blanchard's  mill  was  destroyed 
by  fire  of  unknown  origin  October 
22,  1897.  The  loss  was  $3,500.  The 
following  day,  October  2  3,  18  97, 
fire,  which  started  from  gasoline  in 
the  feed  store  of  Wm.  Denham,  de- 
stroyed the  Presbyterian  church  and 
the  feed  store.  The  loss  was  $2,- 
600. 

The   north    half   of   the    west    side 


of  the  public  square  was  destroyed 
by  fire  August  15,  1899.  The  fire 
was  of  unknown  origin  and  de- 
stroyed the  buildings  of  Ed  De- 
Moulin.  George  Grafe,  G.  D.  Chaffee 
and  Hentz's  livery  barn,  beside  many 
stocks  of  goods.  The  loss  was  $10,- 
425    with    $2,775    insurance. 

The  newly  completed  Greenville 
Milk  Condenser  was  destroyed  by 
fire  on  the  morning  of  October  29, 
1902.  The  origin  was  unknown, 
the  loss  was  $6,000  with  no  in- 
surance. 

November  IS,  1902,  fire,  which 
started  in  a  barn  on  the  Kingsbury 
property,  damaged  Joy  and  Co.'s  An- 


Stoke  of  W.  D.  Donnelu  &  Co.    Store  of  Wise,  Chx  a.\ip  Tiii: 


E.  S.  Titus, 

Member  of  the  firm  of  Wise,  Cox  and 
Titus.  Worshipful  Master  Green- 
ville Loda;e  No.  2-45  A.  F.and  A.M. 


96 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Edmond  DeMoulin,  Mayor  of  Greenville. 
Edmond  DeMoulin  came  to  Greenville  in  October,  1886,    and    has   been    a   resident 
here  ever  since.     Mr.  DeMoulin  served  one  term  as   .\lderman    of  the   Third  Ward   and 
was  re-elected  Mavor  for  the  fourth  time  in  1905.     He  is  the  founder  of  the  factory   of 
DeMoulin  Brothers  and  Company  and  is  president  of  the  corporation. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


97 


Mrs.  Edmond  DeMoulin. 


Residence  of  Mayor  Edmond   DeMoulin, 
Photographed  by  himself  b}-  moonlight  on  a  snowy  night. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Ulysses  S.  DeMoulin, 
Born  October  3rd,  1871;  A  citizen  of  Greenville  since  February  13th,   1894;  Married 
Miss  Emma  Diehl  of  this  city,  December  3rd,  1897;  Is  President  and  General  Man- 
ager of  the  Greenville  Electric  Light,  Heat  and  Power  Company  and  is   Vice   Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager  of  DeMoulin  Brothers  and  Company. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


99 


Mrs.  Ulysses  S.  DeMovlin, 


Residence  of  Ulysses  S.  DeMoulin. 


100 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


The  Manufacturing  Plant  of  DeMoulin  Brothers  and  Company. 


This  was  the  first  factory  eve 


-located  In  Greenville.  The  business  was  started  In  a  small  way  by  Edmond  DeMoulin  in  1892,  and  on 
February' ISthrrsgrEdmond- and  Ulysses  S.  De.VIoulin  entered  into  a  partnership  in  the  name  of  lid  DeMoulin  and  Brother.  The  busi- 
nlss  grew  rapidly  from  the  beginning  and  over  one  hundred  people  are  now  employed  in  the  manufacture  of  band  and  society  uniforms, 

'°''!?n'D^e?embe''^^°9!!%5,^"heTrm  was  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  state  of  Illinois  and  'b-  f°''°-|re  "ffi^/^Tr^L^urlr^Edmo^n'^d' 
mond  DeMoulin,  President;  Ulysses  S.  DiMoulin.  Vice  President  and  General  Manager;  H.  C.  Diehl,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Kdmond 
ncMouHn    Ulvsses  S    DeMoulin  and  Erastus  DeMoulin,  Directors.  ,  i.,  .  n 

aThebillXris  four  stories,  furnishing  27,030  squ  most   up-to-date   machinery,  is  well 

lighted  and  ventilated  and  has  good  shipping  facilities,  having  its  private  railroad  switch. 


Grciup  of  Employes  of  the  Factory  of  DeMoulln  Brothers  &  Company. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


101 


Philip  Diehl, 

Was  two  years  a  member  of  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates from  the  Sixth  Ward,  St.  Louis.  In 
Ijusiness  in  Greenville  for  19  ^-ears;  Introduced 
the  method  of  butchering  hogs  in  the  summei 
time. 


nex,  J.  E.  Hillis,  The  Sun  office,  F. 
Parent's  bakery  and  others.  The 
fire  was  controlled  without  the  loss 
of  buildings.  The  damage  was 
about    $600. 

About  three  o'clock  on  tlie  morn- 
ing of  October  27.  1904.  fire  from 
unknown   cause  started   in  the  base- 


ment of  the  Seaman  Hardware 
Company's  store  and  by  daylight 
the  Morse  block,  owned  by  the  J.  B. 
White  estate,  Miss  Lucy  Smith's 
building,  Mrs.  M.  V.  Allen's  building 
and  Mrs.  August  Pierron's  building 
were  in  ruins.  The  Seaman  Hard- 
ware Co.,  W.  W.  Hussong  and  Co., 
W.  O.  Holdzkom,  J.  A.  Johnson, 
Graff  and  Eppestine,  Dr.  W.  T. 
Easley,  George  O.  Morris,  the  Odd 
Fellows,  the  Court  of  Honor,  the 
Rebekahs,  the  Maccabees,  and  the 
Women's  Relief  Corps,  C.  E.  Cook 
and  Dr.  M.  L.  Ravold  were  burned 
out.  It  was  the  most  disastrous 
fire  in  the  city's  history,  taking  into 
consideration  the  number  of  people 
affected.      The   total   loss   was   about 


50,000,  with  about  $26,000  in- 
surance. The  handsome  new  liusi- 
ness  houses  known  as  the  Grafe 
building,  the  Seaman  building,  the 
Hussong  Cash  Mercantile  Company's 
building  and  the  Miller-Wise 
building  have  been  erected  on  tho 
site    of    the    burnt    district. 


OREENVILLL'S  WATER  SIPPLY 


Reside.nce  of  Ekastus  De.Moili.s,  Washington  .\ venue. 


A  BODY  of  water,  in  a  bed  of 
quicksand  underlies  the  entire 
city  of  Greenville,  and  numerous 
springs  gush  from  the  hills  on  the 
north  and  west   of  the  city. 

The  first  settlers,  George  David- 
son, Paul  Beck  and  Asahel  Enloe, 
located  in  the  west  part  of  town 
near  the  springs  to  obviate  any 
trouble  for  water.  Those  later 
settling  farther  up  in  town  carried 
all  the  water  they  used  from  the 
springs  and   from  Wash   Lake. 

In  IS  22  the  first  attempt  was 
made  to  sink  wells.  The  first  well 
was  dug  in  the  middle  of  the  street 
where  Main  and  Sixth  intersect. 
The  second  at  the  intersection  of 
Third  and  College  and  the  next  was 
at  Second  and  Main.  These  wells 
were  dug  square  and  were  curbed 
with  wood.  An  oldfashioned  wind- 
lass was  used  for  drawing  wafer. 
Owing  to  the  elevated  ground  on 
which  Greenville  stands  it  required 
deep  digging  to  get  to  water,  and 
the  wells  were  from  seventy  to 
ninety  feet  deep. 

Two  people  met  death  in  these 
wells.     William  Gray  was  in  the  act 


102 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Louis  Latzer, 
President  of  the  Helvetia  Milk  Condensing  Company. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


103 


John   Wildi, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Helvetia  Milk  Comlensing  Company. 


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-H  I  O  H  I-  A  N  O 

EVAPORATEO   CREAM 


HELVETIA     Mll-fr.     -^ 


I  iBranchiJ 

.  !    i  I  I    {WORKfir« 


ipANY's  Plant  at  Greenville. 


104 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


The  Helvetia  MilK  Con= 
c}   densing  Company  el 


The  plant  is  well  located  in  regard 
to  trackage  facilites,  drainage  and 
sanitary  surroundings.  The  build- 
ings consist  of  a  power  house,  the 
condensing  plant  proper,  canmak- 
ing  department  and  a  number  of 
warehouses  for  the  storage  of  met- 
als, box  lumber  and  the  finished 
product.  They  are  all  substantial 
structures,  mostly  two  stories  high, 
and  cover  over  two  acres  of  ground. 
The  machinery  in  every  department 
is  of  the  latest  construction,  and 
several  of  the  apparatus  used  have 
been  built  according  to  plans  orig- 
inal with  the  Company  or  persons 
connected  therewith.  A  striking 
feature  noticed  by  the  visitors  is  the 
neatness  and  cleanliness  which  pre- 
vails throughout  the  plant.  It  was 
established  in  1S99.  and  several  ad- 
ditions have  since  been  made,  so 
that  now  it  has  sufficient  capacity 
for  handling  about  125,000  pounds 
of  milk  daily.  The  investment  in 
buildings,  machinery  and  materials 
is  about  $100, noo,  and  the  average 
monthly  expenditures  for  milk  and 
labor  is  about  $2(>,000.  The  p-o- 
duct  is  consumed  principally  within 
the  United  States,  but  it  is  also 
shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  world, 
including  the  Islands  of  the  Seas. 
You  cannot  travel  in  any  country 
with      exception      of    some    parts    of 


Europe  where  you  do  not  find  it. 
The  plant  has  been  in  charge  of  its 
present  Manager,  Mr.  Adolph  Meyer, 
ever  since  it  was  established.  The 
main  office  of  the  Company  is  lo- 
cated at  Highland,  111.,  where  the 
Company  was  organized  in  1SS.5, 
and  where  its  magnificent  home 
plant  is  located.  It  also  operates 
a  third  plant  at  Delta,  Ohio. 

The  Company  was  organized  by 
some  of  the  leading  business  men 
in  Highland,  in  1885.  Its  first 
board  of  directors  consisted  of  Dr. 
John  B.  Knoebel,  President:  John 
Wildi,  Secretary  and  Treasurer; 
Louis  Latzer,  Fritz  Kaeser  and  Geo. 
Roth,  Members,  but  for  many  years 
up  to  this  date  the  board  of  di- 
rectors has  been  composed  as  fo'- 
lows:  Louis  Latzer,  President:  Fritz 
Kaeser,  Vice  President:  John  Wildi, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer;  Adolph 
Meyer  and  C.  W.  Buck,  Members. 


of  getting  into  the  bucket  to  go 
down  to  the  bottom  of  the  well  in 
the  southeast  corner  of  the  square, 
when  the  rope  parted  and  he  was 
precipitated  to  the  bottom,  a  dis- 
tance of  82  feet.  When  Gray  was 
taken  out  he  was  still  alive  but  he 
died  the  next  day  in  great  agony. 
A  hoy  by  name  Cornelius  Hildreth 
fell  into  the  well  at  the  crossing  of 
SixHi  and  Main  and  was  instantly 
killed. 

In   1S49   another  well   was  dug  in 


.\d()Lph   Meyer, 

Manager  of  the  Greenville  Plant  of 
the  Helvetia  Milk  Condensing 
Compaiiv. 


the  orchard  between  the  J.  P.  Gar- 
land property  and  the  home  of  Rev. 
Stafford,  on  Second  street.  Seven 
men  formed  a  company  and  dug  to 
a  depth  of  75  feet,  when  the  sand 
caved  in,  the  cholera  epidemic  came 
and  the  laborers  fled  the  town, 
leaving  Mr.  Garland  to  finish  the 
work   himself. 


Rear  View  of  a  Portion  of  the  Helvetia  Milk  Conden.sine  Plant. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


105 


\V.  A    McLain, 

Member  of  the  firm  of  McLahi  and 
Cable;  member  board  of  Education 
and  a  prominent  citizen  for  many 
years 


b.  M     H.\K.\KTi.\r.\, 


Frank.  J.  Cable, 


Citv   Clerk,    1901-2;    Proprietor     of     Member  of  the  firm    of  McLain   and 
The  Busy  Bee  Restaurant.  Cable,   and   a   prominent  business 

man  for  a  number  of  vears. 


In  the  fifties  these  wells  gave 
evidence  of  cavin,?  in  and  were 
filled  up.  Twenty  five  years  after 
it  had  been  filled  up  the  well  on 
the  southeast  corner  of  the  square 
sunk,  leaving  a  hole  ten  feet  deep. 
A  similar  depression  has  been  found 
there   several    times   since. 


During  the  seventies  the  question 
of  an  adequate  water  supply  for  the 
city  was  agitated  and  in  May  1S7S 
the  city  employed  Richard  Strout 
to  make  a  survey  for  water  works. 
Prior  to  this,  in  October  1877,  a 
petition  was  circulated  by  C.  D. 
Holies     asking    the    city    council     to 


appoint  a  committee  to  make  pro- 
files, estimates  and  measurements 
for  water  works.  On  December  10, 
IS 77,  C.  E.  Gray  of  St.  Louis  made 
the  estimates  and  measurements. 
It  was  then  the  plan  to  tap  the 
springs  in  the  north  part  of  town 
and   the  fall  from   the  north  end  of 


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Rear  View  of  a  Portion  of  the  Helvetia  Milk  Condensing  Company's  Plant. 


100 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


The  Plant  of  the  Greenville  Milk  Condensing  Company. 


Third  street  was  then  estimated  at 
30,000  gallons  a  day,  sufficient  for 
a  city  twice  the  size  of  Greenville 
at  that  time. 

It  was  not  until  the  election  of 
April  17,  1S84,  that  the  city  voted 
an  appropriation  for  water  works. 
The  vote  stood  323  for  issuing 
$1S,000  water  works  bonds  to  71 
against.  At  that  time  it  was  the 
understanding  that  the  pumps  be 
located  in  the  north  part  of  town, 
hut  later  the  plans  were  changed 
by  the  city  council  to  the  present 
location  in  the  south  part  of  town, 
near  the  Vandalia  depot.  On  April 
29,  1885,  the  first  test  of  the  system 
was  made  and  proved  satisfactory. 
The  water  works  plant  is  owned  by 
the  city  but  is  operated  under  con- 
tract by  the  Greenville  Electric 
Light,  Heat  and  Power  Co. 


Thraner,  Secretary  and  Treasurer; 
L.  Derleth,  Philip  Diehl,  A.  W. 
Holdzkom  and  S.  Wannamaugher, 
Wheelmen:  Ed  Heussy,  Wm.  Leidel, 
Wm.  Leppard,  Henry  Shaw  and  W. 
D.  Zimmerman,  Branchmen.  There 
were  no  plugmen  until  1892. 

Cyclone  Hose  Company  No.  1  was 
incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
Illinois  during  the  year  1887,  and 
since  that  time  three  directors  have 
been  added  to  the  lists  of  officers. 
The  first  directors  were  Ward  Reid, 
Vallee  Harold  and  C.  F.  Thraner. 

The  company  has  responded  to 
seventy-six  fire  calls  since  its  orga- 
nization twenty  years  ago,  an  aver- 
age of  nearly  four  per  year.  There 
were  no  fires  in   1SS9   and   1895. 

The  present  officers  of  the  com- 
pany are:     L.  Derleth,  Foreman;    F. 


.\".  Blunchard,  First  Assistant;  L. 
Senn,  Second  Assistant:  C.  F. 
Thraner,  Seci'etary  and  Treasurer; 
F.  H.  Floyd,  George  Price,  Ab  Near, 
C.  Sapp,  Wheelmen;  C.  L.  Abbott, 
Al  Chamberlain,  E.  M.  Davis,  James 
Mulford  and  Al  White,  Branchmen; 
J.  Dowell  and  G.  L.  Loggins,  Plug- 
men:  H.  N.  Baumberger,  F.  N. 
Blanchard,  E.  M.  Davis,  P.  Diehl, 
Ab  Near  and  L.  Senn,  Fire  Police; 
J.  L.  McCracken,  Ab  Near  and  J. 
Dowell,  Directors.  The  Chemical 
Engine  Company  is  composed  of  H. 
N.  Baumberger,  John  Buscher,  J.  L. 
McCracken,  Lee  Loyd,  J.  A.  Scott, 
J.  Schulp  and  T.  D.  Stevenson  mem- 
bers with  F.  N.  Blanchard,  Captain. 


The  ladies'  Library  Association 


(NOTE— The  following  paper,  furnished  by 
Mrs.  Louisa  (Wait)  Ravold,  one  of  the  first 
and  most  active  members  of  the  Ladies'  Li- 
brary Association,  is,  in  substance,  the  same 
as  that  placed  in  the  corner  stone  of  the  new 
Carnegie  Library.) 

C  OR  nearly  half  a  century  the 
^  Ladies'  Library  has  been  an  in- 
stitution of  the  city  of  Greenville 
which  has  given  great  satisfaction 
to  those  who  appreciate  the  influence 
of  books  and  periodicals  upon  the 
rising   generation. 

As  the  shelves  of  the  Ladies' 
Library  were  gradually  filled  with 
the  choicest  of  literature,  history, 
poetry,  etc,  and  the  books  were 
circulated  amongst  the  community, 
the  benefit  which  they  were  doing 
was  soon  apparent  and  there  was  no 
one  who  did  not  feel  a  just  pride  in 
the  good  work  which  had  been  done. 


Cyclone  Hose  Company  No.  1. 


By   Charles   F.   Thraner. 

Cyclone  Hose  Company  No.  1  was 
organized  May  23,  1885.  The  fol- 
lowing were  the  organizers  of  the 
company:  Albert  Baumberger,  Louis 
Derleth,  Charles  G.  Derleth,  Philip 
Diehl,  Jacob  Dowell,  William  H. 
Evans,  August  Faust,  Vallee  Harold, 
Ed  Heussy,  W.  O.  Holdzkom,  Albert 
W.  Holdzkom,  N.  M.  Hurley,  William 
Leidel,  Jr.,  William  Leppard,  G.  L. 
Loggins,  Henry  Ostrom,  Frank 
Parent,  Sr.,  Ward  Reid,  John 
Schmelzer,  Henry  Shaw,  Charles  H. 
Shields,  Thomas  A.  Stevens,  Charles 
F.  Thraner,  E.  D.  Wallace,  Samuel 
Wannamaugher,  John  Yarbrough, 
W.    Daly   Zimmerman — total    27. 

The  following  were  the  first  of- 
ficers: E.  D.  Wallace,  Foreman;  N. 
M.  Hurley,  First  Assistant;  W.  O. 
Holdzkom,    Second    Assistant;    C.    F. 


F.  N.  Blanchard  &  Co.'s  Roller  Mills. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


107 


View  of  the  west  side  of  the  square  on  the  occasion  of  the  J.   Seaman    Hardware 
Co.  stove  drawing,  September  3,  1904. 


Ruins  of  the  fire  of  October  27,  1904-,  when  the  west  side  of  the  square,  with  tlie 
Block  was  wiped  out.     Loss  $43,000. 


L'ptioii   ot   the    DeMouhu 


108 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Dr.  E.  p.  Poindexter, 

Former  member  of  thejillinois  Legislature 
practicing  ph3-siciau,of  Greenville. 


Peter  Saile, 

Greenville  Business  man  from  1878  to  1S91; 
a  resident  of  Batavia,  N.  Y. 


In  the  year  of  1S55  some  quanti- 
ties of  yellow  covered  literature 
having  been  brought  into  the  town, 
many  of  the  most  intelligent  mothers 
in  the  city  became  alarmed  for  the 
welfare  of  the  minds  and  morals  of 
their  children,   and   determined   that 


a   more   healthy  diet  should   be  pro- 
vided. 

Some  prominent  ladies,  among 
whom  were  notably  Mrs.  Almira 
Morse,  Mrs.  S.  Hutchinson,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Wait,  Mrs.  Robert  Stewart 
and  a  few  others,  began  immediately 


proselyting  amongst  their  friends 
and  neighbors  with  such  good  effect 
that  it  was  but  a  short  time  before 
there  were  quite  a  number  of  ladies 
who  were  willing  and  glad  to  assist 
in  the  enterprise  of  starting  a  circu- 
lating  library. 


\Vm.  T.  H.\rlan, 

For  a  number  of  years  a  teacher  in 
the  schools  of  Bond  county.  Elect- 
ed Co.  Superintendent  of  Schools 
in  November,  1898,  which  position 
he  still  holds. 


EiR.  Do.N  V.  Poindexter, 

A  practicing  physician  of  Greenville, 
in  partnership  with  his  father.  Dr. 
E.  P.  Poindexter.  Elected  coroner 
of  Bond  countv  in  November,  1904. 


E.  R.  Gum, 
Deputy  Sheriff  of  Bond   county   since 
1902;  was   raised   on   a   farm   and 
has  resided   in   the  countv   all   his 
life. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


109 


VYm.  D.  Matney, 

Countv  Clerk  of  Bond  county  since  1894;  Pres- 
ident Board  of  Education  in  1903;  Sergeant 
Co.  K  5-ith  111.  Vols.,  serving  three  yearsand 
ten  months  in  the  Civil  War.  Resident  of 
Bond  since  October,  1883. 


Mrs.  Wm.  D.  M.vtney, 
Deputy  County  Clerk. 


Ex-SheriffJ.  E.  Wright. 
Sheriff  from  1898  to  1902;  Citv 
Marshal,  1893-4. 


Bennie  Wright 


Harrv  Wright. 


Mrs.  J.  E.  Wright, 
(nee  Dorris) 
Lucien  Wright,  Deceased. 


110 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


■  »■■  1 1  » ^  1 1  11 1  n'h  ''ill  ■■rt  •     — SlUt^^fa^^^^riHi^Bi 


John  H.  Ladd, 

County  Treasurer.  Born  in  Oldham  County, 
Ky.  At  age  of  19  enlisted  in  Union  Array  in 
1861;  Co.  B,  6th  Ky.  Inft.  Wounded  at'the 
battle  of  Stone  River,  and  disabled.  Was 
four  years  supervisor  of  Lagrange  town- 
shi]);  elected  county  treasurer'in  1902;  Ex- 
Commander  of  Colby  Post  No.  301,  G,  A.  R. 


Residence  of  John  H.  Ladd. 


A.  J.  Sherburne, 

Who  commenced  railroading  in 
1861  and  was  one  of  the  first  en- 
gineers on  the  Vandalia  Line.  Was 
engineer  19  years  and  passenger 
conductor  5  years. 


Country  Residence  of  A.  J.  Sherburne. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Ill 


Joseph  H.  Story. 

County  Judge  of  Bond  County,  having  been  ap- 
pointed in  1898  and  twice  elected  to  that  office 
Member  of  law  firm  of  Park  and  Story  and  a 
prominent  Republican  politician. 


H.  \V.  Park,  Lawyer. 

Member  firm  of  Park  and  Story;  Ex-City  Treasur- 
er of  Greenville;  For  several  years  attorney  for 
the  Sorento  Building  and  Loan  Association. 


Ned  C.  Sherburne, 

A  former  resident,  now  state  deputy 
tor  the  M.  \V.  A.  for  Ohio,  residing 
at  Newark,  O. 


E.  D.  W.\i.i,.\CE, 
Well  known  contractor. 


John  Breuchaud, 

Owner  of  Breuchaud's  elevators  and 
I  lumber  vards. 


112 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


George  L.  Meyer, 

A  resident  of  Bond  for  37  years;  taught  school  10 
years;  Graduate  of  the  High  School,  Almira  Col- 
lege and  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  Law 
College;  Elected  State's  Attorney  of  Bond  Coun- 
ty in  the  fall  of  1904.. 


Dk.  S.  E.  Yeck, 
Formerly  a  resident  of  Greenville,   now    practicing 
medicine  in  Coffeen. 


F.  Parent. 
Proprietor  of  Parent's  Bakery. 


D.\NIEL   LUTZ, 

Alderman  from  1900  to   1904, 
a  resident  of  Vandalia. 


Fr.\xk  He.ntz, 
Proprietor  of  Hentz's  [livery  barn 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


113 


Mrs.  John  L.  Binch. 


MIDLINE 


Mrs.  Bu.sch's  Milli.neky  Store. 


John  L.    Bunch. 

Raised  on  a  farm  in  southern  Bond 
county;  Deputy  County  Clerk  several 
years;  two  terras  city  clerk  of  Green- 
ville; elected  circuit  clerk  and  ex-offi- 
cio  Recorder  in  1904-. 


In  a  short  time  "The  Ladies' 
Library  Association"  was  organized 
with  a  large  number  of  enthusiastic 
members.  They  found  that  their 
only  way  of  raising  funds  for  their 
undertaking  would  be  by  getting 
up  entertainments  of  various  kinds. 
Nothing  daunted,  they  planned  a 
series  of  suppers,  concerts,  lectures, 
etc.  Their  first  supper  was  given 
in  the  old  Congregational  church, 
which  stood  on  the  site  of  the 
present   Carnegie  Library. 

The  supper  gotten  up  and  pre- 
pared by  such  energetic  and  ac- 
complished housekeepers  and  good 
managers,  was  a  great  success  and 
was  patronized  by  a  great  part  of 
the  community.  The  proceeds 
amounted  to  one  hundred  dollars, 
and  formed  the  nucleus  to  which 
was  added  the  sums  accumulated 
from  time  to  time,  which  were  re- 
alized  from   various   entertainments. 

With  the  small  beginning  of  about 
one  hundred  dollars  worth  of  books, 
the  number  of  volumes  at  present 
in  the  library  has  increased  to  about 
four  thousand.  Added  to  these  Is 
a  large  number  of  the  best  maga- 
zines and  periodicals,  which  have 
been  bound  annually  and  placed  up- 
on  the  shelves. 

The  funds  of  the  society,  derived 
partly  from  fees  paid  by  the  mem- 
bers   and    patrons,   and    partly    from 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


S'h.  t   graph  by  McLeod. 

Bond  County  Law  Makers.     Members  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  and  Keeper  of  the  County  Poor  Farm  for  1904. 

Reading  from  left  to  right— (  First  Row)  Emil  Harnetiaux,  Mills  Township;  S.  Van  Deusen,  Chairman,  Central 
Township;  Ed  Mayo,  Pleasant  Mound  Township;  William  D.  Matney,  County  Clerk. 

Second  Row,  (Left  to  right)  George  VV.  Pigg,  Mulberry  Grove  Township;  J.  B.  Apple,  Tamalco;  Robert  Hurst, 
Keeper  of  the  Countv  Poor  Farm;  Simon  Brown,  Old  Riplev  Township;  A.  O.  Donnell,  Lagrange. 

Third  Row,  (Left  to  right)  Albert  G.  Schmidt,  Burgess;' R.  H.  Pullen,  Shoal  Creek  Township. 


endowment,  have  amounted  to  fl,- 
300.  This  sum  has  been  placed  at 
interest  for  the  purpose  of  meeting 
expenses  and  buying  new  books.  It 
was  slow  work  but  was  persevered 
in  by  the  members  often  at  a  sacri- 
fice of  time  and  labor,  for  the  sake 
of  building  up  an  institution,  which 
they  knew  would  benefit  the  people. 

On  February  22,  1S67,  the  associ- 
ation was  incorporated  under  the 
title  "The  Ladies'  Library  Associa- 
tion of  Greenville,  Illinois."  The 
names  of  the  charter  members  are 
as  follows;  Almira  A.  Morse.  Lucy 
B.  Stewart,  Sarah  Sprague.  Elizabeth 
Smith,  Hannah  Chittenden.  Mary  A. 
Shields.  Priscilla  W.  Alexander, 
Emily  M.  Dewey.  Sarah  H.  Walls, 
Caroline  R.  Phelps. 

There  have  been  many  changes  in 
the  members  of  the  Association,  yet 
all  have  been  actuated  in  a  remark- 


able degree  by  unanimity  and  a 
generous  desire  that  the  library 
shall  be  so  managed  that  it  may 
continue  its  good  influences  in  time 
to   come. 


The  Carnegie  Library 


T'  HE  Ladies'  Library  Association 
'  took  the  initiative  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Greenville  Carnegie 
Library  or  the  Greenville  Free 
Public  Library,  as  it  is  now  called. 
It  was  their  generous  offer  of 
money  and  books  that  made  possible 
the  opening  of  negotiations  with 
Hon.  Andrew  Carnegie,  the  donor  of 
the  building. 

The  matter  was   discussed   by  the 
ladies  at  their  meetings  in  the  year 


1902,  and  finally  me  association  of- 
fered to  give  $1,000  in  monej'  and 
their  library  of  more  than  4,000 
volumes  for  the  furtherance  of  the 
cause,  provided  the  city  would  levy 
a  two  mill  tax,  as  provided  by  law, 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  library. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  city  council  on 
April  2,  1903,  C.  D.  Hoiles,  F.  W. 
Fritz  and  W.  W.  Lowis  appeared  be- 
fore the  council  in  support  of  a 
resolution  offered  by  Alderman  W. 
H.  Williams  favoring  the  location  of 
a  Carnegie  Library  in  Greenville. 
This  resolution  was  passed  by  a 
unanimous  vote.  It  did  not  provide 
for  the  le^T  of  any  tax.  but  was 
merely  an  expression  on  the  part  of 
the  city  council,  paving  the  way  for 
the  opening  of  negotiations  with 
Mr.  Carnegie.  At  that  meeting 
Mayor  Joy  appointed  Mrs.  C.  D. 
Hoiles.     President     of     the     Ladies' 


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115 


Sheriff  W.  L.  Floyd, 

Born  and  raised  in  Bond  county; 
Constable  six  years;  Deputy  Sher- 
iff four  Tears  and  elected  Sheriff  ol 
Bond  Count V  in  1902. 


Library  Association,  to  communicate 
with  Mr.  Carnegie  in  regard  to  the 
matter.  Mrs.  Hoiles  had  already 
had  correspondence  with  Mr.  Car- 
negie, having  been  delegated  to 
write  him  by  the  Ladies'  Library 
Association.  In  reply  to  her  first 
letter,  Mrs.  Hoiles  received  a  blank 
to  be  filled  out  signifying  that  the 
city  council  was  favorable  to  the  es- 
tablishment of  a  Carnegie  Library. 
The  resolution  passed  by  the  council 
was    forwarded    to    Mr.    Carnegie    as 


A.  A.  Jackson, 

Of  Muncie,  Ind.,  a   former  Greenville 
resident. 


proof  of  the  good  faith  of  the  city 
in  desiring  a  Carnegie  Library.  In 
reply  to  this  Mr.  Carnegie,  through 
his  private  secretary,  James  Bert- 
ram, stated  that  if  the  city  would, 
by  resolution  of  council,  agree  to 
maintain  a  free  public  library  at  a 
cost  of  not  less  than  $1,00  0  per 
year,  and  provide  a  suitable  site 
for  the  building,  he  would  be  pleased 
to  furnish  ?lu,000  to  erect  a  free 
public  library  for  Greenville. 

On  August  G,  1903,  the  city  coun- 
cil passed  a  resolution  providing  for 
the  establishment  of  a  free  Carnegie 
Library  to  cost  $10,000,  and  pledg- 
ing the  required  two  mill  tax  for 
the  support  of  the  library.  In  the 
same  resolution  the  city  accepted 
the  gift  of  $1,000  from  the  Ladies' 
Library  Association.  Mayor  Ed  De- 
Moulin  appointed  a  board  of  nine 
directors  as  follows:  J.  Seaman,  F. 
P.  Joy,  G.  B.  Hoiles,  W.  W.  Lowis, 
S.  Van  Deusen  and  Mesdames  C.  D. 
Hoiles,  W.  A.  Northcott,  A.  L.  Hord, 
and  K.  M.  Bennett.  The  board  after- 
ward organized,  electing  J.  Seaman, 
president,  Mrs.  A.  L.  Hord  corres- 
ponding secretary  and  Guy  B.  Hoiles 
recording  secretary. 

Several  sites  were  under  consid- 
eration for  weeks  but  the  solution 
came  with  the  purchase  of  the 
Presbyterian  church  site,  lots  2S 
and  29  of  Davidson's  Addition  to 
Greenville,  where  the  old  Congrega- 
tional church  stood  for  more  than 
half  a  century.  The  purchase  price 
was  $1250,  the  money  being  made 
up   by   popular   subscription. 

On  June  17,  1904,  the  contract 
was  awarded  to  J.  F.  Rees  for  $8,- 
500  and  actual  work  commenced 
July  20,  190  4.  The  corner  stone 
was  laid  September  9,  190  4,  by  the 
Masonic  fraternity.  Grandmaster 
William  B.  Wright  of  Effingham 
officiating.  The  chief  addresses 
were  made  by  Lieutenant  Governor 
Northcott  and  Hon.  Charles  E. 
Whelan    of   Madison,   Wis. 

On  December  14,  1903,  the  plans 
of  Paul  O.  Moratz  of  Bloomington, 
III.,  were  adopted,  and  he  was  em- 
ployed as  the  architect.  The  build- 
ing is  50  feet  by  50  feet,  22  feet 
high,  with  a  large  tower  on  the 
northeast  28x28.  and  30  feet  high. 
The  building  is  of  pressed  brick  and 
stone,  the  building  is  steam  heated 
and  finished  in  hardwood  and  has 
electric  lights,  and  is  equipped  with 
stacks  for  12,000  books.  Miss  Emma 
Colcord  is  the  librarian.  The  build- 
ing was  completed  in  the  early  part 
of  1905.  and  the  work  of  moving  the 
books  was  commenced  in  the  month 
of  May.  They  were  then  catalogued 
and   placed  on  the  shelves. 

The  library  was  formally  opened 
with  a  public  reception  and  program 
on   August   4,    1905. 


Mrs.  W.  L.  Floyd. 


The  Greenville  Building  and 
Savings  Association 


T^  HE  history  of  Greenville  would 
^  be  lacking  in  an  important  par- 
ticular, if  a  brief  sketch  of  this  cor- 
poration were  not  made  a  part  of 
the  same,  for  many  of  our  best  citi- 
zens are  now  the  owners  of  beauti- 
ful and  comfortable  homes  as  a  re- 
sult of  the  timely  acceptance  of  op- 


h 


Oii^ 


MKS.    .a.    X.   J.\CKSON, 

Of  Muncie,  Ind..  daughter  of  Sheriff 
and  Mrs.  Flovd. 


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F.  W.  Fritz, 

State's  Attorney  from  1892  to  1904. 
Member  the  law  firm  of  Fritz  and 
Holies.  Prominent  in  Bond  Coun- 
ty politics  for  twenty  years. 


Ri;siiii;nce  hF   I\   \V.   I'kitz,   i;a>l  Main  A\eiuiL 


portunlties    offered    by    this    reliable 
financial    institution. 

The    preliminary     paper    of     "The 
Greenville  Building  and  Savings  As- 


Law  Ofi'ICE  of  Fritz  and  Hoiles,  North  side  public  square. 


sociation" — being  the  license  for 
subscription  of  Stock — was  issued 
November  9,  1883,  by  Henry  D.  De- 
ment, Secretary  of  State,  and  gave 
to  Frank  Seewald,  J.  Baumberger, 
U.  B.  Bowers,  P.  H.  Grafe,  John 
Schlup,  William  Boll  and  L.  H. 
Craig,  the  right  to  open  books  for 
subscription  of  Stock  of  said  Asso- 
ciation. "F.  Seewald.  2  0  shares"  is 
the  first  name  on  the  original  sub- 
scription list  and  to  Mr.  Seewald, 
still  one  of  Greenville's  prosperous 
business  men,  belongs  rightfully  the 
title  of  "father"  of  the  Association. 

The  first  meeting  of  Stockholders 
was  held  December  17,  18S3,  and  at 
that  time  the  first  Board  of  Direct- 
ors was  elected,  and  was  composed 
of  the  following  gentlemen:  W.  V. 
Weise,  W.  H.  Watson,  William  Boll, 
M.  W.  Van  Valkenburg,  J.  B.  Reid, 
M'illiam  Koch,  C.  D.  Hoiles,  R.  L. 
Mudd  and  Frank  Seewald.  Of  these 
nine  original  Directors.  only  two 
are  deceased;  four  others  are  still 
residents  of  Greenville,  and  three 
are   residents   of   other   States. 

To  C.  D.  Hoiles  belongs  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  only  one  of  the 
original  Board  who  is  now  a  Direct- 
or, and  he  has  occupied  that  po- 
sition— as  well  as  that  of  Treasurer. 
— since  the  organization  of  the  Asso- 
ciation. James  P.  Slade  was  chair- 
man and  Henry  Howard  and  Ward 
Reid,  secretaries  of  this  first  meet- 
ing of  Stockholders. 

At  this  meeting  the  Charter  and 
By-laws  of  the  Association  were  also 
adopted;  M.  W.  VanValkenburg,  be- 
ing chairman  of  the  Committee  to 
prepare  same,  and  to  him  should  be 
given  credit  for  the  bulk  of  the  work 
on  same,  ably  assisted  by  R.  L. 
Mudd,  M.  V.  Denny,  L.  H.  Craig  and 
J.    B.    Reid,    other   members   of    this 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


117 


Dr.  B.  F.  Coop, 

A  leading  physician  and  surgeon.     Mendier   of   the 
Board  of  Education. 


Committee. 

The  Board  of  Directors  held  their 
first  meeting  December  22,  1883,  at 
which  time  the  following  officers 
Frank  Seewald,  Presi- 
Van  Valkenburg,  Vice 
D.  Hoiles,  Treasurer: 
Secretary     and    L.    H. 


Craig,  Solicitor.  Of  these  officers, 
only  two,  viz.  C.  D.  Hoiles,  as  Treas- 
urer and  Ward  Reid,  Secretary,  have 
served  continuously,  and  now  occupy 


the  same  positions.  To  them  should 
be  given  much  credit  for  able  and 
careful  management  of  the  details 
of  the  business  of  the  Association. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Board  for 
loaning  money  was  held  February 
4th,  1S84,  and  at  that  meeting  was 
made  a  loan  of  |1100  to  Dr.  W.  H. 
H.  Beeson,  on  bis  property,  ai  pres- 
ent the  location  of  the  handsome 
residence  of  W.  W.  Lowis,  on  "Piety 
HUl." 

tjince  organization  The  Gieunvilie 
Building  and  Savings  Asaociaiion 
has  made  a  total  of  bio  loans,  aggre- 
gating many  thousands  of  aoiiars, 
and  hundreds  of  homes  in  vjreen- 
ville  and  adjacent  towns  on  which 
loans  have  been  "matured"  show 
the  immense  benefit  this  insliiuiion 
has  been  to  the  citizens  of  the  com- 
munity. 

These  notes  would  hardly  do  jus- 
tice to  the  Greenville  Building  and 
Savings  Association,  and  wouid  not 
be  complete  without  especial  men- 
tion of  the  name  of  W.  V.  Weise, 
now  deceased,  who  was  for  many 
years  a  Director  of  the  organization. 
Mr.  Weise  served  for  seven  years  as 
president  and  being  peculiarly  gifted 
as  a  financier,  he  was  of  great  as- 
sistance to  the  officers  in  the  matter 
of  bookkeeping  and  the  distribu- 
tions. His  good  judgment  was  also 
keenly  appreciated  and  his  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  the  Association 
did  much  to  place  the  organization 
in  the  front  rank  of  its  class.  Other 
past  Presidents  who  have  rendered 
good  service  are  Frank  Seewald,  J. 
Seaman,    N.    H.    Jackson    and    F.    P. 


were  elected: 
dent:  M.  W. 
President:  C 
Ward     Reid, 


John  H.  .■\d.\ms, 
Proprietor  of  .Adams  Hotel  and    Liv 


Residence  of  Dr.  B.  F.  Coop,  West  College  .Avenue. 


118 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


H.  H.  WiRZ, 
Manufacturer  of  Wirz's  Straight  Five  Cigars. 


Business  House  of  H.  H.  Wikz. 


Joy,  while  to  W.  W.  Lewis,  elected 
to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  the  death 
of  W.  V.  Weise,  belongs  the  dis- 
tinction of  having  been  elected 
President  for  five  consecutive  years, 
and  Mr.  Lewis  is  now  ably  filling  the 
position. 

As  above  noted  L.  H.  Craig  was 
the  first  Solicitor  (or  Attorney)  of 
the  Association,  and  was  again 
elected  for  the  second  year.  After 
him  W.  A.  Northcott  gave  his  able 
services   for   four   years    and    at   the 


election  for  the  term  beginning  1S90 
C.  E.  Cook,  was  chosen  for  the  place. 
Since  that  date  Mr.  Cook  has  con- 
tinuously held  the  ofiice  ef  Solicitor 
(or  Attorney),  of  the  Association 
and  has  rendered  careful  and  con- 
scientious  service. 

At  the  last  annual  meeting  of  the 
Stockholders  the  report  ef  Secretary 
Reld,  showed  assets  of  $119,095.12, 
and  every  indication  of  a  prosperous 
and   healthy   condition.      The   report 


also  showed  that  there  has  been 
issued  since  organization,  10,24  5 
shares  and  that  the  total  earnings, 
now  distributed  to  shares,  aggregate, 
$30,683.71.  The  present  Board  of 
Directors  is  as  follows:  J.  Seaman, 
F.  E.  Watson,  G.  L.  Loggins,  W.  W. 
Lewis,  N.  H.  Jackson,  F.  N.  Blanch- 
ard,  C.  D.  Hoiles,  F.  P.  Jey  and  Geo. 
V.  Weise.  The  officers  for  year  of 
1906  are  W.  W.  Lowis,  President: 
F.    P.    Joy,    Vice    President;     Ward 


Dr.  C.  C.  Gordon, 
Ex-Coroner.      Now  of  Highland,    111. 


Residence  ok  Ch.\rles  F.  Thr.\ner,  East  Main  .\vtnue. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


119 


S.  G.   Sparks, 
A  former  resiflent,  prominent  officer  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  for  several 


tion  that  the  Bond  County  Soldiers' 
Association  take  steps  to  erect  a 
monument  in  the  city  of  Greenville, 
to  the  memory  of  the  citizens  of 
said  county  who  responded  to  the 
call  for  volunteers  in  the  war  of  the 
rebellion;  and  that  a  committee  be 
appointed  by  the  commander  to 
take  hold  of  the  matter  and  push 
the  work.  This  resolution  was 
passed  unanimously  and  the  com- 
mander later  appointed  the  follow- 
ing committee  under  the  resolution, 
towit:  Wm.  D.  Matney,  Chairman, 
Greenville;  John  H.  Ladd,  La- 
grange: John  Tischhauser,  Burgess; 
George  F.  Harlan,  Mills:  William 
Meyer.  Tamalco;  A.  D.  Cullom,  Mul- 
berry Grove:  Col.  John  B.  Reid, 
Greenville:  J.  W.  Daniels.  Woburn; 
Dr.  J.  A.  Black,  Pleasant  Mound; 
Anton  Phillipsen,  Old  Ripley:  ,W. 
W.  Lowis,  Central:  I.  H.  Denny, 
Shoal   Creek. 

The  chairman  called  a  meeting 
of  the  committee  for  Saturday,  No- 
vember 11,  1899,  and  the  following 
named  members  were  present, 
William  Meyer,  Dr.  J.  A.  Black.  J. 
W.  Daniels,  George  F.  Harlan.  Wm. 
D.  Matney,  Col.  J.  B.  Reid,  W.  W. 
Lowis,  John  H.  Ladd,  Anton  Phil- 
lipsen and  I.  H.  Denny.  The  com- 
mittee organized  by  electing  Wm. 
D.  Matney,  president,  W.  W.  Lowis, 
secretary  and  Charles  W.  Watson, 
treasurer. 

The  chairman  told  the  members 
present  of  the  desirability  of  the 
success  of  the  undertaking  and 
called  for  suggestions  of  plans  for 
the  pushing  of  this  effort  to  success, 
not  failing  to  impress  on  the  com- 
mittee some  of  the  difficulties  we 
would  encounter,  but  impressing  the 
idea  on  the  comrades  that  by  a 
"long    pull:"    a    touching   of    elbows 


Reid,  Secretary:  C.  D.  Holies,  Treas- 
urer:  and  C.  E.  Cook,  Solicitor. 

The  Greenville  Building  and  Sav- 
ings Association  can  truthfully  be 
classed  as  one  of  the  pioneer  in- 
stitutions of  our  City,  and  its  officers 
and  members  can  well  be  proud  of 
its  prosperous  and  useful  career. 


Bond   County  Soldiers' 
Monument. 


AT  the  eleventh  annual  meeting  of 
;  the  Bond  County  Soldiers'  Asso- 
ciation, held  in  Greenville,  October 
IS,  189 9,  the  first  steps  were  taken 
to  erect  a  monument,  to  the  memory 
of  the  men  who  answered  to  their 
country's  call  from  1861  to  1865. 
The  writer  hereof  started  the  ball 
to     rolling   by   introducing   a   resolu- 


Residence  of  J.  E.  Wright. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Watson.  East  Collesre  Avenue. 


Fr.\nk  E.  Watson, 

A  leading  druggist,  a  resident  13  years;  Di- 
rector B.  and  S.  Association;  former  mem- 
ber Board  of  Health;  State  Inspector  Sons 
of  Veterans  of  Illinois,  1901-3. 


as  of  old,  we  were  bound  to  succeed.  schools 

Comrade    Lowis   advocated   the   plan  funds 

of  popular  subscription  as  one  means  prizes 

and   the    plan   was   approved   by   the  largest 

committee,   as  one  of   the   means   to  largest 

be   adopted     and    the   sequel     shows  pointed 

that   the   plan   succeeded.     Col.   Reid  to  visit 

advanced  the  idea  of  interesting  the  zens  of 


in  the  matter  of  raising 
among  the  pupils,  offering 
to    the    schools     raising     the 

and  the  second  and  third 
amount.  Col.  Reid  was  ap- 
to  take  charge  of  this  work, 
the  schools  and  get  the  citi- 

the  various  school   districts, 


the  teachers  and  pupils  to  work. 
The  Colonel  went  to  work  vigorously 
and  when  the  contest  closed  the  as- 
sociation had  something  over  $1S0 
to  its  credit:  the  first  money  to  be 
realized,  and  when  this  report  came 
in,  although  the  amount  was  small, 
the  committee  felt   sure  that   event- 


W.  H    Hubbard, 

.Attorney  at  Law  and  Justice   of  the 
Peace. 


I  DRUGS  &.MEDICmES 


TRANK   C.WATSOM 

DRUGGIST 


iinfffiniiufi  V 


FRANK  C.WATSON 

STATIONER 


""  ttsa'*! 


Frank  E.  Watson's  Drug  Store. 


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121 


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M&^ 

0 

**■ 

Suburban  Residence  of  Mrs.  Caroline  Idler. 


Jacob  M.  Appel,  C.  P.  A. 

Ex-Chief  of  the  Building  and  Loan  depart- 
ment of  the  state;  now  chief  of  the  bank- 
ing department  in  the  State  .'Auditor's 
office:  Secretary  of  Republican  Senatur- 
ial  Committee.  Former  Greenville  resi- 
dent, now  living  at  Springfield. 


■   ' 

^^ 

1 

^  ■ 

•   «^^| 

1 

i 

A.  H.  Moil. 
Well  known  business  man. 


Charles  E.  Cook.  \Y.  C.  Fuller, 

Attorney  at  Law,    Master  in   Chan-     Ov^'ner  of  Greenville  Steam  Laundry, 
cerv  of  Bond  Countv. 


12'2 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Dr.  L.  M.  Rosat, 

A  native  of  Switzerland,  who  came 
to  America  in  1881,  received  her 
medical  education  in  St.  Louis 
and  has  been  a  resident  of  Green- 
ville for  12  years. 


ually  we  would  succeed  and  the 
monument  would  be  built.  At  this 
meeting  it  was  decided  to  call  our 
organization  "The  Bond  County 
Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Monument 
Association."  The  comrades  at  this 
meeting  discussed  the  style  and  cost 
of  the  proposed  monument  and 
finally  decided  that  it  should  not 
exceed  $3,500  and  that  it  he  placed 
on  the  court  house  square.  Col. 
Reid  and  W.  W.  Lowis  were  selected 


l\i:siii!:.\ci-;  nv  lu; 


.\I.   Ri:)S.\T,  West  Main  .\ venue. 


to  lay  the  matter  before  the 
Womans'  Relief  Corps  and  to  solicit 
their  aid  in  our  work  At  this  first 
meeting  an  executive  committee  was 
appointed  to  take  charge  of  matters 
that  would  not  be  practicable  to  lay 
before  the  full  committee,  to-wit: 
C.  W.  Watson,  J.  B.  Reid.  W.  W. 
Lowis.  J.  H.  Ladd  and  Wm.  D.  Mat- 
ney. 

This  committee  went  to  work  and 
kept  the  ball  rolling.  They  used 
every  means  to  interest  the  people 
in  the  matter;  met  all  objections 
and  finally  reached  the  point  where 
they  saw  success  crown  their  efforts. 


In  August  1901,  a  genera,  rally 
of  the  friends  was  held,  at  wh>h 
time  General  John  C.  Black,  Nation- 
al Commander  of  the  G.  A.  R.  was 
present  and  delivered  a  fine  aldress. 
At  this  meeting  $390  was  pledged 
and  the  committee  began  to  lay 
plans  to  begin  work.  After  advertis- 
ing, the  contract  was  let  lo  S.  O. 
Sanders  of  Centralia  and  early  in 
the  spring  of  19  03,  work  was  begun, 
and  completed  August   19,   1903. 

The  committee  decided  to  unveil 
the  monument  September  19.  1903, 
the  fortieth  anniversary  of  the  battle 
of  Chickamauga.     Saturday  Septem- 


Dr.  J.  A.  Warren, 

President  Bond  County  MedicalJ  So- 
ciety.    Ex-.\lderman. 


Mrs. 


A.  Warren. 


J.  H.  Allio, 
City  Attorney  of  Greenville. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


123 


S.  Van  Deish.n, 
Supervisor  of  Central  Township. 


REbUJiixcE  OF  S.  Van  Deusen. 


ber  19,  was  a  beautiful  day  and  a 
large  concourse  of  the  people  of 
Bond  county  and  of  other  parts  of 
Illinois  was  present  to  listen  to  the 
address  of  Governor  Richard  Yates, 
Col.  Benson  Wood,  Lieutenant  Gov- 
ernor   Xorthcott    and    others. 

The  monument  was  unveiled  and 
stands  today  as  an  object  lesson  in 
patriotism  and  will  stand  long  after 
the  last  soldier  of  the  great  war  has 
passed  away;  yes,  after  all  the  vast 
audience  that  was  present  at  the 
unveiling  have  gone  to  their  last 
rest.  As  the  representative  of  the 
old  soldiers  of  Bond  county  I  want 
to  express  the  thanks  of  our  associa- 
tion to  the  patriotic  citizens  of  Bond 


county  who  assisted  us  in  our  under- 
taking both  financially  and  in  speak- 
ing good   words  for  us. 
"On  Fame's  eternal  camping  ground 

Their  silent   tents  are  spread 
And  Glory  guards  with  solemn  round 

The  bivouac  of  the  dead." 


6rc€iirille    Cdoincn's    Christian 
Cctnpcrancc  Union. 

By   Miss   Ella   M.   Hynes. 

"We  mean  to  go  straight  on  in 
our  White  Ribbon  work;  we  mean 
to   be   as   good-natured   as   sunshine. 


but    as    persistent   as   fate." 

So  spoke  Frances  E.  Willard,  our 
peerless  leader,  whose  life  and  work 
have  just  been  so  signally  honored 
by  our  state  and  nation  in  placing 
her  statue  among  those  of  the  great- 
est   in    our   country. 

Whether  our  Greenville  Union  has 
always  lived  up  to  all  the  provisions 
of  this  declaration  is  not  for  us  to 
say,  but  that  we  have  been  "persist- 
ent" our  record  amply  testifies. 
Ours  is  one  of  the  pioneer  organi- 
zations of  women  in  the  city,  having 
been  organized  April  1,  1879,  with 
thirty-nine  members.  The  object, 
as  set  forth  in  the  constitution,  was 
"to  plan  and  carry  forward  measures 


D.  McLeoi). 
The  Photographer. 


Mrs    McLeod. 


Thomas  F.  Cakv, 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Supervis- 
ors 1903-4. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


E.  W.  Miller, 

Twelve  Years  Deputy  Circuit  Clerk; 
now  in  abstract,  real  estate,  loan 
and  insurance  business. 


which  will  result,  with  the  blessing 
of  God,  in  the  suppression  of  in- 
temperance  in  our  midst." 

The  first  officers  were  Mrs.  Emily 
W.  Dewey,  president;  Mrs.  Caroline 
Phelps,  corresponding  secretary; 
and  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Colcord,  record- 
ing secretary.  Very  few  of  the 
charter  members  are  still  living,  and 
so  far  as  I  can  ascertain  Miss  Lizzie 
Ferryman  is  the  only  one  living 
here.  Meetings  were  for  some  time 
held  monthly  in  the  various 
churches     in     turn.        The     earliest 


Rksidence  of  Mrs.  J.  D.  Tifflx,  South  Tlnnl  Street. 


special  form  of  work  undertaken 
was  that  among  the  children  and 
youth.  In  June  1879  a  Young 
Peoples'  Temperance  Union  was 
formed,  its  officers  being  the  same 
as  those  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.  This 
line  of  work  was  carried  on  with 
great  faithfulness  and  efficiency  for 
many  years.  Though  there  were 
some  changes  in  methods  the  under- 
lying principles  were  the  same  under 
the  name  of  Band  of  Hope  and  later, 
the    Loyal    Temperance   Legion. 

The  hearts  of  the  faithful  ones, 
who  long  persevered  in  this  work  in 
spite  of  obstacles  and  discourage- 
ments    not     a    few,     are    frequently 


cheered  in  these  later  days  by  the 
testimony  of  men  and  women  that 
the  good  seeds  sown  in  their  youth- 
ful hearts  are   now  bearing  fruit. 

As  time  has  gone  by  and  this  evil 
of  intemperance — "monster  of  such 
hideous  mien" — has  still  defied  the 
earnest  efforts  of  many  forces  allied 
against  it,  our  organization  has 
taken  up,  as  conditions  demanded 
them,  various  lines  of  reform  and 
humanitarian  work,  most  of  them 
demanded  because  of  the  liquor 
traffic.  Thus  it  was  that  an  aid 
society,  auxiliary  to  the  Union  was 
formed  very  early  in  our  history, 
which     was    a   source    of   help     and 


J.  P.  Redmond, 

District  Deputy  for  the   Knights  of 
the  Modern  Maccabees. 


Country  Residence  of  H.  C.  Coleman. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


125 


R.  C.  Clark, 

Who  was  a  Greenville  business  man 
for  several  vears,  now  a  resident 
of  Anthony,  Kans  ,  near  which 
place  he  owns  a  section  of  fine 
land.  He  is  land  and  immigration 
agent  for  the  Missouri  Pacific. 


comfort  to  many  unfortunate  fam- 
ilies. This  was  later  combined  with 
the  flower  mission  department  and 
for  many  years  we  carried  on  the 
beautiful  work  of  ministering  so  far 
as  possible,  to  the  poor  and  sick, 
not  only  with  comforts  in  the  way 
of  food  and  clothing,  but  also  with 
flowers.  During  the  last  few  years 
we  have  not  been  able  to  do  very 
much  on  these  lines,  but  on  flower 
mission  day,  we  always  distribute 
flowers  with  scripture  texts  attached, 
to  as  many  as  possible  of  the  sick 
and    shut    in    ones,     whatever     their 


creed,  nationality,  or  circumstances, 
not  forgetting  the  inmates  of  alms- 
house and  jail.  We  also  frequently 
remember  in  the  same  way  unfortu- 
nates in  St.  Louis,  where  our  floral 
contributions  unite  with  those  from 
Unions  elsewhere,  to  furnish  the 
means  for  our  workers  to  perform 
this    mission. 

Mention  of  this  work  cannot  fail 
to  bring  to  the  minds  of  those  who 
knew  her,  the  sweet  face  and  gentle 
manner  of  Mrs.  Charles  Clark,  long 
since  gone  to  her  reward.  She  was 
long  superintendent  of  the  depart- 
ment of  almshouse  and  jail  work, 
and  was  untiring  in  her  earnest  en- 
deavor to  benefit  those  in  both  in- 
stitutions, her  loving  christian 
sympathy  never  failing  them.  Under 
her  guidance  gospel  meetings  were 
held,  reading  matter  supplied,  and 
a  Sunday  School  was  for  some  time 
conducted  by  her  in  the  old  jail 
building. 

Realizing  the  importance  of  in- 
stilling right  ideas  in  the  minds  oi 
the  children,  that  they  may  early 
learn  the  dangers  of  indulgence  in 
intoxicating  liquors,  we  have, 
through  our  department  of  scientific 
temperance  instruction,  tried  to  aid 
our  public  school  teachers  in  their 
compliance  with  the  excellent  laws 
of  Illinois  on  this  subject.     We  have 


Mks.  R.  C.  Ci,.\rk, 

Daughter  of  Mr.   and    Mrs.  John    B. 
Henniuger. 


done  much  by  subscribing  for 
journals  and  distributing  other  help- 
ful literature,  to  make  this  in- 
struction interesting  and  accurate. 
One  phase  of  our  work  is  that  of 
nonalcoholic  medication,  in  support 
of    which    principles   many   pages    of 


Rev.  a.  S.  M.\xev  a.\d   Family. 
Of  Hopedale,  former  residents. 


Clark  and  Henningi:k'   I-  amii.ies. 

Reading  from  left  to  right,  first  row— Trum  Henninger,  Russel  Clark, 
son  of  J.  J.  Clark.  Second  row — Mrs.  Amanda  Henninger,  Eugene  Clark, 
son  of  R.  C.  Clark.  Third  row— .^gnes  McAdow,  daughter  of  R.  C.  Clark; 
Bessie,  daughter  of  J.  J-  Clark;  William  Henninger.  Fourth  row— Mabel 
Clark  and  Lena  Mulford,  daughters  of  R.  C.  Clatk;  Mrs.  Jennie  Henninger 
Clark,  Mrs.  Trum  Henninger,  Mrs  R.  C.  Clark  Top  row— John  T.  Mul- 
ford, J.  J.  Clark,  Mrs.  J.  J.  Clark.  R.  C.  Clark,  John  R.  Heniiinger,  W.  C. 
Clark,  Shelbina,  Mo.,  brother  of  R.  C.  Clark,  Virgil  Henninger,  eldest  son 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  S.  Henninger. 

This  photograph  was  taken  by  Simeon  Clark,  eldest  son  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  R.  C.  Clark,  the  occasion  being  a  family  reunion  of  the  Clark  and 
Henninger  families. 


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11 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  C.  Culp  and  So.\. 
Former  residents,  now  living  at  Hendricksen,  Mo. 


literature  have  been  given  out.  We 
have  also  for  many  years  sent  an 
annual  gift  box  of  canned  fruits  and 
jellies  to  the  F.  E.  Willard  National 
Temperance  Hospital,  Chicago, 
which  is  the  only  strictly  non-alco- 
holic hospital  in  America.  So  suc- 
cessful has  this  treatment  been  that 
the  anniversary  of  Miss  Willard's 
death  was  last  year  observed  by  the 
dedication  of  a  new  and  commodious 
building,  supplied  with  all  modern 
conveniences  for  hospital  work. 
Time  fails  me  to  speak,  even  briefly, 
of  various  departments  in  which 
more  or  less  work  has  been  done. 
Beside  those  already  noted,  probably 
most  has  been  done  by  gospel  tem- 
perance meetings  and  medal  con- 
tests. 


No  history  of  Greenville  Union 
should  be  closed  without  mention  ot 
a  few  of  the  many  good  women,  who 
have  wrought  and  prayed  with  us 
during  the  twenty-six  years  of  our 
existence.  Among  those  who  have 
folded  their  hands  and  rested  from 
their  earthly  labors  are  Mrs.  Travis, 
Mrs.  P.  C.  Reed,  Mrs.  McConnell, 
Mrs.  Murdock,  Mrs.  Perry,  Mrs.  Vest, 
Mrs.  M.  V.  Denny,  Mrs.  Dorcas 
Denny,  Mrs.  Norman  and  Mrs. 
Lundy.  The  last  named  served  us 
faithfully  as  treasurer  for  fourteen 
years.  In  whatever  good  has  been 
accomplished,  our  sisterhood  feels 
much  credit  is  due  the  men,  faith- 
ful though  few,  who  have  as  honor- 
ary members,  given  us  their  sup- 
port, both   moral   and  financial.      Of 


W.  A.  Orr, 

Who  resigned  the  mayoralty  in  July 
1905,  upon  removing  to  Spring- 
iield,  where  he  is  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Northcott,  Hoff  and 
Orr. 


these  the  names  of  the  late  Henry 
Grube,  and  of  F.  P.  Joy,  J.  Seaman 
and  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Hynes  have 
been   longest  enrolled. 

Mrs.  F.  B.  Seaman  is  still  our 
honored  president,  after  seventeen 
years  of  continuous  intelligent  and 
consecrated  service.  The  other 
officers  at  this  time  are  Miss  R. 
Ella  Greene,  treasurer  and  Miss  Ella 
Hynes,  secretary,  with  a  vice  presi- 
dent from  each  denomination  repre- 
sented in  the  Union.  One  of  the 
strong     and     beautiful     features     of 


J.  F.  Johnston, 
Citv  Clerk. 


Residence  of  John  H.  Hawlev,  West  College  .\venue. 


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127 


Residence  of  W.  E.  Davis,  East  Main  Avenue. 


Dr.  J.  C.  Wil.su.n, 

Member  of  Board  of  Health   and   a    prominent 
practicing  physician. 


this  work  is  the  blending  of  all  de- 
nominations into  a  happy  and  har- 
monious fellowship  of  christian  ac- 
tivity, ready  to  "lend  a  hand"  to 
push  along  almost  any  form  of  good 
work. 

Since  1884  our  regular  meetings 
have  been  held  in  the  afternoon  of 
the  first  and  third  Fridays  of  each 
month,  with  an  evangelistic  meet- 
ing when  there  is  a  fifth  Friday  in 
the   month.      All   meetings  are  open 


to     the     public,     and 
terested   is   welcome. 


The    Killing    of  Elijah 
0      P.   Lovejoy       0 


BV    AN    KVF-Wll 


The 
killing 


following     account     of 
of     Elijah    P.    Lovejoy, 


everyone     in-       great  abolitionist,  at  Alton,  in  1837, 
was    related     to    the   author     of   this 

book  on  November  7,  1S97,  by  John 

AVesley  Harned,  an  eye-witness  of 
the  tragedy.  The  account  was 
published  in  the  Greenville  Advo- 
cate at  the  time,  and  was  widely 
copied   by   the  metropolitan   press  of 

the  United  States.      Mr.   Harned  was 

a  wonderful  character.  He  was 
the  born  in  Red  River  County,  Texas, 
the  January  26,  1S19.  He  came  to 
Bond  county  in  IS 39  and  for  forty- 
nine  consecutive  years  voted  at 
Pocahontas,  never  missing  an 
election.    He  was  the  guest  of  honor 


Residence  of  E.\rl  M.  Davis. 


George  Grcbe, 

.Memljer  of  the  firm  of  Grube  and 
Mange,  and  a  prominent  farmer 
and  grain  merchant. 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lloyed  P.  Davis, 
Mr.  Davis  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Davis  and  Jackson,  druggists. 


at  the  dedication  of  the  Lovejoy 
Monument  at  Alton,  November  7, 
1S97,  at  which  time  W.  A.  North- 
cott,  another  Greenville  man,  was 
the  orator.  Mr.  Harned  for  many 
years  bore  the  distinction  of  being 
the  only  surviving  witness  of  the 
Itilling  of  Lovejoy,  although  James 
H.  White  and  Mrs.  L.  K.  King,  both 
residents  of  Greenville,  lived  in 
Alton  at  the  time  of  the  killing, 
although  they  were  children.  Mr. 
Harned  who  died  March  27,  1904, 
dictated,  in  November  1897,  to  the 
author,  the  following  account  of  the 
killing. 


"My  father,  William  Harned,  ran 
the  Mansion  House  in  Alton.  The 
house  was  built  in  1S34,  and  was 
first  run  by  Col.  Bodkins,  then  by 
Louis  Kellenberger  and  then  my 
father  took  it  in  183  5.  There  at 
that  time  I  met  Abraham  Lincoln, 
Stephen  A.  Douglas,  Governor 
Reynolds,  Governor  Cole  and  most 
of  the  prominent  men  of  Illinois  in 
that  day.  It  is  the  only  vestige  of 
a  hotel  now  left,  that  stood  at  that 
time.  It  is  still  standing  and  is 
used  for  a  boarding  house.  I  saw 
Alton  in  its  infancy,  spring  up 
quick  and  fast.     On  up  to  the  time 


Lovejoy  came  in  1836,  there  was 
but  little  said  about  abolition,  in 
that  frontier  town.  It  was  too  un- 
popular a  subject.  After  Lovejoy 
came  and  started  his  press,  you 
could  hear  whisperings  of  discontent 
against    the    abolitionists. 

"Lovejoy  was  a  mild,  pleasant 
and  fine  looking  gentleman.  One 
night  I  heard  a  commotion  two 
blocks  away  and  ran  down  there  to 
find  a  mob  in  his  oflSce,  breaking  up 
his  press  and  throwing  it  out  of 
the  window,  and  there  in  the  center 
of  the  street,  men  were  breaking  it 
up  and  throwing  it  into  Piasa  Creek. 


John  W.  Harned 


An  eye-witness  of  tlie  killing  of  Elijah 
P.  LovejoY  in  1837. 


Residence  recentlv  sold  bv  Thomas  W.  Stewart  to  Judge  C.  J.  Lindly. 


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129 


S.  W.  Robinson, 
One  of  Greenville's  well  known  business  men. 


Mrs.  S.  W.  Rodi.sson. 


J.    H.  JO.XES, 

Supervisor  of  this  division  of  the  Vandalia  Railroad. 


Dr.  Fred  C.  Jo.nks,  Dentist. 


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J.    H.    MULFORD, 

A  member  of  the  firm  of  Mulford  and  Monroe, 
druggists. 


J.  L.  Monroe, 

A  member  of  the  firm  of  Mulford  and   Monroe, 
druggists. 


The  second  press  was  taken  from 
Alexander  Bodkin's  warehouse, 
where  it  was  deposited,  and  thrown 
into  the  river  as  soon  as  it  came,  a 
few  months  later.  After  the  de- 
struction of  the  second  press,  the 
people  began  to  take  sides,  the 
great  majority  against  Love  joy; 
the  minority  to  defend  him  and  his 
rights.  He  was  still  determined  to 
publish  his  paper  and  sent  on  and 
got  his  third  press.  It  was  generally 
understood  that  the  mob  would  de- 
stroy his  third  press,  with  threats 
of  violence  against  Lovejoy.  Fre- 
quently public  meetings  were  held 
denouncing  Lovejoy,  while  the 
more  conservative  were  inclined  to 
dissuade  him  from  publishing  his 
paper. 

The  third  press  was  purposely 
landed  late  at  night.  After  its 
landing  the  excitement  became  in- 
tense. The  only  topic  of  conver- 
sation was  Lovejoy's  press.  Every- 
one knew  that  it  was  coming  and 
understood  that  a  mob  was  being 
orgarized  to  destroy  it  as  soon  as 
It  was  landed.  A  small  proportion 
were  in  favor  of  protecting  the 
press,  while,  as  far  as  I  could  see. 
though  I  was  only  eighteen  years 
old,  there  was  an  element  in  favor 
of  destroying  It  at  all  hazards,  even 
if  it  took  his  life.  This  was  common 
talk  on  the  street.  While  this  ele- 
ment was  composed  largely  of  the 
rougher  class  of  people,  I  could  give 
the  names  of  ministers  of  the  gospel 


who  were  encouraging  the  de- 
struction of  the  press,  when  by  a 
few  words,  these  same  iniluential 
men  could  have  settled  the  matter 
in   Lovejoy's  favor. 

"On  the  eve  the  press  was  to  be 
landed,  each  side  began  to  make 
their  preparations.  On  the  evening 
previous  to  the  arrival  of  the  press 
there  was  a  consultation  held  in 
the  Mansion  House.  There  were 
present  Lovejoy.  Mayor  John  M. 
Krum,  A.  B.  Roff.  Royal  Weller, 
Winthrop  S.  Gillman,  my  father, 
William  Harned,  and  others.  The 
question  discussed  was  what  was 
best  to  be  done  and  how  best  to 
proceed.  While  my  recollection  of 
Lovejoy  is  that  he  was  a  mild  man, 
he  and  others  were  in  favor  of  de- 
fending the  press  at  all  hazards. 
My  recollection  is  that  at  that 
meeting  Mayor  Krum  had  agreed  to 
furnish  what  assistance  was  neces- 
sary in  defending  the  press  and  the 
meeting  adjourned  with  that  under- 
standing. A  few  days  previous  a 
company  had  been  organized  under 
military  law,  with  my  father  as 
captain,  and  had  placed  themselves 
at  the  disposal  of  the  mayor  and 
Lovejoy. 

"The  next  day  after  the  landing 
of  the  press,  the  mob  began  to  col- 
lect their  forces.  The  next  night 
the  mob  gathered  early  in  the 
evening  and  began  to  fill  up  with 
whiskey.  By  9  o'clock  p.  m.,  the 
crowd    numbered    about    30  0.      Cap- 


tain Harned,  Lovejoy  and  his 
friends  were  inside  the  warehouse 
of  Godfrey  and  Gillman,  in  which 
the  press  was  stored.  The  building 
was  four  stories  on  the  wharf  side 
and  three  on  Second  street.  I 
stood  watching  the  crowd,  and  my 
recollection  of  the  first  demon- 
stration of  violence  is  that  the  mob 
threw  rocks  and  broke  every 
window  glass  in  that  end  of  the 
building.  Several  shots  were  also 
fired  into  the  building.  With  rocks 
and  sledge  hammers  they  broke  the 
doors  open  but  they  were  braced 
on  the  inside  by  hogsheads  of 
sugar.  The  contending  forces  got 
near  enough  to  talk  to  each  other 
and  those  within  warned  the  mob 
that  if  they  attempted  to  come  in, 
they  would  shoot  them. 

"Governor  Reynolds,  a  strong 
pro-slavery  man.  who  has  written  a 
history  on  the  subject  says  that 
what  infuriated  the  mob  was  that  a 
man  raised  a  window  up-stairs  and 
fired  a  shot,  killing  one  of  the  mob. 
Governor  Reynolds  is  mistaken  here, 
for  I.  as  an  eve-witness,  know  that 
at  that  time  there  was  not  a  glass 
nor  a  piece  of  window  sash  left  in 
the  whole  side  of  the  building.  My 
father  went  to  the  window  and 
asked  those  in  the  crowd,  who  were 
not  taking  part  in  the  mob  to  get 
out  of  the  way,  as  the  struggle  was 
setting  so  bitter,  something  had  to 
be  done.  A  man  by  the  name  of 
Bishop  fired  at  my  father,  the  bullet 


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131 


J.  G.  Rav, 

Secretary  to  Gov.  W.  A.  Northcott 
as  Hea'd  Consul  of  the  M.  W.  A. 
for  more  than  1 2  years;  now  secre- 
tary to  Head  Consul  Talbot  at 
Lincoln,  Neb. 

imbedding  itself  in  the  window  case 
by  his  side.     Soon  a  gun  was  thrust 
out  of  a  window  by  one  of  Lovejoy's 
men     and     Bishop     was    shot.      The 
mob  fell  back  and  left  him  lying  in 
the  street.    They  soon  rallied,  picked 
him   up  and  carried  him   away.     He 
died   a   few   hours   later.      That   was 
the  first   shot   fired   from   the   inside 
of    the    building.      Then    the    firing 
became      general      on      both      sides. 
About     midnight     the     mob     spliced 
ladders    together    and    put    them    up 
on    the     east    side     of    the    building, 
where    there   were    no   windows   and 
a    man,    mufiled    in    overcoats,    as    a 
protection     against      the    bullets    of 
Lovejoy's    men,    climbed    the    ladder 
with   a    lighted   torch    and    fired   the 
roof.     After  it   had  burned  through 
the   sheeting.    Bert    Loomis   punched 
the  fire  out   and  threw   water  on  it, 
while    bullets    flew    all    around    him. 
After  they   found   that   the   building 
was    on    fire,     Lovejoy     and     others 
went     out     the     south     end     of     the 
building    and     turned     around     the 
southeast    corner     to    shoot     at   the 
men   firing   the   roof.      This   was   re- 
peated several   times  and   about  the 
third    time     Lovejoy     came    out     to 
shoot    at    the   man    on    the    roof,    he 
was  shot,  four  buckshot  penetrating 
his   breast.      I    thought   he   was   hit, 
seeing  so  many  shooting  at  him  but 
he    turned    and    walked    fifteen    feet 
to   the    door   and   climbed   the   flight 
of    stairs.      When     he     reached    the 
head   of  the  stairs,   he  fell,  his  feet 
hanging   over    the    steps.      The   last 
and     only    words     he    said    after   he 
was  shot,  were:   'I  am  a  dead  man.' 
He    and    my     father     were    standing 


side  by  side  when  he  was  shot  and 
John  B.  Dyo,  one  of  the  mob  said 
they  could  have  killed  my  father 
just  as  easy,  but  Lovejoy  was  the 
man   they   were   after. 

"I  heard  my  father  had  been 
killed  and  rushed  among  the  first 
into  the  building,  but  found  him 
safe  by  the  dead  body  of  Lovejoy. 
It  was  immediately  reported  out- 
side that  Lovejoy  was  killed. 
Through  the  influence  of  Henry 
West,  the  mob  then  agreed  to  give 
up  the  press  and  let  those  inside  go 
peaceably  home.  They  did  not  keep 
their  promise  but  hurled  rocks  and 
fired  upon  them.  Lovejoy  and 
Bishop,  one  on  each  side,  were  the 
only   ones  killed. 

"History  says  that  the  men,  who 
fired  at  Lovejoy,  lay  behind  a  pile 
of  lumber.  If  there  was  any 
lumber  there,  I  did  not  see  it,  but 
Godfrey  and  Gillman  had  the  Ga- 
lena lead  trade,  and  those  men 
were  hidden  behind  piles  of  pig 
lead  thirty  or  forty  paces  below  the 
building.  I  know  the  four  men  who 
did  the  shooting  and  I  saw  them 
lying  there.  I  could  give  their 
names,  but  for  the  sake  of  their 
descendants,  many  of  whom  are 
living  in  this  state,  I  will  not  do 
so. 

"Lovejoy's  body  was  followed  to 
the  grave  the  next  day  by  but  few 
and  the  funeral  cortege  was  hooted 
at  by  the  dead  man's  enemies.  His 
poor  wife  was  at  home  in  feeble 
health. 

"About  the  close  of  the  war, 
Louis  Kellenberger,  who  kept  the 
Mansion  House  at  Alton  before  my 
father,  came  out  to  visit  me.  In 
reviewing  the  death  of  Lovejoy, 
said   I,    'Mr.    Kellenberger,    I   reckon 


it  will  never  be  known  who  killed 
Lovejoy.'  He  replied,  'Harned,  I 
am  satisfied  I  know  who  killed 
Lovejoy.  It  was  Dr.  James  Jen- 
nings.' He  then  stated  that  he 
(Kellenberger)  was  the  cause  of 
Jennings  coming  to  Alton  as  the 
families  had  been  acquainted  in 
Virginia  and  that  Jennings  confided 
in  Kellenberger  and  immediately 
after  the  killing  wound  up  his 
affairs  and  left  Alton.  He  never 
wrote  back  but  cut  off  all  communi- 
cation with  his  friends  and  for  this 
and  other  reasons  Kellenberger  said 
he  was  satisfied  that  Jennings  was 
the  man  who  killed  Lovejoy.  Kel- 
lenberger said  that  while  Beall, 
Rock  and  some  others  claimed  the 
honor  of  killing  Lovejoy,  Jennings 
had  never  claimed  that.  It  was  a 
matter  that  he  did  not  like  to  talk 
about." 


Some  Retntntsccnces. 


By  the  late  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Hynes. 


My  first  visit  to  Illinois  was  in 
1S34,  over  7  0  years  ago.  It  was 
made  on  horseback  in  company 
with  my  father,  out  of  Kentucky, 
through  Indiana,  and  crossing  the 
Wabash  at  Terre  Haute,  we  spent 
a  week  riding  through  the  great 
prairies.  It  was  my  father's  long- 
cherished  wish  to  locate  his  family 
on  what  he  thought  was  the  right 
side  of  Mason  and  Dixon's  Line. 
It  was  then  largely  unsettled.  We 
often  traveled  twenty  or  thirty 
miles  without  sight  of  human  being 
or  habitation.    Our  roads  were  often 


MULFORD   .\ND    MoNROE'S    DrLG    StORE. 


132 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


W.  W.  HussoNG, 

A  prominent  merchant.  President 
ol  the  Hussong  Cash  Mercantile 
Company. 


Residence  of  W.  W.  Hussong,  South  Second  Street. 


paths     or    trails.      We    did     not    see 
Bond   county. 

My  first  visit  to  Greenville  was 
in  1845.  Having  an  invitation  to 
visit  Hillsboro  with  a  view  to 
settling  there  as  a  minister,  and 
having  friends  in  this  county,  who 
attended  one  of  the  Greenville 
churches,  I  was  frequently  in  Green- 
ville. I  moved  my  family  to  Hills- 
boro in  March  1S46.  I  was  fre- 
quently at  the  church  services  here 
durin?  my  residence  in  Hillsboro. 
So      that      my      acquaintance      with 


Greenville      covers     the     last     sixty 
years. 

In  IS  45  there  were  only  two 
church  buildings  in  Greenville,  the 
Congregational  and  Presbyterian, 
now  happily  united.  The  Baptist 
and  Methodist  Episcopal  organi- 
zations were  both,  and  for  many 
years,     without    houses    of    worship 


and  were  welcomed  to  the  Presby- 
terian church  for  their  public  wor- 
ship, at  all  times,  when  not  in  use 
by  the  Presbyterians.  This  con- 
tinued till  the  Methodists  built 
their  first  house  in  1849  on  the  lot 
now  owned  by  Dr.  N.  H.  Jackson. 
Their  present  brick  building  was 
erected  and  dedicated  in   1877.    The 


VV.  E.  Robinson, 

Former  County  Superintendent  of 
Schools.  Now  Supreme  Recorder 
of  the  Court  of  Honor,  living  at 
Springfield. 


Harness  Shop  formerly  occupied   by    Fred   Durr. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


133 


George  O.  Morris, 


Miss  Vera  Murrib, 


President  Board  of  Education.     Real      Daughter  of"  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  O. 
Estate,  Loan  and  InsuranceAgent.         Morris. 


Mrs.  Gi!orge  O.  Morris. 


first  Baptist  church  was  built  on 
Main  Street  between  Third  and 
Fourth  Streets  in  1854.  This  was 
used  until  they  built  their  present 
house   on   South   Street. 

On  the  writer's  visit  to  Greenville 
in  1S45,  both  the  church  buildings 
were  new — that  of  the  Congrega- 
tionalists  finished  nearly,  but  that 
of  the  Presbyterians  largely  un- 
finished in  the  interior.  The  seats 
being  of  plain  boards,  square  and 
straight-backed,  were  by  no  means 
comfortable.  Though  the  rough- 
hewed  frame  was  there  for  a  vesti- 
bule and  gallery,  neither  was 
finished      and      the     marks     of     the 


scorer's  axe  were  plainly  visible  in 
many   places. 

The  incident  heretofore  men- 
tioned of  the  readiness  and 
cordiality  with  which  one  Christian 
church  opened  its  house  for  other 
houseless  christian  churches  shows 
the  kindly  and  fraternal  spirit 
among  those  who  differed  on  minor 
and    non-essential    points. 

When  the  writer  removed  his 
family  to  Greenville  as  a  home  in 
1854,  there  were  five  prayer 
meetings  held  on  four  of  the  week 
day  evenings.  This  brought  some 
prayer     meeting     in     conflict     with 


nearly  every  lecture  of  entertain- 
ment that  might  interest  or  instruct 
the  citizens.  The  writer  made  the 
suggestion  that  all  the  prayer- 
meetings  be  held  on  one  evening. 
The  suggestion  was  readily  adopted 
and  Thursday  evening  chosen  be- 
cause two  of  the  five  prayer  meetings 
were  already  held  on  that  evening. 
About  the  same  time  Father 
George  Donnell  suggested  that  the 
first  prayer  meeting  in  each  month 
be  a  union  meeting.  This  was  also 
generally  agreed  to,  with  especial 
reference  to  the  young  and  the 
Sabbath    Schools.      For    some    years 


O.  E.  Tiffany,  A.  M.,  Ph.  D., 

Former  professor  of  history  and  eco- 
nomics in  Greenville  College. 


Residence  of  George  O.  Morris,  South  Third  Street. 


134 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


George  H    Davis, 

A  Greeuville  boy  who  is  chief  clerk  to 
the  General  Attorney'  of  the  M.  W. 
A.,  at  Rock  Island. 


several  of  the  churches  united  to- 
gether in  the  observance  of  this 
Thursday  prayer  service. 

Greenville  was  not  a  "City  of 
magnificent  distances"  when  the 
writer  first  saw  it.  It  was  limited 
by  the  hills  and  valleys  on  the 
north,  the  bluff  on  the  west.  South 
Street  on  the  south,  and  First 
Street  on  the  east.  All  east  of 
First  Street  was  in  the  country,  and 
largely  in  the  farms  of  Samuel 
White  and  Wyatt  Stubblefield. 
This  is  the  reason  the  next  street 
east     of    First     Street      was     named 


Residence  of  John  H.  Davis. 


"Prairie" — it  was  out  in  the 
prairie.  All  the  land  south  of 
South  Street  was  owned  and  culti- 
vated as  a  part  of  the  farm  of  the 
Hon.  Wm.  S.  Wait,  and  was  culti- 
vated in  corn.  The  first  residence 
property  on  this  Wait  land,  as  the 
writer  remembers,  was  the  site  now 
occupied  by  W.  W.  Hussong. 
Though  not  a  "churchman"  Mr. 
Wait  was  a  liberal,  intelligent, 
wealthy  and  public  spirited  citizen 
and  donated  and  deeded  a  piece  of 
land  to  the  Rev.  James  Stafford, 
then  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  of  Greenville.  On  this  Mr. 
Stafford  erected  a  two  story  frame 
house  and  occupied  it  as  a  residence 
for  many  years.  It  afterwards  be- 
came the  home  of  Mrs.  Sarah 
Brown    and    family    and    was    owned 


and  occupied  by  her  son-in-law,  Mr. 
William  Morris  who  removed  the 
old  Stafford  frame  and  erected  the 
more  modern  and  commodious  resi- 
dence now  occupied  by  Mr.  Hus- 
song. Mr.  Wait  deeded  this  property 
by  metes  and  bounds  as  a  certain 
part  of  Section  10,  and  so  to  the 
present  time  it  is  not  known  as 
town    lots. 

The  writer  well  remembers  when 
Mr.  J.  F.  Alexander  lived  clear  out 
of  town,  in  the  house  afterward 
owned  by  C.  D.  Harris,  and  now 
the  home  of  James  Ward.  To  get 
there  one  had  to  walk  all  the  way 
from  South  Street  to  Mr.  Alex- 
ander's over  a  path  through  the 
cornfield,  or  by  a  much  longer  dis- 
tance around  the  field.  All  that 
part  of  the  city  now  know  as  "The 


Prof.  W.  Duff  Piercy. 
Former  Superintendent  of  the  Green- 
ville  Public   Schools,   now   a    resi- 
dent of  Mt.  Vernon,  111. 


Residence  of  R.  W.  Wilson. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


135 


Prof.  J.  T.  Ellis, 
Former  Superintendent  of  the  Green- 
ville Public  Schools,  now  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Department  of 
Training  of  the  Southern  Illinois 
Normal  at  Carbondale. 


South    Addition"    was    then    a    part 
of  the  Wait  farm. 

The  first  business  in  Greenville 
was  in  the  west  part  of  town,  having 
as  a  center  the  intersection  of  Main 
and  Sixth  Streets.  When  it  became 
a  county  seat  the  principal  business 
houses  and  sha'ps  were  gradually 
removed  to,  and  near,  the  public 
square. 

In  my  first  knowledge  of  the 
village  of  Greenville  it  had  very  few 
and  short  sidewalks.  Indeed,  it  had 
none  except  private  walks  furnished 
by  the  owners  of  certain  places  of 
business  for  the  general  public. 
Around  the  corner  owned  by  the 
Morse  Brothers,  now  the  lately 
burned  district,  were  walks,  just  as 
far  as  their  buildings  extended.  So 
of  the  corner  south  of  that,  known 
then  as  the  store  of  the  Smith 
Brothers.  At  the  northwest  corner 
of  the  square,  the  residence  of  Mr. 
Thomas  W.  Smith:  east  of  that  the 
residence  of  E.  Gaskins,  the  store 
of  A.  Buie,  (Mier's  meat  market) 
at  the  middle  of  the  east  side  of 
the  square  the  old  hotel:  at  the 
southeast  corner  of  the  square  where 
Mr.  Charles  Hoiles  did  business  so 
long,  and  in  a  few  other  of  the  most 
public  places  there  were  short  side- 
walks as  the  product  of  private  en- 
terprises. But  at  street  crossings 
and  generally  through  the  town 
you  had  only  mother  earth  in  her 
natural  condition  under  foot.  It 
rained  and  it  thawed  then  as  well 
as  now  and  our  sub-soil  of  clay  re- 
quired stilts,  boots  or  paving  to 
pass  over  it   undeflled. 

I    well    remember   a    service   I   at- 


tended in  the  decade  of  the  forties, 
in  the  old  Presbyterian  church,  less 
than  a  block  from  the  public 
square.  I  preached  to  an  audience 
of  nine  persons — one  of  whom  was 
a  woman.  When  I  expressed  to  her 
my  surprise  that  she  should  come 
five  miles  from  the  country,  when 
her  fellow-members  living  less 
than  a  block  distant,  were  unable 
to  attend,  she  said  promptly,  "Oh, 
that  is  easily  explained.  We  from 
the  country  can  drive  right  up  to 
the  church  door  and  miss  the  town 
mud." 


6r«cn\>tllc  Bands. 

THERE  have  been  several  bands 
in  Greenville.  One  was  organ- 
ized October  10,  187  9,  and  was 
chartered  November  12,  ISSO,  with 
John  A.  Elam  as  leader.  Other 
members  were  A.  D.  Albrecht,  Ward 
Reid,  Will  Robinson,  Charles 
Thraner,  Wallace  Barr,  Will  John- 
son, Will  Donnell,  Robert  Johnson, 
Jesse  Watson,  Walter  Powell,  Rome 
Sprague,  Jesse  Smith.  Frank  Shaw, 
Louis  Derleth,  Frank  Boughman 
and  Will  White.  Many  of  these 
were  members  of  various  other 
bands  up  until  the  time  of  organ- 
ization of  the  Greenville  Concert 
Band.  One  of  the  bands  that  made 
quite  a  reputation  was  the  Head 
Consul  Band,  named  in  honor  of 
Head  Consul  Northcott,  of  the 
Modern  Woodmen.  Several  of  the 
above  named  musicians  were  mem- 
bers   of    this   band. 


Cbc  6rcciiv»Uc  Concert  Band. 

An  organization  that  has  done 
much  for  the  city  in  the  way  of 
furnishing  martial  music  and  one 
that  has  won  laurels  at  home  and 
abroad  is  the  Greenville  Concert 
Band,  which  had  its  inception  in  the 
old  Schlup  building,  now  used  as  a 
livery  barn  on  Third  Street,  on  the 
evening  of  October  23,  1896.  On 
this  date  a  number  of  young  men 
met  for  the  purpose  of  organizing 
a  band.  Frank  N.  Blanchard  was 
chosen  chairman  and  Will  C.  Car- 
son, secretary.  A  committee  con- 
sisting of  E.  W.  Miller,  U.  S.  De- 
Moulin  and  Will  C.  Carson  was  ap- 
pointed to  draft  a  constitution  and 
by-laws,  and  after  a  few  words  of 
encouragement  by  Ed  DeMoulin, 
the  meeting  adjourned  to  meet 
October  28,  1896,  at  which  time 
James  Brouse  of  Mulberry  Grove 
was  retained  as  leader  and  in- 
structor, and  E.  W.  Miller  was 
elected  president,  Frank  N.  Blanch- 
ard, vice  president  and  Herbert 
Mulford  secretary  and  treasurer. 

The  original  members  of  the  band 
were  James  Brouse,  Frank  Blanch- 
ard, U.  S.  DeMoulin,  L.  P.  Davis, 
Will  C.  Carson,  C.  M.  Mulford,  E. 
W.  Miller,  C.  P.  Blanchard,  Vern 
Norman,  Will  McAdow,  James  JIul- 
ford,  J.  G.  Ray,  G.  H.  Davis, 
George  Oudyn,  W.  H.  Baughman, 
Samuel    Wallace.    W.    J.    Bruner,    A. 

E.  Hill,   Don   Beedle,   John  Mulford, 

F.  E.  Evans,  H.  Sieck,  I.  W.  Kesler, 
J.  H.  Mulford,  Fred  Floyd,  Charles 
Sieck,    Ernest    Trautman,    Woodford 


F.  H.  Wheeler's  H.\rxess  Shop. 
From  left  to  right— F.  H.  Wheeler,  John  Sanderson,  J.  F.   Boughman, 
Louis  Staffen. 


136 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Interior  view  of  J.  M.  Havvley's  Jewelry  Store,  on  Main  Avenue.    Mr.  Hawley  stands  behind  the  counter  on  the  left. 


Evans  and  Owen  Seaman.  Of  these 
original  members  only  three,  U.  S. 
DeMoulin,  Charles  Breuchaud  and 
George   Oudyn   are  now  members. 

The  band  prospered  and  grew 
until  at  one  time  it  had  a  member- 
ship of  thirty-six.  First  prize  was 
won  at  band  contests  at  Highland 
and  Jacksonville  and  on  each  oc- 
casion the  boys  were  up  against  the 
best  bands  in  the  part  of  the  state 
in  which  the  contests  were  held. 
The  band  has  always  been  very 
active  in  campaigns  and  in  local 
affairs.  During  the  last  few  years 
the  quantity  in  membership  has 
been  supplanted  by  quality  of  tone 
and  the  boys  have  depended  entirely 
on  their  own  resources. 

For  many  months  the  band  was 
composed  of  George  M.  Oudyn, 
Clarence  Davis.  Clarence  Hair,  U. 
S.  DeMoulin,  H.  C.  Diehl,  Charles 
Breuchaud,  Erastus  DeMoulin, 
Fred  C.  Jones  and  A.  M.  Keith,  but 
in  May,  1905,  the  band  was  re-organ- 
Ized,  Ed  DeMoulin  of  this  city 
being  a  new  member  with  three 
Mulberry  Grove  men.  who  will  play 
in   the  band. 


Clark  Lodge  No.  3,  I.  O.  O.  f . 


By  R.   K.  Dewey. 


Clark  Lodge  No.  3,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
was  chartered  January  10.  1839. 
_A   report   made  by   Past   Grand   Sire 


Thomas  Wildey,  the  father  of  Odd 
Fellowship  in  the  United  States, 
who  had  been  made  the  traveling 
agent  of  the  Right  Worthy  Grand 
Lodge  of  the  United  States,  made 
at  the  October  session  of  the  Right 
Worthy  Grand  Lodge  of  the  United 
States   held   at    Baltimore,    says: 

"At  Greenville  in  July,  1S38,  in 
the  state  of  Illinois,  I  met  with  a 
number  of  brethren,  among  whom 
was  Past  Grand  James  Clark,  for- 
merly of  Harper's  Ferry,  Md.  They 
were  desirous  of  organizing  a  lodge 
and  presented  a  petition  in  due 
form  for  a  lodge  to  be  located  at 
Greenville  and  called  Clark  Lodge 
No.  3.  The  charter  was  granted 
and  the  brethren  instructed  in  the 
work  of  the  order." 

On  the  same  western  trip  of  Past 
Grand  Sire  Wildey,  he  granted  the 
petition  for  a  charter  for  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Illinois,  which  was  insti- 
tuted in  October  1838,  and  at  its 
first  session  in  1839,  it  granted  the 
charter  of  Clark  Lodge  No.  3,  so 
that  the  charter  came  through  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois,  instead  of 
from  the  Right  Worthy  Lodge  of 
the   United   States. 

It  has  been  claimed  by  our  mem- 
bers that  Clark  Lodge  No.  3  is  the 
oldest  continuous  working  lodge  in 
the  state  of  Illinois,  and  in  proof 
thereof  I  find  that  at  the  session  of 
the  Grani  Lodge  held  at  Springfield 
August  2  3.  1842,  a  proposition  was 
presented    to    require    the    surrender 


of  the  charters  of  Western  Star 
Lodge  No.  1  and  Alton  Lodge  No. 
2,  both  of  Alton,  if  they  were  not 
re-organized  before  the  next  regu- 
lar session   of  said   Grand   Lodge. 

On  May  2  3,  184  3,  the  following 
resolution   was  adopted: 

"Resolved — That  the  Grand  Sec- 
retary be  and  is  hereby  instructed 
to  demand  and  receive  the  charters, 
books,  papers  and  furniture  of  said 
lodges  Nos.  1  and  2  for  the  violation 
of  Section  1,  Article  XI  of  the  con- 
stitution of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Illinois."  On  November  29,  1843, 
the  lodges  were  suspended  as  shown 
by  the  Grand  Secretary's  Report  of 
above  date,  but  after  a  time  were 
reinstated,  viz.:  August  26,  1848. 
Alton  Lodge  No.  2  was  instituted 
upon  petition  from  members  of  old 
numbers    1    and   2. 

Clark  Lodge  No.  3  was  instituted 
by  Past  Grand  David  P.  Berry  of 
Greenville  and  Past  Grand  James 
E.  Starr  of  Alton  on  the  tenth  day 
of  January  1839.  The  charter 
members  were  James  Clark,  D.  P. 
Berry.  Thomas  Dakin.  Patrick 
O'Byrne.  Daniel  Ward,  A.  W. 
Cheneworth  and  James  E.  Starr,  the 
last  named  being  from  Alton.  The 
following  were  the  first  officers: 
James  Clark,  Noble  Grand.:  Patrick 
O'Byrne,  Vice  Grand:  James  Brad- 
ford, Secretary:  Robert  F.  White, 
Treasurer:  Thomas  M.  White, 
Warden  and  Conductor:  Thomas 
Dakin.      Inner     Guardian:      Officers, 


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137 


J.  P.  Pepin, 

For  IG   years   a    leading   Ijlacksmitli 
and  horseshoer. 

second  quarter — Patrick  O'Byrne, 
N.  G.;  T.  M.  White,  Secretary; 
Officers,  tliird  quarter — R.  F.  White, 
N.  G.;  Seth  Fuller,  Secretary;  Of- 
ficers, fourth  quarter — T.  M.  White, 
N.   G.;    R.    F.   White,   Secretary. 

The  lodge  had  no  seal.  One  was 
ordered  October  12,  1S50,  and  re- 
ceived  October   26,    1850. 

The  lodge  met  for  several  years 
in  the  second  story  of  the  James 
Clarit  building  at  the  northwest 
corner  of  Main  and  Fifth  Streets. 
After  many  years,  say  about  1S55, 
the  lodge  moved  to  the  second  stoi-y 
of  the  frame  building  standing  on 
the  east  side  of  the  court  house 
square  about  where  S.  M.  Harne- 
tiaux's  restaurant  now  stands,  from 
which  place  it  moved  to  the  third 
story    of    the    Sprague    Block,    which 


Aflfil^ 


I'l-  rix's  Suii]' 


it  occupied  for  a  long  time.  Finally^; 
-M.  B.  Chittenden  built  a  two  story 
frame  building  on  the  ground  where 
Watson's  drug  store  now  stands  and 
the  second  story  was  rented  by 
Clark  Lodge,  owing  to  some  trouble 
in  renting  room  in  the  Sprague 
Block.  After  occupying  that  room 
for  some  time  the  building  was  re- 
moved to  make  room  for  the  two 
brick  buildings  and  the  First 
National  Bank  building,  when  the 
Lodge  moved  to  the  third  story  of 
the  First  National  Bank,  being  the 
Mansard  roof  part,  but  that  room 
being  so  hot  in  summer  and  so  cold 
in  winter,  the  lodge  again  removed 
to  the  Sprague  Block  where  it  re- 
mained until  April  19n3.  when  it 
moved    to    the    northwest    corner    of 


Main  and  Third,  second  story,  where 
it  had  a  very  fine  room  and  banquet 
room.  The  lodge  was  holding  its 
meetings  there  at  the  time  of  the 
fire  of  October  27.  1904,  which 
burned  everything  belonging  to  the 
lodge,  valued  at  over  $1,000,  with 
$500  insurance.  The  loss  of  our 
old  records  was  more  deeply  de- 
plored than  anything  else,  as  we 
are  the  oldest  continuous  working 
lodge   in   the   state   of   Illinois. 

This  record  is  made  up  by  the 
writer  hereof  from  personal  knowl- 
edge of  over  fifty  years  in  attend- 
ance on  said  lodge  and  from  private 
notes  in  his  possession.  The  fol- 
lowing is  a  list  of  the  members  of 
said  lodge  in  the  years  1S5S  and 
1859.      On    account    of    the    loss    of 


Philip  Stoit, 

Coustable  of  Central   Township  for 
several  years. 


The  uld  Travis  blacksmith  shop,  at  one  time  Mt.  Gilead  church.  This 
shop  stood  on  the  site  of  the  present  T-  P.  Pepin  blacksmith,  carriage 
and  repair  shop. 


138 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


our  records  by  fire  I  cannot  give 
date  of  initiation  or  time  of  death: 

Myron  Ostrom,  Thomas  Chamber- 
lain, Joel  Elam,  S.  B.  Holcomb, 
James  M.  Fergus,  Joseph  Campbell, 
Alex  Kelsoe,  W.  S.  Colcord,  C.  W. 
Holden,  Adolph  Hefter,  Wm.  Bell, 
J.  E.  Travis,  David  H.  Winans,  D. 
H.  Phillips,  D.  D.  Robbins,  Theo. 
Smith,  P.  G.  Vawter,  Richard 
Stowe,  J.  B.  Hunter,  L.  M.  White, 
S.  W.  Marston,  Williamson  Plant, 
J.  K.  McLean,  M.  B.  Chittenden,  R. 
C.  Sprague,  Anson  Sprague,  George 
Laws,  John  T.  Barr,  Jacob  Koonce, 
Daniel  Jett,  J.  H.  Birge,  L.  P. 
Littlefield,  David  Able,  E.  Gaskins, 
Thos.  W.  Smith,  M.  G.  Dale,  D.  P. 
Hagee,  John  B.  Reid,  John  F. 
Laws,  A.  G.  Morgan,  Wm.  Scott,  S. 
R.  Perry,  W.  A.  Libbey,  C.  T.  Floyd, 
O.  B.  Colcord,  E.  A.  Floyd,  T.  W. 
Floyd,  G.  W.  Hill,  Hance  Corsby, 
H.  W.  White,  S.  H.  Croker,  Alex 
Buie,  E.  Francisco,  J.  F.  Alexander, 
George  Gibson,  Cyrus  Birge,  Rufus 
Elam.  J.  A.  Combs.  J.  Mattinly.  D. 
Wilkins,  Robert  Thompson,  Wm. 
McGuire,  Geo.  W.  Moffat,  J.  T. 
Fouke,  Edwin  Birge,  J.  L.  Lester, 
S.  B.  Gower,  R.  K.  Dewey,  D.  B. 
Sturgis,  John  Melone,  G.  W.  Miller, 
J.  H.  Murdock,  C.  B.  Hamilton,  J. 
H.  Moss,  J.  P.  Paulding,  C.  E. 
Stearns,  M.  V.  Denny.  Henry  H. 
Wood,  Alex  Calahan,  Thomas  Met- 
calf.  Lemuel  Adams,  F.  A.  Sabin,  S. 
H.  Wise,  E.  B.  Smith,  John  T. 
Castle,  F.  M.  Eakin,  Ralph  Wilds, 
A.  L.  Doud,  Thos.  J.  Purnell,  A. 
Sellers,  J.  J.  Mathews,  L.  J.  Sea- 
graves,  M.  Klump,  R.  L.  George, 
C.    M.    Hamilton. 

In  looking  over  this  list  of  mem- 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  R.  \V.  H.\stings  and  Childrkn,  Hazel  a.nd  Byrl. 


Henry  D.  Jackson,  Prof.  A.  H.  Jackson,  Mrs.  A.   II.  Jackson, 

Bookkeeper    for  a   large  coal     com-      Born  and   raised   near  Greenville,  a      A  Bond   County   Teacher  for   seven- 
pany  at  Portland,   Oregon,   and   a         teacher  for   29   year.s.      Ten   years         teen  vears. 
rising  young  attorney.  President  of  Bond    County   Teach- 

ers' Association. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


139 


F.  E.  MiEK, 
Proprietor  of  Micr's  nual  market. 


F.  E.  Miek's  Meat  Market,  North  Second  Street. 


bers  I  find  but  ten  are  still  living 
and  only  one  is  still  a  member  of 
the  lodge  and  that  one  is  R.  K. 
Dewey,  who  is  the  oldest  Odd  Fel- 
low belonging  to  the  lodge,  and 
there  are  but  very  few,  if  any,  in 
the  state  older  in  the  order.  There 
have  been  over  415  members  initi- 
ated in  this  lodge  since  its  organi- 
zation. The  present  membership  is 
110.  There  are  now  thirty-six  past 
grands  belonging  to  the  lodge.  Our 
membership  is  steadily  increasing, 
some  six  or  ten  having  been  initi- 
ated, advanced  and  exalted  since 
the   fire   of   October  last. 


Although  Clark  Lodge  is  the 
oldest  working  lodge  in  the  state 
she  has  never  had  a  permanent 
home  until  a  few  months  ago.  The 
lodge  has  purchased  the  drug  store 
and  grounds  at  the  northwest  corner 
of  the  public  square,  and  are  having 
it  remodeled  so  as  to  use  the  second 
story  for  a  home  for  the  old  lodge. 
The  price  paid  was  $7,000,  which  at 
present  advanced  prices  of  real  es- 
tate within  the  city,  is  considered 
a   good  bargain. 


©rccnvillc  Lodge  No.  245t  3.  f. 
and  H.  ]M. 


By  Joseph   H.   McHenry. 


Greenville  Lodge  No.  245  A.  F. 
and  A.  M.  was  instituted  under  dis- 
pensation October  28,  1S56.  The 
dispensation  was  granted  on  pe- 
tition of  William  M.  Bell,  W.  H. 
Collins,     P.     W.     Hutchinson,     J.     B. 


H.  A.  DURRE, 
A  well  known  business  man. 


Mr.  and  .Mrs.  F.  B.  Sells  and  Daughter,  Mrs.  H.  A.  Durre.     Mr.  Sells  is 
an  insurance  agent. 


140 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Sager  Harralson, 
One  of  Greenville's  young  business  men. 


Lansing,  Isaac  Minor,  Neely  Mc- 
Neill and  W.  F.  White.  W.  B.  Her- 
riek,  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  Illinois,  granted  the  dis- 
pensation and  appointed  as  offlcers: 
W.  H.  Collins,  W.  M.;  P.  W..  Hut- 
chinson, S.  W.;  J.  D.  Lansing,  J. 
W.  The  first  man  made  a  Mason 
by  the  lodge  was  Dr.  W.  A.  Allen, 
who  was  given  the  Master  Mason's 
degree  on  January   15,   1857. 

The  lodge  continued  under  dis- 
pensation for  nearly  a  year,  until  a 
charter  was  issued  by  the  Grand 
Lodge  at  Springfield  October  7, 
1857.  It  was  signed  by  J.  H.  Hib- 
bard.  Grand  Master,  and  the 
charter  members  were:  W.  H.  Col- 
lins, "W.  M.;  P.W.Hutchinson,  S. 
W^;  W.  P.  White,  J.  W.:  John 
Burchsted,  W.  A.  Allen  and  Neely 
McNeill. 

At  the  first  meeting  after  the 
charter  was  issued,  McKenzy 
Turner,  acting  as  proxy  for  the 
Grand  Master,  instituted  Greenville 
Lodge  No.  2  45,  under  its  charter, 
in    due   form. 

The  first  election  of  officers  by 
the  lodge  was  held  November  23, 
1857,  and  the  following  were 
elected:  S.  Stevenson,  W.  M. :  W.  A. 


Allen,  S.  W.;  C.  W.  Holden,  J.  W.; 
J.  H  Birge,  Secretary;  John  Burch- 
sted, Treasurer:  E.  H.  Blanchard, 
S.   D.;     T.    D.    White,      J.    D.;     C.   A. 


Darlington,      Tyler;     J.     D.     Lansing 
and   W.  A.  Allen,   Stewarts. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the 
Masters  of  the  lodge  since  Us  first 
organization  and  the  term  or  terms 
during  which  they  served:  \V.  H 
Collins,  1856-57;  S.  Stevenson 
1858-59;   E.   H.  Blanchard,   ISGO;   T 

D.  White,  1861;  J.  H.  Birge.  IS 62 
S.  Stevenson,  1863;  T.  D.  White 
1864-65;    J.   F.   Alexander,    l.S(;6-G9 

E.  T.  King,  1870;  J.  B.  Reid,   1871 
J.    C.    Gerichs,    1872-74;.   L.    Adams 
1875;      P.    C.    Reed,      1876;      J.    C 
Gerichs,     1877;     I.    Norman,    1878 
J.     C.     Gerichs,     1879;     Dr.     James 
Gordon,   1880;    I.   Norman,    1881;    J. 
B.  Reid,   1882-83;   I.  Norman,   1884- 
87;     C.     F.    Thraner,     18SS;     G.    C 
Scipio,  1889;   C.  J.  Lindly,   1890:   C 
P.    Thraner,    1891;    E.    Baumberger 
1892-94;    A.    L.   Hord,    1895;    W.    B 
Bradsby,    1896;    Ned    C.    Sherburne, 
1897;    W.   T.   Easley,   1899-1900;    E, 
E.    Wise,    1901-2;    E.    E.    Cox,    1903 
Joseph    H.    McHenry,     190  4;     E.    S. 
Titus,    1905-6. 

The  present  oflScers  are  E.  S. 
Titus,  W.  M.;  E.  W.  Miller,  S.  \V.; 
J.  K.  Murdock,  J.  W. ;  F.  Thraner, 
Treasurer;  J  A.  Scott,  Secretary;  E. 
E.  Cox,  S.  D.;  Thomas  Biggs,  J.  D.; 
Ed  McGraw,  Tyler;  J.  H.  McHenry, 
and  H.  W.  Park,  Stewarts;  Rev.  J. 
G.  Wright,   Chaplain. 

There  are  now  on  the  rolls  of 
the  lodge  90  members  in  good 
standing,  and  since  the  first  organi- 
zation a  total  of  284  names  have 
been  enrolled.  W.  H.  Williams,  who 
died  January  1.  1906,  was  up  to  that 
time  the  oldest  member  of  the 
lodge,  he  having  become  a  member 
May  25,  1866.  F.  Thraner  follows 
in  point  of  seniority,  dating  his 
membership    from    October    1S67. 

The    lodge    was    instituted    in    the 


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Residence  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  McGinness. 


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141 


Integrity  Lodge  No.  yz,  H.  O. 

a.  «i. 


By   J.    T.    Fouke. 


J.  V.  Dixon  and  Sox,  E.  Bliss  Dixon. 

J.  V.  Dixon  was  born  and  raised  in  Bond  County  and 
has  been  in  the  hardware  business  since  1898.  Is  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Education. 


Odd  Fellows  hall,  and  continued  as 
renters  of  Clark  Lodge  until  1S96, 
when  the  lodge  room,  now  owned 
by  the  Masons  was  completed.  This 
is  one  of  the  handsomest  lodge 
rooms  in  the  state,  comprising  the 
third  story  of  a  large  brick  building 
on  the  northeast  corner  of  Main 
Avenue  and   Second   Street. 

The  first  action  by  the  lodge 
looking  to  the  erection  of  a  lodge 
room  was  taken  January  25,  1893, 
when  George  M.  Tatham  moved  that 
a  committee  be  appointed  to  con- 
sider the  advisability  of  building. 
George  M.  Tatham,  C.  F.  Thraner 
and  G.  C.  Scipio  were  appointed  as 
such  committee.  The  matter  was 
kept  before  the  lodge  through  the 
summer  of  1893,  a  number  of  com- 
mittees being  appointed  and  many 
conferences  held,  but  no  progress 
was  made  toward  getting  the  work 
started  and  at  a  meeting  held  Xo- 
vember  22  of  the  same  year,  the 
matter  was  postponed  till  spring 
and  was  not  revived  again  in  the 
lodge  till  February  26,  1S96.  On 
that  date  C.  J.  Lindly,  Ned  C.  Sher- 
burne and  J.  F.  Watts  were  ap- 
pointed a  committee  to  confer  with 
J.  H.  Livingston  in  regard  to  the 
matter  of  building  in  connection 
with  him.  On  April  2  2  Ned  C. 
Sherburne,  Dr.  W.  T.  Easley  and 
C.  E.  Davidson  were  appointed  a 
building  committee  and  instructed 
to  proceed  with  the  erection  of  a 
building  in  connection  with  Mr. 
Livingston.  The  hall  was  completed 
and  the  first  meeting  held  therein 
Wednesday  evening.  March  3.  l.'?97, 
Ned  C.  Sherburne  presiding  as 
Worshipful      Master.        The     second 


meeting  held  in  the  new  lodge  room 
was  a  lodge  of  sorrows  to  pay  a 
last  tribute  of  affection  to  the  mem- 
ory of  Brother  T.  D.  White,  who  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  was  the  oldest 
member  of  the  lodge.  His  remains 
were  carried  to  the  beautiful  new 
temple  and  the  Masonic  funeral 
services  were  held  there  April  2, 
1897.  This  is  the  only  instance  ot 
a  funeral  having  been  conducted  in 
a  lodge  room  in  this  city. 

The  Masons  have  as  tenants  for 
their  hall  the  Woodmen,  Royal 
Neighbors  and   Knights  of  Pythias. 


Integrity  Lodge  No.  72,  A.  O.  U. 
W.  was  instituted  April  28,  1877, 
with  the  following  officers,  S,  M, 
Inglis,  P.  W.  M.;  George  S.  Phelps, 
\V.  M.;  Henry  Howard,  F.;  William 
Ballard,  O.;  Cyrus  Birge,  Recorder; 
George  C.  Scipio,  Financier;  M,  V. 
Denny,  Receiver;  C.  W.  Holden,  G.; 
Samuel  Werner,  I.  G.;  S.  M.  Tabor, 
O.  W.  Henry  Howard  was  the  first 
representative  to  the  meeting  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  at  Ottawa,  111.,  in 
February    1878, 

The  present  membership  is  28. 
The  present  officers  are:  John  B. 
Reid,  P.  W.  M.;  Ed  McGraw,  M.  W.; 
James  Kingon,  Foreman;  Joseph  L, 
Koonce,  Overseer;  Joseph  T.  Fouke, 
Recorder;  Frederick         Thraner, 

Financier;  C.  K.  Denny,  Receiver; 
Sylvanus  Hutchinson.  I.  W.;  Thos. 
D.  Stevenson,  O.  W, 

The  lodge  has  paid  out  $4  2,0  00 
benefits  on  the  death  of  twenty-one 
members. 


Independent  Order  Mutual  Hid. 

The  Independent  Order  of  Mutual 
Aid  was  organized  September  20, 
ISSO,  with  the  following  officers:  J. 
J.  Clarkson,  P.;  C.  W.  Seawell,  P. 
P.;  John  Kingsbury,  V.  P.;  Henry 
Rammel,  R.  S.;  J.  M.  McAdams,  P, 
S.;  H,  T.  Powell,  T.;  E.  C.  Stearns, 
J.  J.  Clarkson  and  H.  T.  Powell, 
Trustees;  A.  T.  Reed,  C;  C.  H. 
Beatty,   I.   G.;    O.   L.   Lupton,   O.   G, 


J.  V.  Dixon's  H.\rdware  Store. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Francis  Blakeley, 

Well  known  business  man,  proprietor  of  Blakelev's 
Furniture  Store. 


The  society  has  paid  out  in  Green-      W.     E.     Davis;      Watchman,     L.     D. 


Tille  for  ten  deaths  $23,000.  The 
present  ofiBcers  are:  President,  L. 
L.  Tice;  Financial  Secretary,  S. 
Wannamaugher;  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  E.  D.  Wallace.  The 
lodge   has   a   membership   of   fifteen. 


Blanchard:  Sentry,  Ed  DeMoulin; 
Physician,  Wm.  T.  Easley:  Mana- 
gers, E.  B.  Wise;  J.  E.  Groves,  W. 
A.  McLain. 

The  camp  has  had  a  steady 
growth  from  the  iirst  until  the 
present    membership    numbers    about 


Tictory  Camp,  No.  452,  )M.  lU.  H. 


2  7  5.  Meetings  are  held  twice  a 
month  in  Masonic  Temple. 

The  camp  has  been  signally 
honored  in  that  one  of  its  members, 
Hon.  W.  A.  Northcott,  was  for  about 
thirteen  years  the  Head  Consul  of 
the  order,  building  it  up  from  a 
weak  little  band  to  the  largest  fra- 
ternal  order  in   the   world. 

The  present  oflacers  are:  Vener- 
able Consul,  George  Hines;  Worthy 
Adviser,  John  Cole;  Banker,  Fred 
Floyd;  Clerk,  Albert  Plog;  Escort, 
S.  Harralson,  Wachman,  John  Wil- 
son; Sentry,  Joseph  Hochdaffer; 
Physicians,  Dr.  W.  T.  Easley  and 
Dr.  B.  F.  Coop;  Managers,  Philip 
Diehl,  E.  W.  Dressor  and  W.  C. 
Presgrove. 


Browning  Lodge  JVo.  238  Knights 
of  Pythias. 

Browning  Lodge  No.  2  38,  Knights 
of  Pythias  is  a  representative  young 
men's  lodge  of  Greenville.  The 
lodge  was  instituted  February  15th, 
1.S90,  by  Ben  Hur  Lodge  No.  203 
of  Vandalia,  111.,  when  the  following 
first  ofiicers  were  installed:  C.  B. 
Cook,  C.  C;  H.  J.  Ravold,  V.  C; 
J.  G.  Wright,  P.;  J.  E.  Groves,  K. 
of  R.  &  S.;  N.  H.  Jackson,  M.  F.; 
J.  S.  Bradford,  M.  E.;  W.  T.  Eas- 
ley, M.  A.;  Ed  DeMoulin,  I.  G.;  M. 
C   Heuter,  O.  G. 

Since  its  organization,  the  lodge 
has  enjoyed  a  steady  growth  and 
has  at  present  a  good  working  mem- 
bership of  sixty-two  members. 
Browing  Lodge  has  quarters  in  Ma- 
sonic Temple  which  is  noted  for 
being  one  of  the  finest  lodge  rooms 
in    Illinois. 

The  present  officers  for  190  6  arn. 


By  George  Grube. 


Victory  Camp  No.  452,  Modern 
Woodmen  of  America,  which  is  now 
the  largest  lodge  in  Bond  county, 
was  organized  November  2,  1887,  in 
Masonic  Hall  by  R.  T.  Court,  Deputy 
Head  Consul.  There  were  twenty- 
four    charter    members    as    follows: 

L.  D.  Blanchard,  W.  A.  Brown, 
T.  S.  Dewey,  W.  E.  Davis,  John  H. 
Davis,  Philip  Diehl,  Ed  DeMoulin, 
H.  C.  Travis,  Wm.  T.  Easley,  U.  E. 
Follett,  J.  E.  Groves,  Wm.  Gerkin, 
W.  O.  Holdzkom,  E.  F.  Johnson, 
Wm.  M.  Klump,  E.  B.  Wise,  W.  A. 
McLain,  Vance  McLain,  W.  J.  Mur- 
dock,  I.  Norman,  Wm.  G.  Pervoe, 
Ward  Reid,  Charles  Stewart  and  J. 
W.  Wise. 

The  first  ofiacers  of  the  camp 
were:  Venerable  Consul,  I.  Nor- 
man; Clerk,  Ward  Reid;  Worthy 
Adviser,  E.  B.  Wise;  Excellent 
Banker,    W.    O.    Holdzkom;     Escort, 


Residence  of  Francis  Blakeley. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


143 


Washington  Sherman  and  Family. 
When   they  came  to   Greenville   in   1897. 


Fkesent  Residence  of  Washington  Sherman, 
Xt  No.  301,  East  Spring  Avenue. 


144 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Washington  Sherman  and  Family,  at  the  present  time. 


H.  C.  Diehl,  C.  C;  Sager  Harralson, 
V.  C.  C;  John  Floyd,  Prelate; 
George  V.  Weise,  K.  of  R.  and  S.: 
E.  E.  Wise,  M.  at  A;  C.  E.  Cook, 
M.  of  F.:  F.  N.  Blanchard,  M.  of  E.; 
James  Boughman,  M.  of  W.;  P.  E. 
Watson,  I.  G.;  Thomas  Biggs,  O  G. ; 
C.  E.  Cook,  Representative  m  the 
Grand    Lodge. 


Greenville  Court  of  Ronor. 


By  Frank  N.  Blanchard. 


Greenville  Court  of  Honor  No.  3, 
vfas  organized  in  the  ofiBce  of  W.  E. 
Robinson  in  the  court  house  and 
the  first  officers  elected  were  Dr.  W. 
T.  Easley,  President,  Pro  Tern;  R. 
C.  Morris,  Secretary  and  C.  J. 
Lindly  delegate  to  the  Supreme 
Court  at  Springfield,  111.,  which 
meeting  was  held  July  19,  189.5. 
At  the  Supreme  Court  a  few  years 
later  W.  E.  Robinson,  of  Greenville, 
was     elected       Supreme      Recorder, 


which   position   he   still   holds. 

Permanent  organization  of  Green- 
ville Court  was  not  effected  until 
August  3,  1S95,  at  which  time  the 
following  officers  were  elected: 
Worthy  Chancellor,  W.  E.  Robi:i- 
son:  Vice  Chancellor,  Stella  M. 
Reid;  Past  Chancellor,  W.  V. 
Weise;  Recorder,  R.  C.  Morris; 
Treasurer,  Clara  A.  Robinson; 
Chaplain,  Rev.  J.  G.  Wright;  Con- 
ductor, Ned  C.  Sherburne;  Guard, 
Dicie  Miller;  Sentinel,  J.  H.  Davis; 
Medical  Examiner,  Dr.  W.  T.  Eas- 
ley; Directors,  W.  W.  Lowis,  J.  Sea- 
man  and   A.   L.   Hord. 

Meetings  are  now  held  in  old  Odd 
Fellows'  hall  and  the  court  has  a 
membership  of  130.  The  present  of- 
ficers  are: 

Worthy  Chancellor,  E.  R.  Gum; 
Vice  Chancellor,  J.  F.  Akins;  Re- 
corder, F.  N.  Blanchard;  Conductor, 
Ward  Reid;  Chaplain,  Nellie  A. 
Wheeler;  Guard,  E.  W.  Miller; 
Sentinel.  Robin  Reid;  Medical  Ex- 
aminer, Dr.  W.  T.  Easley  and  J.  E. 
Groves;  Directors.  E.  E.  Brice,  Mrs. 
W.   A.   Leidel   and,    P.   H.   Tate. 


Melrose  Rcbehab  Lodge. 


By  Mrs.   Laura  Hair. 


On  February  16,  1897,  twenty 
members,  who  had  taken  with- 
drawal cards  from  Memento  Rebek- 
ah  Lodge  No.  125,  I.  O.  O.  P.,  of 
Vandalia,  111.,  met  in  the  hall  of 
Clark  Lodge  No.  3,  I.  O.  O.  P.,  in 
Greenville,  for  the  purpose  of  insti- 
tuting a  Rebekah  Lodge.  Mrs. 
May  D.  Stone,  President  of  the 
state  association  acted  as  Grand 
Master  of  the  occasion  and  a  lod^e 
was  duly  organized,  with  sixteen 
charter  members.  On  March  31, 
of  the  same  year,  forty-three  new 
members  were  initiated,  making  in 
all  fifty-nine  members.  At  one 
time  Melrose  Lodge  had  one  hun- 
dred members  enrolled.  The  first 
elected   officers   were  as  follows: 

N.  G.,  Mrs.  Lizzie  Dressor;  V.  G., 
Mrs.  Kate  Gullick;  Recording  Sec- 
retary. Mrs.  Lizzie  Dewey;  Finan- 
cial Secretary,  Mrs.  Jennie  A.  Scott; 
Treasurer,    Mrs.    Nancy    Miles.      The 


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reenville,  Illinois. 


145 


A.    F.    RlCKFELDER, 

A  leading  horseshoer  and  blacksniitli 
of  Greenville. 


blowing  were  the  first  appointed 
officers:  R.  s.  X.  (;.,  R.  K.  Dewey; 
^-  S.  N.  G.,  James  Scott;  Warden 
Mrs.  Sarah  Boughman;  Chaplain,' 
Mrs.  Alice  Lindly;  O.  G  A  L 
Bone;  I.  G..  John  Miles:  R.  S.  V. 
G.,  J.  H.  Boughman:  L.  S.  V.  G.,  E 
\V.   Dressor. 

Lilve  all   other   orders   of  its   kind 
Melrose    has    increased    in    member- 
ship but  it  has  also  decreased,  and    at 
present  has  but  fort.v-four  members 
In   October   of    1904,   when   the  Odd 
Fellows    hall    was    burned,    we    suf- 
fered   a    great   loss,    all    our   regalia 
ntuals    and    seal     being    burned     in 
fact    nothing    being    saved    but    our 
lodge      records       and      constitution 
Luckily,   however,   an   insurance   was 
carried    and    we    received    $150    for 
our   loss.      The   present   officers   are- 
N.    G.,    Miss    Myrtle    Logging;     V 
G-,    Miss   Carrie  Thraner:    Recording 
Secretary,   Mrs.    Laura    Hair:    Finan- 
cial Secretary.  Mrs.  Maude  Scheske- 
Treasurer,        Mrs.      Emma      Leidel' 
garden,    Mrs.   Carrie   Loggins:    Con- 
ductor,    Mrs.    Jennie    Scott:      I     G 
Mrs.    Nancy    Dowell;     Q     g      G     I 
Loggins;      Chaplain,     John  "Bough- 
man; R.  s.  N.  G.,  J.  A.  Scott;   L.'  S. 
N.  G.,  Mrs.   Lizzie  Dressor:    R    S    V 
G..     Mrs.     Mary    Plog:     L     S     V     G 
Mrs.   Nellie   Wheeler. 

The  Rebekahs  are  a  sociable  band 
of  people  and  will  do  all  in  their 
power  for  their  fellow  men  and  any 
member  who  needs  aid  in  time  of 
sickness  may  depend  on  their  Re- 
bekah  sisters.  The  door  is  always 
open  to  new  members  and  anv  one 
wishing  to  join  a  social  order  should 
not  fail  to  consider  the  advantages 
the   Rebekahs  offer. 


A.    F.    RiCKFELDER's    Bl.^CK 


s.MiTH  Shop,  South  Second  Street. 


Hda  Camp  |Vo.  598,  R,  )V.  ©f  H. 

By  Mrs.   Mary  Gerkin. 

A  camp  of  Royal  Neighbors  of 
America,  auxiliary  to  the  Modern 
Woodmen,  was  organized  in  this 
city  by  Mrs.  Lizzie  Grist,  deputy 
supreme  oracle,  on  March  27  1897 
with  twenty-five  charter  members.' 
The  officers  elected  were  as  follows- 
Mrs.  Frances  M.  Ross,  Oracle - 
Mrs.  C.  H.  DeMoulin,  Vice  Oracle' 
Miss  C.  H.  Ogden.  Recorder;  Mrs' 
M.  Gerkin,  Receiver;  Mrs.  M.  May- 
nard.    Chancellor:    Mrs.    Dora    Hast- 


ings, Marshal;  Dr.  B.  P.  Coop. 
Physician:  Mrs.  Bertha  Johnson, 
Outer  Sentinel;  Mrs  L.  O  Di.xon 
Inner  Sentinel;  Mr.  Ed  DeMoulin' 
Mr.  A.  D.  Ross  and  Mrs.  Mary 
Kingsbury,    Board    of    Managers. 

Oracle  Ross  appointed  Mrs.  Ada 
xNorthcott  as  past  oracle.  The 
name  selected  for  this  camp  was 
Ada  in  honor  of  Neighbor  Ada 
^orthcott.  Although  Ada  Camp  be- 
?an  Its  life  with  .so  few  members 
they  all  went  to  work  with  a  will 
to  get  new  members.  The  next 
month  April,  seventeen  were  taKen 
into   the   order. 

Death  has  robbed   us  of  six  mem- 


HUFI-MA.N-   AND    PreSGROVE    DraVS 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Mrs.  a.  D.  Ross  and  Sons. 


A.  D.  Ross. 


bers,  Charles  Kingsbury,  Mrs.  C. 
H.  DeMoulin,  Mrs.  Lawrence  Ross, 
Mrs.  Robert  Sample,  Miss  Emma 
Boughman  and  Mrs.  Frank  Trost. 
There  are  now  eighty-one  bene- 
ficiary and  sixteen  social  members 
in  good  standing.  The  officers  for 
190G   are: 

Mrs.  Leona  DeMoulin,  Oracle; 
Mrs.  Mabel  Buscher,  Vice  Oracle; 
Mrs.  Laura  Hair,  Past  Oracle;  Mrs. 
Bertha  Johnson,  Chancellor;  Mre. 
Mary  Plog,  Recorder;  Mrs.  Maude 
Scheske,  Receiver;  Mrs.  Dora  Hast- 
ings, Marshal;  Mrs.  Anna  Streiff, 
Inner  Sentinel;  Mrs.  Kathenne 
Rickf  elder,  Outer  Sentinel;  Mrs. 
Lucinda  McCutcheon,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Rieden-ann  and  E.  S.  Frey,  Manag- 
ers; Dr.  Wm.  T.  Easley  and  Dr.  B. 
F.    Coop.   Physicians. 

Mrs  Dora  Hastings  has  the  honor 
of  having  held  her  office  of  Marshal 
ever  since  the  camp  was  organized 
in  1897.  The  Royal  Neighbors  are 
noted  for  their  kindness  and  help 
in  time  of  trouble  and  sickness.  I 
will  further  say:  "By  their  works 
ye  shall   know  them." 


Mutual  protective  League. 

By  Lloyd   P.   Davis. 

Security  Council  No.  156  of  the 
Mutual  Protective  League  'was  or- 
ganized in  this  city  April  3,  1899, 
by  H.  L.  Tripod,  who  was  then 
state  deputy  of  the  order.  At  the 
organization  of  the  council  E.  E^ 
-Burson,  Supreme  Vice  President  of 
-the  order,  was  present  and  gave  m- 
structions  in  the  secret  work.  The 
charter  membership  of  the  council 
was  fifteen  and  it  has  had  a  steady 


increase  in  membership  up  to  the 
present  time,  and  now  has  enrolled 
about  sixty  members.  The  officers 
elected  at  the  time  of  the  organi- 
zation   were: 

Rev.  C.  D.  Shumard,  President; 
Mrs.  J.  L.  Bunch,  Vice  President: 
Lloyd  P.  Davis,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer;  B.  F.  Coop,  M.  D.,  Medi- 
cal Examiner;  all  of  whom  still 
hold  these  respective  offices,  being 
re-elected   at   each   term. 

This  council  is  in  a  very  flour- 
ishing condition,  having  its  regular 
monthly  meetings.  Until  recently 
the  meetings  were  held  in  Odd 
Fellows  Hall.  While  this  lodge  is 
not  the  largest  in  the  city  it  is  con- 
sidered by  its  members  as  one  of 
the  safest  and  surest  on  life  insur- 
ance lines. 


Royal  Hmericane. 


By  Earl  M.  Davis. 

The  Fraternal  Army  of  America, 
which  was  organized  in  Greenville 
July  IS,  1901,  and  the  Loyal  Ameri- 
cans, which  order  was  organized  in 
1903,  were  merged  on  September 
15,  190  3,  and  took  the  name  of  the 
Loyal  Americans.  The  first  officers 
of  the  Loyal  Americans  were 
George  Alderman.  President  and 
Ollie  Dixon,  Secretary.  The  first 
officers  of  the  Fraternal  Army  were 
Sam  Plant,  President  and  B.  M. 
Davis,  Secretary.  These  last  named 
are  the  present  officers.  There  are 
at    present    twenty-six    members    en- 


Residence  of  a.  D.  Ross,  East  College  Avenue. 


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147 


Mk.  and  Mrs.  Benj.  Baits  and  DALGHTtRS. 


rolled.      There    is    no    regular    place 
of  meeting. 

Knights  of  the  Modem  Maccabees 

By  J.  P.  Redmond. 

Bancroft  Tent  No.  1035  Knights 
of  Modern  Maccabees  was  organized 
by  J.  E.  Bancroft,  January  2  2, 
1903.  The  charter  closed  February 
13.  1903,  with  11)3  members.  The 
first  officers  of  this  tent  were  as 
follows:  Past  Commander,  A.  L. 
Bone:  Commander,  J.  L.  Mc- 
Cracken:  Lieutenant  Commander, 
Will  Lucas:  Record  Keeper,  Will  C. 
Wright:  Finance  Keeper,  W.  E. 
Jackson:  Chaplain,  T.  F.  Chamber- 
lain: Physician,  Dr.  C.  C.  Gordon: 
Sergeant,  George  Hines:  Master  at 
Arms,  E.  J.  Clarkson:  1st  Master 
of  the  Guards,  Wm.  Dewey:  2nd 
Master  of  the  Guards,  Louis  Lucas: 
Sentry,  Harry  Keesecker:  Picket, 
John  B.  Floyd. 

The  local  branch  of  Maccabees 
has  been  prosperous  from  its  organ- 
ization, holdine:  regular  meetings 
and  has.  the  past  year,  grown  ma- 
terially in  membership  of  such  high 
character  as  to  insure  its  growth 
for  years  to  come.  It  has  been 
honored  with  the  presence  of  Great 
Commander  N.  S.  Boynton  and 
other  distinguished  head  officers.  J. 
P.  Redmond  was  chosen  to  repre- 
sent the  tent  at  its  Grand  Review, 
in  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  June  4, 
1904. 

The  financial  standing  of  the  tent 
was  good  until  October  27.  1904, 
when  fire  destroyed  the  building  in 
which  the  tent  held  its  meetings 
and  the  tent  lost  regalia  and  records 
valued    at    $200. 

The  present  officers  of  the  tent 
are:    Past    Commander,    W.    C.   Ful- 


ler; Commander,  R.  W.  Wilson; 
Lieutenant  Commander,  Alvin  Wat- 
son; Record  Keeper,  L.  L.  Lucas; 
Finance  Keeper,  J.  F.  Johnston; 
Chaplain,  M.  B.  Hawley;  Physicians, 
Dr.  W.  T.  Easley  and  Dr.  J.  E. 
Groves;  Sergeant,  G.  B.  Carr: 
Master  at  Arms,  Edward  Skates; 
First  Master  of  the  Guards,  Charles 
Watson :  Second  Master  of  the 
Guards,  Levi  Rule;  Sentinel,  R.  F. 
Stubblefield;  Picket,  Martin  Will- 
man. 

The  Modern  Maccabees  is  one  of 
the  largest  and  strongest  fraternal 
beneficiary  organizations  in  the 
world  today,  doing  business  in  all 
the  healthy  states  of  the  Union  on 
six  assessments  a  year.  The  average 
age  of  all  members  admitted  in  the 
year    190  3   was    2  9   years. 


Mrs.   Amanda   M.    Baits,  Deceased. 
Xn  early  settler  of  this  county. 


6rccnvUlc  Rive   No.  878,  L.    of 

M.  M- 


By  Mrs.  Lucy  M.  Cable. 


Greenville  Hive  No.  878,  Ladies 
of  Modern  Maccabees  was  ogan- 
ized  July  10,  1903,  with  the  fol- 
lowing charter  members:  Dr.  Lina 
M.  Rosat,  Dr.  Marie  L.  Ravold, 
Eilia  A.  Hall,  Dora  F.  Lutz.  Lucy 
M.  Cable,  Martha  Palmer,  Sara  J. 
Stubblefield,  Carrie  Wasem,  Philo- 
pine  Dever,  Lena  Clementz,  Anna 
DeMoulin.    Emma    DeMoulin,    Cordia 


Baits'  Bros.  .Machine  Shop. 


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Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


Anton  Plog, 

A  member  of  the   firm   of  Plog  and 
White,  restauranters. 


A.  Harper,  Eliza  Hair,  Victoria 
Hair,  Birdie  Noe,  Florence  A. 
Jackson.  Dora  Palmer,  Emma  Wan- 
namaugher.  The  following  were 
the  first  officers  of  the  lodge:  Com- 
mander, Carrie  Wasem;  Past  Com- 
mander, Marie  L.  Ravold;  Record 
Keeper,  Dora  F.  Lutz;  Finance 
Keeper,  Eilia  Hall;  Chaplain,  Lucy 
M.  Cable:  Sergeant,  Anna  DeMoul- 
in;  Mistress  at  Arms,  Birdie  Noe; 
Sentinel,  Martha  Palmer;  Picket, 
Lena  Clementz;  Physician,  Dr.  Lina 
M.    Rosat. 


The  hive  at  present  has  a  mem- 
bership of  thirty-five  and  the  fol- 
lowing are  the  officers:  Commander, 
Laura  Hair;  Past  Commander,  Pari- 
lee  Mueller;  Lieutenant  Com- 
mander, Emma  Wannamaugher: 
Record  Keeper,  Carrie  Wasem; 
Finance  Keeper,  Kate  Murdock; 
Chaplain,  Lucy  M.  Cable;  Sergeant, 
Mrs.  Matilda  Susenbach;  Mistress  at 
Arms,  Bessie  Betterton;  Sentinel, 
Jane  Near:  Picket,  Hannah  C. 
Davis;  Physicians,  Dr.  L.  M.  Ra- 
vold  and   Dr.    L.    M.    Rosat. 


Banher'9  -fraternal  dnton. 


By  J.   H.   Allio. 


Greenville  Council,  No.  110, 
Bankers'  Fraternal  Union,  was  or- 
ganized in  Masonic  Temple,  Decem- 
ber IS,  1903.  by  W.  A.  Northcott, 
Supreme  Organizer.  The  first 
officers  of  the  council  were  Past 
President,  C.  J.  Lindly:  President, 
E.  E.  Cox;  Vice  President,  M.  M. 
Sharp;  Financial  Secretary,  J.  H. 
Allio:  Corresponding  Secretary,  G. 
L.  Meyer;  Banker,  George  V. 
Weise;  Associate  Editor,  Will  C. 
Wright;  Sergeant  at  Arms,  G.  M. 
Oudyn;  Conductor,  Oscar  Wafer; 
Inside  Guard,  Will  McAdow;  Outer 
Guard,  G.  G.  Davis;  Trustee,  Ward 
Reid:  Musical  Director,  Ed  De- 
Moulin;  Medical  Examiners,  Dr.  W. 
T.  Easley  and  Dr.  B.  F.  Coop.  The 
same  officers  are  still  in  office.  The 
present    membership    is    33. 


Mrs.  Anton  Plog. 


Colby  post  No.  301,  6.  H.  R. 


By  J.  H.  Ladd. 

Colby  Post  No.  301,  G.  A.  R.  was 
mustered  in  by  Captain  Henry  D. 
Hull  on  July  2,  1883,  with  the  fol- 
lowing named  charter  members;  J. 
B.  Reid,  C.  W.  Watson,  R.  K.  Dew- 
ey, *E.  B.  Wise,  *John  Losch,  Wm. 
Nagle,  John  H.  Boughman,  *Wm. 
H.  H.  Beeson,  *Rev.  J.  B.  White, 
*D.   B.   Evans.   *IT.   B.   Bowers,   S.  M. 


Former  County  Treasurer  H.  W.  Blizz.\rd,  Mrs.  Blizz.^rd,  Son  and  Daughter. 


Historical  Souvenir  of  Greenville,  Illinois. 


149 


\Vm.  a.  Leidel, 
Manager  of  Leidel  Ice  Company. 

Tabor,  John  H  Hawley,  Joseph  T. 
Fouke,  *T.  B.  Wood,  Wm.  T. 
Pointer,  Geo.  H.  FoUett,  J.  W. 
Reed,  *Lemuel  Adams,  B.  A.  Har- 
bine,  Thomas  K.  Ridgway,  Wm. 
Ingels,  *David  \V.  Merry,  *James 
Stack,  Lewis  J.  Myers,  James  C. 
Sanderson,  *August        Breuning, 

Thomas  S.  Vaughn,  *Henry  Voate, 
*Wm.  A.  Allen,  *Fred  Merry,  *Geo. 
C.  McCord,  *John  Schlup,  Joseph 
N.  Harned. 

Those  marked  with  a  *  are  the 
deceased    charter    members. 

Colby  Post  was  named  by  the 
first  captain  of  Co.  F  130th.  111. 
Volunteers  in  honor  of  Captain  W. 
M.  Colby,  who  was  mortally 
wounded  in  the  charge  at  Vicks- 
burg,  May  22nd,  IS 63  and  who 
died   May   23rd.   1863. 

The  first  officers  of  the  Post  were: 
Post  Commander,  J.  B.  Reid;  Sen- 
ior Vice,  C.W.Watson:  Junior  Vice, 
R.  K.  Dewey;  Adjutant,  U.  B.  Bow- 
ers: Quartermaster,  E.  B.  Wise: 
Surgeon.  W.  H.  H.  Beeson;  Chap- 
lain. J.  B.  White:  Officer  of  the  Day, 
JohnLosch:  Officer  of  the  Guard. 
Wm.  Xagel:  Sargeant  Major,  D.  B. 
Evans:  Quartermaster  Sergeant,  J. 
F.   Boughman. 

From  this  time  on  the  Post  com- 
manders have  been:  J.  B.  Reid, 
1SS4:  R.  K.  Dewey,  1885:  J.  H. 
Hawley.  IS  86:  Lemuel  Adams, 
1887:  J.  C.  Sanderson,  1888;  J.  T. 
Buchanan,  1889:  J.  B.  Reid,  1890- 
91:  D.  B.  Evans,  1892:  R.  K.  Dew- 
ev.  1S9?,;  J.  B.  Reid,  1894;  W.  W. 
Lowis.  1S95;  J.  B.  Reid,  1896-98: 
J.  T.  Buchanan,  1899-1900:  C.  K. 
Denny,  1901:  H.  H.  Staub,  1902; 
A.  C.  Jett,  1903:  J.  H.  Ladd,  1904- 
5. 

The  officers  of  the  Post  for  1905, 
were   as   follows:    J.    H.   Ladd,   Com- 


Leidei.  Ice  Company's  Ice  House,  at  Rankins  Park. 


mander;  J.  W.  Daniels,  Senior  Vice 
Commander:  Wm.  T.  Pointer, 
Junior  Vice  Commander;  Dr.  D. 
Wilkins,  Surgeon;  Rev.  O.  Hockett, 
Chaplain;  J.  T.  Buchanan,  Officer 
of  the  Day;  George  Johnson,  Officer 
of  the  Guard:  W.  W.  Lowis,  Adju- 
tant; C.  K.  Denny,  Quartermaster; 
J.  H.  Hawley,  Quartermaster  Ser- 
geant; J.  B.  Reid,  Sergeant  Major. 
The  1906  officers  are:  Com- 
mander, J.  F.  Boughman:  Senior 
Vice  Commander,  J.  L.  Koonce; 
Junior  Vice  Commander,  Ransom 
Pope:  Surgeon,  Dr.  W.  D.  Matney; 
Chaplain,  Rev.  O.  Hockett;  Quarter- 
master, C.  K.  Denny;  Officer  of  the 
Day,  J.  T.  Buchanan;  Officer  of  the 
Guard,  George  Ewing;   Adjutant,  W. 


W.  Lowis:  Quartermaster  Sergeant, 
Wm.  M.  Goad;  Sergeant  Major, 
John   H.   Hawley. 

One  half  the  charter  membership 
has   answered   the   last    roll   call. 


Colby  Relief  Corps. 


By  Mrs.  C.   K.   Denny. 


Colby  Relief  Corps  was  organized 
April  7,  1S94,  and  Mrs.  J.  B.  White 
with  twenty-five  other  ladies  signed 
the  petition  for  the  charter.  The 
same  was  received  April  21st,  and 
the  first  meeting  called  on  that  date. 


Store  of  W.  A.  and  R.  F.  Stubblefield. 


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"w  ■■? 


L  rw* 


Cyclone  Hose  Company  No.  1. 
View  taken  in  front  of  the  Post  Office  Building. 
Reading  from  left  to  right— G.  L.  Loggins,  James  G.  Mulford,  E.  M.  Davis,  Charles  Sapp,  George  Price   A   Near 
C.  F.  Thraner,  Secretary  and  Treasurer;  J.  L.  McCracken,  Harrv  Baumberger,  Lee  Loyd,  Thomas   Stevenson' 
J.  E.  Buscher,  J.  A.  Scott,  Adolph  VVirz,  Philip  Diehl,  A.  Chamberlain,  Robert  White,   Louis  Senn    L    E    Der- 


leth.  Chief. 


Mrs.  Julia  Remann,  President  or 
McIIlwain  Corps  No.  2  21,  of  Van- 
dalia.  III.,  installed  the  following 
oflScers:  President,  Mrs.  Julia  Wat- 
son: Senior  Vice  President,  Mrs. 
Ella  Evans;  Junior  Vice  President, 
Mrs.  Lucy  Ingels;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Juliette  Holies;  Chaplain,  Mrs. 
Mary  Preston:  Conductor,  Mrs. 
Louisa  Wood;  Guard,  Mrs.  Ellen 
Wheele'-;  Assistant  Conductor,  Mrs. 
Ada  Northcott:  Assistant  Guard, 
Mrs.  Lydia  Norman.  The  president 
Mrs.  Julia  Watson,  appointed  Mrs. 
Mary  Lowis,   secretary. 

Thirty-nine  members  signed  the 
roll.  Since  the  organization  of  the 
Corps  we  have  lost  by  death  five 
members.  The  1905  officers  of  the 
Corps  were:  President,  Mrs.  Ellen 
Wheeler:  Senior  Vice  President, 
Mrs.  Melvina  Matney;  Junior  Vice 
President,  Mrs.  Kate  Wise;  Treas- 
urer, Mrs.  Stella  Reid;  Secretary, 
Mrs.  Emma  Denny;  Chaplain,  Mrs. 
Maria  Wilkins;  Conductor,  Mrs. 
Agnes  Mulford:  Guard,  Mrs.  Jennie 
Staub;  Assistant  Conductor,  Mrs. 
X/Ouisa  Wood:  Assistant  Guard,  Mrs. 
Alpha  Bunch. 

The  1906  officers  are  President. 
Mrs.  Agnes  .1.  Mulford;  Senior  Vice 
President,      Mrs.      Melvina    Matney; 


Junior  Vice  President,  Mrs.  Lizzie 
Dresser:  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Ward 
Reid:  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  K.  Denny: 
Chaplain,  Mrs.  Maria  Wilkins;  Con- 
ductor, Mrs.  Louisa  Wood;  Guard, 
Mrs.  Jennie  Staub;  Assistant  Con- 
ductor, Mrs.  Nellie  Wheeler;  Assist- 
ant   Guard,   Mrs.   J.    G.   Wright. 


Sons  of  Tctcrane. 

Two  Sons  of  Veterans  Camps 
have  been  organized  in  Greenville, 
but  both  have  been  disbanded.  The 
first,  John  H.  Hawley  Camp  No. 
291,  was  mustered  November  25, 
1889,  with  eighteen  members.  The 
camp  flourished  for  several  years 
and  then  disbanded. 

The  second  camp,  D.  B.  Evans 
Camp  No.  130  was  organized  July 
10,  1901,  by  Captain  F.  T.  Reid. 
The  camp  surrendered  its  charter 
on  June  15.  1903,  although  it  still 
turns  out  on  Decoration  Day  with 
the  members   of  Colby  Post. 


Che  Shahespeare  Club. 


By  One  of  the  Members. 
The   Shakespeare   Club   was   orga- 


nized in  the  year  1888  with  the  fol- 
lowing officers  and  members:  Mrs. 
W.  A.  Northcott,  President;  Miss 
Victoria  Allen  (now  Mrs.  Benstein) 
Secretary;  Miss  Belle  Tiffin,  (Mrs. 
Harold,  deceased)  critic;  Mrs.  K.  M. 
Bennett,  Mrs.  N.  R.  Bradford,  Mrs. 
C.  W.  Watson,  Mrs.  W.  V.  Weise, 
and  Mrs.  Mary  R.  Broker. 

Primarily,  the  object  was  mutual 
aid  and  inspiration  in  literary  work, 
and  the  cultivation  of  the  higher 
types  of  social  entertainment.  For 
several  years  the  Plays  of  Shakes- 
peare were  read  and  studied.  Later 
history,  either  ancient  or  modern, 
American  or  European,  formed  the 
basis  of  work,  and  a  few  years  have 
been  spent  in  the  study  of  art. 
About  fifty  ladies,  in  all,  have  held 
membership  in  the  club,  the  yearly 
limit  being  fifteen.  Five  have  died. 
Miss  Tiffin,  (Mrs.  Harold),  Mrs.  I. 
Norman.  Mrs.  W.  V.  Weise,  Mrs.  C. 
W.  Watson  and  Mrs.  Dorcas  Denny. 

The  following  compose  the  pres- 
ent officers  and  members:  Mrs.  F. 
P.  Joy.  President:  Mrs.  N.  R.  Brad- 
ford, Vice  President :  Mrs.  Wait- 
Mitchell,  Secretary  and  Treasurer; 
Mesdames,  K.  M.  Bennett,  N.  E. 
Daniels,  Ella  E.  McLain,  George 
Colcord.  W.   A.   McNeill.   E.   G.   Bur- 


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The  Millionaires  Club 

Top  Row— Left  to  right,  E.  W.  Miller,  Sam  M.  Seawell. 

Middle  Row— A.  Owen  Seaman,  K    E.  Grigg,  Will  C.  Wright,  Fred  E.  Evans,  Aleck  Biggs. 

Bottom  Row— Thomas  Biggs,  Will  Baumberger,  H.  W.  Park,  R.  S.  Dennv,  Abe  MeXeill,  Jr. 


ritt,  O.  E".  Jackson,  C.  J.  Lindly,  W. 
A.  Xorthcott,  C.  D.  Hoiles,  M.  D. 
Bevan,  Walter  Joy  and  Miss  Eula 
Carson. 

Considerable  work  of  a  philan- 
thropic and  charitable  nature  has 
been  accomplished  in  a  quiet  way, 
from  year  to  year,  yet  the  best  re- 
sults have  been  realized  to  the  mem- 
bers, themselves,  along  the  line  of 
literavv    research    and    culture. 


XThc  ptcnan  Club. 


By  Mrs.  C.  F.  Thraner. 


The  Pierian  Club  was  organized 
In  1S91  by  Mesdames  J.  S.  Bradford 
and  L.  E.  Bennett.  The  first  officers 
■were.  President,  Mrs.  J.  S.  Brad- 
ford: Vice  President.  Mrs.  L.  E. 
Bennett:  Secretary  and  Treasurer, 
Miss  lone  Wait.  The  Club  federated 
in   1896. 

The  present  officers  of  the  club 
are:  President,  Mrs.  C.  F.  Thraner: 
Vice  President.  Mrs.  W.  D.  Donnell: 
secretary  and   Treasurer.   Mrs.   E.   E. 


Wise;  Corresponding  Secretary. 
Mrs.  E.  E.  Cox:  Critic,  Mrs.  A.  L. 
Hord:  Members,  Mesdames,  E.  B. 
Brooks,  F.  X.  Blanchard,  G.  F. 
Casey,  E.  E.  Cox,  W.  D.  Donnell,  A. 
L.  Hord,  W.  W.  Lowis,  E.  W.  Mil- 
ler S.  M.  Thomas,  C.  F.  Thraner. 
E.  E.  Wise,  George  Von  Weise,  Dr. 
Marie  Louise  Ravold,  Misses  Maude 
Watts  and   Mabel   Wait. 

The  deceased  members  are  Miss 
Carrie  L.  Barr,  1S94:  Miss  lone  C. 
Wait,  1894:  Miss  Ellen  Donnell. 
19(U  and  Mrs.  John  Breuchaud. 
19fi4.  The  club  colors  are  green 
and   white. 


■Cbc  Monday  Club. 

By  Miss  Adele  Wait. 

The  Monday  Club  was  organized 
in  the  spring  of  the  year  1S9.5.  The 
first  president  was  Mrs.  Alexander 
Armstrong  and  the  first  secretary 
and  Treasurer  was  Miss  Jessie  .\1- 
len.  There  were  seventeen  charter 
members.       During     the     ten     years 


the  Monday  Club  has  been  in  exist- 
ence it  has  entertained  extensively, 
beside  having  spent  a  year  each  in 
the  study  of  Emerson  and  English 
Literature,  two  years  in  the  study  of 
Shakespeare,  and  three  years  in  the 
study  of  art.  This  was  in  anticipa- 
tion of  the  Louisiana  Exposition  at 
St.   Louis   in    1904. 

The  club  has  been  called  upon  to 
mourn  the  loss  of  two  of  its  mem- 
bers, Mrs.  Wilhelmina  C.  Hoiles  and 
Mrs.  Carrie  McLain.  The  present 
officers  are  President,  Mrs.  C.  K. 
Denny:  First  Vice  President,  Mrs. 
J.  F.  Carroll:  Second  Vice  President, 
Mrs.  K.  E.  Grigg:  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  H.  A.  Hubbard; 
Quiz,    Miss   Adele   Wait. 

The  purpose  of  the  Monday  Club 
is  for  mutual  improvement  intel- 
lectually  and   socially. 

The  charter  members  were  Mes- 
dames: W.  A.  Mcl.,ain,  Willie  Hoiles, 
Daise  Hoiles,  J.  F.  Carroll,  C.  K. 
Denny.  L.  E.  Derleth,  A.  L.  Hord, 
E.  Baumberger,  H.  A.  Hubbard.  Al- 
exander Armstrong,  Misses  Ethel  A. 
Reed.     Jessie    Allen,      Ethel    Allen, 


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A.  H.  Kratse's  Jewelry  Store. 
Mr.  Krause  is  the  central  figure  at  the  desk. 


Dana  Grigg,  Lillian,  Wait,  Isabel 
Brown — sixteen  in  all — to  which 
number  the  membership  was  at 
first  limited.  Later  it  was  extended 
to  twenty.  Blue  Monday  was  se- 
lected for  the  day  of  meeting  from 
the  fact  that  fewer  outside  matters 
occur  to  interfere  with  regular  at- 
tendance on  the  first  day  of  the 
week.  A  number  of  names  were 
suggested  but  the  one  by  which  the 
club  is  known  was  chosen  from  the 
day  on  which  the  meetings  were 
held.  As  the  organization  was  not 
effected  until  some  time  in  the 
spring  a  regular  course  of  study 
was  not  decided  upon  until  the  be- 
ginning of  the  next  reading  year. 
The  few  months  were  spent  in  read- 
ing   from    the    standard    poets. 


Mrs.  Lillie  McNeill;  Secretary,  Mrs. 
E.  E.  Elliott;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  Dell 
Albrecht. 


Cbc  Ranger's  Hdvctiturc. 

(This  account  of  the  escapade  of 
Tom  Higgins,  a  Bond  county  pio- 
neer is  taken  from  "Historical  Col- 
lections of  the  Great  West"  pub- 
lished by  Henry  Howe  in  1S52.  The 
book  has  for  fifty  years  been  in  the 
family  of  Mr.  George  Ferryman  of 
Greenville.) 


Thomas  Higgins  a  native  Ken- 
tuckian,  in  the  late  war  (Mexican 
War)  enlisted  in  a  company  of 
rangers,  and  was  stationed  in  the 
summer  of  1814,  in  a  block  house 
or  station,  eight  miles  south  ot 
Greenville  in  what  is  now  Bond 
county,  Illinois.  On  the  evening  of 
the  30th  of  August  a  small  party  ot 
Indians  having  been  seen  prowling 
about  the  station.  Lieutenant  Journ- 
ay  with  all  his  men,  twelve  only  in 
number,  sallied  forth  the  next 
morning  Just  before  daylight  in 
pursuit  of  them.  They  had  not 
proceeded  far  on  the  border  of  the 
prairie,  before  they  were  in  an 
ambuscade  of  seventy  or  eighty 
savages.  At  the  first  fire  the  Lieu- 
tenant and  three  of  his  men  were 
killed.  Six  fled  to  the  fort  under 
cover  of  the  smoke,  for  the  morning 
was  sultry,  and  the  air  being  damp, 
the  smoke  from  the  guns  hung  like 
a  cloud  over  the  scene;  but  Higgins 
remained  behind  to  have  "one  more 
pull  at  the  enemy"  and  avenge  the 
death   of   his  companions. 

He  sprang  behind  a  small  elm, 
scarcely  suiBcient  to  protect  his 
body,  when  the  smoke  partly  rising, 
discovered  to  him  a  number  of  Ind- 
ians, upon  which  he  fired,  and  shot 
down   the   foremost   one. 

Concealed  still  by  the  smoke, 
Higgins  re-loaded,  mounted  his 
horse,  and  turned  to  fly,  when  a 
voice,  apparently  from  the  grass, 
hailed  him  with:  "Tom,  you  won't 
leave  me,  will  you?"  He  turned 
immediately  around  and  seeing  a 
fellow  soldier,  by  the  name  of  Bur- 
gess, lying  on  the  ground  wounded 
and  gasping  for  breath,  replied: 
"No,  I'll  not  leave  you,  come  along." 


■Che  Browning  Circle. 

By  Mrs.   J.   E.   Wafer. 


The  Browning  Circle  was  organ- 
ized in  January  1S9T,  with  twenty 
members.  Eight  of  the  original 
members  continue  members  at  the 
present  time.  There  has  been  but 
one  death  in  the  circle,  that  of  Mrs. 
M.  Ella  Harris.  Two  other  mem- 
bers are  now  living  in  California, 
one  in  Arkansas,  one  in  Vandalia, 
111.,   and   one   in   Indiana. 

The  first  officers  were:  President, 
Miss  Alice  Birge:  Vice  President. 
Miss  Lizzie  Colcord:  Secretary,  Mrs. 
Estella  Holdzkom;  Treasurer,  Mrs. 
Teressa   Wafer. 

The  present  officers  are:  Presi- 
dent,  Mrs.   Wafer;    Vice      President, 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Hlnden, 
Now  deceased,  who  came  to  Greenville  in  1856. 


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"I  can't  come,"  said  Burgess,  "my 
leg  is  all  smashed  to  pieces."  Hig- 
gins  dismounted  and  taking  up  his 
friend,  whose  ankle  had  been 
broken,  was  about  to  lift  him  on 
his  horse,  when  the  animal  taking 
fright,  darted  off  in  an  instant  and 
left   them   both   behind. 

"This  is  too  bad,"  said  Higgius, 
"but  don't  fear;  you  hop  off  on 
your  three  legs,  and  I'll  stay  behind 
between  you  and  the  Indians  and 
keep  them  off.  Get  into  the  tallest 
grass  and  crawl  as  near  the  ground 
as  possible.  "  Burgess  did  so  and 
escaped. 

The  smoke,  which  had  hitherto 
concealed  Higgins,  now  cleared 
away  and  he  resolved,  if  possible,  to 
retreat.  To  follow  the  track  of 
Burgess  was  most  expedient.  It 
would,  however,  endanger  his 
friend.  He  determined  therefore, 
to  venture  boldly  forward,  and,  if 
discovered,  to  secure  his  own  safety 
by  the  rapidity  of  his  flight.  On 
leaving  a  small  thicket,  in  which  he 
had  sought  refuge,  he  discovered  a 
tall,  portly  savage  near  by  and  two 
others  in  a  direction  between  him 
and  the  fort.  He  paused  for  a  mo- 
ment and  thought  if  he  could  sepa- 
rate and  fight  them  singly,  his  case 
was  not  so  desperate.  He  started, 
therefore,  for  a  little  rivulet  near 
but  found  one  of  his  limbs  failing 
him — it  having  been  struck  by  a 
ball  in  the  first  encounter,  of  which, 
till  now,  he  was  scarcely  conscious. 
The  largest  Indian  pressed  close 
upon  him  and  Higgins  turned  round 
two  or  three  times  in  order  to  fire. 
The  Indian  halted  and  danced  about 
to  prevent  his  taking  aim.  He  saw 
it  was  unsafe  to  fire  at  random,  and 
perceiving  two  others  approaching, 
he  knew  he  must  be  overpowered  in 
a  moment,  unless  he  could  dispose 
of  the  forward  Indian  first.  He  re- 
solved, therefore,  to  halt  and  re- 
ceive his  fire.  The  Indian  raised 
his  rifle,  and  Higgins  watching  his 
eye,  turned  suddenly,  as  his  finger 
pressed  the  trigger,  and  received  the 
ball  in  his  thigh.  He  fell,  but  rose 
immediately  and  ran.  The  foremost 
Indian,  now  certain  of  his  prey, 
loaded  again  and  with  the  other 
two  pressed  on.  They  overtook 
him — he  fell  again,  and  as  he  rose, 
the  whole  three  fired  and  he  re- 
ceived all  their  balls.  He  now  fell 
and  rose  a  third  time:  and  the 
Indians,  throwing  away  their  guns, 
advanced  upon  him  with  spears  and 
knives.  As  he  presented  his  gun 
at  one  or  the  other,  each  fell  back. 
At  last  the  largest  Indian,  sup- 
posing his  gun  to  be  empty,  from 
his   fire   having  been   thus   reserved, 


advanced  boldly  to  the  charge. 
Higgins  fired  and  the  savage  fell. 

He  had  now  four  bullets  in  his 
body, an  empty  gun  in  his  hand,  two 
Indians  unharmed,  as  yet,  before 
him,  and  a  whole  tribe  but  a  few 
yards  distant.  Any  other  man 
would  have  despaired.  Not  so  with 
him.  He  had  slain  the  most  danger- 
ous of  the  three;  and  having  little 
to  fear  from  the  others,  began  to 
load  his  rifle.  They  raised  a  savage 
whoop  and  rushed  to  the  encounter. 
A  bloody  conflict  now  ensued.  The 
Indians  stabbed  him  in  several 
places.  Their  spears,  however, 
were  but  thin  poles,  hastily  pre- 
pared, and  bent  whenever  they 
struck  a  rib  or  muscle.  The  wounds 
they  made  were  not,  therefore, 
deep,   though  numerous. 

At  last  one  of  them  threw  his 
tomahawk.  It  struck  him  upon  the 
cheek,  severed  his  ear,  laid  bare  his 
skull  to  the  back  of  his  head,  and 
stretched  him  upon  the  prairie. 
The  Indians  again  rushed  on,  but 
Higgins  recovering  his  self-posession 
kept  them  off  with  his  feet  and 
hands.  Grasping,  at  length,  one  of 
their  spears,  the  Indians,  in  at- 
tempting to  pull  it  from  him,  raised 
Higgins  up;  who,  taking  his  rifle, 
dashed  out  the  brains  of  the  nearest 
savage.  In  doing  so,  however,  it 
broke,  the  barrel  only  remaining  in 
his  hand.  The  other  Indian,  who 
had  heretofore,  fought  with  caution 
came  now  manfully  into  the  battle. 
His  character  as  a  warrior  was  in 
jeopardy.  To  have  fled  from  a  man, 
thus  wounded  and  disarmed,  or  to 
have  suffered  his  victim  to  escape, 
would  have  tarnished  his  fame  for- 
ever. Uttering  a  terriffic  yell,  he 
rushed  on  and  attempted  to  stab 
the  exhausted  ranger,  but  the  latter 
warded  off  his  blow  with  one  hand 
and  brandished  his  rifle-barrel  with 
the  other.  The  Indian  was,  as  yet, 
unharmed,  and  under  existing  cir- 
cumstances, by  far  the  most  power- 
ful man.  Higgins'  courage,  how- 
ever, was  unexhausted  and  inex- 
haustible. The  savage,  at  last,  be- 
gan to  retreat  from  the  glare  of  his 
untamed  eye  to  the  spot  where  he 
dropped  his  rifle.  Higgins  knew 
that  if  he  recovered  that,  his  own 
case  was  desperate.  Throwing  his 
rifle  barrel  aside  and  drawing  his 
hunting  knife,  he  rushed  upon  his 
foe.  A  desperate  strife  ensued — 
deep  gashes  were  inflicted  on  both 
sides.  Higgins.  fatigued  and  ex- 
hausted by  the  loss  of  blood,  was 
no  longer  a  match  for  the  savage. 
The  latter  succeeded  in  throwing 
his  adversary  from  him.  and  went 
immediately  in  pursuit  of  his  rifle. 
Higgins,  at  this  time  rose  and 
sought  the  gun  of  the  other  Indian. 


Both,  therefore,  bleeding  and  out  of 
breath  were  in  search  of  arms  to  re- 
new the  combat. 

The  smoke  had  now  passed  away 
and  a  large  number  of  Indians  were 
in  view.  Nothing,  it  would  seem, 
could  now  save  the  gallant  ranger. 
There  was  however,  an  eye  to  pity 
and  an  arm  to  save — and  that  arm 
was  a  woman's! 

The  little  garrison  had  witnessed 
the  whole  combat.  It  consisted  of 
six  men  and  one  woman.  Thai 
woman,  however,  was  a  host,  a  Mrs. 
Pursley.  When  she  saw  Higgins 
contending,  single-handed,  with  a 
whole  tribe  of  savages,  she  urged 
the  rangers  to  attempt  his  rescue. 
The  rangers  objected  as  the  Indians 
were  ten  to  one.  Mrs.  Pursley, 
therefore,  snatched  a  rifle  from  her 
husband's  hand  and  declaring  that 
"so  fine  a  fellow  as  Tom  Higgins 
should  not  be  lost  for  want  of  help" 
mounted  a  horse  and  sallied  forth 
to  his  recue.  The  men,  unwilling 
to  be  outdone  by  a  woman,  followed 
at  full  gallop — reached  the  spot 
where  Higgins  fainted  and  fell  be- 
fore the  Indians  came  up,  and  while 
the  savage,  with  whom  he  had  been 
engaged,  was  looking  for  his  rifle, 
his  friends  lifted  the  wounded 
ranger  up,  and  throwing  him  across 
a  horse  before  one  of  the  party, 
reached   the   fort   in   safety. 

Higgins  was  insensible  for  several 
days  and  his  life  was  preserved  by 
continual  care.  His  friends  ex- 
tracted two  of  the  balls  from  his 
thigh,  two,  however,  yet  remained — - 
one  of  which  gave  him  a  good  deal 
of  pain.  Hearing  afterward  that  a 
physician  had  settled  within  a  day's 
ride  of  him,  he  determined  to  go 
and  see  him.  The  physician  asked 
him  fifty  dollars  for  the  operation. 
This  Higgins  flatly  refused,  saying 
it  was  more  than  a  half  year's  pen- 
sion. On  reaching  home  he  found 
the  exercise  of  riding  had  made  the 
ball  discernible.  He  requested  his 
wife  to  hand  him  his  razor,  "tt'ith 
her  assistance  he  laid  open  his  thigh 
until  the  edge  of  the  razor  touched 
the  bullet;  then  inserting  his  two 
thumbs  in  the  gash,  he  "flirted  it 
out"  as  he  used  to  say.  "without 
costing  him  a  cent."  The  other  ball 
remained  and  gave  him  but  little 
pain  and  he  carried  it  with  him  to 
the  grave.  Higgins  died  in  Payette 
county,  Illinois,  a  few  years  since. 
He  was  the  most  perfect  specimen 
of  frontier  man  in  his  day  and  was 
once  assistant  doorkeeper  of  the 
Illinois  House  of  Representatives. 
The  facts  above  stated  are  familiar 
to  many,  to  whom  Higgins  was  per- 
sonally known,  and  there  is  no 
doubt   of  their  correctness. 


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A    LIST 


OF    COUNTY    OFFICERS 

From  1817  To  Date. 


Sheriff  e. 

Samuel  G.  Morse,  1817;  Samuel 
Houston,  1819;  Hosea  T.  Camp, 
1824;  L.  H.  Robinson,  1828;  Sloss 
McAdams,  1830;  W.  K.  Martin, 
184  6;  S.  H.  Crocker,  1848;  Richard 
Bentley,  1850;  Jacob  Koonce,  1852; 
Williamson  Plant,  1854;  Josiali  F. 
Sugg,  1856;  S.  H.  Crocker,  1858; 
Wm.  Watkins,  1860;  Williamson, 
Plant,  1862;  James  L.  Buchanan, 
1864;  John  Fisher,  1866:  John  P. 
Wafer,  1868;  Williamson  Plant, 
1870;  A.  J.  Gullick,  1872;  John 
McCasland,  1879;  A.  J.  Gullick, 
ISSO;  Samuel  Brown,  1882;  Joseph 
F.  Watts,  1886;  Joseph  C.  Wright, 
1890;  John  McAlister,  1894; 
Joseph  E.  Wright,  1898;  W.  L. 
Floyd,   1902   and  present  incumbent. 


County  "Cvcaaurcra. 

Francis  Travis,  1819;  James  Gal- 
loway, 1820;  James  Durley,  1821; 
Felix  Margrave,  1824;  Leonard 
Goss,  1825;  Thomas  S.  Waddle, 
1827;  John  Gillmore,  1829;  James 
Bradford,  1831;  Peter  Hubbard, 
1836;  Peter  Larrabee,  1845;  John 
M.  Smith,  1851;  J.  P.  Sugg,  1853; 
J.  F.  Alexander.  1854;  J.  K.  Mc- 
Lean, 1856;  J.  S.  Denny,  1858; 
Milton  Mills,  1864;  Cyrus  Birge, 
1866;  R.  L.  Mudd,  1873;  M.  M. 
Sharp,  1876;  J.  M.  McAdams,  1880; 
A.  J.  XJtiger,  1882;  John  T.  Buchan- 
an, 1886;  Everett  E.  Mitchell, 
1890;  Joseph  F.  Watts,  1894;  H. 
W.  Blizzard,  1898;  John  H.  Ladd, 
1902   and   present  incumbent. 


County  Judges. 

Thomas  Kirkpatrick,  1821;  Ben- 
jamin Mills,  1822;  John  Gilmore, 
1823;  John  B.  White,  1837;  M.  G. 
Dale,  183  9;  John  F.  Draper,  1852; 
S.  N.  McAdow,  1855;  S.  P.  Moore, 
1860;  E.  Gaskins,  1865;  James 
Bradford,  187  3;  A.  G.  Henry,  1877; 
Cicero  J.  Llndly,  1886;  Salmon  A. 
Phelps,  1890;  John  F.  Harris, 
189  4;  Joseph  Story,  1898  to  pres- 
ent   time. 


State's  Httomeys. 

Wm.  H.  Dawdy,  1S72;  Wm.  H. 
Dawdy,  1876;  George  S.  Phelps, 
1880;  W.  A.  Northcott,  18  82;  .W  A. 
Northcott,  18  84;  F.  W.  Fritz,  1892; 
G.  L.  Meyer,   1904. 


bury,    1879;    R.    K.    Dewey,    1884    to 
date. 


County  Clcrhs. 


Daniel  Converse,  1817;  Thomas 
Helms,  1819;  James  Jones,  1820; 
J.  H.  Pugh,  182  2;  Green  P.  Rice, 
1822;  James  M.  Robinson,  1823; 
Asahel  Enloe,  1825;  Joseph  M. 
Nelson,  182  7;  Isaac  Murphy,  18  29; 
James  E.  Rankin,  1829;  James  Dur- 
ley, 18  30;  Willard  Twiss,  1831; 
James  Bradford,  183  6;  Enrico  Gas- 
kins,  1846;  J.  S.  Denny,  1865;  R. 
L.  Mudd,  1877;  M.  V.  Denny,  1882 
Lemuel  Adams,  1886;  Alfred  Ad- 
ams, 1890;  Wm.  D.  Matney,  1894 
and   present  incumbent. 


Circuit  Clertts. 

James  Jones,  1819;  John  M. 
Johnson,  1821;  David  Nowlin, 
1825;  Thomas  Morgan  1823;  James 
Bradford,  183  6;  Alexander  Kelsoe, 
1848;  John  B.  Reid,  1860;  J.  A. 
Cooper,  1868;  George  S.  Phelps, 
1872;  T.  P.  Morey,  1876;  D.  B. 
Evans,  1884;  Ward  Reid,  1892; 
John  L.  Bunch,  1904,  and  present 
incumbent. 


County  Superintendents  of 
Schools. 

Benjamin  Johnson,  1839;  Wm.  S. 
Smith,  1844;  Samuel  N.  McAdow, 
1850;  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Hynes, 
1855;  M.  V.  Denny,  1877;  P.  C. 
Reed,  1882;  T.  P.  Morey,  1885;  J. 
C.  Blizzard,  1890;  W.  E.  Robinson, 
1894;  W.  T.  Harlan,  189  8  and  pres- 
ent incumbent. 


Coroners. 

-Floyd,    1852; 


Surveyors. 

R.    O.   White,    1869;    John    Kings- 


— Senn, 

1862;  Robert  Mackey,  18  66;  C.  H. 
Stephens,  1868;  J.  I.  McCulley, 
1870;  C.  H.  Stephens,  1872;  James 
McCracken,  1874;  M.  B.  Chittenden, 
1876;  James  Gordon,  1880;  Wm.  P. 
Brown,  1882;  Wm.  H.  H.  Beeson, 
1884:  G.  T.  Kirkham,  188  6;  Wm. 
T.  Easley,  1892;  C.  C.  Gordon, 
1900;    Don   V.   Poindexter,    1904. 


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