Full text of "History of Jerseyville, Illinois, 1822 to 1901"

HISTORY

JERSEYVILLE, ILLINOIS,

1822 TO 1901.

REV. MARSHALL M. COOPER

JERSEYV1LLE REPUBLICAN PRINT.
1901.

PREFACE.

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This volume I now respectfully dedicate to the citizens of
Jerseyville, 111. I am not unmindful of the many kind and
encouraging- words spoken to me by almost all the citizens of
Jerseyville, while in course of writing- and construction, es-
pecially am I endebted to Editor Becker for his many sensi-
ble pointers which have been very helpful. This book con-
tains a history of our City, covering- a period of seventy-nine
years, beginning- when John Ballard, a pioneer squatter who
built his cabin on Abija Davis' farm in the north part of the
city in 1822, before a foot of land was entered, in or near, Jer-
seyville. Taking this date for my starting-point, I have sys-
tematically followed the rise and progress of our city to the
present moment, giving- an impartial and correct account of
all her internal improvements, every business interest which
has risen and passed away, with all that remains; every pro-
fession, whose representatives have passed away, or remain
with us; every occupation once followed, and is still followed;
the churches, their organization, growth; with the successive
change of their pastors, and when; our educational system, of
which our citzens are justly so proud; have all been carefully,
but of necessity briefly, represented.

This volume is also embellished with portraits of about
one hundred and fifty of our citizens, some of them the early
pioneers, others early professional and business men, with
the lai'ger part of the professional and business men who re-
main with us, with some twenty children placed in groups, al-
together covering in their lives a period of about one hundred
and ten years.

When all these faces are hid in the tomb, this memorial
book will reveal to the survivors many reminiscences of by-
gone days. I have spared neither pains nor labor in canvass-
ing every inch of the business and human lite of Jerseyville,
to make this a volume absolutely correct and complete in all
its statements.

192391

My convictions were that anything- short of reliability
and completeness would be an imposition upon the people.

To avoid leaving- an imposition upon my life-long- friends
and acquaintances, has prompted me to the most faithful
and rig-id research in all my preparation of this work

By the earnest request of some of the older citizens, I
have added, at the beginning 1 of my work, a"Thanksg-iving-
Discourse" by Rev. L. P. Grosvenor, delivered in the Pres-
byterian Church, of which he was then pastor, Nov. 28, 1853.
Jerseyville was then twenty years old, as you will all see by
reading- the beginning- of this book. The early history of
Jerseyville, covering- the first twenty years, can be found no-
where else, and to the older citizens, especially, it will be very
interesting-.

Many will read this volume and refer to it for authority
after the writer has passed beyond. Should an omission or
discrepency of statement be discovered, I ask foronly a chari-
table criticism, assuring- you it was not the result of careless-
ness, or lack of labor. I have spoken of you all kindly and
fairly, and I know I shall receive the same from you.

The work is done. I have done my best May God make
this volume a blessing- to all who read it, is the desire of the
writer.

MARSHALL M. COOPER.

CONTENTS.

Alumni Association 146

Analysis of Water 125

Attorneys 93

A. F. and A. M 142

Architects 212

Bakeries 209

Banking Business 188

Barber shops 208

Baptist Church 33

Blacksmiths 204

Bear visit to Jersey ville '22

Boot and Shoe store 192

Book and News stand 215

Cabinet Shop 215

Cemeteries 18 and 224

Church of the Holy Ghost. . . 34
Church of St. Francis Xavier. . 36

Church, M.E 21

Clergy of Jersey ville 41

Circuit clerks 109

City Marshal 115

City Hall 130

City officers 116

Cigar Factory 208

County Coroners 112

County Surveyors. 112

Court House 105

Coal Trade 198

Constables 115

Clothing Stores 185

Colored church 39

Criminal Record 127

Dental Surgery 91

Deer in Jersey ville ft

Drug Stores 200

Dry Goods store 183

Episcopal church 37

Elevators 191

Electric Light Co 122

Express Companies 214

I. O. O. F 139

Jersey ville Water Works. . . .124

Jersey Co. Officials 107

Jerseyville, when incorporated 8

" who named it 6

" Encampment 140

Judges of Probate Court 109

Justices of the Peace 114

Knights of Honor 141

Knights of Pythias 141

Laundry 215

Livery & Feed Stable .197

Lumber yards. . . 199

Marble Works 215

Masons 213

Meat Markets 201

Millinery 202

Milling Business. 18y

Mothers Society . . 147

Monday Musical Club .147

Mutual Protective League 145

Mutual Aid 141

Municipal Government 114

M. W. A 143

Old Settlers Society 225

Opera House 216

Painters 213

Pluming 216

Poultry Market 208

Photography 206

Physicans and Surgeons past. . 77
Physicans and Surgeons. . .

present .85

Post Office 223

Public Schools 60

R. R Agts 214

Royal Neighbors 144

School Commissioners 110

Secret Societies 138

Sheriffs of Jersey Co 107

Fruit Stores 206

Feed Stores 208

G. A. R 144

German Evangelical Church. . 39

Graduates 63

Graduates in Stenography 75

Graduates in Post Works 76

Grocery Stores 186

Harness Shops 202

Hardware Stores 194

Hospital and Sanitarium 131

Hotels 203

Insurance Companies 210

Implement Establishments. . ..195

Sons of Temperance 138

Soda Factory 216

State's Attorneys , 111

Stenographers 214

Tailoring 197

Telephone Co 129

Transfer Co 216

Undertaking 203

Veterinary Surgeons 210

Water Works 124

Western Catholic Union 146

Womaus Relief Corps 145

Y. M. C. A. ..226

JERSEYVILLLE, ILL., Nov. 28, 1853.
REV . L. GROSVENOR, Jerseyville, 111.

DEAR SIR: In common with the numerous assembly of
our citizens, who heard your very interesting- and instruc-
tive discourse on the history of Jerseyville, delivered in the
Presbyterian church, in this place, on the 24th inst., we
would be much pleased to have it published in pamphletform.
We, therefore, respectfully request a copy for that purpose.
Very Respectfully,

Your fellow citizens,

ALEX. B. MOREAN, JOHN N. SQUIER,

A. C. HINTON, A. W. HOWE,

C. H. KNAPP, M. E. BAGLEY,

J. H. MAUPIN, CHAS. S. JACKSON,

JAS. C. GRAHAM, U. D. HOWELL,

J. H. BUFFINGTON, C. H. ROBERTS,

N. L. ADAMS, J. E. COOPER,

S. L. McGiLL, M. CHENEY.

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A THANKSGIVING DISCOURSE
Delivered by Rev. L. Grosvenor, in the Presbyterian
church, November 24, 1853. Published by request of
many of the older citizens.

TEXT.

"And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold
now the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.
Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every
man a beam, and let us make a place there where we may
dwell. And he answered, Go ye." II. Kings, 6th chap. 1st
& 2nd verses.

In as humble circumstances as the old prophet Elisha
and his young disciples, were the early settlers of on r village.
When they left their far-off homes, and their gray-haired sires
and the fields where they had culled the first flowers of life,
it was in the spirit of these children of the prophet. The
places where they dwelt with "the old folks at home," had be-
come too strait for the sustenance of all; and when they talk-
ed of swarming, it was not to go to flourishing cities, to build
palaces of wealth, glittering with gold. They bent their
course toward a wild, rolling prairie, lying in its native beauty
just as God had made it, skirted with forests of oak and hick-
ory, where each could hew his own beam and build his own
log cabin, as their prototypes did near the river Jordan.

But notwithstanding their humble means and limited
ambition, they must have been men of good taste, and a quick
eye for natural beauty. Among many pleasant sites for a
village in this reigon, they sought and found the most charm-
ing. Among many high and luxuriant swells upon the prai-
rie's breast, they sought and found, the highest, the most
beautiful, the most fertile.

The author has added sentences occasionally. These are enclosed in paren-
theses.

Let us record their names and deeds. The time may be
when the record shall have an importance, which, owing to its
newness, it may not possess to-day.

To the older settlers, most ot what I shall say will be
familiar; but they will be glad, I trust, to have their minds
stirred up by way of remembrance, and the younger may
deriye benefit from hearing about the fathers of Jerseyville.

The present town of Jerseyville stands mostly on Sec-
tion 21, Township 8, North Range 11, West of the third prin-
cipal meridian. The first entry was made by Joseph M.
Fairfield, Oct. 20, 1823. He entered the West half of the N.
W. qurter, Section 21, the south line of which is on Hickory
Street, i. e., the street bounding E. A. D'Arcy's lots and un-
finished edifice on the south, and the East line bounds the
grave-yard on the East. Five years afterwards, Aug. 21,
1828, Lindsay H. English, a native of Kentucky, now resi-
ding in Greene County, 111. entered the West half of the S.W.
quarter, the east line of which was partly on Main or State
Street, extending South as far as the dwelling of Dr. Charles
Knapp; (Widow Knapp lives) West as far as Mullholland's:
(A. W. Cross lives.) North as far as Hickory Street before
mentioned. On the 21st of September 1832, John Anderson,
of Tennessee, entered the S. E. quarter of the S. W. quarter,
and on the 10th of April 1833, Dr. A. H. Burritt entered the
N. E. quarter of the S. W. quarter. In 1833, N. L. Adams,
of Vermont, entered the N. W. quarter of the N. E. quarter
of section 28.

James Faulkner, a native of Pennsylvania, was the first
actual settler. He lived, in 1827, in a log cabin. This cabin
was built by one Ballard, a squatter, who lived there for some
time previous to 1827. His cabin was bought by Faulkner,
which stood in the extreme North part of town, not far from
the road leading to Kane, just beyond the house of Abijah
Davis; but he erected in the same y^ar, part of the building
known as the old Red House, at present owned by E. A.
D'Arcy (now the P. D. Cheney home.) That house is the

first frame house ever built on land now occupied by the town
of Jersey ville. For several years it was a tavern by necessi-
ty, and under its hospitable roof some of my present audi-
ence have found the only shelter that was offered in the t^/wn
that now contains two hurdred houses; for besides this, there
was, till 1833, only a small log- cabin, built by John Ellis in
1830, on the corner of what are now known as Main and Mul-
berry streets. This floorless hut was about 12 by 15 feet
measurement, and was used sometimes for a dwelling-, and at
other times tor a corn crib. In 1833, John Anderson erected
a building on the spot now occupied by the Croton House, at
the corner of Main and Pearl streets. (Now Will Hanley's
meat market.) This house was afterwards moved to Spruce
street, two blocks East, and is the same now owned by Chas.
S. Jackson. In the same year, Dr. A. H. Burritt built a log
house on what is now Exchange street; the same house con-
stitutes part of the dwelling now owned and occupied by E.
S. Wells.

The inhabitants, at this time, were N. L. Adams, who,
in 1833, built and lived in a log house on the spot where he
now lives in the extreme South part of the town; Alfred Car-
penter, who lived in the Red House; Murray Cheney, and
John Anderson. Adams, Carpenter, and Anderson had fam-
ilies. Cheney was unmarried. These were all the residents
here in 1833.

(Mrs. Griggsby came to Jerseyville in the winter of 1836,
traveling all the way from North Carolina in a one horse cart,
with six little children, her husband being dead. On the 20th
of February, 1836, shortly after arriving here, she gave birth
to a son in a log cabin, the home of N. L.Adams, which stood
where now stands the C. P. & St. L. Depot. Mrs. Maria
Ford, nee Adams, now living among us, says she dressed
the child and took care of the child's mother in her fath-
er's house. That settles it. That son she named Hen-
ry A., and was the first child born in Jerseyville, viz., Febru-
ary 20th, 1836. This man now lives in Lincoln Co., Mo., his

post office being- Moscow Mills. He was 65 years old 20th of
last February. A daughter, older, that came from North
Carolina with her, is also living in Moscow Mills, Mo. She
is about 70 years old. For some reason Mrs. Grig-gsby lived
with her little children in the nig-ht, in the old school house,
but during- the day had to vacate, to give room for the school,
then in session, while she lived among the people of the town,
returning to the school house for the nig-ht. She afterwards
lived in a log- cabin which stood on East Pearl street between
where Robert Whitehead and Georg-e Van Horne now live.)

In 1834, Messrs. Lott & Daley built part of the store now
occupied by the Messrs. Knapp, (now stands National Bank,)
and there established the first trading- house ever known
here. They built, also, in the same year, the house on Main
street, now owned and occupied by Dr. Hutchinson. In that
year, also, they built the backpart of the house now occupied
by Mrs. Kimball, on Main street, in which R. Graham kept a
store in 1834, and, in 1835, Samuel L. McGill added the front
now used as a family grocery.

In 1834, Messrs. Lott & Daley boug-ht the West half of
the S. W. quarter, which English had sold Evans, who had a
mortgage on the property. They also entered the quarter
section West of the "Red House Tract," now owned by Abi-
jah Davis. Moreover, they purchased of John Anderson the
S. E. quartes of the S. W. quarter, and of Carpenter, they
bought the West half of the N. W. quarter; so that Messrs.
Lott & Daley, were, n 1834, proprietors of almost all the
land included in the villag-e of Jerseyville.

In 1833, twenty years ago, all the houses between the
town of Kane and Alton mig-ht be easily enumerated. The
house were Mervine now lives, three-fourths of a mile north-
west of the villag-e of Kane, was then standing-, and was the
postoffice nearest to this place. Thither the early settlers
in the township, for some years repaired to get news from
the loved ones left behind. In 1833, the store now occupied
by Z. H. Adams, of Kane, was erected, and the next house

on the road was the old Red House before mentioned. Pass-
ing the few buildings on this spot, already enumerated, the
next house was on the spot then and now occupied by Thos.
Cummings, who is believed to be the only resident in this re-
gion, over 45 years of age, who is a native of Illinois, His
age is abont 55. There was not a house on the present site
of the town of Delhi. The next house was Nelson Lurton's.
The next, a mile south of Delhi, occupied by John Wilkins.
There was a cabin near the Piasa crossing, since demolished.
The next was a cabin on the place now occupied by Thomas
Marshall. The next was a cabin on the place lately occu-
pied by "Old Job," whose cordial invitation to "stop and see"
him, no longer greets the eye of the weary traveler. The
next was the house of Debond; still standing beyond the
Piasa. Below there, where lately stood a large, rickety,
ghostly two-story building, burned down last winter, the
road turned to the left, leaving the present Monticello half a
mile to the right, and going through Scarritt's prairie; but
there was no Monticello then; that beautiful village, with its
justly celebrated Female Seminary, was then unborn; and
from Scarritt's prairie there was not a single 1 house till you
reached. Alton> then a village, at the higest computation, of
some twenty buildings in all.* Till 1834, the place called
Jerseyville had been known as Hickory Grove, from time
immemorial. This name was derived from the fact that
the piece of oak forest intersprinkled with 'semi-occa-
sional' hickory tree, still standing in part on the land of Da-
vis, Morean, Corbett and Burke, was then the only growth
of trees on the ground belonging to Jerseyville. In 1834, for
the purpose of establishing a Post Office here, the principal
inhabitants of Jerseyville and vicinity met at the Red House,

* Kev, Thomas Lippincott, now of Uhandlerville. 111., informed the writer that
when he was riding from Jacksonville to Alton, twenty-five years ago. in company
with Rev. Edward Beecher. now of Boston, the question arose as they passed
through the prairie around Jerseyville. whether this region of country would ev-
er be aJsI-takerr up and settled.^ Being hopeful men - they concluded it would be
done some time or other but not in their day or generation.

to give the new town a new name. Those who attended that
meeting- were, G. Patterson, Geo. Richards, J. E. Cooper, G.
W. Lowder, J. Allen, R. B. Robbins, Isaac Darneil, E. A.
D'Arcy, Alfred Carpenter, John Ellis, J. W. Lott, E.M.Daley,
Murray Cheney, N. L. Adams, A. H. B urritt, N. Miner,
Franklin Potts, and J. A. Potts, (all now dead.) Dr. E. A.
D'Arcy was chairman of the meeting 1 . Several names were
proposed for the new town. Major Patterson proposed that
it be called Livingston. Carpenter, an old soldier, wished it
to be called Liberty. Richards, a New Hampshire man, wish-
ed to immortalize the memory of that decaying- state; by
christening this promising- town with the insig-nificant name
New Hampshire. Cheney proposed that the proprietors of
the town should give it whatever name they pleased This
proposition seeming- to meet the views of the majority of the
meeting-, Dr. Lott, a native of New Jersey, was called on for
a name. He arose and thanked the people, and with a char-
acteristic expletive, and in the genuine Jersey dialect, cried
ont, "I'd like to have it called Jersey wille." The doctor,
sharing- the common fate of humanity, did not obtain the full
accomplishment of his wishes, for the meeting voted to call
the place Jerseyville, not Jerseywille, and then agreed on E.
M. Daley for Postmaster, subject to the will of the higher
powers. After this important matter was accomplished, the
meeting adjourned, according to the Illinois liquor law of
those times, to drink the health of the new town in flowing
bowls of tanzy bitters. The people obtained their desire
with regard to the Post Office and Postmaster; E. M. Daley
being appointed the first Postmaster of Jerseyville.

In 1834, part of the town was laid off in Blocks and lots,
by Lott & Daley, and some bargains were made at private
sale. The two lots situated at the corner of Main and Pearl
streets, now occupied by J. C. Darby & Co., Morean, Hinton,
ect., which, with the buildings, are now owned by Wm.Yates,
were sold in 1834 to Richard Graham for twenty dollars each.
They are worth now, without the buildings, five hundred dol-

lars each. The second store in the place was erected here
bv Richard Graham, in 1834. (

The first public sale of lots took place in 1835. The
prices of the most eligible, measuring- 50 feet by 110, were
from $20 to $40.

Several additions to the original plot of Jerseyville have
since been made. In 1839, G. W. Burke laid off an addition
of nearly forty acres East of Lott & Daley's plot. In 1844,
Shephard, 'administrator of Johnson's estate, made an addi-
tion South of Burke's, called Johnson's addition. In 1852,
James C. Perry made an addition, in the Western part of
the town. In 1853, N. L. Adams made an addition of eight
acres East of Burke's.

The name given to the town was a fortunate one for the
prospects of the place. It must, in fact, be considered as
one of the most important causes of the prosperity of the
town and country. It has been a means of settling the vil-
lage and the fine country around it, with a population, the
majority of whom are from New Jersey; a people well known
for their industry and thrift, and, generaly, for their sober
and orderly character. From that time to the present, the
waves of migration from New Jersey have continued to roll
hitherward. when the places of the sons of the prophets in
the ancient Jerseys become too strait, or the sand banks too
deep and barren, for the support of the new and increasing
families of the State, they at once get a map of Illinois, and
sit down to study the topography of the country, and to de-
cide upon the very spot of these wide prairies, whither they
will urge their steps. The name of Jerseyville, Jersey Coun-
ty, smacks greatly of the old homestead and fireside. They
judge, and judge rightly, that they will find a society similar
to that they are leaving. They hope to find all the advantages
they left, and none of the disadvantages. They believe they
are coming to a NKW Jersey indeed; only that the soil is a
black and rich vegetable deposit, instead of a yellow, bottom-
less sand drift, from which it has hitherto astonished them

to be able to raise anything- but watermelons, even by the
most sedulqus coaxing-. Therefore, from 1834 to nearly the
present time, Old Jersey has emptied itself with a steady and
increasing; current, into the New Jersey of Illinois. When
persecuted in one Jersey, the inhabitants flee into another,
shaking- the sand out of the heels of their boots, as a testi-
mony against it. This immigration has caused here a con-
tinual demand for land, and of course kept up a continual
rise in the price of lands so that, until quite recently, our
lands have brought comparatively enormous rates. But rail-
roads and plankroads have lately brought so much other land
into competition with ours, that we, being* yet without rail or
plank, have been crowded into a corner, where we are likely
to remain sometime. The Jersey and other people who come
to Jersey County now, generally make but short halt. Ma-
coupin, Sang-amon and other lands invite them, and our coun-
try is too strait and too far from market, even for some of
those who have dwelt here many years; so that, young- as we
are, \ve have already sent out new colonies, to the East,
North and South.

The town of Jerseyville was incorporated in July, 1837.
The first Trustees of the Corporation were J. W Lott, G. H.
Collins, Samuel L. McGill, Richard Graham and E. M. Dal-
ey. In 1839, it was made a county seat, and the new County
of Jersey wassetoff from Greene, to which it formerly belong--
ed. This was done ag-ainst a strong- opposition from interes-
ted persons. In 1840, the Court House was erected, at a cost
of $6000; raised mostly by subscription. It was built on the
block given by Lott & Daley to the town for a Public Square,
and the Trustees of the town now deeded it to the County,
for the public building's.

I now proceed to g-ive some account of the Literary, Re-
ligious and Benevolent Institutions of Jerseyville.

1st. THE LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.

It is unfortunate for Jerseyville, as it has been for most
Western towns, that the early and subsequent settlers have

had no very absorbing* interest in the subject of education.
Being" men of limited pecuniary ability, they have been gen-
erally tempted to think more of the material than the intellect-
ual interests of themselves and their children. The establish-
ment and sustaining- of schools has been rather an "uphill
business," ever since Irving' Little, in the winter of 18334,
started the first little school in the Old Red House. Mr. Lit-
tle seems to have found the business rather an unprofitable
one, for he speedily exchanged the birch for the hoe, which
he continues to wield at this day, in the eastern part of the
county, with considerable profit to himself and the "rising
generation" around him.

The venerable John Adams, of Jacksonville, a man who
has probably instructed more boys than any man in America,*
having 1 been long- a noted preceptor in several of the best ac
ademies in New England, taught school for some time in this
village, in 1836. He was the first who taught school in the
old school house, which in 1836, was built on land devoted for
school purposes by A. H. Burritt. This house, measuring
20 feet by 24, still stands, though threatened with speedy
extermination by the finger of time and the march of improve-
ment. It was not built like the pvramids, for the admiration
of future ages. In this weather-beaten edifice, the gospel
was preached for several years, by ministers of various de-
nominations, before the erection of any church edifice, and
until this year, 1853, it has been the only public school-house.
(Mrs. Virginia Harbert says it was a very common thing to
meet the wild deer going to school from the old Red House, to
the old school house, which stood in Cap. John Smith's yard.)
But a good brick school house, erected by a tax, has been
completed, measuring 24x36 feet, and is occupied by Mr.
Corbett, wLo has taught in this village for many years. This
is all that can be said about our public schools and school
houses. Our best schools, hitherto, have been those which

* The father of the present writer went to school to him more than fifty years
ago.

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have been established and their whole expenses borne by
the teachers themselves.

In 1849, Miss Mary Farley erected at her own cost, a
larg-e two story frame building- for school purposes, and ex-
cellent private schools for young- ladies and for small children
have since been steadily kept there. The lower story of
Temperance Hall was designed for a private school room, and
has been used as such, nearly ever since it was completed.
A Library Association was established in 1850, and the libra-
ry contains now about three hundred volumes and periodi-
cals, which are constantly though too slowly increasing. It
is hoped that this institution will be cherished by all the pres-
ent and future inhabitants, as one calculated more than any
other to stimulate a desire for solid information, and to give
to our ing-enious and ambitious youth the opportunity to lay
a broad foundation for future usefulness and .fame. Many a
statesman, crowned with the laurels of the senate; many a
hero known inhis country's history; has referred to the villag-e
library of his native town, as giving him the first ambition to
tread the world's arena, and soil his sandals with the Olym-
pic dust.

A Lyceum was commenced in 1839, and has been sus-
tained during nearly every winter since that time. Here, in
debate and lecture, the young and aspiring- may find a fair
and encouraging field to exhibt to themselves and others, the
earliest signs of promise, and to win some bubbles of renown
from no unwilling- or envious auditors. Let this institution
too be cherished, and better patronized than it has been, by
the middle-aged and the old. Let parents be more anxious
that their children should attend these debates and lectures,
which cost nothing and are worth something-, than that they
should follow the strolling vagabonds of every description
who honor us so often with their visits, which cost something
and are worth nothing.

A brass Band, which deserves honorable mention among
our literary institutions, was organized early in 1852, by nu-

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merous amateur musicians of this place, and has since dis-
coursed elegant and gratuitous music wherever their services
are demanded. Their instruments were mostly furnished
them by the voluntary contributions of our citizens.

A Phrenological Society was organized this year, 1853.

An important Literary Institution is the "Prairie State,"
a weekly newspaper established in 1849, bv John C. Conklin,
continued awhile after he left by A. C. Hinton, Esq., and
now edited and published by Augustus Smith. Several
other eflorts had been made to establish newspapees here
previous to this, but the papers all failed after a short-lived
existence. This paper is well sustained, and bids fair to
survive for some generations to come.

There might be a Reading Room in Jersey ville, but
there is none. There might be an academy established on a
firm basis, with funds sufficient for the salary ot teachers of
the first order; sufficient, also, to furnish a good library,
good philosophical and chemical apparatus, and a good min-
eralogical and geological cabinet; a school where the sons
and daughters of Jerseyville might be sure of having a gen-
erous education without leaving home. But is the historian
of Jerseyville yet born, who shall be able to say it was found-
ed in his day. (Were Mr. Grosvenor living today, it might
be said to him, yes, there was a boy then sitting before*you,
14 years old, who is now the historian, recording the fact
that Jerseyville has a library containing 3,623 volumes, and
on an average of 2,000 visitors monthly, besides, with a well
equipped high school, both with teachers and apparatus,
"where the sonsoiid daughters of Jerseyville may be sure of
having a generous education without leaving home.") If we
had, in Illinois, or in the town of Jerseyville, an efficient and
comprehensive system of public schools, such as they have
in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
even in some particular towns of our own State, we could
very well do without a Seminary, established by private
funds. But is there a prospect that the general apathy with

regard to public schools will give place to a zeal in their be-
half, which will produce a system that will g-ive to the child-
ren of Jersey ville any thing like a thorough education? Yet,
he would infer from our indifference to the establishment of
good schools, that our adult population are wanting in gener-
al intelligence, would fall wide of the truth. The general
intelligence of the people is sufficiently manifest from the
abundance of papers and other periodicals, which are regu-
larly received at this postoffice. More than a thousand cop-
ies of various newspapers and magazines are regularly re-
ceived and distributed here, besides our own village journal.
Of the newspapers, there are some dailies, more tri-week-
lies, and still more weeklies. * Besides this evidence of in-
telligence, it must be added, that during the past year con-
siderable feeling upon the subject of education has been ex-
cited in Jerseyville, and a Convention is about to be held in
this place, to consult concerning the best means of improv-
ing the common schools of Illinois. At this meeting, the
presence and counsel of eminent speakers is expected, and
it is confidently hoped that the influence of that Convention
will be felt, not merely in this town and county, but Ihrough-
out the State, and more particularly in the capital of the
State, when the next Legislature shall be in session.

2d. THE RKLIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.

It is believed that the Rev. Thomas Lippincott, still liv-
ing in a green old age, is the first minister of any denomin-
ation who ever preached the gospel within the bounds ot
this village. He, with Rev. Mr. Breed, Rev. Elisha Jenney,
now of Waverly, and Rev. Dr. Blackburn, whose precious
memory is embalmed in all the churches of this region of

* The principal and favorite ones are the following: Of the Alton Telegraph,
there are received 100 copies; Alton Courier, 80: Saturday Evening Post. 66;
Pennsylvanian. 63. St. Louis Intelligencer, 46; National Era. 35. Of monthly Ma-
gazines, the following arethe chief, viz: Harpers', 30 copies; Prairie Farmer, 30;
Western Magazine. 20; Farm and Garden. 17; Knickerbocker, 10; Scientific Amer-
ican. 10.

country, had several times, from 1833 to 1835, preached here
in various private houses.

On the 15th of February, 1834, by appointment of the
Presbytery of Illinois, Rev. Thomas Lippincott and Rev.
Elisha Jenney "attended in the south part of Greene county,
near Hickory Grove," in the house of N. L. Adams, to organ-
ize the Presbyterian Church; which was the first church or-
ganized in this place. After sermon, by Mr. Lippincott, 18
persons were formed into a church, who elected three elders,
who were ordained the next day. The records of the church
do not give the names of these elders, but they were, A. H.
Burritt, James Lumsden and M. N. Bosworth. It is believ-
ed that all these are still living, b*ut only one of them, (Lums-
den,) continues connected with this church. The church
was called, at that time, The South Greene Church, which
name was changed March 3rd, 1839, by vote of church and
presbytery, to that of the "Presbyterian Church in Jersey-
ville." For a considerable time Mr. Lippincott preached
here statedly. Rev. Amos P. Brown officiated as stated
preacher from October, 1835, to February, 1837, and from
August, 1837, to August, 1838. From September, 1839, to
September, 1840, Rev. Joseph Fowler was the stated preach-
er. In September, 1839, an interesting protracted meeting
was held, when Mr. Fowler was assisted by Rev. L. Lyons
of New York State, and Rev. Hugh Barr of Carrollton. Mr.
Lyons was invited to become the stated preacher, and com-
menced his labors in November, 1840. In March, 1841, a
protracted njeeting was held, which is said to have been very
profitable to the spiritual interests of the church. The in-
stallation of Rev. L. Lyons, as pastor of this church, took
place December 26th, 1843, by the Alton Presbytery, after
he had been preaching here for three years. Rev. A. T.
Norton preached the sermod on the occasion.

Till 1841, the Presbyterian Church had worshiped
mostly in the school house, but on the 14th of October. 1841,
this meeting house, which had been building several years,

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was dedicated to the worship of God. It was built on land
given to the Church by Johnson & Daley in 1838 its original
dimensions being- 40 by 48 feet, and its cost about $2,000.
The sermon at the dedication was preached by Rev. Theron
Baldwin.

In the month of January, 1842, a very interesting pro-
tracted meeting was held by Rev. James Gallaher, who
spent two weeks here, preaching daily. February 1, 1842,
an addition of more than fifty was made to the church. In
September, 1839, there were but fifty-four members. On
the list for 1842, more than two hundred names are found,
being an increase of about one hundred and fifty in three
years.

Rev. Mr. Lyons, after having labored here for four
years, died January 11; 1845, greatly lamented by the lai'ge
church, which, in his time, from a "little one, had become a
thousand." He was buried in the rear of the church, and a
monument erected over his remains by the contributions of
the members.

After his death the Church was without regular preach-
ing for more than a year, viz: until March, 1846, at which
time Rev. G. C. Wood commenced his ministerial labors
During his administration of four years, eighty-six mem-
bers were added to the Church, fifty-four of them on profes-
sion. In the spring of 1850, Mr. Wood resigned his charge
and is now laboring in Greenville, Illinois.

In October, 1850, the present speaker commenced his
ministerial services in Jerseyville, since which tiie 37 mem-
bers have been added to the church, 17 on profession, and
20 by letter. The whole number now in connction with this
Church, and in good standing, is two hundred and seventeen;
so that the Church is but little larger than it was eleven years
ago. Nevertheless, it would be unfair to infer that the Church
has "stood still" so long. Increase in mere numbers is not the
best criterion of the prosperity of a Church. A Church may
even be diminishing in numbers, and yet gaining in actual

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strength and influence. That the general intelligence of this
Church, and its wealth, and its contributions to the various
objects of religious benevolence, have vastly increased with-
in a few years, is very certain, though there is ability, and
great occasion to do still more. Their contributions last
year to the cause of missions and other similar enterprises,
were about $300.

In 1846, they purchased a house in the east part of the
town for a parsonage. In 1852 they sold that property for
$650, and purchased of William B. Nevius, for $800, the con-
venient property now occupied as the parsonage, corner of
Main and Carpenter streets. In 1851 they added to the front
of the church building 14x40 feet, surmounted by a neat bel-
fry, adding a gallery and sixteen pews on the lower floor, at a
cost of $825. In 1852, they added Venetian blinds, at a cost
of $105. In 1853 tLey purchased a bell, weighing 883 pounds,
at cost of $363, and for chandelier and other conveniences,
they have expended $85, more, making an expenditure of
over $1,600 for Church purposes, in the three years, during
which the present minister has resided here, and for which
expenditures they are still in debt to the amount of $250,
which they expect shortly to liquidate, by means of a leg-
acv due the Church from the estate of the late Dr.

Todd.

While giving to this Church the credit of expeditures, I
by no means desire to ignore the liberality of other Churches,
members of no Churches, who, to a considerable extent, have
aided many of these improvements. It is indeed, an evidence
of the mutual kindliness of members of the various Churches
and congregations of Jersey ville toward each other, that they
have ever been ready to assist each other in all usefull under-
takings, for the advancement of the material and spiritual in-
terests of Jersey ville. The voice of party and denomination-
al strife is always hushed when there is a demand for pecu-
niary aid. In one respect, it must be owned, this church has
taken a step backward since its organization. It was organ-

ized on total abstinence principles. But, for some cause, the
restriction with regard to the use of intoxicating" liquors was
taken off, aud the church has since suffered considerably, in
consequence of that unfortunate act.

This is at present the only Presbyterian church in the
county, and I have been, until now, the only Presbyterian
preacher, but Rev. Socrates Smith has just been employed
to intinerate over the county, and preach in various places
where preaching- is needed, and it is confidently hoped, that
through his instrumentality, other churches will spring up,
some colonizing from this church, and others joining, who
have as yet formed no connection with any other church.

The Methodist Episcopal church was organized in July,
1839, under the administration of Rev. M. Robbins, with
seven members. The ministers who have succeeded Mr.
Robbins are the following: Revs. Messrs. Allen, McMurray,
Anderson, Dickens, Jones, Leaton, Anderson, Covington,
Jones, Wood, Lewis, Culver,, who was the first stationed
preacher and remained two years, and Risley, who is the
present incumbent. Under the zealous labors of those faith-
ful ministers of the Word, the church has enjoyed several
revivals, and now numbers one hundred and ten members;
and in the county, the membership of the church has grown
so numerous, that two circuit preachers have been employed
this year, besides the stationed preacher.

The church building of the Methodists in this village was
erected in 1846-7, on land given them by Major G. Patterson.
The cost of the building was about $900. Its dimensions are
34 by 40 feet. They have also a very fine parsonage proper-
ty, near the meeting house, purchased in 1851 for $900.

The congregation are' thinking about enlarging their house
of worship, it having been, for some time, too small to ac-
commodate the worshipers. It is believed that this church
has lived in more peace and brotherly love than either of the
other churches No difference of opinion on collateral ques-
tions has ever taken their thoughts from the main question,

or been permitted to sever the unity of the spirit or the bonds
of peace.

The Baptist church was organized iu 1841. The few
Baptists here at that time invited Rev. Elijah Dodson to hold
a meeting- here for two days. He came and preached in the
old school house and in private residences for seventeen
days and nights. The result of the meeting- was 25 hopeful
conversions. On the 5th of September, 1841, the Baptist
church was organized with thirty members, of whom one-
third are still living here. The first deacons were Richard
Graham and J. E. Cooper. The church was supplied with
stated preaching by Rev. Messrs. Dodson and Moses Lemon
till 1843, when Rev. Elihu Palmer was called to the care of
the church, and remained till January, 1846. At this time
there was a division of the church on the slavery question,
and 18 members were organized into a new church under
the care of Rev. E. Palmer. This church, however, soon
expired, while the old church continued with Rev. Joel Terry
for their minister till 1847. Rev. W. F. Boyakin was minis-
ter from that time till April, 1849, when Rev. J. Bulkley com-
menced his services. He continued till October, 1853, when
he resigned and the church is now without regular preach-
ing. Under the able and devoted ministry of Mr. Bulkley
the church greatly increased in numbers and efficiency, so
that now it numbers one hundred and sixty-three

The church continued without a house of worship, meet-
ing mostly in the court house, until July, 1849, when the
present neat brick building, measuring 32 by 42 feet, ex-
clusive of its portico, was erected at a cost of from $1,800 to
$2,000, In 1850 they purchased a bell, weighing 525 pounds,
for $200. In 1851 they added Venetian blinds at a cost of
$80. This church has, for several years past, manifested a
great degree of liberality in their contributions to the vari-
ous objects of religious benevolence. There are two or three
other small Baptist churches in Jersey county.

A Congregational church was organized m 1846, consist-

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ing- mostly of seceders from the Presbyterian church, at a
time of high excitement on the subject of slavery, and
Messrs. Hulbut and Loomis preached here for six months
each, but the church was soon dissolved, and those of the
members who are left in Jerseyville mostly attend the Pres-
byterian church.

The Roman Catholics have no church building" as yet,
but with their usual superior judgment with regard to the
localities of their public buildings, they purchased in 1852,
of the Messrs. Barr, one-third of an acre of land in one of
the most sightly and pleasant parts of the town. A hand-
some church edifice, with an elegant front and spire, built
there, and fronting- on Main street, would be visible almost
from Kane, five miles distant, and certainly from the village
of Fidelity, eleven miles distant, and would certainly be a
great ornament to Jerseyville, standing, as it would, directly
at the diverging- point of the Main street and the road to Al-
ton, and, like Grace church in Broadway, New York, pre-
senting itself to all promenaders in the principal street of
the town, as the most conspicuous object throughout its
entire length.

The only cemetery in this neighborhood is a piece of
ground containing- two acres, deeded to the County Com mis
sioners by Miss Arintha Conover, in 1841. Burials had taken
place here for some years previous, when the land belonged
to Carpenter, who afterwards sold the land with a reserva-
tion of these two acres for a public grave-yard. It was never
laid out in blocks and walks, and it is feared that a few years
more will make it a place of inextricable confusion to those
who wish to bury their dead, or find the remains of the long-
departed. Even now, the mattock of the grave-digger some-
times strikes a coffin, and he is compelled to desist and
commence his labors elsewhere. Even now, the father, vis-
iting the grave-yard after long years of absence, cannot,
with any certainty, point to the spot where lie the relics of
his child. The citizens of Jersevville will never be able to

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claim the title of a fully civilized people till they have a cem-
etery worthy to be the depository of the precious dead. It
matters not how many churches we may have, or literary or
benevolent institutions, we shall be forever justly scandaliz-
ed while our dead lie thus neglected and forgotten. The
stranger of taste, cultivation and piety will always be shock-
ed as he asks for your Greenwood or Auburn, to be informed
that we have no bright spot of verdure, and shade, and flow-
ers, emblematic of immortal bloom, but only one bleak, ster-
ile, gloomy Golgotha to be offered to his survey.

O, ye rich and prosperous men of Jerseyviile! Purge
yourselves from this too foul and melancholy disgrace. Give
yourselves and give us one spot that shall be hallowed and
blessed. Give us from your broad acres some extensive and
lovely lawn, which you and we may beautify with long-drawn
aisles, arched by the branches of trees of the forest; some
piece of sequestered ground, where the filthy swine shall no
longer burrow into the graves of your wives and brothers
and children, and where' stray horses and cattle shall never
more find pasture. Give us the spot, where every summer
evening the aged and the young may go alike to weep and re-
joice the place where gentle hands shall plant the cedar
and the willow, the rose and the myrtle, around the firm,
well-sodded grave, and from year to year shall watch the
zephyr as it plays like a living spirit among the trembling
petals; as it plays like the very fingers of the laughing child,
whose little frame is mouldering there, while its spirit is
smiling in the bosom of God. Give us where the thouhtless
may go to be beguiled into lessons full of solemn warning,
which they shall in vain endeavor to forget. Give us where
the aged and careworn may go to measure their last resting
place; yea, to lie down upon the sod, and casting the eye of
faith to heaven, cry, O, that I had the wings of a dove, that
my spirit might fly away, and my broken body lie here in its
serene, unbroken repose. *

* T am happy to be able to add. that since this sermon was delivered, arrange-
ment s arc making by Messrs. Adams. Moroan and Blackburn for a suitable Cem-
etery, just outside of tbe limits of the village.

Let us now proceed to the history of the societies for
mutual relief, brotherhood and benevolence.

The Jersey ville Division, No. 16, Sons of Temperance,
was organized August 4th, 1847. Charter members, G. C.
Wood, E. J. Palmer, N. L. Adams, A. P. Brown, Wm. B.
Nevius, T. L. McGill, A. B. Morean, C. H. Knapp, P. C.
Walker, F. Osborn, Geo. Wharton, A. P. Staats and W. J.
West. Nearly 400 members have been initiated. The pres-
ent number is 120. The division built, in 1851, a fine hall, two
stories high, 22 by 50 feet, which was dedicated by G. W. P.
Morean in September, 1851. The buildings and grounds
cost between $1,800 and $2,000.

G. C. Wood was the first W. P., N. L. Adams, W. A.
Franklin section, No. 9, Cadets of Temperance, was organ-
ized September 28th, 1848. The charter members were T.
A. Boyakin, W. Leigh, D. Sunderland, D. S. Yates, P. D.
Cheney, F. Potts, H. N. Wyckoff, W. Cook, R. J. Hill, E.
Miner, C. H. Vandike, P. Updike, and W. A. Potts. Robert
J. Hill was elected W. A., and D. S. Yates, secretary. The
section has numbered as high as fifty or sixty. It now num-
bers twenty-three. It has not lost a single member by death
since its organization.

Jerseyville Union, Daughters of Temperance, was or-
ganized April 21, 1853, with twelve members: Mary Combs,
Sarah Hansell, Sarah Culver, Mary A. Smith, Mary Osborn,
F. Maupin, Marilla Levine, Elizabeth Dunsden, Martha
Nichols, Mary Snedeker, Miss Lorrance, and Elizabeth Mc-
Gannon.

Mary Combs was elected P. S., Sarah Hansell, S. A., and
Sarah Culver, R. S. Present number ot members 35.

These are all the temperance societies at present exist-
ing in this town or county. The first temperance society
ever organized in this county was organized by Rev. Dr.
Blackburn at Major Patterson's, several miles southwest of
Jerseyville, as early as 1835. This society afterwards
changed its quarters to Jerseyville and brought its records

here. In the time of the Washingtonian movement, in 1840,
a great reformation was effected in Jersey ville some noto-
rious drunkards were reclaimed and converted, and are still
sober men and members of churches. When the order of
Sons of Temperance was organized, all other societies merg-
ed into that, and gave the work into their hands.

The Jerseyville Lodge, No. 53, of Odd Fellows, was in-
stituted May 5th, 1848. Charter members, P. C. Walker, A.
C. Hutchinson, Samuel Cowen, James Bringhurst, and
C. Roberts. Before organization several new members were
admitted, viz: George E. Warren, Wm. Yates, Jonathan
Plowman, W. Casey, N. L. Adams, James C. Perry, R. L.
Hill, and P. Silloway. Wm. Yates was elected N. G., R. L.
Hill, V. G., and C. H. Roberts, Scribe.

Odd-Fellows Hall was built by members of the Lodge in
1851, at a cost of $2,000. It is a handsome frame building,
two stories high, measuring 25 by 50 feet. The hall is as
commodious and as handsomely furnished as any hall of the
Order in the State. The present number of members is 83.

The Jerseyville Encampment, No. 20, of Odd Fellows,
was instituted in 1852. Charter members were W. Casey,
C. H. Roberts, P. C. Walker, N. L. Adams, E. A. Casey, A.
L. Knapp and L. Grosvenor. L. Grosvenor was elected
C. P., E. A. Casey, H. P., and N. L. Adams, S. W,
The present number of members is 15.

The Morning Sun Lodge, 94, of Free Masons, was or-
ganized under dispensation, June 25, 1850, Charter mem-
bers, A. B. Morean, R. S. Holenback, Luther Cory, Solomon
Calhoun, N. L. Adams, C. H. Roberts, B. F. Page, J. E. Tay-
lor, Wm. P. Campbell and Asa Snell. B. F. Page was elect-
ed W. M., A. B. Morean, S. W., and Wm. P. Campbell, J. W.

The present number of members is 46. The lodge has
at present no hall of its own. It meets in a hall belonging to
Wm. Yates.

Time will not enable me to trace, as I would like to do
minutely, the gradual development of the material interests

of Jerseyville, from 1833 to 1853. Few words on this sub-
ject must suffice.

In 1833, the Indian and the buffalo had long departed for
the West, gone, according to Benton, as engineers, to survey
and mark out the best track for a railroad to the Pacific; but
the hungry wolf still made night hideous, and the timid deer
shook their antlers here, and galloped over the places of our
present sanctuaries and homes.. (Within the memory of
Mrs. Ford Lewis, a wandering bear came too near Jersey-
ville to be healthy for him, when soon a posse of citizens,
with guns and hounds, started in pursuit of Bruin, running
him nearly where Wm. Whitworth now lives, finally cap-
turing him some distance northwest of Jerseyville.) Jersey-
ville was not; and even a year or two later, some of the offici-
als at Carrollton sneered at the newly-broached idea of a
county and county seat south of that ancient town. Disas-
ter and defeat were prophesied for the new scheme on sev-
eral grounds, one of which is said to have been that it was
so near the city of Kane, that a business place here was a
thing impossible. Another was, that it was so far from tim-
ber, that nobody would buy lots or undertake to Iniild here.
Today we number 1.000 or 1,200 inhabitants, many of whom
have hauled vast quantities of lumber from Alton and Graf-
ton, as well as from the neighboring woods; and if our mode
ot computing population were similar to the mode of the
Eastern States, that is, by townships, rather than by vil-
lages, our population would not be less than 3,000, and might
be considerably more.

The highest vote ever polled in this precinct was 628, and
allowing but one voter to every five persons, (and that is a
small estimate in a Western population where the males out-
number the females,) 3,140 would be the population of this
precinct. We have certainly as good a right to reckon pop-
ulation by townships as New York or Massachusetts, and
no special harm would come upon Jerseyville, if our town
and county officers should conspire to take a census of the

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township, and henceforth estimate our population accord-
ingly.

Merchandise, husbandry, and every species of mechanical
art which has been tried here* have always prospered from
the beginning-. At present four blocks on Main street, on
each side of the street, are almost entirely occupied by ho-
tels, shops, and stores of traders and mechanics, and the
offices of professional men; and though we cannot hear the
hoarse coughing of the steamer, or the roar and rattle of the
train, we have yet, as a substitute, the constant daily and
nightly puffing of two large and busy flour mills, one of
which, at least, has made itself known throughout a great
portion of Illinois, by something better than mere puffing.

Here is also an extensive buckskin glove manufactory,
under the management of E. S. Wells & Co., whose wares
are in great demand, and are giving to Jerseyville a wide and
enviable reputation. This firm dress annually 10,000 to 12,-
000 deer skins, and manufacture 30,000 pairs of gloves and
mittens, besides 15,600 purses. These are now the most
important and extensive of our manufactures. There is
doubtless plenty of room for more, and the establishment of
a paper mill, costing $10,000, is promised by next summer.
Hardly a better place than Jerseyville could be found for a
manufactory of coarse domestics or coarse woollens; for
there are plenty of young people here of both sexes, who
would rejoice in such steady and profitable employment.

In regard to internal improvements, our citizens are ful-
ly up to the spirit of the times.

Substantial and commodious side-walks, mostly of plank,
are extending their branches everywhere through the vil-
lage, promising speedily, easy access to every part of the
town. But it will surprise some of you to hear that, in the
year 1847, when the brick walk from Knapp's corner to
Clendenin's was first laid, (from National bank to M. A.
Warren & Co.'s), an indignation meeting was held in this
town, and attended by some of our best citizens, condemning

the "uncalled for and arbitrary measure;" no less than 28
persons being 1 guilty of the absurdity of pledging them-
selves, in writing, never at any election to vote for any of
those who were at that time Trustees of the town, "nor of
any of their abettors in said iniquitous act." The meeting
unanimously passed five resolutions of the most peppery de-
scription, and then adjourned for further reflection, which
seems to have been attended with gratifying results. As
most of these persons have manifested repentance by sub-
sequent works of righteousness, it would be doing them in-
justice to record their names. Forgiveness on repentance
is a law of heaven,

Shade trees (mostly locusts) are plentiful here, and al-
most every citizen takes honorable pride in adorning his
yard and the streets with them, so that what was twenty
years ago a verdant prairie, is fast becoming literally, "a
leaf-clad town."

I have occupied so much time in this narrative, that little
is left for reflections suitable to the subject and the occasion
I will close with the single remark that we have abundant
reason to thank God today for the establishment and the pro-
gress of Jerseyville, in all its material and spiritual interests.
For some years intemperance and immorality of various
kinds threatened to entrench themseves immoveably in our
midst. The first invoice of goods ever brought to this place,
contained $1,700 worth of spirituous liquors. This, too, in
1834, when people were few and far between. Drinking,
gambling, and horse racing were the chief amusements of
the citizens. One of the greatest speculations in personal
property ever made here, was the purchase and sale, in 1835,
of a race horse, belonging to one of our citizens. The horse
was sold for $5,000, and taken to Missouri, where it is believ-
ed he died by treachery and poison. The gospel seemed,
for a long time, almost powerless against sin. Even so late-
ly as 1837-8, the number of religious worshippers of all de-
nominations at the old school-house did not average over 30 ?

while the worshippers of tanzy bitters at the Red House, on
the Sabbath, were twice that number. There were then
three drunkard factories here, constantly in running 1 order,
the most notorious of which was the "Old Bat House." But
prayer and labor were not wanting 1 in the darkest hour. At
length, the seeds of temperance and Christianity, which had
been planted here, took deep root in the hearts of the people.
Many of the stoutest sinners have been either destroyed or
humbled under the power of God, and, on the whole, it may
be said, that now we are a people as moral, sober, and peace-
able as any other in the State.

Liquor selling-, liquor drinking, and gambling are frown-
ed upon by the vast majority of our people, and we are starv-
ing out the few remaining lawyers just as rapidly as we
can. Little encouragement is afforded to the idle and vicious
to take up a residence here, but on the contrary, every in-
ducement is presented to the quiet and industrious, to cast
in their lot among us. There has been a constant, though,
comparatively speaking, not very rapid increase in the num-
ber of its building's and people, and nine-tenths of its popu-
lation are Americans; so that we are much more homogene-
ous in feeling and interests than the population of most other
towns of similar or larger size in the State. Our people are
almost all prosperous in business, and are rapidly surround-
ing themselves with varied comforts and luxuries, and are
beginning to manifest the usual instincts of a cultivated peo-
ple, an ambitious grasping after more and better thing's than
their neighbors possess.

No extensive conflagration has ever visited our town, to
lay waste in a single night the labor of years, and for this we
are indeed bound to thank God with all our hearts for, as
for man, he as yet, has taken little care to prevent it. I can-
not record the organization of any engine, hose, or hook and
ladder company in Jersey ville, and I fear that nothing short
of a disastrous fire, will produce that which ought to be in
existence, and mig^ht be the means of saving 1 a vast amount
of property this very winter.

Citizens of Jerseyville! Thank God today for mercies
past and present Firmly resolve to give up no ground you
have won. Take no steps backward. You have been for
some time watchful on the subject of temperance, but con-
siderably too bashful. Henceforth, present a solid phalanx
of strong hearts and hands, to resist its desolating career.
Maintain by precept and example, due reverence for the
name of God and for the holy Sabbath, without which no
town or country can be truly posperous- Let the cause of
education and the cause of true religion have your earnest
endeavors. It is only by the cultivation and the practice of
virtue and piety that Jerseyville can continue to grow in wis-
dom and moral stature, and in favor with God and man. Let
this town be a moral lighthouse, standing as high above the
billows of ignorance and vice, as her towers and roofs rise
higher than the valleys in which flow the rivers and creeks
that bound the territory of the county. Let all who cast
their eyes hitherward from a distance, see, now and forever,
your lantern burning, with no revolving, uncertain, or flick-
ering glare, but forcing its strong, steady rays far down
through the fogs of the early morning, and the thick dark-
ness of Egyptian midnight thus, and thus alone, shall the
influence of Jerseyville be what it may be. and ought to be,
wide, happy, and everlasting.

(The citizen who reads this memerable discourse will
naturally reflect back over the 47 years that have intervened,
or such a part of it as they are familiar with, and compare
the moral status of today with then; and ask, how have these
piercing, but kindly spoken words, been obeyed. The all
important question every citizen should ask himself, is Jer-
seyville the better, or the worse, for having lived in it?

If honestly answered, both a negative and positive an-
swer will be given. We have many things the loyal Christian
citizen has just reason to be thankful for, yet many things
to make him blush with shame.

We have just reason to expect much by way of reform,

and improvements from our new city officials, and as good
and loyal citizens let us back them in every reform, and
sharply reprove them for every neglect of duty, or steps
backward.)

dhurches of ^erseyville, Illinois.

FIRST PRKSBYTERIAN CHURCH OF JERSKYVILLE.

The First Presbyterian church of Jerseyville was or-
ganized in a log" cabin, which stood on the spot where now
stands the C. P. & St. L. R. R. Depot, in the house of N. L.
Adams, near Hickory Grove, February*15, 1834, just 67 years
ago. It was organized by two Presbyterian pioneer preach-
ers, the Rev.ThomasLippincottand Rev Elisha Jenney, then
a stated supply of the Presbyterian church at Alton, 111.

According to the rules of their church, a sermon was
preached by Rev. Lippincott, after which the ceremony of
organization was conducted. Three ruling elders were or-
dained and installed, who were the first elders of the
church, viz: Alexander H. Burrett, James Lumsden and M.
N. Bosworth. There were eighteen original members. No
record is given of these eighteen members, but the names
of fourteen are given by Dr. Norton in his history of Pres-
byterianism in Illinois, as follows: James Lumsden, Ruben
Page, Mrs. Elizabeth Page, Joseph Gerrish, Mrs. Elizabeth
Gerrish, Mrs. Miriam Turner, (Capt. Cooper's first wife),
Dr. Alexander Burritt, Mrs. Nancy Burritt, M. N. Bos-
worth and wife, John Anderson and wife, Matilda McGill and
Miss Sophonia Adams.

For two years or more the church was without a pas-
tor and house of worship, but worshiped in a school house
which stood on the lot now occupied by Capt. John Smith,
and for six months in Mr. Keith's cabinet shop.

In October, 1835, Rev. Amos P. Brown became the first
stated supply of this church until 1838. In 1836, the first

FIKST PRESBYTERIAN CHUHCH.

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steps were taken to build a house of worship. In 1838-9, the
frame of the building- was put up, but $700, the amount nec-
essary to build, could not be raised. The building 1 , which
stood where the present house of worship stands, was dedi-
cated October 14, 1841 It was 40 x48 feet in size, and cost
$2,600. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev.
Theron Baldwin.

In September, 1838, Rev. Joseph Fowler began his la-
bors here, and in April 4, 1839, was ordained here by the
Presbytery of Alton. Being 1 an aspiring 1 young 1 man, he re-
sig-ned September, 1840, and went to Ohio. He died Septem-
ber 6, 1857.

Immediately on the retirement of Mr. Fowler, Rev.Luke
Lyons was invited to the pastorate. He entered upon his
labors November, 1840, and was installed pastor December
26, 1843. Mr. Lyons labored here until his death, which oc-
curred January 11, 1845.

After his death the church was shepherdless for over a
year, when Rev. Georg-e C. Wood took charge March 1, 1846.
On April 20, 1850, he resig-ned. In October 1850, Rev.
Lemuel Grosvenor began his labors as pastor, resigning 1 in
July, 1855.

December 1855, Rev. Joseph S. Edwards became pastor.
Mr. Edwards resigned his pastorate December, 1858. Dur-
ing his ministry the present parsonage was bought at a cost
of $2,400. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, October 17, 1876.

Rev. Charles H. Foote succeeded him in Dec. 1, 1858, and
was installed in April 15, 1860. He resigned Feb. 17, 1867.
He died in Michigan, June 28, 1880.

April 7, 1867, Rev. Wm. W. Williams was invited, but re-
signed September following. He was succeeded by Rey.
George I. King, D. D., who, on account of failing health, re-
signed in 1872, and died March 12, 1873.

After Dr. King, Rev. James W. Stark entered upon his
duties as stated supply, November, 1873. He remained here
for ten years, resigning in January, 1883.

On the 18th of January, 1880, the rotary system of elder-
ship was adopted, and W. S. Ross was elected to the elder-
ship, term to expire in January, 1881; B. C. Vandervoort,
term to expire in January, 1882, and Dr. A. A. Barnett, term
to expire in January, 1883.

The corner stone of the new house of worship was laid
August 12, 1882, and on August 23, 1883, the present beauti-
ful stone structure was dedicated.

In June, 1883, Rev. Ira C. Tyson, D. D., was called to
the pastorate, and on September 25, 1883, was installed pas-
tor. Dr. Tyson remained as pastor thirteen years, resign-
ing- Nov., 1896.

Rev. Wm. H. Kearns succeeded him, preaching- his
first pastoral sermon March 7, 1897, from Isa 4 : 8. Rev.
Kearns was installed pastor on Wednesday evening 1 April
21, 1897, Rev. M. M. Cooper presiding-, and propounding the
constitutional questions. Mr. Kearns remained as pastor
from March 7, 1897, to December 30, 1900, when, on the last
named date, he preached in the morning, and conducted a
farewell communion service. In the evening the other Prot-
estant churches, with their pastors, united in hearing Rev.
Kearn's farewell sermon. A crowded house and a solemn
service.. All the other pastors gave short addresses. Rev.
Kearn's -text was in Acts 20-27: "I have not shunned to de-
clare unto you the whole council of God."

This church extended a unanimous call to Rev. John G.
Klene, of St. Louis, who began his labors Sunday? April 7,
1901. His first text was I Peter, 5: 2, 3. He was installed
Wednesday, May 1, 1901. Rev. John A. Gallaher, modera-
tor of Presbytery, presided and propounded the constitu-
tional questions. Rev. F. L. Ferguson, D. D., preached the
sermon, Rev, Grafton, of Virden, read the Scriptures,
Rev. M. M. Cooper offered prayer; Rev. Wm. Parsons, of
Sparta, charged the pastor; Rev. T.B. Greenlee.of Carrollton,
charged the people. Benediction by the pastor. A very in-
teresting service. A prosperous Sunday school, well at-

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

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tended prayer meeting", woman's missionary society, all in
a healthy and prosperous condition. Present membership is
340.

M. K. CHURCH OF JEKSBYVILLK.

Except by occasional itinerant preachers, there was no
regular preaching" by this denomination until in 1837, when
Rev. J. B. Wollard and Rev. Willliam Gannaway became
preachers in charge of the Jerseyville circuit. In the year
1838, Alton District of Illinois Conference sent Rev. George
W. Robbinsand Rev. William Meldrum to this circuit. In
an upper chamber of the home of Josiah Mulkins, on the
southeast corner of State and Pearl streets, in July, 1839, a
class was organized, from which has grown the present
Methodist Episcopal church ot Jerseyville. The class con-
sisted of the seven following persons: Samuel Pitt man,
Richard Johnson, Josiah Mulkins, Hanna Hankins, E. Van
Pelt and Sarah Van Pelt. Samuel Pittman was the first
class leader. At this time Jerseyville was included in the
Grafton circuit, and Rev. Norman Allya and Rev. N. P.
Heath were the first regular preachers this church ever had
after organization. At this time the honored Peter Cart-
wright was presiding elder, this being included in the Jack-
sonville district.

Among the circuit riders appointed to this work were
Rev. W. S. McMurray, in 1840; James H. Dickens and
Joseph Kelly, 1841; Lewis Anderson and S. H. Shaw, 1842;
C. D. James and J. P. Sebastin, 1843; C. D. James and Chas.
Holliday, 1844. In 1845 this was made Jerseyville circuit,
and the following preachers were sent: Revs. James Leaton
and L. C. Pitner; Revs. John Mathers and Joseph Lane, in
1846; Revs. Elijah Corrington and T. N. McCorckle, 1847;
Revs. T. W. Jones and J. H. Dodson, 1849; Revs. C. W.
Lewis and John Sappington, 1850; Revs. S. H. Culver and Z.
R. Piercy, 1851. In 1852, Jerseyville was made a station and
included in the Alton district.

The first church edifice erected was from 1843 to 1847,

It was a frame building 1 34x40 feet, and cost $900. The lot
on which it stood was on the corner of Liberty and Ex-
change streets, 100x110 feet, and was the gift of Maj. Gers-
hom Patterson. The church was dedicated by Rev. Peter
Akers, D. D., in 1847. In these days revivals were common
and many turned unto the Lord. (Very different these
days.)

On the 17th of August, 1868, the corner stone of the new
building- was laid by Rev. B. F. Crary, D. D., assisted by
Revs. I. N. Hill, Samuel Walker, E. A. Hoyt and J. W. Cold-
well. It was dedicated January 1, 1871. The dedicatory
sermon was preached by Bishop Thomas Bowman, D. D.,
assisted by all the pastors of Jersey ville, with many others.
The trustees who presented the church to Bishop Bow-
man were: John F. Smith, Joseph G. Marston, C. M. Ham-
ilton, Francis Osborne, John Christopher, Chas. N. Adams,
and Charles Brooks. The edifice is 42x72 feet on ground
area and cost $12,000. The building- committee consisted of
Wm. Emblev, J. E. Van Pelt and Francis Osborne. The
first two were succeeded by Ezekiel Davison and Clarence
Hamilton.

During the thirty-two years intervening between the or-
ganization into a class, July, 1839, to the year of dedication,
1871, the following preachers served this church, viz, Revs:

S. H. Culver, 1852-3 D. W. Phillips, '76-9;

A. S. Risley, '53-4 J. W. Van Cleve, 79-'80;

J. W. Coldwell, '54-5; Eugene May, '80-2;

O. F. Houts, '55-7; C. E. Cline '82-3;

J. W. Coldwell, '57-8; F. M. Van Treese, '83-5;

H. B. Taylor, '58-9; J. A. Scarritt, '86-7;

Dr. J. B. Corrmgton, '59- '61; John Leeper, '88 '90;

Joseph Earp, '61-2 J. Earp, '91-2;

Dr. Van Cleve, '62-4; N. Crow, '93-5;

Wm. Cliff, '64-6; C. Nash. '96 7;

J. W. Coldwell, '66-9; G. W. Shepherd, '97-8;

W. H. Reed, '69-'7l; C. Nash, '99;

KIK'ST BAPTIST CHITKCH.

J. W. Phillips, 71-3; C. B. Besse, 1900, and re-

F. L. Thompson; '73-6; mains the present pastor.

The church has about 300 members. It supports a good
Sunday School, with J. W. Becker as its present superin-
tendent; twenty teachers and an enrollment of 275.

BAPTIST CHURCH.

The Jerseyville Baptist church was organized in an old
school house which stood in the western end of the lot now
owned by Capt. John Smith, corner of Spruce and Jefferson
streets, September 5, 1841. It held meetings there for but a
short time, after which they were held in the old court house
which stood where the present court house now stands, until
in 1850, when, the then new Baptist church was completed.
This house of worship stood then, and now, at the southeast
corner from the court house, at the corner of Washington
and Pearl streets. It was dedicated July 23, 1850. The
dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. Wm. F. Boyakin.
Rev. Jestus Buckley was pastor. The second house of wor-
ship was dedicated in June, 1864, fourteen years after the
first house was dedicated. The dedicatory sermon was
preached by Rev. Jestus Buckley, D. D., L. L. D,

The second house was remodeled and rededicated April
26, 1882; sermon by Rev. W. W. Boyd, D. D. The first cost
of the second house was $14,188.93. The remodeling cost
$13,063 .44, The present house of worship as it now stands
cost, at both dedications, $27,252 .37.

The following were its charter members: Richard Gra-
ham, Martha M. Graham, Jonathan E. Cooper, Myriam F.
Cooper, George Wharton, Jane Wharton, Mary Riggs, Ma-
ria Hill, Lucy A. Tunstill, Elizabeth Sunderland, Mary C
Hill, Maria E. Hill, Juliet A. Hill, Martin L. Hill, Mary s'un-
derland, Charles N. Adams, Jacob K. Stelle, James Giver-
son, James C. Graham, John M. Hutchinson, Rebecca Hutch-
inson, Harriette Hansell, Emily H.Johnson, Rachael Hutch-
inson, Richard Olmstead, Adam Utt, Priscilla Utt, Henry
Johnson, Richard I. Ely, William Reaves 30 in all. Two of

the above named are still living 1 ; one remains in our midst.

During- the past 60 years, almost, this church has had 16
pastors, four years being 1 the average pastorate, including-
the present pastor. The following" were its pastors:

Elijah Dodson from Sept. 5, 1841, to Dec. 20, 1845.

Elihu J. Palmer, from 1845, to 1846.

Joel Terry, from July 25, 1846, to Aug-., 1847.

Wm. F. Boyakin, from Sept. 4, 1847, to Nov., 1848.

Jestus Buckley, from April 4, 1849, to October, 1853.

David P. French, from Dec. 18, 1853, to July 31, 1861.

L. C. Carr, from Aug- , 1861, to November, 1864.

J. N. Hill, from May '65, to October, '71.

P. P. Perry, from March, '72, to May, '74.

C. R. Lathrop, from May, '75, to Aug-ust, '76.

C. E. Taylor, from October, '76, to November, '81.

D. Heag-le, from April, '82, to May, '84.

C. HT Moscript, from July, '84, to October, '86.

W. H. H. Avery, from February, '87, to September, '91.

J. J. Porter, from Jan. '92, to Sept. '99.

J. A. Ford, from Jan., 1900, (the present pastor.)

Its first Sunday School superintendent was Orrin Chaf-
fee, elected September, 1851. Its present superintendent is
John Christy. The school is in a prosperous condition, with
about 200 members, and 20 teachers.

Its first deacons were Richard Graham and Jonathan E.
Cooper, who remained in office 54 years, to his death, which
occurred October 25, 1895. Its present deacons are Georg-e
Head, Robert Newton, Alex. Pitt, Joseph W. Sunderland,
Benjamin Foster, John Christy, and Georg-e H. Woodruf, Jr.
Its present membership is 683.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST.

On June llth, 1883, the Very Rev. Father Jans.ien, Vicar
General of the Diocese of Alton, called a meeting- of the Ger-
man Catholics of Jerseyville and vicinity, for the purpose of
org-anizing a congreg-ation of that denomination and national-
ity. After consultation it was decided to raise a subscrip-

CHURCH OF HOI/VT GHOST.

tion for the purpose of building a house of worship. About
that time the Second Presbyterian church building- was of-
fered for sale, situated on the corner of Spruce and Wash-
ington streets.

At a second meeting held a few weeks later it was decid-
ed to buy that building, rather than erect a new one.

In the fall of 1883, they bought of the trustees of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian church, their house of worship for $2,150.
After obtaining possession, and decorating, and altering the
inside, upon Thanksgiving day, the same year, by the Right
Rev. P. J. Baltes,bishop of Alton,it was dedicated to the wor-
ship of God, and celebrated first mass in it. The same day
the congregation was organized with Rev. F. A. Marks, as
pastor, Henry Scheffer and Charles Schmeider, trustees.
On the night of Sept. 19th, 1884, this house of worship was
destroyed by fire, the loss of which was not less than $5,000
to the congregation.

A subscription for a new church was at once put in-
to circulation, which found liberal response from the church
and community.

In the spring of 1885 the erection of anew building began,
and in due time a new edifice of Gothic style, at the cost of
$6,500 was dedicated.

In 1896, this church bought the church building former-
ly occupied by the German Evangelical Lutherian Church,
and moved it just north of where now stands the church of
the Holy Ghost, and fitted it, and seated it for a parochial
school.

The school opened Monday Sept 1, 1896, with 40 scholars,
and Mr. Edward Hoheiset of St. Louis, teacher. He taught
here for three years. After him the sisters of St. Francis,
Milwauke, Wis., took charge, and have continued since.

Pupils number at present about 45.

In January, 1899, the church bought the residence just
North of the church, called the Hays property, for a parson-
age. The church at present numbers about 60 families.

CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER.

The first Catholic service ever held in Jersey ville, and
perhaps in the county, was at the home of Mr. William
Shephard in the fall of 1841, Rev. Father Hamilton officiat-
ing 1 . Previous to 1839, Thomas Carroll, Mrs, Mary Cum-
ming-s, and the Carroll family who resided at Otter Creek
were the only Catholic families in this county. The number
was increased that year by the arrival of Wm. Shephard,
James Flannig-an and Wm. Kelly, the latter being- the first
man ever married by a priest in Jersey county, which occur-
red in 1839, Father Hamilton officiating-.

After Father Hamilton, Father Carroll, of Alton, occa-
sionally visited Jersey ville and held services in private houses
and in the court house.

In 1848-9, Wm. Shephard, Fred Bertman and William
Kelly purchased from J. A. & J. C. Barr a lot of ground up-
on which to erect a church, but it was not until 1857 that the
building 1 of a small frame church was commenced, and, in
the latter part of July, 1858, was dedicated by Right Rev. H.
D. Juncker, Bishop of Alton, Father Mang-an was the first
priest permanently located in Jerseyville, which was in Aug-.,
1858, and remained here until April, 1860, He was succeed-
ed by Father Morrill, who remained until February 1, 1861,

His successor was Father Laurent, During- his minis-
try of five years he had the comfortable and commodious
parsonag-e built, and purchased ground for the cemetery.
Father Laurent remained until February, 1865, when he
was succeeded by Father Hovin, who was succeeded by
Father Sullivan During- his ministry the foundation of the
new church was commenced, as the old frame church, which
had been used for the past ten years, was found too small,
and removed to another part of the city, where it is used by
the society for church purposes and a day school.

The corner stone of the present splendid edifice was
laid in May, 1868, with appropriate ceremonies by Bishop

ST. KKANCIS XAVIKK S CHUKCH.

Juncker of the Alton diocese. This building 1 was dedicated
July 4, 1871. The main body of the church is 55x110 feet,
and is built in the early English style. The height ot
the tower from the pavement is 140 feet. It has the most
imposing" location of any building 1 in the city, It seems to be
standing 1 in the middle of the four principal thoroughfares
coming into the city from the four points of the compass.
The church has a seating capacity of 800 on the main floor,
and 250 in the gallery, making a seating capacity of 1,050
persons. The structure was planned by Wm, Embly, of
this city, and erected in the best of workmanship manner,
at the cost of $25,000,

Rev. Father Harty succeeded Father Sullivan in Dec,,
1868, and remained here about thirty-two years, until his
death, which occurred July 19, 1899,

Rev. Father Fallen succeeded Father Harty, taking
charge August 1, 1899, and remains with us to this day,

EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF JERSEYVILLE.

In April 1868, the Rev. C. S. Abbott, then rector of St.
Paul's church, Alton, 111., occasionally held services in Jer-
seyville, during which services, there were seventeen per -
sons baptized, and five confirmed. Rev. D. W. Dresser also
made occasional visits.

The membership of this church was composed of Mary
A. Davenport, Ann Landon, Cecilia K. Gibson, Elizabeth F.
VanHorne, Alice L. Titus, Francis A. Knapp, Allen Marsh-
all, Cornelia Cockrell and Elizabeth Coddington, all of whom
were communicants before Jan, 1st, 1869.

In May, 1869, the Rev. George Gibson was commission-
ed missionary for Jerseyville and Carrollton, and there labor-
ed for two years. The Rev. H. G. Perry shortly followed
and served for about two years. From this time, for about
10 years to 1879 services were almost entirely discontin-
ued.

In Feb. 22,1879, Right Rev. G. F. Seymour, D. D.,L.L.

D., appointed Rev. G. W. G. Vanwinkle from New York City,
to take charge of this work in Jersey ville and Carrollton,
which he did. On the 22nd day of April, 1879, the congre-
gation met and a petition was prepared asking to be organiz-
ed as a mission. This was sent to the Bishop in May, and
the Bishop approving the action appointed the following nam-
ed persons as officers, which names were respectfully pro-
posed by the congregation, E. L. H. Barry, M. D.,S. W.;J. G.
Blish, J. W.; H. N. Wyckoff, T.; John Fox, S.;

On the 6th day of May, 1879, the Bishop signed a certifi-
cate signifying his consent and approval and making the ap-
pointments of the officers according to the laws of the
church.

Immediately after this action, steps were taken towards
the erection of a house of worship, which soon resulted in the
cash purchase of land enough on which to build a church ed-
ifice and rectory, which the congregation hoped soon to
erect._

The building committee was composed of Dr. E. L. H.
Barry, Charles Catt, John Fox, M. E. Bagley, and the rector,
Rev. G. W. G. Van Winkle. On July 22, 1880, with appropri-
ate ceremonies the corner stone of the new edifice was laid.
There now stands a neatly constructed brick edifice, beauti-
fully located on East Pearl St., at the cost of $4,500.

For the erection of this church building, much credit is
due to Dr. E. L. H. Barry, for the skill, and devotion he had
in the cause of its erection. June 2nd, 1881 this new church
building was dedicated with appropriate services con-
ducted by Rev. G. P. Betts, of the Trinity church, St. Louis,
and Rev. T. W. Haskins, Alton, 111. and Rev. Wm. Elener, of
Jacksonville, assisting. Among the Rectors Rev.Wm.T. Wit-
marsh, Rev. Mr. Harrison. Rev. F. W. Cornell gave services
through 1896; Rev. E. D. Irvine came in March, 1897; Rey. H.
A. Stowell came in March, 1901.

GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF PEACE.

This church was organized in 1870, with the following-
officers:

Charles Jacobs, president;
William Dopper, vice-president;
Henry Brandt, secretary;
John Boon, treasurer.

Its charter members were: Adolph Bayer, Chas. Ruetter,
Henry Bayer, Henry F. Bayer, Wm. Egelhoff, Conrad Bay-
er, V. Vellinger, Henry A. Brandt, Chas. Jacobs, Jacob
Gammindinger, Paul Glohr, John Boon, Jacob Fryger, Louis
Grosseau and Wm. Dopper.

The following 1 have been the pastors: Revs. Anton
Michael, Weissinger, Fred Eshenfeld, Rieder, Fred
Schmale, Edward Wurst, Nathaniel Lehman, E. Durand,

0. Breuhaus, A. B. Ballhorn, and A. Hils, who was the last
pastor. Rev. A. Hils began his labors with this church Oc-
tober 1, 1898, and was installed Nov. 13, 1898, by Pastor
Wm. Hackman of Alton, Illinois. The corner stone of the
present house of worship was laid Sept. 27, 1896. The res-
ident pastors of the evangelical churches of Jerseyville
were present and assisted in the ceremonies, viz: Rev.

1. C. Tyson, of the Presbyterian church; Rev. J. J. Porter,
of the Baptist church; and C. Nash of the M. E. church.

The present house of worship was dedicated March 14,
1897. The dedicatory sermon was preached by Rev. A.
Ballhorn, assisted by Rev. Reusch of Brighton, 111.; Rev.
Fred Schmale of Nashville, 111.; and Rev. W. Hackman of
Alton, 111. Cost of the present house of worship was $3,500.

The present officers are: C. C. Borger, president; John
Schneider, vice-president; Wm. Brockman, secretary; and
Fred Schmidt, treasurer. At present the church is without
a pastor.

COLORED BAPTIST CHURCH.

This church was organized in the year 1858, by Elder

James H. Johnson. The first officers were: P. S. Brayden,
W. M. Phillips, and Samuel Evans, trustees; with P. S.
Braden, clerk, and W. M. Phillips, treasurer.

Among- the charter members were: Cynthia Brown,
Henrietta Johnson, John Barton, America Barton, W. M.
Phillips and Samuel Evans. They held their meeting's for
some three years in private residences, but about the year
1860, the present church building- was erected. It is a brick
structure, 30x50 feet, and cost $1,500.

The pastors of this church have been: Revs. J. H.
Johnson, Jackson Robinson, G. M. Davis, L. A. Coleman, J.
W. Jones, S. P. Griswell, Banjamin Williams, J E. Jackson,
and A. W. Collins. Have no pastor at this writing-, 1901.

The present deacons are William Swann and John
Matthew, and Miss Celia Evans, clerk. Membership is 30.

REV. JAY A. FORD.

REV. J. G. KLENE.

KICV. C. 15. KKSSK.

RKV. M. M. COOPER.

The dlergy of Jersey vi lie, Illinois.

REV. JOHN G. KLENE, A. B.

Rev. John G. Klene was born at Sparta, Illinois, and be-
fore he was two years of age removed with his parents to a
farm in Washing-ton county, Illinois, where he resided until
he was almost grown. He began his education in the country
school, and after a term in the high school, taught during 1 the
winters of '84 and '85.

In the fall of '86 he re-entered the Sparta high school,
from which he graduated in June, '88. That year he entered
Monmonth college and graduated with the degree of A. B. in
June, '92. Up to this time he had been a member of the
United Presbyterian church since his conversion, but now
decided to change his ecclesiastical relations, and entered
McCormick seminary, Chicago, to prepare himself for the
ministry in the Presbyterian church.

During his summer vacation, between his junior and
middle years in the seminary, Mr. Klene supplied the
church at Nashville, Illinois, and, between the middle and
senior years, the church at Marion, Iowa. Mr. Klene gra-
duated from McCormick Seminary with the class of '95.
Shortly after his graduation he was united in marriage to
Miss Sarah B. Hood of Sparta, Illinois. Shortly after his
marriage he accepted the position of supply, for one year, of
the Presbyterian church at Deer Lodge, Montana. Return-
ing to Illinois, he was at once called to the Presbyterian
church at Belleville, which he served for two years. That
charge was resigned to accept a call to the pastorate of the
North Presbyterian church of St. Louis, Mo. This church
he served for three years, and entered upon his work as
pastor of the Presbyterian church of Jerseyville, April
1, 1901. He was installed over said church, May 1, 1901.

RKV. J. ARTHUR FORD, PH. D.,

Born in Newark Valley, Tioga county, N. Y., June 15,
1850. He prepared himself for the profession of teacher in
the Holly Normal School, Holly, Michigan. He began his
profession as teacher at Rosedale, Mich., in the fall of 1867,
at the age of 17 years.

During the 'following three winters he 'was principal of
the schools at Smithfield, Mich., and in the summers he
studied law in the office of Byron L. Ransford, Holly, Mich.

Alt the age of 20, in the year 1870, he entered Colgate
University at Hamilton, N. Y. He studied there for three
years, until 1873. Returning to Michigan, he passed his
legal examination and was admitted to the bar in the fall of
1873. He then returned to New York and practiced law in
the city of Binghamton, N. Y., until 1879. He then sold his
law practice and became the editor of the Bay City Daily
Tribune,' of Mich., the successor of Hon. A. M. Birney, U.
S. Minister to the Hague, under appointment of President
Garfield. He afterwards became editor of the "Saginaw
Daily Herald," and while editor of that paper, preparing the
city ministers' sermons for the press, he began to contem-
plate his need of salvation. Being fully convicted thereof, he
at once sought, with all his heart, and found his Savior.

Returning again 'to New York, he spent a year in the
Y. M. Cl A. work. In January, 1882, he was baptized and
united with the First Baptist church of Maine, Broone Co.,
N.-Y.

In 1883, he moved to Hamilton, N. Y., and took his theo-
logical course in Hamilton Theological Seminary, graduat-
ing in June, 1885.

Immediately after graduating, he received a call from
the First Baptist church of Frankfort, N. Y.

In .1888, he became pastor of the First Baptist church at
Battle Creek, Mich. In 1896, he accepted the pastorate of
the First Baptist, church at Lincoln,,Ill.

REV. P. FALLON.

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January 1, 1900, he accepted a call from the Baptist
church at Jerseyville, 111., where he now remains as pastor.

REV. C. B. BESSK, D. D.

Rev. C. B. Besse, D. D., was born in Jefferson, Lincoln
County, Maine, June 3rd, 1841. Here he spent his childhood
and youth, securing- the fundamentals of an education in vil-
lage, and occasional private schools. He commenced teach-
ing- in the country schools at the age of seventeen, at which
he continued for four years, when he entered Lincoln Aca-
demy at New, Castle, Maine, to prepare for College.

In 1864 he entered Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., from
which he was compelled to retire before graduation on ac-
count of failing health. After more than a year of persistent
but unsuccessful effort to regain his health, so as to resume
his college course, in great depression of spirit, disapoint-
ment at the miscarriage of his life plans he sought the con-
solations of religion. There is a history here which the nec-
essary brevity of this sketch compels us to omit.

In the month of May, 1867, after weeks of sorrowful
seeking, a great peace came into his soul, and, in response to
the call of God and the church, he preached his first sermon
in June, just five weeks after his conversion. In 1868 he was
sent by his Presiding Elder to serve the M. E. Church in
China, Maine. In 1869 he was received on trial into the East
Maine Conference. In 1871 he was ordained Deacon by Bish-
op E. R. Ames. In 1873 he was ordained Elder by Bishop
L. W. Wiley. In this conference he continued till 1888, serv-
ing the following charges: China, Pittston, Dexter, Rock-
land, Vassalboro, Bucksport, Orrington, Bangor and Thom-
as ton.

In 1888 he was transferred by Bishop Warren to the Ark-
ansas Conference, and stationed at Main Street M.E.Church,
Little Rock. Here in 1889, he received his tittle of D. D.
from the Fort Worth University. In 1890 he was transfer-
red By Bishop Thomas Bowman to Southern Illinois confer-

ence and stationed at Effingham. He has since served the
churches at Vandalia and Carbondale; and was appointed to
Jerseyville by Bishop W. X. Ninde, Oct., 1900, where he is
still to be found in labors abundant.

REV. FRANCIS A. MARKS.

Born in St. Louis, Mo., June 28, 1859. In the year of
1861, when about two years old, he removed with his parents
to Breese, Clinton county, 111. Here he receiyed his com-
mon school education. In the fall of 1872, he entered the St.
Francis Seminary, near Milwaukee, Wis. Here he remain-
ed in the seminary until 1878. From there he went to Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, for one year. From there to St. Minard, Spen-
cer Co., Ind., remaining 1 there until the spring of 1883. Or-
dained to the priesthood May 20th, 1883, at Breese, Illinois.
He was temporarily stationed at Chester, 111., when on Thaks-
giving day 1883 he arrived in Jerseyville, 111., where he has ev-
er since, and is now the pastor of the church ot the Holy
Ghost.

RKV. PATRICK FALLON,

Was born in Montreal, Can., Aug. 27, 1858. Received his
early education in the Christian Brothers' school in Montre-
al. Entered the Montreal college September, 1874, and re-
mained there until 1879. He entered the Seminary of Phil-
osophy in 1879, and began his studies in the Seminary of
Theology, Sept., 1881, and graduated there Dec., 1884.

He was ordained to the priesthood Dec. 20, 1884.

Began the ministry as a substitute at Litchfield, 111., Jan.
1st to April, 1885.

From Litchfield he became pastor at Murrayville, 111.,
from May, 1885 to May, 1887.

Next, pastor of St. Patrick's church, Alton, 111., from
May, 1887, to Jan., 1897. From .Alton, 111., he went to Mon-
treal, Can., from Jan. 1897, to Aug 1899.

Aug. 1st, 1899, he became pastor of St. Francis Xavier's
church, Jerseyville, 111., where he remains pastor to the pres-
ent time, 1901.

KICV. FRANCIS A. MARKS.

REV. STEPHEN CATT.

Born in Rotherfield, County of Sussex, England, April
10, 1844. Youngest son of Jas. and Harriette Catt, (nee Har-
mon); came to the United States, arriving- at the city of New
York, May 18, 1861.

He entered the United States service Nov. 24, 1863, in
Company F., 4th Regiment Illinois Cavalry Volunteers. He
was honorably discharged on the 29th day of August, 1865,
by order of the Surgeon General Department, at Washing-
ton, D. C.

Rev. Catt received his early education in England in
private and public schools; attended public schools near Jer-
seyville in the winters of 1861-2. He was licensed to preach
by the Jerseyville Baptist church Jan. 30, 1876; was ordained
at the Baptist church in Jerseyville, June 26, 1879, by the fol-
lowing council: Revs. B. B. Hamilton, moderator. C. E.
Taylor, A. Dodson, J. W. Place, J. E. Roberts, and John
Costley.

Rev. Catt was for eleven years missionary of the Carroll-
ton Baptist Association, and during that time built the
churches at Roodhouse, Palmyra and Greenfield. During
that period he added to the churches of Carrollton Associa-
tion about ten per cent of their membership through his mis-
sionary labors.

REV. M. M. COOPER.

The subject of this sketch was born in Kane, Greene
county, 111., July 15, 1838. When about three years old his
father and mother agreed that he should be the adopted
child of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cooper. Agreeable to their
covenant, Mr. and Mrs, Cooper, by an act of the Legislature
of the State of Illinois, he became their adopted child and
heir at law.

He received his early education in the common schools
near his home, and in the winters of 1858-9, he attended a
young men's Academy, held in the upper room of the Hall of

the Sons of Temperance, taught by Rev. Mr. Gilford, a
Presbyterian preacher.

In the fall of 1859 he entered Shurtleff College where he
took a classical course, remaining- until 1865. He spent the
ten following 1 years teaching-. He taught four schools in
Litchfield, 111.; was principal of the schools at Pocahontas
and Oconee, 111.

In 1874, he was received as a licentiate into the Presby-
tery of St. Louis. In 1875, he was ordained at Nashville,
111., by the Presbytery of Cairo, while pastor of the Presby-
terian church of Pinckneyville, 111. He has been pastor and
stated supply for twenty five years, besides teaching- ten
years.

REV. CALOWAY NASH, A. M., D. D.

Rev. Caloway Nash, A. M., D. D., was born in Clay born
Co., Tenn., March 18, 1840. Brought up on the farm and re-
ceived his early education in the common schools of his coun-
ty, and at Walnut Grove Academy near Knoxville, Tenn.
Entered Shurtleff College in 1863, and was there two
years.

Received into the Southern Illinois Conference of the M.
E. church in 1865. He was first assistant pastor in charge of
the Edwardsville circuit for one year.

His second charge was the Brighton circuit, where he
labored two years. Afterwards pastor at Upper Alton, Ed-
wardsville, Centralia, Fairfield and Mt. Vernon. Follow-
ing these labors, he was Presiding Elder four years of the
Mt. Vernon District.

Afterwards pastor at Carboiidale, Mt. Car m el, Olney,
and Jerseyville; at this place, on account of failing health, he
took a superannuated relation, but his health has so far im-
proved as to enable him to be active in the ministry among
country and village churches of his vicinity.

He was married to Miss Emma Pinckard of Alton, 111.,
May 16th, 1886. Of the eight children born to them only
three remain, viz., Clara L., Henry Raymond, and Albert
Earl.

1 Mrs. Nellie M. Templeton, 2 Charles M. Cooper. 3 Mrs. V. E. Cooper. 4 Rev. Wm. Carl
Cooper. 5 Rev. M. M. Cooper. 6 Mrs. M. K. Wade. 7 Mrs. Sara C. Cooper. 8 Mrs. Hattie Cooper

Crawford.

Brother Nash joined the Union army May, 1864 and was
honorably discharged Sept., 1864.

He belonged to company D. of the 133 111. Infantry,
made up principally of students from Shurtleff College.

He is an enthusiastic member of T. S. Bowers Post, G.
A. R., of Mt. Carmel, 111.

The Newspapers of $erseyville,

"THE BACKWOODSMAN.

The first newspaper published in Jerseyville was called
the "Backwoodsman." It was first published in Grafton,
111., in 1837, and was the first paper published in Jersey
county. It was purchased by a joint stock company and
moved to Jerseyville, and pulished by A. S. Tilden in the
spring- of 1840. Tilden subsequently retired, and Messrs.
Fletcher and Parenteau secured control of the paper and
changed its name to that of the "Newspaper." After the
publication of it for three months, the office burned and the
paper was never again revived.

"PRAIRIK STATE."

The second paper published in Jerseyville was called the
"Prairie State," in 1848. It was also removed from Graf-
ton; Mr. Conklin was editor and proprietor. It was an in-
dependent paper. In 1852, Augustus C. Smith, editor, and
Abner C. Hinton were connected with it only a few months.
The "Prairie State" was next purchased by a stock com-
pany, with A. C. Clayton as editor. In 1860 its politics was
changed from an independent, into a Republican paper, and
in the presidential campaign of 1860, it warmly supported
Abraham Lincoln. In 1862 Charles Williams became editor,
and during his administration the office burned and the pub-
lication never resumed.

"JERSEY COUNTY DEMOCRAT."

The first Democratic paper ever published in Jersey-
ville was the "Democratic Union" in 1854, by Thos. Wright.
He left Jerseyville in 1856, and the publication of the paper
stopped, but in the following year, 1857, the publication was
revived by H. H. Howard, who, in 1858, was succeeded by

1 E. B. Roach, 2 J. M. Page, proprietor; 3 Harriet Randolph.
JERSEY COUNTY DEMOCRAT.

John C. Doblebower who continued the publication of the
"Democratic Union" until early in the year 1865, when the
office was bought by a stock company and the name of the
paper was changed to "Jersey County Democrat," with
August Smith as editor. The paper remained under his
management until the year 1866, when the stock company
was dissolved, with Thomas J. Selby, editor and proprietor.

In October, 1869, Mr, Selby disposed of the paper to A.
A. Wheelock and L. L. Burr. In September, 1870, J. A. J.
Birdsall and J. I. McGready became proprietors. Birdsall
was connected with the paper for one year, while McGready
continued its publication for about nine years.

In October, 1880, J. M, Page bought the "Jersey County
Democrat" of Jesse I. McGready, who had been its editor
about ten years, and, on being elected circuit clerk, sold it.

On November 11, 1880, appeared the first issue of the
"Jersey County Democrat, " with J. M. Page as editor and
proprietor.

In September, 1898, the "Daily Democrat" was first is-
sued, and continues to be issued up to the present time, 1901.

"JERSEYVILLE REPUBLICAN."

In 1863, the "Jerseyville Republican" was established
by a stock company, with E. V. Haughawaut as editor, who
conducted the paper only through the presidential campaign
of '64. He was succeeded by George P. Smith, who had
charge for only a brief time. Chapin and Glover had charge
of the paper for only a short time, when it passed into the
hands of Wm. H. Edgar. Mr. Edgar was an able and suc-
cessful editor and his paper obtained a popular and influen-
tial position. It had been identified with every aggressive
movement, having a devoted interest in the welfare of the
country, and was widely read and circulated.

In 1891, Frank Ladd bought the "Jerseyville Republi-
can" from Abe Locke, and in 1895 sold out to J. W. Becker,
who, up to the present time, 1901, has been its efficient editor.

"JKRSEYVILLE EXAMINER."

The "Examiner" was established in Jerseyville in 1878,
and the first issue appeared August 12, '78. A stock com-
pany was formed, known as the "Jerseyville Publishing-
Company," composed of Morris R. Locke, Win. McBride,
Horace N. Belt, James A. Barr and Wm. H. Pogue. The
paper was a five column quarto, issued Wednesdays, with
J. Sterling Harper as editor. The "Examiner" was an un-
compromising advocate for the temperance cause, and con-
tinued so to the last. The following is a part of the saluta-
tory of the first issue of the "Examiner:"

"Here we are in Jerseyville, to work for the temperance
cause. The paramount subject is temperance, and in regard
to it, the people are interested generally. The prohibition
of the liquor traffic would be one of the greatest blessings of
the age. The "Examiner" will teach this wholesome doc-
trine, and endeavor, by all honorable means, to obtain a
hearty endorsement from the people of Jersey county* and
elsewhere, and especially in the city of Jerseyville do we ask
a hearty co-operation."

Where is the paper that dares to advocate such senti-
ments now? If a good thing then, why not now?

With the issue of November 27, 1878, the "Examiner"
was leased by the editor, Mr. Harper, who continued to is-
sue the paper two weeks when he withdrew entirely. From
the pen of Morris R. Locke in the issue of Dec. llth, this
salutatory was written:

"By direction of the Jerseyville Publishing Company, I
assume editorial management of the "Examiner." I shall
hew to the line of Prohibition, as announced by that party,
believing that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound
of cure. The news of the county and the day will be given.
To our friends I would say, be of good cheer; to the oppo-
sition, come thou along with us, and we will do thee good."

The paper was continued under this management until
its consolidation with the Republican, Sept. 10, 1880.

"JERSKYVILLE REGISTER."

This paper was established in the early part of Novem-
ber, 1865, by Frederick S. Haughawaut, editor and proprie-
tor. It was a seven column folio, all printed in Jerseyville at
$2.00 per year.

Mr. Haughawaut continued the publication ot the "Re-
gister" until the year 1867, when he disposed of it to L.
Williams, familiarly known as "Yank," who soon afterwards
removed to Topeka, Kan., and his son Charles F., leased the
office and became its editor and publisher.

In October, 1868, the office was advertised for sale and
was purchased by Col. G. P. Smith, of the Jacksonville Jour-
nal, who established the "Jerseyville Republican."
"REPUBLICAN-EXAMINER. "

The first issue of the Republican-Examiner was by
Messrs. Wm. H. Edgar and Morris R. Locke, Sept. 10, 1880,
in a five column quarto, in which form it continued under the
firm name of Edgar & Locke. Mr Edgar was former editor
of the Repulican, and Mr. Locke former editor of the Exam-
iner. The firm of Edgar & Locke continued until Jan. 12,
1885, when Mr. Locke retired and was succeeded by Frank
M. Roberts.

In March following, 1885, another chang-e occurred in
the manag-ement of the "Republican-Examiner." Wm. H.
Edgar, who for 16 years of continual editorial labor, retired,
giving- place to Wm. H. Hedley. In the issue of March 27,
1885, are found Mr. Edgar's farewell words to his patrons
and friends. For want of space I cannot insert those beau-
tiful parting words. From this date the firm name was
Roberts & Hedley, editors and proprietors.

"JERSEYVILLE EVENING TIMES."

The first issue of the "Evening- Times" appeared May
25, 1885, in a five column folio. It was established by Messrs.
J. A. Walker and J. A. Blennerhassett, both being- pi'actical
printers, and are yet working at the trade. Their paper

was devoted to the interests of Jersey ville and Jersey county.

July 13, 1885, the paper was changed to a morning 1 pub-
lication, being- heretofore published in the evening 1 .

August 17, 1885, Mr. J. A. Blennerhassett retired from
the firm, and Mr. Walker, after publishing" it some time,
sold the paper.

"DAILY AND WEEKLY JOURNAL."

The Daily and Weekly Journal, a democratic paper, was
established by John J. Smith in 1893. In the.fall of '95, he
sold to W. E. Carlin and A. F. Ely, who sold the plant to J.
M. Page in September, 1896, who discontinued its publica-
tion.

"REPUBLICAN CALL."

Published daily and weekly by Adolphus H. Rue, in the
interests of the Republican party. It was first issued dur-
ing the campaign of Harrison and Cleveland in 1888, and con-
tinued about two years.

"WESTERN FARMER,"

Issued by Frank Malott for about a year, afterwards
ceased publication.

"JERSEYVILLE INDEPENDENT."

This paper was removed from Grafton to Jerseyville in
November, 1880, by R. R. Claridge, who sold it to L. T.
Waggoner and A. M. Slaten in 1882. During that year it
was purchased by Chas. H. Kelly, of Elsah, who continued
its publication till 1885, when it was succeeded by the "Free
Press," with E. T, Lurton and R. E. Smith as publishers.

The TPresent Editors.

JOSKPH M. PAGE,

Was born in Stoughton, Mass,, May 20, 1845. His fath-
er died when he was only three years of age, which made the
responsibilities of life rest heavily on mother and children.
He received a good education in the public schools of
Stoughton, graduating an the age of 16 years.

At the breaking out ol the civil war he offered his life a
siicrifice to his country by attempting to enlist in the 12th
Massachusetts Inf. Vol., and also in the 35th Massachusetts
Inf. Vol., but on account of extreme youth he was rejected,
to his bitter disappointment.

At the age of 18 years, in the spring of 1863, he turned
his face westward, where we soon find him working on a
farm near Greenville, Bond county, 111. Finding farming a
little too slow for the young man, we soon find him in St.
Louis, employed in a large wholesale grocery store, where
he hustled for some time.

The third time, Aug., 1864, he offered his services to his
country and was accepted, and enlisted in the 40th Missou-
ri Reg. Vol.. where he served until the close of the war
and was honorably dischared in August, 1865.

In the spring of 1866 we find him in Jerseyville, a penni-
niless stranger, 25 cents being his financial capital. He im-
meditely apprenticed himself to Wm. Embly for three years
for $100 per year and board, and at the end of six months,
Mr. Embly discontinued the carpenter trade, and, following
architecture only, hired out Mr. Page to "Nick" Smith for
$15.00 per week, while young Page resolutely kept his ori-
ginal contract with Mr. Embly for $2.00 per week for the re-
maining two and one-half years. At the expiration of the

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three years' engagement with Mr. Embly, Mr. Smith em-
ployed Mr. Page at $18.00 per week, and made him his fore-
man, and he continued carpentering till the summer of 1877,
when he was appointed city marshal, which office he held
four years, resigning in October, 1880, when he purchased
the Jersey County Democrat.

In 1881 he was elected city clerk and treasurer, which
office he held five years, and in 1887 was elected mayor and
re-elected three times, refusing to serve more than 4 years,
the term of office of mayor at that time being but one year.

While he was mayor the waterworks system was inaug-
urated and completed, also the electric light system, and on
his retiring from the mayoralty he organized and pushed to
completion the Jerseyville Telephone Company, which now
covers the entire county.

In 1880, he purchased the Jersey County Democrat, of
which he is still the editor and proprietor.

For the past 13 years he has been secretary of the Illi-
nois Press Association, and for 12 years corresponding sec-
retary of the National Editorial Association, both of which
positions he still fills.

He is master in chancery, having held the office for 14
years.

In 1897, he organized "The Cold Spring Gold Mining
and Tunnel Company," with a paid up capital of $2,500,000,
and which owns 420 acres of mineral landsin Boulder Co., Col.
These properties are now being developed and are produc-
ing rich outputs. Mr. Page is secretary and manager of the
Company, with office in Jerseyville.

On March 17, 1871, he was married to Miss Sadie
Remer, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Remer, of
Jerseyville. They have one son, Theodore S., a practicing
physician in St. Louis, Mo.

JOSEPH W. BECKER.

Born on a farm, near Silver Creek post-office, Calhoun
county, Illinois, January 6, 1865. Worked on his father's

1 Mrs. Maggie Becker. 2 Nellie, a Grace, 4 .T. W. Keeker.

farm, attending- school during 1 the winter months, until he
commenced teaching- in 1884.

In 1883-4 he attended the Central Wesleyan College at
Warrenton, Mo., borrowing- the money necessary from an
older brother. He also attended the Illinois State Normal,
at Normal, for a short time in 1886.

After teaching- for seven years he established a Repub-
lican newspaper, "The Leader," at Hardin, 111., in April,
1891, Calhoun county being without a Republican paper at
that time. While in the newspaper work, he was solicited
to become principal of the Hardin school, which position he
filled for two years, ending- with the spring- of 1895.

In December, 1894, he sold the "Leader, and in April,
1895, became editor and publisher of the "Jerseyville Repub-
lican."

In 1889, he was married to Miss Mag-gie Cloning-er, of
Summit Grove, Calhoun county. They have two daug-hters,
Grace and Nellie.

Early Schools and Teachers.

The first school taught in Jerseyville was by Irvin Little,
in the Old Red House, in the winter of 1834-5. He soon ex-
changed the hazel for the hoe as the more profitable.

The second teacher was the venerable John Adams of
Jacksonville, 111., a man, it is said, who has taught more boys
than any man in the United States, having been for many
years a teacher in many of the best Academies in New Eng-
land. He taught here in 1836. He taught the first school
in the old school house which was built in 1836, on land do-
nated for school purposes by A. H. Burrett. The house
measured 20x24 feet, and stood on land now in Capt. John
Smith's yard, on Spruce and Jefferson streets.

The third teacher in Jerseyville was Prof. Penuel Cor-
bett, who came to Jersey ville with his family in 1838, and be-
gan at once teaching in the old school house formerly occu-
pied by Mr. Adams. Mr. Corbett taught for many years in
Jerseyville, and will be long and favorably remembered by
many of our older citizens.

George I. Foster began teaching in the winter of 1849,
and taught for about 15 years, both private and public
schools.

Willard Guernsey taught for several years mostly, or
entirely, in the 40's.

George Crego also taught for some years, mostly in the
40 's.

James Newman taught in what was known as the Guern-
sey school house, which is now occupied as a residence,
standing on Washington st. between Pine and Mulberry
streets. He taught mostly in the 50 's.

Sprague White also taught for a short time som ewhere
about 1855-6.

PENUEL CORBKTT SCHOOL.

A graduate of Harvard University in 1817, Mr. Corbett
came to Jerseyville with his family in 1838, and began teach-
ing- school in the first school house built in Jerseyville, which
was in 1836. The old school house stood in the lot now own-
ed and occupied by Capt. John Smith, on Spruce and Jeffer-
son streets. After teaching- here for a number of years, he
went South where he taug-ht for a number of years; return-
ing 1 , he resumed teaching- in the new brick school house
erected in 1853. Mr. Corbett died May 1, 1878, in his 90th
year. He resided in Jerseyville 40 years, devoting- most of
his years to teaching. He will never be forgotten by the
citizens who were his pupils. "He rests from his labors,
but his works do follow him."

MISS VIRGINIA CORBETT 'S SCHOOL.

A graduate of Monticello in 1847. Immediately after
graduation, she taught In the Seminary for two years. Re-
turning to Jerseyville, she opened a select school for young
ladies in the Seminary building erected by Miss Farley, es-
pecially for Miss Corbett's school. Here Miss Corbett
taught for seven and one-half years, closing in the spring of
1856. Miss Virginia Corbett afterwards married Mr. Isaac
Harbert, who died in Jerseyville, 111., in September, 1872.
Mrs. Harbert still remains with us, living on West Pearl
street.

MRS. SUSAN HENDERSON CUTTING'S SCHOOL.

In the year 1857 Mrs. Cutting founded a school known as
the "Jerseyville Young Ladies' Seminary," which she con-
ducted as a private enterprise until 1869, about twelve years,
employing in her corps of teachers the best talent she could
obtain in the East and West. Instruction was given in com-
mon and higher English branches, with Latin and French,
painting, drawing, vocal and instrumental music. Mrs.
Cutting labored and sacrificed much through her school, to
bless and refine every home represented in her school.

In her catalogue published in 1861-2, I find the follow-
ing- Board of Instruction:

Mrs. L. M. Cutting 1 , principal;

Miss Jennie V. A. Vosburch, teacher of French and Latin;
" Harriett M. Henderson, principal of primary depr't;
" A. Maria Blackburn, teacher of music on piano;
" Ella V. McGannon, teacher of vocal music and piano.

Students in advanced department: Cornelia F. Bow-
man, Kate Beatty, Emma J. Blackburn, Josephine Bramlet,
Mary J. Brown, Georg-iana Bonnell, Mollie E. Blackburn,
Mary A. Barr, Sarah M. Christopher, Sarah Cory, Jennie
M. Carr, Mollie N. Cross, Addie S. Corbett, Mollie R. Conk-
liri, Mary E. Dunsdon, Mary C. Dobelbower, Ella Davis,
Mary A. English, Jennie M. French, Mary E. L. Herdman,
Mary Hurd, Fannie Hesser, Hattie C Henderson, Annie E.
Howell, Kate McKinney, M. Jennie Kirby, Carry Lerue,
Lenora A, Landon, Mary Landon, Fannie M. McGill, Anna
May McGannon, Hattie Nevius, Mollie Nevms, Anna Maria
Penningfton, Fannie M. Paris, Anna M. Pittman, Hattie A.
Paris, Emily J. Peairs, Josephine Price, Anna Rue, Henri-
etta Remer, Martha M. Snell, Clara J. Snell, LucyJ. Snell,
Eunice M. Seward, Hanna M. Seward, Henrietta Seward,
Sarah J. Smith, Martha Stelle, Josephine Smith, Mollie B.
Stryker, Emma Terry, Julia Tichnor, Lizzie Van Pelt, Ab-
bie Voorhees, S. Allice Wyche, Hattie S. Warren, Nellie J.
Wyckoff, Anna M. Williams, Charlotte A. Williams, Mary
Jane Wharton, Lizzie A. Wyckoff.

Government: This is parental. The Principal endeav-
ors to make the Golden Rule her guide in the general super-
vision, and control of all. A conscientous regard for right
is inculcated in the minds of the pupils, each reporting 1 daily
his own violations, if any, of the rules.

Mrs. Cutting's death was a sorrow to all who knew her,
and her funeral services were held at the Presbyterian
church, June 6, 1890, Rev. I. C. Tyson officiating-, Besides
the family and relatives who were seated nearest the casket,

just behind them sat 46 of her former students, now almost
all wives of prominent men of Jerseyville. So passed from
our midst a good and useful woman.

$erseyville TPublic Schools.

Prof. J. Pike became principal of the public schools of
Jerseyville, September, 1874, with Prof. M. E. Ellenwood
as assistant. In the spring- of 1875, Prof. D. J. Murphy as-
sumed the place of Prof. Ellenwood as assistant, and con-
tinued to hold his position until the spring- of 1886, when he
was elected to the office of county clerk.

Following- is the Board of Education for 1901-2:

H. S. Daniels, president,

Georg-e D. Locke, secretary,

Ed. J. Vaug-hn,

Charles S. White,

M. A. Warren,

H. R. Gledhill,

Fred Jacobs.

The following- teachers are employed for the year 1901-2:

J. Pike, M. A., superintendent, department of language
and history.

Edward B. Shafer, department of mathematics and
astronomy.

John A. Eg-elhoff, department of shorthand and business
course.

Herbert F. Blair, department of science.

Grammar department: Caroline Leresche, Frances M.
Hassett, Gertrude Greathouse.

Intermediate department: Amanda Lynn, Jessie
Houg-htlin, Hattie Erwin.

Primary department: Julia M. Laurent, Cornelia New-
ton, Anna E, Spencer.

Colored School: Marv J. Paul.

JERSKYVItLE PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING.

HIGH SCHOOL COURSES.

CLASSICAL COURSE.

SCIENTIFIC COURSE.

PIKST YEAR.

Higher English Grammar and Compo-
sition.
Latin.
Algebra.
Physiology.

Reading and Orthography.
Penmanship.

SECOND YEAR.

Latin.

Geometry.

Rhetoric and Composition.

Botany (4 mos.)

Physics.

Reading and Orthography.

Penmanship.

THIRD YEAR.

Latin.

Chemistry (5 mos ).
Arithmetic.

Civil Government (5 mos.).
English Literature and Composition.

FOURTH YEAR.

Latin.

General History and Essays

Astronomy (4 mos.).

Zoology (4 mos.)

University Algebra (4 mos.).

Reviews.

FIRST YEAK.

Higher English Grammar amid Com-
position.
Algebra.
Physiology.

Reading and Orthography.
Penmanship.

SECOND YKAR.

Geometry.

Rhetoric and Composition

Botany (4 mos.).

Physics.

Reading and Orthography.

Penmanship.

THIRD YEAR.

Trigonometry and Surveying.
Chemistry.
Arithmetic

Civil Government (5 mos.)
English Literature and Composition,

FOURTH YEAR.

General History and Essays.
Astronomy.
Zoology (4 mos.)
University Algebra.
English Litefature
Reviews.

Optional Studies : German, Book-keeping-, Shorthand,
Typewriting 1 , Greek.

BUSINESS COURSE.

The requirements in this department are the same as
those of the first and the second year of the Scientific Course,
In the third year, students of the Business Course will do
the work of the regular classes in Arithmetic, Civil Govern-
ment, and English Literature, and, in addition, will take
single and double entry book-keeping 1 .

SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING.

The course of study in this division of the High School
includes all the branches prescribed for the Business Course,

except book-keeping", for which Shorthand and Typewriting
will be substituted in the third year.

POST-GRADUATE COURSES,

The work of this department is as follows: In Higher
Mathematics, Analytical Geometry, Differential and Integral
Calculus; in Language, advanced Latin, German, Greek, and
English Literature ; in Science, Chemistry and Physics.
These courses are open to all regular graduates of the High
School, and to others who have the necessary preparation to
enable them successfully to take up the work of the course
selected.

FINANCIAL REPORT.

For the benefit of the tax-payer, that he may know
where, and how, his money is expended, I give my readers
one yearly financial report as submitted by the Board of
Education.

The following is a copy of the annual report of the finan-
cial affairs of the district, as submitted to the voters at the
election, April 16, 1898:

RECEIPTS.

April 1, 1897, Cash on band $ 917 37

" 5, " Amount received from trustees 628 95

June, 30, " " " " C.Keller, tax of '96 405538

July 31 ' " " " D.J. Murphy, tuition 36450

Oct. 16, " same 930 00

Dec. 4 " same 377 25

July 16, 1898, same 90 00

Mar. 26 s" Amt. received from C. B Stanley, tax of 1897 328596
" 31 ' Amt. received from D. J. Murphy, tuition 21255

Total $10861 96

EXPENDITURES.

Amount paid teachers $7760 00

" " Repairs 316 12

" ' Supplies . 25268

" " Fuel 27100

" " Services of janitor 604 20

' " Services of truant officer 37 50

" " Water rent 22 88

Sidewalks 29 76

Rent of telephone 17 00

Cleaning privies 29 9,5

Miscellaneous expenses 87 00

Total $9428 09

DANIEL J. MURPHY, Secretary.

COLORED SCHOOL.

The course of study in this school extends from the
Primary Grade of the other departments to the High School
inclusive, the branches, from term to term, being- adapted to
the advancement of the various classes.

Non-resident pupils entering- the Hig-h School are re-
quired to pay $30 per year tuition.

The school has an Astronomical Observatory, a g-ood
Chemical Laboratory, and a complete reference Library.

GRADUATES.

CLASS OF 78.

Anderson, Jennie Denver, Col

Barr, Leella (Fletcher) Quincy, 111

Bartlett, Linna (Carey) Delaware, Ohio

Bothwell, Georg-e A St. Louis, Mo

Cory, Rosa (Roberts) Jerseyville

Cory, Elizabeth (Enos) Denver, Col

Cutting-, Leonard M Jerseyville

Darby, Charlotte (Pritchett) Jerseyville

Foster, Rosa (Terrell) Tecumseh, Neb

Gray, Mollie (Bush) Pittsfield, 111

Hamilton, Ormond Meade, Kan

Hassett, Frances Maria Jerseyville

Keith, Charles W Denver, Col

Leig-h, Austin W Jerseyville

Lindley, Birdie (Todd) Batchtown, 111

Roach, William T Carthage, Mo

Spencer, Anna E Jerseyville

Van Home, Ella (Casey) Chicago, 111

CLASS OF 79.

Bothwell, Charlotte (McArthur) St. Louis, Mo

Cockrell, George M Omaha,Neb

Dunsdon, Cora (McKee) Lebanon, 111

Erwin, Douglas Fidelity, 111

Lurton, Margaret (Akard) Jerseyville

Pittman, Jennie (Reed) Benton, 111

Potts, Fanny(Henry) Pawnee City, Neb

Scott, Mabelle Anchorage, Ky

Seaman, Allen B Denver, Col

Wedding, Thomas Jerseyville

CLASS OF '80.

Dare, Rebecca (Lynn) Otterville, 111

Herdman, Jennie D Le Roy, Kan

Kingsley, William Edward Scranton, Kan

Leach, Otis D Jerseyville

Potts, James A Richmond, Va

Rider, Evelyn (Minier) Dallas, Texas

Ross, Helena Litchfield, 111

CLASS OF '81.

Christy, John Jerseyville

Dunsdon, Loula (McGready) Jerseyville

Erwin, Perry Medora, 111

Hanley, William Jerseyville

Miles, Herbert W Beatrice, Neb

Roach, Cornelius Carthage, Mo

Vinson, Lulu (Armstrong) St. Louis, Mo

Whitenack, Mollie (Wedding) Jerseyville

Van Home, Hugh Pawnee City, Neb

CLASS OF '82.

Cory, Flora (Miles) Beatrice, Neb

Evans, Lee Jerseyville

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Ferns, Thomas F . . . . Jersey ville

Leonard, E, L La Crosse, Wis

Perring-s, James D .Jersey ville

Pogue, Harrison W Jerseyville

Potts, William A Morrisonville, 111

Potts, William S Morrisonville, 111

Richards, William P . .Jerseyville

Strong-, Charles H New York

Vinson, Anna Jerseyville

Young-, Harriett (Armstrong-) St. Louis, Mo

CLASS OF '83.

Bothwell, Edith (Kennedy) St. Louis, Mo

Dolan, Mary (Smith) Spring-field, 111

Houg-htlin, Florence (Schaaf). ... Trenton, N. J

McKinstry, Catherine (Calhoun) Nebraska

Miles, Clarence J . . . . Beatrice, Neb

Paul, Mary J Jerseyville

Pog-ue, Edward D. W Denver, Col

CLASS OF '84.

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Cockrell, Harry B Omaha, Neb

Dyer, Edgar M Ashland, 111

Dunsdon, Josephine (Holland) Jerseyville

Hamilton, Bertha (Cockrell) Omaha, Neb

Hassett, Lizzy (Smith) Madison, 111

Milton, Laura (Daniels) Jerseyville

Newton, Albert W Jerseyville

Powell, Cornelia (Hamilton) Chicago

Tyson, Louis J Pueblo, Col

CLASS OF '85.

Barr, Kate Augusta (Cory) Jerseyville

Bothwell, Juliet Jerseyville

Daniels, Harry S Jerseyville

Martin, Emma (McReynolds) Kansas City, Mo

.Selby, Maud (Perring-s) Jerseyville

Shafer, Edward B Jerseyville

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Turner, Nettie K Meade, Kansas

Van Horne, May B. (Cutting-) Jersey ville

CLASS OF '86.

Block, Morris St. Louis, Mo

Carroll, Nora Jersey ville

Cory, Minnie D St. Louis, Mo

Duffield, Ida M Jersey ville

Fulkerson, Sarah B Jerseyville

Henderson, Leila Wahoo, Neb

Miles, Charles V ... Peoria, 111

O'Loughlin, Joseph Spring-field, 111

Tyson, Fannie A (Pillsbury) Denver, Col

Vandenburg, Ralph L Canton, 111

Voorhees, Albert E Jerseyville

White, Charles S Jerseyville

CLASS OF '87,

Barr, Lulu H Jerseyville

Catt, Mary H (Gard) Los Angeles, Cal

Cheney, Alex M , Denver, Col

Coulthard, Ida Jerseyville

Enos, Clinton Denver, Col

Enos, Laurens Decatur, 111

Fenity, Fred Colby, Kansas

Gledhill, Harry R Jersevville

Hand, Magdalene (Sunderland) Jerseyville

Houghtlin, David M East St. Louis, 111

Marsh, Stewart C .New York, N. Y

McClure, James F Jerseyville

O'Halloran, Lizzie (Halliday) St. Louis,Mo

Robb, Alex. C Jerseyville

Weyham, Lulu .... Chicago, 111

CLASS OF '88.

Ashford, Blanche (Chappell) Newbern, 111

Beaty, Herbert B St. Louis, Mo

Eaton, Alberta S Jerseyville

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Enos, Grace Jerseyville

Ford, Thomas S Jerseyville

Frost, Fannie B (McCollister) -Fidelity, 111

Grosjean, Nicholas A Otterville, 111

Hamilton, AltaC. (Rush) -Minneapolis, Minn

Mallot, Frank South Dakota

McClure, Anna (Roach) Carthage, Mo

Pogue, Harriett S Jerseyville

Roach, David Carthage, Mo

Rue, Mabel (Van Auken) Los Angeles, Cal

Shafer, Harry W Jerseyville

Skelley, Capitola (Perrings) Jerseyville

Sturdevant, Clara (Campbell) Jerseyville

Tyson, Mary L. Pueblo, Col

Utt, Emma L Jerseyville

Vaughn, Edward J Jerseyville

CLASS OF '89.

Carroll, Patrick M St. Louis, Mo

Cowen, Lora (Richards Jerseyville

Daniels, Flora (Reintges) Jerseyville, 111

Ford, Emma (McReynolds) Jerseyville

Fitzgerald, Catherine C (O'Maley) Jerseyville

Greathouse, Veleria Jerseyville

McGready, Lucy (Evans) East St. Louis, 111

Henry, Thomas Jerseyville

Howell, Robert M Chicago

Legate, George Jerseyville

Miles, Clara A Beatrice, Neb

Rowray, Minnie L Olivet, S. Dak

Sharp. Emma, (Corzine) Jerseyville

Thatcher, Minnie A (Maltimore) Chicago

Tucker, Thomas Rockbridge, 111

Vinson, Maud (Webster) Kansas City, Mo

White, Sallie A. (Schwarz) Jerseyville

Wyckoff, Nellie G Jerseyville

Wurtz, George B Shreveport, La

CLASS OF '90.

Allen, Marie P. (Mayfield) .... New Orleans, La

Bowman, Fannie E Jerseyville

Bohannan, Gertrude (Elliott) . . Chicago

Catt, Isabel Jerseyville

Cory, M. Alice Jerseyville

Corzine, Murry V Jereyville

Duggan, Andrew Carlinvilie, 111

Everts, Cora (Ford) Jerseyville

Finch, Cora (Seago) Jerseyville

Fulkerson, Joseph R Jerseyville

Gowling, Alfred Chicago

Greathouse, Gertrude Jerseyville

Hansell, Walter Jerseyville

Hassett, Minnie T. (Bott) Brighton, 111

Hough tlin, Jessie M Jerseyville

Hammell, Verbena Jerseyville

Maley, Sadie F South Dakota

McReynolds, George Jerseyville

Purinton, Lena B Chicago

Stafford, Herbert St. Louis, Mo

Turner, Jennie A Jerseyville

Utt, Lulu Jerseyville

Walsh, John F Jerseyville

Wurtz, Mary S Jerseyville

CLASS OF '91.

Borer, Virgnia M Kane, 111

Cockrell, Estella Kane, 111

Carr, Urban -Jerseyville

Colean, Harry Chicago

Cook, Edgar Jerseyville

Egelhoff, John A Jerseyville

Erwin, Hattie Jerseyville

Everts, Hattie Jerseyville

Fahey, William Jerseyville

Flamm, William Batchtown, 111

Flaherty, Nellie Jerseyville

Glosup, Frank Jerseyville

Lanclon, Royal Jerseyville

Long-, Edwin M St. Louis, Mo

Nelson, Dora Jerseyville

Pike, Fred W Jerseyville

Pope, Emma Jerseyville

Post, Lelah (Lamb) Peculiar, Mo

Randolph, Ella Jerseyville

Roach, Eugene Jerseyville

Seago, George M Jerseyville

Schmidt, Caroline Jerseyville

CLASS OF '92.

Barry, Daisy D Jerseyville

Beaty, Eva C Knob Noster, Mo

Beaty, David E Jerseyville

Bridg-es, Charles H ... West Point, N. Y

Blish, Ethel (Robards) Jerseyville

Catt, Nellie J Jerseyville

Carlin, Alma (Hamilton) -.Jerseyville

Cook, Arthur B Jerseyville

Dempsey, William Grafton, 111

Dunham, Oscar East St. Louis, 111

Du Hadway, Effie (Noble) Jerseyville

Duggan, Mary (Chappell) East Newbern, 111

Fitzpatrick, Katie A Jerseyville

Hassett, George M Jerseyville

Kinsella, Maggie Jerseyville

Leresche, Caroline Jerseyville

McReynolds, Maggie Jerseyville

Noble, Charles N Jerseyville

Nutt, Amy (Kehoe) San Antonio, Tex

O'Keefe, "Thomas Grafton, 111

Quinn, Nellie E Jerseyville

Terry, Edwin S Elsah, 111

Voorhees, Perry St. Louis, Mo

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West, Emma M Jersey ville

Ross, Herbert A Jersey ville

White, Justus V Kane, 111

Wyckoff, David A St. Louis, Mo

Young-, Antonio Jacksonville, 111

CLASS OF '93.

Bowman, Nellie G Jerseyville

Clendennen, Effie Jerseyville

Dug-g-an, John Jerseyville

Ely, Lulu M St. Louis, Mo

Hough tlin, Lillie Jerseyville

Massey, James Jerseyville

McAdams, Lewis Y. C East St. Louis, Mo

McNabb, Sarah (Vaug-hn) Jerseyville

Newton, Florence M Jerseyville

Olney, Mark P Fieldon, 111

Olney, Clara E. (Leg-ate) Jerseyville

Pag-e, Theodore H St. Louis, Mo

Randolph, Jennie Jerseyville

Randolph, Marg-aret ...Jerseyville

Ross, Edwin M ... Jerseyville

Sunderland, Louis J Jerseyville

Terry, Minnie Elsah, 111

Wahl, Robert E Jerseyville

CLASS OF '94.

Alexander, Everett L Jerseyville

Dodson, Janette G Jerseyville

Dressel, John H Kane, 111

Duffield, James Edwin Alton, 111

Hamilton, Grace (Robinson) East Newbern, 111

Kraus, Thomas Jerseyville

Noble, H. Pearl Jerseyville

Powers, John R Jerseyville

Poettg-en, Charles F St. Louis, Mo

Randolph, Alice C Jerseyville

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Roach, Thomas F Carthage, Mo

Rohacek, William Jersey ville

Rice, Orville Jerseyville

White, Ada Jerseyville

CLASS OF '95.

Bell, James W Jerseyville

Chapman, Harry L Jerseyville

Cone, Nellie S Jerseyville

Cockrell, Frank B Jerseyville

Cory, C. Roy Jerseyville

Dodge, Mary E Kemper, 111

Dodson, Nellie E Jerseyville

Eaton, Elizabeth Jerseyville

Fales, Maude E Jerseyville

Froelich, Clara Bunker Hill, 111

Gibbs, Alice .-. St. Louis, Mo

Grosjean, Henry J Jerseyville

Greathouse, Nina L Jerseyville

Lovell, Mary L Jerseyville

Mundle, Dixon G Delhi, 111

Paul, Mary J. (Post-graduate) Jerseyville

Purinton, Elizabeth Jerseyville

Osborne, Nellie H Jerseyville

Richards, Hayden O Jerseyville

Roach, Leonard .... Jerseyville

Schmieder, Mary T Jerseyville

Scott, Leanna Jerseyville

Smith, Henry F Jerseyville

Warren, Fay S Jerseyville

Warren, Harry A Jerseyville

White, John I Jerseyville

Wyckoff, Mary E Jerseyville

CLASS OF '96.

Brainerd, George Graf ton, 111

Cowen, Myrtle Jerseyville

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Curran, James ; Jersey ville

Dodge, George Kemper, 111

Dressel, Addie Kane, 111

English, Marian Jersey ville

Everts, Eugene Jersey ville

Hamilton, Fred Jerseyville

Montgomery, William Jerseyville

Newton, Cornelia Jerseyville

Shafer, Roy Jerseyville

Simmons, Aaron Jerseyville

Snedeker, Isaac Jerseyville

Voorhees, Gertrude Jerseyville

Warren, Florence Jerseyville

Wurtz, Eugene Jerseyville

CLASS OF '97.
Barron, Minnie E Jerseyville

Bassett, Charles A Jerseyville

Bowman, Harriet Jerseyville

Brokamp, Lizzie M Jerseyville

Brownlee, Cornelia J Jerseyville

Chapman, Theodore Jerseyville

Colean, Charles Jerseyville

Curtis, Edna L Jerseyville

Dodge, Edward A Jerseyville

Downey, Sylvester W Jerseyville

Hansell, Jesse G Jerseyville

Heller, Edna E Jerseyville

Houghtlin, Daisy Jerseyville

Landon, Truman Jerseyville

Laswell, Helen Raymond, Illinois

Maltimore, Minnie E Jerseyville

Mackeldon, John Jerseyville

Porter, Mary Helen Jerseyville

Randolph, O. Perry Jerseyville

Rice, Scott v Jerseyville

Roach, J. Augustine Jersevville

Shackelford, Minnie D Jerseyville

Stafford, Harry E .. Grafton, 111

Strasser, Louis H Fieldon, 111

Vinson, Ruth O Jerseyville

Wedding 1 , Alma Jerseyville

Wurtz, Martha W .Jerseyville

Wyckoff. Terese E, Jerseyville

CLASS OF '98.

Daniels, Walter S., jr Jerseyville

Boynton, William P Jerseyvile

Bell, Robert O

English, Robert C "

Erwin, Elmer "

Maupin, William H "

Beaty, Roy G .. ..

Jennings, William P

Daniels, Brainard J "

Hildred, Oscar "

Rowden, Charles H

Kraus, Henry G

Sutton, Ida M "

Duncan, Anna "

Rue, Elizabeth Mary "

Erwin, Jesse E . .... "

Irwin, G. Stella "

Gibbons, Marg-aret A "

Sweeney, Mary L "

Meyers, Stella M "

Chapman, Jennie

Curran, Margaret C "

CLASS OF '99.

Roberts, Leo C

Ross, Leslie C "

Duncan, Evaline R

Groppel, Louis E "

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Downey, Jesse W Jerseyville

Barnett, Charles "

Miller, Oliver J

Powers, Charles M "

Fahey, Stasia B

Conklin, Cora B

Reintg-es, Lezetta M Elsah

Schmeider, Wilhelmina C Jerseyville

Bringhurst, Susie A "

Dressel, Walter S Kane

Downey, James C Jerseyville

Scott, Mary P

Laurent, Julia M "

Howell, Russell D..
Knig-ht, Walter E

Sunderland, Grace M "

Warren, Charles E

Chapman, Paul W "

McDow, Albert E Newbern

Cheney, Grace L Virden

Stalder, Carrie M Alton

Duncan, Anna T Jerseyville

CLASS OF 1900.

Bassett, Mary Jerseyville

Todd, Anna L Batchtown

Hedges, Anna Jerseyville

Robing-s, Mabel "

Howell, Minnie "

Warren, Susanna i4

Richards, Gertrude "

Heller, Clara

Updike, Ollie McClusky

Daly, David A Jerseyville

Herdman, William J "

Stanley, Roy

Randolph, Carleton "

Brinton, Herbert Jerseyville

Chapman, Truman "

Boynton, Edson J "

Holmes, William Fieldon

Wilcox, Samuel L , Jerseyville

CLASS OF 1901.

Bassett, Anna E Jerseyville

Erwin, Lovie E "

Cook, Ruth "

Jacobs, Lottie E "

Heffron, Katherine "

Shackelford, Jane P "

Owens, Ora E "

Fahey, William F "

Campbell, George W "

Hamilton, Ray A "

Voorhees, Richard H "

Kraus, William J "

Blish, Charles H "

Miller, Floyd E , Rockbridg-e

Snedeker, Frank S Jerseyville

Mayes, Elmer H Jerseyville

GRADUATES IN STENOGRAPHY.

CLASS OF '95.

Cory, M. Alice Hill, Lulu M.

Hacquard, Louella Poettgen, Charles F.

Newton, Cornelia A. Powers, Alice

Pankey, Joseph Wurtz, Mary S.

CLASS OF '96.

Cone, Nellie S. Eaton, Elizabeth

Houg-htlin, Anna Purinton, Elizabeth

Warren, Fay S.

CLASS OF '97,

Curran, Marg-aret Laswell, Helen

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CLASS OF '98.

Vinson, Ruth Brokamp, Elizabeth

Barren, Julia Rowden, Charles

CLASS OF 1899.

Sweeney, Mamie Lancrey, Mary E

Flannig-an, Marg-aret

CLASS OF 1900.
Pittinger, Mabel Post, Leslie

CLASS OF 1901.
Giers, Webster Locke, Lucy E

Robing-s, Dorothy M.
POST GRADUATE WORK.

ANALYTICAL GEOMETRY AND CALCULUS.

Cockrell, Estella Cory, M. Alice

Greathouse, Gertrude Newton, Albert W.

Houg-htlin, Lillie Kraus, Thomas

Newton, Florence M. Rohacek, William

Cone, Nellie S. Fales, Maud E.

Paul, Mary J. Purinton, Elizabeth

Richards, Hayden O. Ross, Edwin M.

Scott, Leanna Smith, Henry F.
Ross, Herbert A.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Paul, Mary J Three Years' General Work

Voorhees, Albert E General Review

Strong, Charles H Latin

Everts, Hattie Greek

Eaton, Elizabeth Latin

Fales, Maude E Latin

Richards, Hayden O Latin

Ross, Edward M Latin

Smith, Henry F Latin

Warren, Harry A . Latin

Dr. C. R. Eiios.

Dr. A. A. Burnett.

Dr. J. W. Enos.

Dr. M. B. Titterington.

TKysicians of the Tast.

The first practicing- physician in Jerseyville was

DR. A, H. BURRITT,

who came here in 1833 before the town was laid out, and was
among- its first settlers. His home and office were in a log-
cabin which he erected on the corner of Exchange and Pleas-
ant streets. He was of the old allopathic school. He died
in 1875.

DR. EDWARD AUGUSTUS D'ARCY

was the next, coming- the same year, 1833, and settled on
land, which he entered, north of Jerseyville. He was born
in Hanover, Morris county, N. J., April 15, 1796, and died in
Jerseyville, April 25, 1863, at the ag-e of 67 years.

DR. JOHN W. LOTT

came to Jerseyville in 1834. He practiced only a short time,
when he returned to New Jersey, his native State.

DR. JAMES C. PERRY,

a native born Scotchman, who had served in the British army
for seven years, came to Jerseyville in 1838. He was consid-
ered a skillful practitioner, and an upright man in all his
practice, and was never known to oppress the poor for pay-
ment of medical aid. The writer remembers well going
after him in time of sickness. He practiced here until his
death, which occurred May, 1859.

DR. EDWIN A. CASEY

came next, about 1840, and practiced successfully until his
death, March 22, 1874, at the age of 66 years. He lived in
the first house west of the Baptist church. Next came

DR. R. H VAN DYKE,

about the year 1840, and was one of the prominent physicians
until his death, September 6, 1845.

DR. JAMES BRINGHURST

came to Jerseyville about 1850, and entered into partnership
with Dr. D'Arcy. From 1850 to 1857 he practiced in Jer-
seyville, Spring-field and Chicago, and from 1857 to 1861, in
Jerseyville only. In April, 1861, he enlisted as surgeon in
the 28th Illinois Infantry. He was afterwards promoted to
Brigade surgeon. His health in the army failing, he return-
ed to Jerseyville where he remained a short time, when he
removed to Alton. He died in Ruyle township June 23, 1870.

DR. R. D. FARLEY

was one of the early doctors, coming sometime in the "for-
ties." In 1852 he was county physician. He was born Dec.
3, 1808, and died in Jerseyville Sept. 27, 1884. He was the
first homeopathic physician in the city. He was well and
highly esteemed by all who knew him.

DR. AUGUSTUS R. KNAPP

came to Jerseyville in 1844, and had a large and extensive
practice, and died at his residence July 13, 1862.

DR. JOHN L. WHITE

was one of Jerseyyille's prominent physicians. While here,
he was married to Miss Hattie Hawley, in 1858. He was
born in Massachusetts in 1832, came to Jerseyville in 1852,
and in 1870 he moved to Bloomington, 111., where he still re-
sides.

DR. H. C. HARRIMAN,

in the "fities," became one of the physicians of Jerseyville,
and died here March 12, 1858.

DR. WM. HUTCHINSON,

a native of Kentucky, a much honored and beloved physician,
practiced here a number of years until his death, which oc-
curred Jan. 24, 1864.

DR. JOHN B. HAMILTON,

second child of Rev. B. B. and Mary A. Hamilton, studied
medicine under Dr. J. O. Hamilton of Jerseyville, and after

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graduating- at Rush Medical College, February, 1870, he
formed partnership with his uncle, Dr. J. O. Hamilton. In
May, 1869, he became a member of the State Medical Soci-
ety, and at a meeting was appointed a member of the com-
mittee o.n surgery. He rose so rapidly to high positions in
his profession that he was commissioned Surgeon-General
of the United States marines. He died in Chicago, 1899.

CHAKI.KS A. KNAPP, M. D.,

was the son of Dr. A. R. Knapp, He studied medicine with
his father and afterwards graduated from McDowell's Med-
ical College, St. Louis, Mo. He commenced the practice of
medicine in Kane, Greene county, 111., and after two years
located in Jersey ville, where betook up the practice of his
father who then went to California, and returned in 1854. On
account of failing health Dr. Knapp removed with his family
to California, where he died in 1856.

DR. AUGUSTUS R. KNAPP

came to Jerseyville in 1844, where he had an extensive prac-
tice. He was a member of the constitutional convention to
revise the Constitution of Illinois in 1847. In - 1849 he went
to California where he was quite successful in his search for
gold. He died in Jerseyviile, July 13, 1862. Mrs. Knapp sur-
vived her husband until 1868.

C. G. BUFFINGTON, M. D.,

was born in Jerseyville, 111., May 22, 1858. In 1881, he gra-
duated at the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis. Return-
ing to Jerseyville about one year afterwards, he located at
Fieldon. His practice was so successful that it extended
over Jersey, Greene, and Calhoun counties, and was one of
the largest and most lucrative in the county.

JOSEPH ORMOND HAMILTON, M. D.,

was born in Monroe county, 111., April 2, 1824. He was the
youngest child of Thomas M. and Alpha Hamilton. From
1843 to 1845 he attended at the Ohio University at Athens,
Ohio. He then began the study of medicine with Dr. Silas

Parker. He afterwards continued his studies with Dr.
Wm. Blackstone, In 1846, he came to Jerseyville and prac-
ticed under Dr. James C. Perry, an old and honored practi-
tioner of Jerseyville. In 1849, he attended lectures at the
Medical University of Missouri, graduating on the. 4th of
March, 1850. He then commenced the practice of medicine
in Grafton, Illinois. In May, 1851, he was married to Mar-
g-arette Perry, daughter of Dr. Perry of Jerseyville, In 1852,
he entered into partnership with his father-in-law, with
whom he practiced till January, 1853. Dr. Perry died in
1858.

Dr. Hamilton was one of the most celebrated physicians
of the West. Much of his writing's can be found in the
American Medical Association Journal, volumes of 1870 and
1872. He was President of the Illinois Medical Society, con-
vened at Peora, May, 1871. He was a delegate to the Amer-
ican Medical Associations held at Cincinnati, New Orleans,
Washington, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

In 1867, he was appointed surgeon for the United States
pension office of this district, and acted as examining sur-
geon for six of the most prominent insurance companies in
the United States. He died August 21, 1882.

CHARLES W. ENOS, M. D,,

located in Jerseyville, Jan. 29, 1874. He was born in Madi-
son Co., 111., Dec. 13, 1849 and is the son of Dr. C. R. and Eli-
za Ann (Thorpe) Enos.

When young he received a good education, attending the
State Normal School at Bloomington, 111., and the State Uni-
versity at Champaign. After teaching for a while he decided
to study medicine, with a view of making that his life work.

He graduated at the Homeopathic Medical College of
Missouri in 1874, and received the prize for surgery,

He then came to Jerseyville and opened an office on the
day of his arrival, and within two hours received his first pa-
tient who was dangerous with pneumonia, being the daught-

er of David M. Houghtlin. He was a marvel of success. In
1881 he took a course of lectures on the eye and ear at the
New York Opthalmic Hospital, also an operating- course on
the eye and ear under the celebrated Dr. Knapp. He has
operated as a specialist with these organs, and stands at the
head of his profession.

He was a devoted Christian man, and a temperance
worker.

T, A. KINGSTON, M. D.,

was born in St. Louis, Mo., January 22, 1832. He was rear-
ed in Collinsville, 111., where he received his early education
and entered upon the study of medicine in the office of Dr.
Drake, in Collinsville. He graduated from the old Mc-
Dowell Medical College, of St. Louis.

At the opening- of the war he entered the service as con-
tract surgeon in the department under Gens. Thomas, Van-
devere, Frank P. Blair and Kirkpatrick, under whose de-
partment he served through the campaign of Georgia, Ten-
nessee, North and South Carolina, with honor and credit
as a surgeon, and a kindly compassionate man whose labors
among the sick and wounded are treasures gathered up for
him by the All-Seeing Eye, who shall render due reward.

At the close of the war, in 1865, he entered upon the
practice of his profession, locating at Fidelity, 111., where he
gained a large and lucrative practice.

On April 30, 1870, he was married to Miss Kate Frost,
of Fidelity. Three children are the fruits of this marriage,
Mrs. Louis Jacoby, Jersey ville, 111., and Misses Josie and
Lula. Dr. Kingston died at his home in Jerseyville, 111.,
January 8, 1900, at the age of 67 years, 11 months and 17
days.

ALBKO B. ALLEN, M. D.,

was born in Lincoln county, Missouri, April 23, 1840. He
was the youngest son of Edwin and Jane Allen, and the last
living of seven children. He received his early education in
the public schools of his county. At a very early age he ex-

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pressed a desire for the study of medicine. He accordingly
entered the Missouri Medical College in 1855, and graduated
from that institution in 1858, at the age of 18 years. In the
spring- of 1859, he located in Hamburg-. 111., and there beg-an
the practice of his profession, After practicing- there for
two years he removed to Hardin, Calhoun county, 111., where
he practiced for 12 years. Leaving- Hardin he practiced for
about two years in Kane, thence in 1875 he located in Jer-
seyville where he remained, (except a short interval he was
in St. Louis,) up to the time of his death..

He was married in 1867 to Mrs. M. K. Revere in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, each possessing- a daughter by a former mar-
riage. On the 25th of February, 1892, they celebrated the
25th anniversary of their marriage.

Dr. Allen was a specialist in his profession, and was
known and sought after far and wide. He was emphatically
a benefactor in his day. A man of strong will power and in-
domitable courage, he bore patiently his sufferings, and in a
cheerful spirit, when others with less will-power would have
succumbed. He died at his home, surrounded by family
and friends, March 25, 1899, at the age of 58 years, 11
months, and 2 days.

GEORGE H. KNAPP, M. D.,

was born in Kane, Greene county, 111., April 19, 1840. He
was the youngest son of Dr. A. R. and Catherine E. Knapp.
He received his early education in the public schools of Jer-
seyville, but finished his literary education in Illinois Col-
lege, at Jacksonville, 111.

He studied medicine first with his father, Dr. A. R.
Knapp, and afterwards in the office with Dr. A. K. Van
Home. He graduated at the Missouri Medical College in
St. Louis, Mo., with high honors, in April, 1861. In the fall
of 1861, he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 61st
Regiment, Illinois Volunteers Infantry, of which J. B. Frey
was Colonel. He was again commissioned surgeon of the
same regiment and served during most of the civil war, par-

ticipating in many hard and bloody battles. While in front
of Vicksburg he attended Gen. U. S. Grant through a severe
sickness, and ever afterwards General Grant was his warm
friend.

On October 20, 1868, he was married to Miss Henrietta
F. Veitch, of St. Louis. To them were born three children:
Maude, now the wife of Hon. Harry W. Pogue, Veitch, and
Will B. Knapp, all of whom survive him. He practiced med-
icine first inJerseyville, Mason City, 111., St.Louis, and during
his last years, practiced again in Jerseyville.

He died September 20, 1895, after a few hours of great
pain, arising from stomach troubles. As a physician he
stood at the head of his profession, and was a social and gen-
ial friend and companion, as the writer knew him well.

HENRY Z. GILL, M. D.,

was born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 6, 1831. He was a graduate
of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and began prac-
ticing in Columbus, Ohio, where he remained until the break-
ing out of the civil war, when he enlisted in the three
months' service and served four and one-half years. He
arose from assistant surgeon to surgeon of volunteers of the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, which position he held to the
close of the war. He then spent two years in Europe, and
after returning settled in St. Louis, and, in connection with
Dr. W. S. Edgar, published the "Medical Journal."

On April 26, 1873, he came to Jerseyville where he prac-
ticed until in 1881, he took charge of the Southern Illinois
Penitentiary, and in November, 1883, resigned to accept the
chair of surgery in the Worcester Medical College at Cleve-
land, Ohio.

GEORGK SUMRALL, M. D.

came to Jerseyville, Mar. 1, 1872. In 1876, he was mover,
and drafter before Jersey County Medical Society, of a
greeting to State Medical Association, praying that body to
secure such legislative action as would compel higher medi-
cal education, and partially rid our state of quacks.

In response to said greeting-, the State Medical Associa-
tion appointed a committee which spent the next winter at
Capital, memorialized the Legislature, and secured the en-
actment of our state medical act, and the appointment of our
State Board of Health, which has saved to our state millions
of dollars, and to her citizens untold sufferings.

W. W. ESTEBROOKE, M. D.,

came to Jerseyville from Chicago in August, 1890. He was
a cultured gentleman and a physician of high standing, of
the homeopathic school. After a successful professional ca-
reer, he retired from active practice and returned to Chica-
go in November, 1898, where he now resides.

DR. WARD, also practiced in Jerseyville for some ten
years, but mostly in Fieldon, Illinois.

DR. CHARLES EDGAR, another physician of the past, a
graduate of medicine, but owned and conducted a drug
store for many years, I am told did but little practicing.

There were some other physicians who practiced medi-
cine in Jerseyville and attained some prominence, and I
would be pleased to write concerning them more at length,
but reliable information seems impossible to be obtained.
Among this number is Dr. Lyons who was early in the "six-
ties" a partner with Dr. DuHadway, an assistant surgeon in
the Union army, and a cousin of General Lyons who was
killed at the battle of Wilson Creek. He was considered a
smart, cultured gentleman and a good physician.

DR. A. K. VAN HORNK,

DR. L. T. WAGGONKR.

ALBERT M. WILES, D. O.

HENRY W. RICH, D. D, S.

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"Physicians of the ^Present.

A. K. VAN HOKNE, M. D.

The first to put on the list of present time active physi-
cians ot Jersey ville, is A. K. Van Home. He is the oldest
practicing" physician in the city. He was born in Schoharie
county, N. Y., April 2, 1831, and immigrated with his parents
to Jersey county in 1833, being 1 about two years old. He
was emphatically a Jersey county boy, and now more em-
phatically a Jersey county man, having 1 been a resident of
Jersey county, except when away attending 1 college, for 68
years.

In 1852, now 48 years ago, he commenced the study of
medicine with Dr. Charles A. Knapp in Jersey ville. He at-
tended medical lectures in Missouri Medical College, in St.
Louis, in 1853 and 1854. In the fall of 1855, he took a course
in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he
graduated in 1856. He returded to Jerseyville and that same
year he entered upon the practice of medicine for life.

In 1871 and 1872 he returned to Philadelphia and took
another course of lectures. He spared no expense or pains
that he might be a competent and safe man for the people to
trust their own lives, and that of their family, in his hands.

His successful practice here in Jerseyville of 45 years,
and the confidence the people repose in him, will testify to
his ability and success.

ALLEN A. BARNETT, M. D.

Allen A. Barnett was born in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 6,
1830. Received his early education at Clark County Semi-
nary in Charlestown, Ind. Entered Miami University, Ox-
ford, Ohio, in the fall of 1847, and graduated in a classical
course in 1851.

Entered the medical department of the University of
Louisville, Ky., in the fall of 1851, graduating there in 1853,
Returning to said University in the fall of 1853, was appoint-
ed assistant demonstrator of anatomy.

In the spring- of 1854 he began the practice of his profes-
sion at Oxford, Ohio, remainining there until the spring of
1862. During this year he removed to Jersey county, near
Jersey ville, shortly afterwards moved into Jerseyville, where
he has practiced medicine continuously up to the present
time, 1901, having practiced medicine without cessation for
48 years.

CALEB DU HADWAY, M. D.

Dr. Du Hadway was educated at the Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio, and at Oxford College, Butler county, Ohio.
After completing his literary education, he began reading
medicine with Dr. Orlando Miller, of Jackson Court House,
Ohio, and attended medical lectures at the Ohio Medical Col-
lege, at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the years 1856-59. Received
his diploma from that college in March, 1859.

After the expiration of one year he entered on the prac-
tice of his profession at Hamden, Vinton county, Ohio. In
1862 he entered the Confederate army as surgeon of the
9th Kentucky Regiment, and remained in the service until
August, 1864.

September 3, 1864, he came to Jerseyville and immediate-
ly began the practice of medicine. In 1866 the Missouri
Medical College conferred on the doctor the degree of
"Adeundum." In 1868 he used carbolic acid as a local anes-
thetic, and in the medical journals has the credit of being the
first discoverer.

Dr. Du Hadway was elected President of the Jersey Coun-
ty Medical Society at its annual meeting in April, 1872. He
has always stood at the head of his profession and has gain-
ed a good reputation, and the respect of all who knew him.
At this present writing, May, 1901, he is an invalid, and his
days of going in and out among his people, healing the sick,

EDWARD L. H. BARKY, M. D.,

First Assistant Surgeon of 130th and 80th Illinois Vol. Inf.
Key., Civil War.

allaying the pains of the distressed, comforting" the sorrow-
ing-, will probably soon be ended.

A. A. SHOBK, M. D.

Dr. A. A. Shobe is worthy to be ranked among- the lead-
ing- "physicians ot Jersey ville. He came to this city in the
spring- of 1873 from Franklin county, Mo., his native State,
and was born August 24, 1846.

At the ag-e of 14, he attended the Academy at Kirkwood,
St. Louis county, preparatory to a military education at
West Point. But the breaking- out of the civil war interrupt-
ed his plans, and in 1862 joined the Confederate army and
remained in the service until the close of the war. He then
entered the Christian Brothers Colleg-e, St. Louis, where he
completed his literary education. He then began the study
of medicine, graduating at McDowell's College in 1868-9. He
then began the practice of medicine in Franklin county, Mo.,
and continued until coming to Jerseyville in the spring of
1874, and continued in practice since.

CHAS. R. ENOS, M. D.

Dr. Charles R. Enos was born in Madison county, N. Y.,
March, 1815. In 1874 he graduated from the Homeopathic
Medical College of Missouri, and has since been a practicing
physician.

In April, 1882, he came to Jerseyville and in company
with hisson, Dr. C.W. Enos, practiced medicine until his son
moved to Denver, Col. On account of age and infirmities, at
the ripe old age of 85 years, he has retired from the active
practice of medicine.

EDWARD L. H. BARRY, M. D.

Dr. E. L. H. Barry was born in the city of Cork, Ireland,
and educated at St. Stephen's Hospital, a Protestant Episco-
pal school. None but Protestant Episcopal children could
be educated there, according to the character of the endow-
ment.

Shortly after leaving his school he embarked to America,

and arrived at New York, June, 1850. He received his med-
ical education at Rush Medical College of Chicago, graduat-
ing" in February, 1860. Shortly after graduating he settled
in Delhi, 111., where he married Miss Amanda E. Black. At
the breaking- out of the civil war, he raised Company H., of
the 97th Illinois Volunteers Infantry.

He passed successfully his medical examinations before
the Government Board of examiners and was commissioned
as first assistant surgeon of the 130th Illinois Vol. Inf. A f-
ter six months of hardship on the field he was compelled to
resign. After two years' rest and recuperation, he was re-
commissioned in September, 1863, in the 80th 111. Vol. Inf.
He was in several of the bloodiest battles of the war. He re-
signed his commission in 1864, and resumed the practice of
medicine again in Delhi, 111., and in the spring of 1867, he
moved to Jersey ville where he has had a large and lucrative
practice ever since. As a man and a physician he has been
highly respected

HENRY R. GLEDHILL, A. B., M. D.

Dr. H. R. Gledhill was born in Jerseyville, Jan. 15, 1869.
He received his early education in the public schools of Jer-
seyville, and is a graduate of the Jerseyville High School, of
the class of 1887.

In the fall of 1887 he entered Harvard University, grada-
ting in a full classical course in 1891.

In the fall of 1891, he entered the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York City, graduating there in 1894.

In Obtober, 1894, he came to Jerseyville, 111., and began
the practice of his profession, where he remains in practice
to the present time, 1901.

ALBERT M. WILES, D. O.

began the practice of Osteopathy in Jerseyville, Feb. 1, 1900.
Office over Oscar Hill's News Stand. Graduated at the
"American School of Osteopathy" at Kirksville, Mo., Janu-
ary 31, 1900. He finished his literary education at the State
Normal School, of Kirksville, Mo.

Dr. Wiles is an exemplary young- man and is fast gain-
ing- a lucrative practice.

JOHN S. WILLIAMS, M. D.

Dr. J. S. Williams was born Aug. 27, 1839, in Simpson
county, Kentucky, where he remained until he was 14 years
of ag-e. He then removed with his mother to Lincoln county,
Mo., his father being- dead. While living- here he attended
the Hig-h School at Truxton, Mo., and shortly afterwards he
entered "Iowa State University" at Keokuk, Iowa, graduat-
ing- in 1865 in the medical department of that institution.

During that year he had charge of a ward in the hospit-
al, attending sick and wounded soldiers.

He then came to Jersey county, 111., locating at Otter-
ville, where he practiced his profession until 1870, when he
went to St. Louis and took a course of lectures at St. Louis
Medical College, graduating in 1871. He then returned to
Otterville, 111., and resumed his practice.

Dr. Williams removed to Jersey ville, 111., August, 1891,
where he still continues his practice. He was married in
September, 1867, to Miss Millie Close, a native of Illinois. Of
this union two children were born Lucy E., who died in
1882, at the age of 13 years, and Jesse Franklin, who died in
infancy. Mrs. Williams died in February, 1873.

In December, 1873, Dr, Williams was married to Maggie
Blackstock, a native of Wisconsin. By this union there were
three children born, one dying in infancy, and Dalton Hall,
and John B., both now living. He is the owner of a farm of
412 acres, located near Otterville, in Jersey county, Illinois.
He is a member of the State Medical Society, and of the
American Medical Association; also, of the I. O. O, F. and
Masonic Fraternities.

He has been coroner two terms. His office rooms are
on the corner of Washington and Exchange streets. He is a
busy man, and has a lucrative practice. He is surgeon at
Jerseyville of the C. P. & St. L. R. R.

MILES B. TITTERINGTON, M. D.

Dr. Tittering-ton was born in Rock Island county, 111.,
July 13, 1870. Attended Shurtleff College in 1888-'89. At-
tended the College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis.

Began the practice of medicine in the spring of 1894 in
Kansas, and after remaining there about two years, return-
ed to St. Louis to take another course in medicine and sur-
gery, afterwards locating in Hardin, Calhoun county, 111.

He left Hardin and went to Ohio and spent some time in
special study in surgery, coming to Jerseyville, Oct. 1, 1898.
After practicing here alone about one and one-half years he
formed a partnership with Dr. Joseph W. Enos, April 1, 1900.

JOSEPH W. ENOS, M. D.

Dr. J. W. Enos was educated at the State Normal
School, Bloomington, 111. Began the study of medicine at
Pulte Medical College, at Cincinnati, in 1879. Afterwards
spent one year in the city hospital at Cincinnati.

Attended the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital
at Chicago, where he graduated in 1881. Practiced in the
hospitals at St. Louis, Chicago and Philadelphia at different
times. A graduate of E. H, Pratt's post graduate course.
Also attended one course of J.T.Kent's school for post grad-
uates.

Studied medicine with, and practiced with Dr. C. W.
Enos. .Finally located at Edwardsville, 111., where he prac-
ticed medicine and surgery for six years. Afterwards locat-
ed in Alton, and was connected wito the Enos Sanitarium
for five years. After a rest of two years, re-located at Jer-
seyville, where he is now one of the proprietors. of the Enos-
Titterington Hospital and Sanitarium, in Jerseyville, 111.

MISS S. CORDELIA ENOS, M. D.

Attended Elmira College from 1865 to 1870. Began the
study of medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College, at
Chicago, where she graduated in 1891.

Began immediately after graduation, the practice of her

profession in Alton, at the Enos Sanitarium, remaining
there about four years, when she came to Jerseyville, where
she practiced medicine for about two years.

Leaving" Jerseyville, she began again the practice of her
profession in Youngstown, Ohio, about 1897, where she re-
mained a short time, being called home by her mother's ill-
ness. After her mother's death she remained at home,
when she gave up the practice of her profession for the cares
of the household.

LYMAN T. WAGGONER, M. D.

Dr. Lyman T. Waggoner was born February 22, 1850,
in Jersey county, Illinois, where he resided till eight years of
age, when he moved with his parents to Montgomery county,
Illinois, He attended the public schools in those counties, in-
cluding the Jerseyville High School. Also he attended the
Indiana Normal School, from which he graduated in 1879.

Later on he took up the study of medicine, and on
March 5, 1889, graduated with distinction from the Missouri
Medical College at St. Louis, which at that time was the
higher medical department of the University of Missouri,
after which he completed a course in the St. Louis Post
Graduate School of medicine, receiving a diploma of attend-
ance from that institution.

For more than eleven years he has practiced medicine,
and in May, 1901, located in Jerseyville where he now has
offices over the National Bank, on the northwest corner of
Main and Pearl Streets.

DENTAL SURGERY.

WM. E. HOLLAND, D. D. S.,

entered Pennsylvania Dental College, October, 1884. Came
to Jerseyville, May, 1887. Entered into co-partnership with
Dr. G. S. Miles, in the old Fisher building. Moved into the
Snedeker building October, 1887, and in November, 1888, dis-
solved partnership.

In this office he carried on his profession until January
1, 1900, he removed into the Odd Fellows' building-, where he
now remains.

HENRY WARNER RICH, D. D. S.

Attended the Chicago College of Dental Surgery from
1894 to 1897. Opened office in Jersey ville, 111., on Main street,
August, 1897, where he has pursued his profession success-
fully to the present time.

HON. A. I.. K \'AP.

HON. U. M. KNAPP.

OI.IYKK P. MYKICK.

M. J. DOLA.N.

H W. I'OGUE.

O. D. LEACH.

ED J. VATJGttN.

QHAB. S, WHITE.

The Jerseyville Bar.

HON. ANTHONY L. KNAPP.

Anthony L. Knapp was born in Middletown, Delaware
county, New York, June 14, 1828.

In 1849, at the age of 21, he was admitted to the bar, and
first located in Jerseyville. At the age of 30 years he be-
came a candidate for State Senator, accompanying" Stephen
A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in their memorable cam-
paign.

He was elected to the 37th Congress in 1861, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Gen. John A. McCler-
nand. He nobly distinguished himself in both the 36th and
37th Congresses. Some of his speeches were used for cam-
paign documents. On returning from Congress, Mr. Knapp
took up again the practice of law in Chicago in 1865,

In 1867 he moved to Springfield, 111., where he formed a
law partnership with James C. Robinson, which continued
until his death, which occurred Monday, May 23, 1881.

HON. ROBERT M. KNAPP.

Robert M. Knapp was born in the city of New York,
April 21, 1831. He was the son of Dr. Augustus R. Knapp,
an eminent physician of Jerseyville. He came to Jerseyville
with his father and mother at the age of 9 years, in 1840. Re-
ceived his early education in the schools of Jerseyville, and
at the age of 18 years he entered the Kentucky State Milita-
ry Institute, at Frankfort. While here at school he took the
California gold fever, and we next see him traveling the over-
land route to California. Here he remained two years, suc-
cessfully operating the gold mines. Returning from Califor-
nia he resumed his studies in the military institute.

He was admitted to the bar in 1855, and began the prac-

tice of law in Jersey ville. On Dec. 26, 1855, he was married
to Fannie A. Green, the daughter of Captain Stephen S.
Green, who ran a line of boats from New York to Sing-Sing
for several years.

In 1867, Mr. Knapp was elected to the General Assem-
bly, but declined to be a candidate for a second term.

In 1871 he was elected Mayor ot Jerseyville, and re-
elected in 1872 and in 1876.

He was elected to the 43rd Congress in 1872, and was re-
nominated in 1874, and in 1876 was again renominated and
elected.

In the 43rd Congress he served on the committee on the
revision of the laws. He addressed the House on the "Civil
Rights Bill," and on the subject of Finance and Taxation.
This latter speech was an earnest protest against legislation
which favored the usurpation and monopolies of banks and
bond-holders, to the detriment of the best interests of the
people.

He was a prominent man in the politics of this countv
and had an extensive influence. A few moments before 6
o'clock on the morning of June 24, 1889, he passed into eter-
nity. He was a Knight Templar, and was buried with Ma-
sonic honors.

HON. OR VILLE A. SNKDEKKR.

Hon. Orville A. Snedeker was born in Jerseyville, 111.,
June 11, 1848. He was the second son of Isaac and Caroline
Snedeker, who came to Jerseyville in the spring of 1844 from
New Jersey. His early education was obtained in the pub-
lic schools of Jerseyville. Was a graduate of Shurtleff Col-
lege, a graduate also of Bryant & Stratton's Business Col-
lege.

Immediately he began the study of law in the law office
of Judge R. A. King. He passed his examination and was
admitted to the bar in 1871. and practiced successfully for
many years in the lower and higher courts.

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In 1892 he was elected to the State Legislature, a mem-
ber of 47th District, 39th General Assembly, and re-elected
in 1894.

He was Chairman of the Committee on Executive De-
partment, also a member of the Committee on Judiciary, Ju-
dicial Department and Practice, State Institutions, Sanita-
ry Affairs, Public Building's and Grounds.

He exerted his best efforts in carrying 1 the Lovejoy
monument appropriation for the monument at Alton, 111.

Championed the cause of the State Horticultural Society,
by which an appropriation of $4,000 per annum was made,
and it became a law.

He was the author and introducer of the school house
Flag Bill, No. 42, in the House, requiring school directors to
furnish the schools with United States flags, but giving the
pupils attending the right to determine when Old Glory shall
be unfurled.

Mr. Snedeker was a lawyer by profession, but carried on
farming on a large scale and is reputed as having the largest
orchard in the district, making 9,000 apple trees.

The official vote of Nov. 6, 1894, shows in what esteem
he was held by the people when he ran for Representative on
the Republican ticket, in a district that was claimed by the
opposite party by 1,319 majority. He ran 993 votes ahead of
his ticket.

August 12, 1873, he was married to Miss Emma Delzell,
of Philadelphia. The fruits of this union were three child-
ren Etta Caroline, Isaac D., and Frank S. Etta C. died in
1883, in about her fifth year. Mr Snedeker, with his wife
and two sons, was member in good and regular standing in
the First Baptist Church of Jerseyville.

He died of a slow and lingering disease, spinal paralysis,
but his immediate death was very sudden, being caused by
pneumonia. In his death the church has lost a loyal and lib-
eral member, the community an honest and useful citizen,
his wife and children a devoted husband and father. He

died September 4, 1897. "He rests from his labors, but his
works do follow him."

HON. GKORGK W. HKRDMAN.

Hon. George W. Herdman came to Jersey ville with his
parents in 1854. Attended the common schools of his county
until he entered Jerseyville Academy, taught by Rev. C.
H. Foote, D. D., in the winters of 1857-8.

In the spring- of 1859 he taught his first school near the
old poor farm, in what was then called "Hickory Log" school
house. Taught continuously until 1865. In the fall of that
year he entered the "University of Louisville," Louisville,
Ky., from which University he graduated in the spring of

1867,

Immediately after returning home he opened a law of-
fice and began the practice of his profession. In a few months
he formed a partnership with Hon. Robert A. King and E.
A. Pinero, under the firm name of "King, Pinero & Herd-
man." In January, Mr. Herdman bought out Mr. King's in-
terest in the office, King retiring, when his practice continu-
ed under the new firm name of Pinero & Herdman. This
partnership continued until the fall of 1869, whe Mr. Pinero
retired from the practice.

From this date Mr. Herdman continued the practice of
law alone until in the fall of 1870, when he formed a co-part-
nership with Hon. Robert N. Knapp under the firm name of
Knapp & Herdman. Thi> firm carried on the practice until
the fall of 1872, when the firm was dissolved. Again he con-
tinued the practice of law alone, until he was elected Circuit
Judge in '82. Was City Attorney in 1868-9; was elected
member of the Illinois Legislature in the fall of 1870. In '76
Mr. Herdman was elected State Senator for four years.

Served as Judge of Circuit* Court from the spring of
1882 to July 1897, a period of fifteen years. He was member
of the Board of Education of the city of Jerseyville for eight
years, and for five years President of said Board. Since
then he has practiced law alone in Jer.seyyille up to the pres-
ent date, 1901.

.fudge G. \V. Herdman.

Judge A. M. Slaten.

O. B. Hamilton.

T. S. C'liapman.

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O. B. HAMILTON.

Oscar B. Hamilton was born Jan. 31, 1839, at Otter-
ville, Greene county, Illinois. Secured his education in the
public schools at Graf ton, at Hamilton Primary School at Ot-
terville, and at the St. Louis Law School. He was admitted
to the bar in St. Louis in 1870, in Supreme Court of Illinois
in January, 1871, in United States District Court, 1875, in
the United States Circuit Court, 1877, in the District Couri
of Kansas, 1886, and in the United States Circuit Court,
District of Kansas, in 1888.

He formed a partnership with Orville A. Snedeker and
opened an office in Jerseyville, 111., in March, 1874. In 1883
this firm was dissolved, and he formed a partnership with
Judge Allen M. Slaten under the firm name of "Hamilton &
Slaten," which continued until the fall of 1886, when Mr.
Hamilton removed to Meade county, Kansas, and engaged in
the business of banking 1 and the practice of his profession.

In January, 1887, Mr. Hamilton presided as Judge Pro
Tern, during a term of the District Court of Meade county,
Kansas, and upon several other occasions was called upon to
fill the same office.

In August, 1890, he returned to Jerseyville and entered
into partnership with Otis D. Leach, under the firm name
of "Hamilton & Leach," which was dissolved in 1892, and a
partnership with Leighton E. Brown, under the firm name
of "Hamilton & Brown," was formed, which was dissolved in
1893, and in 1894 he entered into partnership with his son,
Paul M. Hamilton, which still continues.

Mr. Hamilton was married October 25, 1860, to Eliza M.
Brown, by Rev. B. B. Hamilton, and there have been eleven
children born to them.

Mr. Hamilton is President of the Jersey County Bar As-
sociation, one of the Trustees of the George Washington
Educational Fund, a Director, and for several years has been
an active promoter of Piasa Chautauqua Assembly, and has

for many years been an officer in the M. E. Church, having
been for nine years Superintendent of its Sunday School, be-
sides many other positions of honor and trust he has hereto-
fore filled.

HON. THEODORE S. CHAPMAN.

Hon. Theodore S. Chapman was educated at Madison
University, at Hamilton, N. Y. Studied law for several
years while teaching- school at Otterville, 111. Passed his ex-
amination before the Supreme Court at Spring-field, 111., Dec.,
1874. Immediately beg-an the practice of law at Jerseyville
after being- admitted to the bar, opening an office in the
Hamilton building-, southeast corner of the court house
square, remaining- in the same office for 25 years. During
these 25 years he practiced alone, except the two years in
which Mr. E. J. Vaughn was partner with him. Moved his
office to the first floor, and there remains to the present time,
1901.

FClected to the House of Representatives in 1884: also
elected to the Senate in 1888. Appointed by Governor Tan-
ner first Food Commissioner, July 1, 1899. Resigned, Octo-
ber 17, 1899. President of the George Washington Educa-
tional Fund for twelve years, and still so remains.

Purchased the Abstract Records of Jersey county in
1893, and employed M. E. Bagley, who has kept records to
the present time.

HARRY WARREN POGUK.

Harry Warren Pogue, a graduate of the Jersey-
ville High School of the class of '82. Began reading law in
the office of Warren & Pogue in the fall of 1882. Passed his
examination before the Appellate Court at Mt. Vernon, and
admitted to the bar at the May term of the Supreme Court,
May, 1886.

Elected State's Attorney at a special election in the fall
of 1887, caused by the resignation of A. A. Goodrich, who
was elected County Judge to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Wm. H. Pogue, who was County Judge at the time

of his death, which occurred September 21, 1887. Mr.
Pogue was elected for two succeeding- full terms, going 1 out
of that office December, 1896.

At present he occupies the same office building- former-
ly occupied by his grand-father, Judg-e Geo. E. Warren, and
his father, Wm. H. Pog-ue, attorneys, in the Vandevoort
building 1 , on West Pearl street.

His practice extends into the adjoining- counties. Though
not rich, yet has made a competency, with a beautiful home,
are sufficient evidences of his success.

HON. T. F. FERNS.

Hon. Thomas Francis Ferns was born in Jerseyville,
Jersey county, Illinois, July 27, 1862, which place has always
been his home. Graduated from the Jerseyville Hig-h
School, May 16, 1882, and from the St. Louis Law School in
May, 1885. Admitted to practice of law in Illinois in the spring
of 1885. Was elected and held office, of city attorney for
three consecutive terms, from 1885 to 1891.

Was elected three successive terms to the Illinois Gen-
eral Assembly, serving- in the House of Representatives from
1891 to 1895, inclusive.

Mr. Ferns was married June 26, 1895, to Miss Elizabeth
C. White, of Spring-field, 111. They have three children
Edith, Thomas F., jr., and Stephen White. They live on the
farm east of Jerseyville, known as "Ferndale Place," con-
sisting- of 240 acres, The farm is stocked with pedigreed
Polled Durham cattle and Poland China hog's. Mr. Ferns
continues in active practice of the law as well as managing
his farm.

In the spring- of 1900 he became the owner of the Villin-
g-er Opera House, and thoroughly remodeled the entire
building-, stage and scenery, until Jerseyville can now boast
of a first class opera house.

OTIS D. LTCACH.

Otis D. Leach was born in Illinois, October 4, 1860. A

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graduate of the Jerseyville High School, of the class of 1880.

Immediately after graduating- he became Principal ot
the Grafton public schools for three years. Was elected to
the office of County Superintendent of public schools in the
fall of 1886, and served one term.

Passed his examination before the Appellate Court at
Mt. Vernon, in 1890, and was immediately admitted to the
bar, and formed a law partnership with O. B. Hamilton, in
1890. After three years, in 1893, this partnership was dis-
solved and Mr. Leach continued the practice of his profes-
sion alone in the Shephard building, South State street.

In June, 1900, he was appointed "Attorney in Charge of
Claims" for the C &. A. Railroad Company, which position
he holds at the present time, 1901. His present office and
vaults are at the southwest corner of the court house square.

EDWARD J. VAUGHN.

Edward J. Vaughn, a graduate of the Jerseyville High
School, of the class of 1888. Began the study of law in the
office of T. S. Chapman, immediately after finishing his lit-
erary education in June, 1888.

Passed his examination before the Appellate Court at
Springfield, Illinois, November, 1890.

Admitted to the bar Januai'y, 1891. Began the practice
of law in the office of T. S. Chapman, January, 1891. Form-
ed a law partnership with T. S. Chapman in 1894, and dis-
solved in 1896. Removed his office to the Bull building in
October, 1896, and has since followed his profession.

He is a member of the Board of Education, and is now
serving his third term. Was city attorney in 1895-6.

CHARLES S. WHITE.

Charles S. White, a graduate of the Jerseyville High
School, of the class of 1886. Began the study of law in the
office of Chapman & Vaughn in the spring of 1893.

Passed his examination before the Appellate Court in
February, 1895.

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Admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois,
May 10, 1895. Begun the practice of law in the office now oc-
cupied by him in the Chapman building- February 1, 1896,
Admitted to practice before the District Court of the United
States, February 5, 1900.

He is also Secretary and Attorney for the Jersey County
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Also a member of the
Board of Education of Jerseyville Public Schools.

H. P. NOBLE.

H. P. Noble, a graduate of the Jerseyville High School,
of the class of 1894

Passed his legal examination before the Appellate Court
at Mt. Vernon, 111., August, 1896, and was admitted to prac-
tice by the Supreme Court of 111., Nov. 19, 1896, and immedi-
ately began the practice of law in his present office in the
Chapman building on Pearl St., where his office remains at
the present time.

Elected city attorney of Jerseyville, April 16, 1901.

JOHN J. HUGHES.

John J. Hughes completed his literary education in the
Jerseyville High School. Began the study of law in 1893, at
the Northwestern University Law School, at Chicago.

Passed his legal examination before the Appellate Court
at Chicago, March 26, 1895, and admitted to the bar at same
date. Immediately he began the practice of law in Chicago
in 1895.

Came to Jerseyville in 1896, and opened a law office at
No. 7, South State street, where he has continued the prac-
tice of his profession to the present time.

GEORGE M. SEAGO.

George M. Seago, a graduate of the Jerseyville High
School, class of 1891. Admitted to the bar in 1894, opening
an office in Jerseyville immediately after being admitted.

In 1899 he was elected to the office of city attorney with-
out opposition. In the fall of 1900 he was elected State's

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Attorney. He is at present Secretary of the Jerseyville
Building- and Loan Association, with offices in the Carlin
building-.

PAUL M. HAMILTON.

Paul M. Hamilton was born December 18, 1872, at Ot-
terville, Jersey county, Illinois. Son of Oscar B. and Eliza
M. Hamilton.

Received his education at the Jerseyville Hig-h School.
Passed his examination at Springfield, Illinois, in May, 1895,
and was admitted to the bar in June, 1895, and immediately
formed a law partnership with his father, O B. Hamilton,
and entered upon the practice of law, under the firm name of
Hamilton & Hamilton. Office over the National Bank, cor-
ner of State and Pearl streets.

In 1901 he was appointed attorney in the Claims Depart-
ment of the Chicago & Alton R. R. Served as Secretary of
the Piasa Chautauqua Assembly for the years 1900 and 1901.
A. A. GOODRICH.

Adams Augustus Goodrich was born at Jerseyville, Jan.
8,1849. The son of Henry O. and Jane A. (Knapp) Good-
rich.

After attending- the public schools he took a course in
the West Point Military Academy. He was admitted to the
bar in Jan., 1873, and began the practice of law in Jer-
seyville; held the office of city attorney three terms.

In 1878 he was elected State's attorney, and re-elected
in 1880 and 1884. In 1887 he was elected County Judge to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of Wm. H. Pogue.

Judge Goodrich is now a prominent attorney in the citv
of Chicago, being associated with Judge Vincent of that city-

JOSKPH s. CAKR.

Joseph S. Carr was born at St. Charles, Mo., in 1832.
His father, John Carr, was murdered in the City Hotel, St.
Louis, in 1840. The subject of this sketch graduated from
the St. Charles College, and in 1869 came to Illinois, locating

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at Kane, Greene county. In 1883 he came to Jersey ville where
he practiced his profession until his death in 1896.

HON. T. J. SKLBY.

Hon. T..T. Selby was admitted to the bar in 1869. In connec-
tion with his profession, held the offices of sheriff and county
clerk. In '76 he formed a partnership with E. A. Pinero which
continued until he moved to Nebraska in 1879. After prac-
ticing" for some years in the West, he returned and located
at Hardin, Calhoun County, where he held the office of State's
Attorney for three terms, and in 1900 was elected to Con-
gress on the democratic ticket from the 16th district. While
a resident of .Terse v ville, Mr. Selby served three terms as
mayor.

JUDGE ALLEN M. SLATEN.

Judg-e Allen M. Slaten was born July 28, 1842, in Jersey
Co., 111. Received his early education in the public schools
of his county.

Entered McKendree College in the fall of 1858, and studi-
ed there two years.

Graduated at Jones' Commercial Colleg-e in 1862.

Followed boating 1 on the Mississippi river from spring- of
1862 to 1866.

He married Miss Addie VanDewater Jan. 24, 1866. By
by this union were born eig-bt children, four of whom still
survive: Alyertie, wife of Thos. A. Case, former Co. Supt. of
Public Schools; Addie Louise, wife of George H. Senior;
Charles W; and Emma M. Slaten, young-est, at home.

After this period he was eng-ag-ed in farming for two
years.

He next engaged in the mercantile business in Otterville
for about two years.

Began the study of law in the office of J. W. and B. F.
Slaten in 1873, and afterwards with Judge W. G. Kase in St.
Louis, Mo. He passed his examination and was admitted to
the bar in January, 1876, and at once began the practice of
his profession in Jerseyville. Was elected County Judge of

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Jersey County, 111., at the general election of 1890, no oppo-
sition. Was re-elected in 1894, and served one term. Was
again re-elected for third term in 1898, and is the present
incumbent.

"First (ourt 3{ouse.

The first court house built in Jerseyville was in 1840, by
subscriptions from the people. It was originally 40 feet
square. Aaron Rue and Payten C. Walker did the carpenter
work, and Peter Perrine did the brick work. It was built
on the block given by Lott & Daly to the town for a public
square, and the trustees of the town deeded it to the county
for a public building.

In 1862 an addition on the north side was built, 16x30
feet in size, for jail purposes. On the morning of January
6, 1884, a very cold winter morning, it burned up and some
four inmates perished. Any person wishing to read at length
about this sad and sorrowful event, let him turn to the
"History of Greene and Jersey Counties," page 100. where
he will find details I prefer not to repeat in my history.

dourt 3(ouse.

At a meeting- of the Board
of Supervisors of Jersey
County, March 2, 1892, they
issued an order to the elec-
tors of said county to issue
Forty Thousand Dollars in
County bonds for the pur-
pose of building- a new court
house. The vote resulted
as follows:

For county bonds - 1366,
Ag-ainst " " -977
votes.

Whereupon Supervisor
L. T. English presented the
following 1 resolution, which was unanimously adopted, and
on motion of Supervisor C. P. Stafford, each of the twelve
members of the Board voting- in the affirmative on roll call:
"WHBREAS, It appears from the returns submitted to
the Board by the county clerk, that the proposition to issue
forty thousand dollars in county bonds for the purpose of
building- a court house for Jersey county, submitted at the
g-eneral election in November, 1892, was carried by a major-
ity of the leg-al votes cast upon the proposition, therefore be
it

RESOLVED, That this Board shall proceed without de-
lay to erect a court house upon the public square in Jersey-
ville for the use of said county, to cost not to exceed forty
thousand dollars.

RESOLVED, That the funds necessary to defray the
cost and expense of building- be raised by the issue and sale

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of county bonds to the extent of forty thousand dollars,
drawing interest not exceeding" five per cent."

The building 1 committee was composed of the following
g-entlemen: P. D. Cheney,^ James Stirratt, Wm. Goshorn, C.
P. Stafford and Joseph Knig-ht. April 11, 1893, the contract
for building" the court house was let to F. W. Menke, of
Quincy, 111., who gave bond for $30,000 for the faithful per-
formance of his part of said contract.

The corner stone of the new court house was laid July
4, 1893. All the citizens of Jersey county were invited to be
present and participate in the exercises of the day. The
County Board and county officers of Greene county were in-
vited to be present.

The building- committee accepted the new court house
from the. hands of Mr. Menke, May 5, 1894, and they made
report to the Board of Supervisors, June 5, 1894. The
amount paid the contractor, F. W. Menke, was 840,411.85.

The building" is solidly constructed of Grafton stone, and
is a very beautiful and imposing- structure. Its height from
the ground to the top of the statue is 124^ feet; length, 90
feet; width, 71 feet.

In the basement are six rooms; on the lower floor are six
rooms; on the second floor are eight rooms. It contains four
fire-proof vaults, each 6x26 feet, making in all about 9,360
cubic feet of vault room. It is a beautiful and substantial
structure, and does credit to the architect who planned it,
the building committee who superintended it, Mr. Menke
who built it, and the people of Jersey county who own it.

COSMOS KELLER, SHERIFF. J- C. MCGRATH, CO. CLPiRK.

KICHAKD KIELY, TREASURER. J. \V. ROBERTS, SUPT. SCHOOLS.

Jersey (Bounty ffidals.

COUNTY CLBRKS.

Richard Graham, from 1839 to 1843.

George W. Lowder, from 1843 to 1857.

Andrew Jackson, from 1857 to 1869.

Thomas J. Selby, from 1869 to 1877.

James Eads, from 1877 to 1885.

D. J. Murphy, from 1885 to 1898.

J. C. McGrath, from 1898. (present incumbent.)

SHERIFFS OF JERSEY COUNTY.

The first sheriff of Jersey county was John N. English,
Sr., elected at the presidential election of 1840. John N.
English, Sr., and Samnel T. Kendall were the nominees;
English's majority was one (1) vote.

Perley Silloway succeeded Mr. English in 1842. His
majority over Murray Cheney and Adam Waggoner was 55.

Perley Silloway was again elected in the August election
of 1844. His majority over Isaac Harbert and Delevan D.
Wilcox was 125.

In 1846, Jonathan Plowman was elected; his majority
over Silloway, Snedeker and John Darneille was 58.

In 1848, Jonathan Plowman was again elected; his ma-
jority over Right Casey and Josiah French was 98.

In 1S50, Capt. Murray Cheney was the incumbent, and
it seems impossible to ascertain information further.

In 1852, J, M. Kurd was elected by a majority of 4 over
Plowman.

In 1854, Jonathan Plowman was elected by a majority of
25 over John F. Smith.

In 1856, Benjamin Wedding was elected by a plurality of
204 votes over Bowman and Hurd.

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In 1858, Charles H. Bowman was elected by a majority
of 18 votes over John L. Johnson.

In 1860, Wm. H. Cumming's was elected by a majority of
154 over Wedding 1 .

In 1862, Charles H. Bowman was elected by a plurality
of 647 votes over Adam Clendenin.

In 1864, T. J. Selby was elected by a majority of 644
votes over Billings and Craig 1 . Selby received 1437 votes.
Billing-s 121, Craig- 793.

In 1866, Charles H. Bowman received a plurality of 368
over Massey and Keeley.

In 1868, James H. Belt received 481 votes over Dough-
erty and McKinney.

In 1870, Stephen H. Bowman was elected over John C.
Darby by a plurality of 165 votes.

In 1872, Charles H. Bowman was elected, but died Janu-
ary 6, 1873, following 1 .

On February 15, 1873, Stephen H. Bowman was, at a
special election, elected to fill out the unexpired term of
Charles H. Bowman.

In 1874, A, H. Barrett was elected over Allen and Cal-
houn by a majority of 151.

In 1876, James M. Young 1 was elected by a plurality vote
of 625 over A. H. Barrett.

In 1878, James M. Young 1 succeeded himself by a major-
ity of 1140 votes over Ford, McBride and Vinson.

In 1880, Henry C. Massey defeated Chas. C. Buzby by
505 votes

In 1882, Charles S. Frost received 528 votes over Thos.
F. Hansell. (First man on four year term.)

In 1886, Jesse Kerzy Cadwallader was elected by a plu-
rality of 64 votes over Fitzgibbons.

In 1890, Cosmos Keller was elected by a majority of 765
votes over Jestus A. Post.

In 1894, A. R. Chappell was elected by a plurality of 100
over B. F. Calhoun.

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In 1898, Cosmos Keller was elected, defeating- D. P.
Noble by 266 votes.

CIRCUIT CLP:RKS.

The first circuit clerk of Jersey county was Robert L.
Hill, father of Oscar Hill. He served from 1839 to 1849.

Thos. L. McGill, from 1849 to 1860.

Marcus E. Bag-ley, from 1860 to 188020 years.

Jesse I. McGready, from 1880 to 1888.

Ludovic Laurent, from 1888 to the present time.

JUDGES OF PROBATK COURT.

Joseph G. Scott, from 1839 to 1847; J. M. Kurd from '47
to '49; Geo. E. Warren, senior, from '49 to '57; O. P. Powell
from '57 to '61; J. M. Hurd, from '61 to '72; Robert A.
King-, from '72 to '82; Win. H. Pog-ue, from '82 to '87; A. A.
Goodrich, from '87 to '90; A. M. Slaten, from '90 to present
time, 1901.

TREASURERS AND ASSESSORS.

C. Easell was elected in '43 and served four years; Solo-
man Calhoun was elected Sept. 9, '47, and served one term;
Solomon Calhoun was re-elected Nov. 8, '53, by a majority of
935 over H. N. Belt, and served one term; Solomon Calhoun
was again re-elected, Nov., '55, and served one term; John
F. Smith was elected Nov. 8, '59, by a majority of 364 over
E. M. Smith; John F. Smith was ag-ain elected by a majority
of 382 over J. T. Ross; John F. Smith ag-ain re-elected by a
majority of 510 over Harley Hayes; James Young- was elect-
ed to this office November, '70, by a majority of 436 over
James Burke.

COUNTY TREASURERS.

James M. Young-, at a June election, '73, was elected by
a majority of 528 over H. N. Belt; John P. Stout was elected
by a plurality of 48 votes over Thos. O'Donnell, Patrick Con-
way and M. C. Stanley; Thomas O'Donnell was elected in
'77 by a plurality of 76 votes over Nelson and Stout; in '79,
Thomas O'Donnell was elected to the office, receiving- 306

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majority over J.C. Darby and W.H.H. West; John A. Shep-
hard was elected January, '80, a special election made neces-
sary by the death of Thomas O'Donnell.' He served six
years, until '86; Robert Newton was elected in '86, and serv-
ed four years; John A. Shephard was again elected and he
served four years; Cosmos Keller was elected in '94, and he
served four years; Richard Kiely elected in '98, and is the
present incumbent.

SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

James Harrott was the first school commissioner, being-
elected in '43; B. B. Hamilton was the second elected in '47,
and served one year, to '48; Hiram Bridges elected at regu-
lar election in '48, by 89 majority over Robert M. Knapp;
Hiram Bridges was again elected in '49, by a majority of 469
over Elihu J. Palmer; Hiram Bridges is again re-elected in
'51, by a plurality of 221 votes over Elihu J. Palmer; Hiram
Bridges again re-elected in '53, receiving 954 votes; no oppo-
sition; H. H. Howard was elected in '57, by a majority of 480
over J. O. Hamilton, and served until '59, when William J.
Herdman was elected, first County Superintendent.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.

Wm. J. Herdman was the first county superintendent
of schools, being elected in the fall of 1859, and held the of-
fice uninterruptedly until '68, nine years. Previous to Mr.
Herdman, they were called "county commissioners;" the
next in office was C. H. Knapp, elected at the regular elec-
tion in '68, and served for six years; W. H. Lynn was the
next incumbent to this office, being elected in the fall of '73,
and was re-elected in '75, serving four years; Lott Penning-
ton was elected in '77, and held the office until succeeded in
'86; Otis D. Leach was elected to this office in the fall of '86,
and served one term; Richard Kiely served from '90 to '94;
Thomas A. Case was elected in '94 and served one term;
James W. Roberts, who is the present incumbent in office,
was elected in the fall of '98,

Ill-
Mr. Roberts was born in Pike county, Illinois, October
13, 1854; a graduate of the Pittsfield High School, of the class
of 73. Began teaching- immediately after graduation in the
fall of '73, and has almost exclusively followed his profession
of teaching to the present time. Elected to the office of
County Superintendent of public schools in the general elec-
tion of '98.

STATE'S ATTORNEYS.

In 1870, W. H. Pogue was appointed for two years, to
the general election of '72; in '72 W. H. Pogue was elected at
general fall election for a full term of four yers; in '76 Wm.
M. Jackson was elected for a term of four years, but resigned
in the fall of '78; in '78 A. A. Goodrich was elected to fill va-
cancy of Wm. M. Jackson, caused by his resignation; in '80 A.
A. Goodrich was elected for a full term; in '84 A. A. Goodrich
was again re-elected for full term; in '87 A. A. Goodrich, re-
signing, Wm. Pogue completed unexpired term; in '88 H. W.
Pogue elected for full term of four years; in '92 H. W. Pogue
served to '96; in '96 M. J. Dolan served to 1900; in 1900 Geo.
M. Seago, present incumbent.

COUNTY SURVEYORS.

James A. Potts was the first duly elected county survey-
or of Jersey county, elected in '43, and served to '47; Job
Collins was elected in '47, and served to '49; James A. Potts
was again elected by a majority of 696 over George Burke, in
'49; James A. Potts again re-elected in '51, by a majority of
445 over Hummerlaw, and served until '53; Levi P. McNeil
was elected in '53, by a majority of 43 over James A. Potts;
Henry M. Chase was elected in '57, by a majority of 217 over
Josiah H. White; in 59, Josiah H. White was elected over
G. I. Foster, by a majority of four votes; George I. Foster
was elected in '61, by a majority of 673 over H. M. Chase; in
'67, George I. Foster was again elected, by a majority of 271
over Henry D. Edwards; in '69, George I. Foster was again
re-elected by a majority of 312 over Linns Humiston; Wm.
L. West was elected to the office in '70, by a majority of 250

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over Henry D. Edwards; George I. Foster was elected in
'74, by a majority of 20 over Henry D. Edwards; D. J. Mur-
phy was elected in the fall of '79, by a majority of 249 over
Edwards and Foster; in Nov., 1884, D. J. Murphy was
re-elected by a majority of 729, over Edwards and
Kingsley; in 1886, Cornelius Roach was elected to
fill out the unexpired term of D. J. Murphy, resigning- to ac-
cept the office of county clerk, to which he was elected in the
fall of '86; Albert W. Newton was elected in '88, and served
ten years, to '98, when he resigned; Walter Hansell was ap-
pointed to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. Newton; in
1900, Walter Hansell was elected to the office, and is the
present incumbent.

COUNTY CORONBRS.

The first coroner of Jersey county was Nelson R. Lur-
ton, elected at a special election in 1839.

Second coroner was A. G. Miner, elected at a general
election in 1840.

John Brinton from '42 to '46.

George Hoffman from '46 to '48.

William Lay from '48 to '52.

William Williams from '52 to '54.

Benjamin Wedding from '54 to '56.

C. P. Stafford from '56 to 58.

Lewis Johnson from '58 to '60.

Lewis Johnson from '60 to '62.

James L. Beirne from '62 to '64.

F. W. Besterfeldt from '64 to '66.

Lewis Johnson from '66 to '68.

Sidney Noble from '68 to '70.

E. L. Harriott from 70 to '74.

Herman Roesch from '74 '76.

Dr. John S. Williams from '76 to 'o.

Dr. Caleb Du Hadway from '80 to '84.

Dr. E. L. H. Barry from '84 to '88.

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Dr. Wesley Park from '88 to '92.

Dr. James A, Flautt from '92 to '90.

Dr. J. S. Williams from 1900, to the present.

ici pal Sovemment.

Jersey ville became an incorporated town July 21, 1837.
The officers were: John W, Lott, president; E, M. Daly,
clerk; Samuel L. McGill, George W. Collins and Richard
Graham, board of trustees.

Jerseyville became an incorporated city February 21,
1867. The following- gentlemen were the first officers: Mar-
cus E. Barley, mayor; George H. Jackson, clerk; James S.
Daniels, marshal; King & Pinero, attorneys; N. Wallace,
constable; Andrew' Jackson, John L. White, George Egelhoff
and James S. Blythe, aldermen.

In 1890, the government census gave the population of
Jerseyville as 3,207; in 1900, 3,517, divided as follows: 1st
ward, 959; 2nd ward. 1,046; 3rd ward, 766; 4th ward, 746.

The following are its present officers. (1901). George
D. Locke, mayor; Albert H. Foster, clerk; Walter E. Car-
lin, treasurer; H. P. Noble, attorney; W. H. Schroeder, po-
lice magistrate, who is also city marshal; aldermen: 1st
ward, J. J. Wiseman, H. S. Daniels; 2nd ward, John G.
Schwarz, Paul Nitschke; 3rd ward, E. A. R. Myers, Wm. F.
Fahey; 4th ward. Peter A. Bowler, W. H. H. West, Jr.

The Justices of the Peace and constables whose business
is chiefly confined to the city, though elected for the town-
ship, are as follows: Justices J. C. Ross, W. H. Schroeder,
J. G. Erwin, A. H. Quinn; Constables David McReynolds,
John W. Hayes, Wharton English John J. Ballard.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

J. G. ERWIN.

Occupies an office over H. S. Daniels' grocery store; re-
ceived his first commission fron Governor Joseph W. Fifer
in 1892, to fill the vacancy of C. B. Eaton, resigned: his

H. S. Daniels.

,1. .1. Wiseman.

E. A. H. Myers.

W. F. Fahey.

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second commission was from Governor John P. Altgeld, April
1, 1893; his third commission was issued and signed by Gov.
John R. Tanner in 1897; his fourth commission was issued
and signed by Governor Richard Yates in 1901. Also
buys and sells real estate, makes collections and negotiates
loans. Mr. Erwin's repeated commissions, and his continu-
ance in office settle the question of his justice and efficiency
in office.

J. C. ROSS,

Received his first commission from Governor John R.
Tanner, May 1, 1897; his second commission was from Gov.
Richard Yates, May 1, 1901. Mr. Ross is also agent for the
nursery of Schultz Bros., of Calhoun county, Illinois. Mr.
Ross is now among our oldest and most honored citizens,
having been a resident of Jersey county and Jerseyville over
63 years. Born in Summerset county, N. J., March 20, 1836*
Came to Jerseyville, July, 1839.

WM. H. SCHROKDP:R, j. p., AND CITY MARSHAL.

Office on Pearl street over Marston & Halliday's store.
Received his first commission from Gov. John P. Altgeld,
May 1, 1893; received his second commission from Governor
John R Tanner, May 1, 1897; his third commission from
Governor Richard Yates, May 1, 1901.

ANTHONY H. QUINN.

Born in California, Mo., May 21, 1858. Received his first
commission from Governor Richard Yates, May 6, 1901. Of-
fice in court house.

JOHN w. HAYES, Constable.

First elected constable of Jersey township in 1884, and
served four years. Retired until 1895 and was again elected
to fill a vacancy of Thomas Callaway, and again re-elected in
1897 four years; again re-elected for four years in the spring
of 1901, and is at present filling his office.

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CITY OFFICERS.

167,

Mayor Marcus E. Bag-ley.
Clerk George H. Jackson,
Marshal James S. Daniels,

r t KI O I N - Wallace, (rs'd)
Constable } T n., ^.

j James McKmney.

Attorney King- & Pinero.
Aldermen Andrew Jackson,
John L. White, Geo. Eg-elhoff,
James S. Blythe.

1869.

Mayor Henry O. Goodrich,
Clerk Morris R. Locke,
Marshal James S. Daniels,
Constable John C. Murphy,
Attorney Robert Sayers,
Aldermen Smith M. Titus,
Wm. Embly, John E. VanPelt,
Thos. J. Selby, Peter Dolan,
E. L. H. Barry, Geo. Schwarz,
William Shephard.

1871.

Mayor Robert M. Knapp,
Clerk Joseph G. Marston,
Marshal James S. Blythe,
Constable John Fox.
Attorney H. Calkins,
Aldermen Clarence M. Ham-
ilton, Geo. I. Foster, Samuel
Hess, Geo. S. Rue, Joshua Al-
len, Ezekiel Davidson, Wallace
Leig-h, James S. Daniels.

1873.

Mayor John E. Van Pelt,
Clerk George H. Jackson,
Marshal W. H. Anderson,
Constable George S. Utt,
Attorney None appointed,
Aldermen Clarence M. Ham-
ilton, J. C. Tack, N. F. Smith,

1868.

Mayor Henry O. Goodrich,
Clerk Geo. H. Jackson,
Marshal James S. Daniels,
Constable John C. Murphy,
Attorney Pinero& Herdnian,
Aldermen William Eimbly,
Thos. J. Selby, Geo. Eg-elhoff,
P. Kennedy.

1870.

Mayor Benjamin Wedding,
Clerk Wm. J. Herdman,
Marshal A. D. Erwin,
Constable John E. Hankey,
Attorney J. W. Merrill,
Aldermen Ludlow P. Squier,
Henry C. Massey, David R.
Herdman, Thomas J. Selby,
Caleb Du Hadway, Peter Do-
lan, Georg-e Egelhoff, Louis
Grosjean.

1872.

Mayor Robert M. Knapp,
Clerk George H. Jackson,
Marshal James McKinney,
Constable James W. Calhoun,
Attorney H. Calkins,
Aldermen Andrew Jackson,
John E. Sanford, John M.
Smith, O. M. Paris, E. L. H.
Barry, R. A. King, John W.
Vinson, James A. Locke.

1874.

Mayor Henry O. Goodrich,
Clerk Geo. H. Jackson,
Marshal John E. Sanford,
Constable Geo. M. Remer,
Attorney Adams A. Goodrich,
Aldermen J. Knox Smith,
David Houghtlin, James M.

J. G, SCHWAKZ.

PAUL NITSCHKR.

\V. H. H. VVKST, JK.

P. A. HO\V:.KK.

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Robert Newton, E. O. Hart- Young-, F. X. Schattg-en, Geo.
wick, Peter Dolan, Thomas Eg-elhoff, Wm. Embly, R. C.
Erwin, Wallace Leigh. Gledhill, James A. Barr.

1875.

Mayor George E. Warren,
Clerk C. W. Tietsort,
Marshal James S. Blythe,
Constable Hiram Leonard,
Attorney O. B. Hamilton,
Aldermen Clarence M. Ham-
ilton, W. S. Bowman, Joseph
M. Page, L. M. Cutting-, Peter
Dolan, W. Pittinger, C. T.
Edee, R. C. Gledhill.

1877.

Mayor Thos. J. Selby.
Clerk Henry Nevius,
Marshal R. H. Whyte (re-
signed), J. M. Pag-e,
Constable -Smith Hill (resign-
ed), John Powell,
Attorney P. Kennedy,
Aldermen Stephen H. Bow-
man, Walter E. Carlin, James
M. Young-, L. J. Cassavant,
Caleb Du Had way, E. L. H.
Barry, Henry D. Field, John
A. Shephard.

1879.

-Mayor Jesse I. McG ready,
Clerk James R. Colean,
Marshal Joseph M. Pag-e,
Constable Smith M. Titus,
Attorney P. Kennedy,
Aldermen Stephen H. Bow-
man, James M Young-, John
Fox, John Sweeney, A. Holn-
back, E. L. H, Barry, John A.
Shephard, Henry D. Field.

1876.

Mayor Robert M. Knapp,
Clerk Henry Nevius,
Marshal Robert H. Whyte,
Constable John Fox,
Attorney Thos. J. Selby,
Aldermen Stephen H. Bow-
man, Wm. Hall, James M.
Young-, L. J. Cassavant, Caleb
Du Had way, E L. H, Barry,
J, S. Daniels (resigned), James
S. Blythe.

1878.

Mayor Thomas J. Selby,
Clerk -W. H. Callender,
Marshal Joseph M. Page,
Constable J. S. Malott,
Attorney Wm. M. Jackson

(resigned), W. H. Pogue,
Aldermen Marcus E. Baglev,
Wallace Leigh, N. F. Smith,
John W. Vinson, E. L. H. Bar-
ry, A. Hoi n back, R. C. Gled-
hill, H. O. Goodrich.

1880.

Mayor -Jesse I. McGready.
Clerk-James R. Colean,
Marshal-Joseph M. Page,
Constable-Smith M. Titus,
Attorney-None appointed,
Aldermen-Stephen II. Bow-
man, C. W. Enos, John Fox,
John Sweeney, Charles Jacobs,
A. Holnback, J. A. Shephard,
Kenry D. Field (resigned),
George W. Ely.

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1881.

Mayor-Jesse I. McGready,
Clerk Joseph M. Page,
Marshal-Henry Whyte,
Canstable-Smith M. Titus,
Attorney-Adams A. Goodrich,
Aldermen A. B. Hall, W. H.
Lynn, R. N. McClure, John
Wiley, Henry Nevius, Charles
Jacobs, Walter E. Carlin, Geo.
W. Ely.

1883.

Mayor: E. L. H. Barry,
Clerk: Joseph M. Page,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Attorney: Adams A. Good-
rich,

Aldermen: S. H. Bowman, A.
K. Van Home, John Fox, Ca-
leb Du Hadway, Henry Ne-
vius, Ludovic Laurent, James
S. Daniels, John A. Shephard.

1884.

Mayor: Stephen H Bowman,
Clerk: Joseph M. Page,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer; James R. Colean,
Attorney: R. B. English (re-
signed), A. M. Slaten.
Aldermen: George M. Eaton,
John Fox, George Egelhoff,
James S. Daniels, A. K. Van
Home, Fred J. Bertman, Hen-
ry Nevius, John A. Shephard.

1886.

Mayor: E. L. H. Barry,
Clerk: Wm. Hanley,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer: Fred Jacobs,

1882.

Mayor: Jesse I. McGready.
Clerk: Joseph M. Page,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Constable: None appointed,
Attorney: None appointed,
Aldermen; R. A. King, A. H.
Bell, Caleb Du Hadway, John
Fox, Wm. Embly, Wm". Eads,
Walter E. Carlin, John A.
Shephard.

1883.

Mayor: Stephen H. Bowman,
Clerk: J. M. Page,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer: James R. Colean,
Attorney: R. B. English,
Aldermen: George M. Eaton,
A. K Van Home, John Fox,
Caleb Du Hadway, Geo. Egel-
hoff, Henry Nevius, C. W.
Enos, James S. Daniels.

1885.

Mayor: E. L. H. Barry,
Clerk: William Hanley,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer: Fred Jacobs,
Attorney: T. F. Ferns,
Aldermen; A. K. Van Home,
Fred J. Bertman, Henry Nevi-
us, John A. Shephard, George
M. Eaton, John Fox, George
Egelhoff, James S. Daniels.

1887.

Mayor: Joseph M. Page,
Clerk: T. W. Butler,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer; G. R. Smith,
ttorney: T. F. Ferns,

The city was organized under the General Law, April
11, 1883, which explains the two sets of officers for that year.

w. H. SCHROEDER, Marshall. H. p. NOBLE, Attorney.

w. E. CARLIN, Treasurer

A. H, FOSTKK, Clcl'k.

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i i ~

Attorney: T. F. Ferns,
Aldermen: George M. Eaton,
John Fox, George Egelhoff,
James S. Daniels, John H.
Richards, Fred J. Bertman,
W. R. Seago, John A. Shep-

hard '

Mayor: Joseph M. Page,
Clerk: T. W. Butler
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Ireasurer: G R .Smith,
Attorney: T. t . B erns;

Aldermen: George M. Eaton,

r o TJ 11 IPJ A 01 4.

L. S. Hansell, Edward Slat-

T o j-k i T c?

tery, James S. Daniels, J. b.

T-r i T^ A T o

Ho mes, P red J. Bertman,

Charles Neumeyer, John A.
Shephard.

Mayor: Joseph M. Page,
Clerk: T. W. Butler,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer: Arch F. Ely,
Attorney: T. F. Ferns, (re-

signed).

Aldermen: Geo. M, Eaton.
L. S. Hansell, Wm. Embly,
James S. Daniels, Wm. Pitt-
man, F. J. Bertman, Charles
Neumeyer, S. H. Bowman.

1892.

Mayor: James S. Daniels (de-
ceased), Caleb Du Hadway,
Clerk: Joseph O'Loughlin,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer: H. A. Shephard,
Attorney: Joseph S. Carr,
Aldermen: J. A. Shephard,
James Ross, Wm. Embly,
Caleb Du Hadway, Harry B.
Hill, L. S. Hansell, Henry Ne-
vius, S. H. Bowman.

Aldermen: Geo. M. Eaton, L.
S. Hansell, Edward Slattery,
James S. Daniels, John H.
Richards, Fred J. Bertman,
w. R. Seago, John A. Shep-
hard

M av oi~ Joseoh M Pae-e
<.** ' f^^
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treaaurer: Arch F.Ely.

Att orney: T. F. Ferns!
A1 , n ., .

Aldermen: George M. Eaton,

T o TJ n r u> t,i
L - S. Hansell, Wm. Embly,
T T^ , 7 TLT 1

James S. Daniels, J, S. Holmes,

L - i T T? /~>u XT

b red J. Bertman, Chas. Neu-

mev er, John A. Shephard.
1891.

Mayor: James S. Daniels,
Clerk: Joseph O'Loughlin,
Marshal: Henry Whyte,
Treasurer: H. A. Shephard,
Attorney: Joseph Carr,
Aldermen: Chas. Neumeyer,
S. H. Bowman, F. J. Bertman,
Wm. Pittman, Caleb Du Had-
way , Wm. Embly, Jas. Ross,
J. A. Shephard. '

Mayor: H. A. Shephard,
Clerk: Joseph O'Loughlin,
Marshal: John Powell,
Treasurer: Arch F. Ely,
Attorney: Joseph Carr,
Aldermen: H. B. Hill, J. C.
Ross, F. J. Bertman, L. S.
Hansell, Henry Nevius, Fred
Jacobs, S. H. Bowman, George
Ely.

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1894. 1895.

Mayor: H. A. Shephard, Mayor: H. A. Shepharcl,

Clerk: J. F. O'Loug-hlin, Clerk: J. F. O'Loug-hlin,

Marshal: W. R. Seago, Marshal: W. R. Seago,

Treasurer: Arch F. Ely, Treasurer: H. S. Daniels,

Attorney; J. S. Carr, Attorney: Ed. J, Vaughn,

Aldermen: J. C. Ross, H. B. Police Magistrate: J. G. Er-

Hill, Fred Jacobs, Geo. Ely, win (failed to qualify),

Wm. Nally, W. H. Houghtlin, Aldermen: W. S. Pittman,

George Holnback, Jacob Wag-- W. P. Richards, Fred Jacobs,

ner. Frank Roerig, H. B. Hill, Geo.

1$% Holnback, Jacob Wagner, W.

H. Houghtlin.
Mayor: H, A. Shephard,

Clerk: J. F. O'Loug-hlin, "''

Marshal: W. R. Seag-o, Mayor: H. A. Shephard,

Treasurer: H. S. Daniels, Clerk: Augustus Embly,

Attorney: Ed. J. Vaughn, Marshal: W. R. Seag-o,

Police Magistrate: George D. Treasurer: Arch F. Ely,

Locke, (failed to qualify), Attorney: Eugene Hale,

Aldermen: Harry B. Hill, Police Magistrate, Thomas O'-

John H. Crawford, Geo. Holn- Loughlin,

back, S. H. Bowman, W. S. Aldermen: Harry B. Hill,

Pittman, W. P. Richards,Fred John H. Crawford, Geo. Holn-

Jacobs, Frank Roerig. back, S. H. Bowman, J. J,

1QOQ Wiseman, John Horn, J. F. O'-

** Loughlin, W. H. Noble.
Mayor: H. A. Shephard,

Clerk: Augustus Embly, ;% v -

Marshal: Henry Whyte, Mayor: H. A. Shephard,

Treasurer: Arch F. Ely, Clerk: Augu stua bm bly,

Attorney: Eugene Hale, Marshal: Henry Whyte,

Police Magistrate: - Treasurer: M. B. Hill

Aldermen: J. G. Marston, J. ^""ft Pforge M Seago,

J. Wiseman, John Horn, J. C. Poll . ce Magistrate: J. G. Er-

Ross, J. F. O 'Loughlin, Thos. wm

A/T -Jlv. , r T? Q;+V, w Aldermen: H. S. Daniels, J.

Murphy, (JT. K. hmitn, W. . T .

TT TVt KIP * Wiseman, John Christy, J.

C.RossJ.F. O'Loughlin, Thos.

1900, Murphy, G. R. Smith, George

Mayor: H. A. Shephard, W. Ware.
Clerk: Augustus Embly,

Marshal: Henry Whyte, Mayor: G. D. Locke.

Treasurer: H. B. Hill, Clerk: Albert H. Foster,

Attorney: George Seago, Marshal: W. H. Schroeder,

DK. A, 13. ALLEN.

DK. K. A, CAJsF.Y.

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Police Magistrate, John J. Treasurer: W. E. Carlin,

Hughes. Attorney: H. P. Noble,

Aldermen: H. S. Daniels. J. Police Magistrate: (failed to
J. Wiseman, J. T. Wallace, qualify),
John Christy, J. F. O'Loug-h- aldermen: H. S. Daniels, J.
lin, E. A. Myers, George D. J. Wiseman, JohnG. Schwarz,
Locke, George W. Ware Paul Nitschke, E. A. Meyers,

Wm. Fahey, P. A. Bowler, W.

H. West, Jr.

Jersey vi lie DElectric igHt ? as and
Tower do.

Secretary of State signed incorporation license July 12,
1887. This corportion was composed of the following- citi-
zens; Wallace Leigh, John G. Schwarz, Sr., Walter E. Car-
lin. Capital stock, $20,000.

Began operations Dec. 3, 1887. It was incorporated for
99 years, but continued under this corporate name until
July 30, 1900.

This corporation was succeeded by another corporation
styled "The Jersey ville Light, Heat and Power Company."
It is composed of George D. Rosenthal, Owen Ford, Joseph-
ine Rosenthal and Anna C. Ford; all of St. Louis, Mo., with
J. F. Christy as superintendent. Capital stock, $25,000;
each share, $100. The four above named persons are the
only stockholders. Duration of corporation, 99 years.

This corporation has a contract to light the city for ten
years, which expires in 1909; also a contract for pumping
water at the water-works for the city, which expires in 1910.
Since the plant has fallen into the hands of the new corpora-
tion, they have made a radical change by an adddition of
forty feet by fifty feet, which is now the boiler room, where
is now one marine boiler of 150 horse-power and one tubular
boiler of 125 horse-power. In the room where formerly
stood the old boilers, are now the water tank, filter and heat-
er combined. In the engine room are four dynamos; two
Commercials and two Edisons. Also one Ideal engine of 150
and one Armington & Sims, of 85 horse-power.

At the water-works there has been an entire transfor-
mation. New pumps and the old engines, wired and set to
run by electric motors from a current sent in from the
light-plant. The new pump is a Stilhvell, Bierce & Company,

GEO. D. ROSENTHAL

J. F. CHRISTY.

OWEN FORD.

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triplex motor pump, equipped with a 20-horse electric light
motor, and delivers 500 gallons of water per minute. The
air compresser is equipped with a 50 horse-power motor and
was put into operation April 23, 1901. The changes which
have been made represent an outlay of S14,000. Thanks to
the Company for this improvement, also the betterment of
our service.

Under the management of Superintendent J. F. Christy ?
the work of removing the old machinery, and replacing it
with larger and more powerful ones, was begun in October,
1900, and throughout the winter the work progressed stead-
ily with such excellent and W 7 ell laid plans, that there was at
no time a hitch or cessation in the service, and under many
disadvantages that arose through the necessity of using the
old material in placing in the new It is indeed a unique feat-
ure to pump the water for the water-works by power so far
distant, by simply two wires, attaching the two engines, yet
it is done. What next?

$erseyville 'Water

The city council, with J. M. Page, mayor, feeling- the
necessity of a water supply in case of a fire, and to meet the
necessities of the citizens, gave the voters of Jersey ville an
opportunity to vote on issuing bonds for the construction of
water-works. The popular vote favored the issuing of bonds,
and the work soon began.

The first ordinance was passed September 11, 1888, for
issuing of $5,000 in bonds for the boring of the well. The
second ordinance was passed April 4, 1889, for the issuing of
$21,000 in bonds for the construction of the works.

The contract for boring the first well was let to J. P.
Miller, of Chicago, September 29, 1887. The price for the
first twelve hundred feet was $1.98 per foot. From 1200
to 1500 feet, the price was $2.32 per foot; from 1500 to 2000
feet, $2.59 per foot. The boring of the first well began
November 1, 1887, and completed August, 1*88.

On March 18, 1889, bids were opened for the construction
of the water-works. The contract was finally let to the
Rockford Construction Company for the sum of $21,875,
which included the building of the Reservoir, Stand Pipe,
laying of the Mains, etc., completing the works. The addi-
tions and extra cost together amounted to $23,836 .78. The
works were accepted by the city council November 5, 1889.
The well was bored to a depth of 2,003 feet, six inches in dia-
meter. It might be a matter of great interest that an analy-
sis of the water of this first well be given here. I am indebt-
ed to the kindness of Mr. H. S. Daniels for same:

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Potassium Sulphate 10 .301

Sodium Sulphate 5 051

Sodium Chloride , 85 .936

Sodium Phosphate Traces of

Calcium Sulphate 16 .916

Calcium Bi-Carbonate 6 .848

Magnesium Bi-Carbonate 15 .53a

Iron Bi-Carbonate 0.110

Allunmi 0.058

Silicicia. 0.787

The tower is 130 feet high, 15 feet in diameter at the
base, and 11 feet at the top of brick work, which is 94 feet
high, surmounted by an iron reservoir, 36 feet high and 11
feet in diameter, holding 30,000 gallons of water, and giving
a pressure of 55 pounds to the square inch, This tower is
set on a rock foundation 22 feet square and seven (7) feet
deep, the lower two (2) feet being of concrete and Portland
cement. There is also a reservoir, 225 feet in circumference
and seven (7) feet deep, with a capacity of 150,000 gallons,
The pump house is 22x40 feet, built of brick, About four
miles of water-pipe have been laid, ranging in size from 4 to
8 inches in diameter,

CITY WKLL. NO, 2.

The city council being aware of the fact that the first
well did not furnish a sufficient supply of water, and was
liable to give out at any time, began to make preparations to
bore a second.

The well is drilled 12>2 inches in diameter to a depth of
896 feet, in which is inserted 896 feet of 10 inch line pipe, of
40 Ibs per foot weight, coupled with the National Patent Pro-
tecting Sleeve Couplings; said pipe is seated on a limestone
formation.

From 896 feet to 1367 feet the well is drilled 10 inches in
diameter, in which was inserted an 8 inch pipe of 28 Ibs. per
foot weight, coupled with Oil City Protecting Sleeve Coup-
lings. This pipe extends down into the St Peter's sand-
stone formation five feet, at first coupling above lower end is

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placed a seed-bag- which incloses said coupling-; lower end of
said pipe has coupling- also.

The upper end of this pipe extends up into the above 10
inch pipe 36 feet, on upper end of said 8 inch pipe is placed a
lead packer; said packer and 8 inch pipe being- swag-ed out
.into the above 10 inch pipe, these packers are for the purpose
of closing- out all waters foreig-n to the St. Peter's formation
of sandstone. There is an 8 inch hole drilled 106 feet into
the St, Peter's formation of sandstone.

Numbers 27, 28, and 29 are carefully and accurately
made measurements, having- been made with a steel tape
made expressly for the purpose, the other measurements
being- made by "string-ing-" the derrick over on drilling- cable
as follows: A string- is tied on cable at the shaft or winding--
drum, then cable is run over derrick until string- came to top
of well, when there would be another string- tied on the cable
at shaft, measuring- cable as it passed over top of derrick,
which in this case was 160 feet. These measurements are
not accurate but are sufficiently so for all practical purposes,
being- within an averag-e of five feet.

The normal head of the well is 117 feet from surface of
the ground; the well was pumped with an 8 inch pump with
30 inches of stroke, with a pump submergence of 103 feet
(under normal conditions), with the effect of lowering- well
until the pump would not fill properly, yet yielding- an out-
put of 90 g-allons per minute, the well pumped at this rate
for 8 hours, when a plung-er rod broke and pumping- was
abandoned, owing- to the fact that we needed the 8 inch pipe
to use on the pump; the well was pumped without the lower
or salt string- of pipe being- in intended position in well, but
it is reasonably well known that the production of this sec-
tion of the well was only yielding- about 40 gallons per hour as
the drillers easily bailed it down with their sand pump,

After the pumping- test, and before the placing- of the 8
inch pipe in position in well, there was 88 Ibs. of dynamite
exploded at lower portion of well, with a view to obtain all

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the water that the well could possibly afford, after which the
well was cleaned out to the bottom as clean as possible with
the driller's sand pump.

The salt water evaporated a spoonful of salt from a pint
of water, and was so strongiy impregnated with salt that a
person could not drink the water.

At from 600 to 800 feet the water would rise to within
two inches of the drive-pipe, said drive-pipe being- sixteen
inches above surface of ground; this was caused by tool dis-
placement, the normal head of this water was about twenty-
five feet, and is composed, presumably of surface water; af-
ter inserting the ten-inch pipe to 896 feet no water came into
the well, water having to be thrown in from top of well
in order that the drillers could pump out the cutting's of the
drill; the well was dry to a depth of 1040 feet, at which depth
the saltwater formation was encountered, (See number 23.)
The amount of water remained about constant until the low-
er portion of the Galena limestone formation was reached,
(see number 26), at which point there was believed to be a
small increase of water supply. From the above it will be
seen that the 896 feet of ten-inch pipe has not failed in its
purpose to shut out surface water.

Elevation of top of well above sea-level .662 feet.

Elevation to which water rises above sea-level. .545 feet.

JOHN A. JOHNSON, ) ^

>i T } Contractors.

CHAKLES JOHNSON, j

After reaching- a depth of 1492 feet, and after erecting-
the Pumping Plant, the output of the well was not consider-
ed sufficient, and a contract was entered into with Mr. Chas.
Johnson, (formerlv of the firm of Johnson & Johnson,
original contractors), to continue the boring at original
diameter of lower portion of well, (said portion being- eight
inches in diameter), through the St. Peter's formation of
sancl-rock.

Drilling was commenced on Nov. 30, 1896, and was com-
pleted on Dec. 10, 1896, having- reached a depth of 1542 feet,

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or an extension of 74 feet, being" still in the St. Peter's for-
mation of sand-rock, it being- hard and close, it is supposed
to be yielding- about all the water there is in that formation.

The depth in the St. Peter's formation of sand-rock is
now 180 feet.

The following- is a description of the different stratas
bored through in sinking- the second well, taken from the
Log Book published by the Council;

DIFFERENT STRATA.

Depth
of Bore.

Thickness
of Strata.

No.

Earth composed of Soil, Clay and trace of Gravel 26

1 Black Slate 26

2 Lime and Flint Rock 100

3 Slate 116

4 Limestone 140

5 Slate 145

6 Limestone 168

7 Slate 180

8 Limestone 207

9 Slate 217

10 Limestone 221

11 Blue Flint 450

12 Limestone 480

13 Slate 5*0

14 Limestone 555

15|Slate 565

16iConglomerate Limestone, very hard 575

17!Slate 640

18 Limestone and Flint Rock 650

19 Slate 810

20 Gray Limestone 890

21 Shale 940

22 Limestone 975

23!Limestone, contains salt 1040

24lTrenton Limestone 1080

25 Galena Limestone, contains Mud Seams 1315

26 Galena Limestone, contains St. Peter's Sandstone 1350

27 St. Peter's Sandstone 1362

106 feet in same. Total Depth 1 468

At 1425 feet are indications of a Mud Seam

26
74
16
24
5

23
12
27
10
4

229
30
50
25
10
10
65
10

160
80
50
35
65
40

235
35
12

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WM. PITTMAN, Engineer.

The Jerseyville Telephone (Lo.

Became an incorporated Company by the signature of the
Secretary of State, April 1, 1895. The license was issued to
John G. Schwarz, Sr., John A. Shephard, Wallace Leig'h, and
Joseph M. Page, as commissioners to open books for sub-
scription to the capital stock of the said company. The cap-
ital stock was 100 shares, of $50 each, amounting- to $5,000.
The duration of the corporation was 20 years. The whole
number of shares were taken by the above named commis-
sioners.

The following- gentlemen were elected directors of the
corporation: J. M. Page, for one year; John A. Shephard,
two years; J. G. Scwarz, Sr., three years; Wallace Leigh,
three years, with John G. Schwarz, secretary and treasurer.

The Company is now pushing- the work of improvements
by putting- up 250 poles, 40 miles of new wire, making sixty
miles in all, and they will soon have 300 phones in active
operation.

New phones are being put up in all parts of the county, and
far more, a man in Jerseyville can talk to parties in Galves-
ton, Texas., with points between, and to Portland, Me., with
points between; from New York City to the western part of
Nebraska, with points between.

These 250 poles, from 25 to 40 feet, are all stepped and
equipped with ten-pin cross-arms, with braces. In May,
1895, they began with 25 subscribers, but now, (1901), have
grown in popularity and efficiency until 300 subscribers are
reached.

Traveling men declare that Jerseyville renders the best
service of any telephone plant in the State, not excepting
Chicago. That is the fact, and there are good reasons for
it. There will soon be up 1000 feet of 120 pair cable, and
1000 feet of 50 pair cable.

City 3(alL

May 10, 1887, the city council of Jerseyville, 111., for the
purpose of erecting- an Engine House and City Hall, issued
city bonds to the amount of $3,000. The issuing 1 of bonds
was May 10, 1887, bearing- date of July 7, 1887; J. M. Page,
mayor; T. W. Butler, city clerk. For full particulars, see
Ordinance Record, 1876, pag-e 248.

At a meeting- of the city council July 5, 1887, bids were
received for the erection of City Hall and Engine House.
The lowest bid was $3,246 .71, by R. H. Clark, At a meet-
ing of the council July 8, 1887, the building committee was
empowered to make a contract with R. H. Clark for construc-
tion of said building-.

The City Hall building- was accepted by the city council
Dec. 6, 1887, and stands on the southeast corner of Arch and
Jefferson streets. It cost the city $3,246 .71. It is a substan-
tial brick structure, 24x60 feet, two stories hig-h, well and
neatly furnished above.

Lower story is devoted to the fire deparment, which con-
tains two hose carts drawing- 250 feet of hose each; one hook
and ladder, and one hand fire engine. The fire department
is not organized as thoroughly as it might be.

$erseyviUe hospital and Sanitarium.

No intelligent person could follow me through the vari-
ous deparments of this hospital, and especially through the
surgical, without being profoundly impressed with the high
grade of scientific character, and thankful that such an insti-
tution is in our midst. After studying the moral and in-
tellectual character of its founders, and writing up their pro-
fessional training' and education for their work, I feel thank-
ful that such men have planted an institution of this kind in
our midst. I have thrown away my former written descrip-

OFKICR AND HOSPITAL.

tion of their Hospital and Sanitarium, and present to my read-
ers their own description, which they have placed before
the world, as a better exponent than I, or any other person,
could g-ive. I am profoundly impressed with the magnitude
and generosity of this institution, and I conscientiously and
heartily commend these men and their work to the afflicted
everywhere.

The following- pictures, and written descriptions will
fully explain this young- and promising- institution:

RECEPTION ROOM.

Objects: To furnish to those who are ill, or in need of
rest and recreation, a home provided with every facility
necessarv for their proper care and treatment.

To supplement the work of the general practitioner by

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having- the means at command which he cannot possess, and
which are many times essential to the successful treatment
of serious cases.

To use all methods known to legitimate medicine to re-
store health, and to teach the principles that maintain it.

SANITARIUM.

All classes of cases are accepted, other than the insane,
or those having- contagious diseases.

Upon admission a thorough physical examination is
made by the physician, including, when necessary, micro-
scopical and chemical analysis of the secretions.

Cases are studied and prescribed for individually each
day, no routine in treatment being followed.

Drugs are employed in a rational manner when there ex-
ist positive indications for their use.

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Conditions due to auto-intoxication from defective elim-
ination are improved and usually cured by the systematic
treatment pursued.

DR. ENOS'S CONSULTATION ROOM.

Well lighted operating room, fully equipped with all the
necessary appliances for carrying out the principles of
aseptic surgery.

The absence of germ life, due to the perfect hygienic sur-
roundings, affords better opportunities for recovery, than
are available in any general hospital.

The thorough and careful preparation given the patient
by rigid hygiene, proper baths, and general tonic treatment,
insures success when otherwise failure might ensue.

The most difficult and intricate operations are perform-
ed bv the staff.

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A separate department for the care of surgical cases
till convalescent.

In the last few years orificial surgery has done many
times more for the cure of obscure chronic diseases than any
other one method.

DR. TITTKRINGTON'S CONSULTATION ROOM.

In the cure of reflex diseases this branch of surgery
plays the most important part, such as hemorrhoids, bladder
troubles, uterine inflammation, diseases of the air passages,
and neurasthenia.

Many afflicted with diseases peculiar to their sex recov-
er without surgical procedure, after receiving the benefit of
the treatment here given.

Abdominal operations for the removal of tumors and

growths of different kinds, as well as all plastic operations,
are performed when necessary.

Upon admission, the secretion from the kidneys for
twenty-four hours is collected for chemical and microscopical
examination, in order that correct diet and treatment may be
prescribed.

OPERATING ROOM.

By the proper use of treatment, the skin is made to do a
large part of the eliminating-, thereby giving- the kidneys
a rest, when they are restored to their normal functions.
The excellent results obtained are many times beyond ex-
pectation.

With the thorough eliminative treatments given, the use

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of electricity, physiological diet and judicious medication,
rheumatic conditions are easily cured.

The neurotic cure for drug 1 and whisky habits is also in
the line of treatments given at this hospital. Its object is to
cure permanently and quickly all diseases produced by the
excessive use of Whisk}*-, Tobacco, Cigarettes, Opium, Mor-
phine, Laudanum, Cocaine, Chloral, and all other drug
habits.

SURGICAL WARD.

The treatment is painless and absolutely safe. Several
thousand persons have been cured by our treatment, with
no failures and no relapses. No other treatment has prov-
ed so successful.

DRS. ENOS & TITERINGTON,

JRRSKYYILLE, ILLINOIS.

oecret oocieties.

SONS OF TEMPERANCK.

Jerseyville Division, No. 16, Sons of Temperance, was
the first lodge of a secret order, not only in the city of Jer-
seyville, but Jersey county as well. It was first organized
August 4, 1847, with the following officers: G. C. Woods, W,
P.; A. B. Morean, W. A.; Wm. B. Nevius, R. S.; Thomas L.
McGill, A. R. S.; W. J. West, F. S.; Charles H. Knapp, treas-
urer; Amos Brown, Chap.; P. C. Walker, Cond.; A. P. Staats,

A. C.; George Wharton, I. S.; Francis Osborne, O. S.; Elihu
J. Palmer, P. W. P.; Wm. Eads, A. C.; James C. Ross, I. S.;
Johnson Norris, O. S. The Division organized with 30
members and advanced to 200.

In 1851, the Division built a fine two story hall just north
of the court house, now occupied as a residence by Mrs. J.
K, Stelle. This hall was 22x50 feet, which was dedicated by
G. W. P. Morean in September, 1851. The buildings and
ground cost about $2,000. G. C. Wood was first W. P., N.
L. Adams, W. A..

The interest gradully died out and finally meetings
were no longer held, and the Division was disbanded. This
Division was re-organized Feb. 11, 1878, by Grand Worthy
Patriarch Rev. J. Nate, of the Grand Divison of the Sons of
Temperance of Illinois. The charter members were: Hen-
ry Gill, Lewis R. Meyers, Wm. F. Gammell, Johnson Norris,
Daniel McFain, George Morley, Eli D. Walker. Henrv Deli-
cate, Wm, H. Pogue, B. C. Clayton, Daniel W. Phillips, O.

B. Hamilton, Stephen Catt, James A. Barr, James C. Ross,
George W. West, Francis Osborn, Lewis R. Phelps, Francis
R. Dutton, Norman E. Landon,, Chas. W. Enos, N. H. Lan-
don, and Wm. McBride.

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JRRSEYVILLE LODGK, I. O. O. F.

Jerseyville Lodge, No. 53, I. O. O. F,, was instituted
May 3, 1849, at the court house in Jerseyville by District De-
puty Grand Master Raynor, of Collinsville, assisted by T, P,
Ash, N. G ; and six other officers and members of Alton
Lodge, No. 2. The five charter members were Pay ten C,
Walker, A, C. Hutchinson, Dr, James Bringhurst, Samuel
Cowen, and C. H. Roberts. The members initiated on that
evening- were: Wm. Yates, Dr. J. C. Perry; N. L, Adams,
A. P. Staats, R. L. Hill, P. Silloway, Georg-e E. Warren. C.
F Burke and Jonathan Plowman, The first officers were:
Wm. Yates, N. G.; R. L. Hill, V. G.; C. H, Roberts, Sec'y,
and Jonathan Plowman, Treasurer.

The first hall used by the lodge was erected in 1851, by
stock subscription of the members, There were 180 shares
of $10 each, the lodge at first subscribing- 17}^ shares, and
finally purchasing- the remainder. This hall was on North
Main street, the present site of the Warren-Wiseman Dry
Goods House. The lodg-e occupied this hall until Jan., 1871,
when they took possession of their present one, in a three
story brick building- on West Pearl street. This edifice was
erected by B. C. Vandervoortand the lodge, the former put-
ting up the first two stories, and the lodge the third. The
cost of the hall and furniture was $3,200. The old hall prop-
erty was sold for $2,500. The lodge property is now valued
at $3, 000. The lodge is in a prosperous condition, and has a
fund of $3,100 at interest. The present officers are: C. F.
Fales, N. G.; Wm. Horn. V. G.; C. R. Snyder, L. S. V.
G.; D. J. Murphy, R. S. S.; F. W. Roerig, Sec.; J. H. Duf-
field, Chaplain.; F. D. Heller, Permanent Sec.
A. W. Cross, Tr.; W. E. Holland, Warden; H. W. Fisher;
Conductor; E. O. Hartwick, O. S.; D. C. Miller, J. S.; G. H.
Woodruff, R, S. N. G.; W. H. Coulthard, L. S. & G.; L. C,
Smalley, R. S. V. G. W. E. Holland, Aaron N. Ford, D.
J. Murphy, C. Q. Daniels, C,. R Snyder, trustees. Present
membership, 82; meets every Thursday night.

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JERSEYVILLE ENCAMPMENT.

Jerseyvile Encampment, No.20, I. O. O. F., was instituted
July 6, 1852, bv Grand Patriach James E. Starr, assisted by
J. P. Baumont, H. P.; Wm. Shattuck, S. W.; A. S. Barry, J.
W.; B. F. Barry, Scribe, with the following- charter mem-
bers: Rev. L. P. Grosvenor, P. C. Walker, Wrig-ht Casey,
Edwin A. Casey. A. L. Knapp, N. L. Adams, C. H. Roberts.
The first officers elected were: L. P. Grosvenor, C. P.;
N. L. Adams, S. W.; C. H. Roberts, Scribe; Wrig-ht Casey,
Treasurer. At the same meeting- the following 1 members
were elected and initiated: Wm. Yates, A. M. Blackburn,
Georg-e E. Warren, B. B. Hamilton and H. O. Goodrich. This
lodge is still prospering-.

RUBY LODGE, NO. 263,

Daughters of Rebekah, was org-anized in Jersey ville, 111.,
by Past Grand Master, James E, Starr, acting- under and by
virtue of a warrant and dispensation issued by J. Otis Hum-
phrey, Grand Master of Illinois. The first officers elected
were as follows: Noble Grand, Henrietta Ford; Vice
Grand, Carry Sission; Secretary, Henretta I, Carr; Treasur-
er, Harriet G. Warren. The above officers were installed
into their respective offices September 13, 1889. The follow-
ing- persons were its charter members:

Judg-e Geo. E. Warren, Sr., Joseph S. Carr, William M.
Estebrooke, Henry W. Fisher, Georg-e A. Fry, Henry
Schoppe, C. Flencer, and Geo. W. Woodruff, Sr., Mrs. H. C.
Leak, Mrs. Henry W. Fisher, Mrs, C. F. Cruser, Mrs. Hen-
rietta Ford,' Mrs. Henrietta L Carr, Mrs. Carrie Sissions,
Mrs. Georg-e E, Warren.

The present officers are: Noble Grand, J. H. Duffield;
Vice Grand, A. W, Cross; Recording- Secretary, Mrs. Carrie
L, Tack; Financial Secretary, Mrs. W. E. Carlin; Chaplain,
Mrs. Henrietta Ford; Treasurer, Mrs. Anna Cross; Rig-ht-
and-Left Supporters of Noble Grand, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
H. Houg-htlin; Rig-ht Supporter of Vice Grand, Mrs. Anna

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Snedeker; Warden, Mrs. Etta Carr; Inner Guardian, Miss
Ollie Gamble; Outer Guardian, Geo. Woodruff, sr,; Con-
ductor, Mrs. Pina Engel.

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.

Antioch Lodge, No. 65, Knights of Pythias, was organ-
ized April 5, 1876. The following were its charter mem-
bers: George W. Herdman, George C. Cockrell, H, D.
Stelle, Elias Cockrell, W. S. Bowman, J. P. Holcomb, Wm,
L. Scott, Henry Nevius, G. M. Eaton, A. H. Barrett, C. E.
Casey, Henry T. Nail, John Wiley, S. J. Snedeker, 1. H.
Bothwell, J. I. McGready, H. D. Field and Wm. H. Edgar.

The first officers were: George W. Herdman, C. C;
II. T. Nail, V. C.; G.- M. Eaton, M. of E.; G. C. Cock-
rell, P. C.; H. D. Stelle, R. S. of R. & S.; A. H. Barrett,
M. at A.; H, Nevius, I. G.; John Wiley, O. G.; W. S. Bow-
man, Prelate.

KNIGHTS OF HONOR.

Apollo Lodge, No. 877, Knights of Honor, was organized
February 11, 1878, by D. G. D. John B. Booker, of the Grand
Lodge K. of H., of Illinois, with 20 charter members. The
membership is composed of some of the most prominent
citzens of Jerseyville and Jersey county.

MUTUAL AID.

Jerseyville Lodge, No. 87, Independent Order of Mutual
Aid, was instituted and charter granted July 20,1880, The
charter members were as follows: R. P. Shackelford, Wm.
Ford, Peter Dolan, Thomas A. Davis, Wm. E. Hibble, H.
Z. Gill, Philip Block, John Mode, Henry Heller, Frank Hartz-
en, David W. Zeller, Christian Harms, Joseph W. Van Cleve,
John W. Vinson, John M. Waller, Chas. A. Edgar, Conrad
Borger, Fredrick Hund, Fredrick Nagle, C. F. Hawkins,
George W. Wolfe and G. W. Shafer. The first officers
were: R. P. Shackelford, P. P.; Wm. Ford, Pres.; Peter
Dolan, V. P.; T. A. Davis, R. S.; W. E. Hibble, F. S.; H. Z.
Gill, Treasurer; J. M. Van Cleve, Chaplain; John Mode, I. G.;

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Christian Harms, O. G.; Fred Hartzen, Conductor; D. M .
Zeller, Henry Heller and Philip Block, Trustees.

JERSKYVILLE LODGE, A, F. & A. M.

At a meeting- at the office of Dr. J. L. White, Sept, 19,
1863, D'Arcy Lodge, U. D., A. F. & A. M., was organized,
with the following- officers: J. L. White, W. M.; John N.
Squier, S. W.; Wm. B. Nevius, J. W. Others present at the
meeting- were: Milton Park, J. E. Van Pelt, N. Smith, S.
Calhoun, B. F. Calhoun, J. B. Schroeder, Andrew Jackson.

September 12, 1864, the name of the Lodge was changed
to the Jerseyville Lodge, and an application was made for a
charter, which was granted on October 5, 1864 The peti-
tioners were: N, L, Adams, Charles N. Adams, W . W .
Bailey, Charles H. Bowman, James Bringhurst, Edward Bo-
hannan, A. Calhoun, B. F. Calhoun, P. D. Cheney, M. V,
Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, John L. Lofton, Thos, Marshall,
W . B. Nevius, John H, Onetto, Milton Park, W, H, Schroe-
der, J. E. Van Pelt, J. L. White, W, H. Smith, besides sever-
al others residing in, and near Jerseyville.

The Lodge was chartered as Jersevville Lodge, No. 394,
with J. L. White, W. M.; John N. Squier, S, W ,; Wm. B.
Nevius, J. R. On the 12th of December, 1864, officers were,
elected as follows: John L. White, W. M.; John N. Squier
S. W.; J. B. Schroeder, J. W.; W. W. Bailey, Treasurer;
Andrew Jackson, Secretary; Edward Bohannan, S. D.; B. F,
Calhoun, J. D.

In 1882, the Lodge purchased the third story of the
store building, then owned by J. C. Barr and A. W. Cross,
at a consideration of $1500. They then raised the roof and
remodeled the same at an additional expense of $1800, so
they have now elegant apartments 24x110 feet in size; the
main lodge room being 24x60 feet in dimensions. The Chap-
ter rents the use of the aparments of the Blue Lodge.

Return of Jerseyville, No. 394, A. F. & A, M., for the
year commencing Jnly 1, 1900, and ending June 30, 1901.

The stated communications are held on Monday, on or

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before full moon in each month. The annual elections are
held on the stated meeting's in December of each year. The
following- are the present officers, installed on the 31st day
of December, 1901:

Nicholas A. Grosjean, W. M.; William H. Catt, S. W.;
Alex. C. Robb, J. W.; Isaac D. Snedeker, Secretary; Rev. 8.
Catt, Chaplain; Charles E. Miner, S. D.; L. P. Squier, J. D.;
A. F. Pitt. S. S.; C. A. Fales, J. S.; A. G. Erwin, Tyler. The
present membership, in good and regular standing 1 , is 89.

HICKORY GROVE CAMP, M. W. A.

Hickory Grove Camp, Modern Woodmen of America,
No. 442, was organized Nov. 28, 1887, with forty-two charter
members. The following 1 were the first officers: J. K. Cad-
wallader, V. C.; J. B. Burley, W. A.; H. H. Brockman, Bank-
er; Oscar Hill, Clerk; George Sturdevant, Escort; D. U.
Zeller, Sentry; Dr. E. L. H. Barry, Physician; O. A. Sned-
eker and C. R. Hutchison, managers.

The Camp meets regularly on the second and fourth
Monday nights of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall. The
present membership is 225.

Following are the officers for 1901: Wm. Rohacek, V.
C.; W. H. H. West, Sr., W. A.; H. H. Brockman, Banker;
Oscar Hill, Clerk; F. M. Dashner, Escort; E. C. Brooks,
Watchman; Henry Duelling, Sentry; Dr. H. R. Gledhill,
Physician; W. P. Corns, W. H.Coulthard, J. W. Becker, Man-
agers; B. W. Akard, H. B. Hill, D. J. Murphy, Relief Com-
mittee.

A. STKKLMAN CAMP, M. W. A.

A. Steelman Camp, M. W. A., No. 3410, was organized
Nov. 25, 1895, with the following persons as its first officers:
W. P. Richards, V. C.; Robert B. Shortal, W. A.; William
Hanley, Banker; E. C. Sperling, Clerk; Fred Schmidt, Jacob
Wagner, H. C. Leak, Managers; Dr. E. L. H. Barry, Physi-
cian. The Camp has a membership of 135, and meets in a
nicely furnished hall on the third floor of the Chapman

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Block, on the first and third Friday nights of each month.
Present officers: Joe A. Snodgrass, V C.; John A.
Walker, W. A-; William Hanley, Banker; Ed. L. Derby,
Clerk; Wm. Ballard, Escort; Charles W. Rudolph, watch-
man; Albert Riley, sentry; Aaron Dodson, Philip Mode,
Patrick Pursell, managers; Dr. M. B. Tittering-ton, physi-
cian; James A. Bracy, chief forester: vV. H. Noble, Richard
Flamm, Edward Pope, relief committee.

KOYAL NEIGHBORS OF AMERICA.

Steelman Camp, Royal Neighbors of America, No, 146,
was organized April 12, 1895, with fifty-three charter mem-
bers The camp has at present 80 members, and meets in
the hall of A, Steelmam Camp, M. W. A.

Present officers: Mrs. Maggie Akard, oracle; Miss Nel-
lie Ford, vice-oracle; Mrs. Lena Griggs, chancellor; Mrs.
Emma Dodson, past oracle; Mrs, Charles H. Voorhees, re-
ceiver; Mrs. Anna Snedeker, recorder; Mrs. Bertha Erwin,
marshal; Mrs, Sophia Zeller, inside sentinel; Mrs. Susie
Walker, outside sentinel; Mrs. Lottie Perrine, musician; Dr.
Cordelia Enos and Dr. H, R. Gledhill, physicians; Mrs. A,
Seago, Mrs, Jennie Miller, Mrs, Emma Wilcox, managers.

LOWE POST, NO. 295, G. A, R.

Lowe Post, G, A. R,, No, 295, held its first organized
meeting July 6, 18S3, and the following charter members were
mustered in by commander John G. Mack, of Springfield,
111.: H, C. Bull, J. H. Duffield, A. J. Osborne, John Powell,
W. H. Coulthard, C. F. Cruse r, S, P. Clendenen, G. H. Stui--
devant, John E, Boynton, Charles Doerge, Wm. L. Rue,
John H. Price, G, C. Cockrell, J. S. Malott, E. L. H. Barry,
Stephen Catt, John Fraser, and Wm. F. Gambel. Officers
were elected at the first meeting as follows: J. H. Duffield,
P. C.; A. J. Osborne, S. V. C.; Chas. Doerge, J. V. C,; J. S.
Malott, Adjutant; W. H. Coulthard, Q. vl.; E. L. H. Barry,
Surgeon; Rev. Stephen Catt, Chaplain; John Powell, O. D.;
H. C. Bull, O. G.; N. C. Beaty, S. M.; G. H. Sturdevant Q.
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The following- are the present officers in command, (1901):
John Harg-raves, P. C.; W. H. Houg-htlin, S. V. C.; Wm. Cook,
J. V. C.; J. H. Duffield, P. P. C.; Rev. S. Catt, Chaplain; W,
H.Colthard ,Q. M.; J. H. Duffield, Adjutant; R. C.Gledhill ,Sur-
g-eon; H. T. Hill, O. D.; Pat. Fitzpatrick, O. G.; F. M. Dod-
son, S. M.; Al Hughes, Q. M. S. Present membership, 33.
Meet the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month.

WOMAN'S RELIKF CORPS.

Woman's Relief Corps organized in Jerseyville, 111., Oct.
25, 1882, by Mrs. Josie Bailey, of East St. Louis, with 19
charter members. The following- were the names of the
charter officers: Mrs. Emma Everts, President; Mrs. Wal-
ter Carlin, Sr. Vice President; Mrs. Ella Rue, Jr. Vice Pres-
ident; Miss Ida Coulthard, treasurer; Mrs. N. C. Beatv,
chaplain; Miss Eugenia Carlin, conductor; Mrs W. H. Cook,
g-uard; Miss Florence Everts, secretary.

Motto : Charity, Loyalty, Fraternity. This organiza-
tion has done much more charitable work than any person
outside of the society is aware of. Since the Provident soci-
ety ceased to exist, their work has been done by this
Society. Able and benevolent women constitute the
membership of this corps They indeed make their motto
practical. In the treasurer's report, about $47 was given to
the deserving 1 poor during one quarter. Present officers
are: Mrs. Sarah Squier, president; Mrs. Mary Cook, sr.
vice president; Mrs. J. H. Duffield, jr. vice president; Mrs,
Stephen Catt, chaplain; Mrs. Ella Rue, secretary; Mrs. Harry
Houghtlin, treasurer; Mrs. Hattie Dodson, conductor; Mrs.
Nettie Purinton, guard. The color bearers are: Mrs. Clara
Brooks, 1st color bearer; Mrs, Carrie Tack, 2nd color bearer;
Mrs. John Christy, 3rd color bearer; Mrs. R. C. Gledhill,
4th color bearer. The present membership is about 25.
This society is worthy of a helping hand always.

MUTUAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE.

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ville, 111., September 27, 1898, by George A. Rowden, Deputy
Vice President, with 70 charter members. Charter officers
were: Eugene Hale, president; Samantha Wylder, vice presi-
ent; W. H. Schroeder, secretary; Jacob Wagner, treas.; Rev.
Wm. Kearns, chaplain. Meeting in Chapman Hall every 1st
and 3rd Thursday evenings. Present membership, 140.

WESTERN CATHOLIC UNION.

The Western Catholic Union is a benevolent association
for mutual protection and aid in time of need, sickness and
death, to be called, St. Francis Xavier, No. 12, subject to the
constitution of the supreme council of the W estern Catholic
Union, permanently located at Quincy, 111., and in accordance
with the provisions and regulations of the charter granted
by the Central Union. The charter officers of this associa-
tion were: John A. Shephard, president; Patrick Dunphy,
vice president; Fred J. Bertman, financial secretary; Nicho-
las Wallace, secretary; John Sweeney, treasurer; John
Jennings, Patrick Fahey, Robert Kinsella, John F. Bertman,
James Flemming, trustees.

This association was organized by Mr, Gatz at the Ca-
tholic school house January 13, 1881. Mr. Gatz was presi-
dent of the Western Catholic Union of Quincy, 111. The fol-
lowing persons composed the charter members of the soci-
ety: Patrick Dunphy, Robert Kinsella, Fred J, Bertman,
John F. Bertman, Wm. H. Ryan, John Sweeney, Nicholas
Wallace, John Jennings, James Gibbs, John A. Shephard,
Patrick Fahey, James Flemming, John Flaherty. Officers
for 1901 are as follows: John Dunphy, president; Edward
Burns, vice president; Thomas A. Kraus, financial secre-
tary; John C. Bertman, recording secretary; John C. Mc-
Grath, treasurer. Rev. F. A. Marks, Thomas Costello,
Mathew Welch, John Sweeney, Henry C. Maloney, trustees.

JERSEYVTLLE HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

"Its object is to procure closer social relations among its
members, and to cultivate in them a keener desire for the

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acquisition of knowledge, to promote the interests of the
city of Jerseyville, and to pay fitting 1 tribute to her system of
free education."

"Its officers shall be a president, a vice president, a sec-
retary, treasurer, and board of directors. The association
will be composed of regular and honorary members. High
school graduates are regular, and others not graduates,
elected so by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the soci-
ety at any regular meeting, are honorary members. They
shall be exempt from dues, but they shall have no voice in
the assiciation, and shall not hold office."

At the time of the incorporation of this association, it
was the first of the kind incorporated in the State of Illinois.
"The seal of this association shall consist of a circular im-
pression, lettered on the margin as follows: "The Jersey-
ville High School Alumni Association; the inner circle to con-
tain the following words: 'Incorporated April 24, 1891,' with
a design of the lamp of knowledge. The asseciation shall
hold regular meetings on the third Friday in June of each
year."

In the last twenty-fours, (since 1878), there have been
404 regular graduates from the Jerseyville High School,
averaging 16 5-6 yearly, besides 27 graduate sin stenography,
17 post graduates, and 10 miscellaneous, or classical gradu-
ates, 158 in all. For the past several years this association
has given an entertainment course of a high class. The an-
nual reception and banquet given the graduating class is the
great event of the year.

THE MOTHERS' SOCIETY.

The object of this society is to encourage every thing
that aids in the happiness and usefulness of home life.
Officers of this oi'ganization are Mrs, Wm. Landon, Presi-
dent: Mrs. Eugene Brooks, Secretarv.

MONDAY MUSICAL CLUB.

The Monday Musical Club was organized in the fall of
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Van Home, president; Mrs. Harry S. Daniels, secretary and
treasurer. Club meets every alternate Monday in each
month. The object of the organization is to provide profit-
able exercises of vocal and instrumental talent among- the
members in the community, and to cultivate a taste for clas-
sical music. The membership of the society consists of
ladies, who are divided into 25 active, and 20 associate mem-
bers. The present officers are: President, Mrs. Nellie
Porter; vice president, Mrs. J. R. Colean; secretary and
treasurer, Miss Juliet Both well; executive committee, Mrs.
L. M. Cutting, Mrs. A. H. Cochran, Miss Nellie Porter.
Present membership, 40.

CLUBS AND O'l HER SOCIETIES.

Among the other clubs and societies are the following:
The Ladies' Tourist Club, the Bachelor Maids' Club, the
Young Married Women's Club, the Jerseyville Humane So-
ciety, The Y. M. C. A.

The Jerseyvlile Commercial Club was organized in 1901.
It has nicely furnished rooms on the second floor of Odd Fel-
lows 1 building.

GEOKGE D. LOCKK.

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HON. GEORGE D, LOCKE.

Was born in Jersey ville, Illinois, October 3, 1874. He is
the only son of James A. and Anna M, (nee Wharton), Locke.
He was educated in the public schools and High School of
Jerseyville, 111. A graduate of Terre Haute, Indiana, Com-
mercial College in the year 1891. For five years he clerked
in the general office of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis R. R.
Co.; also holding" the responsible position of station agent in
Jerseyville when but 17 years of age.

He began the study of law in the office of Chapman &
Vaughn in Jerseyville, 111., February, 1894, and continued
his law studies unil February, 1896, when he purchased a
controlling interest in the Jerseyville Electric Light, Gas
and Power Co., and was the secretary, treasurer,and general
manager of the companv until July 1, 1900, when he sold the
entire plant to Rosenthal & Ford of St. Louis, Mo. He is
now the junior member of the Investment Banking, and Ab-
stract firm of Chapman & Locke,

He was elected Mayor of the city of Jerseyville on the
Democratic ticket, April 16, 1901, by a majority of 317, being
the largest majority ever given a candidate for the office in.
Jerseyville. Besides, he is the youngest man ever elected to
this office, being only 26 years old. He is also secretary of
the Board of Education.

On August 15, 1894, he was married to Miss Mabel
G, P. Post, daughter of Caleb A. Post and Maggie M, (nee
Murray), Post. The fruits of this union are two sons Arch-
ibald and Lucien.

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HON. JOHN NELSON ENGLISH,

Hon. John Nelson English was born in Henry county,
Kentucky, March 31, 1810. He was the eldest son of Thomas
and Alia English, who were the parents of twelve children.
Their ancestors were Irish and German. Mr, English's
father was a native of Maryland, his mother, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. English's mother was a daughter of Jonathan Cooper, a
half sister of Capt. Jonathan English Cooper, so well and
favorably known in Jersey county.

For half a century Mr. English took a prominent and
leading part in the public affairs of Jersey county. He came
to the present limits of Jersey county with his parents when
he was 15 years old, in 1825, and remained here continuously
to his death. Mr. English received his early education in
the schools of Washington and Jersey counties.

At the breaking out of the Black Hawk war of 1831, he en-
listed in Capt. Carlin's company of mounted volunteers, and
was mustered in at Carrollton, III., and immediately started
on a march to Rock Island, where the treat}' with the Indians
was soon afterwards made, when he returned home, and in
1832, enlisted in Capt. Patterson's company and participated
in the battles of Wisconsin and Bad Ax. After treaty was
made and peace restored, he was honorably dischaged. Af-
ter returning home, Mr. English spent the next summer
wrthD. A. Spalding, government surveyor, in surveying the
lands around Lake Michigan. He assisted in surveying the
land, in 1833, where now stands the city of Chicago, making
his headquarters in old Fort Dearborn, on Dearborn street,
He told many very interesting, amusing and thrilling stories
of those early days. He once stood where now stands Will
Hanley's meat market and killed a deer that chanced to be
galloping by. He raised a large crop of corn where now
stands the court house, about 15 acres, all west of the "In
dian trail," what we now call State street.

He rode on horse-back all over what is now Jersey coun-
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was then a part of Greene county, and after he had secured
sufficient petitioners, he rode on horse-back to the Capital of
the State, then at Vandalia, 111., when Jersey county was
cut off from Greene county. I am not saying too much when
I say, that for the first 50 years of Jersey county's existence,
there was not a man in it who did so much for the county
and the people in it, as J. N. English, In August, 1889, the
old settlers of the county met in the court house yard and
celebrated the semi-centennial of Jersey county's existence.
On that day a picture of 29 of the old settlers was taken, but
Mr. English had passed beyond before that day, thus no-
body points out his face in the group. It would be bat a
fitting tribute, if the citizens of Jersey county now living
would erect a monument to his memory just inside the
court house yard.

In the summer of 1834, at the age of 24 years, he pur-
chased a farm in Jersey county, four miles southwest of Jer-
sey ville, which he began at once to improve. He was the first
elected sheriff of Jersey county.

On December, 1840, when he was at the of 30 years, he
was married to Miss Elizabeth Belt,a daughter of Horatio W.
Belt, a pioneer of Jersey county. Fruits of this union were
four sons Thomas, Lloyd, John N. and R. B. English.
When his of office as sheriff expired, he, in company with
Messrs. Magee & Terry, erected a steam grist and saw mill
five miles west of Jersey ville.

They carried it on about two years, when they
sold it. He next went to steam boating on the river, with
the rank of mate. He followed the river for two years,
when he came homeand bought a farm five miles west of Jer-
sey ville, in what is now known as English township. He set-
tled on it in the fall of 1847, since which date most of his time
was spent in agricultural pursuits, stock raising, from
which he made a competency

In the fall of 1860, Mr, English was elected to the Legis-
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re-elected after the expiration of his first term by a large
majority, filling- the position with honor to himself and satis-
faction to his constituents.

Politically, Mr. English was a strong" supporter of the
Democratic party, At most Senatorial, Congressional and
State conventions he was a delegate from Jersey county.

In November, 1867, he moved to a farm one-halt mile
west of the court house where he spent the remainder of
his days. On January 5, 1872, Mrs. English, after a long
and lingering illness, died, leaving a husband and three sons
to mourn their loss Lloyd, John N., and R. B. In October,
1873, Mr. English married Catherine C. Silsby, the widow of
John Silsby, of Jersey count} 7 ,

Mr. English died at his home near Jerseyville, 111., sur-
rounded by many friends and relatives, August 25, 1880, at
the age of 78 years, 5 months and 15 days. Thus closed a
long and useful life.

EDWARD AUGUSTUS D'ARCY.

Edward Augustus D'Arcy was born in Hanover, Morris
county, New Jersey, April 15, 1796, His father, John D'-
Arcy, was a physician of eminent standing prior to the Revo-
lution, in which war he was surgeon of the 1st New Jersey
Regiment, until appointed a member of General Washing-
ton's household. Dr. John D'Arcy married Phoebe Johnes,
daughter of a Presbyterian minister of Morristown, New
Jersey, Edward being one of their three children. His edu-
cation was gotten from the Morristown schools, and Univer-
sity of New York. He graduated from the New York Hos-
pital April 4, 1817, and entered practice when 21 years of
age.

On October 22, 1821, he married Mary McEowen of
Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Ann Caroline and Catherine
M. were the only children. Ann Caroline became the wife
of Hon. Fredric H. Teese of Newark, New Jersey, both now
dead, leaving two daughters, Mary M. and Catherine M.,
neither of whom are married. Catherine M. became the

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wife of Prentiss D. Cheney of Jerseyville, 111. She died
April 23, 1877, and her husband July 3, 1900. Three of their
four children died in infancy. The other is still living-, Dr,
A. M. Cheney, a physician, 33 years old, unmarried.

Dr. D'Arcy came to Jersey county, then Greene county,
111., in 1833, locating- about three miles south of Jerseyville,
where his daug-hter, Catherine M., was born, October, 1838.
He never practiced medicine in Illinois save as consultant, or
on account of personal reasons. He had no office; his pro-
fessional standing- was hig-h, and judging- from his written
notes and data, he was cognizant of truths not then admitted,
nor even noted as possible, Dr D'Arcy died in Jerseyville,
April 25, 1863.

MUKRAY CHENEY,

Murray Cheney was born February 28, 1809, in Addison,
Vermont, He came to Jerseyville in 1833. He was married
to Caroline Pickett, July 7, 1835, in Stockton, Chautauqua
county, New York, and returned with his wife to Jerseyville
in the fall of 1836, residing- here until 1858, when he removed
to Sang-amon county, Illinois. In 1861, he moved to Virden,
111., where he died December 7, 1885.

Mr. Cheney held the office of constable fourteen years,
up to 1850, when he was elected sheriff of Jersey county,
which office he held for four years. He was elected Justice
of the Peace immediately upon going- to Virden to live,
which, with the office of police magistrate, he held continu-
ously by re-election for 23 years, and which he resig-ned a
few months before his death. He was a man of positive con-
victions and of a judicial turn of mind. These qualities he
carried with him into his business and political life. Train-
ed up a Whig-, he adhered to the fortunes of that party until
its disruption, when he fell into line with the young- Republi-
can org-anization, and consistenly supported its principles,
(not always without criticism), until his death. It is worthy
of note, however, that in his long- official life, he was freely
supported by many political opponents, because of a belief
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During- the many years that he filled the office of police
magistrate, important cases growing- out of the early anti-
license strug-g-le were frequently coming- up in his court, and
while the nature of these cases was such as to arouse the
bitterest feeling's of the contending- factions, his decisions
on points of law and on the merits ot cases, submitted to the
court, were such as to convince thoug-htful men on both
sides, that he always acted conscientiously and most fre-
qently, justly; so careful was he in this respect that it be-
came the pride of his later years that not one of the numer-
ous decisions rendered by him and taken upon appeal to the
hig-her courts, has been reversed. Though somewhat gruff
and positive in his address and manner of conversation, he
was beneath all this, genial and sympathetic. It was not dif-
ficult to arouse his kindlier feelings, and to convince all that
the best characteristics of the man were below the surface.

CAROLINE PICKETT, ( CHENEY).

Caroline Pickett was born Nov. 25, 1812, in Addison, Ver-
mont. Gilead Pickett, her father, departed this life in 1816.
She removed with her mother's family to Stockton, Chautau-
qua county, New York, in 1831, where she was united in mar-
riage with Murray Cheney, July 7, 1835. In October, 1836,
she came to Jerseyville with her husband and infant child,
Prentiss D. Cheney, where she resided until 1858, when she
removed with her family to Sangamon county, Illinois, resid-
ing there until October, 1*61. She then removed with her
husband to Virden, 111., where she now resides.

Nine children have been born to her, eight of them be-
ing born in Jerseyville. Of this number, five are now living.
She is the mother of the first child born in what was then
the corporate limits of Jerseyville; she was closely identified
with the earliest history ofthis city. Herfirsthome here was
in part of what is now the Northern Hotel on Main street,
built in 1836 by Stephen Herren, the other parts of the house
being occupied by Horace Landon and family, Capt. John M.
Smith, then not married, and other young men, pioneers of

PRENTISS DANA CHEN ICY.

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this new frontier. She is now, at 89 years of age, a woman
of remarkable vitality in mind and memory, as well as busi-
ness ability, and retains the entire management and control
of her own and her husband's estate, which has never been
distributed and is considerable, under the provisions of the
will of her husband, and in accordance with her own ideas.

PRENTISS DANA CHENEY.

Prentiss Dana Cheney was born August 2, 1826, in Stock-
ton, Chautauqua county, N. Y. He died July 3, 1900, at his
residence in Jerseyville. The family removed from Stock-
ton to Jersey ville when Prentiss was an infant, not then six
months' old. He acquired his early education in the com-
mon schools of Jerseyville. His first business experience
began at the age of fifteen, being with Thos, L. MGill, re-
corder of Jersey county, and a large quantity of the early
records will be found in the hand-writing of Mr.
Cheney. His next experience was as book-keeper with
Alexander L. Morean, in the general merchandise business
in Jerseyville. After this, he was with the banking house of
Chesnut, Blackburn & Du Bois. at Carlinville, 111. Subse-
quently Mr. Blackburn removed to Jerseyville and engaged
in banking, retaining Mr Cheney as chief man.

On the 6th of July, 1859, Mr. Cheney was united in mar-
riage with Catherine M. D'Arcy, daughter of the late Ed-
ward D'Arcy, in Jerseyville. Very soon after his marriage,
the Banking House of D'Arcy, Teese & Cheney w r as opened
in Jerseyville. Later, the name of Teese was withdrawn
and the firm of D'Arcy & Cheney continued the business for
a number of years after the death of the senior member,
Mr. Cheney then formed a copartnership with the late By-
ron Murray and with him did a Banking and Brokerage bus-
iness, at 27 Wall street, in the city of New York. From
this copartnership he subsequently withdrew and retired to
Jerseyville. He leaves one son, Dr. Alexander M. Cheney,
having buried three children in their infancy- His wife,
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she had gone for her health. Some ten years later he
married Mrs. Annette Higbee.

The subject of this sketch was a man who took great de-
light in the study of the law, and in numerous cases of his
own, although never acting" as his own attorney, he was in-
dustrious and vig-ilant in the preparation of cases, frequently
himself preparing- the brief for submission to the court.
This quality caused ,the appellation of "Judge" to attach to
his name for many years prior to his death.

Prior to the adoption of township organization in Jersey
county, he was a member of the Board of County Commis-
sioners, acting several terms as chairman of that Board.
Afterwards, he was a prominent member of the Jersey
County Board of Supervisors, and was chairman of that
body during the time of the erecting of the new court house,
and together with other members of the Board and officers of
the county, took pleasure in devoting time and labor in fur-
nishing to the county the beautiful and convenient building
now an ornament to Jersey ville, and a pride of all citizens, and
it is worthy of remark that it was built at the least possible
cost to the tax payers. Judge Cheney was a man with many
friends. His acquaintance outside of his home city was ex-
tensive, and a large number of these friends, with his family
and neighbors, were in attendance at his funeral, which oc-
curred at his residence here on July 5, 1900. The remains
were deposited in Oak Grove cemetery, the burial place of a
great number of the departed from the community in which
almost his entire life was passed, "Requiescat in pace."

GILEAD P. CHENEY.

Gilead Pickett Cheney was born in Jerseyville, then in
Greene county, 111., March 24, 1838. He was married to
Emily Caroline Plowman, daughter of Hon. Jonathan and
Elizabeth Crull Plowman, May 1, 1861, at the residence of
her father in Sangamon county, 111., by Rev. Wm. L Tarbet,
Mr. Cheney removed from Jerseyville to Sangamon county

GILKAD P. CHENEY.

MKS. (HI HAD P. CHENEY.

in 1858, where, and in Virden, 111., he resided until 1880,
when he removed with his family to Denver, Colorado, where,
and in the near vicinity, he and all his family now reside.
There have been born to him four children, and one
grand-child, all of whom are now living-. He is the oldest
native of Jersevville, being 1 the first child born here. The
house in which he was born was built by his father, Murray
Cheney, in 1837, and stands on Lot 6, Block 4, original town,
at the northeast corner of Lafayette and Pine streets. The
town was named Jersey ville in 1834, was incorporated in 1837,
and included only 80 acres, which extended from out-lot 13,
on the north, to Carpenter street on the south, one-half mile
long from north to south, by one-fourth mile wide from east

to west. Jersey county was cut off from Greene, formed
and organized in 1839.

MRS, G. P. CHENKY.

Emily Caroline Plowman, daughter of Hon. Jonathan
and Elizabeth Crull Plowman, was born December 14, 1841,
near Rosedale, in Jersey county, 111. She came with her pa-
rents to Jersey ville in 1847, where she resided until 1858,
when she removed with her parents to Sang-amon county,
111. She was united in marriage with Gilead P. Cheney,
May 1, 1861, at the residence of her father in Sang-amon
county, by Rev. Wm L. Tarbet. She lived in Sang-amon
county and in Virden until December, 1880, when she re-
moved with her family to Denver, Colorado. She has four
children, all of whom are now living. Three sons, Charles
M., Henry E., and Jonathan P., and one daughter, Mary Car-
oline, who wa< married to Edg-ar N. Green, of Jacksonville,
111., December 4, 1886. They have one child, Norma Car-
oline, born July 4, 1890, in Denver. Mrs. Cheney united with
the Baptist church in Jerseyville, and was baptized in the
old church the evening' of February 10, 1853, by Rev. Jestus
Bulkley, the pastor. She still, with husband, maintains her
membership, they being- now members of the first Baptist
church of Denver, where, and in the near vicinity, she and all
her family now reside.

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HON. JONATHAN PLOWMAN.

Hon. Jonathan Plowman was born near Somerset, Pa.,
February 26, 1818, and died at Virden, 111., Feb. 19, 1900.

In the fall of 1838, he went to Ohio, where he taught
school for six months. He then came to Jersey county and
began teaching 1 school in March, 1839, about six miles south
of Jerseyville. He cast his first vote here, which was upon
the question of organizing Jersey county.

In 1849 he entered about 1,000 acres of land in Macou-
pin county, and in 1858 moved and settled upon it, about four
and one-half miles west of Virden. He remained on the
farm unil 1863, when he removed to Virden and engaged in
the dry goods business in partnership with Robert Buckles
for about three years, when the firm was dissolved, and he
entered into business with his son-in-law, G. P. Cheney,
which firm, G. P. -Cheney & Co., continued for a considerable
number of years. He retired from active business about 30
years before his death.

Mr. Plowman was twice married. His first marriage
was to Elizabeth Crull, in what is now Rosedale township,
in Jersey county, March 4, 1841. She died April 28, 1845.
By this marriage two children were born, Emily C., now
Mrs G. P. Cheney, and Charles C. His second marriage
occurred Nov. 24, 1846, when he was united to Rachel Crull,
a sister of his former wife, and who died June 6, 1895, in
Virden. Eight children were born of this union, of whom
five are now living.

Mr. Plowman removed from Rosedale to Jerseyville in
1847, He served three terms as sheriff before moving to
Virden, where also two other ex-sheriffs of Jersey county
went to live, Capt. Murray Cheney and Pompey Silloway,
both of whom died there several years ago. In 1872, Mr.
Plowman was elected as the minority member of the Legis-
lature from this senatorial district and served until 1874, in
the 28th General Assembly of the State of Illinois. He also
served some time as member of the Macoupin County Board

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of Supervisors. In politics he was an active and enthusiastic
Republican, cordially supporting- the principles and nom-
inees of that party. During the many years of his active
life, before the infirmities of age and failing 1 health interfer-
ed, he was a careful and painstaking- student of all the im-
portant political questions current in national and local pol-
itics, and few, if any, in his community could give as logical
reasons for political belief, or as useful and helpful advice as
he, and not only in politics, but in religion, law, and moral
and social ethics; also, he was a profound thinker, and a com-
petent and safe advisor. Those who were his neig-hbors,
friends and associates, tog-ether with his own family, will
loyally cherish his memory, as he lies at rest, fulfilling- the
Divine law, "Earth to earth, and dust to dust."

CAPTAIN JONATHAN K. COOPER.

Captain Jonathan E, Cooper was born near New Castle,
Henry county, Kentucky, January 5, 1807. His father was
Jonathan Cooper, a native of Maryland, and one of the early
settlers of Kentucky, who, with Daniel Boone, frequently
hunted the Indians, He was also a soldier of the Revolu-
tionary war.

He moved from Kentucky to Illinois in 1835, and settled
on a farm four miles southwest of Jerseyville where he lived
until his death, which occurred Aug-ust, 1845, at the ripe old
ag-e of 89 years. His wife survived him nine years, dying- in
1854. Captain Cooper received his education in the schools
of his native state. He remained at home with his father
unil he reached the ag-e of 23 years, when, in November,1829,
after a horse-back trip of 13 days, landed within the present
limits of Jersey county. He spent the first winter here in
Illinois, clerking- in the store of his uncle, Linsey N. Eng--
lish, of Carrollton, 111. The next year he worked on a farm.
At the breaking-out of the Black Hawk war he enlisted in Cap.
Carlin's (afterwards Gov. Carlin) company; was selected as
orderly serg-eant, and served one year under Capt Carlin.

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The next year, 1832, he served in Capt. Patterson's compa-
ny, and a portion of the year was detailed as quartermaster.
He took part in the battles of Prairie du Chien and Missis-
sippi, and after peace was declared, received an honorable
discharge. He was commissioned Captain of State Militia
by Gov. Reynolds in 1832

May 19, 1836, he was married to Mrs. Miriam F. Turner,
(nee French), daughter of Nicholas and Anna French. She
was born in Rocking-ham county, New Hampshire, in 1798.
She was one of the best women that ever came to this coun-
try. She died in June, 1873. They reared two children to
manhood and womanhood Rev. Marshall M. Cooper, a Pres-
byterian minister, and Miss Mary Spangle, who married
Nicholas Massey, and who died in 1900, in Colorado.

December 3, 1879, he was married to Mrs. Sarah John-
son, who survived him sixteen weeks, dying February 19,
1896. Religiously, Capt. Cooper and wife were Baptists
and united with that church at Kane, Greene county, in 1839.
They transferred their membership to Jerseyville Baptist
church when it was organized, Sept. 5, 1841, and were
among its charter members unto their death. At the organ-
ization of this church he was ordained deacon and remained
so to his death.

Deacon Cooper was a noble hearted man and strict integ-
rity marked all his dealings. He took great interest in
chronicling events of the early history of Jersey county, and
was the best historian in the county. During his last days
he became very helpless, losing his speech entirely for two
and one-half years, besides through the disease of ''creeping
paralysis" he became almost helpless. During all this time
he was very patient and good natured. He died Oct. 5, 1895,
at the ripe age of 88 years and 9 months.

NATHANIKL MINER,

Nathaniel Miner was born near Old Grown Point, N. Y.,
Januarv 1, 1801. He was the fourth child of William and

C'apt. J . K. Cooper .

Nathaniel Miner.

William IMttnian.

David E. Boaly.

DAVID G. WYCKOFJF*.

Prudence Miner. When he was one year old his parents
moved to Bridgeport, Vermont, where he made his home un-
til he was 33 years old. He received his early education in
the schools of Bridgeport.

In October, 1832, he came to the present limits of Jersey
county, and in 1833 entered a quarter section of land in sec-
tion 19, about \Yz miles west of Jerseyville, where he
lived for 61 years, until his death. Mr. Miner assisted in
raising the first frame building 1 in Jerseyville, the present
site of Harry Hill's Clothing and Furnishing House. Aug-
ust 3, 1834, he was married to Miss Louisa Jackson, daugh-
ter of Aaron Jackson, a native of Vermont. Mr. Jackson
and family were formerly from ^ddison county, Vermont.
The fruits of this union were seven sons: Edward, of Car-
rollton, 111.; Charles E., for a long time clerk at the Commer-
cial Hotel, Jerseyville; Aaron J., farmer of Calhoun county;
Lorenzo J., who died of a wound received at the battle of
Murfreesborough, Tennessee, who was first lieutenant of
Co. C., of the 61st Inf. 111. Vol.; Darwin C.; George W., the
youngest, who still resides on the old home place. Mrs,
Miner died Aug. 22, 1869.

In 1872, Mr. Miner was married to Mary J. Ingels, a
native of New Hampshire. In 1842, Mr. and Mrs. Miner iden-
tified themselves with the First Baptist church of Jersey-
ville. Mr. Miner was the first constable elected after the or-
ganization of Jersey county. On May 22, 1894, his second
wife died at their home, \ l /2 miles west of Jerseyville. Mr.
Miner was a practical farmer until his death. He died at
his country home where he had resided for 61 years, Decem-
ber 13, 1894. Mr. Miner was a good man and enjoyed the
confidence and respect of all who knew him.

DAVID G. WYCKOFF.

David G, Wyckoff was born in Blenheim, Schoharie
county, N. Y., May 5, 1812. When but a boy, at the age of
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City, where he learned the tailor's trade. In 1833, he was
married to Miss Phoebe Eliza Bonnell, a native of New York
City, the marriage taking- place in Newark, N, J.

In 1837 he came to Illinois and settled in Delhi, Jersey
county, where he followed his trade until 1840, at which
time he came to Jerseyville, where he continuously pursued
his trade as merchant tailor for 9 years, until 1849. At this
date he established a general mercantile business by form-
ing 1 a partnership with John E. Rundle,but in!850 he became
sole proprietor and so continued until October, 1865, when
his son Horatio N. Wyckoff became his partner, after which
time the firm name was known as D. G. & H. N. Wyckoff.

They carried a full line of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes.
The present building 1 erected in 1871, is the third erected on
the same lot where he first located in 1843. Mrs. Wyckoff
died in 1851, leaving 1 six children, Catherine E., Horatio N.,
Mary A., George E., Cornelia J., and Francis E. At his
death, it was said, he was the oldest merchant in the state of
Illlinois. He came to Jerseyville when there were but few
dwelling's, and he watched with interest the continued
growth of the city for fifty years. He died at his home in
Jerseyville, surrounded by children and friends, Sunday
morning 1 , Nov. 20, 1892.

HON. WILLIAM SHEPHARD.

Hon. William Shephard was born in Marking-ton, York-
shire, England, August 10, 1816. He came to this country
with his father, Wm. Shephard, when but 16 years old,
landing in New York, June 1832, and settling first at Tren-
ton, N. J. His early occupation was as a shoemaker, but he
soon turned his attention to canal and railroad enterprises.
He first began as a day laborer on the Raritan canal in New
Jersey. He soon became a contractor on a limited scale,
and removed to Lancaster, Penn., where he remained about
three years, when he built the tunnel on the Harrisburg and
Lancaster road.

In the spring of 1838 he moved west and located in St.

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Louis, where he clerked in a livery stable for a short time.
In the fall of 1838 he moved to Coles county, 111., where soon
atter he became a contractor under the State Internal im-
provement system on the Central Branch R. R., now a part
of the Big" Four system. His partners in this enterprise
were Richard Johnson and David Dunsdon, both Englishmen
and pioneers of Jersey county, His next contract was the
Grafton Bluff excavation preparatory to making- of it a
county road. This was a contract under the United States
Government.

In 1840, Mr. Shephard was married to Miss Anna Ma-
ria Gross of Dauphin county, Penn. She was the daughter
of Adam and Elizabeth Gross. The fruits of this union
were nine children, five of whom are now living-. Wm, V.,
the oldest son, died Feb. 15, 1875, in the 31st year of his ag-e.
The third son, Francis B., died in St. Louis while attending
law school, April 28, 1876, in the 24th year of his age, He
was a graduate of Notre Dame University, Ind., and also a
graduate of the Polytechic Institute, Troy, N. Y., and was
a young man of much promise.

Mr, Shephard in 1847 engaged in the mercantile business
in Grafton where he continued until 1852, when he took a
contract in connection with the building of the Missouri-
Pacific R. R. He was an original incorpoartor, and was for
many years President of the Jacksonville, St. Louis & Chi-
cago R. R., and built the Louisiana Branch of that road, and
also an extension of that road from Dwight to Streator. Mr.
Shephard was elected State Senator from the district com-
posed of the counties of Greene, Pike, Scott, Calhoun and
Jersey, in 1866, by the Democratic party, and was re-elected
in 1870, but resigned in 1871.

In 1866, he established a private banking house in Jer-
seyville, 111., which he conducted successfully nine years,
when he sold out in June 1875. In 1871 he took large con-
tracts of R. R. building in Texas, in company with Col. J. A,
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built 300 miles of the Houston & Great Northern R. R.. It is
due him lor the writer to say, who has known Mr. Shephard
since he first came to Illinois, he was a gentleman of rare in-
tellectual endowments, sound judgment, honest convictions
of right and wrong-, having- the confidence of all who knew
him best, which made him an eminently successful busin-
ess man. He resided in Jerseyville for 36 years.

He was always a devoted member of the Catholic church
and the first Catholic service ever held in Jersey county was
held in his house. He amassed a fortune of $300,000. He
died at his home in Jerseyville, 111., surrounded by wife,
children and friends, August 12, 1875. Mrs. Shephard also
died at the same home March IK, 1890, surrounded by
children, grand-children, and a host of sympathizing- friends.

HON. GEORGE K. WAKKKN.

Hon. George E. Warren was born at Worth ing-ton,
Franklin county, Ohio, Aug. 16, 1817. His father was Dr.
Thomas Warren, who was a physician by profession, a na-
tive of New Hampshire, and lineally descended from the
Puritans, His grand-father, Mr. De Wolfe, was the owner
of the noted privateer "Yankee" that figured largely in the
war of 1812. Mr. Warren's mother died in Bristol, R. L, in
1829, while his father died at the home of his son, George E.
Warren, near Jerseyville, in 1853.

In 1835, Dr. Warren with his three children, a daughter,
Mary A., and two sons, came west and settled in Alton, 111.
He entered considerable land within the limits of Jersey
county. Mr. Warren had very good early advantages for an
education. At the early age of 14 years he entered Brown
University, at Providence, R I., where he remained four
years, taking a classical course up to the middle of his sen-
ior year. After his removal with his father to Illinois, he be-
gan the study of law in the office of Judge Woodson & Hodges
of Carrollton, 111. While he was thus studying law, he re-
ceived much insight into the execution of law, by assisting
M. O, Bledsoe, clerk of both circuit and countv commission-

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ers' courts. This very close application somewhat impair-
ed his health, that in the spring 1 of 1837 he visited his former
home and friends in Rhode Island for rest and recuperation.

On August 16, 1837, he was married to Miss Harriette
S. Allen, daughter of S. S. Allen, collector of the port of
Bristol. He returned west with his wife and settled at Al-
ton in the spring- of 1838. He passed his examinations and
was admitted to the bar to practice in all the courts, in 1839.
In 1840, he moved with his family to a large farm near Jer-
seyville, purchased by his father, with money left him by
his grand-father, De Wolfe. In 1841 he was elected Justice
and held that office continuously until 1849, when he was
elected county Judge as the Whig candidate, which office he
held until 1857,

In January, 1862, he opened a law office in partnership
with his son-in-law, Hon. W, H. Pogue, and was appointed
United States commissionerDec. 12, 1866, under Johnson's' ad-
ministration. During the war of the rebellion Judge War-
ren was a firm and loyal supporter of the union cause. Few
men in Jersey county exerted a more salutary influence for
loyalty over the people of Jersey county, than did Judge
Warren. In 1863, he received the appointment of enrolling
officer.

At the early age of 16 years he united with the Prot-
estant Episcopal church, but upon coming to Jersey ville,
there being no church of that denomination, he united with
the Presbyterian church in 1852. On January 4, 1866, he was
ordained elder, which sacred office he held to the day of his
death, Judge Warren was greatly blessed with an intelli-
gent and devoted wife, and the fruits of their union were
nine children: Martha D, W., who became the wife of Dr.
Geo. D. Miles; Mary A., who became the wife of Judge Wm.
H. Pogue; George E., who died at the age of four years;
Harrette S., who became the wife of Henry C, Lovell, who
was clerk in the United States Treasury Department at
Washington, D. C.; Charles D., a farmer; Mark A., of the

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firm of M, A. Warren & Co.; George E,, President of the
Warren-Wiseman Dry Goods Co., of Jerseyville; Anna, the
wife of Robert S. Powel, a prominent farmer; and Frank,
yet single

Judge Warren was elected to the 31st General Assembly
which convened January 8, 1879, and served two years.
He was elected Mayor of the city of Jerseyville in 1875, and
served one term of one year. Judge Warren was three
times elected by Alton Presbytery a commissioner to the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian church of the United
States, in 1883, at Saratoga, N. Y., and in 1888 at Philadel-
phia, Penn. He died at his home, with wife and children,
in the midst of friends and acquaintances, after a long and
useful life, an ornament to society, a blessing to the world,
andaglory to the church of JesusChrist. He fell like a shock
of corn fully ripe, at the ripe old age of 74 years, 4 months
and 7 days.

HUGH N. CROSS,

Hugh N. Cross was born in Somerset county, N. J.,
Dec. 9, 1817, His father's name was John L. Cross and him-
self and wife were of Scotch-Irish extraction.

At the age 6f 18 years he came with his parents to Jer-
sey county, 111., and settled on a farm three miles southesst
of Jerseyville, now occupied by Martin L. Beatty, his father
being 70 years old at this time. In 1850, at the advanced age
of 82 years, his father died, his wife's death occurring in
1848, some two years previous. They both died at the above
country home.

H. N. Cross received his early education in the common
schools of his state, obtaining a good education for one in
those times.

He was married to Miss Antoinette Van Home, daught-
er of Col, Elijah and Polly (Wyckoff ), Van Home, who were
natives of New York, though among the early pioneers of
this county, coming here in 1833. Mrs. Cross was born in
Schoharie county, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1823. The fruits of this

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union were five children: Andrew Wilson, Mary N., the de-
ceased wife of Maj. Walter E. Carlin, who died March 30,
1880, at the age of 32 years; Helen, deceased, Edward and
Leslie.

Mr. Cross began life by no means a rich man, but by
wisely planning" and vigorously executing- those plans, he be-
came one of the wealthiest farmers in Jersey county. In
1866 he formed a partnership with Geo. R. Swallow, and
opened an extensive banking house on South Main street,
Jerseyville, 111, In 1872 this firm was dissolved and was suc-
ceeded by H. N. Cross, A. W. Cross, and W. E. Carlin, un-
der the firm name of Cross, Carlin & Co.

HON. DAVID E. BEATY.

Hon. David E. Beaty was born in Butler county, Ohio,
February 4, 1812. He was the oldest child of Nenian and
Jane Beaty, who were farmers, the former dying in 1838, his
wife surving him 19 years, until 1857. Mr. Beaty chose the
occupation of his father for his own, and spent his life on a
farm. He received his early education in the common
schools of his county, which were somewhat limited,
but having a thirst for knowledge and by patient and constant
study, acquired an education which prepared him for many
useful positions which he creditably filled in after years.

February 5, 1833, he was married to Miss Anna Elizabeth
Ross, daughter of Amos and Lydia Ross, of Butler county,
Ohio. Of this union there were born six children, three of
whom survive, namely Nenian C., of St. Louis, Mo.; Amos,
now living in Dakota; and Mrs. Kate Burriss, of Atlanta, Ga.
Shortly after his marriage he moved to Fayette county, Ind.,
where he bought a farm, and two of his children were born
there. In 1839 he sold this farm and returned to his native
county and bought another farm. Here he lived until Janu-
ary, 1859, when he again sold out and removed to Jersey
county, 111., and purchsed the farm, known as the Mound
Farm, three miles southwest of Jerseyville, where he spent
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he lived in Jersey ville. Mrs. Beaty died Jan. 9, 1868, and her
death cast a gloom over the hitherto peaceful and happy
home.

On July 5, 1870, Mr. Beaty again married, his second
wife being- Miss Harriet M. Henderson, a native of New
Hampshire. By this union one son was born, David E.
Beaty, jr., who still lives with his mother in Jerseyville.

Mr. Beaty was active in furthering every movement
which he calculated would advance the interests of the far-
mer, as well as that of the workingman, and of the com-
munity in which he lived. The most prominent of these was
the "Jersey County Fair Association," established in 1868,
of which he was the first president. As a brave and loyal
citizen, Mr. Beaty stood in the front ranks. During the war,
when life and property were in constant danger, Mr. Beaty
was one of six men whom the loyal people of Jerseyville chose,
and formed them into a "Committe of Protection," and were
successful in arresting and bringing to justice some of the
most desperate murderers of those troublesome and danger-
ous times. Thus Mr. Beaty not only placed himself in the
way of the assassin's bullet, but he placed upon the altar of
his country his eldest son, Nenian C. Beaty, who enlisted in
the 24 Reg., 111. Vol. Inf., and his son-in-law, David C. Beck-
ette, who was killed while charging the enemy at Kenesaw
Mountain, his second son, Amos, went as a substitute. Had
Mr. Beatv been a young man, he would undoubtedly
have been a commander in the front ranks.

In the fall of 1872 he was nominated for State Senator as
the candidate of the Republican party, and in 1874 for Con-
gress.

For ten years he was president of the State Board of Ag-
riculture, and for seventeen years, until 1894, was president
of the Board of Trustees of the Jacksonville Insane Asylum.

Thus in times of peace, as well as in war, he was a leader
of the people and of his party. He was naturally a good or-
ator, and forcible speaker, which commanded attention and
respect from all who heard him.

MRS. MARY D ARCY.

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As a business man, Mr. Beaty had many qualifications
which demanded our admiration. Whatever he undertook
he executed with determination and energy, yet at the same
time he was guided by that prudence and principle of right
which reflect great credit on his acts.

His heart was ever moved by warm and generous impul-
ses and by such conduct he won the respect of his fellow
citizens. The best of all, Mr. Beaty was a Christian man,
and was-a leader in the church also, of which he was a mem-
ber. On April 3d, 1859 he was elected Ruling- Elder of the
Presbyterian church of Jersey ville. He remained in the of-
fice fifty years, almost to the close of his life.

On Thursday, August 9th, 1894, about 11 o'clock, P.-M,,
at his home , surrounded by wife, children, and friends, he
crossed over into the regions beyond.

"He rests from his labors, but his works follow him."
MKS. MARY D'AKCY.

Mary McEowen was born in New Jersey in 1803. She
was united in marriage with Dr. Edward A. D'Arcy in 1821,
and came with him to Jersey county in 1833. Her children
were Ann Caroline, who was married to Hon, F. H, Teese,
of N. J., and Catherine M., who became the wife of Prentiss
D. Cheney, of Jerseyville. Mrs. D'Arcy resided with her
family here until the death of her husband in 1863, after
which she lived mostly in New Jersey until her death, which
occurred in 1887. She was a member of the 1st Presby-
terian church in Jerseyville from its organization until her
death. A noble Christian woman, patient, charitable and
kind. She lived such a life as to command the respect, con-
fidence and love of all who knew her during her long resi-
dence in Jerseyville.

MKS. P. D. CHICXKY.

Catherine McEowen D'Arcy was born in October, 1838,
upon her father's farm 3 miles south of Jerseyville. She
died April 23d, 1877, in Jacksonville, Florida. She became
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July 6th, 1859. Four children were born to them. Three
of the number died in infancy. The son, Dr. A. M. Cheney,
still survives. Almost the entire life of Mrs. Cheney was
passed in Jerseyville, where she was known and beloved by
all. She united with the Presbyterian church early in life,
and was always found zealously engaged in church and
Sabbath school work. The summons came early but, "sus-
tained by an unfaltering- trust," she calmly, answered the
call, committing her spirit into the hands of Him in whom
she trusted.

DR, A. M, CHENEY.

Alexander M. Cheney was born Sept, 18th, 1868, in
Mendham, New Jersey. He is the son and only surviving
child of Prentiss D. and Catherine M. Cheney. Dr. Cheney
entered upon the study of medicine and surgery, at an early
age and entered his profession well equipped with knowledge
of its requirements. He resides in Jerseyville, where, like
his parents and grandparents, he intends to live,

JAMES ARCHIBALD LOCKE.

James A. Locke was born in Carrollton, Greene county,
111., June 26, 1838. He was the third son of David and Caro-
line Matilda, (Burford) Locke who soon after the birth of
James, moved to Lexington, Lafayette county, Missouri.

He grew from childhood to manhood in Lexington, Mo.,
receiving his early education in the public schools of Lex-
ington, graduating at the Masonic college of that city.

His father being a large contractor and builder, James
A, first learned the mason trade with his father, when a
mere boy.

About 1860 he became editor of the "Missouri Exposi-
tor, published at Lexington, Mo. His paper was Democratic
and supported S. A. Douglass for the Presidency in 1860.

Mr. Locke through his paper took an active part in se-
cessional politics, advocating the doctrines of secession.

He attached himself to Genl. Shelby's brigade, and was

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assigned to the Quartermaster's Department, where he was
captured in 1862, with a train of supplies.

He was taken back to Lexington as a prisoner of war,
and was paroled, and sent to .lerseyville, 111., there to remain
until exchanged, or further orders of the Federal Govern-
ment, In 1863 he went to the Pacific coast, and edited the
"Reese River Review," published at Austin, Nevada. In
1864 he returned east, but shortly went south and located in
Memphis, Tenn., where his health failed him, and he re-
turned to Jerseyville, 111.

Mr. Locke was war correspondent of the "St. Louis Re-
public," and so remained to his death.

He was also manager of the "Life Association of Amer-
ica" for Southern Illinois.

In 1872 James A, and Morris R. Locke, his brother,
formed in Jerseyville, 111,, a partnership in Law, Real Es-
tate and Insurance, and conducted a successful business for
eight years. Mr- Locke was connected with almost every
movement for the improvement and building up of Jersey-
ville, such as the Jersevville Elevator company, The First
National Bank, the St. Louis, Jerseyville and Springfield
railroad, of which he was President when he died; w r as a
member of the Masonic fraternity at Jersevville and Car-
rollton, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Jerseyville.
On Nov. 17, 1867, Mr, Locke was married to Miss Anna M.
Wharton, ceremony celebrated at the Centenary M. K.
Church, St. Louis, Mo.

The fruits of this union were four children, George,
David and Mrs. Edith A. Slaten, both residents of Jersey-
ville. The other two died in infancy- During the construc-
tion of the railroad of which he was president, he died sud-
denly, largely the result of exposure and overwork, August
1st, 1881, at the age of 43 years.

In his death, Jerseyville lost one of her best, and most
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the church with which he was connected, a liberal and de-
voted member.

ROBERT NKWTON.

Was born in Manchester, England, May 25, 1836. He
came with his parents to the United States in 1840.

They first settled in New Hampshire for a short time,
afterwards removed to Providence, R. I., where young" Rob-
ert served his apprenticeship for a machinist and engineer.

He remained in Providence until in 1857, when he came
west, stopping- first in St. Louis for only a short time, when
he came to Illinois.

He landed in Jerseyville January 1st, 1858, at the age of
22 years, immediately entered the employ of George Whar-
ton as general manager, in the manufacture of farm ma-
chinery.

In 1863, in partnership with H, O. Goodrich, he estab-
lished JerseyvilleAgricultural Works, In December 1865 he
was married to Miss Sarah Cory, daughter of Joel, and
Sarah (Cross) Cory, of Jersey county.

The fruits of this union were five children, Albert, Ma-
mie, Florence, Walter (deceased) and Cornelia.

Mr. Newton's second marriage was to Miss Flora Keith,
March 10th, 1891. The fruits of this union were two child-
ren, Ruth (deceased) and R. Keith Newton.

Mr. Newton is, and has always been, a public spirited
citizen, and always lent a helping hand to every noble enter-
prise.

He was President of the Board of Education for nine
years continuously.

Elected treasurer of Jersey county in 1884, and served
one term of four years.

He is also a Royal Arch Mason.

He was elected and ordained Deacon of the Baptist
church of Jerseyville, 111.

He has been an active business man in Jerseyville for
43 years, and now at the age of 65 years, still remains in ac-
tive business.

COL. GEO. R. SWALLOW.

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COL. GICOKGK K. .SWALLOW.

Was born in Greene county, 111., Aug. 21, 1839. His
parents, Ransom and Sophia Swallow, were natives of Ver-
mont. They were of Scotch and German extraction.

Col. Swallow's father settled in Greene county, 111-, in
1S27, and became soon after, engaged in the merchan-
dise and milling business. His father .died in Manchester,
111., in 1844, and his mother in 1893.

Col. Swallow received his early education in the common
schools of Manchester, 111., and when only fourteen years of
age he set out to do for himself, with the small fortune of
$10.00 inhis pocket. He first began to clerk in Mr. Samuel
Simms' drug store in Winchester, Scott county, 111., remain-
ing there about 14 months, next went to Alton, 111., clerk-
ing in the Post Office. After clerking hereabout 6 months
he went to Jersey ville.

In the fall of 1860, he went to Centralia, 111., and in
March 1861, moved to Vincennes, Ind. In Aug. 1861, he en-
listed as a private in the 7th Reg. Ind. Inft. In Nov. 1861,
he was promoted to the first Lieutenancy. For bravery,
and meretorious services at the battle of Shiloh, he was
commissioned as captain of a battery, by Gov. Morton in per-
person.

He continued to hold command of that battery until
Sherman's march to Atlanta, and was then promoted
to Major of the 10th Indiana Cavalry. He was wounded in
the battle of Nashville, and sent to his home in Illinois, but
the wound not proving mortal, he was soon promoted to
Lieut, Col., and for further meritorious bravery, he was
promoted to the rank of Colonel. He participated in many
hard fought and bloody battles, prominent among which
were Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mis-
sion Ridge and Nashville, Tenn., with numerous other skir-
mishes. He remained in the service until Sept. 5, 1865,
when he was honorably discharged. His war record is
good, and reflects great credit on him.

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In Oct., 1866 he was married to Miss Hannah V. Davis,
daughter of Abijah and Eliza A. Davis, of Jerseyville, 111.

In 1866, Col. Swallow formed a partnership with Hugh
N. Cross, and established a banking- house under the firm
name of Cross & Swallow. They bought out the banking
house of D'Arcy & Cheney. They continued here until 1872,
when Mr. Swallow retired from the firm, selling his interest
to Walter E, Carlin and A. W. Cross.

In 1873, he went to Trinidad, Col., where, in connection
with John W. Terry, organized a private bank, under the
firm name of Swallow & Terry.

In the year 1875 organized the First National Bank of
Trinidad, Col., being its first cashier and afterwards its
president.

In November, 1884, was elected treasurer of the State of
Colorado, and removed to Denver, where he has since re-
sided, with the exception of three years spent in foreign
travel.

He is now President of the Denver Savings Bank, Den-
ver, Colo,

MARCUS E. BAGLEY.

Marcus E. Bagley was born in Greene county, N, Y.,
Aug. 18, 1828. He was the eldest child of six children, of
Thomas and Mary Bagley. They were of Scotch-Irish and
German extraction.

Mr. Bagley received his early education in the common
schools ot his native county, attaining a good education for
one of those times. In the fall of 1850 he came to Jersey-
ville, 111., where he soon engaged in the mercantile business
with A. W. Howe, under the firm name of Howe & Bagley.
He continued in this line of business until 1859. On the
16th of February, 1860, he was married to Mrs. Hattie M.
Harriman, of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Three children were the fruits of this union, all de-
ceased.

He was elected to the office of circuit clerk of Jersey

GEORGE W. WHAKTON,

JAMES A. LOCKE.

DAVID H. AMES Uigetl 100 years.) j. SCOTT HOLMES.

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county, and held the office continuously for 20 years, until
1880, No other man ever held an office so long" in Jersey
county. This shows the confidence the people of Jersey
county had in his integrity and ability.

In 1865 he was appointed Master-in-Chancery, and held
that office for several terms.

He was elected the first Mayor of Jersey ville in 1867.

LUDOVIC LAURENT.

Born in the city of Nancy, France, Oct. 31st, 1841.

Came to America, landing- in New York, March, 1861,
and reached Jerseyville, April 20, 1861. Received his early
education in public schools of Nancy, France.

Entered the college of "LaMalgrang-e," near Nancy, at
the age of 15 years, and remained there pursuing 1 his stud-
ies for about two years.

Leaving college, he entered a wholesale dry goods house
at Nancy, and remained with the house until he departed to
America. Mr. Laurent clerked in the dry goods store of
Fred Bertman, and the grocery store of John E. VanPelt,
until in 1865, he begfan to assist M. E. Bagley, who was then
circuit clerk. He continued to assist in times when Mr.
Bagley was overworked, until he was employed by Mr. Bag-
ley for all his time, until in 1875, when he accepted the posi-
tion as book-keeper in the banking- house of Cross, Carlin &
Co., afterwards, The First National Bank. Here he re-
mained until Dec. 7, 1880, when he became deputy circuit
clerk under J. I. McGready who had just been elected to
that office. Here he remained for 12 years until the fall of
1892, when he was elected to that office, and is the present
incumbent. His deputy is his oldest son Fred J., who has
been with his father from the first of his election in 1892 to
the present, 1901.

Was married to Miss Emma Wagner in Jerseyville, 111.,
Oct. 13, 1874.

The fruits of this union are twelve children, nine of

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which survive: Fred J., Rosalie, Julia M,, Emma, Charles,
Nellie E., Anna, Ludwig F., Pauline.

JOHN C. MCGKATH.

Born near Janesville, Wisconsin, March 10th, 1861.

Parents are natives of County Tipperary, Ireland.
Came to Jerseyville, 111., with his parents in 1867, Educa-
tion received in public and High School of Jei-seyville, 111.

Religion, Catholic. Politics, Democrat.

Was married March 8, 1886, to Miss Mary Grace, of
Jerseyville, 111. Have two children, Francis Xavier, and
Florence Ligouri.

Engaged in different business occupations up to 1893,
and was always considered an honorable and straight-for-
ward business man.

In an election held by the Democracy Oct. 21, 1893, for
Postmaster, he received the party endorsement, and was
appointed by President Cleveland January 12, 1894, and
served until March 1, 1898.

Was a candidate, and received the nomination for county
clerk, April, 1898, and was elected Nov. 4, 1898 and is the
present incumbent.

KICHAKD KIKLY.

Was born March 8, 1854, at Dover Plains, Dutches
county, New York.

His parents came to America from Ireland in the year
1852, and in 1853, settled near Monticello Seminary, Godfrey,
111., until 1860 when they removed to Jersey Co., 111.

Received his early education in the common schools of
his county, and public schools of Brighton.

He was married to Miss Catherine Dolan, May 4, 1880.

From this union were born six children, two of whom
survive: William P., and Francis M., Kiely. Mrs. Kiely
died June 14, 1892. His second marriage occurred Aug. 14,
1896, to Mrs. Mary Shortal, (nee Sanderhans) by which un-
ion were born two children, T. Helen, and Ricard Earl,
Kielv.

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He began teaching- in the fall of 1876, and followed that
profession in the public schools of Jersey county, until he
was elected County Superintendent of public schools in 1890.

He was the first to introduce the practice of granting
diplomas to all scholars who had completed all the common
school branches, their diplomas admitting 1 them to enter Jer-
seyville High School without examination. That practice
is continued to present time.

He was elected to the office of County Treasurer at the
fail election of 1898, and is the present -incumbent.

He is also custodian of county funds, and ex-officio
county collector and supervisor of assessments.

His assistant Treasurer is Mrs Nellie Cope, his pres-
ent wife's sister, through whose assistance the duties of the
office are performed in a satisfactory manner.

WALTER HANSELL.

Born in Jersey ville, 111., Nov. 22, 1869. Eldest son of
Lloyd and Hannah (Seward) Hansell. Received his early
education in the public schools of Jerseyville, graduating
from the Hig-h School, of the class of 1890.

He was appointed in March, 1900, to fill out the unex-
pired term of Albert W, Newton, who resigned. He was
elected to the office of county surveyor at the November
election in 1900, and is the present incumbent.

GEORGE W. WAKK.

George W. Ware was born in estminster, Worcester
county, Mass., June 30, 1836. Received his early education
in the public schools of his town, and is a graduate of the
High School there. He completed his literary education in
the Leicester Academy in 1854. He immediately began his
business career with an uncle, clerking for him in a large
paper factory, Post Office and other departments of busi-
ness. In 1856 he landed in Jerseyville, and in 1857, he form-
ed a partnership with Dr. J. L. White, in the drug business.

In 1859 he purchased Dr. White's interest, and he be-

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came sole proprietor. He continued in this business for
30 years, when he sold his stock to G. R. Smith & Co.

In 1887, in connection with S. H, Bowman, purchased
the banking" business of Wm, Shephard & Son and contin-
ued the banking- business under the firm name of Bowman
& Ware, until August, 1890, it merged into the State Bank,
with S. H. Bowman as president.

In March 1891, Mr. Ware fitted up and sold his drug-
store to the W. S. Pittman Drug- Company. In September,
1900, he purchased the W. S. Pittman Drug- Company's
stock, and at present is engaged in the drug- business on
south State street, under the firm name of Georg-e W. Ware
& Son.

His first marriage was to Theodosia M. Beardslee, May
30, 1859. The fruits of this union are three children, Delia
P., wife of Charles W. Keith, of Denver Col.; Lulu H,, wife
of Edward Cross, Jersey ville, 111.; and Frank M. Ware, now
a partner with his father.

Mr. Ware's second marriage was to Miss Julia Fry,
daughter of General Jacob Fry, Oct. 3, 1877. The fruit of
this marriage was one daughter, Emily F. Ware. Mr.
Ware has often been honored with positions of trust in city
and state, but be it said to his credit he never sought for
prominence in politics, but strictly followed his business
pursuits.

Mr. Ware ranks among our pioneer and honored busi-
ness men, having been in business in Jersey ville for 45 years.

ALBERT NEWTON.

Born in Jerseyville, 111., January 22, 1867. Received his
early education in the public schools at Jerseyville, and was
a graduate of the class of 1884.

He was elected county surveyor of Jersey county, 111.,
in 1888, and served 10 years. He has now a lucrative, and
responsible position as civil engineer for the Chicago & Al-
ton Ry. Co.

He was married to Miss Pauline Stone, Peoria, 111.,

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Nov, 24, 1900. She was the daughter of Wm. Stone (de-
ceased) President of the 1st National Bank, Peoria, 111.

OLIVER PERRY MYRICK.

Was born in old Kane, July 16, 1840. He is the grand-
son of Judge Wm. Myrick, of Vermont, who was captain in
the war 1812. He was said to be the first officer, who, at the
battle of New Orleans, ordered his company to use bales of
cotton as fortifications. Other companies seeing" these tac-
tics, followed in suit. Mr. Myrick was the son of Wm. W.
Myrick, of Vermont, who, when a mere boy, his father took
with him through the war of 1812. He is a brother of Rev.
Marshall M. Cooper, a Presbyterian minister, now pastor at
Arling-ton, 111.

In 1861 he enlisted in Co. C. 61 111. Vol. Inft. He was
in the battles of Shiloh, Pea Ridge, and many other hard
foug-ht battles, and was honorably discharged Feb. 8, 1865.

He returned home to Jerseyville, where lived his father
and mother, and remained there, or near, until 1867, when
he bought a farm in Lincoln county, Missouri, where he has
resided to the present time.

COSMOS KELLER.

Cosmos Keller was born near Elsah, Jersey county, Illi-
nois, Sept. 27, 1859.

Received his early education in the common schools of
his county, finishing his education at Jones' Commercial Col-
lege,- St. Louis, Mo.

After filling- several township offices he was elected
Sheriff of Jersey county, 111., in the fall 1890, and served
four years. Elected county Treasurer in the fall of 1894,
and served four years.

Was re-elected sheriff of Jersey county in the fall of
1898, and is the present incumbent, Mr. Keller has always
made a good and efficient officer, and the people appreciate
his worth by repeatedly electing him to office.

K1CY. JAMES HARTY.

Rev. James Hartv was born in Waterford county, Ire-

ISO-
land, December 6, 1836. He received his classical education
at Mount Mellery, and completed his theological education
at All Hallow's college in city of Dublin, Ireland. He
came to America October, 1862, and was ordained
priest in the city of Alton, December 4, 1863. His first
pastoral labors were in Alton, 111., Cathedral, where
he remained until Aug. 15, 1868, when he came to Jersey-
ville, 111. His labors as pastor of St. Francis Xavier's
church were arduous and valuable to his charge.

The erection of their fine church edifice is the result of
his pastoral energy and the magnificent donations of its
membership. Father Harty was a gentleman of literary
culture, and among the well read theologians of his church.

He remained as pastor of St. Francis Xavier's church
for 31 years.

He died in his parsonage home in Jerseyville, surround-
ed by many tender and sympathizing friends July 23, 1899.
Thus passed away a pastor much beloved and mourned by
his people.

CHILDREN'S BIOGRAPHIES.

.THE LOCKES.

DAVID ARCHIBALD Born May 6, 1897, in Jerse} T ville, 111.

LUCIEN POST Born February 26, 1900, in Jerseyville,
111,

They are the sons of George D. and Mabel G. (Post)
Locke. Mr. Locke is the junior member of the firm of
Chapman & Locke.

THE VAUGHNS.

REXFORD EDWARD Born in Jerseyville, 111., Oct. 20,
1894.

HOLLAND PRUITT Born in Jerseyville, 111., April 2, 1896.

DONALD STEWART Born in Jerseyville, 111., April 9,
1898.

Children ot Edward J. and Sarah (McNabb) Vaughn.
Mr. Vaughn is one of Jerseyville's leading attorneys.

I Robert P. Lanerey, 2 Theresa Fleming, a Catherine Fleming. 4 Rexford Edward
\ aughn, Holland i'ruitt Vaughn. Donald Stewart Vaughn. 5 Stewart Derry Daniels
6 Uatoie 8. Coop >r, 7 Jules Alexis Laurent. 8 James Edward Templeton.

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EDNA SCHEFFER.

Born in Jerseyville, 111., May 18, 1890, the daughter of
Fred and Elizabeth (Dacey) Scheffer.

Mr. Scheffer is the leading" boot and shoe dealer in Jer-
seyville.

STEWAHT DKKRY DANIELS.

Born in Jerseyville, 111., January 15, 1898, the son of
Harry S. and Castelle (Derry) Daniels. Mr. Daniels is a
dealer in hardware, groceries and carriages.

MARIE TERESA REINTGES,

Born in Jerseyville, 111., Aug. 21, 1898, the daughter of
Jacob C, and Flora D. (Daniels) Reintges. Mr. Reintges
was for twelve years deputy county clerk of Jersey, and is
at present engaged in the real estate business at Granite
City, 111.

THE KELLERS.

FREDERICA M. Born Oct. 25, 1888, in Elsah, Jersey
county, 111.

MARGUERITE G. Born Oct. 7, 1890.

They are the children of Cosmos and Mary Keller. Mr.
Keller is now sheriff of Jersey county,

THE KIELYS.

T. HELEN Born in Jerseyville, 111., Jan. 6, 1897.

RICHARD E. Born in Jerseyville, 111., April 12, 1899.

Both are children of Richard and Mary (nee Sanderhaus)
Kiely, Mr. Kiely is treasurer of Jersey county.

THE JONES.

MAX BYRON Born July 7, 1895, in Gardner, 111.

IVA ETHELYN Born March 23, 1897, in Gardner, 111.

ELSIE BERNARDINE Born Jan. 6, 1900, in Jerseyville, 111,

They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jones.
Mr. Jones has been in the employ of the Chicago & Alton
R'y. for the past seventeen years, and is at present their
agent here.

THE COOPERS,

HATTIE S. Born in Phelps county, Missouri, Jan. 5,

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1875. Youngest child of Rev. and Mrs. M. M, Cooper.

JAMES EDWARD Born in Morning- Sun, la., Nov., 1887.
He is the second child and oldest son of J, B. and Nellie M,
(Cooper) Templeton, who now reside in Galesburg-, 111., and
grandson of Rev. and Mrs. M. M, Cooper.

MINNIE M, Born in Centerville, la., Dec., 1891, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. K, Wade, and grand-daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. M. M. Cooper,

1 Elsie Bernardine Jones, 2 Max Byron Jones, Iva Ethelyn Jones. 3 Marie Teresa

Reintges, 4 Minnie M. Wade, 5T. Helen, Kiely, Richard Kiely, 6 Edna Schefter,

7 Frederica M. Keller, Marguerite G. Keller.

(Classified Business Directory.

Soon after the first survey of Jerseyville in 1834, Lott &
Dailey erected a building- and started a store which was the
first store in Jerseyville. Horatio N. Belt was the builder of
the store house.

In 1835 they sold their stock to Georg-e Collins and Ben-
jamin Yates, who carried on the g-eneral merchandise busi-
ness for several years under the firm name of Collins &
Yates. In 1837 a second store was started by Adam Clen-
dennen and Edward Coles, but soon closed out the business,
DRY GOODS STORES.

BENJAMIN C. VANDERVOORT.

Was born Dec. 29, 1821. In the year 1858 he came to
Jerseyville, and in 1859 established a dry goods business on
west Pearl St. In 1867 he erected the brick building- known
as the Vandervoort block. About the year 1867, I. W.
Beardslee became partner, remaining- three years when he
retired. Mr. Vandervoort became sole proprietor, and re-
mained so until his retirement in March 1, 1897. His fun-
eral notice reads as follows:

"Died at his home in Jerseyville, 111., Saturday, May 4,
1901, at 10 o'clock a. m., aged 79 years, 4 months and 5 days.
The funeral services will be held from the Presbyterian
church, Monday, May 6, 1901, at 2:30 p. m. Rev. J. G.
Klene, officiating-.

ROBERT WHITEHEAD.

Nephew of Mr. Vandervoort, immediately upon the re-
tirement of his uncle from business March 1, 1897, assumed
control of the store, and has since been sole proprietor at
the old stand. Mr. Whitehead was for many years previous,
the trusted clerk, and had a full understanding- of the busi-

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ness. He enjoys what truly belongs to him, a liberal share
of the patronage of the public,

M. A. WARREN & CO.

M. A. Warren was born near Jerseyville, Dec. 8, 1851,
He received a business education at the business college,
Jacksonville, 111. In the fall of 1872, at the age of 21, he be-
gan his business career as clerk in the dry goods store of
Lovell & Smith, with whom he continued one year.

At the dissolution of Lovell & Smith, Mr. Warren be-
came partner with Mr. Lovell. They continued in business
three years, when Mr. Warren withdrew from the firm and
returned to the employ of J. Knox Smith, who, soon after,
on account of failing health, sold the business to F. W.
Smith & Co., for whom Mr. Warren clerked until Septem-
ber 1880. At that date he formed a partnership with J.
Knox Smith, and again engaged in the dry goods business
under the name of Smith & Warren. They occupied a store
on the old Herdman corner. In Nov. 1884, the store was de-
stroyed by fire, but they continued to carry on business un-
til September, 1885, when they moved into a new store built
by Geo, W. Herdman. The other members of the firm are
W. H. Ellison and W. H. Sturgess, the latter residing in St.
Louis, Mo.

WARREN-WISRMAN DRY GOODS CO.

Began business on N. State street by buying out D G.
and H. N. Wyckoff, January 16, 1893. Incorporated March
6, 1900, into "Warren- Wiseman Dry Goods Co.," with Geo.
E. Warren, president; J. J, Wiseman, secretary and treas-
urer.

They carry a full line of dry goods and carpeting. Thev
have enjoyed a lucrative trade from the first, because of
their square and honorable dealing, and their rare politeness
and generosity shown to their customers. Their clerks
are among our best citizens.

1 L. A. Miller, 2 Geo. E. Warren, 3 Robt. Whitehead, 4 M. A. War
ren, 5 H. B. Hill, 6 Frank Fesenmeyer, 7 Geo. Senior.

DRY GOODS DEALERS.

HKNKY SCHEFFEK.

FRED SCHEFFER.

J. H. DTTFFIEI.D.

ROBERT NEWTON.

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FESKNMEYKR SENIOR & CO.

Began business on south State street, April, 1898. Af-
ter three years the firm name was changed 1 to the present
name of Fesenmeyer & Senior, Dealers in furnishings and
dry goods, cloaks, trunks, notions, etc. Quick sales and
small profits, with fair and honest dealing, their motto.

The members of the firm are Frank A. Fesenmeyer
and George Senior.

LEWIS A. MILLER.

Opened a department store at Nos. 114 and 116 N. State
street, Oct. 18, 1896. Carries a full line of dry goods, hats,
caps, boots and shoes, with millinery goods. Also queens-
ware, glassware, tinware, with all goods usually found in a
first-class department store. Prices always right.

WILLIAM G. BURNETT.

Began the dry goods and notion business in partner-
ship with William Rohacek April, 1897, until February, 1901,
Mr. Rohacek retiring, Since, Mr. Burnett has been sole
proprietor. Carries a full line of dry goods, furnishing and
notions, at No. 109, south State street, His stock is new
and first-class.

CLOTHING STORES.

LEON ENGEL.

Leon Engel, the popular clothier and hatter, established
his present business in September, 1880, His stock con-
stantly increased, and he now carries one of the largest
stocks of clothing, hats, shoes and gents furnishing goods
found in this section of the State. He is located on south
State street.

H. B. HILL.

Began business on south State street, March 18, 1899.
Carries a full line of clothing, gents furnishing goods, boots
and shoes. Prices always right.

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HOLMES CLOTHING STORE.

S. A. Holmes became proprietor of the shoe and cloth-
ing- store in 1874. It afterwards became a stock company
under the firm name of "The Holmes-Hill Shoe & Clothing-
Store." After Mr. Holmes' death the business was con-
ducted by H. B. Hill, until 1898, when the company was dis-
solved and Mrs. Holmes assumed control.

GROCERY STORES.

MARSTON & HALLIDAY,

J, G. Marston and Levi Halliday formed a partnership
and entered the grocery trade in the spring- of 1873, at No.
201 North Main street, Jerseyville, 111., after carrying on
the above named business 22 years, they changed in the
spring- of 1897, to a more commodious place which they now
occupy, on west Pearl St., in the Vandervoort block.

They always have, and do still carry a larg-e stock, con-
taining 1 a full line of staple and fancy groceries, queensware,
chinaware, crockery, fruits, farm products, usually boug-ht
and sold at a first class family grocery store. They have
always been considered straight-forward, and honorable
dealing men.

SCHEINER & WOODRUFF.

Entered into partnership in the grocery trade Decem-
ber 1898, at No. 201 N. Main street.

They carry a full line of staple and fancy groceries, and
are young men worthy of a liberal patronage. They are the
successors of Scheiner & Rohacek, who did business at the
same stand.

The members of the firm are George Scheiner and Geo.
H. Woodruff, Jr.

BENJ. W. AKARD.

Began carrying a general line of family groceries, at No.
106, south State St., Feb. 1, 1894, Mr. Akard is one of Jer-

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seyville's good and reliable business men, and in conse-
quence has a very good trade.

JOHN KKEHNER.

Began the grocery trade on Depot street August, 1891.
Carries a full line of staple and fancy groceries; also queens-
ware, wooden and tin wares; everything found in a first-
class grocery store. His upright dealing has brought him
a good trade.

JACOB WAGNER.

Jacob Wagner has been engaged in the grocery business
since 1879. His store is located on north State street, where
he carries a complete stock of groceries, glassware and
china ware.

SHAFER & HANLEY.

The reliable grocers. Staple and fancy groceries,
lime, cement, hair, queensware, woodenware, paints and
oils, corner of Pearl and Washington streets.

The members of the firm are Harry W. Shafer and
Thomas Hanley.

THOMAS W. BUTLER,

First began business on East Pearl St., one door east of
State Bank, March 3, 1888. Removed to his present com-
modious stand at No. 201 on south State St., November, 1890.
He carries a heavy stock of staple and fancy groceries, glass
and queensware, paints, oils, brushes, etc. Mr. Butler has
a large trade, and reputation established.

H. C, MALONEY.

Began business on East Pearl St., Dec.. 1898, but in Dec.
1899, removed to a more convenient and commodious room
at No. 207 south State St., where he carries a line of general
family groceries and provisions.

His honest and courteous way of dealing will in time,
build him a very large trade.

ABRAM W, LOWE.

Began in the family grocery trade on the corner of Clay

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and Spruce streets, Aug. 21, 189V.

Carries a full line of staple and fancy groceries.
WHITLOCK & co.

Opened up a grocery store on north State street, .April,
1901. They cary a full line of staple and fancy groceries,
tinware, cig^ars and tobacco. Moved into the Snedeker
building 1 , September 1, 1901. The firm is composed of Wil-
bert W. Whitlockand Mrs. Shirlev M. Nelson.

BANKING BUSINESS.

In 1854, A. M. Blackburn established the first banking-
house in Jerseyville. Until 1859 Mr. Blackburn conducted
the business alone, but afterwards associated with him
Messrs. Win. Shephard, Samuel L. McGill and A. B. Mo-
rean, when the firm name was A. M. Blackburn & Co. It
was afterwards organized under the state law, as the "JiCK-
SKY COUNTY BANK," with A. M. Blackburn president, and
George R. Swallow, cashier, who retired earlv from the bus-
iness. This bank invested largely in Tennessee State-
Bonds, and on the breaking out of the war, the bonds de-
preciated to such an extent that the bank suspended busi-
ness. The debts were paid at the time of closing 1 business.

In 1859, Dr. K. A. D'Arcy and P. D. Cheney established
a bank under the firm name of D'Arcy & Cheney. During
the war D'Arcy & Cheney were the only bankers here, and
in those troublesome times during the war, they were in
constant fear of raids from "bushwhackers," but the bank
was well guarded. No attack was made.

In 1866, D'Arcy & Cheney were succeeded by Hugh N.
Cross and Col. Georg-e R. Swallow. The business was con-
ducted under the firm name of Cross & Swallow, until in
1872, when they were succeeded by H. N. Cross, A. W.
Cross and W. E, Carlin, under the firm name of Cross, Car-
lin & Co., who conducted the business until 1876, when "The
First National Bank" was organized, with H N. Cross as

1 S. H. Bowman. 2 H. A. Shephard. 3 Thomas Wedding, 4 D. .1. Murphy. 5 A. H. Cochran,

6 A. W. Cross.

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president, and W. E. Carlin, cashier. Mr. Carlin was con-
nected with this banking house as cashier from 187o to 187').

In 1894, "Tine FIRST NATIONAL BANK" became the
"NATIONAL BANK," with A. W, Cross, president, and Ed-
ward Cross, cashier. Mr. Cross was cashier for 15 years,
when, on account of ill health he was succeeded by D. J.
Murphy in 1899.

Hugh N. Cross was connected here with the banking-
business from 1866 until his death, which occurred in 1883.
The seven original directors of the "The First National
Bank" were H. N. Cross, A. W. Cross, W. E. Carlin, J. N.
English, J. C. Barr, James A. Locke and Dr. (*eo. S. Miles.

THK NATIONAL BANK.

A. W. Cross, President; W. TL Fulkerson, Vice-Presi-
dent; 1). J. Murphy, Cashier; A. H. Cochran, Assis't. -Cash-
ier. Bank located on corner of State and Pearl streets.

Cash Capital, $50.000; Surplus Fund, 84,100.
Individual deposit subject to check $143,339.21

Demand certificate of deposit - 70,585.84

Loans and discounts - 149,620.12

The above is a sworn statement by D. J. Murphy, cash-
ier, February 5, 1901.

STATIC BANK.

S. H. Bowman, president; J, A. Shephard, vice-presi-
dent; H. A. Shephard, cashier; Thos. Wedding-, assis't-
cashier. Began business on corner of State and Pearl
streets August, 1890.

Cash Capital - $50.000

Surplus - $5.000

The banks of Wm. Shephard & Co., and Bowman &
Ware were consolidated into the present State Bank, which
has since done a successful business.

MILLING BUSINESS.
The. first mill built in Jersevville was an ox mill; built

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by Joseph Gerrish, where now stands the Orville A. Snede-
ker house, formerly owned and occupied by his uncle Sam-
uel Snedeker on south State street, about the year 1833.

The second was a Wind mill by same man, Joseph Ger-
rish, 1839, It stood in the south part of Jerseyville on the
Newbern road, in the Kirby addition. It burned down about
1850. It was sold by Mr. Gerrish to Mr. Henry Schaff.
Some of the boys are now milling- in Maryville, Mo.

THE JERSEY VILLE MILLS.

This was a large steam flouring- mill built by N. L.
Adams and Josiah French, his son-inJaw, in 1&49. It stood
where Pritchett's livery stable now stands on the corner of
Arch and Jefferson streets. It was bought by Samuel Mc-
Gill and A. M. Blackburn, and operated some years by them.
After them it was operated by Samuel Davis and Gideon
Blackburn. After them it was boug-ht by Henry Johnson,
Wm, B. Nevius and J. Paris i'n 1864. About that time J. W.
Vinson became g-eneral manag-er.

In about two years, about 1866; it was botig-ht by H. O.
Goodrich, Wm. B. Nevius and B. W. Green. Green retiring-
from the firm, the mill was owned by Goodrich & Nevius
alone, until it burned down in 1876. It stood on the north-
east corner of Arch and Jefferson streets. J. W. Vinson,
business manager.

EMPIRE MILLS.

Built by J. M. Young, after running- it for several years,
doing a good business, it was burned down. It was after-
wards rebuilt by John N. Squier, who continued to run it
until he sold it to Goodrich & Nevius. Still further on, Mr.
Nevius retired, when the mill was owned and run by H. O.
Goodrich and John W. Vinson, until it was again burned
down. The mill stood on the southeast corner of Pearl and
Olive streets. It was never rebuilt.

There were other mills built, but the proprietors are
dead, and reliable information concerning them seems at

1 John W. Vinson, 2 Wm. B. Nevius, 3 Henry O. Goodrich,
4 N. L. Adams, 5 Josiah French, 6 Charles Jacobs.

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present impossible to obtain so I can give only very meagre
information concerning them. There seems to be no record
of them.

DODSON MILL,

In 1851 there was a mill built by a man named Young.
The next proprietor was named Roberts. He in turn was
succeeded by Turner and Whitenack. This firm contin-
ued for a short time and was changed to Turner & Van-
Pelt. They soon retired and leased the business to Remer
& Paris. These soon sold out to N. L, Adams. He oper-
ated the mill until in 1873, when it was purchased by Theo-
dore Dodson. At this date, 1873, the Dodson Brothers,
Theodore and Frank M., came to Jerseyville, and engaged
in the milling business. They afterwards built a new mill,
and are now doing- a good business. The capacity of the
mill is 200 barrels a day. The total cost of the plant alone
was not less than $35,000.

THK JACOBS MILL.

Charles Jacobs purchased the steam mill east of C. &
A, R. R 4 . of Levi Cory, in 1873, and continued to run the mill
until 1897, when, on account of age and infirmities he re-
tired from active business life. The mill is now being op-
erated by Fleming & Leak.

ELEVATORS.

THE JERSEYVILLE ELEVATOK.

Began operations December, 1876. It was regularly in-
corporated with a capital stock of $25,000. Located on C. &
A. Railroad.

Officers elected for the first term were Hugh N. Cross,
president; James A. Locke, vice-president; Walter E. Car-
lin, secretary; A. W. Cross, Treas,; L. P. Squier, Supt.
The main building of this elevator was 66 feet high, and has
a ground area of 30x60 feet. In 1878 Walter E, Carlin pur-

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chased the interest of J. A. Locke and the following- year
that ot A. W. Cross, thus owning- three-fourths interest. In
the spring of 1881, they sold the elevator to E. O. Stanard
Milling- Co., of St. Louis, who still operate it with J, H.
Duffield as superintendent.

FARMERS ELEVATOR.

The Farmers Elevator, which stands on the C. P. & St.
L. R. R., was purchased by E, O. Standard Milling Co., in
1899, of T. J. Grimes, who had a mortgage on the building-. It
was first a stock concern, built by the farmers of Jersey
county. It is managed by J. H. Duffield, superintendent.

COCKRELL ELEVATOR.

What is known as the Cockrell elevator was built by
Geo, C. Cockrell in 1867, at a cost of about $7,000. Geo. C.
Cockrell ran it alone until 1H69, when in that year he ad-
mitted Elias Cockrell as partner, and ran the business to-
gether until 1871, when Geo. C. Cockrell sold his interest to
Elias Cockrell, In May, 1884, J. M. Valentine of Rock-
bridge, Greene county, purchased the elevator of Elias Cock-
rell, and kept it about one year, when Mr. Cockrell bought
it, and has been the sole proprietor up to this date, 1901.

THE CARLIN ELEVATOR.

The elevator that stands a short distance north of Jersey-
ville elevator on C. & A. R. R., was built by C. T. Edee in
1865, who operated it for about three years, when it was pur-
chased by H. C, Massey and W. E. Carlin. The first cost
was about $5,000. The elevator is now operated by Groppel
& Schneider.

BOOTS AND SHOES.

H. SCHEFFER & SON.

H. Scheffer, boot and shoe dealer, was born in Prussia,
April 20, 1827. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to
learn the shoemaker's trade, and served three years, after

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which he followed his trade until he reached his majority,
then he entered the German army, continuing- in the service
three years. At the expiration of that period he resumed
his trade and followed the same until 1858, at which time he
emigrated to America, landing- at New Orleans on the 26th
day ot May, 1868. He proceeded to St. Louis, thence to Al-
ton, thence to Jerseyville, where he established the boot and
shoe trade, which he pursued unto the day of his death.

He was married June 6, 1858, to Miss Mary Bertman,
who was also born in Prussia. They were the parents of
three children: Frederick, who was a partner with his
father in the shoe business; Henry, at Bakersfield, Cal.; and
Lillie, living at home.

The new firm of "Sheffer & Son" was established March,
1880. They occupied a two story brick building-, located in
the best business part of the city. Besides their sales room,
they have a custom shop, in which boots and shoes of all
grades, and orders are made. They carry the larg-est and
most complete stock of boots and shoes in the city.

The father died Dec. 15, 1900, but the business is car-
ried on at the old stand by his son Frederick, who is an hon-
est, thorough going- business man, as the steady increase of
his business shows.

JOHN SCHNEIDER.

Opened up a new trade in boots and shoes December 21,
1900, on south State street, and Sept. 1, 1901, moved into the
new Bull building, at the northwest corner of State and Ex-
change streets. He carries a full line of boots and shoes.

He first opened a repair shop in 1890, prior to his buy-
ing his stock of boots and shoes. He still carries on a repair
shop in connection with his store. Repairing- done with
neatness and despatch.

PHILIP LANCREY,

Opened by Philip Lancrey on north State street in 1895.
Manufactures the finest boots and shoes found on the mar-

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ket. He sends his work to California and all points in the
United States where his work is known.

He has a repair shop in connection with his manufact-
ure. People who know Mr. Lancrey's excellent ability,
come to him for extra work.

HARDWARE STORES.

JOEL E. CORY.

Began the hardware trade in 1883, first in the Villinger
building", now Ferns' building 1 , afterwards removed into
the new Bull building 1 , on west Pearl street, in 1895,
where he is at present doing a large and lucrative business.
Since 1899, his son C. Roy Cory, has been associated with
him in business, Carries a full line of hardware, wooden
and tinware. Has a repair shop, and large storage room in
connection. Handles fire-arms and ammunition of all de-
scriptions. Buys and sells clover, timothy and all kinds of
farm and garden seeds.

Sole agent for the Standard Oil Company. Also agent
of the Adams express company.

A. O- AUTEN & CO.

Began business on corner of Pearl and Jefferson streets,
February, 1897. Carry all kinds of shelf hardware, stoves,
furniture, carriages, wind pumps. Also handle paints and
oils of all kinds. All kinds of field and garden seeds.

The members of the firm are Aaron O. Auten and John
N. English.

HAKRY S. DANIKLS,

Successor of James Stewart Daniels. Business estab-
lished by him in 1872. Took charge of business immediately
after the death of his father J. S. Daniels, in July 1892. Bus-
iness located at Nos. 117-9, south State street.

General line of hardware, stoves, tinware, buggies, car-
riages, pumps, etc. Also full line of groceries, queensware,

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etc. Handles all kinds of field and garden seeds. Also
dealer in carriages.

IMPLEMENT ESTABLISHMENTS.

JERSRYVILLK AGRICULTURAL WORKS.

In 1863, Robert Newton and H. O. Goodrich formed a
partnership under the firm name of Goodrich & Newton,
for the manufacture of agricultural implements. Their idea
was to supply a growing demand for farm machinery in the
county and surrounding country.

They first purchased a frame building of two stories, on
east Prairie street, 24x36 feet in ground area, which they
converted into a machine shop. In 1865, Mr. Newton be-
came sole proprietor of these works, when he erected on the
opposite side of the street to his machine shop, a ware-
house and paint shop, 40x60 feet. Another building 36x40
was afterwards erected for the display and sale of machin-
ery. In 1866 he formed a partnership with his brother-in-
law, Levi D. Cory, and the firm name became Newton &
Cory. The business soon justified the employment of 20
men. In 1869, Mr. Newton became sole proprietor and so
continued until November, 1882. About this time a stock
company was formed assuming the name of "Jerseyville
Manufacturing Company" and started with a capital stock
of $50,000.

The seventeen stockholders were composed of the fol-
lowing men: Robert Newton, H. C. Massey, Col. W. H.
Fulkerson, Ormond Hamilton, Bowman and Ware, Morris
R. Locke, J. M. Page, J. A. Shephard, Wallace Leigh, L. D.
Halliday, O. A. Snedeker, C. W. Enos, Elias Cockrell, A. K,
VanHorne, J. S. Daniels, B. C. Vandervoort, with the fol-
lowing officers: Col. W. H. Fulkerson, Pres.; H, C. Mas-
sey, Vice-Pres.; J. M. Page, Sec,; S. H. Bowman, Treas.;
and Robert Newton, general manager.

In April 1885, Mr. Newton leased the works from the

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company and in 1888 he became again sole proprietor. He
continued this business until 1898, when he associated with
him Harry Jones, in business only, purchasing- no real es-
tate. On Janury 1, 1901, Mr. Newton purchased the entire
interest of Mr. Jones, and again became sole proprietor.

From the first establishment of these agricultural
works, Mr. Newton looked after its interest to the present
time.

Mr. Newton at present carries a general line of agri-
cultural implements, and the manufacture of his patent
"Corrugated Iron Roller and Pulverizer, " at the old stand
where he began in 1863. He manufactures the best Adjust-
able Steel Roller and Pulverizer on the market,

JAMES BELL.

Bell & Corns began the agricultural business at No. 220
N. Main street, March 1, 1889. Carried a general line of ag-
ricultural implements. Dealers in oils, and repairs for all
kinds of machinery sold by them. On March 1, 1892, Mr.
Corns retired from business, after which it was carried on
by James Bell at the old stand. In 1894, Mr. Bell added a
feed store, and ground corn for feed.

In the spring of 1895, sold to A. O. Auten & Co., and
worked for them one year. In the spring of 1896, returned
to the same business, at the old stand, and there continued
up to the present date, 1901.

S. L. HILL,

Began the agricultural implement business on east
Pearl street, opposite A. O. Auten & Co.'s hardware store,
November, 1900. Sells farm machinery, wagons, carriages
and all kinds of repairs for machinery. Threshing ma-
chines, wind pumps, sewing machines and lightning rods.

WEST & SON.

Began business in Jerseyville in the fall of 1897, on N.
State street. Carry on a machine shop and general black-
smithing. Repair all kinds of machinery from a lawn

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mower to a steam threshing" machine. Dealers in steam en-
gines, boilers and threshing machine outfits, and repairs for
the same.

GEORGE EGELHOFF.

George Egelhoff established a carriage factory in Jer-
sey ville in 1860. For many years he did an extensive busi-
ness. He still runs a repair shop at the old stand. His
present carriage repository and shop was the old Presby-
terian church moved from where now the present Presby-
terian house stands, to where now stands Mr. Egelhoff's
shop on Jefferson street between Pearl and Arch streets.

, LIVERY AND FEED STABLES.

D. P. PKITCHETT.

Livery stable situated on corner of Arch and Jefferson
streets. General livery, feed and sale stable. Began busi-
ness July, 1897. Always on hand a good supply of horses
and carriages to accommodate the traveling public.

E. A, R. MYERS.

Livery and feed stables situated on corner of Pearl and
Jefferson streets,

Always on hand a large equipment of horses and car-
riages of all kinds. Sale stable for horses and mules. Good
accommodations. Well established and widely known.

SEAGO & JOHNSON.

North End Livery, feed and sale stable. Began bus-
iness October, 1899. Good horses and carriages constantly
on hand, at reasonable prices. The proprietors are Charles
T. Seago and L. M. Johnson.

TAILORING.

JOHN C. TACK,

Began the tailoring business first in 1847, at the old
Red Corner now occupied by H. H. Brockman's bakery.

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From there he removed to the opposite side of the street
into what was called the "Bijo" where now stands the brick
building 1 belonging to Geo. W. Herdman. From the "Bijo"
he moved into A. L. Knapp's building, a little further south
of his former stand, where he did business for 12 years up
to 1860. From this place in 1860, he removed to south State
street which he built, the present dry goods store of W. G.
Burnett,

In this building he carried on the tailoring business un-
til 1888, during a period of 28 years. After this time he
went to Topeka, Kan., where he remained about one year,
thence to the north part of Kansas, and after some years,
he returned to Jerseyville, where he now lives a quiet life in
his old age.

FRED C. SCHMIDT.

Both tailor and cutter. Began business on corner of
State and Prairie streets, August, 1893. Fred is not the
man who does botch work. He guarantees a fit. His in-
creasing trade proves it.

JOHN HORN.

Began business on south State street, March, 1886. On
February 19, 1900, he removed to his present place of busi-
ness at north State street.

Mr. Horn does his own cutting and tailoring, and guar-
antees satisfaction. He also carries a line of gents furnish-
ing goods.

COAL DEALERS.

WM. F. FAHKY.

Began the coal artd ice trade August, 1899. Office lo-
cated near C. P. & St. L. passengerdepot. Dealer in hard
and soft coal and ice.

K. D. SLATTICKY.

The old reliable coal dealer. Oldest dealer in the city,
having sold coal here for 30 years. Office near crossing of

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C. & A. and C. P. & St. L. railroads. Dealer in hard and
soft coal,

JOHN CHRISTY.

Dealer in hard and soft coal in connection with his lum-
ber business. Office and lumber yard near C. & A, and C.
P. & St. L. R. R. lines.

ELI AS COCKRELL.

Handles soft and hard coal in connection with his lum-
ber trade.

JACOBS & ROBB.

Also handle a large amount of hard and soft coal in con-
nection with their lumber and ice trade.

LUMBER YARDS.

JACOBS & KOBE.

Located on Arch street, and C. & A. R, R. Dealers in
lumber and building- material, hard and soft coal, brick,
lime and plaster. Also a large dealer in ice. The firm is
composed of Fred Jacobs and Alex C. Robb.

JOHN CHRISTY.

Christy Brothers succeeded the J. C. Gaskill Lumber
Co., December 23, 1895. Near the crossing- of the C. & A,
and C. Pv & St, L. railroads. Augustus Christy retired
from the firm May 27, 1899. Since then John Christy, sole
proprietor, deals in hard and soft coal, lumber and building-
material.

E. COCKRELL LUMBER CO.

Successors of C. H. Knapp and E. Cockrell. The pres-
ent company was incorporated June 1, 1895. They carry a
general line of building material, lumber, blinds, sash, lime,
etc.

JEWELRY.

JOHN E. BOYNTON.

Dealer in diamonds, jewelry, silverware and Columbia

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watches. Old and reliable business firm, having- been in
business in Jerseyville twenty-five years. Located on south
State street in the Shephard building.

H. A. TUNEHOKST.

Began business in the Snedeker building on Main street
in the fall of 1878. Was burned out on January 17, 1887, but
immediately opened business in the Goeke building- until the
fall of 1887, when he removed to the new Snedeker building-,
his present location, where he is conducting the jewelry and
music business, watch, clock, and jewelry repairing. Mr.
Tunehorst is also a graduated optician, having made a thor-
ough study of the eye, and how to correct its deficiencies
with glasses. He also carries a fine line of imported cut
glass, decorated china, and art pottery. .Also pianos and
org-ans.

Mr. Tunehorst commenced in a small way, but by hard
work and attention to business, he has now one of the finest
jewelry stores in this part of the state, and carries a very
large stock of hig-h grade g-oods.

FRED HEKOLD.

Began business on west Pearl street Jerseyville, 111.,
September, 1894. Keeps a full line of watches, clocks and
jewelry. Makes a specialty of repairing- fine watches and
jewelry.

c. c. BORGER.

Began business on north State street Jerseyville, 111.,
September 13, 1884. Keeps a full line of watches, clocks
and jewelry. Makes a specialty of repairing watches,
clocks and jewelry.

DRUG STORES.

GREGORY R. SMITH.

Became the successor to Georg-e W. Ware in the drug-
business March 13, 1882, located on south State street. In

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November, 1889, moved his stock of goods to 117 north State
street, to his present place of business. Here he continued
in business until 1892, when R. L. Vandenburg ran the bus-
iness until 1894, when Mr. Smith purchased the stock; since
which time he has been sole proprietor.

Carries a full line of drug's, patent medicines, miscel-
laneous and school books, stationary, wall paper, window
shades, toilet articles, and everything- found in a first class-
drug store.

REMER & DUHADWAY.

Began business on north State street, October, 1885.
In October, 1890, removed to their own brick building, No.
3, south Main street, where they are at present located.

They carry a general line of drugs, school books, wall
paper and window shades.

GEO, W. WARE & SON,

Successors to W. S. Pittman Drug- Co. Began business
on south State street, No. 105, Sept. 1, 1900. They carry a
full line of drugs, wall paper, books, stationary, paints, oils,
patent medicines; in short, everything usually found in a
first-class drug store.

MEAT MARKETS,

JACOB MODE.

Successor to F. X. Schattgen, who, with Henry Beek-
man, who remained with him four years, began the butcher
business in 1857, and continued without cessation for 44
years. Mr. Mode opened a meat market at the old Schatt-
gen stand, March 25, 1901, on east Pearl street. Deals in
all kinds of fresh and salt meats.

WILLIAM HANLEY.

Opened a meat market in Jerseyville, June, 1882, and
has followed it continuously to the present time, a little over
19 years. For some 12 years he was associated with James
Perring. Since the retirement of Mr. Perring, he has

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been sole proprietor, Handles fresh and salt meats of all
kinds. Fish in their season.

ALEXANDER & MILLER.

Opened a meat market in the new Bull building- on north
State street, July 24, 1901. Dealers in all kinds of fresh and
salt meats found in this market.

PAUL NITSCHKE.

Opened a meat market in Jerseyville, May, 1895, at No.
203 south State street. Keeps constantly on hand all
kinds of tresh and salt meats. Fish and poultry in their
season. Also buys hides, live stock, wool, pelts and tallow.

MILLINERY.

GIERS & NEWBERRY.

Began business at west Pearl street, in the spring- of
1896. They carry on a general millinery business in the
latest styles.

MRS. W. S, KENNER,

Beg-an business at 119 south State street, Oct. 24, 1897.
Mrs. Kenner has a good business and merits the confidence
and respect of a trading public.

MRS. CLARA B. BROOKS.

Bought the millinery stock of Miss Anna Whitenack,
July 17, 1901, at No. 107 north State street. Carries a full
line of millinery goods, hats, ribbons, silks, velvets, feathers
and flowers, Mrs. Brooks is well known, having carried on
the millinery business for six years, previous, from 1889 to
1895.

HARNESS SHOPS.

F. W. ROERIG.

Doing a thriving business in the harness, carriage trim-
ming and saddlery. His polite, honorable and genial way of
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trade that will compel him to call in more help, and push
out the walls of his building-. To keep his word, and accom-
modate his customers, he works decidedly too hard for a
man of his strength. He beg-an business at 215 south State
street, March 5, 1883.

A. F. PITT

Began the harness and saddlery business on west Pearl
street, in the spring 1 of 1872, and moved from there to his
present place of business, on north State street in 1890.

Mr, Pitt carries on a g-eneral line of harness and sad-
dlery business, making a specialty of repairing everything
along his line.

UNDERTAKERS.

FALES & PERRINE.

Successors to Wm. Keith, who established business here
in 1851, at 214 south State street. The present firm beg-an
business here February, 1894. Everything in the line of
undertaking constantly on hand. Furniture upholstered
and repaired on short notice.

JACOBY BROS.

Began business in the Halliday building north State
street, March, 1891. They carry a general line of furniture,
carpets and wall paper. Everything in the line of under-
taking constantly on hand.

HOTELS,

COMMERCIAL HOTEL.

Wallace Leigh & Son, proprietors. Hotel was fitted up
for the reception of guests, March 1, 1870. Has maintained
a good reputation ever since. Ample accommodations and
protection for guests.

CENTRAL HOTEL.

Mrs. John Dunphy, proprietor. Opened for the recep-

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tion of guests April 1, 1890. This hotel has always had its
share of patronage. Guests safe and well cared for.

JEFFERSON HOUSE.

Joshua Sweeney, proprietor. Situated conveniently in
the business part of the city, and is well patronized. Ac-
commodations good and guests politely treated. Began bus-
iness July 11, 1898.

NORTHERN HOTEL.

Theo. Hossner, proprietor. The first hotel erected in
the city. The present proprietor began business in the
spring of 1899. A desirable and quiet resting place for
guests.

There are at present a number of excellent private
boarding houses through the city more or less permanent.

BLACKSMITH SHOPS.
George W. Burke started the first blacksmith shop in

1835. The next shop of this kind in Jerseyville was started
by Stephen Herron, who began work in the fall of 1835. He
also built a shop, and worked for a few years on the farm
now owned by Kirk Massey, one-fourth of a mile east of
Marshal] Cooper's farm, situated one and one-half miles
southwest of Jerseyville, straight line. Afterwards he
moved to Grafton and died there. The third shop
was started by John M, Smith, who located in Jerseyville, in

1836, He worked at his trade for about five years, when in
1841 he removed to a farm east of Jerseyville, retiring from
any further pursuit of his trade.

o. A. TIFF.

Opened blacksmith shop at his present stand in 1856, on
north State street. Has carried on general blacksmith ing
and wagon building up to the present time, at the same old
stand. He has stuck faithfully to business in one place for
45 years.

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JOHN SWEENEY.

Blacksmith, carriage and paint shop, situated on Arch
street, No. 112. Built his shop, and began business in it, in
the fall of 1888. Mr, Sweeney has worked at his trade in
Jerseyville up to this date, 1901, steadily for 41 years. Pre-
vious to building- and moving into his own shop where he now
is, he ran a blacksmith shop on Prairie street up to 1888. So
much for staying- qualities. An object lesson for the young
men of Jerseyville, get a good thing then stick.

JOHN MODE.

Carries on a wagon and repair shop in connection with,
and in the shop with Mr. Sweeney- Began work here with
Mr. Sweeney in 1888. Makes and repairs all wood work,
for wagons, plows and all agricultural implements.

CHARLES MCFAIN.

Opened up a new blacksmith shop on Arch street, near
H. S. Daniels' hardware store, about June 10, 1901. McFain
is a good workman in his line, and no reason seems appar-
ent why he should not share largely of the public patronage.

JAMES DOLAN.

Successor to Peter Dolan & Son. Shop located on Jeff-
erson street, between Arch and Prairie streets.

Carries on a general blacksmithing business, with horse
shoeing a specialty. Peter Dolan opened a shop first in Jer-
seyville in 1880, and in 1888 took his son James in partner-
ship with him. In 1896, P. Dolan retired from business,
leaving his son James, sole proprietor.

FRANCIS M. DASHNER.

Opened a blacksmith shop on east Spruce street, March,
1895. Does general blacksmith work and horse shoeing,
etc. Also has a wheel-wright shop in connection, worked
by Jacob Gammerdinger. Any work in wood and iron can
be done here.

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WM. H. MASSEY.

Blacksmith shop located on east Prairie street. Busi-
ness is conducted by Jefferson King-. Mr. Massey also
handles farm machinery.

PHOTOGRAPHY.

The first photographer ever located in Jerseyville was
A. W. Cadman in the year 1855 and remained here two years.

About 1857, May & Woods began the photograph busi-
ness and they remained about two years. Afterwards came
James Halsted, Mrs. Rinaker, DeLee, who was the first man
who made here the card photos. J. C. Strong- conducted the
business until bought out by Robt. C. Gledhill in April, 1866.

Mr, Gledhill continued the business here until he sold
out to Decrevel Bros., in December, 1898.

MOSES DECREVEL.

Began the photograph business by buying out R. C.
Gledhill's old stand, in December, 1898. Is doing a general
photograph business in his line and in first-class style.

WHITEHEAD & ALEXANDER.

Began business at No. 109, south State street, August,
1895. They enlarge photos, take negatives for photos, and
everything in their line of trade. They are long and well
known in Jerseyville, and have the confidence of the public.

The firm is composed of E. E. Whitehead and E, L.
Alexander.

FRUIT STORES.

N. ACCARIO.

An Italian, who keeps a wholesale and retail fruit stand
on west Pearl street, began business in the Bull building,
August 15, 1900.

LEO MERCURIC.

An Italian, who keeps a confectionery and fruit stand on

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south State street, since February, 1894. Handles all kinds
of fruits, cig-ars and tobacco.

BARBER SHOPS.

MILLER BROTHERS.

Began business on south State street, May, 1888.
Moved to more commodious rooms on west Pearl street, in
the Carlin building 1 , in 1891, where they have carried on
their trade continuously to the present time. 1901.

HKNKY F. BAYKK.

Henry F. Bayer opened his barber shop in Jersey ville
in 1860, and died February 9, 1901, after carrying- on his
trade in Jerseyville 41 years. After his death, his old stand
is now occupied by his two sons, Fred and Otto, where the}'
are now located. His oldest son Fred, for some 15 years,
was running 1 a barber shop in Witchita, Kans., but at the
death of his father, returned to Jerseyville, and is now work-
ing- at the trade in his father's stead. These are steady,
sober young 1 men, and the community welcomes them
among- us.

ROLLKN COLLENBERGER.

Rollen Collenberg-er, proprietor of the Palace Barber
Shop, located on north Main street, succeeded Edward
Boehmer, deceased, on June 8, 1899. His business is well
patronized.

JOHN L. HARRIS.

Beg-an business on east Arch street, Aug-ust 29, 1898.
Does everything 1 in his line of business.

WM. TERRY.

Proprietor of a barber shop located on north State St.
E. o. PERRY.

Began business on east Pearl street, opposite State
Bank, February, 1901. Competent to do satisfactory work
in his line.

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I.. G. GODAK.

Beg-an business June 12, 1900, at No, 110 south State
street, at the old stand occupied by Mr. H. Webb. A young-
man building 1 up a reputation, asks for his share of the pat-
ronag-e of the public.

POULTRY MARKETS.

W. P. RICHARDS & CO.

Beg-an business at No, 217 south State street, in the
spring- of 1899. Buy and sell poultry and eg-g-s of all kinds.

JOHN PERRING.

Conducts a poultry market on east Pearl street. He
succeeded J. N. Davenport, in the spring- of 1901.

CIGAR FACTORIES.

WILLIAM F. BROCKMAN.

Beg-an the manufacture of cig-ars in Jerseyville in 1887.
Factory No. 208. Opened his factory at his present place
of business on west Pearl street, in 1892. Manufactures on
an averag-e of 175,000 cig-ars annually,

GEORGE LAUFKOETTKK.

Carries on the tobacco and cig-ar trade at Factory, No.
196, south State street. Beg-an business in the spring- of
1877.

HENRY DOENGES.

Cig-ar factory located on north State street, near North-
ern Hotel.

CHAS. SCHMIDT.

Cig-ar factory located at his residence in west part of
city.

FEED STORES.

S. D. STANLEY,

Began business, January, 1898, at No. 108, south State

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street. Buys and sells feed stuffs of all kinds. Also every
variety of field and garden seeds usually kept in a first-class
store of this kind.

CLARENCE M. SCRIBNER.

General feed and flour store. Located on west Arch
street. Began business in 1900.

BAKERIES.

LEIGH & SON.

Wallace Leigh opened a bakery and confectionery store
on south State street in 1852, where he remained until the
Commercial Hotel building- was completed in 1874. In 1881,
his son Austin became a partner, and the firm name became
Wallace Leigh & Son. Their ice cream has become famous
through a wide section of country.

HERMAN F. BROCKMAN.

Herman F. Brockman runs a bakery and confectionery
store on north State street, where be has been located for
twelve years. His ice cream parlor and soda fountain re-
ceive a liberal patronage. He manufactures choice candies,
and enjoys a large trade.

JOHN FAUTH.

Began business at No. 205 south State street, October,
1900, John knows how to feed the hungry, and to bake
bread, pies and cakes, that will make the customer come
back.

HENRY H. BROCKMAN.

Began the bakery and confectionery business on north
State street, in 1887, Remaining there one year, he re-
moved to more commodious quarters in 1888, to the large
brick building on the northwest corner of State and Ex-
change streets, where he has carried on a lucrative business
to this date, 1901. Mr. Brockman knows how to feed the
hungry with the best of bread, pies, cakes, etc., as he fur-

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nishes everything found in a first-class bakery and confect-
ionery.

VETERINARY SURGEONS.

J. G. BROWN.

Began business in Jerseyville, July, 1892. Office on
north State street, corner of Main and Pine streets. Car-
ries a full line of veterinary medicines and does general vet-
erinary service.

K. B. BOOKEK.

One of the experienced veterinary surgeons, is located
on east Exchange street, near Jefferson Hotel. Also has an
office in Alton.

INSURANCE AGENCIES.

JKRSEYVILLE MUTUAL CO. F. I, CO.

The Jerseyville Mutual County Fire Insurance Co. was
incorporated February 22, 1861, and reorganized in 1888.
The officers are, D. Q. Trotter, president; Col. W. H. Ful-
kerson, vice-president; M. C. Stelle, treasurer; Charles S.
White, secretary. The directors for many years have been
D. y. Trotter, M. C. Stelle, F. W. Schroeder, Andrew
Beiermann, Col, W. H. Fulkerson, John I. White, Edward
Trabue, Orin Palmer and L. L. Kirby.

As its name indicates, the company is strictly mutual
in its plan; in other words, when a policy holder burns out,
all the policy holders together pay the loss pro rata, with the
amounts of their several policies, and each and every policy
holder, has a voice in the general management of the affairs
ot the company. The only salaried officer is the secretary,
who receiyes only $100.00 per year.

This amount with the incidental expenses in the matter
of books, postage and stationery, constitutes the entire run-
ning expenses of the company. The following will illus-

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trate its cheapness: Old Line Stock Company: Amount of
policy, $1,000; rate per $1,000 insured, $1.50; premium,
$15.00. Jerseyville Mutual: Amount of policy, $1,000; rate
per $1,000 insured, $.25; premium, $2.50. Thus saving- in
favor of this company on first cost $12-50. Now the records
of the company show that the average rate of assessment on
the amount of premium rates has been in round numbers
for the last 10 years on 5 year policies, 10 per cent. Taking
this as a fair average, and the records back for 30 years prove
it to be so, it will be found the final cost of the above policy to
the holder, to be 10 per cent of $50.00 the amount of the
premium notes, or $5.00 which sum, added to the original
cost of $2.50, makes the the total cost of $7.50, for 5 years
on a $1,000 policy, or $7.50 cheaper than that of a Stock
Company.

Special attention is called to the fact that by a new by-
law passed recently by the Board of Directors, the company
now insures live stock from loss from fire and lightning any-
where in the county while in possession of the owner, and
that hay and grain in the stack, or in store on the premises
of the insured are also included, and that the above provisions
are made to apply to all policies now in effect.
CUTTING'S INSURANCE AGKNCY.

Located in the Gledhill building on west Pearl street.
The Cutting Insurance agency has a record of 40 years for
honorable dealing, and has paid to Jersey county patrons the
enormous sum of over $130,000.00. This agency represents
15 of the first-class fire, lightning, tornado, plate glass and
Employers' Liability insurance companies. Also represent
accident insurance companies on all reliable plans, at lowest
rates. Also Life Insurance of every kind, such as Ordinary
Life, Limited Life, Endowment, Annuity and Tontine.

The members of the firm are Leonard M, Cutting and
David E. Beaty.

BOWMAN'S AGKNCY.

Office over State Bank. The following first-class com-

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panics are represented: Phenix, Aetna, Germania, Ameri-
can, Commercial Union and Glen's Falls. Ed. D. Griggs,
solicitor.

STELLE'S AGENCY.

Miss Edith A. Stelle succeeded her father, D. R. Stelle,
after his death in the spring of 1901, This agency repre-
sents the following fire and tornado insurance companies:
Continental, Germania, Freeport, 111., Concordia, Western
Underwriters and American. Office located in the Bull
building on west Pearl street.

George B. Stelle, a representative of the Franklin Life
Insurance Co., of Springfield, 111. Also represents the var-
ious fire insurance companies, represented by his sister,
Miss Edith A. Stelle, doing the soliciting and traveling part
of the work.

METROPOLITAN LIKE,

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. is represented by
P. J. Monahan, Ass't. Supt, of the Alton district. Office
over State Bank. A. T. Ankrom resident agent, of the same
company, for several years.

GEORGE A. ROWDEN.

Represents Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Phil-
adelphia, Pa. Also elected township assessor in 1894, and is
the present incumbent.

BUILDERS.

GEORGE P. SMITH.

Contractor and builder.

HENRY LEAK.

General contractor and buildei*. Shop on Washington
and Prairie streets.

ROBERT CLARK.

Carpenter and builder.

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JOHN POWELL.

Contractor and builder. Long- experience.

C. R. SNYDER.

Contractor and builder.

H. C. DERBY.

Contractor and builder.

ARCHITECTS.

W.M. EMBLY AND A. N. EMBLY.

Office on east Arch street. Many of the most beautiful
public building's and residences in the city have been plan-
ned by these gentlemen.

MASONS.

CONRAD NELSON.

Mason, bricklayer and plasterer.

WM. G. NALLY.

For 32 years, plasterer and bricklayer.

LLOYD HANSELL.

Mason, bricklayer and plasterer. Old and reliable
workman. Followed his trade here for 45 years.

FORD BROS.

Bricklayers, masons and plasterers. Well known and
reliable workmen.

HORACE ROBINGS,

Mason, bricklayer and plasterer.

W. S. HENDERSON.

Mason, bricklayer and plasterer.

PAINTERS.

W. F. KROTZSCH.

Wm. F. Krotzsch keeps a well equipped painting 1 estab-
lishment. Paints building's, signs and fresco work. Grain-

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ing, glazing, paper hanging 1 . Agent for white and enameled
letters.

A. B. PURINTON.
Painting- and paper hang-ing-.

WM. SABO.

Painting- and paper hanging-.

A. W. KENNEDY.

Painting- and paper hang-ing-.

J. J. SNOW.

Painting- and paper hang-ing-.

STENOGRAPHERS.

ELIZABETH EATON With Cutting-'s Insurance Agency.

JULIA BARRON With Chapman & Locke, investment
bankers.

TILLIE SCHATTGEN With Thos. F. Ferns' law office.

ALICE M. CORY In J. M. Pag-e's office, Manag-er Cold
Spring- Gold Mining- and Tunnel Company.

EVELYN REYNOLDS Circuit Court stenographer.

MARGARET FLANNIGAN In office of O, D, Leach. Claim
Department of C. & A. R. R.

RAILROAD AGENTS.

W. C. Jones, agent C. & A. R. R,; F. C. Rutherford, day
operator; L. L. Miller, night operator.

NATHANIEL E. MANN.

Agent of C. P. & St. L. R. R. C. F. Cunningham, op-
e rator.

EXPRESS COMPANIES.

UNITED STATES.

United States Express Company on east Pearl street,
in old National Hotel building. H, F. Hill, agent.

C. P. & ST. L. K. K. DKPOT.

ADAMS.

Adam's Express Company on west Pearl street, in Joel
E. Cory's hardware store. Joel E. Cory, agent.

UNCLASSIFIED.

MARBLE WORKS.

The Jerseyville Granite and Marble Works was incor-
porated March 6, 1899, with W. H. Houghtlin, president;
Geo. H. VanHorne, secretary and treasurer; D. M. Hought-
lin, manager. Handle granite and marble tombstones and
monuments of all sizes and descriptions. Previous to incor-
poration the business was conducted by W. H. Houg-htlin
for many years,

CITY I.AUNDKY.

Wm. Johns, proprietor; C. W. Johns, manager. Began
the laundry business by buying out the business of Wm.
Limbrick, July 22, 1901,

Mr. Johns was born in Medora, 111., October 23, 1879. A
graduate of the class of 1897, of the Medora high school.
Immediately, after, he began the laundry trade at Shreye-
port, Louisiana, and completed his trade in a large steam
laundry in Chicago, 111. His experience and training in his
business merit the confidence and patronage of the public.

CABINET AND REPAIR SHOP.

Lucian C. Derby carries on at north State street, a cab-
inet and repair shop. Repairs and varnishes fine furniture.
Guns and bicycles repaired on short notice. Also does an
extensive business in picture frames and other work along
that line.

BOOK AND NEWS STAND.

Oscar Hill, proprietor of the only news and book store
in Jerseyville, succeeded M, L. Hill & Co., in 1878. He has
conducted the business ever since, and is located on north
State street.

Deals in miscellaneous and school books, stationery,
newspapers and periodicals.

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PLUMBING.

Geo. A. Fry opened up business for himself in the Beatty
building- on south State street, January, 1901. Steam heat-
ing 1 and general plumbing 1 . Mr. Fry has followed his trade
here years previous, and is well and favorably known. Also
carries a line of stoves.

SODA MANUFACTORY,

Shafer & Mitzel beg-an the manufactory of soda water
May 10, 1894. Mr. Shafer retired from the firm in 1896,
since then A, F. Mitzel has been sole proprietor. Factory
located on corner of Prairie street.

TRANSFERS.

James M. Finch began the transfer business by running-
transfer wagons, and busses from depots to hotels in the
city, in the spring of 1866. He has followed industriously
the same business to the present time, 1901, during a period
of 35 years. That means success.

H. D. BULL, D. D. S.

For many years has practiced dentistry in Jerseyville,
and has his office over Cory's hardware store in the Bull
building.

CHARLES WEDDING.

Keeps a fish stand on east Pearl street, first door east
of State Bank.

DR. A. S, HUNT.

Dr. A. S. Hunt, homeopathic physician, located in the
Bull building on west Pearl street, in 1900.

M, J. DOLAN, ATTORNEY.

M. J. Dolan, attorney-at-law, ( located on south State
street. Was State's attorney from 1896 to 1900.

SAM LEE'S LAUNDRY.

Sam Lee, a Chinaman, conducts a laundry on south
State street.

OPERA HOUSE.

Thomas F. Ferns bought the Villinger opera house

KDWIN S. WF.LLS.

BENJAMIN \V IODDING.

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property in 1900. He at once remodeled and enlarged the
store room below and the opera house above. A large and
modern stage, with the latest scenery, was constructed, and
Jerseyville now has a convenient and inviting place for en-
tertainment and amusement. W. H. Schroeder is the pres-
ent manager.

The "Pioneers.

EDWIN S. WELLS.

Edwin S. Wells was born in Salisbury, Conn., October
19, 1828, When he was six years old his father removed to
Berkshire county, Mass., where he received a liberal educa-
tion before coming' west.

He came to Chicago, 111., in 1850, with the intention of
locating- there, but becoming alarmed at the prevalence of
the cholera in that city, he came to Jerseyville to visit his
friend George H. Hodgkin, who had preceded him about two
years and was a clerk in the store of A. B. Morean,

One day a tanner from under the bluff by the name of
George Foster brought a bundle of dressed deer skins to
the store to sell for "whangs," as he called it, and Mr. Wells
conceived the idea of making such products into gloves and
mittens, and ordered twelve dozen dressed skins as a start,
and ripped up some gloves and mittens in the store for pat-
terns. From this the enterprise grew until he consumed
from 10,000 to 12,000 a year, and manufactured some 25,000
to 30,000 pairs of gloves and mittens, besides a large number
of money purses.

He soon discovered that with the rapidly increasing pop-
ulation, the deer skins would become fewer when his busi-
ness would grow less and less, and he closed out his interests
and returned to Chicago and engaged successfully in the
wholesale grocery business for many years.

Mr. Wells married for his second wife Rachel Corbett
Hinton, the widow of Abner C. Tlinton, who practiced law in
Jerseyvilk- for some years, and sister of Mrs. Isaac Harbert.
who still lives in Jerseyville.

Mr. Wells made a profession of religion and united with
the first Presbyterian church of Jerseyville, under the care
of Rev. Samuel Grosvenor, the first Sabbath of Januarv, 1851

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He retired from active business some eight years ago,
and has a beautiful home in Lake Forest, one of the suburbs
of Chicago, on the shore of Lake Michigan, 28 miles from the
city.

BENJAMIN WEDDING.

Was born in Scioto county, Ohio, April 14, 1826. He
came to Jersey county in 1834, and has here remained ever
since. He began teaching school in 1846, at the age of 20
years which occupation he followed during the winters for
10 years, farming during the summer.

He was elected sheriff in 1856 by the whig party, when
he removed to Jerseyville. In 1864 he was appointed reve-
nue collector for Jersey and Calhoun counties, which office
he held four years. He was Justice of the peace for eight
years. Coroner from 1854 to 1856, Was elected mayor of
the city of Jerseyville in 1870. Was married August 9, 1847,
to Miss Tabitha Johnson, of Jersey county, but formerly of
Scioto county, Ohio. Twelve children were born to them,
five of whom died in infancy- Those now living areBarkley,
James, Thomas, Philip and Heber.

Mr, Wedding still lives among us, and has a real estate
and loan office on north State street. Also Notary Public.

JAMES STEWART DANIELS.

Was born in Chester county, Pa., February 10, 1835.
He came to Jersey county in 1854 with his parents, and en-
gaged in farming. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. G, 122nd 111.,
Inft., and was honorably discharged in 1865. He imme-
diately returned to Jerseyville and was elected City Marshal,
which position he held for six years. He was alderman for
10 years, and in 1891 was elected Mayor. One of his first

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official acts as mayor was the vetoing- of an ordinance passed
by the newly elected council lowering- the saloon license fee
from $750.00 to $500.00, which act earned for him the esteem
and confidence of all good citizens, and his subsequent
course at the head of the city g-overnment has g-iven entire
satisfaction.

Beg-an the hardware business on south State street,
February, 1872, and there conducted the business until 1889,
when the firm name became J. S. Daniels & Son, and re-
mained the same until his death, which occurred July 12,
1892. Since his death the business has been conducted by
his son H. S. Daniels, who is sole proprietor.

For many years he was connected with the School Board
of Jerseyville, and was foremost in all educational matters.
He was a member of the council, and took an active part in
the water works in pushing- them to completion.

His death was rather sudden, yet it had been known for
several days that he was sick, but when the sad news of his
death was known, it had a paralyzing- effect on the citizens of
Jerseyville, for they realized they had lost one of their best
friends, and a useful citizen, and a feeling- of g-enuine sor-
row took possession of every heart.

His funeral services were conducted at the Presbyter-
ian church, Rev. Ira C. Tyson officiated, assisted by Rev. J.
J. Porter. He was buried under the direction of Jerseyville
Lodg-e, No. 394, A. F. and A. M., assisted by Belvidere
commandery, K. T., No. 2, of Alton.

Acting- mayor DuHadway issued a proclamation request-
ing- the citizens to close their respective places of business
from 10 o'clock a. m., to 2 o'clock p. m., which was done, and
the entire community attended the funeral and followed the
remains to their last resting- place.

Thus passed away a g-ood man, a useful citizen, who will
be sadly missed by the entire city.

JAMES STKWAKT DANIELS.

ALFRED. B. PURINTON.

Alfred B. Purinton performed an important part in the

capture of Jefferson Davis during- the closing 1 days of the

war. Mr. Purinton was Second Lieutenant of Co. I. of the

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Fourth Michigan Cavalry under the command of Col, B. D.
Pritchard which accomplished the feat of bagging -the wiley
Confederate President.

On May 10, 1865, Mr. Purinton was "brevetted First
Lieutenant of United States Volunteers, for meritorious ser-
vice in the capture of Jefferson Davis."

Lieutenant Purinton was one of the twenty men who es-
corted Davis and party to Washington. He now has in his
possession a button cut from the rubber coat worn by the
Confederate President as a disguise.

Mr. Purinton was born in Truxton, Portland county, N.
Y., February 16, 1834. He was married to Miss Nettie
Maxwell, at Coldwater, Mich., in 1867. Moved to Lincoln,
111., in 1871, where they resided until 1882, when they moved
to Jerseyville. Three children were born to them: Fred
V., of Lincoln, 111.; Lena B., of Boston Mass.; and Eliza-
beth, who resides with her parents.

CITY LIBRARY.

An ordinance passed the City Council appropriating
money to establish and maintain a City Library, Oct. 2, 1894.

The appropriation was approved by the Mayor, H. A.
Shephard, October 3, 1894..

Opening of Library to the public, May 15, 1895.

To start the enterprise, Senator T, S. Chapman do-
nated the rent of the library, room for three years.

The Shakespeare club ,paid librarian for three years.
Number of volumes in library 2,863; number of government
reports, extra 760, making a total of 3,623.

About 300 volumes out constantly.

The library calls in on an average of two-thousand visi-
tors monthly. Very few libraries in the State in a city of
this size are better patronized than this.

Board of Directors are: Wallace Leigh, Pres.; J. J.
Wiseman, vice-president; Ed. J. Vaughn, Joshua Pike,
Nellie Bowman, H. R. Gledhill, A. M. Slaten, T. W. Butler

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and N. Buesen. Miss Edna L. Curtis, Librarian and Secre-
tary.

POST OFFICE.

The first post office in Jerseyyille was established in
1834, with Edward M. Dailey as the first postmaster, who
held it for six years.

The second was David T. Bonnel, who held the office
from 1840 to 1844.

The third was Perley Silloway.

The fourth, was Charles H, Roberts.

The fifth, Alex B. Morean.

The sixth was Charles H. Jackson, who was appointed
in 1853, and served until 1858.

The seyenth was Jacob E. Whitenack, who held the of-
fice until 1861.

The eighth was Thomas L. McGill, who took charge of
the office in 1861, but died a short time thereafter, and his
wife succeeded him.

The ninth incumbent was John I. White, but soon after
resigned in favor of Wm. Pitt, who held the office about two
years.

The tenth was Joseph H. Buffington, who held it for
three years.

The eleventh was George H. Jackson, who acted as
special agent, for a while, and was afterwards appointed,
serving until 1869.

The twelfth to serve as postmaster was Jacob E, White-
nack who was re-appointed, and continued in office until 1877.

The thirteenth man was J. L. C. Richards, who held the
office from 1877 to 1882. The fourteenth postmaster was
Wm. H. Edgar, who began in 1882, and continued to 1886.
Hon. H. O, Goodrich, March 1, 1886 to 1890. Adolphus Rue
from March 1, 1890 to 1894, John C. McGrath from March
1, 1894 to 1898. Wm. S. Pittman began March 1, 1898, and
continues to the present date, 1901,

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JERSEYVILLE CITY BAND.

The Jerseyville City Band was organized Nov. 1, 1888,
under the leadership of Paul Leresche, Sr , who was their
continuous leader for eleven years, until November 1, 1899.

On account of age and infirmities Mr. Leresche resigned,
and Aaron Dodson, who was one of the charter members of
the band, who played alto three years, solo cornet five
years, and baritone for three years, was on Nov. 1, 1899,
chosen leader and so continues to the present date, 1901.

The band now plays every Friday evening- during- the
summer months on the streets, which the citizens enjoy and
appreciate greatly.

Mr. Dodson as a leader is thoroug-hly competent and
deeply interested, and the band now ranks among- the best
in this part of the State, Following" are the names of the
members of the band:

LEADER Aaron Dodson.

CORNETS Paul Leresche, Jr., Herbert Brinton, C. D.
Dodson, John Powers and Herold Leresche.

CLARINETS Aug-ustus Krotzsch, E. L. Alexander and
Elmer Erwin.

ALTOS C. A. Dodson, Walter Catt, Jos. A, Snodgrass
and Karl T. Nelson.

TROMBONE J. W. Bell, Henry Catt and J. Q. Hill.

TUBAS John Schneider, Strother Kennedy.

DRUMS Theodore Dodson, Herbert Bell,

CEMETERIES.

OAK GROVE CEMETERY.

What is now known as Oak Grove cemetery was pur-
chased by the town of Jerseyville from H. L. Adams, Jan-
uary 8, 1856, for the sum of $800.00, payable in three annual
payments of $266^5.

The cemetery, situated in the eastern portion of Jersey-
ville, was surveyed and paltted by Henry M. Chase, county

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surveyor, July 19, 1856, and signed -by A. B, Morean, presi-
dent, and A. M. Blackburn, clerk of the council of the town
of Jerseyville.

The first sexton was Thomas Ford, who acted until the
latter part of 1866. The second was Joshua Walpole, who
acted until May, 1867, and was in turn succeeded by Casper
Sabo, who has acted continuously ever since. During- the 34
years as sexton, he has buried 1,779 persons.

Up to this date August 21st, there are 2,361 persons
buried in Oak Grove cemetery, of which number 286 are in
the Potter's Field.

The first person buried was Clavira Stelle, daughter
of I. and R. Stelle, Aug. 16, 1856. The second was Eliza-
beth Ford, September, 1856. The first addition to Oak
Grove cemetery, containing- 20 acres, was purchased by the
city council from Eug-ene Eberhardt on the 19th day of Jan-
uary, 1898, for the sum of $3,000.00, part of which was sur-
veyed and platted by A. W. Newton, county surveyor.

There are 792 lots in the original including 50 lots laid
out for the Potter's Field, and 690 in the new, making a
total of 1,482 lots, which, as a whole, make one of the most
beautiful cemeteries in the State.

This cemetery, the silent home of our departed loved
ones, is neatly kept and beautified, more or less, by the
works of art and nature, and with the multitude of white
marble monuments, which mark the resting places of our
dead, is a desirable place for pensive thought and prayer.

CATHOLIC CEMETERY.

Further to the north is the beautiful Catholic cemetery,
the hallowed place the Catholic church lays away her pre-
cious dead. Laid out with walks, and adorned with monu-
ments and evergreens, the devout Catholic may lay away to
peaceful slumbers their precious loved ones.

OLD SETTLERS' SOCIETY.
The "OLD SETTLERS' SOCIETY," of Jerseyville, was or-

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ganized in the Court House, on Saturday, October 7, 1871.
There were thirty-five of the old settlers' present, and from
this number a committee of three were appointed to draft a
constitution and plan of organization, consisting- of Geo. E.
Warren, J. G. Scott and George H. Jackson.

After some time, the committee brought in a constitu-
tion, containg- eight sections. Any person wishing- to read
the constitution, the writer refers them to the history of
Jersey and Greene counties, page 165,

Meetings were held by this society until of recent years.
The old settlers who kept up the society have passed be-
yond. The present generation do not call themselves old
pioneer settlers, therefore do not feel much interest in an
organization to which they feel they are not eligible.

FARMERS' INSTITUTE.

The Jersey County Farmers' Institute was organized
according to statutory enactment in 1896, with Col. W. H.
Fulkerson as president, and J. W. Becker secretary and
treasurer. Annual meetings are held regularly at the Court
House in .lerseyville.

The present officers are: C. W. Simmons, president;
J. W. Becker, secretary and treasurer; W. H. Bartlett, W.
H. Fulkerson and C. H, Updike, executive committee.

DOMESTIC SCIENCE.

In connection with the annual Farmers' Institute held
January 8th and 9, 1901, the Jersey County Domestic Science
Association was organized with Mrs, W. E. Carlin, presi-
dent; Mrs. M. C. Stelle, vice-president; Miss Fannie Fulk-
erson, secretary; Miss Mamie Cadwallader, treasurer.
Many interesting and profitable meetings have been held.

Y. M. C. A.

Organized December, 1900, with eight members, and
Mr. John Christy, president; Geo. Woodruff, Jr., vice-presi-

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dent; E. L. Alexander, secretary; J. W. Becker, director
and Walter S. Daniels, Jr., treasurer.

Meeting's were held in the home of President Christy,
until association moved into their rooms on north State
street, January 17, 1901. Meeting's now held in their rooms
Sunday afternoons.

CRIMINAL RECORD.

The following' account taken from the Jersey county cir-
cuit court records shows this to be the only case of capital
punishment executed in Jersey county:

"Jersey County Circuit Court, April term, April 18,
1865. Wm. A. Brown, alias Tom Moss, alias Amzi Moss,
murder. Indictment charges murder of Robert Watson,
Nov. 7, 1864, by shooting- with a pistol."

Trial at August special term, 1865. Jurymen: James
Young 1 , J. W. Besterfeldt, T. J. Campbell, John Davis, John
E. Julks, Asa Brig-gs, Sebastian Watson, J. C, Carrico, D, D.
Smith, Wm. McAdams, H. N. Belt, Jr., Wm. R. Ashford.

Jury's verdict, murder. Hung- on Wednesnay, Sept. 1,
1865. T. J. Selby, sheriff.

Witnesses to hanging: Richard I. Lowe, county judge;
Jacob Lurton, associate judge; L. H. Robbins, J. L. White,
attending physicians; .Andrew Jackson, county clerk; M. E.
Bagley, circuit clerk; W. T. Whitfield, H, O. Goodrich, C.
C. Cummings, James C, Ross, Smith M, Titus, J. C. Mar-
shall, Chas. H. Knapp, Dr. A. K. VanHorne, Dr. G. G. Lyon,
John H. Reddish, A. L. Knapp, Wm. W. Felter.

NATIONAL HOTEL.

The National Hotel was built by Lott and Dailey, in
1836-7. In May, 1836, John Frost, Sr., vacated the "Old Red
House," to give room for Prof. Penuel Corbett and family,
Mrs. Harbert being one of the children, and moved into the
National Hotel before the painting was completed.

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Thus John Frost, Sr., was the first occupant of the old
National. Mr, Frost remained in the hotel eight years, un-
til the spring- of 1846, when C. B, Fisher purchased it, and
remained there four years, to 1849.

In 1846 C, B. Fisher built the north division of the hotel
afterwards occupied by Fred Bertman, dry goods and cloth-
ing- store, and Casavant's jewelry store, lastly by Ed. Burns'
saloon and Wm. Hanley's meat market. C. B. Fisher re-
tiring, Peler Goff held possession until in 1854, when W, S.
Hawley took charge, who, in 1855, built the long eastern ad-
dition of 70 feet, that extended to the alley.

At this point there is some doubt as to the order of
ownership. In 1860, Smith Titus was proprietor, and he
was succeeded by Charles Bowman. William Billings next
came in control and after him Charles Holcomb and his sons.
James Young succeeded the Holcombs, with whom the his-
tory of the building as a hotel ceases, though it was used
afterwards as a rooming house, At the time of its destruc-
tion by fire Sept. 1, 1901, the property was owned by S, H.
Bowman, William Hanley and James Perrings.

Much interesting local history is connected with this
building, especially during the Civil War period when it
was connected with the "Underground Railroad."

bounty {-Farm

SIXTY YeftRS ftGO,

HON. ED. MINER.

ut on the prairie, about a mile to the west

Of where we're now met, further knowledge in quest,
Stood a little log cabin in the prairie grass tall,
Where your speaker arrived one night in the fall,
In destitute plight, without money or clothes,
A pitiable object, as you well may suppose.
And to add to his misery and these are bald facts
He was barren of hair as the poll of an ax,
And shy on teeth, too, for this luxury then
Was with him like unto the proverbial hen,

That cabin stood low, squarely facing the south,

And built to withstand either flood or a drouth;

One door and two windows furnished ingress and light,

While the fireplace covered quite all else from sight.

The door on two wooden hinges was hung,

But the windows were "set" and refused to be swung;

And a rough puncheon floor, laid down without sills,

Answered well enough there for skirts without frills.

A ridge-pole projected at either end of the hut,
And a chimney loomed up, belching cinders and soot.
On one end of the ridge pole a hen and her brood
Roosted safe from the varmints 'round hunting for food,
While a gobbler, whose mate on Christmas eve died,
Held the other end down, thus preventing a slide.
With these simple adornments the outside was complete,
While the interior lacked not in ornaments neat,

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From the rafters o'erhead there hung in festoons
Long- string's of dried apples and dried skins of raccoons;
While over the fireplace, from pegs in the logs,
Swung strips of dried venison and jowls of dead hogs.

In one corner a barrel, with cover weighted with chunks,
To keep the meat under brine and secure from skunks,
Held in pickle the poirk for the next summer's use,
And served at times as a stand, or at least an excuse,
For this useful adornment, and often at night,
Held the saucer of grease that furnished the light.

Then a little pine table, one bed and some chairs,
And an old wooden clock much in need of repairs,
And a bucket and gourd, and an old spinning wheel,
And hanks of white yarn just fresh from the reel,
And a shot-gun transformed from a rifle, smooth-bore,
Which hung within reach just over the door,
And a powder horn, made from the horn of an ox,
Embellished with pictures of a hound and a fox,
And suspended near by to be ready, in case
A big buck glided by, to get out and give chase
Embraced about all the household effects
Save a few ancient dishes little better than wrecks.

No, there's another adornment I cannot forget,
For its memory looms up, clinging close to me yet,
And that's the cradle of boards, shy of satin or silk,
Where your speaker got started, dealing wholly in milk;
At which avocation he thrived well for a time,
Had things his own way, and enjoyed it prime,
Until there came to the cabin, one dark night in June,
Another toothless young scamp with lungs all atune,
Who got red in the face, yelled and kicked with such vim,
That he turned the milk business straight over to him.

Thus a farm life in Jersey, three score years ago,
Your speaker began, and would now have you know
That milk rations cut off, his chances to win

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Were, to put it quite mildly, most deucedly thin,

For did he take other diet and thereby grow fat,

Then his mother would worry to know "where he was at,"

Did he chance to stroll out, looking- tempting- and sweet,

Lest a prowling- she-wolf snap him up for her meat.

But he grew on apace with other stock on the farm,
Had the croup and the measles, which did him no harm;
Fought whooping- coug-h hard, and chicken pox spurned,
Fed the chickens and pigs, rocked the cradle and churned;
Went out on cold morning's, ground covered with sleet,
Drove the hogs from their beds and there warmed his bare

feet,

Brought the cows from the pasture and on errands ran,
Until but one thing was lacking to make him a man.

That "one thing" he found in the summer one day,

When a man from the town came out to cut hay,

Who, to pay him for some little errand he did

Gave a piece of tobacco, just enough for a quid,

Now then, thought your speaker, this surely's not bad,

I'll be a man now not less bigger than dad.

He put the stuff in his mouth, to the stable went straig-ht,

Leaned against the pig- pen and did there ruminate;

Till a darkness came o'er him that could almost be felt,

And a queer sort of feeling 1 flitted under his belt,

Which caused him to tremble, his knees to grow weak,

Filled his soul with dismay and with pallor his cheek;

Until, hanging limp o'er the rails of that pen,

Gave his quid and his dinner to the pigs, there and then.

But this little experience didn't seem to suffice

He was bent on acquiring and holding the vice.

So he sought the same reptile that caused him the pain,

And declared he was willing to be bitten again.

And thus he continued, spite of thrashings or threats;

His father's advice, or his mother's regrets,

Until he'd mastered the art (this is truthful but sad,)

And could bite off a chew quite equal to dad.

Then, as years glided by, he engaged on the farm,

Not enongh to excite or cause much alarm

For his health, or his strength, but to tell you what's so,

For ten cents a day he covered corn with a hoe;

Sallied out in the mornings when his father with team

Went out to break prairie, and bore down on the beam

To keep the plow in the ground, and thus, hour by hour,

Rode an old wooden mould board that never did scour.

Then played circus with horses, and rode 'round and 'round

To tramp out the sheaves, in a ring on the ground;

And, with tramping done, then to gather the wheat

Helped to rake off the straw and toss chaff from a sheet.

Another threshing device in vogue at that day,

Which to use with effect was not any child's play.

And though simple in build, in looks shy of deceit,

Was full of the d 1 as an egg is of meat.

This engine whose antics made your speaker bewail

And curse the day he was born, was a measly old flail.

One day he had stood and watched with much care

The men in the barn swinging flails in the air,

To beat out the oats from sheaves on the floor,

Where he viewed the proceedings through a crack in the

door.

When the noon hour came and men gone to their meals,
Thought your speaker, "I'll try this and see how it feels
To run these machines, so simple, so plain;
I think I can do it without very "much strain."
He seized the one nearest, swung it over his head,
And in less than two minutes he was carried to bed,
With nose mashed out of sh;jpe, his eyes a mere speck,
And one ear twisted 'round to back of his neck.
But he lived, as you've seen, to tell the sad tale,
And give warning to shun that murderous flail.

The threshing now done and corn gathered in crib,
The thoughts are diverted to the roasted spare-rib.

And hog-killing time now grows on apace
When the porker will then have to give up the race.
In the crisp early morning-, ground covered with snow,
A smoke is seen curling- from a chunk-heap aglow,
Where stones to heat water snuggle closely therein
To be ready for business when the killings begin,
Then the neighbors arrive, old butcher knives ground;
New gambrels are cut because the old ones not found,
Then a bustle, a hustle and cry "water hot,"
Then the crack of a rifle, a squeal from the lot,
And the slaughter is on, and no rest is found
Till with heels in the air and noses to the ground,
Hang suspended in rows, looking comely and neat,
The remains of dead swine for the next season's meat.
Then the dogs and the cats and crows from the field
Hang 'round for the parts the interiors now yield,
And contend for the "lights," hung on the top rails
While the boys are content to fight out for the tails.

But let this suffice for the scenes on the farm

About which there always will linger a charm,

While we mention the men who three score years agone

Leveled the forests and made the prairie a lawn.

When we scan o'er the list, tho' we've not named them all,

Our feelings are stirred, as we sadly recall

That two-thirds of the number, if not many more,

Have passed on beyond to eternity's shore.

Peace to their memories, ever green their graves keep,

For they're not dead but sleeping, then why do we weep.

Among those whom your speaker has many times met

Are those whose names follow these he cannot forget:

There was "Uncle" Phil Grimes and son Jarret T.,

And Pattersons, Gershom, a major was he;

The Coleans and the Cu minings, a goodly array,

The Slatens and Aliens and Ira E. Day;

And Gilworths and Whitlocks and William McDow,

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The Waddles and Grains and Richard I. Lowe;

And Carrolls and Marstons and Ezekial Chance

And Beach, Charlie L., who liked well to dance.

Then the Scotts and the Powells, Rogers and Riggs.

The bobbins and Snells and one William Briggs,

And Simmons, and Shorts, Randolphs and Ruyle,

And D'Arcy E. A., he of the "old school."

Also Landons and Lambs, Masons and Stelle,

And Seagos and Trabues and Adams, N. L.

Then Reddish and Schroeders, Perrine and Cross,

And Jacksons and Hills, the Corys and Ross;

The Calhouns and the Cowens, Campbells and Belts,

And Wyckoffs and Davis, the Dabbs and VanPelts.

The Darnells and Dodsons, Masseys and Barrs,

The Knapps and the Goodrichs, Loftons and Darrs,

McDows and McKmneys, Stanley and Swans,

Staffords and Tolmans, the Nobles and Vaughns,

Then Warrens and Richards and English, J. N.

With Weddings and Blackburns and a Crabb now and then.

And Uncle John Sheeley, all remember him still,

As also Joe Gerrish who built the wind mill.

Then Viall and Cyrus and Casey (M. D.)

And Bairds and old "Billie" Kelley you see.

Hinsons and Kirbys, the Shephards and Lotts,

Cheneys and Plowmans, Lurton and Potts.

Hendersons and Perrys, the Piggots and Post,

The Brocks and the Terrys and Fisher, "Mine Host."

And the Browns and Copes, the Downeys and Eads,

The Hurds and Hamiltons, men of good deeds.

The Coopers and Windsors and one J. R, Black,

Elected Jersey's first treasurer in days away back.

And the VanHornes and Bells and Harley E. Hays,

Must close up the list lest you think it a craze.

(In conclusion to those of my early associates who began life on a
Jersey farm about the same time as your speaker, let me leave with you
the following queries:)

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As the years fly swiftly onward and life's shadows lengthen
fast,

As your cares and troubles deepen and your joys and pleas-
ure last,

As you muse on life's mutations and oft view them with
alarm,

Do your thoughts recur, and often, to your boyhood on the
farm?

Do there come the recollections of your first new pair of

pants,
How you showed them to your Uncles and your Cousins and

your Aunts,
How your Mother, heaven bless her, when she'd got the

things complete,
Wondered how you'd e'er distinguish 'twixt the front part

and the seat?

How you sallied forth with limbs encased in this new rig-
unique,
With hands thrust down in pockets deep and tongue too

proud to speak,
How you soon returned, your face awry, your spirits

crushed and torn
Likewise your pants, and the egg's as well you'd in your

pockets borne?

Do vagrant strains still linger of that "music in the air"

That went surging through the rafters when your mother
cut your hair?

When she'd seize you by the foretop, clamp your head be-
tween her knees,

And threaten dire disaster did you even dare to sneeeze?

Can you hear the lively clicking of those monster, dull sheep
shears,

As they swished about your cranium, and mayhap, nipped
your ears?

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While your sunburned locks were falling- at each successive

whack,
And either lodged in eyes or nose, or went glimmering- down

your back?

And when at last, the job complete, you the to mirror flew
And viewed your "nog-gin" fore and aft from every point of

view.

Had you before, or have you since, in heavens, earth, or air,
Gazed on a scene or met a fright that could with it compare?

Do other scenes come before you of earlier life on the farm,
Hog killing, harvest and threshing, and the gay husking bee

in the barn;
When the golden fruit hung in the orchard, or the turkey

stole off for her "set,"
Or the bumble bee answered your call and whose sting on

your eye hurts you yet?

Do you frequently sit in the gloaming and sigh for a sight

of old Tige,
That faithful old dog, and so aged that he had but few hairs

in his hide?
In short how well it would please you how much would it

act as a charm,
To mingle for a time in those scenes of your boyhood days

on the farm?

emona

ervice.

William McKinley, the twenty-fourth President of the
United States, in the one hundred and twenty-sixth year of
our National Independence, on Friday, September 6, 1901, at
4 o'clock, p. m., was shot down by an assassin by the name
of Leon Czolgosz, an avowed anarchist, while in the Temple
of Music at Buffalo, N. Y., attending- the Pan-American Ex-
position. The assassin was a Russian Pole of American

birth, his father having' been a saloon-keeper in Cleveland,
Ohio, where his son had received the anarchistic principles
which culminated in the assassination of the president.

L'zolg-osz was a young man, single, about twenty-six
years old. He gloried in the murderous deed, and said he

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had done his duty. While President McKinley was shaking-
hands with the people at a public reception, the young assas-
sin came forward and as Mr. McKinley reached out his hand
of greeting', the assassin with one hand pushed awav the
hand of the President and with the other hand in which he
held a new 36-calibre revolver covered with a handkerchief,
fired two shots in quick succession. The first ball took effect
in his sternum bone, not mortally wounding-, the second pass-
ed entirely through the stomach, lodging behand the muscles
of the vertebrae, and was never exactly located. The first
bullet was immediately extracted, the second never was and
became the mortal wound.

The President was immediately taken to the exposition
hospital where he passed through a surgical operation, stitch-
ing the openings in both the front entrance into the stamach,
and also the back wall, or exit of the ball.

The operation appeared to be successful, and the presi-
dent each day was reported as improving. From the 9th to
i2th of September he was considered out of danger, until
Friday night, September 13, when he sank into unconscious-
ness, and all hope of recovery was abandoned. He died Sat-
urday morning at the Miiburn residence, Buffalo, N. Y.,
September 14th at 2:15, a. m. His farewell words were,
"Good by, all, good-by. It is God's way: His will be done. 1 '
His last audable words were trying to sing his favorite hymn,
"Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee," when his voice
was hushed in death. No man that ever lived or died was so
universally wept over, by not only the 75,000,000 people of
his own nation, but all other civilized nations of the earth.

The first Sunday following his death, all the pastors of
the Jerseyville churches made special mention and prayers
for the dead president. Father Marks, pastor of the church
of the Holy Ghost, offered a special prayer service. Rev.
J. G. Klene took for his evening subject: "The President's
death, and our Nation's Duty." At the First Baptist church,
Dr. J. A. Ford, in the evening, took for his subject: "The as-

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sassination of President McKinley," At St. Francis
Xavier's church Rev. Father Daw, of Winchester, in his
morning 1 service, paid a high tribute to the dead president.
President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation ap-
pointing- Thursday, Sept. 19, the day on which the body of
the dead President was laid in its last resting" place, as a day
of mourning 1 and prayer throughout the united States.

In harmony with that proclamation Mayor Georg-e Locke,
of the city of Jerseyville, issued the following 1 proclamation:

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, For the fifth time in the history of the Repub-
lic, its Chief Magistrate has been removed by death; and

WHF:REAS, All hearts are filled with grief and sorrow at
the hideous crime which has darkened our land, and the
memory of the murdered President, his week of suffering,
his unyielding fortitude, the example and achievement of his
life and and the pathos of his death will forever illumine the
pages of our history; and

WHEREAS, In accordance with the proclamation of Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt, memorial services for the late
President, WILLIAM McKiNLEY, will be held in the First Bap-
tist church, in this city, on Thursday, September 19th, A. D,,
at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon;

THEREFORE, I, Geo. D. Locke, Mayor of the City of Jersey-
ville, earnestly request our citizens to drape their buildings
in mourning, and refrain from their ordinary avocations be-
tween the hours of two o'clock p. m., and four o'clock p. m.,
of Thursday, the 19th day of September, A. D., 1901, as a
tribute of respect to the memory of our late President, and
for the purpose of attending the memorial services.

I hereby order and direct that the City Hall be draped in
mourning for a period of thirty days,

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Geo, D. Locke, May-
or of said city, have hereunto set my hand
[SEAL] and caused to be affixed hereto the seal of

said city this sixteenth day of September,
A. D,, 1901.

By the Mayor: GEO. D. LOCKE,

ALBERT H. FOSTER, City Clerk.

The Memorial services were conducted according- to the
Proclamation, in the First Baptist Church of Jerseyville, ac-
cording' to the following" programme:

PROGRAMME.

Organ Solo "Funeral March" Chopin

Proclamation by the President Rev. F. A. Marks

Hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light" Choir

Reading" of Resolutions Mr. Chas S. White

Soprano Solo "Holy City" Stephen Adams

Mrs. Geo. D. Locke.

Remarks Rey. P. Fallon

Anthem "Death Shall Have no More Dominion Over Him."
From "The Redemption" Choir

Prayer Rev. J. G. Klene

Hymn "America" Choir and Congregation

Address Rev. Dr. J. A. Ford

Hymn .."Nearer, My God, to Thee," Choir and Congregation

Benediction Rev. J. G. Klene

Organ Solo "Dirge" E. Greig

This was one of the best days ever known in Jerseyville.
Though the occasion was a sad one, yet God brought good
out of it. Upon the platform were the pastors of the Catholic
parishes, Rev. Father Marks, Rev. Father Fallon, with all
the protestant pastors present in the city, Rev. Dr. J. A. Ford
and Rey. J. G. Klene, a sight the writer longed to see for
many years; each taking a part nobly in the exercises. The
memorial address was delivered by Dr. Ford, and was a mas-
terly effort. The exercises were presided over by our vener-
able Col. W. H. Fulkerson, in a faultless and becoming man-
ner. Thus closed the most solemn and wide spread memo-
rial exercises ever known upon the face of the earth. A
good man has gone. "It is God's way; his will be done."

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MARTYR PRESIDENTS.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. JAMES A. GAR FIELD.

President Lincoln was shot by J. Wilkes Booth April 14,
1865. He died early the next morning-, Api'il 15. Presi-
dent Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau July 2, 1881.
He died September 19, 1881.

On the death of Mr. Lincoln -public memorial services
were held in the First Baptist Church of Jerseyville. On the
death of Mr. Garfield public memorial services were held in
the court house yard.

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INDEX.

Akard. B. W 186

Adams, John 9

Aecario, X 206

Allen, Dr. A. B 81

Alexander & Miller 202

Anten & Co 194

Barnett, Dr. A. A 85

Barry. Dr. E. L. H 87

Beaty. D. E 167

Bayer. II . F 207

Bagley, M. E 174

Bell. Jas 196

Becker, J. W 54

Besse. D. D. Rev. C. B 43

Borger, C. C 200

Boynton. J. E 199

Bringhurst. Dr. James 78

Brockman, H.H 20g

Brockrnan, H. F 209

Brockman, Win. F 208

Brooks, C E 202

Buffington, Dr. C G 79

Batler, T. VV 187

Burnett, Win. G 185

Brown, J. G 210

Booker, R. B 210

Bowman, agency, 211

Collenberger, R 207

Casey, Dr. E. A 77

Catt, Rev. Stephen.... ... 45

Carr, J. S 102

Chapman, Hon. T. S 98

Cheney, Murray 153

Cheney, C. P 154

Cheney, D. P 155

Cheney, G. P 156

Cheney, Emily 157

Cheney, Mrs. D. P 169

Cheney, Dr. A. M 170

Christy. John 199

Cooper. J. E 159

Cooper, Rev. M. M 45

Corbett. Prof Penuel 57

Corbett. Virginia 57

Cory. J. E 194

Cory. Alice 214

Cockrell, E 199

Cross, A. W 188

Cross, H. X. 166

Cross, E 189

Cutting, Agency 211

Criminal Record 227

Curtis, E. L 222

Cutting, ousan H 57

Children 180

City Band 224

D'Arcy, Dr. E. A 152

D'Arcy, Mary 169

Daniels, H IS 194

Daniels, S. D 181

Daniels, J. S 219

Dashner, F. M 205

Decrevel, M 206

Dolan, James 205

Dolan, J. M 216

Doenges, H 208

Duffield, J. H 191

DuHadway, Dr. C 86

Dunphy. Mrs. J 203

Eaton. Elizabeth 214

Egelhoff, G 197

Embly & Son 213

Enos, Dr. Chas. R 87

Enos, Dr. Jos. VV 90

Enos, Dr. Chas. W 80

Enos. Miss Cordelia 90

English, Hon. J. N" 150

Engel, Leon 185

Envin, J. G 114

Estebrooke. Dr. W. W.. 84

243

Faulkner. James 2

Farley, Miss Mary 10

Fallen, Rev. Patrick 44

Farley, Dr K. D 78

Fahey, W. F 198

Fauth.John 209

Fanuers's Institute 226

Fales & Ferine 203

Ferns, Hon. T. F 99

Fesenmeyer & Senior 185

Finch, J. M 216

Fry, George 216

Giers <fe Newbery 202

Gill, Dr. Henry Z 83

Gledhill, Dr. H. R 88

Goodrich, Hon. A. A 102

Godar, L. G '. . .208

Grosvenor, Rev. L 14

Griggsby, Mrs 3

Griggs, Ed D 212

Harris J. L 207

Hamilton Dr. J. B 78

Hamilton, Dr. J. O 79

Hamilton, O. B 97

Hamilton. P. M 102

Harriman, Dr. H. C 78

II arty, Rev. James 179

Hays, J. W 115

Herdman, Hon. G. W 96

Herold,Fred 200

Hansell, W 117

Hanley, Will 201

Hill, H. B 185

Hill, S. L 196

Hill, H. F ........214

1 1 ossner, Theo 204

Horn, John 198

Holmes Clothing Store 186

Holland, Dr. Wm. E 91

Hutchison, Dr. Wm 78

Hughes, J J 101

Houghtlin, W. H 215

Jacobs. Charles . ..191

Jacobs & Robb 199

Jacoby Bros 203

Jones. W. C 214

Jones, Children 181

Kenner, Mrs. W. S 202

Kiely, Richard 176

Keller. Cosmos 179

Keller, Children, 181

Kiely, Children 181

Keehner, John 187

Klene, Rev. J. G.. ., 41

Knapp, Dr. A. R 78

Knapp, Dr. C. H 79

Knapp, Dr. Geo. H 82

Knapp, Hon. A. L 93

Knapp, Hon. R. M 93

Kingston, Dr. T. A 8]

Krotzsch, W. F 213

Lancrey, Philip 193

Laurent, L 175

Laufkoetter, Geo 203

Leach, O. D 99

Leigh & Son 209

Leak, H 212

Leak & Fleming 191

Little, Irwin 9

Library, City 222

Locke, J. A 170

Locke, Hon Oo. D 149

Locke, Children 180

Lott, Dr. John W 77

Lowe. A. W 187

Marks, Rev- Francis A 44

Maloney, H. C 187

Mann. N. E. 214

Marston & Halliday 186

Massey, Wm. H 206

Miller, L. A 185

Miller Bros. 208

McFain, Chas 205

Moss, Tom 227

Mercuric, Leo 206

Miner, N. . ..160

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McGrath, J. C 17(5

y. ode, .( acob 20 1

Mode. John 205

Myrii-k. O P 179

Myers. E A 11 197

McKinley Memorial 237

Newspapers 48

Nash. Rev. C 46

National Hotel 227

Newton, Kobt 172

Newton, Albert 178

Nitschke, Paul 202

Noble, II P 101

Page, J. M 53

Perry, Dr. J. C 77

Perry, C. O 207

Pike, Prof. J 60

Pitt. A. F 203

Postmasters 6

Pogue, H. W 98

Public Schools 60

Purinton, A. B 221

Pritchett, D. P 197

Postoffice 223

Quinn, A. II 115

Reiner & DuHadway 201

Reintges, Jacob 181

Rich, Dr. H. W 92

Richards, W. P. & Co 208

Ross, J. C 115

Roerig, F. W 202

Rowden, G. A 212

Seago, Geo. M 101

Selby, Flon. T..T 103

Seago & Johnson 197

Schmidt, Chas 208

Schmidt, F C 198

Schneider, John 192

Schroeder. W. H..'. 115

Scribner, C 209

Scheiner & Woodruff 186

Shafer & Hanley 187

Sfhpffor & Son .t02

Shobf. Dr A A !-7

Shephard. Win 1(>2

Shephanl. Mrs Win ... Hi'2

Shephard. .J. A 189

Shephard. H A. 189

S lattery, K. D 193

Slaten, Judge A. M 103

Stanley, S D . 208

Stelle's agency 212

Sixty Years Ago 229

Sweeney. Josh 204

Sweeney, John 205

Smith, G. R 200

Snedeker, lion. O. A 94

Sumrall, Dr Geo 83

Swallow, Col Geo. R 173

Tack, J. C .....197

Titterington, Dr M. B 90

Tiff, O. A 204

Terry, Wm 207

Templeton, J. K 182

Tunehorst, H A. 200

Vandyke, Dr. R. H 77

VanHorne, Dr. A. K 84

VanHorne, Geo. H 215

Vandervoort, B C 183

Vaughn, Ed J 100

Vaughn, Children 183

Waggoner, Dr. L T 91

Warren. M. A 184

Warren, Hon Geo. E 164

Warren, Geo. E 184

Wells, E. S 23 and 218

West & Son 196

Ware& Son 201

Wade, J. E 182

Wagner, J 187

Warren & Wiseman 184

Ware. Geo. W.... 177

Wedding, Benj 219

White, Dr. J. L.. .78

245

Wiles. Dr. A. M 88 Whitehead & Alexander 206

Williams, Dr. J. 8 89 Wyckoff, D. G 161

White, Chas. S 100 Wyckoff, H. N 161

Whitehead, R 183 Y. M. C. A 226

Whitlock & Co. . ..188

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