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in April, 1842, by the trustees. In 1845 there were 106 pupils in the township. In 1846, Wash. Trickle, C. M. S. Lyon, and A. G. Dunn were trustees, with the latter treasurer. D. V. Frazer taught in district No. 6. A. C. Colwell was also a teacher. John Berfield was appointed treasurer in 1847, and Philander Arnold and John Berfield, trustees. Miss S. E. Rhodes taught in district 4. In 1848, John Emery, C. M. S. Lyon and W. W. Webster trustees. In '49., C. M. S. Lyon appointed treasurer. In '50, Carson Berfield, Isaac Heiner and Sylvester H. Sanders, were trustees. In '52, W. W. Webster was trustee. In '54, John Wolf, William M. Pratt and Aaron Aten, were elected trustees. The teachers were E. C. Dyer, M. Dwire, J. C. Buchanan, J. E. Hitchcock, and Eliza Yocum. In '54, James C. Egbert was appointed treasurer. In '56, Jacob Young was elected trustee. M. Dwire, Sarah J. Lamper, S. M. Winchester, E. M. Cooper, R. H. Bower, Lucy W. Norton, Justin Denis were teachers. In '62, Eph. Markley, S. A .Munson and Lewis Olmstead, were trustees, with James Egbert, treasurer, succeeded in '63 by C. W. Young. In '64, Jeff. Raymond, I. L. Newman, and S. A. Munson were trustees, who served until October, '68, when Norman E. Pomeroy, I. L. Newman and Jefferson Raymond, were elected, (there was no election held in '67), who served until '73, when James McGinnis took Mr. Newman's place, C. W. Young still acting as treasurer. In '74, Robert Stonier was elected trustee, and Jesse McKinstry, treasurer. In '75, I. L. Newman was chosen trustee ; A. J. Johnson, in '76, John W. Cole in '77; in '78 G. M. Hazen; in '79; D. B. Shultz; in '80, G. M. Hazen and Frank Berfield; in '81, R. R. Worley and Thomas Dryden, and Joseph Swank., appointed deputy treasurer. In '82, Thomas Dryden, James McGinnis and John Hazen, were elected trustees, and Joseph Swank was chosen treasurer and clerk; James R. Henry, trustee in '85, and Henry Sweet in '86. In December, '55, Henry Seymore taught a school of eighteen pupils near Jacob Smith's, West Jersey, for $20 per month and board. Like other schools of the county at that time, there were no regular books in use. In June '56, Miss S. J. Lamper was teacher, at $4 per week and board; thirteen pupils attended. A school near W. Trickle's house, West Jersey, was opened November 1, '55, by S. Law, teacher, with fifteen or twenty pupils. On June 4, '56, Miss M. E. Cooper presided over thirty-five pupils, although there were fifty enrolled. She received $4 per week and board. In '57, C. M. S. Lyon, Jacob Young and S. H. Sanders, were elected trustees. Among the teachers were: S. Law, D. R. Gelvin, George B. Cumming, C. F. Conklin, E. J. Creighton, M. E. M. Cooper, and J. J. Clark. In '58, John H. Anthony, Jackson Lorance and W. M. Pratt, were trustees. The names of Sarah Baldwin, Wilson Spencer, R. B. Robinson, Julia R. Pratt and James E. Squiers, appear among the teachers. In '60, Daniel Olmstead, E. Makey and W. W. Riggen, were trustees, J. C. Egbert still holding the treasurer's office. The total number of children in the twelve districts in '62, was 638. In '86, there were 283 males and 238 females under twenty-one years, nine ungraded schools attended by 219 males and 182 females, presided over by eight male and sixteen female teachers, the former receiving $1,393.67, and the latter $981.50. The tax levy

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Was $2,820, value of property, $6,050; total receipts, $4214.64; expended, $3,101.15. Joseph Swank served as treasurer and clerk.

Officials. —The supervisors, other than the one referred to in organic chapter, are named as follows: '53- 6, W. W. Webster; '56-8, C. M. S. Lyon; '58, S. H. Sanders; '59, Ephraim Markley; '60, C. M. S. Lyon; '61, Aaron Schmuck; '62, C. M. S. Lyon; '63, Milton Atherton; '64, IsaacL. Newman;'65-8, Nelson Jones; '68, Levi Eckley; '69-71, Isaac L. Newman; '71-3, Andrew J. Johnson; '73-6, Daniel R. Gelvin; '76, James McGinnis; '77, A. J. Johnson; '78, I. L. Newman; '79, I. L. Newman; '80, H. C. Hyde; '81, George M. Hazen; '82, Lewis Egbert; '83, Lewis C. Egbert; '84, Philip Beanier; '85, Lewis C. Egbert; '86, John Hazen. The justices were: '53, Washington Trickle and Jacob Young; '56, John H. Anthony, Jacob Young; '61, S. F. Farrar and Jeff. Raymond; '65, C. W. Young and D. R. Gelvin; '69, Charles W. Young and A. J. Finley; '73, A. J. Johnson and C. W. Young; '77, J. H. Anthony and R. C. Laing; '78, Joseph Swank; '81, Joseph Swank and J. H. Anthony; '82, John W. Cole; '85, Joseph Swank and J. H. Anthony; '86, J.W. Cole.

As stated in the genera history, this township and Goshen opposed affiliation with Coffee county in 1837, but supported connection with Stark in 1838-9. It was organied in 1853, and the named conferred in honor of the number of New Jersey people, who had then made settlements here.

Pioneer Neighbors.—Before proceeding to notice the pioneers of the township, let us examine who were their neighbors on the south and west. Milbrook Township adjoining was first settled in '33 by William Metcalf and his family. In '36, John Smith, jr., platted the village of Rochester, Clark Stanton being the only other settler there then. About this time one Hurd opened a store there, but was soon succeeded by Stacy & Holmes. In '37, a mill was erected here; in '46, Therrygood Smith was chosen first postmaster. Dr. John Fifield practiced there from '38 to '45. In '44 the Christian church was organized there by Milton King; the Congregational in '41, by S. G. Wright, at the house of Elias Wycoff, which was known as Spoon River Congregational church until '66. In '36, Rev. William Cummings organized the Methodist church, and George G. Sill, the Old School Presbyterian church. In '36-7, Caleb North taught the first school for $10 per month.

Victoria Township, of Knox county, adjoins West Jersey on the west. In '35, the Fraziers, John Essex and Edward Brown made he first settlement, and following them came Moses Moody and Archibald Robinson; William Overlander, John and Conrad Smith, Charles Bostic, John Arnold, P. Aldridge and H. Shurtliff. Sarah Robinson was the first white child born there (November 16, '36), and Mrs. Frazier, who died in '37, the first death. In '36 Peter Sornberger and Phoebe Wilbur, were the parties to the first marriage; G. F. Reynolds built the first house near the village in '37; P. Aldridge was the first justice in '37, and Charles Bostic, a local Methodist preacher, held the first religious services in '36. Salem schoolhouse, built in '37, was the first

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school; J. L. Jarnaghan was the first supervisor in '53; Rev. S. G. Wright organized the first church in '51; the Swede Methodist church was built in '54; the Methodist Episcopal, Free Methodist church, Mormon church, and and Second Adventist all followed.

Pioneer Memories.——West Jersey township, or Prairie de Fun, owes its name to the fancy of New Jersey settlers, who came after the organization of the county and settled around the village of that name. So late as 1850 it was almost an unbroken prairie from Edward Trickle's, on the east, to Washington Trickle's, on the west. In 1835, Jacob B. Smith, the first actual settler, came to Fulton county from Ashland county, O., and in the spring of 1836 settled on the southeast. quarter of section thirty-five, where he put up a log cabin. George Eckley came from Seneca county, O., the same year to Fulton, and with his family- Mrs. Eckley, Levi, George, Daniel, John and Margery- moved into West Jersey in 1836, and settled on section thirty-six. Though Smith was the first settler, the Eckleys were the first improvers. Later, in 1836, Philip Keller, Jacob Clayburg, Michael Jones, John Brown, Washington and Stephe Trickle, Ephraim Barnett and the Widow Dunn came in. Early in 1837 came John Pratz, Newton Matthews, Nehemiah Wykoff and Wm. Webster, while just near the line the Riggen family made their home.

At this time the women would become entangled in the weed known as the devil's darning needle, whenever they ventured out, or if escaping this, had to fly from snakes, which were found everywhere. The men had their milling done at Ellisville, Bernadotte or Peoria for some time, and there, also, was their marketing done. Twenty-five cents a bushel was the price of the best wheat, while calico sold for thirty-eight cents per yard. To escape the trials of going to mill, the old corn-mortar was brought into use. In 1836 Daniel Prince erected a log mill, 14x16 feet, at Slackwater, with a capacity of five bushels cracked corn per diem. Later, a distillery was connected with this concern. Some Spoon river men, enraged at the poor quality of the whisky produced, attacked the distillery part of the building one night, and put an end to the enterprise of Prince in this direction. The Barnett, Jones and Trickle mill, on Walnut creek, begun in 1838, was completed in 1839. Harvey Barnett hewed the timbers; his brother Ephraim, Michael Jones and Stephen Trickle helped to erect it. Stephen Trickle became wner of this concern, which in later years was known as "Round's Mill." In 1838-9 Stanton's mill, at Rochester, was erected and entered into fair competition with "Trickle's mill," doing away forever with the prospect of long journeys, delays, etc., atending the old-time "going to mill." The first regular ball in West Jersey was at Joseph Palmer's, on Walnut creek, July 4, 1838. Palmer conracted to give dinner to twenty-one couples for forty-two dollars, provided that number presented themselves. Forty-six persons were present. Caleb North delivered the oration. Wm. Mason, then residing near Toulon, was the orchestra, for which he was paid nine dollars, "the first money," says G. A. Clifford, "he ever took in for music."

The first school in the township was taught by Miss Columbia Ann.

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Dunn, a sister of Rev. R. C. Dunn. The schoolhouse was erected in 1837 or 1838.

Regarding the first white cild born in the county: Wilson Smith was born two miles south of West Jersey in 1829, and is now a resident of Eola, Pottawattamie county, Ia. Washington Smih was born two miles south of West Jersey in 1832, now residing at Lewis, Cass county, Ia. They are the sons of Jacob Smith, who died in 1885 at Galva. Bert Smith, now with C. W. Brown, of Penn, states positively that his grandfather settled in West Jersey in 1827

The first postoffice was kept by Silas Richards where Wm. Pratt resided in 1862. In the summer of 1838 Washington Trickle erected the first frame house, which in later years stood south of his modern buildings. W. Trickle and Charles Yocum erected a carding mill on Walnut creek in 1842. This was in the extreme southwest corner of the township. The underground railroad passed by Nigger Point, near where Nehemiah Wykoff settled in 1837, and thence via the Webster settlement toward the northeast, as related in the general history.

Pioneer Census.- The census of pioneers or persons here when the county was organized and residing here in the spring of 1866, was taken by W. Trickle- the committee appointed by the old Old Settlers' Society. The names are as follows: Sumner Shaw and wife, Eunice Nelson, Andrew McClure, Francis Webster, Whitfield Matthews and wife, Oliver Smith and wife, George Albright, Hiram Albright and wife, David Gelvin and wife, Jonathan Pratz and wife, A. J. Findley and wife, Levi Eckley and wife, Daniel Eckley and wife, John Eckley and wife, James B. Witter and wife, Wm. White and wife, Andrew Full and wife, Washington Smith and wife, Berry Smith and wife, Joseph Smith and wife, George Sheets and wife, John Rounds, James Rounds and wife, John Schockley and wife, George Simmerman and wife, David Simmerman, David Simmerman and wife, George Simmerman, Jacob Simmerman, John Simmerman, Remsley Richard and wife, Williard Palmer and wife, Joseph De Wolf and wife, Hannah Emery, Jacob Wiley and wife, W. Trickle and wife.

West Jersey Cemetery.—Interred in the cemetery near the village are the remains of the following named old residents, the name and year of death being given: John Riggen, 1854; Eliza Riggen, '54; David Cumming, '76; Jesse Cooper, '70; Mitchel Tull, '70; Jane Tull, '53; Mary Stetzler, '77; Thomas Price, '74; Phoebe Price, '75; Amanda Albertson, '53; Lucinda Dancer, '82; Jennie D. Swank, '81; Susan Smith, '85; W. B. Masters, '71; Lucius Hotchkiss, '49; W. S. Hotchkiss, '56; Stephen A. Munson, '76; James G. Egbert, '63; William W. Shannon, '59; Jacob Hazen, '47; Jane Hazen, '69; Henry Swank, '__; Eliza Sanders, '69; William Barr, '51; Archibald Ayers, '80; Barbara Kane, '81; Charlotte Coleman, '79; Mary L Horseley, '71; John McIntosh, '82; Alex McIntosh, '58; Peter Huber, '81; John Peve, '62; Charlotte Laing, '67; Samuel W. Laing, '67; Nathan H. Daniel, '68; Sarah Dugan, '82; Grace W. Bentley, '68; John McDaniel, '56; Ama Young, '65; Ann McIntosh, '62; Maria Riggen, '54; John Wetzell, '54; Elizabeth Wetzell, '57; John McKinstry, '72; Daniel Leigh, '85; Elizabeth Forge, '62; Edward Forge, '62; Henry Swank, '61; Rebecca

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Swank, '73 ; Aaron Vansickle, '74; Mary Vansickle, '75; Eunice Wiley, '65; Euphemia Denis, '60; Martha Denis, '57; Gertrude Groff, '57; Mary Trickle, '56; Oliver B. Webster, '70; Anna Kirkhuff, '68; Matthias Kirkhuff, '68; Anna Wiley, '54; Rev. Samuel Coleman, '75; William Boyd, '75; Mary Calhoon, '63; Caroline Shannon, '52; Rev. James Cowden, '71; Marcus Garner, '65; Lucy M. Dougherty, '86; Wilson Garner, '61; Sarah Heath, '70; George W. Leigh, '76; John Pilgrim, '83; Lucinda Packer, '56; Jane Pilgrim, '56; Amanda Alyward, '54; Benj. Alyward, '54; John Knoff, '71; Philip Knoff, '76; Mary Heaton, '64; Caleb Heaton, '63; John Smith, '66; Eliza Henry, '83; A. D. B. Chamberlain, '78; Roderick Triplett, '71; Mary Triplett, '61; Reason Williams, '60; John S. Trimmer, '72; Belle Shafer, '85; Francis Anthony, '70; Reuben Swank, '72; Elmira Anthony, '53.

The soldier's buried in the West Jersey cemetery are named as follows: George T. Cumming, Company H, One-hundred-and-second Illinois Volunteers; William Boyd, One-hundred-and-twelfth Volunteers; Morris T. Ayers, and William W. Hughes.

West Jersey village.—The original Town of West Jersey was surveyed by Carson Berfield for Jacob Young early in 1856, and the plat was acknowledged February 19th that year. Two streets, Jersey and Seminary, with Plum alley, are shown, and lots 1 to 20. The purchasers of lots at West Jersey, prior to the beginning of the War of the Rebellion, are named as follows: W. H. Pierson, 1858; Perry H. Smith and Henry Swank, Jr., '59; James Ferguson, '56; Jesse Cooper, '61. During the war the buyers were John Smith, E. B. Pomeroy, G. L Smith, T. J. Riggens, Jacob Young, Amy Clouse, Newton Matthews, S. M. Farrar, Robert R. Worley, S. J. Fox, Robert W. King, and Emanuel Kissell. To the close of 1866, there were twenty-four purchasers of lots, and to the close of 1884, thirty-eight additional purchasers. In June, 1869, the Methodist society secured lots 4, 5, and part of 8 from Reuben Swank, who bought the property from C. M. Johnson that year. The business and professional circle of the village is made up as follows: J. H. Anthony, lawyer and justice; S. J. Fox, W. H. Johnson, merchants; John Cotton, coal mines; Fox & Swank, meat market; Girvits & Son, planing mill; Miss I. Bell, millinery; William Atkinson and W. H. Girvits, blacksmiths; A. Snedicor, miller; W. H. Little, harness; W. C. Henry, carpenter; C. E. Ginvits, painter; R. W. King, druggist and physicians; W. S. McClenahan, M. D.; E. Swank, barber; Dr. R. W. King, postmaster, successor of S. J. Fox, who held the office from November, 1870, to August 31, 1885, and was the successor of C. W. Young.

Methodist Episcopal church.—The establishment of this church in the township post-dates its settlement by only a few years. All around churches were in existence. The only authentic records which could be found give the following facts: The Methodist Episcopal class, at Hazen's schoolhouse in 1851-52, comprised Arch. Ayers, Dan. P. Steward and Eleanor Reed, Jane B. Hazen, Rachel Leigh, Ellis and Tacy Dwire, Eliza Groft, John and Mary E. Mills, James R. and Eliza Henry, Garret and Amanda Albertson, Amanda Barr,

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Joseph E. Dyer, Caleb Eaton, Martha Hotchkiss, James F. Bunch, and Prudence Dyer. This was practically the West Jersey class.

The Metinodist Episcopal class at Finch's schoolhouse, on the east line of West Jersey township, in 1851-52, comprised James B. Witter, leader; Margery, Ezra, Evisson, Isaac M., and Lora M. Witter; Henry and Catherine Williams, Catherine Moffitt, Clarissa Powell, Clarissa Porter, George B. and Sarah Berger, Esther A. Eckley, Conrad Schwakhamer, Susan Updyke, Henry and Bartshe, John and Sarah Adams. Isaac M. Witter was local preacher. In 1858, all the classes were reorganized, and in this we find the names of Reuben and Martha Swank, William Price, Nelsons and the Coopers, in 1859-60, James B. Witter was class-leader there for over a quarter of a century.

Trickle's Methodist Episcopal class was presided over by Mitchell Tull in 1852, it being formed May 30th. The members were Mitchell and Jane Tull, Washington and Eleanor Trickle, Aaron and Dorcus Eaton, Mary J. Eagon, William and Harriet Metcalf, Jacob and Hannah Wiley, Widow Mary Cummings, Sarah, Harriet, Mary and David Cummings, Eliza A. Sanders, Mahala Metcalf, and Celia Tull. Jane Tull died in 1852; Mary J. Eagon joined the Campbellites, and Mahala Metcalf married one Pierce, and moved without a letter. Meetings were held for many years at the Trickle schoolhouse, prior to the transfer of the class to West Jersey in 1868-69. The membership of the West Jersey class is 101 of the 177 received. Rev. Mr. Adams is preacher in charge, with Watson Henry, clerk.

The Presbysterian church is said to date back to 1839, but there are no records. Prior to 1841, a Presbyterian society existed at West Jersey, among the members of which were Elder McIntosh, McKinstry, Elder Eaton, Elder Shannon, Elder Hiner, Francis Anthony, James Hulsizer, Wesley Heath, Ayers, Goffs, Elder Stark, Mrs. Jacob Young, Philip Knoff, John Rarick, Mrs. Joseph Bodine, Samuel Leigh, Newton Matthews, Thomas Beard and wife, and Mrs. Beard, Sr., Mrs. Egbert, Sr., Mrs. Louis Egbert, and others. The pastors were Elder Breese, S. G. Wright Dr. Frazer, J. C. Hannah, John Turbitt, James Ferguson, Rev. Hawkins, Rev. A. C. Miller, T. S. Vail, Rev. Hough, J. C. Hannah (1877) the last regular preacher.

Rev. James Ferguson was called June 5, 1857, at a meeting over which Rev. J. C. Hannah, presided with J. H. Anthony secretary. He was to preach at Toulon every other Sabbath. In 1858, Jacob Young was chosen trustee, vice Joseph Bodine and Henry Hiner, a member of the financial committee. Rev. Dr. Frazer preached the division sermon between the old- and new-school Presbyterians.

Thomas S. Vail was pastor in 1868, and Thomas Price one of the trustees. In 1886 the old church building was sold for fifty dollars to J. V. Newman, who moved it from the original site to a lot south of Dr. McClenahan's store, where it was repaired, reroofed, etc. So terrific was the anti-union feeling among some of the members during the war, that, on the burial of a Union soldier there, the Union flag was torn to shreds. About 1854 a quarter of an acre of land was donated by Francis Anthony to the Presbyterian church, and a church

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built thereon opposite the present Fox store in 1855, where it stood until removed this year.

In November, 1849, Jacob and Anna Young donated to the trustees of the Presbyterian church at West Jersey—Milton Eckley, Samuel Leigh and Philip Knoff—one acre and thirty-two perches near the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of southeast half of section 17, township 12, range 5. This was devoted to cemetery purposes. Mrs. Egbert was the first buried in the cemetery, Mrs. John Anthony, Mr. Barr, Miss Mary Hulsizer, and others shortly after. The names of the old settlers and soldiers interred herein are given on a former page. (Vide also sketch of Rev. A. C. Miller.)

The officers of the West Jersey Sunday-school for 1887 are Superintendent, W. H. Johnson; assistant superintendent, W. C. Henry; secretary, Azora King; treasurer, Charles Swank; librarians, Fred Wyerman and A. F. Girvits. In March 1868, the S. S. was organized with nine teachers and seventy-two members. During the first five months of its existence, there was an average attendance of forty-five scholars.

Miscellaneous.—The pensioners residing in West Jersey in 1883 were Catherine Porter, receiving $8; and Thomas E. Horseley, $6 per month. The Farmers' and Mechanics' club of West Jersey disbanded in January, 1875, and the money in treasury ($16.15) was donated to the Kansas Relief fund.

West Jersey Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 234, was instituted March 29, 1886, by D. G. M. Hewitt, of Stark Lodge, Toulon. It was organized on the 22nd, with the following-named members: Alex. Ingles, J. H. Emery, S. J. Fox, W. M. Grey, G. B. Vansickle, N. E. Pomeroy, and J. W. Wick. Since that time the following have joined the lodge: A. J. Johnson, J. D. Webster, Joseph Swank, E. B. Swank, O. J. Johnson, Ed. L. Johnson, Omar Cummings, W. H. Bell, John R. Quick, Dr. W. S. McClenahan, C. M. Manley, and J. M. Dougherty. Alex. Ingles was N. G., with S. J. Fox, R. S., and G. B. Vanksickle, P. S. The first hall of the lodge is on he second floor of Dr. Perry's building, now owned by Mrs. C. Sanders. The first meeting to organize was called by S. J. Fox in December, 1885, after consulting with the charter members.

Starwano is the new name of an old settleminnent near the eastern line of the township. For years the little place has been the headquarters of a Methodist class, and even in '40-7 the Mormons came hither to inculcate the faith of their new church, and succeeded in winning some new members. The new M. E. church building was completed in '68, at a cost of $2,200, and was dedicated July 26, that year. The old members of this class find mention on a former page. The D. B. Shults sorghum molasses factory at Starwano was an important industry in '85. The destruction by fire of the county infirmary building took place December 5, '86. The building was sold by contract to Wm. P. Caverly for $16,000 in the fall of '68, and was built just about eighteen years ago. It was always well kept in repair, and recently a steam heater put

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in. It was also well furnished, and under the superintendency of Mr. Morrison, well managed. There was $5,000 insurance on the building, $2,500 in the Aetna and the same amount in the Phoenix, of Hartford, Connecticut. There was no insurance on the contents, and Mr. Morrison, having his private apartments well furnished, suffered heavy loss.

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S. V. Addis, born in Somerset county, N. J., November 26, 1804, is a son of Daniel and Margaret (Van Dyke) Addis, grandson of Simon, whose father, Richard Addis, came from Great Britain and settled near the New Brunswick line, where he married a Miss Wykoff. Moving to Philadelphia, he purchased 300 acres, where the Centennial buiildings stood in '76, and 500 acres fifteen miles distant, where is now the town of Addisville. 'Daniel, Simon and Richard were well-known citizens of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Daniel served in the war of 1812, and died at the age of fifty-five, the victim of professional malpractice. Simon served seven years in the Revolution against the oppressor who would strangle a liberty-loving people. S. V. Addis' brothers and sisters were Eleanor and Peter, deceased; John and Ephraim. S. V. Addis received a common school education in his native country, worked on his father's farm some years, and in '51 moved westward to this township. In 1830 he married Miss Elizabetln A., daughter of John R. and Mary (Beavas) Little, natives of Hunterdon county, N. J. Her father was killed in Canada during the war of 1812. His father, James Little, was a native of Ireland—one of the many polished revolutionists which that unfortunate little island sent to America to aid in founding liberty here. To this marriage nine children were born: Mary E. in Nebraska; John L. in Iowa; Daniel and James in this county; Sarah M. in Iowa, and Irvine, in Knox county. Caroline, Catherine and Gideon are numbered with the dead. Mr. And Mrs. Addis are members of the M. E. church since their marriage. Mrs. Addis was born in Hunterdon county, N. J., February 7, 1810. Her husband cast his first vote for Andrew Jackson; but in 1860 voted for Lincoln, and has since been a firm Republican.

Daniel O. Addis, son of S. V. and Elizabeth Ann Addis, ws born in New Jersey, in 1839. In his telfth year he came with parents to Stark county, and remained with them until his twenty-third year. In his twenty-fourth year he married Miss Nancy M., daughter of Sallus and Elizabeth (Caskey), who was born in Ohio in 1843. In 1860 her parents came to Stark county remaining here a few years when they sold their property and removed to Missouri, where they still reside. Her grandfather, a native of Ohio, enlisted to serve in the war of 1812. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Addis began farming in West Jersey township. Two years later they purchased a farm on section 10, where they still reside. Their union has been blessed by seven children, five of whom still live: Franklin V., William A., Laura E. (deceased), Grace E. (deceased), Florence O., Eva B. and Pearl H. Mr. and Mrs. Addis are both respected members of the M. E. church, and are interested in all works of benevolence. They

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have been hard workers, and, as a reward of their labors, now own 340 acres of the choicest land, and one of the finest farm residences in Stark county. Mr. Addis has never voted any but the Republican ticket.

James P. Addis, son of S. V. and Elizabeth Addis, was born in New Jersey, in the year 1846, and five years later came with his parents to this county. James remained with his parents until his twenty-fifth year, when he married Miss Mary E., daughter of Benjamin and Louisa F. (Stoddard) Goodheart. She was born at Poland, O., in 1849. Her paternal ancestors coming to America from Germany, her father a Pennsylvanian, was born there September 21, 1818. Her mother was born in New York, September 10, 1825. In 1865 the Goodhearts removed to Toulon, where about a year later, her father died, being then forty-eight years of age. Her mother, now Mrs. Dr. Tyrrell, resides at Toulon. After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Addis began farming on section 9, and have increased their original holding to 200 acres. Six children have been born to them; one of them died in infancy. Mrs. Addis is a respected member of the Christian church. In politics Mr. Addis has always voted the Republican ticket. He is not a member of any secret organization. Mrs. Addis was formerly a member of the Good Templars.

Ella (Gingrich) Addis was born in Essex township, May 8, 1856, and was united in marriage to Isaac Addis, February 16, 1874, and in the township where she was born her entire life was spent, until her death, January 6, 1887.

John H. Anthony, who settled on his present farm in 1851, purchased his first eighty acres of prairie from Oliver Whitaker that year. He was born in Warren county, N. J., in 1826. His parents were Francis and Elizabeth (Hagar) Anthony, natives of Londonderry, Ireland, and Warren county, N. J., respectively. The former came to the United States in 1819 and to New Jersey in 1820, where he married Miss Hagar in 1824, who was born at Warren county of that state. They came to this county in 1853, with one son and seven daughters. As related in the history of the Presbyterian church, they were among its early members and supporters. The children who accompanied them hither were Lydia, now Mrs. Pomeroy; Eliza, now Mrs. John Hazen; Sarah J., now Mrs. W. H. Adams, of Elmore; Mary A., widow of David Cummings, of Knox county, Ill.; Martha, now Mrs. Cuming, of Dallas Center, Iowa; Cyrus A. and Margaret, twins, the latter Mrs. R. K. Worley, of Kewanee, Carolin, wife of Robert Barr, a lawyer of Adel, Iowa. Jacob resides at Newark, N. J., and never settled here. The father of this large family died in December, 1876, his widow living here at the good old age of eighty-nine years. Cyrus Anthony served in the Fifty-first Illinois Infantry, and was promoted gradually from the ranks o captain of Company G. He enlisted in 1861 and in the spring of 1864 reenlisted. In 1867 he commenced to study law, was admitted to the bar, and is now a distinguished lawyer of Marysville, Mo., where he has resided since 1870. He represented his county in the Legislature two sessions and served as prosecuting attorney for Nodaway county. He was born in New

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Jersey in 1839. In 1886 he was candidate for judge of the twenty-ninth judicial circuit of Missouri, comprising the counties of Andrew, Atchison, Holt and Nodaway, getting a majority in every county. His majority over Judge Kelley (who carried the district six years ago by 1,700) is 2,772. John H. Anthony was raised on his father's farm in New Jersey, was educated in the schools here until December 10, 1848, when he married Miss Elmira Drake, to whom two children were born, namely: Adeline and Francis E. This lady died August 6, 1853, and two years later he married Miss Frances E. Egbert, mother of Harriet, Isabella and Grace Anhony. Adeline, who accompanied her father to this township in 1851, is now Mrs. William O. Leigh. Mr. Anthony was elected justice of the peace in 1857 and has been reelected four terms since that time. In the fall of 1885 he was commissioned notary public by Governor Oglesby. Apart entirely from his official life in the township, he has been a most useful citizen in every sphere. His residence and grounds near West Jersey, form an index to his character and point out forcibly what he can teach by example. Mrs. Anthony, Sr., commonly known as "Grandma Anthony," born in Warren county, N. J., in 1798, died January 10, 1887, having survived her husband about eleven years.

Mrs. Allen Bennett, a resident for upwards of thirty years, for the first time visited the village of West Jersey in August, 1886.

William Bishop, one of the oldest settlers of Brimfield, died at Shelby, August 8, 1886, at the age of ninety.

John P. Bodine, son of Joseph and Rebecca M. (Painter) Bodine, was born in New Jersey, October 26, 1841. In 1846 his parents came to this township, where they purchased a farm, and where they remained until 1858, when they removed to Rochester, Peoria county, where the father engaged in his trade of carriage-building. After some years he retired from active life and is now enjoying the fruits of their successful labors, he in his seventy-fourth year and she in her seventy-second year. Mrs. Bodine, Sr., is a respected member of the Presbyterian church. John P. Bodine is the third child of their family of four children. His early life was spent assisting his parents on the farm. His education was limited to a district school with the exception of one year spent at Lombard University. On September 11, 1867, he married Miss Rachel D., daughter of John and Kezia (Davis) Keller, who was born in West Virginia, of which state her parents were natives, March 19, 1849. In 1856 her people settled in Peoria county, Ill., and purchased a farm in Millbrook township. In 1857 a hurricane completely destroyed their house, the family escaping injury. Mr. Keller was born October 16, 1817, Mrs. Keller, January 12, 1822. Mrs. Rachel Bodine is the third child of their family of six children. She remained with her parents until her marriage. After their marriage they moved to Victoria, Knox county, Ill., where Mr. Bodine engaged in milling, having an interest in a steam mill. Three years later he traded this interest for a farm in West Jersey township, and here he remained for eight years, when he sold that place and purchased land on section 29, where he now resides. Their union has been blessed by two children: Addie H., born July 28, 1868, and Don

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L. born March 11, 1881. Politically, Mr. Bodine is a Greenbacker, and has been active in political matters, and has filled several of the township offices creditably. He owns 173 acres of choice lands in this township, with a home considered one of the finest in the county.

David J. Bodine, son of Joseph and Rebecca (Painter) Bodine, was born in Warren county, N. J., in 1845. A complete sketch of his parents' lives is given in this work. In 1846 he came to Illinois with his parents and lived for the most of the time in West Jersey township. When about eighteen years of age he entered Lombard University, and two years after went to Mt. Pleasant, Ia., where he remained nearly two years; then returned to his home at Rochester, Peoria county, and engaged in stock-buying which he followed for eleven years. On December 1, 1875, he married Miss Mary Ann, daughter of Alexander and Susannah (Hare) McCoy. She was born in Wayne county, near Wooster, O., in 1847, where her parents, Pennsylvanians, had settled. Some years later they removed to Auglaize county, Ohio, where September, 1852, her father died. After her husband's death Mrs. McCoy remained on the farm about two years, when she removed to Knox county, Ill., where she remained ten years, then settled at French Grove, Peoria county, where she purchased a farm. Afer nine years she sold this farm and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bodine, until her death May 6, 1883, in her fifty-ninth year. Mrs. Bodine is the second child of a family of three children. In 1854 she entered Knox College, where she remained one year. On account of failing health she was compelled to return to her home, where she remained until her marriage. After this marriage Mr. Bodine followed stock-buying for about a year, and then came to West Jersey township and began farming, where they now reside. Their union has been blessed by one child, Joseph Clyde, born December 13, 1886. Politically Mr. Bodine is a member of the Greenback party, but formerly was a Democrat. He is an expert hunter and enjoys a days' sport in the field with his rifle as much as in his younger years.

R. A. Boyd dates his settlement in this township to January, 1858. He was born in Warren county, N. J., in May, 1833, of which state his parents, James and Elizabeth (Moore) Boyd, were natives, where his mother died in 1854, and where his father still resides. In 1858 he came to Illinois as a visitor, but liking the country made the visit o enduring that he remained with us almost thirty years. For a year or two he worked by the month, and then settled on his present place, eighty acres of which were purchased by his father prior to R. A. Boyd's western visit. In 1868 he married Miss Sarah J., daughter of Jacob Kissell, who, with their son, C. H. Boyd, are exemplary members of the Methodist Episcopal church. His elder brother, John H. Boyd, settled here in 1850 and resided here eighteen years prior to his removal to Henry county, where he now resides. Mr. R. A. Boyd owns an excellent farm of 160 acres. In political life he is an admirer of what the Republican party accomplished since 1861, and a staunch supporter of the party's platform.

David W. Brown, born near Brockville, Canada West, in 1802,

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was reared and educated there, and there also married Miss Olive, daughter of Joel and Sarah (DeWolf) Parrish. In 1838, with his wife and three children, he came here by wagon road and located in the northeast quarter of section 2, Goshen, where he resided six years. In 1844, the family moved to DuPage county, Ill., where his wife died in 1846. He subsequently went to Michigan, where he died in 1861. Their children are B. R. Brown, of Stark county; Lucy, Sarah and Alva W., the latter born here in October, 1839. Alva voted for Lincoln in 1860, and in 1861 enlisted in Company B, Thirty-seventh Illinois Infantry, served over his three years' term, reenlisted and was honorably discharged after the war. He was slightly wounded at Pea Ridge. On his return he married Miss Sarah F. Hodson, a native of Goshen township. Removed to Harrison county, Iowa, some years ago, where his wife died June 23, 1886. The father of this family was an old member of the Methodist church and a zealous worker. His wife was daughter of Joel Parrish, a Pennsylvanian, resident of Canada, who came to Stark county in January 1838, died in Iowa in 1843 or 1844, followed in a few days by his wife. B. R. Brown was born in Canada in 1835, came with his parents to this county and has resided here almost continuously for the past half century. In January, 1858, he located permanently his present home, and for ten years has served as commissioner of highways. In 1857 he married Miss Maria J., daughter of Joseph and Barbara (Heckert) Cain. They are the parents of six children, viz.: C. Morrow, Lucy E., Charley E., Alva C., Joseph W. and Olive B.

Lucinda Dancer, who died February 2, 1882, was born in Beaver county, Pa., in 1810; married Vincent Dancer in 1832 in Richmond county, Ohio; moved to Fulton county, Ill., in 1856, and in 1867 came to Stark.

John Dryden, son of Thomas and Margaret Dryden, was born in Northumberlandshire, Eng., April 28, 1821, where his father's death occurred September 6, 1874, at the age of eighty-six, and his mother's in 1876, in her eighty-fourth year. John Dryden is the fourth child of a family of nineteen children. His early life was spent at farm labor until his twenty-first year, when he began mining. In 1847 he married Miss Margaret, daughter of George and Mary Renwick, born in Cumberlandshire, Eng. June 22, 1820. In 1854 he came to America; proceeding at once to Stark county, Ill., and purchased a piece of land near Wyoming, remaining there three years, during which time he was engaged at mining. He revisited England for his wife, and the same year (1857) they returned, and in five years after they removed to West Jersey township. In l864 they purchased a farm on section 18, where he is engaged in agriculture, owning 160 acres, within three miles of the village. Five children have blessed their union, three of whom are still living: Thomas J., George (deceased), Mary J. (deceased), Maggie A. and John G. Politically Mr. Dryden is a Greenbacker, and has held several township offices. In 1873 Mr. Dryden was called back to England on account of the illness of his father, and at his death was in the settlement of the estate, he being the eldest son.

Rebecca (Moore) Dunn, a native of Augusta, Ga., where she married

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Dr. Charles A. Dunn, and where her husband died, moved to Cincinnati, O., in 1831 with her family, and five years later, in September, 1836, settled in West Jersey township of this county, where her son, Augustus A., had built a cabin early that year, and where he remained to welcome his mother, brothers and sisters to their new home in the wilderness. Mrs. Dunn was accompanied by her children: Columbia A., who married Mr. Tillson; Richard C., noticed in the history of Toulon; William E. and Caroline E., who married O. H. Smith, In 1847 this pioneer woman moved to Galesburg, and died there, May 10, that year. Augustus A. Dunn, son of Dr. Charles A. and Rebecca (Moore) Dunn, was born in Georgia, moved with his widowed mother to Ohio in 1831, and early in 1836 settled in what is now West Jersey township, erected a log cabin, in which the mother and family - who came in September of that year took up their residence. He was elected first sheriff of this county, in 1839, subsequently graduated in medicine and practiced at Cambridge, Ill., until 1862, when he enlisted in Company D, One-hundred-and-twelfth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. His left hand was shot away at Kelly's Ford, Tenn., and again wounded at Franklin; the results of the latter leading to his death, March 2, 1869, in his fifty first year, he then residing at Chicago.

George Eckley, vide general and township history.

Hannah Gaffney Emery, one of the pioneers of Stark county, died at Galva, October 18, 1884, as related in the history of the family given in other pages.

John Finley, who settled on section 19. Essex, in 1839, was born in Fayette county, O., in 1802. His parents, Robert and Mary (Craig) Finley, natives of Indiana, settled in what is now Ashland county, O., prior to the War of 1812, where they resided until their death. John Finley married Miss Rebecca Gaffney in Ohio, came with her in 1834 to Fulton county, Ill., and five years later settled here. As shown in the organic and political chapters, he was a member of the first commissioners' court and second sheriff, was county judge, justice of the peace, and in all points a most excellent citizen. Of their eleven children nine are living: Andrew J., William P., who was killed before Knoxville, November 18, 1863, aged thirty-three years, while serving with the One-hundred and twelfth Regiment; Priscilla J., John L, Mary E., Albert E.. Robert M., James E., Caroline R. and Willis O. John L. went to California in 1852, enlisted in Third Massachusetts Cavalry in 1863, was made prisoner, escaped from Danville, and was commissioned second lieutenant for bravery; Albert P. served with the Third Illinois Cavalry from 1861 to 1864; James E., of the One-hundred-and-twelfth, was wounded before Atlanta, Ga., all of which is told in the military chapter. The father of this great family died at Toulon, February 28, 1883. His first wife died in 1856, aged forty-nine years; but his second wife, Miss Sarah D. Adams, survives him. Andrew J. Finley was born in Ohio, in 1828. came westward with his parents, married Miss Margaret J. Carter, October 6, 1850, and has been a permanent resident of this county for about fifty years. Their children are: Arabella, John L., William J., Mary A., Ella B.,

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Walter B., Oscar E., Margaret C., Daisy N., and two, an infant and Lenora, deceased. Mr. Finley has served his township as justice of the peace and assessor, and was collector of Essex. He has been a member of the Agricultural Society since its beginning. His farm of 460 acres is among the best in Stark county.

Samuel J Fox, son of Julius W. and Mary E. (Johnston) Fox, was born in Richland county, O., January 28, 1835. His father was a native of New York, where he was born in 1796. His mother, a native of Pennsylvania, was born 1804. They removed to Ohio from New York at an early day, and again in 1848 to Wisconsin, settled in Richland county, thus passing through the pioneer period of two States. There, in 1860, Mr. Fox., Sr., passed way, being preceded to the grave two years by his wife. Samuel J. Fox assisted his parents on the farm, or attending the pioneer district school in his early years. In his twenty-second year he married Miss Mary E., daughter of John and Rhoda Myers, who was born in Ohio, December 31, 1840. Her parents removed to Indiana, where her father died. Her mother remarried, and in a short time was again a widow. She removed with her family to Wisconsin, and settled in Richland county, Wis., in 1850, and there Mary met Mr. Fox, to whom she was married April 2, 1857. Mr. Fox followed farming one year after this event, then joined a prospecting party, and went to Colorado; engaged in mining for one year, when he returned to his home at Richland Centre, Wis., and the same fall moved to Princeville, Ill., and engaged in the mercantile business. Remaining there a short time, he moved to Wyoming, Ill., where he remained about two years. He then purchased a store at West Jersey, where he is now proprietor of a general store in the village and of a stock farm close by. Mr. and Mrs. Fox are the parents of seven children, namely: William W., Charles L, Frank A., Rollin S., Gilbert T., Ernest A., and Effie M., all at home. They are members of the Presbyterian church, and are interested in all movements of a charitable or progressive nature. Mr. Fox is also a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics a Republican. He served as postmaster at West Jersey twelve years; has also been elected and reelected township clerk, and has been vice-president of the Agricultural Society of Stark county.

Sarah George, who married Frank Dugan, was born in West Virginia in 1835, and died in West Jersey, July 26, '82.

Jacob N. Hazen, deceased, was born in New Jersey in 1804; married Miss Jane B. Mitchell there, and with her and their five children moved to Fulton county, Ill., in July, 1839, and to section twenty-seven, West Jersey, in the spring of 1842. Here he purchased 120 acres of wild land at $2.50 per acre, erected a frame house, which was the family home, school, Methodist class-room, and general meeting-house of the town for many years, the Hazens making every one welcome. Only five years did this strong man stand the wear and tear of pioneer times here, for he died in March, 1847. His partner in all the toils and troubles of early years outlived him twenty summers, dying in 1867, as shown in the cemetery record in history of West Jersey.

John Hazen, the second son, was born in New Jersey, December 1,

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Sedgwick R. Hazen, son of Jacob N. Hazen, whose history is given in this chapter, was born in New Jersey in 1833. He was one of twins, the sister dying in infancy. He accompanied his parents to Illinois in 1839 and here his youth was passed in the manner common to boys of the pioneer period, having to walk two miles to attend the winter school of his district. In October, 1856, he married Miss Mary Isabelle, daughter of William and Amanda Barr, who in 1851 came from Ohio to this county. After his marriage he settled on the Hazen farm where he resided until 1875, when he established a mercantile house at West Jersey, which he carried on for eighteen months, when failing health compelled a change. Disposing of his stock, he resumed agricultural life, and in the fall of 1876 took up his present residence, owning one hundred acres of the best improved land in the township. In official life he has been assessor, road commissioner and school director for a number of years. Mrs. and Mr. Hazen are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a reorganization of the old class of "Hazen's Schoolhouse." Their son, Lewis J., born here December 16, 1857, is also a resident of this township. In political life Mr. Hazen votes the prohibition ticket, -- his strong ideas on temperance questions urging him to break away from the old line politics.

James R. Henry, son of John and Martha Henry, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, March 1, 1822. His father was born in Ireland in 1786, came to America and settled in New Jersey, married Martha Swears, who was born in New Jersey in 1802. His father died in 1852 at the age of sixty and his mother in May 25, 1885, in her eighty-fourth year. James B. Henry is the second of their seven children. His early life was spent on the home farm, up to the age of twenty-two years, when he married Miss Eliza Poyshur. Her parents, natives of Germany, dying in New Jersey when she was but a child. After their marriage Mr. Henry followed farming in New Jersey six years. He came to Illinois in 1851, journeying overland by wagon, the trip lasting six weeks. They purchased land in this township, and there braved the dangers of pioneer life with the wolves and deer by neighbors, and their worst enemies, rattlesnakes, with which the country abounded. On July 1, 1882, Mrs. Henry died suddenly, being then in her sixty-second year. They were the parents of eight children, four of whom died in infancy; those living are: Theodore P., minister in Kansas; Watson C., West Jersey; George W., principal of the Lafayette schools; and Charles W., now Dr. Henry, of Vermont, Ill. After his wife's death Mr. Henry rented his

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farm, and has since made his home with his son Watson in West Jersey village. Mr. Henry, as was also his wife, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has always been a Republican, and has held several township offices, although he has never sought them. He has spent some time visiting the scenes of his childhood, from which he has recently returned. He is in his sixty-fifth year, and although his locks show the inroads of time, he is quite active.

Mrs. Boone Ingels, who died at El Paso, Tex., in July, 1883, resided near the south line of West Jersey.

John Jackson born in Fayette county, O., in the year 1832, is a son of John and Elizabeth (Rouse) Jackson, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Ohio, where Mr. Jackson died in 1846. Mrs. Jackson is living at the age of ninety years. Our subject was reared on the farm and in 1854 came to Illinois and settled in Toulon, where he resided till the following spring, when he secured work on a farm near Toulon, as a hand, where he has since resided. In 1861 he purchased 136 acres in West Jersey township. In 1857 he married Miss Paulina Ann, a daughter of William Mahany. They were the parents of five children: Lydia E., Laura B., William A., Ursula and John. This lady died in 1875, aged thirty-eight years. In 1876 he married Miss Susan, daughter of Barnabas Frail, to whom two children were born: James T. and Jennie E. This lady is a member of the Catholic church, while Mr. Jackson is liberal in religious matters. Politically he is a Democrat. (Vide sketch of Frail family.)

Levi Johnson, a native of New York, was born October 13, 1769. He followed the occupation of a millwright. He married Hannah Russ, who was born December 18, 1770. Her father, Abraham Russ, was murdered by the Indians on the Allegheny river, March 2, 1790. He (Levi Johnson) was the father of five children, three boys and two girls. Henry, the eldest of these, was born January 9, 1793. He learned his father's trade. When he was about seventeen years of age he removed to Kentucky with his parents, enlisted during the war of 1812, but on account of a wound on his arm caused by the slipping of a hand ax, he was rejected. On March 28, 1816, he married Mary, daughter of Amaziah Davidson, born in Kentucky, September 14, 1799. Her parents were Scotch who came to America and settled in Kentucky, as companions of Daniel Boone. In 1827, Mr. Johnson with his wife settled in Pike county, Ill., but on account of the troublesome Indians they were compelled to return to Kentucky. In 1830 they braved the dangers of a frontier life and returned to Pike county, where he followed his trade of millwright. Here on September 11, 1846, Mrs. Johnson died in her forty-seventh year. In 1851 Mr. Johnson settled near the place where the village of Sparland, Marshall county, now stands. In 1865 he came to Stark county, where he died September 17, 1878, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.

A. J. Johnson, son of Henry and Mary (Davidson) Johnson, was born in Chambersburgh township, Pike county, Ill., October 23, 1833. He is of Irish descent, his paternal ancestors coming to America prior to the time of the Revolution and settling in New York. Andrew J. is the eighth child of their family of eleven children. In 1854 he married