John Wesley Marlow


Contributed by Chester H. Neff
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MARLOW, John Wesley.----The agricultural interests of Schuyler County, Ill., have a well-known representative in John Wesley Marlow, a native-born son of Camden Township, where practically all of his busy and useful life has been passed.  The subscription schools of this locality afforded him such advantages as were possible in pioneer days.  The churches of the community gave him religious training and taught him in youth the duty which he owed to God and mankind.  The soil of the township, tilled in a systematic manner, netted him a fair income from early life and laid the foundation of his present prosperity, enabling him from time to time to add to his possessions until at this writing he owns 365 acres of valuable farm land.

The record of the family appears in the sketch of Levi S. Marlow, presented upon another page of this volume.  John Wesley Marlow was born at the old homestead August 16, 1840, being a son of Hanson Marlow.  After having gained a knowledge of the three R’s in the neighboring schools, he turned his attention to general farming, in which he acquired a through training under his father.  On Aug 15, 1861, he was united in marriage with Eliza Jane Green, Daughter of William and Hannah (Spencer) Green, honored pioneers of Schuyler County, but both now deceased.  Of the Green family one son and one daughter (Mrs. Ayers) alone survive, and are the residents of Camden Township.  After his marriage, Mr. Marlow settled on Section 14, Camden Township, where he bought ninety-five acres of bottom land wholly unimproved, and during the next five years he was busily engaged in the cultivation of the property.  While living on that farm two of his children were born.  About 1866 he sold the land and removed to Richardson County, Neb., but in the fall returned to Schuyler County and traded his Nebraska property for 80 acres on Section 27, Camden Township, where he has since made his home.  In 1881 he lost his first wife, by whom he had the following children:  Levi, William Ray, Mary E., Henry, Rosetti, Charles W. and Annie.  Levi was born May 31, 1862 and died January 26, 1865;  Mary E. was born October 26, 1964 and died September 11, 1876.  William R. was born February 25, 1866 and died December 8, 1868.  Henry, born February 14, 1868 is a farmer in Camden Township.  He married Sophia Weightman, by whom he has had seven children, five of whom are living.  Rosetti, was born December 10, 1869, is the wife of Albert Lung, a farmer in Camden Township, by whom she had nine children, seven of whom are living.  Charles W., born November 18, 1871, died February 12, 1873; and Annie, born April 18, 1874, deceased wife of Mead Clayton, left one child.

The second marriage of John Wesley Marlow united him with Jemima Weightman, who was born in Camden Township February 1, 1863, being a daughter of that honored pioneer, William Weightman who is still living, his wife having died February 4, 1908.  Of this union six children were born, namely:  Asa U., born December 6, 1883, who died November 2, 1903;  Martha Jane, born May 10, 1885,  Getrude Victoria, born December 28, 1886, who is the wife of Burt A. Davis, a farmer of Camden Township;  John W., born March 17, 1891, who assists his father on the farm;  Minnie Elizabeth, born May 1, 1893; and Nettie Ruth, born July 29, 1895.  The hospitality of the Marlow family is proverbial.  Their guests look with especial pleasure upon a visit to the far, whose genial owner deservedly ranks among the honored men of the township.  In local improvements he has maintained a constant interest.  His devotion to his native county is unquestioned, and his solicitude regarding his permanent prosperity is deep  In religious work he has been faithful and generous.  The Union Chapel owes its organization and usefulness largely to his labors.  To the building fund he contributed $55 in cash and forty-five days' work, while Mr. Weightman gave $50 and his work, the united labors of the two men being the means of dedicating the church free from debt.  Many have been the changes his eyes have beheld since his youth.  Agricultural processes have been revolutionized.  In early days he was accustomed to the tedious task of threshing the wheat with a flail;  the grain was then hauled by wagon to Quincy, where it was sold at twenty-five cents per bushel.  The days of “dollar wheat” were then undreamed of, nor were there any prophets to herald the coming inventions which would radically change all known methods of harvesting and threshing.  The telephone was then unheard of, and many other conveniences, which are regarded as necessities by people in the twentieth century, were then unknown, yet the pioneers look back upon those days with a keen recollection of the many pleasures they enjoyed and a vivid appreciation of their happiness in spite of the lack of modern improvements.

Biography, John Wesley Marlow.  Reference: Chapter 32, Page 877, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Schuyler County, edited by Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, & Howard F. Dyson; Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908.  Submitted by Chester H. Neff, Jan. 2000.

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Schuyler County, Illinois, John Wesley Marlow
 

John Wesley Marlow


Contributed by Chester H. Neff
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MARLOW, John Wesley.----The agricultural interests of Schuyler County, Ill., have a well-known representative in John Wesley Marlow, a native-born son of Camden Township, where practically all of his busy and useful life has been passed.  The subscription schools of this locality afforded him such advantages as were possible in pioneer days.  The churches of the community gave him religious training and taught him in youth the duty which he owed to God and mankind.  The soil of the township, tilled in a systematic manner, netted him a fair income from early life and laid the foundation of his present prosperity, enabling him from time to time to add to his possessions until at this writing he owns 365 acres of valuable farm land.

The record of the family appears in the sketch of Levi S. Marlow, presented upon another page of this volume.  John Wesley Marlow was born at the old homestead August 16, 1840, being a son of Hanson Marlow.  After having gained a knowledge of the three R’s in the neighboring schools, he turned his attention to general farming, in which he acquired a through training under his father.  On Aug 15, 1861, he was united in marriage with Eliza Jane Green, Daughter of William and Hannah (Spencer) Green, honored pioneers of Schuyler County, but both now deceased.  Of the Green family one son and one daughter (Mrs. Ayers) alone survive, and are the residents of Camden Township.  After his marriage, Mr. Marlow settled on Section 14, Camden Township, where he bought ninety-five acres of bottom land wholly unimproved, and during the next five years he was busily engaged in the cultivation of the property.  While living on that farm two of his children were born.  About 1866 he sold the land and removed to Richardson County, Neb., but in the fall returned to Schuyler County and traded his Nebraska property for 80 acres on Section 27, Camden Township, where he has since made his home.  In 1881 he lost his first wife, by whom he had the following children:  Levi, William Ray, Mary E., Henry, Rosetti, Charles W. and Annie.  Levi was born May 31, 1862 and died January 26, 1865;  Mary E. was born October 26, 1964 and died September 11, 1876.  William R. was born February 25, 1866 and died December 8, 1868.  Henry, born February 14, 1868 is a farmer in Camden Township.  He married Sophia Weightman, by whom he has had seven children, five of whom are living.  Rosetti, was born December 10, 1869, is the wife of Albert Lung, a farmer in Camden Township, by whom she had nine children, seven of whom are living.  Charles W., born November 18, 1871, died February 12, 1873; and Annie, born April 18, 1874, deceased wife of Mead Clayton, left one child.

The second marriage of John Wesley Marlow united him with Jemima Weightman, who was born in Camden Township February 1, 1863, being a daughter of that honored pioneer, William Weightman who is still living, his wife having died February 4, 1908.  Of this union six children were born, namely:  Asa U., born December 6, 1883, who died November 2, 1903;  Martha Jane, born May 10, 1885,  Getrude Victoria, born December 28, 1886, who is the wife of Burt A. Davis, a farmer of Camden Township;  John W., born March 17, 1891, who assists his father on the farm;  Minnie Elizabeth, born May 1, 1893; and Nettie Ruth, born July 29, 1895.  The hospitality of the Marlow family is proverbial.  Their guests look with especial pleasure upon a visit to the far, whose genial owner deservedly ranks among the honored men of the township.  In local improvements he has maintained a constant interest.  His devotion to his native county is unquestioned, and his solicitude regarding his permanent prosperity is deep  In religious work he has been faithful and generous.  The Union Chapel owes its organization and usefulness largely to his labors.  To the building fund he contributed $55 in cash and forty-five days' work, while Mr. Weightman gave $50 and his work, the united labors of the two men being the means of dedicating the church free from debt.  Many have been the changes his eyes have beheld since his youth.  Agricultural processes have been revolutionized.  In early days he was accustomed to the tedious task of threshing the wheat with a flail;  the grain was then hauled by wagon to Quincy, where it was sold at twenty-five cents per bushel.  The days of “dollar wheat” were then undreamed of, nor were there any prophets to herald the coming inventions which would radically change all known methods of harvesting and threshing.  The telephone was then unheard of, and many other conveniences, which are regarded as necessities by people in the twentieth century, were then unknown, yet the pioneers look back upon those days with a keen recollection of the many pleasures they enjoyed and a vivid appreciation of their happiness in spite of the lack of modern improvements.

Biography, John Wesley Marlow.  Reference: Chapter 32, Page 877, Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Schuyler County, edited by Newton Bateman, Paul Selby, & Howard F. Dyson; Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908.  Submitted by Chester H. Neff, Jan. 2000.

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