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    Anton Rink     ANTON RINK, a successful brewer of Beardstown, was born on the river Rhine, August 9, 1833. He is the only member of his family now living in this country. His mother died in Germany when he was only two years of age. In 1850, and after his father’s second marriage, he left the old country, and after a long a weary trip finally settled in Perry county, Missouri, where the father died four years later. His wife married a second time, and continued to live in Perry county until her death in 1890. Mr. … Read more

  Adam P. Seasly   ADAM P. SEASLY, a progressive and enterprising young farmer of Oakland township, was born in Carroll county, Maryland, in 1860. His father, Adam Seasly, now a resident of Adams county, Pennsylvania, is a native of Germany, but emigrated to America when a young man; he was reared to the life of a farmer, and also mastered the blacksmith’s trade in his own country. After arriving in this country he went directly to Pennsylvania, and there was married to Elizabeth Cook, a daughter of Benjamin Cook; she died in early womanhood in Pennsylvania, leaving two sons … Read more

Descendantsof John Campbell  Contributed by Greg [email protected] Generation No. 1 1.  JOHN(1)7 CAMPBELL (DUNCAN6, ANDREW5, HUGH4, PATRICK3, DUNCAN2, DUGAL1) was born November16, 1674 in Londonderry, Ireland, and died Abt. 1765. He married GRIZEL(GRACE)HAY Abt. 1710. She was born 1678 in Antrim, Ireland. Notes for JOHN(1) CAMPBELL:Vital Information:    name:     John Campbell [1]    father:     Duncan Campbell [1]    mother:   Mary McCoy [1]    born:       abt. 1690 in County Down, Ireland[1], November 16, 1674 in Londonderry, Ireland [2]    spouse:   Grizel (Grace) Hay [1]    children:  Patrick [1,2],  John [1,2],  William [1,2], Catherine[1,2], David [1,2], Margaret [1,2],  James [2],  Martha [2],Mary Ann[1,2], Robert[1,2]                  Elizabeth [2]    died:       abt. 1765 [1] Other Information:John(1)Campbell was ourimmigrant ancestor from County … Read more

   CasperRohn  CASPER ROHN, a general farmer in sections32 and 33, range 12, township 18, Beardstown precinct, has a well improvedtract which has been his farm for twenty-one years. He was born on a partof the farm which he now owns, September 23, 1842. His parents were Henryand Elizabeth (Longore) Rohn. They both came to America and were marriedafter landing in St. Louis, and later came to Beardstown (for further history,see history of J. Henry Rohn, this book). They were very early settlers,having come to the county three years after the Indians had left the State. Mr. Casper Rohn has … Read more

    ChaunceyRice     CHAUNCEY RICE, a well known and reliable druggist,and dealer in all kinds of goods generally carried by those in this business,was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, February 21, 1830. He was yetyoung when his parents moved to Ohio in 1842, and to Illinois in 1846.They were natives of New York. His father was born in Herkimer county,and came of New England stock, his parents being natives of Connecticut,and the family came of Welsh ancestry. Andrus Rice, father of our subject,married a Miss Mary Parks, of Vermont. Chauncey is the eldest of the four … Read more

    CharlesN. Dunn    CHARLES N. DUNN, a successful farmer andstock-raiser of Beardstown, was born here and has always lived on thisfarm. His father was John Dunn, of Cornwall, England, born in 1822. Hegrew up in his native country as a farmer boy and with his brother Lukecame to the United States in the ’40s, on a sailing vessel from Liverpooland landed in New York and came  from there to Beardstown. Soon afterwardhe came out to his present location where he purchased 160 acres of wildland, which is now owned by his son. On this place John Dunn began … Read more

    Cyrus Horrom   CYRUS HORROM dates his birth in Dearborn county, Indiana, September 4, 1820.  His father, Benjamin Horrom, was born in New York state, and when a young man moved to Ohio.  A few years later he continued his way westward, and took up his abode in Dearborn county, Indiana, where he lived till December, 1828. At that time he started with his wife and nine children for Illinois, making the removal with ox teams, and landing in Cass county the following March.  Here he entered a tract of Government land in township 18, range 10, and … Read more

    CharlesGotthelf Jokisch    CHARLES GOTTHELF JOKISCH, an old settlerand farmer of Cass county, now deceased, was born in Saxony, Germany, February27, 1819. He was one of nine children. His grandfather, believing thatopportunities for young men were better in the United States than in Germany,urged his two sons and their families to emigrate to this country. Thisthey did early in the thirties, and began in Cass county on Governmentland, and here the father of Gotthelf died in what is now Bluff Springsprecinct, at about the age of fifty. He had accumulated a fine propertyand left an estate valued at … Read more

    CharlesF. Johnson    CHARLES F. JOHNSON, practicalfarmer and truck-raiser of Beardstown, was born in Salem county, New Jersey,April 7, 1863. He lived in his native State until thirteen, when his parentscame to Cass county, setting in Beardstown. The father, Chalkley Johnson,followed his trade as a carpenter until February, 1884, when he and alltheir children, but one, Charles, went to Sedgwick county, Kansas, andsettled on a farm, where the father and mother both live. The latter’smaiden name was Luwesia Lippencott. Both were natives of Salem county,New Jersey, where they were reared, married and all their children wereborn. They had … Read more

   C. E.Jones  C. E. JONES, prominently connected for thelast twelve years, as division road master between Bushnell, Illinois,and St. Louis, Missouri, of the St. Louis division of the Quincy Railroad,with headquarters at Beardstown, was born on a farm near Baldwinsville,New York, February 11, 1847. He was there reared and educated, becomingearly acquainted with hard work. At the age of sixteen, he enlisted inthe Scott’s Nine Hundred Cavalry, but before he reached the front he wasovertaken by his father, and compelled to return home. In 1863, he enlistedin Nine Hundred of New York State Militia, and served until July, 1864,when … Read more