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    HenryM Schmoldt    HENRY M. SCHMOLDT, Beardstown, Illinois.–-Itis the constitutional privilege of every American to aspire to the highesthonors within the gift of the people; and when such aspiration is supplementedby progressive and well balanced mentality, backed with integrity, tactand energy, it follows as a law of natural selection that such a man isa leader among his fellow men. It matters not whether his father be a princeof fortune, or an humble mechanic; the law of selection, made natural bythe inspired principles of our constitution, remains the same; for underthe beneficent and noble doctrine of a true republican … Read more

    Hon.John C. Bagby    JOHN C. BAGBY, attorney at law, was bornin Glasgow, Barren county, Kentucky, January 24, 1819. His father was Rev.Sylvanus M. Bagby, a native of Louisa county, Virginia, born September29, 1787. His grandfather was Richard Bagby, a native of the same county,and his great grandfather was John Bagby, a native of Scotland, who wentfrom there to Wales, where he married and lived a number of years, andthen came to America in colonial times, accompanied by his family, andsettled in Virginia. He settled in Louisa county, where he became a prominentplanter and slave owner. Richard Bagby, … Read more

    HenryHansmeyer    HENRY HANSMEYER was born in Lippe-Detmold,Prussia, Germany in 1833. He came of pure German ancestry and of hardystock. His father, Fred Hansmeyer, married Wilhelmina Hoy of the same province.In 1849 they took passage for America and landed in New Orleans after aseven-weeks voyage. Thence the family came up the Mississippi, to St. Louis,where the Mother and one child died of the cholera after being there oneweek. The father and four children came on to Chicago, where Henry wasattacked by the cholera and confined to the house for two weeks, laterhe joined his father and the other … Read more

   JamesD. Thompson  JAMES D. THOMPSON, one of the successfulfarmers of Woodstock township, is entitled to the space that has been accordedhim in this history of Schuyler county, and following is a brief outlineof his career. He is a native of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, born March30, 1823, a son of William and Mary (Peterson) Thompson. The paternal grandfather,William Thompson, Sr., was horn in Ireland, and when a boy crossed theseas to try his fortunes in the New World. He was a carpenter by trade,and followed his vocation all his life; he and his wife attained the goodold age of three-score … Read more

    JamesCrawford     JAMES CRAWFORD, of township 17, range 10, Virginia,is a native of Ireland born in 1833. His parents were William and Margaret(Patterson) Crawford, both natives of Ireland who came to America aftermarriage, about 1843. They located near what is now Virginia, where theyspent their lives. Both parents are interested in the Virginia cemetery.They had four children, two of whom are now living. James grew to manhood on his father’s farm.He has always worked hard and has accumulated property valued at thousandsof dollars, all the result of his own industry and economy. He owns 540acres of land … Read more

   JohnA. Young  JOHN A. YOUNG, one of the most prominentand prosperous agriculturists of Schuyler county, resides on section 21,Buena Vista township. The following space will be devoted to a brief biographyof which he is the subject. He was born in Schuyler county, on the farmwhich he now occupies, June 14, 1832, a son of John Young, a native ofIreland; the paternal grandparents were John and Margaret Young. John Youngemigrated to America when a young man, and stopped for a time in Philadelphia;thence he continued his journey to the West, and after locating in Rushvillehe sent for his parents; they … Read more

     JamesA. Teel    JAMES A. TEEL, a pioneerof Schuyler county, and one the most successful farmers and stock-raisersof the State of lllinois, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania,July 19, 1830.  His father, Henry P. Teel, was born in New Jersey;and it is thought that the grandfather, John Teel, also was a native ofNew Jersey. The great-grandfather, Captain John Teel, commanded a companyin the war of the Revolution; he spent his last years in Beaver county,Pennsylvania, and was buried with military honors; his widow came to Illinoisand spent her last days here. John Teel served five years in the … Read more

  Hon.Perry Logsdon HON. PERRY LOGSDON, a citizen ofSchuyler county, is a man whose name is honored where it is known. He wasborn in Madison county, Kentucky, July 8, 1842, a son of Joseph and Lucy(Parker) Logsdon (see sketch of Joseph Logsdon). Until the age of eighteenyears he passed an uneventful life amid the scenes of his childhood, butthis quiet was then rudely disturbed by the breaking out of the Civil warbetween the North and South. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, FiftiethIllinois Volunteer Infantry, and served his country faithfully until thecessation of hostilities, July 13. 1865, being the … Read more

     JosephHunt    JOSEPH HUNT, farmer,of section 2, township 17, range 10, post office Virginia, was born inKentucky, September 19, 1824. His parents moved to Sullivan county, Indiana,when he was one year old. Here he grew to manhood, coining to Illinoiswhen he was twenty-five and stopping two years in Sangamon county. Fromthere he went to Cass county, thirty-eight years ago. His parents wereJohn R. and Hannah (Davis) Hunt. Both were natives of Kentucky, and thegrandfather was also a Kentuckian, who lived to be ninety years old. Bothparents died in Sullivan county, Indiana. They had eleven children, ofwhich large family … Read more

  JamesHiles  JAMES HILES, general farmer and stock raiserof Beardstown, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, January 4, 1822. Hisfather, John, was a native of the same place, was there engaged as a truck-raiser,and afterward ran a large farm in Mannington township, and still laterwas engaged in farming and truck-raising near Bridgeport. He died at theage of ninety-six, after leading a quiet, peaceable life. His wife’s namewas Sarah Chrispen, also born in Salem county. She came of an old Quakerfamily. Her own mother and a sister were speakers among Friends for manyyears. She and her husband, however, adhered very … Read more