| MarquisL. Crum |
MARQUIS L. CRUM, of township17 north, range 10, section 32, was born about two and one half miles fromhis present location, January 16, 1851. His parents were James and Christina(Ream) Crum. The father was born in Indiana, in 1806. His mother came fromOhio, and married in this county, in 1833. The father came to the countyin 1832, the mother with her parents, who settled in this neighborhood.The father was of German descent, and was the father of twelve children.His wife died May 1, 1878, and the father has since married again, andresides on the old homestead. Marquis was educated in the public schools,and then attended the State Normal school for two years, and the IllinoisWesleyan University four years, graduating in the scientific course in1874, receiving the degree of B. S., and three years later the degree ofM. S. was conferred upon him. Being in very poor health at this time, heresumed farming, and this has proven so beneficial, under the favorablecircumstances surrounding him, that he has continued to follow it.He was married, March 30,1875, to Fannie Stubblefield, of Funk’s Grove, McLean county, born thereSeptember 17, 1853. They became acquainted while attending the university,which she attended about three years. Her family are old settlers in thatcounty. Mr. and Mrs. Crum have four children: Edith, the eldest, now sixteen,has been attending the Illinois College at Jacksonville, and expects tocomplete a course in one of the higher institutions of learning; ArthurE. and Oral C. are bright boys; and Rena F., now three years old, is thepet of the family. Mr. Crum owns a farm of 700 acres, principally devotedto stock. He breeds shorthorn cattle, and uses the Percheron-Norman horses,his father-in-law being an importer of this breed of horses in Bloomington.He also owns a stock farm of 240 acres near Kirksville, Missouri, and usuallybuys his stock in Missouri and ships here. They are members of the MethodistEpiscopal Church, and Mr. Crum belongs to the A. O. U. W. He is a Democrat.He has been associated with the Farmers’ Alliance, and was the State presidentof it for eighteen months. He declined a re-election. He was a delegatefrom Illinois to the national convention at Ocala, Florida, and Mr. Crumdescribes this trip as the finest he ever made. He has three nice tenementhouses on his extensive farm where his employees reside. He hires fouror five men by the year, usually married men, and furnishes them with house,fuel and garden.
Biographical Review ofCass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical Review PublishingCo., Chicago, 1892, pages 296-297.
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