Biographies

Cad Allard – Biography

  Cad Allard   CAD ALLARD, the present Postmaster of Beardstown, and editor and proprietor of the Star of the West, was born in Virginia, Illinois, August 31, 1854. His father was Dr. L. S. Allard, one of the pioneer physicians and druggists of Cass county, and was one of the most forcible political writers of Central Illinois. He started and conducted for in any years the Cass County Courier and was an active worker in politics. He served his country in the war of the Rebellion, entering it as a Captain and coining out a Colonel; also in the … Read more

David D. Wilson – Biography

David D. Wilson – Biography   DavidD. Wilson   DAVIDD. WILSON, a popular and successful business man of Virginia, Cass county,Illinois, dates his birth in Oldham, Lancashire, England, November 23,1841. His father, James Wilson, was born in the same shire, his parentshaving passed their lives in England. James Wilson and his brother, Thomas,and three sisters, were the only members of the family who came to America.Thomas settled in Cass county in 1841, and has since made his home here. JamesWilson was reared and married in Oldham, and was there employed in a cottonfactory till 1842, in the spring of which … Read more

Edward N. Treadway Biography

Edward N. Treadway Biography  EdwardN. Treadway  EDWARD N. TREADWAY, a farmerof Beardstown, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, February 23, 1825. Hisfather was Edward Treadway, a native of Maryland, of English stock. Hegrew up as a farmer in Maryland, and married Elizabeth Anderson, who wasreared and educated in Hartford county, Maryland. She came of Scotch ancestry.He and his wife moved to Hamilton county in 1816, and later came to Illinois,into Cass county, and settled in what is known as the Monroe precinct.This was in 1829. The wife died about two years after the family settledin this county, being then only … Read more

George D. Utter Biography

George D. Utter Biography  GeorgeD. Utter  GEORGED. UTTER, a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Frederick, Schuyler county,Illinois, was born in that place on November 13, 1846, the youngest childof John and Charlotte (Brines) Utter. Both of his parents were nativesof Allegany county, New York, where the father was born November 11, 1810,and the mother April 11, 1807. In 1815, when five years of age, his fathercame to Palmyra, Illinois, where his youth and early manhood were spent.He was there married to Charlotte Brines, December 5, 1834, and in 1839removed with his wife and family to Schuyler county, same State, settlingon … Read more

Charles Bockemeier Biography

Charles Bockemeier Biography   Charles Bockemeier   CHARLES BOCKEMEIER, general farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Prussia, not far from the river Rhine, August 16, 1835. His father, Charles, lived and died in Prussia, a blacksmith by trade. His wife came to the United States six months after his death, joining her sons in Cass county, dying at the age of eighty-two. She and her husband were life-long members of the Lutheran Church. Charles was a young single man when in 1854 he set out for the United States. He took the usual route via New Orleans, Mississippi, Ohio and … Read more