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PICTORIAL ABINGDON 
 
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 SOUVENIR HISTORY 
 
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 ABINGDON, ILLINOIS 
 
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 A HISTORY or Tl II : CITY, CMURCI ILS, SCI l< )( )LS. COLLEGES 
 EACH )RIES, BUSINESS MOUSES AND 
 RESIDENCES 
 TOGETHER WITH A MEMOIR Or DR. MADISON REECE, , N \. D. 
 
 COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY 
 
 P. WILBUR SHOOP. 
 
 1897 
 
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 EVERYONE who has ever lived in AbingdonsC 
 cherishes the memory of our beautiful city.s^s^ 
 I True it is that Abingdon is not the largest city 
 '""■' in the world, but to many it is the dearest place 
 on earth.sSf There are more nice residences than aresC 
 shown here; there are just as attractive business houses 
 in the city as appear in these pages.s^While this work 
 makes no pretentions to being complete, it is the wish 
 of the author that its pages may recall the old days and 
 take the reader through Abingdon, as went the poets^ 
 Whittier 
 
 "Up and down the village streets 
 Strange are the forms my fancy meets 
 For the thoughts and things of today are hid 
 And through the veil of a closed lid 
 The ancient worthies I see again." 
 
 P. Wilbur Shoop. 
 
 UW UWiWW- 
 
PICTORIAL ABINGDON 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATED SOUVENIR HISTORY OF ABINGDON, ILLINOIS. 
 
 HE changes that a few years 
 
 may make are marvelous, and 
 we are wont to exclaim with 
 the philosopher, " Tempus 
 fugit." Aye, that it does. 
 Where once was only virgin 
 meadow and pathless forest 
 now stands the busy factory 
 and palatial residence. On 
 the spot where Abingdon now 
 stands, seventy years ago the wild fox dug his 
 hole unscared, the birds nested peacefully, ami the 
 only sounds that greeted their ears was the echo of 
 their own voices. The swaying :^rass never felt 
 the reaper's blade. The deer gamboled about 
 unharmed. The tall oaks — those ,uiiin sentinels oi 
 the ages — looked down from their lofty tops upon 
 naught but a scene of delightful simplicity. Noth- 
 ing but pureunmarred Nature. In the ha/el thick- 
 ets the birds sang ami sported, chased only by the 
 swarthy Indian with his bow and arrow. Then 
 things changed somewhat. From over the East- 
 ern horizon a long white line of covered wagons ap- 
 peared. The hardy settler, seeing this to be a re- 
 gion of unsurpassed fertility, unhitched his oxen 
 
 and with his ready axe constructed for himself a 
 cabin of logs. With his queer-shaped wooden 
 plow he rudely broke the soil and soon where only 
 grew the waving grass, tall fields of yellow corn 
 
 THE FIRST IK IUSE 
 
 uplift their heads. Winter came and the settler 
 still stayed despite the chill of his illy -constructed 
 cabin. Many a night he laid down to sleep with 
 the wolves howling fiercely at his door. The native 
 
Indian was friendly and showed him the haunts of 
 the 1 icaver and deer, taught him how to trap the 
 wily fox, and learned him all the mysterious art 
 oi woodcraft. Winter finally yielded to the gentle 
 persuasion of the South winds, and at the magic 
 breath of Spring, the creek- untaxed their icy firm 
 ness, the green again ap- 
 peared on the hill side 
 and so, in the meadow was 
 all one glorious flower 
 garden, gorgeous in its 
 red and white. Other 
 white wagons — prairie 
 schooners, they call ed 
 them — came to this para- 
 dise and Stopped. Soon 
 a settlement was estah 
 lished. The Red man 
 was pushed farther West 
 and was finally lost to 
 sight behind the Western 
 hills. The land was all 
 rapidly cleared and from 
 
 the virgin meadow and 
 
 trackless ton st, a farming 
 tract was made that is not 
 surpassed in all the world. 
 The settler was not a 
 barbarian, and so a school 
 wa-. established and a log 
 house built. It was con- 
 structed ot roughly hewn 
 
 logs, with the "chinks" or cracks in the wa'.l 
 filled with mud. The house was without a floor 
 and greased paper did duty for windows, but here 
 in tliis lowly house, was laid the foundation of 
 many a noble character. They had no time tor 
 higher education and the three "R's." — readin,' 
 
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 MAIN STREET IN KARI.Y ABINGD' in 
 
A BIRD'S EYE VIEW i IF ABINGDON IN Is 
 
 'ritin,' and 'rithmitie — was all that were taught. 
 A Mr. Mcintosh taught the first school. 
 
 A more beautiful place for a town than Abing- 
 don's location could not be imagined. A traveler, 
 and by the way, a man then noted in literary riehls. 
 expressed himself as being "sensible from its 
 elevation and its situation in open Prairie on every 
 
 side, that the atmosphere 
 must be very healthy and 
 invigorating. The sky 
 presented that same de- 
 licious blue for which 
 the sky of Italy is so re- 
 nowned, and as the sun 
 was sinking behind the 
 great swell of the western 
 prairie, I thought this 
 one of the most desirable 
 points for a residence in 
 the great valley of the 
 Mississippi. 
 
 Looking out from Hed- 
 ding steeple, a particu- 
 larly advantageous place 
 to get a view, one sees in 
 every direction the whole 
 country thickly dotted 
 over with fine farm resi- 
 dences , fertile fields, 
 woody vales, and high 
 and densely timbered 
 groves. In short, Ab- 
 ingdon is an ideal town in an ideal country. 
 ('The original town of Abingdon was laid out by 
 A. D. Swarts, in May 1836, on the S. W. quarter 
 of section 33, Cedar Township, and the original 
 town of South Abingdon was laid out by Freder- 
 ick Snyder, April id, 1849, on the X. W. quarter 
 of section 4, Indian Point Township, immediately 
 
south of the former. The two towns, with their 
 various additions, were incorporated as a citv 
 April 21, 1S5 7. 
 
 Abingdon was named by A. D. Swarts, after 
 his old hometown of Abingdon, Maryland MCThe 
 first house to be built in the town proper was 
 
 
 
 MAIN STREET AS IT IS AT PRI - 
 
 erected on Main Street by A. M. Curry and was 
 built of lo S s. He and John Greene built a log 
 store near the dwelling. The first license to sell 
 goods was issued to Greene .V Bowman, December 
 4. L857. A public sale ot hits was held in 1837 
 some then selling for $100, thai are now worth 
 
 over $3,000. Alonzo 
 Reece was the first 
 male child born. The 
 first death was that of 
 a Mr. Duffield. the 
 father-in-law of John 
 C. Evans. He died in 
 1838. 
 
 (The house in which fv 
 Paul Birdsall now re- 
 sides was the original 
 post-office^which was 
 called Harvard, but. as 
 that name conflicted 
 w i t h another post 
 office in the state, it 
 was changed t<> Abing 
 don. 
 
 Abingdon has ever 
 enjoyed a he a 1 i hy 
 growth from its incep- 
 tion to the present 
 tune. It has n,,t 
 
 sprung up, mushroom 
 like, in a single night, 
 to be soon destroyed. 
 
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 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 In 1832 a local Methodist preacher named 
 Palmer began visiting the scattering log cabins in 
 which the few families of Knox County had set- 
 tled about the close of the Black Hawk War. A 
 superanuated Methodist minister, Robert Randal!, 
 doing missionary work in the county, organized in 
 1833, a society of seven members. The same year 
 this society was admitted into the Henderson 
 County mission. At this time the log cabin of A. 
 I). Swarts was the regular meeting-house. The 
 first quarterly meeting was held in the log cabin 
 belonging to Jacob and Bethsheba West, in 1834, 
 with Peter Cartwright as presiding elder. In 1838, 
 a little frame school house was built on the first 
 lot south of the City Park on Main Street, in which 
 this congregation worshiped tor ten years; and 
 about 1S4 7 or 1848 a comfortable little church was 
 erected two blocks south of the present site. The 
 congregation having outgrown this building, wor- 
 shiped for seven years in Hedding Chapel, until 
 th' present edifice was erected in 1868, during the 
 pastorate ot lb H. (bay. The present parsonage 
 was built in 1891, while R. Crewes was pastor. 
 The Central Illinois Conference held its session in 
 Hedding Chapel in 1857, at which time Abingdon 
 charge was changed from a circuit to a station x~ 
 
 The membership has increased from 7 in 1833 to 
 507 in 1897. The Epworth League which was 
 organized in 1890, flourishes with a present mem- 
 bership of 130. Prof. Geo. Bloomer is president. 
 A Junior League has also been organized. The 
 
Sunday School numbers 350 in the regular de- 
 partment and 60 in the home department. A new 
 church to cost $15,000 will in all probability be 
 erected next spring and a $2,000 pipe organ will 
 be installed. R. E. Buckey is the present pastor. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 R. E. Buckey, A. M. f D. D. 
 
 R. H. Buckev was born 
 in West Virginia in 1855. 
 His father was a farmer 
 and a prominent layman 
 in the Methodist Episco 
 pal Church. His mother 
 was a devout 
 woman of amia- 
 ble di s pos i tion 
 
 j^L fl^ht. ani ' great 
 
 ^d <P\ strength of char- 
 
 ^L ^k aeter. Their 
 
 BkjH home the 
 
 stopping place 
 of the Methodist 
 pioneer. When 
 ten years old, and 
 before his moth- 
 er's death, he was 
 converted and joined the M. E. Church. His 
 youth was spent on the farm and attending 
 tin- country school. In 1872 he entered Mt. 
 L T nion College and graduated five years iater, 
 receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
 
 Although given license much earlier, hemade 
 
 no attempt to preach until through college. 
 After teaching one year he entered Boston 
 University School of Theology and graduated 
 in 1881, receiving the decree of Bachelor of 
 Divinity. Mr. Buckev married .Miss Julia 
 T. Packard, of Brockton, Mass., in 1880. He 
 
 joined the Central Illinois Conference in 1881, and 
 has since traveled one year in the Rockv Mountains 
 and California. About twelve years of his ministerial 
 life have been spent in Farmington, Bushnell, Mon- 
 mouth and Abingdon. For a second term of three 
 vears Mr. Buckey has been elected 1>\ his confer- 
 ence as a trustee of Hedding College, whose board of 
 trustees at its annual meeting in 1896 conferred upon 
 him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. 
 
 Dr. Buckey is a man of exceptionally great reason 
 ing power and his earnest and graphic presentations 
 of the divine word has won for him many encomiums. 
 His ripe scholarship makes his appointment to Ab- 
 ingdon, a college town, particularly fitting 
 
 COXGRF.GATIO 
 
Congregational Church. 
 
 Over sixty j-ears ago, there was located about 
 two miles north-west of Abingdon, a school known 
 as Cherry Grove Seminary. This was controlled 
 by the Cumberland 
 Presbyterian denomina- 
 tion, which also erected 
 a church building on the 
 same ground. The con- 
 gregation and the school 
 flourished until along in 
 the middle of the '60's, 
 when the school was 
 moved to Lincoln. 111. 
 The church people then 
 decided to build only a 
 church and to locate it 
 in Abingdon. This was 
 completed and dedicated 
 on the 26th dav of Feb- 
 ruary, 1867. Rev. J. 
 R. Brown was then its 
 pastor. 
 
 In the meantime, in 
 the early '50's theWes- 
 leyan Methodists began 
 a church building on 
 the lot now owned by 
 G. M. Bowdeu. on 
 North Main Street. Failing to get the 
 funds for its completion, it was sold to 
 
 ized a congregation in Abingdon. On account of 
 the breaking out of the civil war and other ob- 
 stacles, the Congregational organization failed in 
 its work and sold the little building in 1866 to F. 
 
 necessary 
 the Con- 
 
 gregational denomination, which had just organ 
 
 INTERIOR CONGREGATIONAL CIIl'RCII 
 
 P. Foltz, who moved it to his present drug store 
 site, built an addition to it, raised it to a second 
 story height and built a brick first story under it. 
 
The upper or church part was afterwards known 
 as Foltz's opera house. This part of the building 
 was burned in September 1891. The Congrega- 
 tional people placed tin. proceeds of the sale of the 
 building and lo1 in a building fund and then dis- 
 banded. The majority <>t the members then united 
 with the Cumbei land Presbyterian Church. Dur- 
 ing this time, the Congregational members having 
 outgrown the Presbyterians, the latter disbanded 
 or consolidate d and from thence on the church was 
 trolled by the Congregationalists. This was in 
 the fall ol 1881. In the summer of 1897, the 
 church was entirely remodeled and a new pipe 
 organ purchased and installed in the reconstructed 
 edifice. They now have a church, that, although 
 small, is a model in every way. To Rev. Frank 
 G. Smith, the present pastor, belongs the credit, 
 in a great measure, of the prosperous condition 
 the church enjoys at present. 
 
 Rev. Frank G. Smith. 
 
 Rev. Frank G. Smith, the popular and efficient pas- 
 tor oi the First Congregational Church, of Abingdon, 
 was born at Gilson, Knox County, [l'inois, December 
 25, 1864. He was educated in the public schools and 
 at the Northwestern Normal, located at Geneseo, 
 Illinois. He gradu ited at the latter school with the 
 highest honors oi Ins class, May, 1885. He was mar- 
 ried August 19, 1886, to Miss Alma Palmer, of Prairie 
 Centre, Illinois, in whom he lias found a genuine 
 help-mate in his life-work. One child. Leila Hay, a 
 beautiful little girl of three years graces their home. 
 ■ several years after his graduation, Mr. Smith 
 engaged in teaching, serving for four years as prin- 
 cipal of the Ann awan High School and" for one year 
 
as principal of the Xeponset High School. But his 
 inclination turned to the law, to the study of which 
 he applied himself so successfully while engaged as 
 teacher, that he passed his examination and was ad- 
 mitted to the bar. He located at Kansas City. Mis 
 souri, and engaged for a year and a half m the 
 practice of his chosen profession. During this period 
 he became an expert stenographer and typewriter 
 He abandoned the profession of the law and enten d 
 the ministry. His first charge in the ministry was as 
 pastor of the Congregational Church at Xeponset. 
 Illinois. To this charge lit- was called January 1. 
 1892, and remained there for three years. His labors 
 were wonderfully blest in building up the church to 
 which he had 'been called. On January 1, 1895, he 
 was called to the Congregational Church at Abing- 
 don His success among us had been greater even 
 than it was in his previous field of labor. During his 
 first year of labor here, a splendid and genuine re- 
 vival almost doubled the membership of the church. 
 To his tireless energy more than any other agency. 
 Abingdon is indebted for the rebuilding of the Con- 
 gregational house of worship. He was one of the 
 original projectors of the Abingdon Public Library, 
 which is now an established fact As an opponent to 
 the saloon and license system, Mr. Smith's voice is 
 often heard in other towns than Abingdon ami he 
 invariably wins friends to the cause he advocates. 
 \s a preacher Mr. Smith is a plain, forcible de- 
 clarer of gospel truths. His eloquence is the genuine 
 product of an earnest soul speaking that which it 
 feels to be true. < >f a genial, attractive personality. 
 his popularity is not confined to his congregation. 
 
 Christian Church. 
 
 The Christian Church of Abingdon was organ 
 ized in 1840 by Hiram Smith and Richard John- 
 ston. The first church building was erected in 
 
 1849, and cost SI, 000. That building growing 
 inadequate, they used the old Abingdon College 
 Chapel as a church. Later they built the elegant 
 structure that now constitutes their church home. 
 Their membership is large and is constantly in - 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 
 
creasing. The Christian Endeavor lias a large 
 membership and is very popular with the young 
 people of the church and city. 
 
 Rev. C. G. Kindred is the pastor. He came to 
 this field of labor in the Spring oi 1897 from 
 Lewistown, Illinois, where he was the efficient 
 pastor of the Christian Church. Mr. Kindred is a 
 ver yforcible speaker, and is very popular. 
 
 XORTH ABINGDON HI Oil Mil 
 
 The Abingdon Schools. 
 
 One of the wisest moves thai Abingdon has ever 
 
 made was in constructing the brick building which 
 
 serves as the North Abingdon High School. It is 
 
 quite a large building and is well arranged. It 
 
 was built in L 868, at a cost of $20, Seven 
 
 r :iv :m now in the school and the present build - 
 
 ing is imu too small. The 
 attendance in both schools 
 exceeds 600 and Abing 
 don's need is a new High 
 School building. For a 
 n u m be r of years the 
 South School was con 
 ducted in a one-story 
 frame building, on the 
 siir i >t tin- present struct 
 in. Their present build - 
 ing is an elegant one, 
 constructed oi brick, bin 
 like its sist< t school is 
 rapid! y growing too 
 small to accommodate our 
 i n c re a sing population. 
 Prof. George Bloomer is 
 principal of the North 
 School ami Prof. John 
 Williamson of the South. 
 The advantages offered to 
 the youth of our city are 
 of the very best. 
 
Fire Department. 
 
 Abingdon has, since 1878, had an efficient fire 
 department. The force is entirely a volunteer one, 
 and consists of four companies equipped with a 
 
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 S r \TI{ CHAMPION TEAM OF 1878. 
 
 chemical engine, hand pump, hose cart, and hook 
 and ladder truck. The old running team of the 
 fire department was a world champion one, w li- 
 
 ning the state championship three successive times. 
 Their record of a 300 -yard run and place man to 
 the top of a 30-foot ladder is 43- ; 4 seconds and 
 has never been beaten. The efficiency of the fire 
 department will likely be in- 
 creased very soon by the addi- 
 tion of water -works, as no city 
 of Abingdon's size can long do 
 without them. F. L. Torrance 
 is the present Chief of the Fire 
 Department. 
 
 Abingdon College. 
 
 ^# In 1853 P. H. Murphy 
 
 opened an academy in a plain 
 wooden building in Abingdon, 
 and conducted it successfully 
 until 1855. By extensive canvas - 
 ing, lecturing and preaching 
 the people had become infused 
 with much of his own threat zeal 
 and enterprise to such an ex- 
 tent that they built a three -story 
 brick building, equipped as well 
 :i^ deemed necessary at that 
 time, and college work was in- 
 augurated in 1855. Mr. Murphy 
 was elected as its first president. His health was 
 not of the best and consumption claimed him as a 
 victim, and made it necessary for him to resign at 
 
the close of the school year of I860. In February 
 1855. a charter was obtained for the college. On 
 January, 1861, J. YV. Butler was elected to fill the 
 vacancy as president. Mr. 
 Butler was a young man. 
 and the college was greatly 
 in debt, ami it was deemed 
 best to get an older man 
 for the position. Accord- 
 ingly, on August _', 1861, 
 Silas E. Shepard was 
 tketed to fill his place, but 
 Mr. Shepard d eel i n e d, 
 
 when Mr. Butler was re A 
 
 elected, serving until June. 
 1874. During the period 
 nl his administration, a 
 commodious addition cap- 
 able of accommodating 
 500 students was built. 
 President Borden was the 
 next man to till the official 
 '•hair and on July 24, 1877, 
 F. M. Hruner was elected. 
 Internal discords caused 
 the college's downfall and -- ■ - '■'-■* - 
 the building lay unoccu- 
 pied for quite a number of 
 
 years. Then Mr. Jesse Summers started a Normal 
 School in it, but it lived but a short time, 
 whereupon Hedding College purchased the 
 building in 1894, and called it Normal and Music 
 
 Hall, conducting those departments in its com 
 modious rooms. The building is a a model one 
 for educational work, its commodious rooms mak 
 
 35 
 
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 SOUTH ABINGDON HIGH S< 
 
 it a first class building for the work, it being one 
 of the best of its kind in our state. The co 
 
 the building was aboul $60,000, and we are 
 to have so valuable a building occupied. 
 
Hedding College. 
 
 In 1836, Abraham Swarts laid out the original 
 town of Abingdon, and selected the beautiful rise 
 of ground where Hedding College now stands for 
 
 NORMAL AND MUSIC 11 AT. I. 
 
 a college site. He did not live to realize his 
 college dream, but Hedding Collegiate Seminary 
 was opened November 19,1855 The first two 
 years the school was conducted in the M. H. 
 
 Church. During 
 the Spring and 
 Summer of 1857., 
 the first building 
 was erected at a 
 cost of S12. ooo. 
 In 1857 a charter 
 was secured and 
 the name changed 
 to "Hedding Sem- 
 inary and Central 
 Illinois Female 
 College." The in- 
 stitution was a col- 
 lege for ladies, but 
 only a seminary 
 for gentlemen, 
 growing out of the 
 false, and now an- 
 tiquated notion 
 that ladies are less 
 intellectual than 
 gentlemen. On the 
 16th of December, 
 the school opened 
 in the new build- 
 ing with Rev. N. 
 C. Lewis, A. M.. 
 
as principal and Charles C. Griffith. A. 1!., and 
 Nancy Simonds as teachers. J. T. Dickinson. 
 A. M., succeeded Prof. Lewis and remained in 
 charge oi the institution for nine years. His ad- 
 ministration included the four years of the Civil 
 War. so trying to in- 
 stitutions of learning. 
 There were l i m e s 
 when nearly all the 
 male students of suit- 
 able age had enlisted 
 in the army, and as 
 tht- Seminary had no 
 endowment it seemed 
 almost impossible to 
 meet the necessary 
 expenses. Generous 
 friends, however, 
 came to the rescue, 
 and the close of the 
 war brought return- 
 ing prosperity to the 
 institution. A ft e r 
 nine years of faithful 
 service Prof. Dickin- 
 inson resigned. IP- 
 was a good scholar, 
 excelling in mathematics, was an excellent teacher, 
 a pure man. a warm-hearted friend and an exem- 
 plary Christian gentlemen. At the close of his 
 administration Mi^s Nannie D. Stewart and Miss 
 Josie Davis went out as the first graduates of Cen- 
 
 HEDDING CHAPEL 
 
 tral Illinois Female College. During the admini- 
 stration of five years, sixteen ladies and sixteen 
 gentlemen graduated, but the gentlemen received 
 no degrees. In the fall of 1869, Rev. C. Springer 
 was appointed financial agent and soon alter ar- 
 ranged for a public 
 meeting in the inter- 
 est i A a proposed new 
 building. Rev. J. C. 
 Evans being called to 
 take charge oi this 
 meeting, gave three 
 a d d r es ses upi in 
 "Christian P dui 
 tion" and with the 
 as? istance of Rev. C. 
 Springer, Prof. M. C. 
 Springer and others, 
 succeeded in securing 
 pled g e s amount to 
 
 $12, P. M. Shoop 
 
 1 e d the list with 
 $1,200. The begin - 
 i n i; w a s a u spic - 
 ion-., an excavation 
 was made and the 
 foundation walls com - 
 pleted. Hut unexpected difficulties were en- 
 countered, discouragements thickened, hope gave 
 way, the most sanguine friends of the enterprise 
 doubted and faltered, subscribers withheld pay- 
 ments because the}' doubted the ability of the 
 
trustees to go forward and the work ceased. Rev. 
 A. J. Janes was associated with Rev. C. Springer 
 in the agency, and these two grand men toiled 
 faithfully for two years to restore confidence and 
 revive the enterprise. They received sufficient 
 encoura gement to 
 keep hope alive, but 
 not enough money to 
 resume work. In 
 1872, Rev. J. G. 
 Evans was selected 
 to take charge of the 
 institution. A very 
 serious difficulty in 
 the way of resuming 
 the building enter- 
 prise was found to 
 exist in the dis- 
 couragement arising 
 from the want of con- 
 fidence. These were 
 large, unpaid sub- 
 scriptions, but the 
 subscribers refused 
 to pay until t h e \ 
 could see the work 
 going forward. The 
 work could not be pushed without means, and the 
 trustees declined to assume any personal responsi- 
 bilities. The president, financial agent and P. M. 
 Shoop determined to untie the knot and each one 
 advanced $500 in order to resume work. Mr. 
 
 MUSEUM. 
 
 Shoop was appointed superintendent, and with the 
 $1,500 in the treasury, new plans were adopted, 
 involving less expense; materials were purchased, 
 mechanics hired and the walls began to go up. In 
 1874 the new building was occupied, and com- 
 pleted in 1876, at a 
 est of $35,000. In 
 1875, the institution 
 was organized under 
 the general law of the 
 state, as Hedding 
 College, with full col- 
 lege powers. In June 
 1878, the first admin- 
 istration of President 
 Evans closed at the 
 end of six years of 
 hard and successful 
 work. College courses 
 had been substituted 
 for the seminary 
 course; the main 
 building had been 
 erected, and sub- 
 scriptions amounted 
 to several thousand 
 dollars more than the 
 indebtedness for current expenses, though $3,000 
 of such indebtedness incurred during previous 
 administrations had been paid off. On the retire- 
 ment of President Evans, Rev. George W. Peck, 
 Ph. B., was elected to the presidency and served 
 
MAIN COLLEGE BUILDING 
 
 tour years. Rev. J. S. dimming was the- next 
 president. In 1886 Rev. J. R. Jacques ac- 
 cepted the control of the collegi His ill health 
 compelled him to resign and Dr. J. G. Evans took 
 his place. The attendance is much larger than be- 
 fore. The Abingdon College property has been 
 
 purchased and over halt the purchase price 
 provided for. From the start Heddlng 
 College has done excellent work. Students 
 have been and are held to legitimate col- 
 lege work, while gymnasium exercises and 
 field sports that do not interfere with col- 
 lege work are encouraged. The largest 
 liberty is given to all. The present corps 
 of teaclurs are faithful, fully competent and 
 an: very popular with all. both students 
 and citizens. 
 
 The college building, proper, is very 
 
 well equipped for college work. It is 
 
 heated with steam, has electric lights in 
 
 every room and is first-class in everj 
 
 : iect. 
 
 Hedding has experienced many dark 
 'has during her career, but her friends 
 have always rallied to her support. The 
 liberal people "I our city have always 
 been generous in their patronage ami do 
 natii >ns. 
 
 Ovei $54, in endowment notes is se 
 
 cured, and over $25,000 is known to be in 
 executed wills, but this is. of course, lia 
 ble to change. 
 To Dr. Evans, perhaps, mure than any other 
 living man isduethe credit of Hedding's prosper- 
 ity at present. However, it has always enjoyed 
 the best of management and never has its dark 
 days been occasioned by mismanagement on the 
 part of its president or professors. 
 
■KM 
 
 Rev. J. G. Evans, D. D., LL. D. 
 
 J. G. Evans was born in Marshall Count}-, Illinois. 
 December 19, 1833. His father was a farmer, for whom 
 Evans Township in Marshall County was named. The 
 sons and daughters were all reared in toil. Joshua 
 Evans allowed no idlers about his home. At the age 
 of 16, J. G. 
 was given 
 his time and 
 allowed to do 
 for himself, 
 that he could 
 secure a 
 greatly cov- 
 eted educa- 
 tion. Mis 
 father could 
 have helped 
 him, but he 
 did not think 
 it best to do 
 so, any far- 
 ther than to 
 give him his 
 time, believ- 
 ing that it 
 would be bet- 
 ter for the 
 boy to woric 
 his own way. 
 which he did, 
 first by farm- 
 ing and afterward by teaching to get money to pay 
 expenses while going to school, lie attended three 
 schools, viz.: Peoria Wesleyan Seminary, Judson 
 College and Ohio Wesleyan University. Influenced 
 by what he has always regarded as bad advice, he 
 left college before graduating to enter the ministry, 
 going to the Rock River Conrerence in 1S54. Still 
 
 pursuing his studies, Quincy College conferred upon 
 him the A. M., and at a still later date the Doctor of 
 Divinity. He received the degree of LL. D. from the 
 Chicago College of Science. He served his Confer- 
 ence, the Central Illinois, as secretaiy for six years, 
 lie was honored with the chairmanship of the com- 
 mittee on Temperance and Prohibition at the General 
 Conference in ( tmaha. He has also been president 
 of the Central Illinois Conference Temperance Society 
 from its organization. Dr. Evans was president of 
 Hedding College from 1872 to 1S7.S, and was again 
 elected in 1S89 to that responsible and trying position 
 which he still holds. 
 
 Mrs. Ne:tie G. Evans. 
 
 Nettie Gardner was born in Delaware County, Ohio, 
 October 28, 1839. She was reared on a farm ami 
 trained in the work of a farm home. 
 She attended the Worthington Fe- 
 male Seminary and the Ladies' 
 College at Delaware Ohio. On June 
 14, 1857, she was united in mar- 
 riage with Rev. J. G. E ans, and 
 has cheerfully shared with him the 
 vicissitudes and trials of itinerant 
 life. For twelve years she has per- 
 formed successfully the delicate 
 duties of preceptress of Hedding 
 College. Her health has never 
 been good, and for twenty years 
 she has been an almost constant 
 sufferer. Owing to ill health, she is now relieved 
 from duty in the college, but hopes before long t<> 
 resume her work. Her administration as preceptress 
 has been marked with prudence and wisdom, and 
 her influence among the young ladies has been uni- 
 formly good. Mrs. Evans is an ardent temperance 
 worker and her influence in that direction is great. 
 
T. Allen Beall. 
 
 T. A. Beall was born in Stark County, Illinois. 
 After some years teaching, he entered Hedding Col- 
 lege, from which he 
 g ra du at ed, with 
 lii st honors, in the 
 classical course in 
 1887. lie was given 
 the Masters' degree 
 in cursu three years 
 later and has since 
 received the degree 
 of I), i). He occu- 
 pied the chair of 
 1' h i 1 n sop h v and 
 Political Science in 
 his Alma Mater for 
 two 5 ears. 
 
 In 1889, he m ii 
 ried Prof. Lillian 
 A. Honeywell, who 
 had held the chair 
 of Mathematics in 
 the same institution 
 for a period of three 
 years. The same 
 year he entered the 
 pastorate of the M. 
 E. Church. Aftei 
 eight years success 
 ful work in the ministry, and alter repeated solicita 
 tioiis to return to Hedding College, he accepted the 
 Vice-Presidency, and also the chair of Creek, last 
 June. 
 
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 Lillian Honeywell Beall. 
 
 Mrs. Lillian Honeywell lie-all was horn in Iriquois 
 County, Illinois. She received a good education in 
 
 the schools of her native county, but realizing that 
 she deserved a more extended course, and hearing of 
 
 the fameof Hedding 
 Coll e ge, she en- 
 tered that institu- 
 te in as a student in 
 L881. She graduated 
 in 1884, he a r i n g 
 away with her the 
 highest honors of 
 her elass. While in 
 school, she won 
 lii st prize in oratoi \ 
 
 For three years fol 
 lowing graduation, 
 she held the profes 
 sorship of Mathe 
 matics in her Alma 
 Mater, and her name 
 went unchallenged 
 through the leading 
 educational papers 
 of the land as the 
 you n g e s t college 
 professor in the 
 United States. Her fame as a teacher extended 
 over more than Hedding College's territory. She 
 was in receipt of offers of professorships in other 
 prominent institutions. All of these were refused. 
 In 1889 she resigned her position, although assured 
 by the leading trustees of the institution that her 
 salarv would be advanced and guaranteed. She was 
 united in marriage in 1889 to Rev. T. A. Beall. Last 
 June she was elected to till her old chair of Mathe- 
 matics in Hedding. In addition to her duties in the 
 class room, she is acting Preceptress of the colli 
 during the illness of Mrs. Evans. She is very highly 
 thought of as a lady and as a t( ai her in Mathematics 
 she commands the highest respect of all with whom 
 she is acquainted. 
 

 Herbert R. Esterbrook. 
 
 The subject of this sketch became a member of the 
 Hedding College faculty in the fall of the present 
 year, having charge 
 of the work in the 
 Natural Sciences. Mr. 
 Esterbrook is an alum- 
 nus of the Nebraska 
 Wesleyan University, 
 being elected to the 
 chair of English in 
 that institution upon 
 graduation. Later this 
 position was resigned 
 to assume the vice- 
 presidency of < trleans 
 College, taking the 
 advanced work in both 
 Science and Mathe- 
 matics. For lourvears 
 Mr. Esterbrook re- 
 mained with Orleans 
 College, resigning to 
 accept the position 
 he now occupies. As 
 a teacher, Prof. Ester- 
 brook is a success in 
 
 every sense of the word. He is held in the highest 
 estimation by all, both the students and the citizens 
 of the town with whom he has become associated dur- 
 his short stay in our city. 
 
 Eudora Marshall Esterbrook. 
 
 Mrs. Esterbrook was placed in charge of the Con- 
 servatory of Music of Hedding College in the fall of 
 the present year. Her teaching is in both the depart- 
 ments of voice and piano. After some time spent in 
 
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 the Chicago Musical College, Mrs, Esterbrook became 
 a student of DePaw University School of Music from 
 which institution she graduated, with the honors of 
 her class. Later she enrolled in the Gottschalk Lyric 
 vSchool, un- 
 der the per- 
 sonal in- 
 struction of 
 August Hyl- 
 lested, the 
 great Danish 
 pianist. To 
 this later 
 artist, Mrs. 
 Ester brook 
 attributes 
 her magnifi- 
 cent t e ch- 
 nique, and 
 much of her 
 exceptio n al 
 execution. 
 After some 
 years teach - 
 i n g, M r s. 
 Esterbrook 
 was elected 
 Director of 
 Music in Or- 
 leans Col- 
 lege, where, during a four years residence, she 'milt 
 up one of the strongest conservatories in that section 
 of the country. Mrs. Esterbrook has filled a number 
 of engagements as solo pianist, notably for one season 
 with the DePauw University Concert Company, and 
 during the past three seasons with Chautauqua 
 Assemblies. Her teaching is par excellence and she 
 is showing her superior training and marked ability 
 as Director of the Hedding College Conservatory of 
 Music. 
 
Cliff Guild, M. S., M. Acc'ts. 
 
 Cliff Guild was born in Watse 
 
 ;a, Illinois, Novembei 
 21, 1868. Cliff had 
 the usual experience 
 of tlic country boy 
 from the time he 
 was six years old, 
 until lie arriyi d at 
 the age <>i sixteen. 
 1 [e went to district 
 school from two to 
 seven months in the 
 year, walking to 
 and from the little 
 
 schi i '1 house 
 
 
 ^^fl |£t _^^^^^k 1 1 ■ .in home 
 
 ^fl ■% of the time in work 
 
 ^.•S-.. Ia ing on the farm. In 
 
 ■ , i j M the fall of 1886, he 
 
 V mg entered the Junior 
 
 class "i the Wat seka 
 I [igh School, where 
 he remained until 
 the elose of that 
 school year. The 
 next year he attended Grand Prairie Seminar 
 Onarga, Illinois. It was at this time and place that 
 he united with the M. E. Chinch. The next fall and 
 winter, Mr. Guild taught a country school a few miles 
 from home. He reentered the Seminary the following 
 Spring and completed the commercial course, receiv- 
 ing his M. Accts. degree in June. 1889. ThatSummei 
 he was invited by Dr. Evans to take charge of the 
 Commercial departmant oi Hedding, which position 
 he accepted. While teaching he kept up his work as 
 a student and in June, '92, graduated with the di 
 "I 11. S., and three years later received the M. S. 
 degree. 
 
 Mr. Guild is now in his ninth year as a member of 
 the faculty of Hedding. He spent two years in the 
 Commercial department, two as associate in Mathe- 
 matics, four in charge of the department of Mathemat- 
 ics, and tin- year has the departments of Social. 
 Political and Business Sciem i 
 
 A. W. Ryan, Ph. B., A.M. 
 
 R\ an « a- bi .1 n at Princet m. hid, . 
 With no oppurtunity for educa 
 
 (T5 
 
 (7 
 
 Andrew Winfield 
 Movembet 19, L854. 
 tion excepl the 
 country schools, 
 
 he educated him 
 
 s.li sufficiently 
 
 to receive a teach 
 c r 's certilic.it. 
 a n d h e b e ga n 
 teaching at I h e 
 age of seventeen 
 In 1X77 he went 
 to K a n s a s a n d 
 traveled for one 
 year as a junior 
 pre achei on a 
 cir .nit t h e i . 
 Ill health caused 
 
 Ills 1 .tin n to 1 111 
 
 nois. IU occu- 
 
 p led I leiinepin 
 station one year. 
 Since that time 
 he has devoted 
 himself to teach- 
 ing, serving as 
 principal of the school ria, Maquon and South 
 
 Abingdon. In 1895 he became prof. History 
 
 and German in Hedding College. The position was 
 enlarged to Historj and Vlodern languages the next 
 
year. In 1897 another shifting of positions in the fac- 
 ulty being necessary, he changed to his present posi- 
 tion. His acquaintance with modern languages in- 
 cludes German, French, Spanish and Italian. In 1892 
 he took an examination from Illinois Wesleyan Univ- 
 ersity obtaining the degree of Ph. B., and in 1896 the 
 degree of M. A. for a course in History and Political 
 Science. He now has in preparation for a large edu- 
 cational publishing house a method of instruction in 
 the Italian. He is well known as a preacher and lec- 
 turer and as a frequent contributor to educational 
 journals. 
 
 Miss Justine Stearns. 
 
 Justine Stearns was 
 born in Xew York City, 
 and was educated at 
 Jamestown, N. V. She 
 graduated theie, receiv- 
 ing the diplomas of the 
 Xew York State Board of 
 regents in the normal and 
 literary courses. She then 
 taught five years in the 
 Jamestown schools. She 
 continued her education 
 for four years in Sumner 
 College, at Chautauqua. 
 In 1895 she took charge of 
 one of the kindergarten 
 which forms a part of that 
 college. She worked in 
 the kindergartens in tin- 
 poor districts while at- 
 tending school in Chicago 
 
 Before coming to Abing- 
 don, Miss Stearns had charge of two kindergartens in 
 the Public Schools of Escanaba, Mich. She is very 
 successful in her work. 
 
 Miss Emma A. Hooten. 
 
 Emma Abigail 
 Hooten was born 
 in Tennessee, 111. 
 S he be g a n the 
 study of Music at 
 Jacksonville, 1 1 1. 
 She studied sev- 
 eral years in the 
 con s erva t or v at 
 Quincy, 111. After 
 completing a 
 course of vocal and 
 instrumental 
 music there, slu- 
 devoted her time 
 to teaching. 
 
 She studied one 
 year under Fred- 
 eric Horace Clarke 
 and the following 
 engaged as teacher in Hedding Conservatory. Miss 
 Hooten has shown natural ability and has met with 
 great favor. 
 
 John C. Craine. 
 
 Rev. John C. Craine. who has 
 been honored with the editorshis 
 ni "Blue and Gold", Wedding's 
 representative paper, was born on 
 the Isle of Man, coming to Amer- 
 ica in 1892. He is a Methodist 
 minister, a conscientious student 
 and under his capable editorship 
 "Blue and Gold" cannot be other- 
 wise than a success. He has the 
 confidence of all. 
 
i.i.< ii;i MANUFACTURH 
 
•M— GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO 
 

 
FINISHING ROOM AND SUSPENDER DEPARTMENT— GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO 
 
OPERATING ROOM GLOBE MANUFACTURING CO 
 
The Globe Manufacturing Company. 
 
 The Globe Manufacturing Company, a co-partner- 
 ship composed of James W. Cox and Samuel T. 
 Mnsser, was first started August 1. 1889, in what was 
 known as the Blair building on the corner of Main 
 and Martin streets in a room 24x40. This concern 
 started with ten sewing machines In this room was 
 their cutting table and their manufactured stock. 
 besides the inspecting department. In a small ad- 
 joining room, 20x24 was their engine and piece goods. 
 From this small beginning has grown the largest in- 
 dustry of onr city and in point of size ranks among 
 the largest of the kind in the state. By the first of 
 the following January the business had outgrown the 
 room and it was found necessary to enlarge and so 
 the upstairs was fitted up for an operating room. Six 
 more sewing machines were also added and the room 
 below was used as a cutting room and stock room. 
 Elated by their past success, they started out with 
 renewed energy and by April 1, found it necessary to 
 still farther enlarge. They purchased a vacant lot 
 known as the old mill site on North Main Street and 
 erected a two stor3 building 40x100. Moving into this 
 building July 4. 1890, they added sixteen more ma- 
 chines. I ii this building is a cuttingroom 14x100 feet, 
 which is conceded to be the best arrfnged cutting 
 room in the state. The following year, they found it 
 necessary to add more machines, and in 1892 they 
 built a large two-story brick addition 40x50, making 
 their building 90x100. Each year has found it neces- 
 sary to increase their output until today they employ 
 about a hundred operators and have lately added two- 
 needle machines of the most improved design, still 
 greatly augmenting their capacity. 
 
 From reading the above you will notice that the 
 management has been conservative, only increasing 
 as the business justified, It is an easv matter to buy 
 a large number of machines, but these were only 
 bought as necessity demanded. In the summer of 
 
 1895. the manufacture of suspenders was added to 
 their line. Mr. C. W. Keel, a gentleman of experience, 
 has full charge of this department. This has proven 
 a profitable venture and adds much :o their already 
 large and growing business. 
 
 The senior partner, Jas. \V. Cox, spends most of 
 his time on the road, and has contributed much to the 
 success of the venture. IK- makes the largest cities 
 in this and adjoining states and by his hard work and 
 ability as a salesman has established a trade for their 
 goods, such as their competitors envy. 
 
 The policy lias always been to make nothing but 
 strictlv first-class goods and to guarantee them t<> tin 
 trade. By selling them at a small per cent above the 
 actual cost, they have been able to dispose of all they 
 could manufacture. 
 
 The management of tin- business at home is left to 
 the junior partner, Samuel T. Mosser. Every detail 
 of the business comes under bis personal supervision 
 and the cost of manufacture is reduced to the mini 
 mum. Having bad years of experience in dry goods, 
 lie is able to watch the markets and buy judiciously. 
 With such a combination, sin. ess comes as a neces 
 sity. Their force of traveling man distribute their 
 goods in seven states to some of the brightest and 
 best merchants to be found in the country. If von 
 want to increase \ our sales in work ine. men 's clothing 
 and suspenders buy their goods. 
 
 Samuel T. Mosser. 
 
 Samuel T. Mosser was born in Industry, McDon 
 ough County, Illinois, November 2, 1861. Hecameto 
 Abingdon with his parents in the Spring of 1864. Ik- 
 was educated in the public schools of Abingdon and 
 Hedding College, graduating from that institution 
 with the class of 1884. Immediately alter graduation 
 he entered the dry goods store of his father, where he 
 had worked for a number of years before. In the 
 
Spring- of 1885, lie was made junior partner with sole 
 
 management of the business and continued in this 
 
 capacity - for seven 
 years, increasing 
 the v o 1 u m e of 
 trade and conduct- 
 ing a profitable 
 business. During 
 this period, he 
 conceived the idea 
 of starting an 
 overall factory and 
 after several 
 months of experi- 
 menting with pat- 
 terns, he secured 
 the co-operation of 
 Jas. W. McCown 
 and Jas. W. Cox 
 and the three 
 started the Globe 
 M a n u f a c t u r i ng 
 C o m pan y. The 
 fifteen years ex- 
 perience in dry 
 goods by Mr. Mos- 
 ser was no doubt 
 a feature in the 
 success of the 
 
 enterprise. He was married to Miss Kate Newell, 
 
 February 26, 1887. 
 
 Jas. W. Cox. 
 
 Jas. W. Cox, senior member of the Globe Manu- 
 facturing Company was born and reared on the farm, 
 where lie remained until he was nineteen years old. 
 Hi then entered college as an irregular student, at- 
 tending several terms, teaching school during the 
 Winter months. Mr. Cox's school teaching extended 
 
 over five years, all the time in the same place, and he 
 was engaged another year when he resigned to em- 
 bark in the 
 clothing busi- 
 ness at Albert 
 Lea, Minn. Not 
 remaining long 
 in the clothing 
 business, sell- 
 ing his interest 
 in the business 
 to his partner, 
 he returned to 
 Abingdon, form- 
 ing the partner- 
 nership of Bell- 
 wood & Cox, 
 dealers in gen- 
 eral merchan- 
 dise. This firm 
 soon included 
 other lines in- 
 cidental to a 
 general store, 
 such as agricul- 
 tural imple- 
 This firm, by 
 its push, integrity and strict business methods, built 
 up a large and profitable business, the subject of this 
 sketch retiring only - to take hold of a larger and more 
 extensive business — one that is not circumscribed by 
 territorial limit — that of manufacturing. 
 
 He was soon associated with others in the manu- 
 facture of working men's clothing under the firm name 
 of the Globe Manufacturing Company as its president. 
 His part of the work has been and is that of traveling 
 salesman, and during the past eight years not many 
 good merchants in the five states where he travels 
 but know that the Globe goods are the very best on 
 the market. 
 
 ments, buying and selling 
 
 frain, etc 
 
ABINGDON WAGON COMPANV 
 
HALL TRAP COMPANY 
 
ANIMAL TRAP COMPANY. 
 
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 ABINGDON PAVING BRICK AND TILE COMPANY. 
 
THK KODAK PRESSROOM. 
 
INTERIOR nl- I II BURRIDGE'S DREG STORE. 
 
INTERIOR OF H. R. CROUCH it CO.'S. STORE. 
 
EDMONSON & SON. 
 
CI.KMENTS & SOX. 
 
CO. D. ILLIN"I> NATIONAL GUARD. 
 
Abingdon Wagon Company. 
 
 The Abingdon Wagon Company is comparatively 
 a young institution, as regards its location here, but 
 it has built up a large and growing patronage. A. B. 
 Spies, its controlling spirit, is a wagon maker of long 
 experience. In the Spring of 1895, they decided to 
 change their location from Clinton, Iowa, and selected 
 Abingdon as their future home. They were given a 
 bonus of $15,000 by our citizens, work being com- 
 menced near the last of April. The plant was put in 
 operation the middle of July. 
 
 Our citizens have had no reason to regret their 
 move. Their proprietors are all enterprising citizens 
 and have done much to build up the city. Their plant 
 is an extensive one and gives employment to over 
 one hundred men. 
 
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 The Hall Trap Company. 
 
 The Hall Trap Company is the newest of Abing- 
 don's manufactories. The trap which has been on 
 the market but a few months has had a truly phenom- 
 enal growth. It is entirely automatic in its setting, 
 and is the neatest trap in existence. Its inventor, 
 Mr. G. U. Hall, is a man of great business ability and 
 sterling integrity and any business conducted by him 
 is sure to meet with unqualified success. Messrs. J. 
 W. McCown, J. H. Firebaugh and J. F. Robinson are 
 men of long business training and are amply capable 
 of achieving the success of their undertaking. The 
 Hall Trap Company's factory, near the C, B., & Q. 
 Railroad, was completed in the fall of 1897. It is a 
 substantial brick building, with steam heat and elec- 
 tric light. They are well equipped with steam heat 
 and fine machinery. All their machinery is very 
 exact in all its details, which accounts for the mar- 
 velous neatness and absolute accuracy in their trap. 
 The factory gives employment to over thirty men, 
 which adds materially to the revenue of our city. 
 
 The Animal Trap Company. 
 
 The Animal Trap Company is not a new institution, 
 neither is it an old one in years, but in the amount of 
 business it transacts it has no competitor in the 
 country. They make the famous "Out o' Sight" 
 mouse and rat traps, the Stop Thief Trap in several 
 sizes, the "Out o, Sight" Combination Tack Hammer, 
 Tack Lifter, Ice and Stove Hook. Their products 
 have a world-wide popularity. The Animal Trap 
 Company is incorporated under the laws of the State 
 of Illinois. They began operations over the store cf 
 Robert Long, from whence they moved into the In- 
 dian Point town hall and later to the Blair building as 
 a third workshop. In the meantime, Mr. F. W. 
 Shultz, of Sedalia, Missouri, was engaged as their 
 agent and he opened up a branch in St. Louis, sup- 
 plying the Southern and Western trade. In Decem- 
 ber 1896 they began the erection of their present fac- 
 tory which was occupied in January, 1897. The com- 
 pany employs about sixty men and boys. 
 
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 The Abingdon Paving Brick and Tile Co. 
 
 The Abingdon Paving Brick snd Tile Company are 
 known all over the state where paving is done. The 
 shale from which they make their product is not sur- 
 passed in all the world. There are great possibilities 
 in it for fine pressed brick. It has, however, never 
 been used for that purpose, the company confining 
 their output to paving brick and tile. Their plant is 
 complete and up-to-date. 
 
 Variety Wood-working Shop. 
 
 The senior proprietor of the plant was born in But- 
 ler County, Ohio, and left an orphan and with his 
 grandfather came to Abingdon in the spring of 1840. 
 After the elapse of seven years spent in Ohio, he 
 
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 BI.A1RS VARIKTV WOOD-WORKING ! 
 
 returned to Abingdon, having made liis choice of 
 labor to be a mechanic, he labored in that line until 
 the war broke out. He enlisted in the 83d Illinois 
 Infantry and was with that regiment until it was 
 mustered out of service in 1865. Soon after his return 
 he settled in Abingdon working at his trade in and 
 out of town until 1879, when he built a small shop 
 
 14x20 "and put in some 
 foot-power machines and 
 started a variety wood- 
 working shop. His work 
 increased until he added 
 a horse-power to run his 
 machinery. In the 
 fall of 1889 he enlarged 
 his shop and put in more 
 m ach in e r y and steam 
 power. Soon after the 
 milling the steam power 
 he enlarged his buildings 
 again and leased a part 
 of it to a firm to start a 
 steam laundry, furnish- 
 ing them the steam and 
 power for their work. 
 Thus they worked to- 
 gether for some time, but 
 on February 21, 1895 the 
 entire plant was wiped 
 out by fire. He took his 
 oldest sou, E. D., as a 
 partner. They soon had 
 material on the ground 
 for another plant and in 
 two months they were at 
 work again tilling orders 
 for work as before, hav- 
 ing built the buildings 
 and put in the very latest 
 hop. machinery in their line, 
 
 which enables them to cope with their competitors in 
 this line of business. 
 
 Their output embraces everything in the wood-work- 
 ing line. They are able to turn out all work on short 
 notice. Both members of the firm are gentlemen and 
 capable business men. They are progressive citizens 
 and alive to the interests of the town. 
 
Company D, Illinois National Guard. 
 
 The military company of Abingdon was mustered 
 into the state service by Col. Jack Foster, on the 
 evening of May 24, 1897, as Company D, Sixth In- 
 fantry, Illinois National Guard, assigned to Second 
 Batallion, Third Brigade. At the election of officers 
 on the evening of the muster, the following were 
 elected and are the present officers of the company : 
 Captain F. W. Latimer; 
 First Lieutenant, F. R. 
 Trevor; Second Lieutenant. 
 L. T. Reagor. Non-com- 
 missioned officers: Sar- 
 geants, J. S. Barton, Ed. 
 LeFever, Chas. Guy, A. P. 
 Wallace and Ed Bellwood; 
 Corporals, Pleas Lutz, 
 Albert Maginnis, Thomas 
 Pittenger. Arthur Whitwam, 
 Reed Kays and John Smith; 
 Buglers, Chas. E. Smith 
 and Frank Purdy. The fol- 
 lowing is the roster of the 
 privates: 
 
 Win. Armstrong. A. A. Atkins. James 
 Bacom. Frank B^com, D. L. Benson. 
 Clyde Bradbury, A. B. Beard, Elias 
 brent, Arthur Cook, John Cox. Win 
 Caldwell. Roy Caldwell. Chas. Dick- 
 erson, C. M. Kdmundsou, C. V. Earle. 
 L. T. Earle. W. F. Edwards, W. It 
 Evitts. John Famulener, Fred Fisher, 
 Arthur Fisher. Wilbur George, P. I.. Gibson, Arthur Goddard. John 
 Howard. Edgar Holmes, Milton Johnson. Carl Jungstrum, Ed Ken- 
 nedy, Al Kennedy, Dan Kennedy, Ed Lomax, Wm. Lomax. H. K. 
 Melyin. Anthony Morillo, Wm. Norris, J. W. O'Nan, Myron Robb. L. 
 H. Cobertson, A. Scott, Win. Shoop, Joe Shipplett, Howard Smith. 
 Henry Spies, Fred Spinden, Max Stromlow. Ira Swartz. Tames 
 Wasson, Harry Weston, Arthur Wright, Lee Wilmuth, Chas. Vice and 
 Harry Frew. - 
 
 The Army building, situated near the C B. & Q. 
 depot, is admirably suited for a drill hall. Here the 
 members of the militia have entertainments. 
 
 The Abingdon Kodak. 
 
 EXTERIOR BLAIR'S VARIETY WOOD- WORKING SHOP 
 
 The Abingdon Kodak was established July 1, 1897, 
 by Jesse C. Shoop. The paper is a six-column 
 quarto, and is one of the neatest printed papers in the 
 state. The Kodak has made it possible to publish a 
 paper for one dollar a year, and the wise move on the 
 part of the publisher has resulted in a wonderful 
 growth in circulation. Mr. Shoop was born in Aurora, 
 
 Illinois, and came to Abing 
 don when he was a child, 
 and, with the exception of 
 ten years spent in St. Louis, 
 St. Joseph and Peoria, has 
 lived in Abingdon all his 
 life. The job department of 
 the Kodak is under the 
 management of the Shoop- 
 Scott Press. Mr. O. L. 
 Scott, the junior partner, 
 has been connected with 
 various printing establish- 
 ments in the larger cities, 
 and is a first-class printer. 
 The material in this depart- 
 ment is all new, including 
 a Campbell two-revolution 
 book and job press, the size 
 of which is 37x50 inches. 
 
 Their work is par excel- 
 lence and speaks for itself. 
 
 Dr. E. H. Kreis. 
 
 Dr. E. H. Kreis was born in Vermillion County, 
 Indiana. He lived on a farm and received his pre- 
 liminary education in the public schools of that 
 county. In the year of 1888, he moved to Homer, 
 Champaign Count}-, Illinois, and shortly afterward 
 took up the study of dentistrv with Dr. F. M. Conkey 
 
of that place. He 
 was a particularly apt 
 student. He entered 
 the University of In- 
 dianapolis in 1893, 
 graduating in the de- 
 partment of I (entistry 
 and Dental Surgery. 
 Graduating in 1896, 
 he came to Abingdon 
 and went into part- 
 nership with Doctor 
 Nicholls. lie later 
 bought that gentle- 
 man out, and contin- 
 ued the busine s s 
 alone. lie has a 
 large and growing 
 practice. II is work 
 gives good satisfac- 
 tion. His office is 
 • legantly appointed. 
 < mice in Main. Bur- 
 naugh & Rouse block. 
 
 Dr. E. II Kries 
 
 Dr. Slagle 
 
 Was bornin 1870. He lived on a farm until 12 years 
 old. Moved to ' Iregon, 111. , and graduated from High 
 School in 1888. He si ent one year in Carthage Col- 
 lege. Was offered a position with Alexander II. 
 Revell & Co., Chicago. Entered Rockford Business 
 College to prepare. Graduated after a seven months' 
 course, and si\ months later graduated from Stein- 
 mann's Institute of Shortland, Dixon, 111. Then en- 
 tered upon bis duties, and being advanced to position 
 of assistant cashier. This position he held for two 
 years. Decided to entei professional life and took up 
 work in the Medical and Dental Departments of the 
 
 University of Michigan, graduating in the class of 
 '96. Spent summers in Chicago College of Dental 
 Surgery. Located permantly in Abingdon the follov 
 
 in<j fall. 
 
 W. H. Heller. 
 
 One of the oldest 
 residents of Abingdon 
 is Dr. \V. 1.1. Heller. 
 He was born at Ash- 
 land. Richland Coun 
 ty. Ohio, May 11, 1823, 
 and came to Cuba, 
 Fulton County, lib 
 nois, in 1835. He first 
 began life as a country 
 
 School teacher, at the 
 
 early age of fifteen. 
 
 and at se\ < nteen com 
 
 nienced the study oi 
 
 medicine under Doctor 
 
 William X. Cline, of 
 
 Cuba, HI. He entered 
 
 upon practice at Cuba, 
 
 but in a short time af- ch 
 
 terw aid in June, 1846, 
 
 removed to Abingdon, where he has since resided. 
 
 He is a graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago. 
 
 With perhaps one exception, John E. Chesney, he 
 
 has been engaged in active business longer than any 
 
 other citizen oi Abingdon. At times he has also been 
 
 in the drug business, and in farming and in raising 
 
 of thoroughbred stock. Two of his sous. Joseph M. 
 Heller and John I,. Heller, are now practicing physi 
 cians in Kansas. Without much doubt he is the old- 
 est practitioner in Knox and adjoining counties, and 
 it is quite likely there are few in the State who can 
 antidate him, his term of continuous practice reach 
 ing almost fifty years. 
 
 
Dr. Jesse Rowe 
 Dr. J. II. Miller 
 
 Dr. W. II Heller Dr K C. Bradwaj 
 
 Dr F.C.Dickinson Dr. A. M Earel 
 
 A. M. Earel, M. D. 
 
 Dr. A. M. Earel was born near Abingdon. He was 
 educated at Gem City Business College, Knox College 
 and Hedding College, and after three years of study 
 was graduated in March, 1891, from Rush Medical 
 College, ranking seventh in a class of 210. 
 
 He was associated with Hi. M. Reece for five years, 
 three years as a student of medicine and two years at 
 
 the request of Dr. Reece, was engaged with him in 
 active practice. Then leaving Abingdon he entered 
 at once into a very extensive practice at Monica, 111. 
 He successfully passed a rigid examination before the 
 State Board of Health of the State of Florida in Jan- 
 uary, 1897, and after spending the winter in Florida in 
 search of health he returned to Abingdon the latter 
 part of April and entered into partnership with Dr. 
 F. C. Dickinson. Dr. Earel is not only a graduate in 
 the regular school of medicine but is also conversant 
 with both the Homeopathic and Eclectic systems of 
 medicine. 
 
 F. C. Dickinson, M. D. 
 
 Dr. F. C. Dickinson was born in Abingdon, 111., 
 being the oldest son of Prof. J. T. and Mrs. F. C. 
 Dickinson, who were so long identified with Hedding 
 College. He received his earlier education in Chats- 
 worth and Onarga, 111., and completed the high school 
 work in Abingdon, then attended Hedding College a 
 short time. Afterward took three years of work in 
 Iowa Wesleyan University in Mt. Pleasant. Iowa. He 
 then took one year's work in the medical department, 
 afterward finishing his course in the Chicago Hom- 
 eopathic Medical College. In 1893 he located in 
 Abingdon. He is now associated with Dr. A. M. 
 Earel. The doctor is liberal in his views and strives 
 always to surround his work with every advancement 
 and improvement in its line. 
 
 J. H. Miller, M. D. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Miller was born in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 
 9, 1839. Farming, trading, clerking, and about a year 
 spent with the chief engineer of the Rushville branch 
 of the C , B. & Q. Railroad occupied his time during 
 the period just preceding the war. when he enlisted 
 in the 84th Reg't 111. Inft'. In 1865 he began the study 
 of medicine as a business with Dr. F. W. Johnson, of 
 
ir^B ® H n 
 
 Peoria. < ine yeai - pi mi si ol li ctures 
 at Michigan University and .1 51 1 ond 
 course at the Homoeopathic Medical 
 College of Missouri, fitted him for 
 graduation in medicinein March 1868. 
 Hi- came to Abingdon in 1870. Since 
 that <lair he has been constantly on 
 duty in this city, practicing only 
 Homoeopathy and that with marked 
 success. 
 
 Dr. C. F. Bradway. 
 
 Dr. C. F. Bradway, Physician and 
 Surgeon, was horn in Salem Co . 
 New Jersey, Sept. 28, \^$>. His 
 medical education was obtained in the 
 Medical College of Indiana, graduat- 
 ing in L882. He has practiced mi di 
 cine in Fairmount, 111., Richmond, 
 Iinl., London Mills, 111., and Vbing- 
 don. He is .1 member of the Military 
 fract Medical Association, is lecturer 
 on Physiology and Hygiene in Hed- 
 ding College. He is citj physii ian 
 II«- is a Mason, is a member of the 
 I. O O. ]■'., K. P., and others. Dr. 
 Bradway is a progressive citizen and 
 always alive to the interests of the 
 town. His office is located in the 
 office thai Iii, Reece occupied. 
 
 Jesse Rowe, M. D. 
 
 Jesse Rowa- was born in A\ on, 111.. 
 I 1 bruary 21, 1870. He is a graduate 
 of North Abingdon School, 111m,, in 
 College Pharmacy dept., Northwest 
 ern University and Rush Mi 
 Colli ■ 
 
 Ol-l-H'l-* 1VII UK^TnL'VrL'nCnD DUUiU'i,' 
 
E. H. Burridge. 
 
 E. H. Burridge was born near Decatur, Mich., March 
 25, 1856. He resided on a farm a short time, then came 
 to Illinois locating- at Geneseo. While here he received 
 a high school education. In 1877 he graduated from 
 Bennet Medical College. He came to Abingdon in 
 1890 and has continued in business ever since. In ad- 
 dition to his drug department, he carries a line of 
 books, novelties, etc. 
 
 are well fitted for their work, having worked in quite 
 a number of our larger cities. They are up-to-date in 
 all the styles and the stock they keep is all the latest. 
 Although they have been here but a short time, they 
 have gained, through their honest methods and court- 
 esy, the largest share of the city's trade. 
 
 The Enterprise-Herald. 
 
 Cecil Burridge. E. W. Gladhill. 
 
 E. H. Burridge. 
 
 E. W. Gladhill, his able assistant, 
 was born in Erie, 111., in 1861. He 
 was educated there. He has been in 
 the employ of E. H. Burridge for a 
 considerable time. 
 
 Cecil Francis Burridge was bcrn 
 August 9, 1880. He graduted with 
 highest honors in 1895, from the 
 North Abingdon High School. 
 
 Babbitt Sisters. 
 
 The firm of Babbitt Sisters embarked in business in 
 Abingdon on New Year's day 1895. These young ladies 
 
 BABBITT SISTERS' MI I.I.INKK v STORE 
 
 The Abingdon Enterprise was established in 1880 
 by J. C. Cromer. At different times it has been owned 
 by J. N. Reed & K. E. Pendarvis, and C. A. Murdoch. 
 y\. A. Cleveland bought it in 1894 and consolidated 
 
with The Herald, which paper had been started in 1892 
 by E. M. Killough. In 189S Mr. Killough purchased 
 Mr. Cleveland's half interest. During 189S a substan- 
 tial brick building was erected on Meek street, where 
 the paper is now printed. The Enterprise-Herald is 
 
 -t* 
 
 i ill 
 
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 Geo. W. Cline. 
 
 George W. Cline was born Octobei l2,1863,ona farm 
 in Warren county, 111. lie was educated in the coun- 
 try schools and afterward attended Abingdon Colli 
 
 He followed farming and stock raising until the Be- 
 g inni n g of 
 
 r 
 
 1895, when 
 he purchased 
 
 t h e g rain 
 
 business at 
 the I.e. R. 
 R. and the 
 same year 
 erected a 
 commodiou s 
 and modern 
 elevator. By 
 his courteous 
 and honest 
 
 treatment of 
 
 the farmers 
 
 he built up 
 and enjoys a 
 large share 
 
 place. 
 
 of the jrrain 
 
 tllongrti 
 trade 
 
 at this 
 
 ENTERPRISE-HER w.l> BUILDING 
 an S page 6 column paper, and is issued ever} Friday. 
 For many years the Enterprise was a radical republi- 
 can paper, but under the present management is in- 
 pendent in politics. The paper enjoys a largecircula 
 tion and an extensive patronage in its job department. 
 
 Clements & Son. 
 
 Mr. J. A. Clements was born April 18, 
 1845. He enlisted in Co. F. 79 Indiana 
 
 Volunteer Infantry. In February, 1895 he 
 went into the grocerj business in Abingdon, 
 
 Uberi R. Clements was bom August 11, 1867. He 
 
 was educated in the public schools and later attended 
 Gem City business College. 
 
 Clements & Sou control a large share ofAbingdon's 
 grocery business. T]u\ carrj a complete line of gro- 
 ceries and queensv are. 
 
H. R. Crouch & Co. 
 
 Mr. II. K. Crouch was born in Geneseo, 111., July 25, 
 1862. He was educated in the public school of that 
 city and took a course in Elliot's Business College 
 
 NELSON'S MEAT MARKET. 
 
 He came to Abingdon in 1888, clerking for L. E. Gar- 
 vin oc 0>.. whose store he purchased in 1895. 
 
 D. Wilbur Cnmch. his able clerk, was born in 1866. 
 He attended Elliot's Business College and later taught 
 school. He came to Abingdon in 1892. 
 
 The firm of Crouch & Co. keep an up-to date line of 
 dry goods, shoes, and gents' furnishings. 
 
 Edmonson & Son. 
 
 Charles B. Edmonson was born in 1844. In 1861 he 
 enlisted in Co. A, 47 Illinois infantry. lie came to 
 Abingdon in 1S92 and went into the clothing business 
 with A. Spear. He bought out Mr. 
 Spear and formed a partnership with A. 
 L. Walker in 1893. 
 
 Mr. W. F. Edmonson was born in 1869. 
 March 20, 1896 he bought out the inter- 
 est of C. L Walker and the new firm 
 took the name of Edmonson & Son. 
 Their store room is a commodious and 
 well lighted one. 
 
 George B. Nelson. 
 
 George B. Xelsonisone of our young- 
 est business men and one of the most 
 sucsessful. He conductsthe South end 
 meat market in such a manner as has 
 won for him a large patronage. Cour' 
 esv and strict attention to business has 
 gained him favor with our people. C. 
 L. Bartlett is his obliging clerk. 
 
 James M. Bowton. 
 
 James M. Bowton was born in 1859. 
 He attended the country schools and 
 later entered Abingdon College. He 
 purchased the livery barn he now owns 
 He is very popular with all whohe comes 
 
 and controls 
 in contact with. 
 
 «5 
 
 F. L. Torrance. 
 
 F. L. Torrance was born in 1869, in Warren county. 
 
In 1SS7 he moved t<> Abingdon, his father embarking 
 in tlit- lumber business here. In 1890 his father was 
 killed. Frank discontined the business and took a 
 business course. In 1894 he again entered into the 
 lumber business. In addition to this he is a partner 
 with Mr. Dickson in the manufacture of paper boxes. 
 Mr. Torrance possesses an excellent patronage in the 
 lumber line, which is largely due to his own energy 
 and enterprise. 
 
 F. P. Foltz. 
 
 Mr. F. P. Foltz was born in Franklin County, Pr. 
 He was edui at( d in his native countv and sen 
 apprenticeship to the carpenter trade. He was 
 married to Malinda C. Jacobs, of which union there 
 were seven children born. On coming to Abingdon 
 they united with the Congregational Church. They 
 
 moved to Kansas but returned in a few \ ears and went 
 
 into the drug and grocery busi 
 
 ness. In 1875 he erected brick 
 
 and tile works on his place and 
 
 conducted them for a number oi 
 
 1 m Bi iWT< in Ski SID 
 
 1 [e taki live inter- 
 
 est in nil public affairs. He was 
 an earnest worker in securing 
 the Iowa Central for this town 
 
 and has been a Ulemhel oi its 
 
 ■i oi directors. 
 
Presto. 
 
 One of the notable events of the nineteenth century 
 is F. P. Foltz's discovery of Presto. With years of 
 experience in compounding medicines he saw the 
 necessity of a household remedv forpain. He studied 
 and at last his efforts were crowned with success. 
 Presto is a medicine for the masses. As a remedy 
 for sore throat it has no equal. It is antiseptic, des- 
 troying germs. It is quick, positive, and almost mag- 
 ical to relieve pain. It justly deserves its suggestive 
 name of "Presto." 
 
 First National Bank. 
 
 There is probably no bank in the state, in a town of 
 Abingdon's size that transacts as great a volume of 
 business as does the First National Bank of Abing- 
 don. It has always been judiciously managed and no 
 institution anywhere can show a better record. Its 
 President is Thos. Newell; J. F. Latimer is Vice-Pres- 
 ident; Orion Latimer is Cashier and G. A. Shipplett, 
 assistant Cashier. 
 
 J. J. Bradbury. 
 
 James Joshua Bradbury, artist, literateur, and ama- 
 teur musician, was born in Knox county. Illinois. 
 His Artistic talents began development in early child- 
 hood. His merits obtained quick recognition and he 
 was made instructor in Art at Abingdon College. 
 He is at present instructor of art in Hedding College. 
 He has a large collection of paintings. He is an 
 excellent portrait painter and his newspaper sketches 
 are of a high grade. 
 
 For literarature and music he has a decided pen- 
 chant, a number of stories and sketches of his having 
 been published. On the stage he has made asuccess- 
 fuLdelineator of "Old Man," "eccentric," and 
 
 in Abingdon," and "An Enigma." 
 
 leading parts . 
 He was married 
 in 1869 to Miss 
 Sarah Belle Mc- 
 Ki a ney. Mr. 
 Bradbury has 
 been a Mason 
 for several years 
 being a member 
 of Abingdon 
 Lodge No. 185, 
 and is also a 
 Knights Tem- 
 plar belonging 
 to Galesburg 
 Commandry 
 No. 8, Gales- 
 burg, Illinois, 
 His most 
 prominent 
 paintings are: 
 "Old Stables at 
 Sunset." "Aut- 
 umn, " " Close 
 of a Wind y 
 Day," "Winter 
 
 & 
 
 Meadow Farm Herd of Short-Horn Cattle. 
 
 During the early "Eighties" Abingdon had a nat- 
 ional reputation as a fine stock center. Dawdy&Son 
 were prominent breeders, their herd having been pur- 
 chased in 1874. During the cattle depression that 
 soon followed they obtained the pick of the best cat- 
 tle in America. Their herd now is unequalled, it num- 
 bering over 70 head, among whom are the famous 
 Secret, Jessie C, Rose of Sharon, etc. Visitors are 
 always welcome at their farm. 
 
Joseph Latimer. 
 
 Joseph J. Latimer was born at Abingdon, in 1840. 
 He is a graduate of Knox College. In 1864 he enlisted 
 in the 1:57 Illinois Infantry as Second Lieutenant. On 
 returning home he was chosen principal of Cherry 
 drove Seminary- He later occupied a professorship 
 in Lincoln University. He served two terms in the 
 House of Representatives. Mr. Latimer has been 
 Mayor of Abingdon and is a prominent worker in 
 Republican circles. He is now associated with Dr. 
 Miller in the raising of line Jersey cattle, their herd 
 invariably taking first prizes wherever exhibited. Mr. 
 Latimer's residence is one of Abingdon's finest. 
 
 Mr. Latimer is an enterpiising citizen and is uni- 
 versally popular. 
 
 Henry Frey. 
 
 Hon. Henry Frey was 
 born in Switzerland in 1836 
 
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 and came to America whin In was seven ye ars old, 
 his parents settling in Indiana. His parents died 
 early and he was thrown on his own resources. In 
 1857 he came to Abingdon and started a boot and shoe 
 Store. His business record was a remarkable one, 
 He was mayor for four years, alderman for two years, 
 city treasurer for two and school director for nine. 
 Mr. Frey is very liberal in politics as well as in i< 
 ion. His creed embraces everything that makes a 
 man better or more of a philanthropist. 
 
 Strawther Givens. 
 
 The subject of this sketch was born near Blooming 
 ton, Ind., May 23, 1843. He moved with his parents 
 to McDonough county, 111., in 1854, where he received 
 a common-school education. He attended Indiana 
 State 1 niversity for si\ months and afterward took a 
 course in book keeping at Bryan & Stratton's busi- 
 ness College. 
 
 He came to Abingdon in ls7n and has been identi- 
 fied with its interests ever since. He first embarked 
 in the grocery business and later was one of the 
 organizers of the first bank in Abingdon. In 
 1878he began thebreedingol 
 Short-Horn cattle, and was 
 
 very succi ssful. 
 
 I Ie was active in his sup 
 port of Abingdon College 
 and served as its treasurer 
 for many years He is prom 
 inent in Democratic circles. 
 
 At Present he conducts a 
 
 Real Estate, Loan and Col- 
 lection business. He has 
 sold over $L'5ii.0O0 worth of 
 P- real estate in the last 
 
 three years. 
 
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 W. B. Main. 
 
 W. II. Main was born in Cooperstown, X. Y., Dec. 
 7, 1835. His parents moved to Bainbridge, X. V., in 
 1839, where he grew to manhood. In 1857 he came to 
 Illinois, locating in Altona. Iu 1861 he enlisted in the 
 17th. Illinois Infantry. After 1862 he worked for the 
 C. B. &. Q R. R. in the train service, [n 1879 he catne 
 
 to Abingdon and engaged in mercantile business, 
 which pursuit he has been closely identified with ever 
 since. He has served as mayor and is a member of 
 the A F. & A. M. and the Eastern Star and also of 
 the M. E. Church. Mr. Main has always been a man 
 with the interests of Abingdon close at heart. He 
 was the leading factor in bringing the A. 1!. Spies' 
 Sons wagon factor}- to this city. 
 
J. It SMITH AM) RES! I>! '.i I 
 
 J. B. Smith. 
 
 J. B. Smith was born in Juniate county, Pa., in L8S0. 
 
 A few years later be moved with his pan tit-- to |vn\ 
 county. Pa., where he remained until the Spring <>t 
 of 1869, when he came to Illinois. Soon aftei be tit 
 tered the services' of the Great Western Telegraph 
 company. In July 1870 he was tendered a position as 
 operator by the C. H. & <J. In 1S7S he was transferred 
 
 to Abingdon and given the position of station agent 
 
 which office he now holds. Mr. Smith has the full 
 
 confidence of his employers, lie is an active mem- 
 ber of the M. E. Church and is a liberal ^iver to all 
 its benevolences. He is a prominent member of Ab- 
 ingdon Lodge 185, A. !•'. &. A. M.; i J9 I irder 
 
 I astern Star and M. W. of A.. Camp 14'i. 
 
LUMBER YARD, RESIDENCE AND CHILD OF FRANK TORRANCE 
 
I)K. KKKIS' OFFICE. 
 
A CORNER IN DR. JESSE ROWE'S OFFICE. 
 
..Victoria of Meadow Farm 3rd. [Vol. ?/J 
 
 \ Vi: \KI.IM , CRUICKSHANK HEIFER, I PWNED HY DAWDV \ si IN 
 
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 RESIDKXCK OF MRS M. E. TROVILLO. 
 
RESIDENCE OF mix. HENRY FREV 
 
RESIDENCE OF s. T MOSSER 
 
RESIDENCE OF HON J. F, LATIMER. 
 
RESIDENCE OF CORLISS MOSSER 
 
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 RESIDENCE OF C. B. EDMONSON 
 
RESIDENCE I "■ S McWIIJ.IAMS. 
 
KHSIIU \i i mi 5TRAWTHER GIVENS. 
 
RESIDENCE OF G. W. CLINK. 
 
ki Mm NC E I 'I n ISE 1'H ROM! 
 
RESIDENCE OF F. P. FOLTZ. 
 
RESIDENCE OF DR. W, II. HELLER 
 
RESIDENCE OF FRED EHRENHART. 
 
DR. MADISON REECE. 
 
 No man who lias ever lived in Abingdon has com- 
 manded more respect and admiration than Dr. Madi 
 son Reece. His life was spent in labor among om 
 people. Such laborit was. as w ill make a lasting monu- 
 ment of love in the 
 hearts of the people. 
 Such labi >r was it as 
 lias made a fitting 
 theme for many a 
 glorious romam e 
 Main- a in a n h a s 
 won fame and for- 
 tune that has not 
 merited it one whit 
 more than did Dr. 
 .Madison Reece. 
 I lis life is rendered 
 all the more glorious 
 from tin- fact that 
 his purposes were 
 not mercenery; he 
 hi iked not with a 
 watchful eye on foi 
 tune or fame. He 
 was de.oted solely 
 to ministering to the 
 needs of humanity 
 without regard to 
 kith or kin. The 
 rich received n o 
 more consideration 
 at his hands than did those in poverty. 
 
 Where he was born and when, arc not what interest 
 us: it is the man himself that we admire. It is of the 
 personality of the man that we like to hear. Let it he 
 suihcient to say that Abingdon is proud to he called 
 
his birthplace. Here he was raised and 
 here it was that he grew to manhood. 
 He was surgeon for the 118 Illinois Vol- 
 unteer Infantry. Although almost a boy 
 in personal appearnee he won the respect 
 and admiration of all. He displayed skill 
 far in advance of his years. No one could 
 
 ever come in contact with him 
 without feeling the subtle refining 
 influence of his personality. When 
 he left the hospital every man was 
 sad; it was as if their guardian an- 
 o-el had departed. 
 & When the war was over he re- 
 
 "Dr. Reece was ever 
 loyal to Abingdon. I 
 have seen offers from 
 
 turned to Abingdon and took up the 
 practice that he laid down to enter the 
 service of his country. This practice he 
 continued until his death. We fain 
 would dwell on his generosity, his 
 loyalty, and his many other virtues, 
 but space forbids. Wehaveonly room 
 for a few remarks made at his funeral 
 by Hon. Henry Frey, at whose house 
 Dr. Reece lived for seventeen years. 
 
 large cities, promising 
 large salaries, but he 
 would not desert Abing- 
 don. * * * I never heard 
 
him speak an unkind word about any 
 man, woman or child. As a citizen he 
 had his honest convictions of what he 
 thought was right, and while he was 
 firm in those convictions, he was liberal 
 to others. * * * He was down on all dis- 
 
 honesty, whether religious, 
 
 political or financial. * * * * 
 As a physician he would at- 
 tend the poor as well as the 
 rich. I have known him to 
 go four or Cwq miles into the 
 country in all kinds of 
 weather where he knew he 
 would never .yet a cent. **** 
 Dr. Recce was not afraid of 
 death. No man need be 
 afraid of death that will give 
 his last dollar to a needy 
 one or who will amputate a 
 man's limb free and then 
 give him twenty-five dollars 
 with which to purchase an 
 artificial one." These few 
 remarks, made beside his 
 coffin, bv one who probably 
 knew him better than any 
 other living man, give an in- 
 sight into the true character 
 of the man. Pages and 
 pages might be written and 
 the memories of Dr. Reeee 
 still not h ave ju s t ie e . 
 However, he requires no eu- 
 logy; his life was a constant 
 glory. 
 
 i lut there in the cemetry 
 he lies, but his memory re- 
 mains as a precious heritage, 
 A mail can do no bettertlian 
 emulate his life, it being as 
 it wa s, a n unsurpassed < \ 
 ample of the blending- of 
 love, charity, loyalty, kind- 
 ness, and magnificent men- 
 tality. 
 
 His personality was such as would 
 inspire the poet to well write on his 
 grave stone the words : 
 
 'This was a .Man, ' 
 
 Mis. Madison Reece. 
 

 
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