NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11654 MERCER CO – JOHN CROW – Crow, Little, Campbell 11654 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, John Crow (deceased). Among the early settlers of Ashley Township none were better known or more highly respected than the subject of this sketch. Born in Mercer county, Kentucky, in March, 1792, he spent his youth on a farm, receiving such instruction at the schools of the county s was common in the times in which he lived. Before he had attained his majority, in October, 1812, he was married to Miss Polly Little of the same county with himself, and who survives her husband, and is one of the very oldest ladies now living in Pike county. Mr. Crow enlisted and took an active part in the War of 1812. His services were recognized by the government, and during his life he received a pension for the services rendered, and since his death, Mrs. Crow receives the same as the widow of a soldier of the War of 1812. In 1813 Mr. Crow’s family removed to Davis county, where they lived until 1824, when they came to Missouri, first settling in Boone county, where they stayed but twelve months, when they removed to Pike and settled on a farm near the site of the present town of Ashley. At this time there were but few settlers, neighbors were few, and the improvements meager and poor. Mr. Crow built the customary log-cabin in which they contrives to summer, without either widow or door. Louisiana [MO] was at this time the trading point for this settlement, and for even the smallest article the settlers were compelled to travel twenty miles. At Mr. Crow’s cabin was held the first religious exercises in the neighborhood, Rev. James W. Campbell occasionally preaching there by appointment. Mr. Crow was among the first to agitate the question of building a church, and to his zeal and energy much of the early interest exhibited in both educational and religious matters is to be attributed. He was a man of great energy and activity, and by his efforts and perseverance he succeeded in acquiring a good property. Mr. Crow was the father of eight children, six of whom are still living, and are recognized as good and worthy citizens in the several communities in which they reside. Mr. Crow died July 11, 1874, leaving not only his own family, but a large circle of neighbors and friends to mourn his loss. His wife still survives, but she, too, must ere long fall into the tomb, where, together, like weary travelers on their way to Jerusalem, they may rest until the trumpet of the archangel shall summon them to judgment and to an immortality of happiness and joy.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11653 BOURBON CO – CHARLES S. MARSHALL – Marshall, Price, Corbet, Hall, Reeves, Richland 11653 History of Montana, 1894. US Genweb Montana Archives. Charles S. Marshall, ex-Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Montana was born in Paris, Bourbon County Kentucky, January 19, 1821. He is of English origin and his ancestors came to the colony of Virginia in the early history of the country. The grandfather, Humphrey Marshall, was born in that state but afterward removed to and became a life long resident of Kentucky. He represented his State in the U.S. Senate from 1794 to 1800. He married his cousin, Mary Marshall, a sister of the U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. To that union were born two sons, John J. and Thomas A. The latter, the father of our subject, was born in Woodford County Kentucky in 1794. He married Miss Eliza Price, a native of Lexington Kentucky. Mr. Marshall was a lawyer and politician of Bourbon County, was elected to the State Legislature a number of times, also represented the Bourbon District of Kentucky in the U.S. Congress and in later life was Associate and Chief Justice. His death occurred at Louisville Kentucky, in 1871. Mrs. Marshall died at the age of eighty-one years. They were members of the Episcopal Church and were respected and esteemed citizens. Charles S. Marshall, one of seven children, four now living, was educated in the Bourbon Academy and in March 1849 graduated in the law department of the University at Lexington. For many years thereafter he was engaged in the practice of his profession in western Kentucky where he enjoyed the highest esteem of the bench and bar and also of the citizens of the state. Mr. Marshall was chosen by his fellow citizens to fill the offices of County Attorney, County Judge, Circuit Judge and Registrar in Bankruptcy. The Judge's eldest son, Judge Thomas C. Marshall acquired a large law practice in Missoula Montana and in 1888 induced his father to locate in this city. The latter purchased the pleasant and commodious residence where he now resides and intended to retire from active life. But in October 1889 he was chosen Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of Montana. He brought to his office much legal ability and experience, his decisions gave good satisfaction and his entire life has been one of high integrity and honor. Judge Marshall was married in Ballard County Kentucky, August 30, 1848 to Miss Emma V. Corbet, a native of that State and a daughter of Jacob Corbet for many years Clerk of the Circuit Court of Ballard County. Seven children have been born in this family: Susan Alice, widow of A.P. Hall and a resident of Missoula; Mary E., deceased in November 1889 was the wife of George W. Reeves, an attorney of this city; Thomas C., a lawyer of Missoula; Lucy E., wife of Dr. W.W. Richland of Kentucky; Jacob C., also a resident of that State and Emma Kate of Missoula. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have seventeen grandchildren.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11652 BALLARD CO – JOHN DAVIS – Davis, Perkins, Ashbrook, Douglas 11652: Kentucky: A History of the State, 1st Edition, Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and Marshall Counties Kentucky; Part II, Reprint; Battle, J. H. W. H. Perrin & G. C. Kniffin; Chicago, F A Battey Publishing Co, 1885. JOHN DAVIS was born January 8, 1835, in Graves County, Ky., and is the fourth of six children born to John F. and Pernicia (Perkins) Davis, natives of Livingston County, Ky., and of Irish and Dutch descent respectively. He was reared on a farm and attended the common school but very little; he was quite small when his mother died; his father was one of the first settlers of the Purchase and died in May, 1883, aged eigh­ty-four. When our subject was but seven years old he went to Logan County, Ky., where he lived with his uncle (S. N. Davis) till he was nineteen years old. When he returned to Ballard County, he settled in the neighborhood of where he now resides and where he engaged in farming and trading. He has been very successful in life, having started with little or no means, but by his industry and perseverance has established a home of 1,400 acres of land, 600 or 700 of which are improved. He has always sought a quiet life, and never sought to obtain noto­riety by dabbling in politics. He was married February 8, 1862, to Sarah Ashbrook, of Ballard County, a daughter of James and Margaret Ashbrook, of Irish origin. He has had born to him by this union nine children: James AV., Silas M., Florence, Sallie B., John, Rob Lee, Fannie May, Clada E. and Mandy I.; the last two are twins. Subject and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is a Mason. He cast his first presidential vote for Stephen A. Doug­las in 1860, and is still a Democrat. Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11651 SHELBY CO – SAMUEL T. BUSEY – Busey, Siegler, Bush, Yates, Grant, Canby, Andrews, Steel , Canon, Bowen, Trawin, Wilson, Webber, Brett, Carter 11651 A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago And New York, 1918.. General Samuel T. Busey. A soldier, banker, a patriot and public-spirited citizen, the late General Samuel T. Busey was without question one of the ablest factors in the history of Champaign County and was widely known and his leadership gratefully acknowledged throughout Illinois. Necessarily the name Busey is one that frequently recurs throughout the pages of Champaign County history. The family was founded here by Matthew W. Busey, father of General Busey. Matthew W. Busey was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, May 15, 1798, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Siegler) Busey. When he was a small boy they removed to Washington County, Indiana, where he learned the brick mason's trade. From 1823 until 1847 he followed the business of contractor and builder. It was in 1832, eighty-five years ago, that Matthew W. Busey first visited the region of eastern Illinois, including Champaign County. This was then a part of Vermilion County. During this visit he entered land from the Government on the site of what is now a part of the city of Urbana. In 1836 Matthew Busey brought h s family to Champaign County and lived there from that time until his death on December 13, 1852. He married in Washington County, Indiana, Miss Elizabeth Bush, who was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, March 6, 1801, and died in Champaign County in 1880. General Samuel T. Busey, the sixth child of his parents, was born at Greencastle, Indiana, in 1835. He was only an infant when the family removed to Champaign County and he grew up in almost a frontier community and had the advantages of such schools as were maintained here seventy or eighty years ago. His early experiences were those of his father's farm, but in 1856, when a little past twenty years of age, he entered merchandising. That was his active work until 1862, when he sold his business and prepared to assume the responsibilities of a patriot and defender of the flag. Obtaining a commission from the war governor, Richard Yates, he recruited a company and with it went into camp at Kankakee August 6, 1862. When the company organized he was elected captain. On the organization of the regiment he was elected colonel. His company was Company B, Seventy-sixth Illinois Infantry. On the 22d of August, 1862, the regiment started south for Columbus, Kentucky, which was then the base of supplies for Grant's army operating about Corinth. He afterwards joined the field forces at Bolivar, Tennessee, and subsequently was with Grant at Coffeeville, Mississippi. In 1863 Colonel Busey led his regiment to join Grant's army in the rear of Vicksburg. His regiment was closer to a rebel fort than any other regiment on the entire fourteen miles, they occupying the extreme left of the command. They arrived at Chickasaw Bayou the night Grant drove the Confederates into the Vicksburg strong-hold. After that city surrendered Colonel Busey was the first Union officer to enter. His able services again and again attracted the attention of his superiors, but he refused promotion to the rank of brigadier-general in order that he might not be separated from his comrades in the old regiment. Subsequently he was offered command of the post at Natchez, Mississippi, but he declined this for the same reason. On January 1, 1865, leaving Memphis with his regiment, he was the first to report to General Canby at New Orleans, went from there to Pensacola, Florida, later to Pollard, Alabama, and then moved down to Fort Blakeley, the last strong-hold in the rear of Mobile. This fort was carried by assault on the 9th of April, after a ten days' siege. Colonel Busey's regiment was the first to enter the works and it suffered greater loss than all the rest of the command. Colonel Busey was the second man to surmount the works, and his companion was killed and he himself wounded. He recuperated from his wound in the hospital at New Orleans, and it was June before he was able to rejoin his command. He went to Texas and was mustered out for discharge at Galveston and was given his honorable discharge at Chicago, August 6, 1865. Subsequently, on the recommendation of Generals Andrews, Steel and Grant, for his gallantry in leading his regiment in the assault on Fort Blakely, he was commissioned brevet brigadier-general, and by active and meritorious service perhaps not one of Illinois' brigadier-generals more completely deserved this honor. The war over, General Busey resumed civil life in the role of a farmer in Champaign County. In 1867, in company with his brother, Hon. Simeon H. Busey, he organized what is today known as Busey's State Bank at Urbana. General Busey afterwards bought his brother's interest and associated with him his nephew, Matthew W. Busey, in the management and direction of the bank's affairs. General Busey finally retired from active business affairs and lived quietly at his home in Urbana until his death on August 12, 1909. Politically he was a Democrat, one of the best qualified leaders of his party in this section of the State, and had the distinction of defeating Hon. Joseph G. Cannon for Congress. Mrs. Mary E. Busey, widow of the late General Busey, has long been identified with the life and affairs of her home county, and through her repeated elections to the post of trustee of the University of Illinois is one of the most widely known women of the State. Her maiden name was Mary Elizabeth Bowen. She was born in Delphi, Indiana, June 21, 1854, a daughter of Abner and Catherine J. (Trawin) Bowen. Her father was born in Dayton, Ohio, and her mother in Calcutta, India. Mrs. Busey's paternal grandparents were Enoch and Elizabeth (Wilson) Bowen, both natives of Pennsylvania. Her great-grandfather, David Bowen, was born in Pennsylvania. Her maternal grandparents were John and Mary (Webber) Trawin, and they and her great-grandmother, Sarah (Brett) Webber, were all natives of England. Mrs. Busey was educated in Vassar College, and on December 25, 1877, at her parents' home in Delphi, Indiana, she married General Busey. For forty years she has been a resident of Champaign County, and not only shared with her husband the many social distinctions paid them, but is active also in the responsibilities of home and the community. She is an active member of the Presbyterian Church and has served on the board of trustees for more than twenty-three years. For several successive terms she has also filled the post of trustee of the University of Illinois, having been re-elected in 1916. She is identified with the patriotic order, the Dames of the Loyal Legion and the Woman's Relief Corps. General and Mrs. Busey had three children. Marietta was married April 7, 1909, to Guy A. Tawney, who is head of the Department of Philosophy in the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Professor and Mrs. Tawney have two children, George Busey, born July 7, 1912, and Elizabeth, born February 4, 1916. The daughter Bertha lives at home with her mother in Urbana. Charles Bowen was married June 6, 1911, to Louise Carter of Dallas, Texas, and they now reside at Urbana. They have one child, Charles Bowen, Jr., born November 15, 1915.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11650 MADISON CO – WILLIAM HARRIS MILLER – Miller, Harris, Shackelford, Embry, Hunt, Rodes, Yerkes, Oldham, Brown 11650 History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State. Volume III Illustrated. The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago – Louisville, 1928 (Madison Co) William Harris Miller, of Richmond, has been a lifelong resident of Madison county. His long record as a public official was a most commendable one, being marked by strict fidelity to duty and notable ability in performing the functions of the various positions which he filled. His life has been an honor to his community and his unselfish and tireless devotion to public affairs was marked in the beneficent results. Mr. Miller was born on the 22d of October, 1852, and is a son of Christopher Irvine and Taletha (Harris) Miller. Both parents were also natives of Madison. The father, born in December, 1813, died November 14, 1878, while the mother was born in 1815 and died in 1882. Christopher I. Miller was a farmer and blacksmith and held a high place in the esteem of the community where he lived. William H. Miller obtained his education in the country schools and remained on the home farm until eighteen years of age. In 1870 he was appointed deputy county clerk under George D. Shackelford, and later served as deputy sheriff. In 1874 he became deputy clerk under William M. Embry, who was clerk of the circuit court, and retained that position until Mr. Embry’s death, when Circuit Judge Joseph D. Hunt appointed him clerk to fill the vacancy. At the election that year Mr. Miller was chosen clerk for a term of six years and in 1886 was reelected for a second term. He was defeated ford that office in 1892 and in 1894 was appointed United States general storekeeper and gauger in the internal revenue service. He proved a capable and efficient officer and later was made deputy collector under Charles H. Rodes, then collector of internal revenue, serving until the completion of Mr. Rodes’ term and continuing in the same capacity under John W. Yerkes until January 1, 1899, when he resigned. From that time until 1907 he followed farming and then became bookkeeper and teller in the old Richmond National Bank, now the Southern National Bank of Richmond. He filled that position in a capable and satisfactory manner until 1922, when he retired from active affairs and is now living quietly in his comfortable home in this city. On February 27, 1884, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Oldham, daughter of William Kavanaugh and Jacintha Catherine (Brown) Oldham, of Otter Creek, near Richmond. She died on April 29, 1915. Mr. Miller has made a deep study of the genealogy of Kentucky families, on which he is regarded as an authority, and has published a book containing the genealogies of many of the prominent families of Madison county.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11649 UNKNOWN CO – FELIX G. CAMPBELL – Campbell, Dooley, Wilson, Gilbert 11649 A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago And New York, 1918. Felix G. Campbell was a thoroughly practical and successful farmer before he took up the business of real estate, loans and insurance at Champaign, and in both lines his success has been noteworthy. He is still a farmer through ownership, though no longer a worker in the fields, and he now gives all his time to an extensive clientage in real estate and insurance. Mr. Campbell was born in Preble County, Ohio, November 11, 1848, and was four years of age when his parents, John W. and Margaret N. (Dooley) Campbell, moved to Peoria, Illinois. His father was a native of Kentucky and his mother of Illinois. John W. Campbell spent his active career as a farmer, largely in Peoria County, and finally, when he and his wife retired, they went to live with their daughter Addie, at that time in Burton, Kansas, where both of them died. They were the parents of seven children: Mary E., David O., Charles L., Samuel, all deceased; Addie, wife of William H. Wilson of Wichita, Kansas; Felix G.; and George W. of Lincoln, Nebraska. Felix G. Campbell grew up on an Illinois farm, attended district schools, and remained at home until he was twenty-four. At that date he left home and lived on rented farms for about five years, when he bought eighty acres of his own and subsequently another eighty acres, this 160 acres constituting a very fine improved farm in Peoria County. Later Mr. Campbell bought 160 acres in Champaign County. He still owns both farms. In 1892 he removed to Champaign and for a quarter of a century has been handling real estate, insurance and loans. Mr. Campbell is an active Republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. On September 4, 1872, he married Miss Alice Gilbert, a native of Peoria County. They are the parents of four children: Walter G., deceased; Maude, at home; Ralph M., associated with his father in business; and Leland L. of Champaign.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11648 MERCER CO – REV. B. F. TAYLOR – Taylor, Cobb, Slemons, Jenkins, Cook, Vaughn, Harvey, Smith, Wood, Cook, Bell, Lincoln 11648: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. (Mercer Co). REV. B. F. TAYLOR was born in Anderson County, Tenn., October 4, 1843, and is a son of Robert S. and Eliza (Cobb) Taylor, who reared a family of five children: John T., Margaret E., Benjamin F., Jennie L. and Anna C. The father, Robert S., was also born in Anderson County, Tenn., was a teacher in early life, later a farmer and slave-holder, and about 1874 moved to Lyon County, Kas., where he died November 12, 1877. His wife died in Mercer County, Ky., in 1867, aged about fifty-five. His father, John Taylor, came from Virginia, settled at Stanford, Ky., but afterward moved to Anderson County, Tenn., where he died. His wife was Eliza Slemons, who bore him one child. Mrs. Eliza (Cobb) Taylor born in North Carolina, was a daughter of Benjamin Cobb, who settled in Tennessee about 1820, but was born in New Jersey, and for a time resided in North Carolina. Rev. B. F. Taylor, at the age of sixteen, entered Ewing and Jefferson Colleges. When the wear broke out he enlisted in August, 1861, in Company K, First Kentucky Volunteers, and was by degrees promoted from private to major. He took part in all the engagements from Stone River to Atlanta, and was mustered out in 1864 at the expiration of his term of enlistment. He then came to Mercer County, Ky., engaged in farming, and January 17, 1867, married Mollie J., daughter of Rev. Strather and Lucy M. (Jenkins) Cook, natives of Boyle and Garrard Counties respectively. Two children have been the result of this union: Cordie A. and John C. Rev. S. Cook was a minister of the Baptist Church for fifty years, and was a son of George Cook, a native of Virginia, but of German descent. After his marriage B. F. Taylor continued farming until 1871, when he was converted, became a preacher in the Baptist Church in November, 1872, and was ordained July 17, 1874, by Elders T. M. Vaughn, W. P. Harvey, J. W. Smith, W. T. Wood, S. Cook and T. C. Bell. Since then he has been actively engaged in the ministry in Washington, Mercer, Garrard, Lincoln and Boyle Counties, and is now moderator of the South District Baptist Association of Kentucky. He is a Free Mason and an Odd Fellow, and in 1864 cast his first presidential vote for Lincoln.

There will be no post tomorrow - Sandi NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11647 SHELBY CO – MATTHEW WALES BUSEY – Busey, Jones, Siegler, Bush, Sim, McClain, Allen, Freeman, Morgan, Riley, Richards, Black, Churchill 11647: A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago And New York, 1918. (Shelby Co) Matthew Wales Busey. Of the native sons of Champaign County who have been factors in the development of the county's resources, one of the most prominently known is Matthew W T ales Busey, president of Busey's State Bank at Urbana. As one of the leading bankers of his section he has contributed to the advancement of the agricultural interests of Champaign County, and in his capacity of private citizen has ever been found ready to lend encouragement and support to the movements which have made for progress in his fertile and enterprising part of the State. Matthew Wales Busey was born at Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois. December 7, 1854, being a son of Simeon Harrison and Artimesia (Jones) Busey. His paternal grandfather was Matthew W. Busey, who was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, May 15, 1798, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Siegler) Busey\ The family removed to Washington County, Indiana, when Matthew W. Busey, the elder, was still a youth, and there he learned the trade of brick mason, later becoming a contractor and builder, a business which he followed with success from 1823 to 1847. In 1832 he visited the region of Champaign County, which was then a part of Vermilion County, and entered land from the United States Government on the site of what is now a part of the city of Urbana. In 1836 he removed with his family to Champaign County, and continued to make this section his home during the remainder of his life, his death occurring here December 13, 1852. Mr. Busey had married Miss Elizabeth Bush while residing in Washington County, Indiana, in 1821. She was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, March 6, 1801, and died in 1880. She was the mother of eight children, Simeon H., John Simpson, Samuel Thompson, Mathew D., Mary C. Kirkpatrick, Sarah A. Sim, Elizabeth F. McClain and Louisa J. Romine, all of whom survived their parents. Simeon Harrison Busey was born October 24, 1824, at Greencastle, Indiana, and was twelve years of age when brought to Champaign County, Illinois, where, as his father had at that time taken up farming and stock-raising, the youth was reared in an agricultural atmosphere. He also had influences that were an incentive to the highest degree of effort to realize his individual capacity. His father was an active member of the Baptist Church and had served as a colonel in both the Illinois and Indiana State Militia, was for two terms a member of the State Legislature and had also acted as judge of the County Court. Simeon H. Busey, as he grew older, adopted farming and stock-raising, and eventually acquired extensive holdings in the rich farm lands of this section and did his work on a large scale. The competence he thus acquired led him into the financial and industrial development of a new country and he assisted in the organization of the First National Bank of Champaign. Soon afterward, however, he disposed of his interest in that institution and in 1868, with his brother, Colonel Samuel T. Busey, organized Busey's Bank at Urbana, with which he was connected until a short time prior to his death, which occurred at Urbana, June 3, 1901. He was a born financier, and upon entering the banking business soon became known as such, and his judgment was much sought and relied upon in business matters. On September 22, 1848, at Greencastle, Indiana, Simeon H. Busey married Miss Artimesia Jones, and brought his young bride to the Illinois home which he had prepared for her and where the young people soon became important factors in the social and intellectual life of the community. Artimesia Jones was born at Greencastle, Indiana, October 26, 1826, was reared in that State, and after a residence at Urbana of nearly sixty-six years she passed away July 18, 1914. Her father, John Wesley Jones, was born in England, November 16, 1794, and married Alice Allen, who was born October 20, 1798. They were married in Indiana. Nine children were born to Simeon H. Busey and wife: John Wheeler Busey; Matthew W.; George W. Busey, who is president of the First State Bank of Fisher, Illinois; James B. Busey, a farmer and a banker at Mahomet; Alice J. Freeman, wife of Gus T. Freeman of Urbana; Ann Augusta Morgan, a resident of Urbana, Illinois; Elizabeth Frances Riley, wife of Ozias Riley of Champaign; Lucy Ann, who died in infancy; and William H. Busey, who died aged forty years. Simeon H. Busey was a member of the First Baptist Church of Urbana, was a charter member of the local Masonic Lodge, and in politics a Democrat. He served as a member of the State Legislature and besides his local banking connections was one of the organizers and a director of the Bankers National Bank of Chicago up to the time of his death. He was one of the active workers in securing the location of the University of Illinois at Urbana, as well as in securing the location of the railroad running from Peoria to Indianapolis, now part of the Big Four System. Matthew W. Busey was well educated for his work in life, both theoretically and practically. He attended the Urbana schools and in 1875, at the age of twenty-one, became bookkeeper in the bank of Busey Brothers. In November, 1879, he bought his father's interests, and in 1888 became president of Busey's Bank, a position he has held until the present date, almost thirty years. He is also president of the Ogden Bank of Ogden, Illinois, the Exchange Bank of St. Joseph, Illinois, and the Commercial Bank of Champaign. Mr. Busey has in many ways used his position and influence as a banker to promote agricultural prosperity and the solution of the many problems connected with the betterment of country life in America. He has acquired extensive interests in Champaign County farms and also owns a large amount of land in Mississippi and other sections of this State. In 1905 Mr. Busey was appointed treasurer of the University of Illinois. He has also been a member of the executive committee of the Illinois Bankers' Association. On November 15, 1877, at Tolono, Illinois, he married Miss Katherine W. Richards. She was born at Warm Springs, Virginia, October 20, 1857, and was educated at the State Normal University at Normal, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Busey have two children. Paul Graham Busey, the son, was born at Urbana October 5, 1880, was educated in the public schools, the University of Illinois, the Art Institute at Chicago, and is now vice-president of Busey's State Bank, with his home at Urbana. He married Miss Clara Blanche Black, of Urbana, and they have one child, Patricia Blanche. Virginia Busey, the daughter was born at Urbana, November 4, 1883, and was also liberally educated, attending the Urbana public schools, the University of Illinois, the National Park Seminary at Washington, D. C., and Smith College. She is now the wife of Dr. James F. Churchill, of Chicago, and they reside at San Diego, California. They have one son, Robert Busey. Mr. Matthew W. Busey is a Democrat in his political affiliations, but his business interests have been so extensive that he has not found time to enter actively into politics. He is well known in fraternal circles, being a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Knight Templar body and Medinah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Chicago, Illinois. He is also a member of Urbana Lodge, B. P. O. E. When a young man he served his time in the National Guard.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11646 BALLARD CO – COL. W. M. COFFEE – Coffee, Gilbreath, , Baldwin, Oakley, Grimes, Neal, Straughn, 11646: Kentucky: A History of the State, 1st Edition, Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and Marshall Counties Kentucky; Part II, Reprint; Battle, J. H. W. H. Perrin & G. C. Kniffin; Chicago, F A Battey Publishing Co, 1885. Pg. 115-116 COL. W. M. COFFEE, one of the lead­ing prominent farmers and stock-raisers of Ballard County, Ky., was born August 22, 1823, in Maury County, Tenn.; he is the twelfth of fourteen children, seven boys and seven girls, born to Nathan and Elizabeth (Gilbreath) Coffee: his paternal grandparents were Chesley and Mary (Baldwin) Coffee; on his mother's side there were Hugh and Nancy (Cleveland) Gilbreath. His parents hailed originally from North Carolina, at an early day moved to Adair County, Ky., and in 1803 moved to Maury County, Tenn. The subject of our sketch was reared on a farm, entered Jackson College at Columbia, Tenn., in 1841, and graduated in the year 1845; be­gan the study of law the same year of his graduation, reading in the office of Judge Gilchrist Porter in Bowling Green, Mo., and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In February, 1849, he moved to Blandville, Ballard Co., Ky., farmed and practiced his profession till 1853, in which year he was elected to the State legislature from the counties of McCracken and Ballard, after which he devoted his time and energies to farming and the mercantile business, which he followed till the year 1861; and when Ballard County was entitled to a separate representative he was nominated in June, 1861, by a Democratic convention, and was elected to the legislature without opposition. He resigned in October, 1861, and joined the Southern Confederacy. After the war was over he returned to his home in Ballard County, Ky., and engaged in farming and stock-raising, and established the first drugstore in the county, at Blandville, which he has run with success, and by his energies and business qualifications has ac­cumulated quite a handsome amount, as well as educating and graduating three of his sons in fine professions. He was married in February, 1849, to Betty Ann Oakley, of Ballard County, Ky.; she was born in Lincoln County, Mo., and was a daughter of C. A. and Susan (Grimes) Oakley. To this union were born eight children: Eugene A. (now dead), Isaac N. (druggist in Cairo, Ill.), Dr. W. O., Luella (now Neal), Sallie D. (now Straughn), Sid J. (druggist in Blandville, Ky.), Jeff Davis (farmer), and Carrie S. Subject and wife are members of the Chris­tian Church, and he has been a member of the Masonic fraternity and the I. O. O. F. since his maturity. He owns over 1,000 acres of good land and quite a number of thorough­bred cattle.

11645 BOURBON CO – BENJAMIN MILLS – Mills, Talbot 11645: Historical Sketches of Kentucky published by Lewis Collins, Maysville, Ky.; and J. A. & U. P. James, Cincinnati, 1847.(Bourbon Co). BENJAMIN MILLS was born in the county of Worcester, on the eastern shore of Maryland, January 12th, 1779. While he was quite young, his family emigrated to the vicinity of Washington, Pennsylvania, where he obtained his education, and engaged in the study of medicine. While yet a youth, he was called to the presidency of Washington Academy, an institution which was soon after erected into Washington College, and which has sent from its walls a number of prominent public men. Having removed with his father to Bourbon county, Kentucky, and relinquished the study of medicine for that of the law, in 1805 or ’06, he commenced in Paris the practice of the latter profession. His abilities and diligence soon ensued him, in his own and the adjacent counties, an extensive practice. For several years he was elected to represent the county of Bourbon in the legislature, and in 1816 failed of an election to the senate of the United States, in competition with Isham Talbot, Esq., by only three votes. In 1817, to relieve himself from an oppressive and injurious practice of the law, he accepted the appointment of judge in the Montgomery circuit. In the succeeding year, by the unanimous request of the Fayette bar, he was transferred to that circuit. In 1820, he was elevated to a seat on the bench of court of appeals, which he filled with great firmness, through a period of extraordinary excitement with reference to the judiciary of the State, till he retired in 1828. Having resigned this post, he removed from Paris to Frankfort, to engage again in the practice of the law in the higher courts of the State. Success commensurate with his wishes again crowned his labors, till the morning of the 6th of December, 1831, when, by an apoplectic stroke, his mortal existence was terminated. As a man, Judge Mills was never remarkably popular. Though kind and faithful in every relation of life, he aimed, by a course of firm and inflexible integrity, rather to command the approbation than to win the affections of his fellow men. He was, to a very great extent, a self-made man, and affords a fine example of the ennobling tendency of republican institutions, and an encouragement to all meritorious young men who are struggling in obscurity and poverty. As a practitioner of the law, by a profound and thorough knowledge of its principles, and the most approved forms of practice, he soon rose to eminence. As a public speaker, he was clear, logical and forcible; but not possessing a fine voice, and seldom using the ornaments of rhetoric, he was less admired as an orator than many others. As a legislator, he was zealous and active in the preparation of wise, and the resistance of injudicious measures. Some of the most valuable provisions of the statutes of the state, had their origin in his conceptions. His efforts on the existing new election question in 1816, will be remembered by those familiar with the politics of that day, as having a great influence in settling a construction of the constitution, which, in several instance since, has been acquiesced in with happy effects by the people of the state. As a circuit judge, he conducted the business of the courts with uncommon industry and energy. The promptness and general accuracy of his decisions, and the perfect impartiality of his administration of justice, gained for him the respect of the orderly portion of the community. While on the bench of the court of appeals, his official acts tended not only to enlighten, but to enlarge the sphere of his profession, and to establish a system of legal policy alike favorable to the country and honorable to himself. His written opinions furnish abundant proofs of the clearness of his perceptions, the depth of his legal researches, the strength of his memory, his power of analysis, and the steadiness and sternness of his integrity. For the last twelve years of his life, he was a member of the Presbyterian church, and for a considerable portion of that time a ruling elder. His life, during this period, was in a high degree consistent with his profession; and the extent of his charities in the support of all the great benevolent enterprises of the day, was surprising to those who knew how limited were his means.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11644 SHELBY CO – CLYDE L. BUSEY – Busey, Sheppard, Wilson, Fisher, Gard 11644 A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago And New York, 1918. (Shelby Co). Clyde L. Busey, whose active part as a citizen of Champaign County is farming and managing one of the fine farms in Sidney Township, is one of the sturdy representatives of a name that has been identified with this section of Illinois since pioneer times. His father, Simeon Fountain Busey, was born in Sidney Township, February 12, 1854, a son of Fountain J. and Maria (Sheppard) Busey. Fountain J. was born in Kentucky and his wife in Ohio. Fountain Busey came to Champaign County in the early '40s and acquired and developed a handsome estate of farming land. His death occurred July 24, 1894, and his wife passed away October 2, 1889. They were the parents of thirteen children, five of whom are still living. Simeon F. Busey has always had his home in Sidney Township and his practical life has been spent in agriculture and its related activities. He is a Democrat and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. On January 16, 1879, he married Fannie B. Wilson, who was born in Ohio. They had only two children, Clyde L. and Ruth. The daughter was born April 6, 1387, and died June 9, 1908, at the age of twenty-one. Clyde L. Busey was born on his father's farm in Sidney Township, March 4, 1880, and besides the rural schools he attended the high school at Sidney. His early experiences were as a farmer with his father and for two years he was in the wholesale grocery business at Danville, Illinois. Since then he has been at home and is now working 160 acres as a general farming and stock raising proposition. On January 5, 1909, he married Leah Fisher. Mrs. Busey was born at Sidney, daughter of Luther and Eunice (Gard) Fisher, her father a native of Champaign County and her mother of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Busey had one child, a daughter, who died in infancy. Mr. Busey is a Republican, a member of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias, and with his wife attends the Methodist Episcopal Church.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11643 BOYD CO – THOMAS KELLEY REYNOLDS – Reynolds, Kelley, Crum, Buckner, Daniel 11643 A HISTORY OF KENTUCKY BAPTISTS from 1769 to 1885 by J. H. Spencer, Vol. II, 1886. (Boyd Co) THOMAS KELLEY REYNOLDS, son of Elder Thomas Reynolds, was born in Rutherford county, N. C., December 29, 1815. He received a moderate common school education, including a fair knowledge of English grammar. After the removal of his parents to Kentucky, he obtained a hope in Christ, and was baptized for the fellowship of Union church in what is now Boyd county, by John Kelley, in 1838. In the same year, he was married to Letitia Crum, sister of the well known Elder J. D. Crum of Boyd county. He began to exercise in public prayer and exhortation, in 1844, and was ordained to the ministry, by Thomas Reynolds, H. F. Buckner and W. W. Daniel, in 1845. Immediately upon his ordination, he assumed the care of New Salem church, and subsequently became pastor of Bethel, Union and Friendship churches. From that period, he was among the most active and efficient preachers in Greenup Association, for about thirty years, when his health failed. He was pastor, at different times, of about twenty churches in Kentucky and the adjacent borders of Ohio and Virginia. For about three years, he was missionary of the General Association in Boyd and adjoining counties. He has baptized 1,147 persons, and on account of his failing health, secured the services of other ministers to baptize about 500 others, who were converted under his ministry. Except during the three years that he served the Board of the General Association, he labored in his holy calling, almost entirely without pecuniary compensation. In the prime of his ministry, he served five churches, preaching to one of them on week days, for a period of six years, for which he received only two dollars and fifty cents. Meanwhile, he supported his family by digging iron ore out of the hills around him. It is hardly to be wondered at, that his health gave way, and he became unable to labor, at an age when he should have been scarcely beyond the prime of manhood. He has sometimes been clerk, and sometimes moderator of Greenup Association. He is still living, but his emancipated form and shattered nerves forbid the hope that he will perform much more labor.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11642 UNKNOWN CO – HAL R. COLEMAN – Coleman, Trout, Price, Bryant, Mouser, Jones, Tyler, Hinkley, Dunham, Hard, Gallup, Henry, Menkins, Hinkley, Primm, De La Pryme, Le Roux D'Esnavel, Insman, Guion, Menkens, Leverich, Poepping 11642 Centennial History of Missouri. Hal R. Coleman, attorney at law with offices in the Central National Bank building in St. Louis, was born in Warren county, Missouri, December 25, 1878, a son of the late Daniel T. Coleman, a native of Kentucky and a grandson of Jesse and Mary Ann (Trout) Coleman, who were likewise Kentuckians by birth. They came to Missouri in 1841 and here Jesse Coleman devoted his attention to farming and stock raising. He also served his country as a soldier in the Mexican war. The Coleman family comes of English and Scotch ancestry, the progenitor of the American branch being Captain Benjamin Coleman, who arrived in the new world in the seventeenth century, settling in North Carolina when that state was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain. He served as a captain in the Fifth North Carolina Continental Regiment and on the 30th of April, 1777, was taken a prisoner at Charleston. On the 12th of May, 1780, he was made brevet major of the Second Regiment. He afterward became an active member of the Society of Cincinnati and he passed away in Trimble county, Kentucky, in 1804, at the age of fifty-three years, his birth having occurred on the 23d of May, 1751. (See History of North Carolina Troops in the War of the Revolution, pp. 42 to 92.) Representatives of the family removed from North Carolina to Kentucky and thence to Missouri, thus becoming actively identified with the pioneers in the westward movement, which resulted in reclaiming wild and undeveloped regions for the purpose of civilization. Daniel T. Coleman was a soldier of the Civil war, serving under General Morgan throughout the entire period of hostilities between the north and the south. After leaving college he gave his attention to agricultural pursuits and stock raising and on attaining manhood he took over a part of the old homestead which his father had preempted from the government. Mr. Coleman was a stanch democrat in his political views, but never sought nor filled public office. However, he always manifested a keen and active interest in electing good men to positions of public honor and trust and in many ways aided in promoting the welfare and progress of the community in which he lived. His father, Jesse Coleman, attained the ripe old age of eighty-nine years, while Daniel T. Coleman reached the age of eighty-three years when death called him on the 6th of July, 1920. They were leaders in founding the Hickory Grove church, one of the first Christian churches established in Missouri and Warren county. In early manhood Daniel T. Coleman married Sarah Price , a native of Missouri and a daughter of Job and Sarah (Bryant) Price, both representatives of old Virginia families that sent their members to aid in the pioneer settlement of Missouri. Job Price was an own cousin of General Sterling Price of Civil war fame and he devoted his life to farming and the raising of stock and before the abolition of slavery was the owner of a large number of slaves. In fact he was one of the wealthiest citizens of his part of Warren county, Missouri, having his property in slaves and land. His daughter, Mrs. Daniel T. Coleman, passed away in 1908 at the age of seventy-five years. By her marriage she had become the mother of eight children, five sons and three daughters, namely: Jessie L., born in 1868, is the widow of Rev. Harold Mouser, a minister of the Christian church, who was the son of the Rev. J. E. Mouser and a widely known and prominent. clergyman of Missouri. Mrs. Monser resides at Decatur, Illinois, and is the mother of three children-John, Paul and Mary Mouser, her second son having been an ensign in the United States navy. Leon P. Coleman, the second member of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Coleman, was born in Warren county, Missouri, in 1869 and Is now a resident of Little Rock, Arkansas, where he is engaged in the real estate business. He married Lois Jones of Versailles, Morgan county, Missouri, who died at the birth of their only child, Lois, who also died at the birth of her only child, Jean Volle. The third child of Daniel T. Coleman, Mary, was born in 1870, and is the wife of Spencer Tyler, member of an old St. Charles county, Missouri, family now residing at Malden, Dunklin county, Missouri. They have four children-Gilbert Coleman, Jessie, Daniel and Mary Ruth Tyler. Dr. Charles B. Coleman, the fourth of the family, was born in 1872, and is a practicing dentist of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He married Ruth Hinkley, of Belleville, Illinois, and they have two children-Daniel Bernard, now attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Boston; and Thelma, now a student at the University of California. Dr. William Walter Coleman, the fifth of the family, was born in 1874, is a practicing physician and served as a captain in the Ninety-second Regiment Texas and Western Troops in the World war. He married Nellie Dunham and they have one son, Walter Dan, their home being in Lincoln, Illinois. The sixth member of the family is Frank B. Coleman, who was born in Warren county, Missouri, December 22, 1876, and is a prominent attorney of St. Louis, who was graduated from the Washington University with the class of 1901. He also attended Normal School at Warrensburg, Missouri, and the State University and prior to entering upon the practice of law taught school for five years in Missouri. He married Irma Hard, of Oneida, New York, and they have three children, Marian Anna, Dorothy Jean and George Block. Mrs. Frank B. Coleman is a representative of one of the oldest New England families, her people having settled in Connecticut in the early part of the seventeenth century, the ancestry in the maternal line being traced back to Captain John Gallup. The seventh member of the family is Hal R. Coleman, of this review. The youngest, Anna C. Coleman, born in 188'1., is the wife of Oscar Henry, a resident of Warren county and to them have been born three children, Daniel, Frank and Elizabeth Ann. Hal R. Coleman, after attending the public schools of his native county, continued his education in the Missouri State Normal at Warrensburg find in the William Jewell College, in the Missouri State University and in the Washington University of St. Louis. In the last named institution he pursued his professional law course until 1904, when he turned his attention to journalism and was assistant editor of the St. Louis Chronicle, while later he was connected with the Knoxville Sentinel, Knoxville, Tennessee. He then entered upon the practice of law in St. Louis in 1906 and through the intervening period has continuously followed his profession with good results. He ever prepared his cases with thoroughness and care and the clearness of his reasoning and the soundness of his logic are strong elements In the attainment of success. He is a member of the legal staff of the United Railway Company of St. Louis and belongs to the St. Louis Bar Association. On the 14th of October, 1919, Mr. Coleman was married to Miss Marie Isabelle Menkens, of Webster Groves, Missouri, the wedding being celebrated at the Webster Groves Presbyterian church. She is a daughter of Theodore and Jennie (Hinkley) Menkens. Her grandmother in the paternal line was a member of the Primm family (originally De La Pryme) one of the early French families of Carondelet, now St. Louis. Her great-grandfather was mayor of Carondelet, at which time the town was composed entirely of French settlers, and earlier progenitors of her line came from Fort Chartres, with the Laclede and Chouteau expedition that founded St. Louis in 1764. (See Missouri History Society Column, vol. IV, 1913, article on "Judge Primm.") The Primms were descended from Alexander De La Pryme, a gentleman of the town of Ypres, France, who was granted a patent of gentility by the Roman pontiff for meritorious services under Phillip of Alsace in the second crusade. The family, having embraced the reformed religion, were forced to leave the continent by Cardinal Richelieu after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and settled in England. Abraham De La Pryme moved to the Isle of Man in 1725 and his second son John, immigrated to America, settling in Virginia in 1750. He married an English woman and reared a family of four sons, one of whom, John, was a colonel in the Revolutionary war and took part in the siege of Yorktown, and witnessed the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to Washington. He afterward settled in St. Clair county, Illinois, in 1803. In deference to the prejudice existing against French names at that time, the "De La" was dropped and the spelling changed to the present form, "Primm." In 18(12 Colonel John Primm moved west with his family, the eldest of whom, Peter, was the father of Judge Wilson Primm, a noted lawyer, judge and mayor of Carondelet during the old French days in St. Louis. Peter Primm was married to Marie Angelique Le Roux D'Esnavel, whose father was one of four brothers named Le Roux D'Esnavel, three of whom fled from France during the reign of terror in 1793, and the other was colonel in the Body Guard of Louis XVI and was guillotined, after the attack on the Tuileries, August 10, 1792. Only gentlemen of three generations of nobility could serve on the King's 'Military Staff. Both the De La Pryme and the Le Roux D'Esnavel families belonged to the nobility of France. The Pryme coat of arms- is on poignard and crossed quarterly crest across. Motto, "Animos Certavit" (He has fought courageously). The Le Roux D'Esnavel bears six quarterings, surmounted by a Marquis' coronet. (See Missouri Historical Society collections, Vol. IV, 1913, p. 130). See registers a La Billothgne National a La Paris, France: also Archaelogin, Vol. 40 De La Pryme. Also Colonel Henry Insman " The old Santa Fe Trail" (Macmillan Company, Ch. 8, p. 114). Also records in Old Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri, and Scharf's History of St. Louis and Billon's Annals of Old St. Louis; also Missouri Historical Society Collections, Vol. IV, 1913. Jean Baptiste Wilson Primm (Judge Wilson Primm) married Marguerite Guion and had several children, one of whom, Virginia Isabelle, married Theodore Menkens, whose son Edward Theodore Menkens, father of Mrs. Coleman, married Jane Wiggins Hinkley, of Belleville, Illinois, May 13, 1884. Judge Primm was the founder of the Missouri Historical Society and Law Library of St. Louis, and the author of many well known works on the history of old St. Louis. (See Missouri Historical Society Collections, Vol. IV, 1913). Jane Wiggins Hinkley was descended from the Hinkley family. The first of whom we have authentic record is Samuel Hinkley, born in Lenterden, Kent county, England, in 1595, and descended from the Norman family of "Hengele," who went to England with William, the Conqueror. One of the Hengeles, there are records to show, was a lord high sheriff of Warwickshire, England, and entertained Queen Elizabeth on one of her journeys, was knighted by her, and the coat of arms is still in existence in the English branch of the family and also in the American branch. A town in Leicestershire, England, one hundred miles northwest of London is called Hinkley to this day. Thomas Hinkley, son of the lord high sheriff of Warwickshire and known in history as Governor Hinkley, was born in 1618, came to New England in 1634 and lived and died in Barnstable. Massachusetts. He was a lawyer by profession, fifty years in public office as deputy to the colonial court, assistant governor, magistrate, governor of Plymouth Colony, commissioner of the Virginia colonies of New England, etc. There is an unbroken line of record on down through the Indian fighting days of New England. Some o the Hinkleys served in the Revolutionary and Mexican wars. Russell Hinkley married Jane Townson Leverich of Newtown, Long Island, New York, January 6, 1846, and was the father of Jane Wiggins Hinkley and grandfather of Mrs. Hal R. Coleman. He settled in St. Clair county, Illinois, in 1833 and was in his youth connected with L. B. Wiggins Company of St. Louis, later the Wiggins Ferry Company and was for many years a prominent banker and mill owner of Belleville, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Coleman have one child, Jacqueline Lorraine, who was born in St. Louis, March 31, 1921. She was named after Jacqueline (Primm) Poepping, daughter of Judge Wilson Primm and she is noted for her musical talent. During the World war Mr. Coleman served on the draft board and was an applicant for active army service in the field artillery, at the officer's training camp at Fort Taylor, Kentucky, but the armistice was signed before he had a chance to go to the front. He finds his recreation in tennis, golf, canoeing and horseback riding, and for pastime has written numerous short stories published in well known magazines. He Is fond of music and art and has visited most of the noted European art galleries. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and he has always kept in touch with the vital political problems of the age, yet has never sought nor desired office. He belongs to the City Club, the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association, the Odd Fellows and Modern Woodmen of America, and is also a member of the Central Presbyterian church. All who know him bear testimony to the sterling traits of his character and his entire record has been in harmony with that of an honorable and honored ancestry.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11640 UNKNOWN CO - HENRY M. BROWNFIELD – Brownfield, Mullens, Price, Hulbert, McClughen, McCammon, Mahorney 11640 A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago And New York, 1918. Henry M. Brownfield is one of the old timers of Champaign County and has had his home in this region since early childhood and for a period of more than sixty years. The honor and respect due him are the result not only of long residence, painstaking work and management as a practical farmer, but also to his most creditable record as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mr. Brownfield is a native of Missouri, having been born in Shelby County, October 15, 1842. His parents, John R. and Susan (Mullens) Brownfield, were both natives of Kentucky, and were pioneers in north-eastern Missouri, where they married. In 1851 the family came to Illinois and settled eight miles north of Urbana. Henry M. Brownfield was one of seven children. He obtained his early education by attending an old log school house on the prairie, known as the Peters' school. He had barely finished his lessons when the war cloud arose, and in the exciting times of 1861, when every youth responded to the call of patriotism, he enlisted at Homer, and was sent to Hannibal, Missouri, where on October 1, 1861, two weeks before his nineteenth birthday, he was sworn into the service of the United States. He remained performing camp duty at Hannibal from October to the following February. Mr. Brownfield was a member of Company F of the Twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry. He was in active service almost continuously throughout the four years of the war. His first service was with Pope's expedition down the Mississippi River to Island No. 10. He and his comrades fought at New Madrid, Missouri, had a skirmish at Point Pleasant, and were in the Missouri campaign from March 6, to April 6, 1862. Crossing the Mississippi, they captured Rebel prisoners at Island No. 10, and then at New Madrid they took a boat and went to Corinth, landing above Shiloh. They fought at Farmington, near Corinth, and took part in the siege of that Mississippi city. They next followed General Price down to Ripley, returned to Camp Clear Creek, and then had a part in the great battle at Luka, Mississippi, where the Union troops won the day. The Union forces there were under the command of General Rosecrans and 400 of the Union command were killed. They fought Price's command two days at Corinth, on October 3 and 4, 1862, and then followed the retreating Confederates for two days from Corinth. Price made a turn and came back and struck General Hulbert, soon again in retreat, and the Illinois troops captured all his camp equipment. The command in which Mr. Brownfield was a member then returned to Corinth, and soon took up the Vicksburg campaign. Here under Sherman Mr. Brownfield was in some of the notable exploits of the campaign. He was on the transports convoyed down the Mississippi by Porter's fleet, running past the batteries at Vicksburg, down to the mouth of the Yazoo River and up that stream to Snyder's Bluff. Here they were in camp until Pemberton surrendered Vicksburg to Grant. They next took part in the sixteen days' siege of Jackson, returning to Vicksburg and taking boat for Memphis, and from there went east in the campaign involving the battles of Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga. He was in the battle of Missionary Ridge and was then part of the expedition sent to relieve the besieged Knoxville. After that the troops returned to Chattanooga and from there to Colliersville. On January 4, 1864, Mr. Brownfield reenlisted for the three years or during the war. He had had a long and arduous experience, but was not yet satisfied, and determined to see the war victoriously completed. At his reenlistment he and his comrades were given a thirty days' furlough and he spent that time pleasantly visiting his Illinois home. He rejoined his command at Colliersville, and was then on the march to the sea with Sherman. Many times he sang the famous sons which celebrated that march, and it is the testimony of Mr. Brownfield that it was much easier to sing it than make the march itself. He fought at Kingston, and at Dallas, Georgia, on May 28th was wounded in the shoulder and jaw and was sent to a hospital. He was given a furlough July 12th, and again went home for thirty days. In November, 1864, he tried to rejoin his command, but got only as far as Chattanooga, where he spent the winter. He was then sent to Nashville, and took boat up the Ohio River. The boat stuck in the ice and the troops were taken off and transported by railroad through Cincinnati to Pittsburgh, to Harrisburg, to Annapolis, Maryland, and there conveyed down the bay and around the sea past Cape Henry and Cape Hatteras, where the vessel encountered a severe gale and he suffered the inclemencies of the rough sea for four days and four nights. The troops were finally landed at Morehead City, North Carolina, fought at Newbern and near Raleigh, and were clearing that district of the remnants of the Confederate Army when peace was declared and the glad tidings of Lee's surrender were hailed with joy by all the weary soldiers, particularly Mr. Brownfield, who had been out for nearly four years. On July 2, 1865, the veteran soldier, still not yet twenty-three years of age, was mustered out at Louisville, Kentucky, and returned home. During one of his furloughs he had married Miss Elizabeth McClughen. Mrs. Brownfield was born in St. Joseph Township of Champaign County, a daughter of Robertson and Jane (McCammon) McClughen. Her parents were natives of Ohio, and had come to Illinois when quite young and were married in Champaign County. Elizabeth McClughen was one of nine children and she received her early advantages with her brothers and sisters in an old log cabin school house. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Brownfield settled in Urbana. Ten children were born to them, named Oscar M., Clara lona, Susan Orpha, Charles, George, Rosa, Freddie, Grace, Simeon and Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Brownfield gave their children all possible advantages and sent them to the Pleasant Grove school. Again and again have these worthy people experienced the sorrows of mortal life, and one by one they laid their children to rest, until only one now survives. This is the youngest daughter, Jane. She was liberally educated and was a successful school teacher in Champaign County, as was also her husband. She married Norton Mahorney. They have one child, Corrinne Elizabeth, born June 27, 1917, the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Brownfield, and the delight of the entire family. Mr. and Mrs. Brownfield enjoy a comfortable home in St. Joseph Township, and while the years have brought them many sorrows they have also brought them the satisfaction of efforts extended and the results of fruitful toil. Both are active members of the Christian Church, and in politics Mr. Brownfield is a Republican. He served as constable four years and has always done his part in community affairs.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11639 SIMPSON CO – MAJOR AMOS HALL – Hall, Strickland, Campbell, McCurdy 11639: Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume IV – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. (Simpson Co). MAJ. AMOS HALL was born in Chatham County, N. C., September 9, 1803, and is the second in a family of eleven children born to John C. and Sallie (Strickland) Hall, both of whom were natives of North Carolina and of English descent. John C. Hall was educated and married in his native State, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until the spring of 1803, when he emigrated with his wife and family to what is now Simpson County, Ky., then almost an unbroken wilderness. Here he bought wild land, moved into a log cabin, and subsequently improved a farm. He continued to add to his real possessions until he was the owner of well improved farms in same neighborhood, accounting in the aggregate to about 1,000 acres, a part of which he afterward deeded to his children. His death occurred September 4, 1847, in his seventy-fifth year, and was caused by his being stabbed by a drunken man with whom he had a dispute concerning the boundary of some lands. His father, Amos Hall, Sr., the grandfather of Maj. Amos Hall, was a veteran of the Revolutionary war, and was killed at the battle of Lindley’s Mills, North Carolina. The death of Mrs. Sallie Hall occurred in 1862, in her seventy-fifth year. She was from her girlhood a member of the Methodist Church South. Maj. Amos Hall received a fair common school education in youth, for that early day, at the old field schools taught in the rude schoolhouses of the Kentucky frontier, which were of the primitive sort, with puncheon floors and clapboard roofs. He was employed on his father’s farm until he was twenty-seven years old, after which he brought 100 acres of wild land, in the southwest part of Simpson County, Ky., on the waters of Spring Creek, and subsequently improved the farm upon which he still resides. He continued to add to his place from time to time, now owning a well improved farm (one of the best improved places in the county) of some 600 acres. In early life he was a captain in the State Militia, and was promoted to major. He married, in March, 1829, Sallie Campbell, a native of Logan County, Ky., born February 16, 1809. She was a daughter of Gen. Archibald M. and Elizabeth (McCurdy) Campbell. One son blessed their union, viz.: Col. Amos B. Hall, who still resides on the old homestead with his father. Mrs. Sallie Hall departed this life September 9, 1884, in her seventy-sixth year. She was a member of no church, but was nevertheless a devout Christian. In politics Maj. Hall is a Democrat and is one of the early pioneers and enterprising and successful farmers, as well as one of the prominent and respected citizens of the county and district.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11638 HARRISON CO – J. B. DUNN – Dunn, Kerns, Hunt, Doll, Snyder, Besore, Phenicie, Swisher, O’Day 11638: A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago And New York, 1918. J. B. Dunn, after many years of activity as an agriculturist in Champaign County, is living retired in the comforts and conveniences of a good town home on Third Street in St. Joseph. Mr. Dunn is a native of the grand old Blue Grass country of Harrison County, Kentucky. His parents were Benjamin F. and Rachel (Kerns) Dunn, also natives of Kentucky. Mr. Dunn grew up in Kentucky and acquired his education by attending about three months every year a subscription school. When he was ten years of age he lost the guidance and care of his mother and some years later his father moved to Illinois. The family arrived in Champaign County October 18, 1871, when J. B. Dunn was twenty years of age. This was only a few days after the great Chicago fire, and much excitement prevailed and all the talk on the train was of the terrible disaster. The family location was in Somer Township, near Locust Grove. On coming to this county J. B. Dunn obtained work as a farm laborer, and afterwards, with a view to bettering his condition, farmed on the shares. He continued in this way three years. August 3, 1878, he established a home of his own by his marriage to Matie L. Hunt. Mrs. Dunn was born in Stanton Township of Champaign County, daughter of Jonathan Hunt. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Dunn rented 200 acres in Stanton Township, and they worked hard, economized and remained on that site for eight years, at the end of which time they had acquired some capital with which to make a real start in life. Mr. Dunn then bought a farm for $40 an acre and when he got on land of his own his enthusiasm was born anew and with bountiful crops rewarding his labors he was soon on the highway to independence and success. Into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dunn were born five children: Claud O., Lawrence E., Ethel Irene, Lena Ray and Merle. These children were educated in the district schools of Stanton Township. Claud and Lawrence were also students in the St. Joseph High School, and later both of them took a business course in a college at Marion, Indiana. That gave them superior equipment for their respective callings in life. Claud O. Dunn is a successful farmer near Elwell, Michigan. He married Leonet Doll of Elkhart, Indiana, and their three children are Everett, Florence and Hilda. The son Lawrence E., a successful stockman in Indianapolis, where he is a commission merchant, married Nellie Snyder. The daughter Ethel Dunn married Raymond Besore, and they live at Alma, Michigan, where Mr. Besore is proprietor of a steam laundry. They have a son, Lisle. Lena Ray Dunn married Otis Phenicie, a farmer in Stanton Township, and they have a son, Arden. Merle, the youngest child of Mr. Dunn, is associated with his brother in the stock business at Indianapolis, and both of them are doing very well for young men. Mr. Dunn's children have thus proved their ability to go out and cope with the problems of the world, and they are a credit and satisfaction to their father. The family has experienced the usual joys and sorrows of existence, and on July 23, 1903, the good wife and mother passed away. On October 24, 1906, Mr. Dunn married Mrs. Laura E. (Swisher) O'Day. They have a bright young daughter, Roxine Lucile, now seven years of age and in the third grade of the public schools. In 1912 Mr. and Mrs. Dunn decided to leave the farm and remove to the village of St. Joseph, where they purchased a fine brick residence on Third Street. Having spent many years as a practical farmer, Mr. Dunn is now able to enjoy thoroughly the leisure and comforts won by so much expenditure of effort. He and his wife are regular attendants of the Methodist Episcopal Church and their little daughter is a student in the Sunday school. In politics Mr. Dunn is a Democrat. He is affiliated with the Masonic order, being a charter member of St. Joseph lodge, while Mrs. Dunn is a member of the Eastern Star. Mr. Dunn is a man who with all the cares of his home and business has been willing to assume the burdens of public responsibility. He has filled several offices which indicate the confidence of the community in his judgment, such as road commissioner, township supervisor and school trustee. He is a man among men, interested in questions of vital interest to the public, and willing to get out and work for anything that concerns the welfare of Champaign County.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11637 JEFFERSON CO – AUGUST A. JEKEL – Jekel, Maeser, Velten, Hechler, Lind, Tatum, Mattes, Glanz, Chamberlain, 11637 Centennial History of Missouri. August A. Jekel, secretary and treasurer of the Reliable Life & Accident Insurance Company of St. Louis, was born in Germany, April 22, 1867, his parents being Henry and Katherine (Maeser) Jekel, both of whom were natives of Germany, where they were reared and married, the father there following the occupation of farming. Their family numbered five children, two sons and three daughters, of whom all are living, namely: Katherine, the wife of George H. Velten of Germany; Mrs. Bertha Hechler, a widow, living in Germany; August A., who is the third in order of birth; Eliza, the wife of Adolph Lind of Germany; and Carl, who is married and makes his home in Germany. August A. Jekel was educated in his native country, his training being equivalent to that of a high school education in America. He afterward worked at the butcher's trade in Germany to the age of twenty-six years, and then resolved to try his fortune in America. Accordingly he crossed the Atlantic and on the 12th of November, 1894, arrived on the shores of the new world. He made his way first to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was employed as a butcher until May 20, 1900. He then became agent for the Prudential Insurance Company of Louisville, Kentucky, and proving his capability and efficiency in that position was promoted to assistant superintendent on the 9th of February, 1902. Mr. Jekel was advanced to the superintendency February 13, 1905, and came to St. Louis, having charge of their No. 4 office. He continued to act in that capacity until December 1, 1911, when he associated himself with Bernal L. Tatman and Dr. Charles L. Mattes and they organized the Reliable Life & Accident Insurance Company, a Missouri corporation, with headquarters in St. Louis. He was made secretary and treasurer and so continues to the present time, bending his efforts to administrative direction and executive control in the position which he now fills. He has been instrumental in promoting the success of the corporation, which writes accident, health and life insurance. Mr. Jekel does not confine his attention alone to this line, however, for he is also president of the Werner Film & Protector Manufacturing Company of St. Louis and is a director of the Ka Dene Medicine Company of Nashville, Tennessee. On the 16th of October, 1396, Mr. Jekel was married in Louisville, Kentucky, to Miss Katie M. Glanz, a daughter of Henry and Dorothy Glanz, the former now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Jekel have become parents of five children, a daughter and four sons: The eldest. Alfred H., served with the marines during the World war. He was in the service for a year and a half, being on overseas duty in France and afterward with the army of occupation in Germany; the daughter Katherine M., is the wife of Claude R. Chamberlain, a farmer of Anderson, Missouri; Alfred H. and Oscar H. are planning to enter the Michigan University in the fall of 1921; Karl A. is now a high school student in Kirkwood; Louis G., the youngest of the family, is also attending the Kirkwood high school. Mr. Jekel was a candidate for the school board of Kirkwood in April, 1921, and was elected by a big majority. In politics he has always been a republican. Fraternally he belongs to Kirkwood Lodge, No. 484, A. F. & A. M.; Rabboni Chapter, No. 131, R. A. AL, of Webster Groves; Missouri Consistory, No. 1, A. A. S. R.; and Moolah Temple of the Mystic Shrine of St. Louis. He is also a member of the Million Population Club and his religious faith is indicated in his membership in the Kirkwood Presbyterian church, of which he is serving as one of the trustees. He has deep interest in all affairs of public concern and his activities have been direct forces in the matter of public progress and improvement.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11636 MERCER CO – JAMES HARLAN – Harlan, Letcher 11636: A History of Kentucky, William B. Allen, Louisville, KY., Bradley & Gilbert Publishers, 1872. (Mercer Co). Hon. James Harlan was born in Mercer County, Kentucky, June 22d, 1800. He received a good English education by the time he was seventeen years of age, when he employed himself in mercantile pursuits. He was thus engaged until twenty-one years of age, when he commenced the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar in 1823. In 1829 he was appointed a Commonwealth’s Attorney for the district in which he resided, and served in that capacity four years. In 1835 he was elected to Congress, re-elected in 1837, and was chairman of the committee for investigating defalcations. From 1840 to 1844 he was Secretary of State under Governor Letcher. In 1845 he was elected to the House of Representatives of Kentucky; and in 1850 he was appointed Attorney General, which office he held until his death, which occurred at Frankfort, February 18th, 1863. Mr. Harlan attained a high stand at the bar as a lawyer, and obtained a very extensive practice in the Court of Appeals and in other courts of Frankfort. His son, General John M. Harlan, now of the city of Louisville, is regarded as one of the great men of Kentucky, and has arisen already to high distinction as a lawyer. He acted with great credit to himself as a general on the Federal side of the late Rebellion.

NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11635 – WARREN CO – JOHN STARR – Starr, McDonald, Dulaney 11635 - Kentucky Genealogy and Biography Volume II – Battle – Perrin – Kniffin, 3rd ed., 1886. (Warren Co). JOHN STARR, lumber dealer, and one of the proprietors of the Bowling Green Sawmill, is a native of Shelby County, Ky., and was born in 1835. He is a son of Anthony and Eliza (McDonald) Starr, and is of English-Irish descent. His father was born in Virginia, and his mother in Shelby County, Ky. When a young man his father came to this State, and for many years the Starr family has been known in Kentucky. At the early age of fourteen John Starr was found fighting the battle of existence for himself. At nineteen he began serving a three years’ apprenticeship at the carpenter’s trade. In 1840 he came to Warren County, and here has since resided, save three years during the late war, when he served as a soldier in the Confederate Army. He enlisted, in 1862, in Company L, of the Second Kentucky Cavalry, under Gen. John H. Morgan; was wounded at the battle of Gallatin, Tenn., and for three months was a prisoner of war. Returning to Bowling Green in 1865 he resumed the carpenter business, and continued it successfully until about two years ago, when he began his present business interest. He married, in 1856, Harriet B. Dulaney, of this county. They have one child, viz. Charles B. Mr. Starr is a Democrat, and ford quite a number of years has been a member of the city council of Bowling Green. He is a Mason and a member of the Baptist Church. Has made his own way in life, and is an enterprising citizen.

11634 FAYETTE CO – HENRY SCHOOLER – Schooler, Foster, Boggess, Stark 11634 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883 (Fayette Co) Henry Schooler was born in Fayette county, Kentucky, July 25, 1799. He is a son of Benjamin and Martha (Foster) Schooler. They were both natives of Virginia. They were married there and moved to Kentucky in 1817. Benjamin Schooler died there, October 23, 1822. Mrs. Schooler came to Pike county, Missouri, in 1828, and died here in 1843, in her seventy-ninth year. Henry Schooler was married in Bourbon county, Kentucky, March 14, 1822, to Miss Susanna Boggess. By this union there were three children, Catharine B., Elizabeth T., and William Henry. Mr. Schooler learned the carpenter’s trade in Kentucky in 1818; he worked at his trade and farming all his life, until a few years ago, when he retired from active business. His wife died December 10, 1876. She was a member of the Baptist Church. They had lived together over fifty-four years. Mr. Schooler now makes his home with his daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Stark, of Clarksville.