Intormative Historical Pictorial Revim(3rf L 1 E. RARY OF THE U N IVEIRSITY or ILLINOIS Q)i7-73 A Territorial governor, 1809-1818. 2 Governor Reynolds resigned November 17, 1834, to become representative in Congress; succeeded by William L. D. Ewing. ^ W. L. D. Ewing was acting Lieutenent Governor and became Governor during the interim between Governor John Reynold's resignation and election to Congress and the election of Governor Joseph Duncan. ^ Governor French was re-elected under the Constitution of 1848. ^ Governor Bissell dies March 18, 1860; succeeded by John Wood, Lieutenant Governor. ^ Governor Oglesby resigned January 23, 1873, to become U.S. Senator: succeeded by John L. Beveridge, Lieutenant Governor. ' Gov- ernor CuUom resigned February 8, 1883, to become U.S. Senator; succeeded by John M. Hamilton, Lieutenant Governor. ^ Governor Horner died October 6, 1940; succeeded by John H. Stelle, Lieutenant Governor. VI LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN ILLINOIS NEW YEAR' S DAY January 1 LINCOLN' S BIRTHDAY February 12 WASHINGTON' S BIRTHDAY ; February 22 GOOD FRI DAY Friday immedi ately before Easter Sun- day each year MEMORIAL DAY May 30 INDEPENDENCE DAY July 4 LABOR DAY First Monday in September OOLQMBOS DAY October 12 ARMI STI CE DAY November 11 THANi(SGinNG DAY The day being recom- mended by the Gover- nor or by the Presi- dent of the U.. S. CHRISTMAS DAY Decemb er 25 ELECnON DAY Election of Members of General Assembly (even number years only) When such holiday fall on Sunday, the Monday next following shall be held and considered such holiday VII STATE PARKS IN MACON COUNTlf LINCOLN NATIONAL MEMORIAL HIGHWAY Ten miles west of Decatur, off (J, S. 36 STATE MEMORIALS Lincoln Trail Homestead - State Memorial STATE CONSERVATION AREAS Spitler Woods Conservation Area COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES James Milikin liiiversity STATE SYMBOLS Sucker State A'^i cknames: Prairie State State Bird: Cardinal State plover: Violet State Tree: Oak State Song: Illinois State Motto: State Sovereignty National Union Capital: Springfield Population: 8,712,176 - rank 4th (1950 Census) VIII u GENERAL HIGHWAY MAP MACON COUNTY ILLINOIS BUREAU OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING DrviSKX Of MiOfwIATS DEnWtTWCNT OF PUB4JC WOfMS & BUiLOtNCS US DenumcNT gf couuerce euncAu OF pubuc roads THE STORY OF MACO> COL^TY, ILLLI^OIS On a raw, windy March day in 1830 an unusuadly tall backwoods lad, who wore his coonskin cap a bit jauntily that day because he had recently become twenty-one years old, urged a team of yoked oxen through the little log settlement of Decatur, in east central Illinois. After driying the wagon team some twelve miles west of Decatur, and after helping his father build a log cabin on a bluff above the Sangamon River there, that long-legged young man settled down with his family to become a resident of the area a move that eventually brought international fajne, and immortality, to Macon County, Illinois. For that new settler of Macon County was none other than young Abe Lincoln, who, as all the world knows, in after years becajne one of the greatest of Americans and a world hero of the first rank. If Macon County is widely known today because of its county seat and prinf .pal city, Decatur, renowned as the "Soybean Capital of America " and as the site of James Millikin University, it is even more widely known, both in this country and throughout the world, as the place where Abraham Lincoln first lived in Illinois; as the place where he first split those rails that earned for him the title of the "Rail-Splitter President." Of all of the 102 counties in Illinois tof'ay, there are only five intimately associated with the "prairie years' of President Lincoln's life; a tier that might be called the "Abraham Lincoln Counties. " And of these five, Macon County, located in what is now the rich corn and soybean belt of east central Illinois, has the distinction of being the locale of the first act of the Lincoln drama in the Prairie State; a drama that came to a momentous climax in The >iigwam at Chicago where, in 1860, the one-time rail-splitter of Macon County was nominated for the Presidency. Last of the Indians As a matter of fact, young Abe Lincoln and his father, step-mother and the latter' s two daughters and their husbeinds (one of whom was Dennis Hanks) and children, were among the earliest settlers of Macon County after it was organized on January 19, 1829. By that date, what few In- diauis who ever lived in the region had departed. Although members of the Kickapoo tribe of central Illinois frequently hunted in the area that became Macon County, or passed through it while fishing on the Sangzimon River, they are not of record as having established any villages of major consequence in this part of Illinois. About a year before Macon County was organized, however, a small band of Kickapoos appeared in the countryside and caused some disturbance among the first settlers. After setting up a camp in the vicinity of Long Creek, southeast of the future site of Decatur, the Kickapoos ex- tended their hunting activities to include such personal property of the settlers as hogs and poultry. Then the redmen became bolder and threatened some of the families in the early Ward Settlement south of the Sangamon River. Aroused oyer this sitaation, the men of the settlement, led by John and William Ward, formed a posse to deal out justice to the marauding Indians. They came upon the redskins in the prairie country east of Mt. Zion. When one of the Ward group rushed up and took a rifle from Jin In- dian, tension mounted. But John Ward ordered the gun returned to the Indian. Then, in no uncertain terms, John Ward ordered the Kickapoos out of the countryside, and, with no uncertain steps, the Indians fol- lowed his command. Since that time, no Indians, with the exception of a few strays, have been seen in Macon County. An Indian Trading Post While there were still Kickapoos in the region out of which Macon County was formed, and even before Illinois became a state, two brothers named Lorton came down from St. Joe, Michigan, eind established an Indian trading post on the Sangamon River, near Friend's Creek. This was about 1816. No longer in existence, the Lorton cabin was the first building to be erected by white men in the area that became Macon County. After trading with the Indians for some ten years, exchanging blankets, aunmu- nition eind rum for pelts of mink, raccoon and possum, the Lorton brothers closed up shop and disappeared from the annals of Macon County history. For by that time most of the Kickapoos of central Illinois had moved to Kansas, and, later, to Texas. In the meantime, the old Lorton log cabin remained standing in what became Whitmore Township and was occupied for a time by John Draper, first settler of the township. It was still stand- ing in the middle 1850' s, at which time it was serving as a township polling placf^. At some later date, it finally disappeared. First Permanent Home In view of the fact that the Lorton trading post was a "public building, " a place for barter and exchange, the distinction of being Macon County's first private dwelling goes to the old William Downing cabin, which was built by Downing in 1820 in the region south of the Sangeunon River. But William Downing, said to have been a bee-hunter and trf^per, did not long remain in the neighborhood. It seems he would have stayed longer but for his wife and children; they feared what few Kick- apoos were seen going up and down the Sangamon River. Within a few years, William Downing sold his cabin to John Ward, who afterwards was to order the last band of Indians out of the area^and who became the central fig- ure of the early community known ais Ward's Settlement. First Settler As neither the Lorton brothers or William Downing stayed long in the territory that became Macon County, it remained for Leonard Stevens, a native of New York state, to earn the honor of being the county's first permanent settler. He is believed to have arrived with his family about 1821 or 1822. Settling on a stream some three miles northwest of the future site of Decatur, a stream that afterwards was named Stevens Creek, the Stevens family became the nucleus of a community czilled the Stevens Settlement. A later arrivJil here was John Hanks, cousin of Abraham Lin- coln. One of Leonard Stevens' grandsons, Leonard Stevens, Jr., was the first white child bom in Macon County. Soon additional newcomers arrived from New York and other Eastern states, and in time the Stevens Settle- ment became a distinctively "Northern" community. 2 The Ward Settleaent Several years later, the Wards came from Kentucky, set up a settle- ment of their own south of the Sangamon River, and this became a dis- tivctively "Southern" community. As a matter of fact, from then onwards more and more Southerners arrived in future Macon County than Northerners a fact which afterwards attracted the Lincoln family, originally from Kentucky. As we have seen, it was John Ward who, on arriving here in 1824, bought the old Willi'am Downing cabin south of the Sangamon and there, with his brother William, established a loose-knit community of families from Kentucky and other Southern states. As was to be expected in such frontier communities as the Stevens and Ward settlements, dis- putes often arose between the two and these as frequently as not were settled by resort to fisticuffs. It was John Ward and several other men of the Ward Settlement who were destined to become the "fathers" of Macon County. Macon County is B«rn In the years just alter the Stevens and Ward settlements were formed, so many homeseekers, most of them from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia, arrived on the rich, fertile prairies of this central Illinois region that a demand was soon made for the formation of a new county. At that period, what is now Macon County belonged to Shelby County. By this time, there were more than a thousand settlers scattered in all directions from the Stevens and Ward settlements enough to form a new county. And so it came about that three men of the Ward Settlement John Ward, Benjamin R. Austin and Andrew W. Smith were chosen to wait upon the Illinois state legislature at Vandalia, then the capital of the state, and ufge that body to divide Shelby County and form a new county. They were successful in their mission. On Janu ary 19, 1829. the state legislature passed an act creating Macon County. Being of Southern birth, and representing mostly Southerners, the three "fathers" of the new county had it named after Nathanial Macon, a distinguished Southern statesman who, only a year or two earlier, was serving as president pro tenyore of the United States Senate. Nathanial Macon was one of this country's earliest advocates of states' rights. When first organized, Macon County was much larger than it is today. It included all of what is now Piatt County, halt of Moultrie County and the major portion of DeWitt County. It was then a rectangle some thirty- nine miles long and thirty-six miles wide an area of 1,404 square miles. After DeWitt, Piatt and Moultrie counties were formed in later years, Macon County had shrunken to an area of 577 square miles, or 369,280 acres. County Seat Battle When an Illinois legislature passed the Macon County enabling act, it included with the act a provision for the creation of a county seat. After a board of three commissioners, including Easton Whitton, was named to locate a suitable county seat, there arose a hot dilute between the Stevens Settlement people and the Ward Settlement people regarding a proper site. At one meeting of the two groups, a fist fight broke out and one man was so badly beaten that he later died. In the end, the site commissioners selected the place where Decatur is now located. Although the new county now had a site, it still had no seat. When the first election was called for the second Monday in ^ril, 1829, the settlers cast their votes in James Ward's smoky blacksmith shop in the Ward Settlement. At that first election, William Warnick, soon after- wards to play an important role in young Abe Lincoln's life, was elected sheriff. He originally came from Tennessee. The county's first elected commissioners were Benjamin Wilson, Elisha Fr eeman and James G. Miller. Still without a courthouse, the county commissioner's court, for its first session on May 19, 1829, met at the home of James Ward and there appointed Benjamin R. Austin to the position of county treasurer, his bond being fixed at $200. It also appointed Daniel McCall, who was a kind of Jack-of-all-trades during Macon County's infancy, as county clerk. To provide funds for the operation of the county, the commissioners levied a tax on such personal property of the citizens as slaves and indentured Negro or mulatto servants, pleasure carriages, watches, dis- tilleries, horses and mules — almost everything, in fact, except firearms. And Then Came Decatur Now one of the largest cities of Illinois, with a population (1950) of 67,801 eind serving as the trading center of a ten-county area, Decatur had it origin as the county seat of Macon County. It was named after Stephen Decatur, faunous American naval hero of the Tripolitan War of 1804 an American action off the coast of Tripoli. The original town plat, covering an area of twenty acres, was metde by Benjamin R. Austin'^ who, in addition to being first county treasurer, was also first county surveyor. Austin laid out a town bounded on the north by Prairie Street (so- called because of the prairie beyond). Wood Street on the south (so- nemed because of timber just south). Water Street on the east and Church Street on the west. He also included a Main Street east and west, and a Main Street north and south. In the center Austin laid out a square, which today is called Lincoln Square because of its early associations with the martyred President. At the sale of town lots that followed, John Manley, of the Stevens Settlement, paid $53.50 for the first lot sold one at the northwest comer of present-day Lincoln Square. But the auctioneer, John McMennamy, could not get many bidders; people seemed indifferent to the new town, which still was a "paper town." For his services that day, Auctioneer McMennamy was paid $1.00. "Uncle Jimmy" Renshav' s Tavern One individual, however, who believed in a great future for Decatur was "Uncle Jimmy" Renshaw. He is on record as having erected the first building in the original town of Decatur, a two-story log edifice that seemed to be mainly a tavern but that also served as a general store and hotel. After securing a license, for which he paid $4.00, to open a tavern in the new town of Decatur, and after building his establishment in October, 1829, Innkeeper Renshaw charged the then current prices for his potables and provender 12^ cents for a half pint of whiskey or cider brandy, 25 cents for a half pint of brandy, rum, gin, wine or cordial, and 62% cents for supper and overnight lodging for a man, which included feeding and stabling his horse. At first. Uncle Jimmy did not do much business; he is said to have tJiken in not more than $10 a day. But as the town grew. Uncle Jimmy's place increased in popularity and was soon the leading social center of the little frontier county seat. One of his earliest customers was Wil- liam Hanks, cousin of Abe Lincoln. Another was Abe's father, Thomas Lincoln, who, during the Winter of the Deep Snow, frequently bought "Barks' (a combination of Peruvian bark and Whiskey) at Renshaw' s for the easing of agues and fevers suffered by himself and members of his family. Famous Lincoln Log Cabin Courthouse What was once Macon County's first courthouse, a log edifice still in existence, is now famous as the "Lincoln Log Cabin Courthouse." It was built, however, before young Abe Lincoln first arrived in Macon County and some years before he had any personal association with it. We find that if the Renshaw tavern was Decatur's first building, a close second was its original county courthouse. It was started sometime in the fall of 1829 on a site at the southwest corner of what is now Lin- coln Square. One who worked on this public building was John Hanks, cousin of Lincoln's, who, in 1830, was paid $9.87% cents for chinking and daubing it. For some ten years afterwards, this original courthouse was used not only for county business but for public gatherings, church services, school sessions and other community events. After Macon County built a new courthouse in 1838, the old log one was bought by Robert Allen, an early settler, who moved it to his farm east of Decatur, lived in it for a while, and then converted it into a bam. It would have eventually fallen into ruin and disappeared had it not been for Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clokey, later owners of the Allen farm. On learning the history of the ancient cabin, the Clokeys presented it to the Old Settlers' Associ- ation in 1893 and it was movfed to Riverside Park. Subsequently, it was moved to Fairview Park and there it stands today as Macon County's most revered historic shrine. Early Whipping Post AlthougL the county built a log jail soon after completion of the courthouse, it also set up a whipping post in the public square. But it was only used on<;e. In 1832 two horse thieves, William Redmon and Thomas Wyatt, were captured and sentenced to some forty lashes at the whipping post. Almost everyone in town came to see the whipping, which was per- formed by Sheriff Warnick and for which he was paid $7.00. After it was over, and after some bills amounting to more than $200 were sent to the county for special services performed in connection with the jailing of the two horse thieves for seventy-seven days and their final punish- ment, Macon County gave up its whipping post and it was seen no more. PUnccr Jack-«f-«ll-Trade8 An unusual character of Macon County's beginning days was Daniel McCall, who, we remember, was appointed the county's first clerk. But in addition to this, he was the county's first postmaster, first circuit court clerk, and first judge of the probate court holding most of these offices at the seune time. He also took the census of 1830, was a school teacher, a notary public and a soldier in the Black Hawk War. After the war, McCall disappeared from the annals of the county. Second Caurthouse When Macon County ordered Leonidas Munsell, an outside contractor, to build a new courthouse and have it finished by 1838, it apparently felt envious of McLean County's courthouse to the north. For one of the specifications of the contract required that the new building "be equal to or superior to the McLean County courthouse. " When completed, the new Macon County courthouse, a two-story brick edifice with a domed cupola and costing some $10,000, residents of the county looked upon it with great pride. And they regarded it as a very public building indeed in fact, so public that, according to tradition, they did not mind seeing cows wandering through the first floor of the building at times. After this second courthouse was used until the Civil War, the county made plans for a newer, and larger, edifice, and while this was under construction affairs of the county were conducted in temporary quarters in the Powers Building. The third courthouse was completed in 1892 at a cost of $100,000. An laaortal Arrives To revert to Macon County's first courthouse, it was standing when, on that windy March day in 1830, there came to Decatur, with his family, the tall, twenty-one year old backwoods lad named Abe Lincoln. In that year Decatur consisted of its primitive courthouse, Jimmy Renshaw's tavern and general store, and a few log cabins. After leaving fencer County, Indiana, where Abe's mother died of the "milk sick" and where Thomas Lincoln turned up with a new wife from Kentucky, the Lincoln wagon and caravan traveled over muddy roads for some two weeks and fin- ally arrived in Macon County, Illinois. One who had preceded the family was Abe's cousin, John Hanks, who wrote back to Thomas Lincoln in Indiana, urging him "to pull up stakes" and come to the fertile new country of Illinois. LiM«l»' • First UliMis Hmc i^pareatly entering M*con Comity over the old Springfield-Paris road, then turning north at Mt. Gilead and following the Shelbyville road, the Lincoln family, it would seea, crossed the Sangamon River on a ferry operated by John Ward of the Ward Settlement. After canning over- night at the southeast comer of Decatur's public square (a s^ot pointed out by Lincoln himself in 1856 and now marked by am historical tablet), the Lincoln clan, on the following Bsoming, was met by Cousin John Hanks, who conducted the group to the site on the Semgamon River, some twelve miles west of Decatur, where Abraham Lincoln's first home in Illinois was built. 6 After Abe Lincoln helped his father erect a cabin here, as well as a makeshift bam and smoke bouse, he went to work splitting rails for an enclosure of about ten acres in which corn was to be planted. It was these rails that afterwards brought him renown as the "Rail-Splitting President. " After the enclosure was fenced in, young Abe turned up the tough Illinois sod and planted it in corn. He was now free to look about for other jobs in the countryside. He and another cousin, Dennis Hanks, who had come with the Lincoln party from Indiana, soon found plenty of work splitting rails for neigh- bors in Macon County. Dennis Hanks afterwards told of Lincoln's prowess as a rail splitter: "He was a master hand at maulin' rails; my, how he could chop! His ai would flash and bite into a tree and down it would come. If you heard him fallin' trees in a clearing, you would say three men were at work by the way the trees fell. He could sink an ax deeper into the wood than any maa I ever saw. " A New Suit of Clothes As he was now a man of twenty-one, Abe Lincoln dreamed of a new suit of clothes that would be more becoming to him than the backwoods garb he wore. And so he made a bargain with a neighborhood woman, Mrs. Nancy Miller; he would split 400 rails for every yard of brown jeans cloth she would use in making him a pair of trousers. She agreed, and, in view of young Abe's long legs, used more thein the ordinary amount of cloth for such a purpose. When the job was done, Abe opened Mrs. Miller's bundle and found not only his brown trousers but a fine waistcoat in it. She explained that the waistcoat was an outright gift. So gratified was the young Abe Lincoln over this present that he immediately went to work and made many more rails for Mrs. Miller. Now possessed of a new suit, he was ready to step out into the world or such world as existed on what was then the American frontier. Joseph Stevens Boast Another person to whom Abe Lincoln hired out as a rail-splitter was Sheriff William Wamick. In time, says a Macon County tradition, the lanky young rail-splitter because interested in the sheriff's daughter, Mary (Polly) Wamick. A month or two later, however, Polly Wamick mar- ried Joseph Stevens, son of the founder of the Stevens Settlement. Apparently Tom Lincoln's son was not too disturbed over this, for we find that he was a guest at Polly's wedding. But to the end of his days, and he lived a long time in Macon County (serving at one period as county treassrer), Joseph Stevens boasted that he had "cut Abe Lincoln out" as a seeker after the hand of the sheriff's daughter. Before and after Polly Warnick's wedding, Abe Lincoln frequently borrowed Sheriff Warnick's law books, and these he would avidly read. Once, when he was forced to remain in the Warnick household for several weeks while his frozen feet were being attended by Mrs. Warnick, the future President spent most of the time in reading books and what peri- odicals were available. Throwing A Champion Ifrestier Another event during that year of 1830 was the day on which long- legged Abe Lincoln threw big Jim Owens, champion wrestler of the country- side. It happened while Abe, Jim and others were harvesting corn on Sheriff Warnick's farm. When the hands were taking a short rest, husky Jim Owens challenged Lincoln to a match. Despite Sheriff Warnick's ad- monition that such matches often lead to real fights, the two men clenched and, in almost a jiffy, Lincoln had thrown Owens. While they were still down, another hand, Jim Herrod, rushed up with a pail of water and dashed it on the two wrestlers. "I have always heard, " shouted Jim Herrod breath- lessly, "that the best way to separate two fighting dogs is to throw cold water on them"' After saying which, Jim Herrod departed hastily from scene. As to .whether this left Abe Lincoln the undisputed chan5)ion wrestler of the countryside, there appears to be some doubt. For another unusual character of the day, "Dncle Jimmy" Sanders, who then was a young man and a close friend of Lincoln's, claimed in his later years that he himself "threw" Abe after the Jim Owens encounter. Dncle Jimmy also boasted that he was a better rail-splitter than Lincoln. When Dncle Jimmy Sanders last saw his old friend, who then was President-Elect Lincoln, he said to him: "Now Abe, don't do anything wrong." To which the President-Elect replied: "I won' t if I know it, Jimmy. " First Political Speech Although Tom Lincoln's son made several speeches in the Decatur public square, his first political speech, as John Hanks always claimed, was on the day Lincoln challenged a political candidate named John F. Posey. The subject at issue, it seems, was the navigableness of the Sangamon River as far as Decatur. Here is John Hank's description of the speech: "After Abe got to Decatur, or rather Macon County, a man by the neime of Posey czime into our neighborhood and made a speech. It was a bad one, and I said Abe could beat it. I turned down a box and Abe made his speech. The other man was a candidate, Abe wasn' t. Abe beat him to death, his subject being the navigation of the Sangamon River. The man, after Abe's speech was through, took him aside and asked him where he had learned so much and how he could do so well. Abe replied, stating his manner and method of reading, and what he read. The man encouraged him to persevere. " When John F. Posey was elected to the Illinois state legislature in the following year, it seems he remembered the young orator of Macon County who had made such an eloquent plea to open up the Sangamon River to navigation as far as Decatur. For John F. Posey is on record as having moved that the internal inprovements committee of the legislature invest- igate the subject of the navigableness of the Sangamon as far as Decatur. In answer to a petition from the administrator of the Lowry estate, who wanted to sell some of the deceased's property, Abraham Lincoln closed his legal entry in the case by writing that he "knows of no good reason consistent with the interests of the said infant heirs why the prayer and petition should not be granted." Written in Lincoln's own hand, this document is now on exhibition in Decatur. Macon County in Mexican War Among the men of Macon County who voluntedred for service when the Mexican War opened in 1846 was a young Decatur lawyer named Richard J. Oglesby later to become, after Lincoln, the county's most famous citi- zen. He was commissioned first lieutenant of Company C, which was made part of the regular United States Army and which was composed entirely of Macon County men. The captain of the compauay was Isaac C. Pugh, who was destined to become a general in the Civil War. At the Battle of Cerro Gordo Pass, in the Mexican conflict, Company C was at the head of a briga4e that captured some $25,000 in silver and a cork leg. It is said that the Mexican general, Santa Anna, left the cork leg in his carriage when he tried to escape. This object is now one of the prized exhibits in the Centennial Building at Springfield. Governor Richard J- Oglesby Reared from boyhood in Decatur, Richard J. Oglesby, at the close of the Mexican War, returned to Decatur, bec£ime a member of the Macon County bar, and soon was one of the most popular men in the county seat. After participating in the Gold Rush of 1849, he once more came back to Decatur, but now he was the richer by $4,500. This he invested in Decatur real estate. Soon thereafter he went on a tour of Europe, and, upon his return, entered public life. At first he was elected to the state senate, but with the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned from that body and became a colonel of the 8th Illinois Regiment, which included two con^anies of Macon County citi- zens. After being elevated to brigadier-general, Richard Oglesby was at the Battle of Corinth when he was wounded, and for a month or so lay in a serious condition. But he recovered and, later, w«is commissioned a major general and assigned to court martial duty in Washington by General Grant. Then followed a decision of Republican party managers that General Oglesby could be more helpful to the Lincoln administration as governor of Illinois thaa as an army general. And so it came about that, after a strenuous campaign, Oglesby began his first term as governor of Illinois in 1865. In that same year. Governor Oglesby, just after arriving in Washington for a visit, was invited by President and Mrs. Lincoln to a party in Ford's Theater. Exhausted from his journey. Governor Oglesby asked to be excused, and arranged to see the President on the following morning. Later that evening a shot Mias fired in Fbrd's Theater that was heard around the world. When Governor Oglesby received news of the shooting of President Lincoln, he rushed to the bedside of the fallen leader and re- mained there until the end. A few years afterwards, Oglesby was named president of a national memorial organization that erected an impressive monument to the martyred President in Springfield, Illinois. Winter of the Deep Sno* After Abe Lincoln worked at harvesting in the fall of that year, there came the Winter of the Deep Snow an unforgetable event in the history of Macon County and of central Illinois. Often told about by the "Snow Birds" of the Old Settlers' Association, the winter of 1830-1831 brought so miich snow that it covered rail fences, blocked roads, killed wild animals and game and forced families to "hole up" in their cabins for weeks. Although there was much hardship and suffering, none of the settlers lost their lives. 9 It was this l«iiiter of the Deep Snow that marked a turning point in the life of the future President. As it brought much suffering to the Tom Lincoln family, the head of that family decided, in the following spring, to once again "pull up stakes" and move elsewhere. But when he moved with his family that spring to Coles County, young Abe Lincoln did not go with him. Instead, Abe and his cousin John Hanks, ais well as his step-brother John Johnston, hired out to a New Salem merchant named Denton Offut; agreeing to take a flatboat full of products down to New Orleans for Offut. They were hired for 50 cents a day, plus a bonus of $60.00 to be divided among the three when they returned to New Salem, in Menard County. When the trio paddled away from Decatur in a dugout cjmoe in the spring of 1831, that marked the end of Abe Lincoln's period as a resident of Macon County. Thereafter, he lived at New Seilem in Menard County, and at Springfield in Sangamon County. In the years following, however, he was to return to Decatur frequently as a visitor.* Black Hawk War llllhen the Black Hawk War of 1832 broke out, the men of Macon County formed a company of mounted volunteers under the command of Captain James Johnson and took part in the action known as Stillman' s Defeat a defeat blamed on Major Stillman. Additional Macon County men formed a compeiny of rangers, and this was commended by Sheriff Wamick, now a military cap- tain. Although in after years he was fauniliarly known as Major Wamick, there is no record of his having attained that rank. When the men of Macon County went off to fight Black Hawk and his warriors, they were soon jonied by another coiq>any of militia from Menard County — a company captained by Abraham Lincoln of New Salem. Lincaln' s Lav Case After the close of the Black Hawk War, and after Lincoln became a lawyer at New Salem, he participated in a law case that was heard in the original Macon County courthouse; the building still in existence and now famed as the Lincoln Log Cabin Courthacse. It was in the spring of 1838 and Lincoln was serving as the guardian "ad litem" of the infant heirs of one John Lowry, deceased. In 1873, Oglesby was elected for the second time as governor of Illinois. But a short time later he resigned from this post to become U.S. senator for Illinois, holding his seat in that body for the next six years. At the end of that period he retired to his Decatur home, but Illinois again called for his services and in 1885 he was elected for his third term as governor of the state. After serving that term, he took up residence at "Oglehurst, " his estate at Elkhart, in Logan County, and there spent the remainder of his days. Here he died on April 24, 1899. Mrs. Johns Piano One of the most outstanding women in Macon County history was Mrs. Jane Martin Johns, who helped to establish the Decatur Public Library, and the Decatur Woman' s Club, and who donated the leuid on which now stand the Washington grade school and the Johns Hill junior high school. Her husband. Dr. H. C. Johns, gave up the practice of medicine and became a 10 prominent Illinois stock breeder, serving at one time as president of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture. In addition to her other achievements, Mrs. Johns is credited with bringing the first piano to Decatur. But there is more to the story than that, when on a visit to Decatur in IS-^, at which time she and her hus- band were preparing to establish a permanent home in the county seat, Mrs. Johns stopped at the old Macon House, and it was to this establishment she ordered a new piano sent the first ever seen in Decatur. On the day the piano arrived, circumstances were such that she could not get enough help to carry it into the hotel. But soon thereafter she received help from a number of lawyers who had dropped into the Macon House; it was then "court week" in Decatur. Among the lawyers who assisted in carrying the piano was an unusually tall one, wearing a top hat and a gray shawl. When the piano was set up in the hotel and Mrs. Johns thanked her helpers, the tall man said: "Now, perhaps this lady will play for us. " Mrs. Johns agreed to do so, and entertained the group with a number of selections. Afterwards, she asked the hotel-keeper if he knew the name of the tall lawyer. He replied: "Yes, that was Mr. Lincoln Abraham Lincoln. " In later years. Dr. and Mrs. Johns entertained Lincoln on a number of occasions in their spacious mansion on Johns Hill. And each time, ac- cording to local tradition, she' played on the piano that Lincoln had helped to carry into the Macon House. Elder Buck and His Wife A worthy successor to the Rev. Peter Cartwright, who not only was a famous leader of Methodism in Illinois during pioneer times but who founded the first Methodist "society" in Macon County, was the Rev. Hiram Buck, presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Decatur for more than thirty years. In 1853 he helped to found, and became one of the incorporators of, Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Illinois. After Elder Buck' s passing, his widow donated funds for the construction at Illinois Wesleyan University of the Buck Memorial Library, an impres- sive edifice coa?leted in 1923. Coming of the Railroads When the first railroad came to Decatur in 1854, it marked a turn^ ing point in the history of both Decatur and Macon County. Before that time, Decatur was an agricultural trading center. After that time, it became an industrial center. Today, Decatur is one of the largest agri- cultural and industrial cities in Illinois thanks mainly to the rail- roJids. The first rai'lroad built to Decatur was the Great Western, after- wards to be absorbed by the Wabash Railroad. It was completed to Decatur in 1854. Today, Decatur is the "Hub of the Wabash," having that road's principal repair shops, a vast switchyard and many of its divisional and general offices. The second railroad in Decatur, the Illinois Central, 11 arrived some six months after the Great Western. Other railroawls serving Decatur today are the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania. "The Rail-Splitter for President" It was in Decatur that Abrahaun Lincoln's name was first brought to public notice in connection with the office of President. This happened at a convention of the state Republican party held on May 10, 1860, in the Wigwam, a Decatur meeting place. After Lincoln's cousin, John Hanks, aroused the enthusiasm of the delegates by suddenly appearing with two fence rails and a banner reading "from a lot of 3,000 rails made by John Hanks and Abe Lincoln, " the convention voted "that Abraham Lincoln is the choice of the Republican party of Illinois. " When Lincoln, who was present at the meeting, afterwards began a speech, he said: "I suppose you want to hear about these" (pointing to the rails) . "Well, I do not know whether these are the rails or not, but I do know I have made a heap better ones, and could do it again." In later years he was to become known as "The Rail-Splitter President. " It was just after the Decatur meeting that the national Republican party met in Chicago and nominated Lincoln for the Presidency. "James Millikin, Banker" One day in 1860 a man by the name of James Millikin, who in his earlier years had been a cattle drover and who later made some money in Decatur real estate, rented a store on Merchant Street, in Decatur, and hung out a sign reading: "James Millikin, Banker. " That was the beginning of the Millikin National Bank, one of the largest such institutions in Decatur today and the founder of which made possible a great Decatur seat of learning, Jaunes Millikin University. After the death of James Millikin in 1909, the Millikin National Bank found itself occupying a unique semi-public position in Decatur. By the terms of Jaimes Millikin' s will, income from his estate, which is part owner of the bank, must be used "for charitable and educational purposes in Decatur. " The Civil War Besides its full quota of soldiers, many of whom lost their lives or were wounded, Macon County has the distinction of having furnished five generals to the Union forces in the Civil War. Best known of these five was, of course, Generail Richard J. Oglesby. Another outstanding commander was General Isaac C. Pugh, who begaui his military career in the Black Hawk War, carried it on in the Mexican War, and brought it to a grand climax in the Civil War. When Gustavus A. Smith volunteered for service, he was operating a buggy factory in Decatur. Soon he arose in the ranks, became a colonel, and, after being wounded at the Battle of Pea Ridge, was commissioned a brigadier-generad. Another Macon County officer was General Jesse Hines Moore, the man whose regiment presented him with a handsome engraved sword. After Gen- eral Moore's death in later years, the sword became the property of his son. Rear Admiral C. B. T. Moore of the United States Navy. One who played a unique role in the Civil War was General Herman Lieb, a law 12 student in Decatur when war came. By his own choice, he commanded a regi- ment of Negro troops that won great distinction in the conflict. Birthplace of the G. A. R. A revered historic spot in Decatur today is the site at 253 South Park Street where the Grand Army of the Republic was born. It was in a small room on the second floor of a building then standing here that twelve veterans of the Civil War met on Friday evening, April 6, 1866, and formed Post No. 1 of the G. A. R. This meeting was presided over by Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, surgeon of the 14th Illinois Infantry and founder of the G.A.R. He afterwards became first commander-in-chief of the organization. Janes Millikin University One of the best known institutions of higher learning in Illinois, and in the Midwest, is James Millikin University in Decatur. It was named after the Decatur banker and philanthropist, James Millikin, who donated $200,000 and a tract of land towards helping to establish the University. An additional $100,000 was donated by the citizens of Decatur, and a similar amount by the Illinois-Indiana-Iowa synod of the Presbyterian Church. The first buildings of the university, all of uniform Elizabethan design, were completed in 1903, and the dedicatory address was delivered by President Theodore Roosevelt. A. E. Staley Manufacturing Conpany Representative of the high rzinking status of Decatur as an indus- trial center is the vast plant of the A. E. Staley Meinufacturing Company. Occupying a 380-acre tract of land on which stand its handsome, modern, fourteen-story administration building and some forty other structures, the Staley Company produces starches, gluten feed, crude corn sugar, un- mixed com syrups, germ meal, soy bean meal, refined corn oil, soy bean flour and oil, and soy bean sauce. In other words, . this plant, with its lighted administration building visible for miles at night, is the puls- ing heart of "The Soybean Capital of America, " as Decatur is otherwise known. Lake Decatur A project that has won the admiration of people from all parts of Illinois and the Midwest is Lake Decatur, a man-made body of water in the southeast portion of Decatur. It was in 1923 that Decatur organized a stock conpany and expended more than $1,000,000 in damming up the indolent Sangamon River. This formed a lafce some fourteen miles long and half-a- mile wide, one that today not only serves as a water reservoir but as a setting for swimming, fishing, boating and other lake activities. Macon County Today An over-all survey of Macon County today shows that it has a total population of 98,853 human beings, of which 66, 269 live in the county seat of Decatur. The population of the county in 1940 was 84,693, while that of Decatur was 59,305. Thus in the decade between 1940 and 1950 there was a population increase of 16.7 per cent. 13 In the Township of Decatur, which is larger than the city itself, the total population is 75,729. Other townships in the county, and their populations, are: Austin (486), Blue Mound (850), Friends' Creek (1,282), Harristown (1,494), Hickory Point (3,178), Illini (1,033), Long Creek (3,728J, Maroa (1,695), Milam (286), Mt. Zion (1,396), Niantic (994), Oakley (1,047), Pleasant View (1,375), and South Macon (1,533). Occupying a land area of 577 square miles, Macon County possesses 2,234 farms of three or more acres. In other words, 92.2 per cent of the land area of the county is under cultivation a high per centage for counties in America. The value of adl crops harvested, when last reported in 1949, was $16,936,910. The soybean crop alone amounted, that same year, to $4,342,598. It is to be remembered, of course, that the soybean crops supplied to the processing plants at Decatur have their origin in many other Illinois counties besides Macon. 14 • CALENDAR FOR 1954 • JANUARy APRIL JULY OCTOBER t M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1516 11 121314151617 11 12 1314151617 1011 1213141516 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1819 20 21 22 23 24 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 17 1819 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY 12 3 4 6 6 MAY 1 AUGUST 12 3 4 5 6 7 NOVEMBER 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1112 13 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 8 9 1011 121314 7 8 9 1011 1213 14 15 1617 1819 20 9 1011 12131415 15 1617 18 19 20 21 1415 1617 181920 21 22 23 24 26 26 27 16 171819 20 21 22 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 28 29 30 MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 12 3 4 6 6 12 3 4 6 12 3 4 12 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 6 7 8 9 1011 12 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1416 16 17 18 19 20 13141516171819 121314151617 18 12 13141516 17 18 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 31 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31 • CALENDAR FOR 1955 • JANUARY S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 APRIL S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10111213141516 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 JULY S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 1011 1213141516 17 18 19 20 2122 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 OCTOBER S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12131415 1617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY 12 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13141516171819 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MAY 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 1314 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 AUGUST 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 1213 14151617181920 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 NOVEMBER 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 131415 16171819 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 MARCH 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 13141516171819 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 JUNE 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12131415161718 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 SEPTEMBER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 121314151617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 2« 27 28 29 30 DECEMBER 1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 121314151617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 • CALENDAR FO R 1956 • JANUARY APRIL JULY OCTOBER S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12 3 4 5 6 7 12 3 4 5 6 7 12 3 4 5 6 8 9 1011 12 1314 8 9 1011 12 13 14 8 9 1011 121314 7 8 9 1011 1213 15 1617181920 21 151617181920 21 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 29 30 29 30 31 28 29 30 31 FEBRUARY MAY AUGUST NOVEMBER 12 3 4 12 3 4 5 12 3 4 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 6 7 8 9 1011 12 S 6 7 8 9 10 11 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 121314151617 18 1314 1516171819 12131415161718 1112 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 MARCH JUNE SEPTEMBER DECEMBER 1 2 3 1 2 1 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 11 1213141516 17 1011 1213141516 9 1011 121314 15 9 1011 12131415 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 15 \ 16 DECATUR TOWNSHIP Decatur 17 fS^fe -•B/ ^-^m { -■* ~ .'i**^ DECATUR BUSINESS DISTRICT DECATUR AIRHDRT 18 DECATUR Principal city of Decatur Township, as well as of Macon County it- self, is Decatur. As the story of Macon County is largely the story of Decatur, a full description of that city will be found in the opening narrative of this book. At the time Macon County was divided into town- ships in 1860, the first supervisor of Decatur Township was Henry B. Durfee, subsequently to become a prominent realtor. Located in the geographical center of the county, Decatur Township has an area of 18, 560 acres, or twenty-nine square miles. The population of the township is 75,729, while that of the city of Decatur is 66,269. Parts of the township have been annexed to the city at almost yearly intervals from 1941 to 1946 an indication of the recent rapid expan- sion of Decatur. Lake Decatur, a man-made project, occupies the southeast corner of the township. Almost fully developed as residential suburbs are many areas outside the city limits of Decatur. The city itself is at the intersection of US 51 and US 36, and through it also pass state routes 48 and 121. In point of size, Decatur is the eighth largest city in Illinois. 19 Vi^^ SHAHON METHODIST CHURCH Church built 1873 - 165 Euroixment Rt. 3 Decatur Dr. Brewer, Faistor 1 acre NORTH FORK PRESBYTERIAK CHURCH Rt.5, Decatur 20 ANTIOCH CHURCH Rt. 7 Rev. Albright, Pastor Decatur h acre BOILING SPRINGS CHURCH & CEMETERY Church Built 1832 (25 acres) Decatur Cemetery 1857 21 '"•^ UNION SCHOOL Rt. 8 Decatur Erected in 1932 ■ w i^., J^^B^^^''' ' "^ H . ^m^ WtM EJr ■' FT. DANIEL SCHOOL Di«. 99 Rt. 7, Decatur SUNNYSIDE SCHOOL, Dist. 11 Decatur Rt. 3 ^ acres SALEM SCHOOL Rt. 6 MOUND CITY SCHOOL SIARON CEMETERY Rt, 3 Decatur ^H Decatur Unit Decatur 8 acres POINT PLEASANT CEMETERY Decatur 3K acres 55s4i»] MACON COUNTY MEMORIAL PARK Rt.8, Decatur 22 itr-^-l Har-ristown Church of Christ Harristown ELM GROVE CHURCH OF GOD S. Fraklin St. Rd. Decatur ELM GROVE SCHOOL Dis tr iot 5 Decatur 23 CDMPLIMEJVTS DF 2>r. S. S. Rotk man 125 E. MAIN ST. DECATUfl, ILLIJVDIS 24 ANDERSON, OSCAR M. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 156 acres BEATTY, WM. Rt. 3 Decatur 60 acres ARTHUR. JESSIE C. Rt. 1 Rt. 1, Decatur 160 acres BINKLEY, BOYD L. Rt. 8 Decatur 120 acres BARNHART, L. E. Rt. 8 Decatur 10 acres BEATTY, WM. F. Rt. 3 Decatur 10 acres B3YD, K. WAYNE Rt. 1 M COBB, CEQL Rt. 2 Argenta 217 acres Decatur 10 acres 25 COOPER, MRS. DOROTHY Rt. 3 Decatur 14 acres DIPPER, WALTER Rt. De c a tu r 210 acres ^^^^^^^^^R^^^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^ ■■ n ^7^ W i^»4Jl ^1 ' **^ . vwL . "".'".'■'- ^-"^ '^1 P|- ^^^'' '^'•^'■■*^-*" ini'iiriiiiiTriifiaiiMi ■, FINN ELL, INA Rt. 6 Decatur 160 acres FLOREY, B. F. Rt. 7 De c a tu r 60 Rcr^n FOSTER, GEORGE Rt. 3 Decatu r 38 acres FOSTER, GEORGE Rt. 3 J' tti^4 Decatur 77 acres FOX, WILLIAM C. Rt. 1 De c a tu r 120 errfi HARRIS, GEORGE Rt. 3 De c a tu r 5 acres %*^^ '**'^^^^m HAYS, EMMA 0. Rt. 3, Decatur Family home since 18 45 78 acres HEINLEIN, ELEANOR Rt. 1 De c a tu r 160 acres 27 ife: HICKS, HERBERT Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acrcR JOHNSON, J. K. Rt. 3 Decatur 10 acres ■>^ ■ HUBBLE, DR. WILLIAM F. Decatur WEIDENKELLER, J. c. Decatur Rt. 2 10 2 acres Rt. 3 20 ■crnn HUGENBEGER, MRS. MARY C. Rt. 3 Decatu r 4 ar r*» « KINZER, RICHARD E. Decatur 5 acres ILLINGWORTH, FRANCES Rt. 3 Decatur 57 acres KINZER, RICHARD E. Rt. 3 Decatur 1 acre 28 LITTLETON, CECIL F. Rt. 1, Argenta Life Long Resident of Macon County 46 acres MONACO, JOHN Rt. 1 Decatur 47 acres Ji LONG, MR & MRS. W. E. Rt. 1 Decatur }i acre NICHOLLS, ARZA W. Rt. 3 Decatur 100 acres LOGUE, STELLA Rt. 8 Decatu r 30 acres O'DONNELL. MRS. E. Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres MATHIAS, LESLIE Rt. 8 Decatur 24 acres PARK, MRS. MARY L. Rt. 3 Decatur 78 acres 29 ■■ui^ i PETTYJOHN, OSCAR Rt. 6 QUACK EN B LSI, G. D. Rt 1 Decatu r 18 acres Decatur 10 acres SCHRDLL ESTATE Rt. 1 *«« SMITH, W. G. Rt. 4 Decatur 80 acres Decatur 60 acres ^^_ *<^^mr SCARDELLO, SAM, J. Rt. i Decatur 1 acre '"'Z*^'':'''-''""''""'^''''fXi^'.''i%"^ «•» ^ M SOUTH SIDE (DUNTRY aUB A. E. Hopkins, GreensJieeoer Decatur SCHIMER, E. H. Rt. 3, Decatu P.F. Ashley- breeds Su f folk & Co twol d 170 STALEY, LAVELLE Rt. 3 Decatur 3 acres 30 TAYLOR, ROY Decatur 12 acres ■«"■ WILOOX, A. B. Rt. 3 ^ Decatu r 168 acres *EBER, ALBERT C. (ESTATE) Decatur Scho 1 1 pAm T.i f^m \ e\no T>Aci^Anrc ^A(\ ar WEIDY, ROY R Rt. 7 Decatur 5 acres WLCOX. A. B. Rt. 3 De c a tu r 140 acres WISLON, ROY R (ESTATE) Rt. 2 Macon 241 acres .■iT- YUNDT, MINNIE Bt. 2 Macon 80 acres ^NTI-THIEF ASSOCIATION Rt.3, Decatur 31 COUNTRY CLUB OF DECATUR Rt. 7 Decatur TOWN OF STALEYS f^^B^"^— ■ SEBENS CONCRETE PRODUCTS Rt. 7 Decatur 3 acres SAFE- WAY MANUFACTURING 00. Decatur Rt. 3 B°« 607 Anhydrous Ammonia Applicators & Sprayers TURPIN STATION GRAIN CO. Rt.6, Decatur Owned by Russell Broughton LINCOLN LABORATORY Rt.2, Decatui » *n^.m ^B W^^- BEL-AIR MOTEL Robert G. Munsie Decatur 1010 W. Pershing TRAIL RIDERS ASSOCIATION Rt. 6 Decatur QO AUSTIN TOWNSHIP 33 34 HARMONY E.O.B. CHURCH Present church built 1900 Macon County Rev. B. C. Button, Pastor AUSTIIN TOWINSHIP Named after Benjamin R. Austin, one of the "fathers" of Macon County and surveyor of the original town of Decatur, Austin Township is an entirely agricultural area; no railroads cross it, nor does it contain any villages or towns. It has a population of 486. Something of a community center, where religious services, school graduation exercises and other events are held, is the Harmony United Brethren Church, which was organized about seventy years ago. The first settler in the township was Amos Wright, who came from Pennsylvania in 1845. Another early arrival was James S. Parker, who afterwards held a number of public positions in the township. It was largely through his influence that Austin Township did not sell its school section in pioneer times. By retaining its school section grant, Austin Township now has the lowest school taxes in the county. Another outstanding resident of the township was George Johnston, who lived most of his life there and who was a long-time admirer of the Scottish poet, Robert Bums. Johnston was the donor of the Robert Burns cabinet in the Elizabethan Room at James Millikin University. 35 AUSHN TWP. SCroOL SECTION Maroa Rt. 1 200 , acres BRADSHAW, GLEN Rt. 1 Latham 240 acres AUSTIN T«P. SCHCDL SECTION Maroa Rt. 1 240 acres BRADFIELD, SAM Rt. 1 Kenney 200 acres BRADSHAW, GLFWN Rt. 1 Latham 240 acres BRAME, EARL Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres AXTON, HALLIE Rt. 1, Warrensbufg Claudie Collins, Tenant 160 acres BURGETT Rt. 1 Latham 600 acres ye BURGETT, C. A. Rt. 1 BLRGETT, HAROLD Rt. 1 Latham None Latham None CASEY, DR. C. 0. (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Maroa 320 acres CONELY, MRS. EDITfl Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres ODZZENS, JESSIE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160. acres GULP, CHARLES Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres CASEY, MRS. C. 0. Dal ton City GULP, JOHN Pt. 1 227 acres Rt. 1 Warrensburg 100 acres 37 FERRY, FRANK Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres ENGLAND, STANDFDRD Rt. 1 Maroa 320 acres DOWNING, MARY L. Rt. 1 Latham None GULP, MARY A. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres DUMONT. MARGURET (ESTATE) Warrensburg Rt. 32C acres FERRY, FRANK F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg EMERY, LOUIS . L. ( ESTATE) Rt. 1 80 acres FERRY, JIM Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 80 acres 38 GALLOWAY, W.O. Rt. 1 Latham HAGEY, ROBERT Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 acres GORETZKET.JOE & 30N Rt. 1 Latham 120 . acres HAINES, RUSSELL Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres K*i,S5?S5|t: JSKaiStiKi*!! GRISSOM, I. V. Warrensburg HAMM. GRACE A. Rt. 1 160 acres Rt. 1 Kenny 400 acres HAGANS, FRANK M. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres HARMON ESTATE Rt. 1 .d»a.. "*2iw«Kroji Warrensburg 90 an^Ao 39 HAYES, CHAPLES (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres ^ ■ ■ - - r f *-- '"M ^^^ M HAYWOOD, AMOS Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 acres HEFT, GEORGE B. Rt. 1 HEFT, HOWARD R. Rt. 1 -**is;2fi Latham 1 acre La them 40 acres HAYWOOD, AMOS Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acrea HEFT, M. S. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 1 acre ■■■j^HBOn IPI WIBl^HH p^ ^^^^KT^ ^j^^^^^?* ■'sF*'*-^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Ef- "^ f'' ^^HB^^"^' i n^ K^x. m ^fc?!!^ HAICYARD, GEORGE (ESTATE) Maroa HEINLE, KENNETH Maroa Rt. 1 240 acres Rt. 1 160 acres 40 HEINLE, MARTHA Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acre£ HEISERMAN, HENRY & HELEN Rt. 1 Latham 160 acres JARVIS, MRS. Rt. 1 JOHNSTON. JOIM T. Rt. .J*' Maroa 120 acres Latham 147 acres HILEMAN, HENRY Rt. 1 :.'\if- Latham 40 acres JONES, WILLIAM B. Rt. 1 Maro a 1 acre HOAGLIN, H. K. Rt. 1 Latham 80 acres JONES, »M. B. Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres 41 KERWOOD, HATTTE & HETZLER, JOSEPHINE Rt. 1, Latham 120 acres LAWRENCE, ALBERT, E. Rt. 1 Warrens burg 240 acres KEYS, CHARLES P. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres LAWRENCE, ARTHUR J. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 220 acres Pr- KlICK, JOHN Rt. 1 Latham 160 acres LAWRENCE, ARTHUR J. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 20 acres KILE, FBANK M Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres UWRENCE, EVERETT A. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 240 acres 4k! LEMASTERS, OLA MAY Rt. Kenny 154 acres McQOEWAY, MRS. JOY Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres MANN, WISDA Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres McKINLEY, HARLEY Rt. 1 U Kekjiey 109 acres 1 ^ . ^ -i — i /. MARCQ.L, ALBERT Rt. Kenney 400 acres MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY Rt. 9 Macon 30 3 acres MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY Rt. 1 Rt.l, Warrensburg 320 acres MONTGOMERY, JAMES A. Rt. 1 Maroa 166 acres 43 M0NTQ3MERY, MR. & MRS. Rt. 1 Mar oa 160 acres NAUMAN, HAZEL Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80: acrea MORRIS FARMS Rt. 1 Warrensburg 163 acres MORTHLAND. ROY Rt. 1 Warrensburg 86 acres MURPHY. MILES (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres NEUSCHAFER, H. W. ESTATE Kenney Rt. 1 100 acres ■ ^^^^^PiBj ^sM ^^H 1^ J NICHOLSON ESTATE Ezra Tuggle, Tenant Rt. 1, Chestnut 29 4 acres NOWLIN, MINNIE B. (ESTATE) Maroa 160 acres 44 •/• OFF, ELSIE W. Ht. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres PATTCNGILL, LORAN M. Rt. 1 Cisco 240 acres PATTERfflN, DAVE (ESTATE) Rt 1 Chestnut 198 acres PATTERSON (ESTATE) Rt. 1 MaToa 160 acres PATTERSON (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Latham 520 acres PARKER, JAMES J. Rt. 1 Maroa 550 acres •i.- ■ >.■*>'■« PATTERSON ( ESTATE) Maroa PENHALLEGDN, ENGLAND Warrensburg Rt. 1 160 acres Rt. 1 320 acres 45 PENHELLEQ3N, E. E. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 640 acres RAU, L.O. Rt. 1 Latham 180 acres RAU, EARL, W. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 165 acres RAU, GLENN 0. Rt. 1 Maroa 120 acres RAU, LINN 0. Rt. 1 RAU, OVID Rt. 1 Maroa 60 acres Latham 80 acres RAU, L. 0. Rt. 1 Kenny 200 acres RAU, ROSS F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres 46 ,.'^,i%>. RAU, WILBUR J. Rt. 1 Kenney 112 acres ROGERS, JOHN D. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres ■ ■■■.!'i^- Amk SBARBOPO, HARRY Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres SHAW, LOREN Rt. 1 Maroa 159 acres SHAPIRO, MINME Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 120 acres SHAW, WILLIAM 0. Rt. 1 Maroa 24fl mrr^M n '^ igk' SHAW, L. M. Rt. 1 Marc a 200 acres SHAW, W.O. Rt. 1 Maroa 200 acres 48 SHAW, W. 0. Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres STOUTENBCXDUGH, ANTHONY Rt. 1 Maroa 240 acres SHULL, GERALD N. Rt. 1 Maroa 200 acres TABOR, P. F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres SOUTHERN, D. H. R» 1 Latham 200 acres TAYLOR, JOHN Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 160 acres r- - "''^"rj SPENCER, HENRY D. Rt. 1 240 TODD, HELEN Rt. 1 Kenny 180 acres 49 TROWBRIDGE, E. RAY Rt. 1 Kenney 160 acres TROWBRIDGE, MRS. PEARL Rt. 1 Maroa 160 : acres URICH, ORVILLE E. Rt. 1 Maroa 200 acres 3S*^e*'ia^^ UNDERWOOD, MRS. Rt. 1 WALKER, BURNIE Rt. 1 WESTEPMAN, FRANK Rt. 2 Warrensburg 160 acres Warrensburg 150 acres Maroa |5 acres ULHRICH, CHARLES Rt. 1 Niantic WENTWJRIH, MR.&MRS. CJ. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 . acres 50 WHELAN, JOHN B. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 155 acres BRICK SCHOOL District No. 27 Built in 1925 • Integrity • Experience • Stability SWARM INSURANCE AGENCY 200 Standard Offire BIdg. Decatur, Illinois PHONE 8-2121 C. A. SWARM PAUL SWARM ESTABLISHED 1908 UERARK .5 1 UNIVERSITY OF "lINnlU 52 BLUE MOUND TOWNSHIP Boody 53 BOODY Boody, the only town in Blue Mound Township, was named after Col- onel William Boody, who was first president of the Decatur & East St. Louis Railroad, which now is a part of the Wabash System. At first called Madison, Blue Mound Township derived its name from a number of bluish-appearing mounds within its borders, this color being caused by great patches of blue flowers that grew on the hills in early days. It was in 1870 that the town of Boody was laid out by Messrs. Nientker and Smith. That same year,' Mr. Nientker opened a generail store, and here he became first postmaster. In later years, his son, W. G. Nientker, became postmaster. The first house in town was built in 1870, by Frank Reafly. Several years later the first schoolhouse was erected, and Byron Lewis became the first teacher. On record as the first settler of Blue Mound Township was William Warnick, first sheriff of Macon County and friend and mentor of young Abe Lincoln. Today, this township is noted for its fertile grain fields. It has a population of 850. 54 li^* BOODY GRADE SCHOOL Public School Boody BLUE MOUND COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Blue Mound -^*afc. BLUE MOUND LUMBER CO. Blue Mound Oroed by W.L.Huff, R.W.Huff and W.M.Haltfreter PLEASANT VIEW SCHOOL Rt. 1 Blue Mound For BEHER FARMING *5si-:^ QUALITY • SERVICE • SAVINGS A FARMER-OWNED CO-OPERATIVE . . . your Macon County Service Company was incorporated on March 7, 1927. It is one of more than a hundred county co-operatives in Illinois appointed by the Farm Bureau to distribute BLUE SEAL Petroleum Products; BLUE SEAL Feeds; GRO- CROP Fertilizers; and Seed Corn . . . SOYOIL Paints; UNICO Fence and Steel Products; AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS and many other FARM SUPPLIES are available for DIRECT DELIVERY to your farm by the BLUE SEAL SALES/v\AN in your territory. MACON COUNTY SERVICE COMPANY 3005 N. 22nd St. — DECATUR, ILL. — Phone 3-6255 m* ALBEBS, MRS. BESSIE Rf.. 4 Decatur 135 acres AUSTIN, J.S. Rt. 8 Decatur 20 acres ^'^■ ARMSTRONG, MRS. HATTIE St. 1 Boody 40 acres BAILEY, MRS. ANNIE E. J. NOPMAN JORDAN. Mrf. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 280 acres AI%1STRDNG, JOHN L. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres BAILEY, MRS. EFHE H. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres AUGUSTINE, LOWELL C. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres BAILEY, C. T. Rt. I Boody 19 6 acres 56 ^ BAILEY, HAROLD E. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres BAILEY, ORVILLE C. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 2 10 acres I BAILEY, HARRY P. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres BULER, DALE D. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 200 acres BAILEY, H. P. Rt. 1 Boody 160 acres BLILER, WAYNE Rt. 2 Blue Mound 172 acres BAILEY, ORVILLE C. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres BLILER, WAYNE Rt. 4 Blue Mound 245 acres 57 -mm^' ■.* BROWN, CAFyOLL F. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres BRINTUNGER ESTATE Rt. 2 Blue Mound 238 acres BROWN, EMERY Rt. 4 Decatur 200 acres BRUNS, HENRY Rt. 4 Decatur 25 acres BROWN, EMERY Rt. 2 Macon 210 acres BUZ AN, MRS. HANNA Rt. 2 Bl ue Mound 240 acres BROWN, MARSHALL A. Rt. 4 Decatur 37 4 acres CATER. ELZA H. SR. Rt. 4 Decatur 50 acres 5« f _J-- *■ X- CLARK, MRS. J. M. Rt. 8 Decatur 80 acres (DBB, CYRIL B. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres CHAPMAN, OSCAR W. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 153 acres COL E, R. S. Rt. 4 Decatur 60 acres CHAPMAN, OSCAR W. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 7 2^ acres CONNELLY, LOUIS E. Rt. 4 Decatur 160 acres ^^Ihsl - 1^ le .■ ■••1 CHAPMAN, RUSSa^L E. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 10 3 acres COOK, MISS LOTTIE B. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres 59 COTTLE, RL-ra D. Rt. 4 Decatu r 100 acres DAMERY, JOE Rt. 2 Blue Mound 240 acres vm,m--- CROMWELL, HARRISON G. Rt. 8 Decatur 107 acres DAMERY, MERVILLE H. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres CRUNP, HOWARD Rt. 1 Boody 60 acres DUMMERMUTH, CHARLES R. Rt. 1 Macon 107 acres UAMERY, GUSTA L. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres DUMMERMUTH, MRS. D. Rt. 1 Boody 140 acres 60 |W DLMMERMUTO, EDWAHU t. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres EVANS, HELEN Rt. 3 Macon 85 acres DUMMERMUTO, EDWARD F. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 154 acres GOLDENSTEIN, FLOYD Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres ENGLAND, C. E. Rt. 1 Macon 220 acres liULDBV STEIN, FLOYD Rt. 2 Blue Mound 130 acres EVANS, MRS. HELEN Rt. 2 Macon 100 acres HALL, ISAAC S. Rt. 4 Decatur 240 acres 61 HANOVER, aARENCE Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres HILL, CHESTER R. Rt. 4 Decatur 160 acres HARTWIG, EDWARD W. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 168 acres HOBBS, V. M. Rt. 8 Decatur 86 acres HAWTHORNE, ALVA F. Rt. 8 Decatur 89 acres HOPKINS, H. H. Rt. 4 Decatur 145 acres ...iTv £>-^;h. * HILL, CHESTER R. Rt. 4 Decatur 115 acres HOPKINS, H. H. Rt. 4 Decatur 251 acres 62 .^"-^^ F'l ii ^ .,..^. . :_-..- ^•'''' HURT. SALVIN E. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 210 acres JACOBS, MELVIN H. Rt. 8 Decatur 40 acres ^^- e JACK, MRS. C. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres ^ .^''- JE^fNINGS, 0. B. Rt. 4 Decatur 140 acres JACOBS, FLOlfD G. Rt. 4 Decatur 28 4 acres JOCKISCH, DAVID H. Rt. 4 Decatur 40 : acres JACOBS, FIjOYD G. Rt. 4 Decatur 80 acres JOCKISCH, LOUIS S. Rt. 4 Decatur 1 46 acres 63 JOKISCH, MRS. CELIA Rt. 2 Macon 280 acres KISSEL, HERBERT Rt. 8 Decatur 8 5 acres JOSTES, OSCAR F. Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres KRAFT, E. G. Rt. 4 Decatur 160 acres KELLEa ED Rt. 1 KILBRIDE, EDWINNA Rt. 4 Macon 240 acres Decatur 74 acres KRAFT, E.G. Rt. 4 KRAFT, EUNICE Rt. 2 De c a tu r 160 acres Macon 120 acres 64 KRAFT, HERBEJ^T Rt. 4 Decatur 350 acres MATTHEWS, DEAN Rt. 4 Decatur 35 acres KREHER, MIBYL J. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 120 acres McQORRAY, JACK A. Rt. 4 Decatur 10 5 acres F - i - «sS ^^: "^ "ir'''^-.. i^ "^SI^P^ P^ ^^^ LINO, JEP Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres MENDONSA, CHERRIE Rt. 1 Mo we aqua 215 acres MAY, CARL C. William Potrafka, Tenant Boody 87 acres METCALF, GUY Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres ti& MILLER, MEPLE R. Rt. 4 Decatur 130 acres PETZEL, MRS. ADA Rt. 2 Blue Mound 100 acres .m NABER, HERMAN Rt. 2 Macon 176 acres PISTDRIUS, MRS. AGNES B. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 240 acres OGDEN, ROY Rt. 8 Decatur 5 acres PISTDRIUS, DONALD Rt. 2 Macon 65 acres ORRISON, FLOYD E. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres HISTORIUS, MRS. ED Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres 66 PISTDRIUS, JAMES A. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres PISTORIUS, POY V. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres PISTORIUS, MARION T. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres f ^ "^ 1.^1^ ■ L^J|W^-~T*^^ ■ M^^ R :)< % 11 ™ ^ PISTDRIOUS, VERNIE Rt. 2 Macon 180 acres PISTORIUS, ORIAN B. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 61 acres PISTORIUS, WAYNE B. & VERNIE W. Blue Mound Rt. 2 300 acres •(?''- PISTORIUS, BOY V. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 149 acres PISTORIUS, WAYNE B. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 157 acres 67 :<."v -^i- PLUNKETT, LESTER Rt. 8 i m ~»^' Decatur 20 acres RHODERICK, ALBERT P. Rt. 8 Decatur 1 180 acres POWER BROTHERS Rt. 2 PHESOOTT, JOHN E. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 240 acres RICE, FRANK Vacant Mo we a qua 160 acres RYAN, ESTHER F. Rt. 8 Blue Mound 19 acres PUTSCH, LESTER F. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 100 acres SCDTT, VERNEE A. & ARLIE B. Blue Mound Rt. 2 8 3 acres b8 SLAY BACK, MRS. ANNIE Rt. 2 Macon 70 acres SHNE, S. E. Rt. 1 M oweaqua 120 acres SMITH, CAULDE W. Rt. 4 Decatur 10 acres STIVERS, WILLIAM F. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres SMITH, MR. & MRS. LEWIS Blue Mound Rt. 1 80 acres SUTMAN, MISS LEDNA A. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres SNH.L, MRS. MARTHA Rt. 1 Mo we aqua 80 acres k %r USINGER, JUNE K. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres 69 WEATOERFDRD, HAZEL Rt. 4 Decatur 80 acres WOLFER, JOFM FREDERICK Rt. 4 Decatur 98 acres ^^ WILLIAMS, RALPH Rt. 2 Macon 77 acres WRAY, PERRY W. Rt. 8 De c a tu r 5 acres WISE, EVERETT C. Rt. 2 Macon 240 acres YDUNKE, GLENN L. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 26 acres *^*:«fekw'-^^ 1 WISE, ORVILLE F. Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres HMMEPMAN, E. G. H. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 45 acres 70 FRIEND'S CREEK TOWNSHIP Argenta 71 72 -^ ARGEMA At the northeast corner of Macon County, in the center of Friend's Creek Township, stands the village of Argenta. The name, which means "silver, " was bestowed on the village by two Illinois Central Railroad officieils, Messrs. Smith and Wood, who had in earlier days worked on the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad in the Far West. There is an Argenta in Montana, and one in Utah. After the Illinois Central Railroad was built through Friend' s Creek Township, the village of Argenta was platted by B. R. Rodgers. Thereafter, a general store was built by Carver & Company, a blacksmith establishment by B. S. Schall, and a wagon shop by F. F. McMullin. The first schoolhouse was erected in 1874. Argenta was incorporated as a village in 1891. Today, it has a population of 575. Friend's Creek Township was so-named after its first settler, George W. Friend. Among other early settlers of the township was Wil- liam Dickey, who came in 1828. He was a Revolutionary War veteram. William Dickey died in 1832 and was buried in Friend's Creek cemetery. On his grave today rests a bronze marker, placed there in 1912 by the Stephen Decatur chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 73 GREBE, OTTO ■ l^HHi hmI 1 ^^^^^K^^^^^^^^Sffi «■ V|^ ^H ^HR^r^fv^H^^L ^k. 1 ^ n A r ge n t a DUBALL, BEN Argen ta ^a,-*-*" SHUEY, SHERMAN Argenta Argenta A AND GRAIN CO. Argenta COOPER BROTHERS Argenta HISER SERVICE STATION Argenta A AND GRAIN ELEVATOR Argenta 74 CEMETERY, FRIENDS CREEK Rt. 1 Argen ta WHITE SCHOOL Unit No. 1 Argents District •-^^ ' JT'-^ ARGENTA HIGH SCHOOL Argents James 0. Edmondson, Supt. - Erected 1928 & 1951. ARGENTA GRADE SCHOOL Erected in 191S Argents CHANDLER CEMETERY Rt. 1 Weldon SEABOLT, R. L. Rt. 1 WeldoB 1 acre #~ 75 AGEE, MRS. ARNETTA Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres ATER, CHARLES Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres AGEE, WOODROW Rt. 1 Argenta 162 acres ATER, ZORA M. Rt. 1 Argenta 110 acres ANDERSON SISTERS Rt. 1 Argenta 260 acres AUGUSTUS, Mr. & Mrs. V.L. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres ARMSTRONG, LULU Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres AYRE, ROBERT Rt. 1 Cisco 456 acres 7tJ BAKER, NOA Rt. 1 Oakley Mr.& Mrs. Ora Langley, Jr. Ten. 27 3 acres BATEMAN, MARY Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres BAPKER, OLIVE & WAYNE Rt. 1 Ore an a ISO acres BECKHAM, STELLA Rt. 1 Argenta 220 acres BARKER, WAYNE Rt. I Oreana BERING, JANE Rt. 2 Maroa 180 acres '^^ BARNES, C. C. Rt. 2 Maro a 160 acres BETZ, ARTHUR Was Rural Park School Rt. 1, Cisco 7 5 acres 77 BOWMAN, DILLARD Rt. 1 Argent a 80 acres BOYD, DALE H. Rt. Argenta 240 acres BOWMAN, D. C. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres BRENNEMAN, MARY G. (ESTATE) Decatur Rt. 5 - Bryan Simpaon 246 acres BOWMAN, MRS. ELIZABETH Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres BRICK ER, CARL Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres :^:- BOYD, ALVIN Rt. 1 Ureana 1 acre BRIGGS, ROGER Rt. 1 Argenta 300 acres 78 ^O^CMIi^^W?*^ *«»n>. BRIGGS, ROGER Rt. 1 Wei don 80 acres BURNS, CHAS. R. Rt. 1 Ci SCO 180 acres Vl**?' -*f BBDCKMAN, CHARLIE T. Rt. 1 Argent a 1 acre BURNS, VONNA Rt. 1 •■»T* Argenta 160 acres BURGLAND, DR JOHN Rt. 2 BURKAM, WAYNE Rt. 1 Maroa 360 acres Argenta 100 acres •^ 0^ CHAPMAN, FRANCES Rt. 1 CLARK, MARIE Rt. 2 Cisco 360 acres Maroa 80 acres 79 ■"*^l%5>. CDNNDR, B. F. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres CREG, JOSEPH Rt. 1 Argenta 38 acres *.■«. m -^: COOPER, ROBERT H. Rt. 1 Argenta 40 acres DIX90N, G. W. Rt. 1 Argenta 10 . 5 acres COON. LAWERENCE Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres DONNELLY, ISREAL S. Rt. 2 Maroa 50 acres ^— -tb COON, LAWRENCE Rt. 1 Ci SCO 80 acres DUEHURST, OSCARENE Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres 80 DANroRTH, MABEL Rt. 1 Weldon 240 acres DINWIDDIE, BLANCHE Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres DAVEI^ORT, N.I. Rt. 1 Maroa 200 acres DINWIDDIE ESTATE Rt. 1 Argent a 160 acres DICKEY, HOWARD Rt. 1 Argenta 90 acres EDGECOMBE, I. S. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres •* DINWIDDIE. B. IhSlAlt; Maroa EDWARDS, FRANCIS Cisco Rt. 1 160 acres Rt. 1 160 acres «1 ELLAICK, HENRY Rt. 1 Argenta 10 acres FESLER, LENORA Rt. 1 'Whi^ Ureana 120 acres "^'w^i^i-^^jSk EYMAN, ANNA Rt. 1 Argenta 17 2 acres FESLER, LENORA Rt. 1 Oreana 190 acres EYMAN, ANNA Rt. 1 Argenta 120 acres FOSTER, 0. B. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres FERRILL, aARENCE Rt. 1 Argenta 120 acres FOSTER, 0. B. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres 82 FOSTER, O.B. Rt. 1 Argent a 80 acres GOKEN, EMERY Rt. 1 Oreana 40 acres •<*r V "^ FRANKS. KATHARINE Gurnsey Dairy Farm Rt. 1, Wei don 240 acres GOKEN, EMERY Rt. 1 Oreana 40 acres FULK, CEQL Rt. 1 Argenta 120 acres i ^^ ji^SfB^Bt^ ^^^ :iig'> ^. ^M a SINGER. EARL Argenta 5 acres GRADY. LLOYD R. Rt. 2 Maroa ■'.^J-*^ GREBE, OTT Rt. 1 Argen ta 10 3 acres 83 GBEENnELD, MINNIE Rt. 1 Argenta 160 ; acres GROVES, VELMA (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Argenta 120 acres ts.— xS..' GRISSOM, DR L.L. Rt. 1 Argenta 115 acres GPDVES, WILLIAM 0. Rt. 1 Argenta 200 acres GRISSOM, DR. L.L. Rt. 2 GRISSOM, L.L. Rt. 1 Maroa 160 . acres Argen ta 320 acres HAMBRECHT, FLOSSIE M. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres HARLAN, 0. A. Rt. 1 Argenta 16 acres 84 HEINLE, MRS. LULA Maroa 200 acres HILL, W. A. Fair Play School- WO 3 Rt. 2, Maroa 1 acre ii-t HEINZ. HOWARD Rt. 1 Argenta 67 acres HILL, W. A. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres HEINZ. IHED Rt. 1 Argenta 167 acres HILBRANT, N. 0. Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres HISER, EMMA J. Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres ,:S=i>» HISER, FRANK Rt. 1 Oreana 150 acres 85 HISER, H3MER E. Rt. 1 Ci SCO 269 acres JONES, BENT3N Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres HOUSTON, ROSS Rt. 1 Argent a 130 acres JONESI, ROSE Rt. 8 Decatur 97M acres JAOiSON, GEORGE Argent a KAUFMAN, aARENCE Argenta Rt. 1 120 acres Rt. 1 90 acres JONES, EMILY Rt. 1 Argenta 180 acres KAUFMAN, aARENCE Rt. 2 Maro a 120 acres 86 .1-.* KAUFMAN, WALTER Rt. 1 Argenta 230 acres McARTY, MILDRED. Rt. 1 Cisco 83 acres '-«i(>«^ KENDALL, JOHN W. Rt. 1 Cisco 92 acres McCREADY, RAY Rt. 1 We Idon 40 acres KOHLER, SAMUEL D. Rt. 1, Qsco Res. Macon Co. since 1931 92 acres McCARTY, WARREN Rt. 1 Argenta 60 acres ^- tj, .*-k - MARSH, HERBERT Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres McKINLEY, MRS. ELEANOR Rt. 1 Cisco 123 acres 87 Mc KINNEY ESTATE Bt. 1 McQuillan, mrs. ed. Rt. 1 Argents 160 acres Ci SCO 80 acres McWHORTER, L. C. Rt. 2, Box 373 Decatur 2 acres MILLER, DWIGHT C. Rt. 1 Ci SCO 236 acres MILLER, REVERDY J. Rt. 1 MITCHELL, CHARLES 0. Rt. 1 Cisco 66 acres Ci SCO 20 2 acres MELVINS, LOUIS Bt. 1 Weldon 160 acres MITCHELL, CHARLES Rt. 2 Maroa 160 , acres 88 MITCHELL, CHARLEY Rt. 1 Argenta 27 4 acres MUNCH, HARRY B. Rt. 1 Argenta 170 acres MITCHELL, WILL Rt. 1 Oakley 1 160 acres MYERS, Rt. 1 AUDREY „„„ Cisco 200 acres ^ > MITCHELL, WILLIAM Rt. 1 Wei don 160 acres NELSON, EFFIE Rt. 1 Oreana 151 acres MOUSER, H. A. Rt. 1 Argenta 120 acres NELSON, RUTH L. Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres 89 PARKER, C. D. Rt. 1 Argenta 51 acres PARR, GEORGE Rt. 1 Argenta 246 acres PARKER, LULA M. Rt. 2 Maro a 17 5 acres PARR, GEORGE Rt. 2 Argenta 242 acres ^i^B^'S^^. PARR, GEORGE Rt. 1 Oreana 600 acres PATTENGALE, LOREN N. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres PARR, GEORGE I 11 Lake City 240 acres PATTENGILL, LORAN M. Rt. 1 Cisco 252 acres 90 1 -^- c t -1^. PATTENGILL, LORAN M. Rt. 1 Ci SCO 240 acres PHELPS, RUTH M. Rt. 1 Argenta 168 acres *-:£**it. PATTENGILL, LORAN M. Rt. 1 Cisco 240 acres PICKLE. W. F. Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres PATTENGILL, LORAN M. Rt. 1 Cisco 400 acres PIERSON, SI GRID Rt. 1 Argenta 1 28 acres PENHALLEQON, HfLm Rt. 1 Argenta 400 acres PORTER, LOWELL Rt. 2 Maroa 110 acres 91 it POWER, G. D. Rt. 1 Argents 320 acres QUERREY, W. T. Rt. 1 Argent a 80 acres " 11^ i-riiimaiilMiftiiltr^--J'**'^-'^^«g^aa^;yjraa ^ ^^m MRS. LUVINCY HHi^ttiMk. -•seas •?., ■ J4tk *!k ^^---^'^^"^JL^^^ PULLIAM, Rt. 2 Maroa 97 acres RANNEBARGER, MELLIE Rt. 1 Argenta 360 acres -"'iHi ^ QUERREY, J. Q. Rt. 1 Argenta 153 acres RANNEBARGER, R. E. Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres V\ QUERREY, W. H. Rt. 1 Argenta 3 acres RANNEBARGER, R. E. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres 92 RANNEBARGER. RAY Rt. 1 Argent a 160 acres REEVES, DWIGKT. DR. Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres RANNEBARGER, RAY E. Rt. 1 Argenta REEVES, RALPH Rt. 1 Wei don 80 acres RANNEBARGER, R. E. Norman Grider, Tenant Rt. 1, Cisco 320 acres REEVES, RALPH Breed Reg. Herefords 9^* Rt. 1, Wei don 240 acres REESER, H. A. Rt. 1 Argenta 50 acres M Ij^ i^" K^ REID ESTATE Rt. 1 Cisco 160 acres 93 REYNaLDS, FLOZZA Argenta 13 acres RUCKER, MELVIN Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres REYNOLDS, JOHN M. Rt. 2 i<,yKr--' k^:s<* ♦ ■ " RICHTER, GEORGE 0. Rt. 1 Maroe 40 acres ^ Oreana 1 acre RUCKER, MATTIE Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres SANNER, CLARENCE Rt. 1 Argenta 20 5 acres wiBM ^* / fi,. RDSS, CHARLE M. Rt. 1 Argenta 340 acres IP I: SOiALL, GLENN, Rt. 1 Argenta 260 acres 94 SEARLES, UrmER Rt. 1 Argenta 240 acres SHINNEMAN, ORVAL Rt. 1 Cisco 160 acres -rt**Vj SHASTID, CHARLES Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres SHUEY, EVELYN Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres mm <- SMKs SHAW, VEPN Rt. 1 Argenta 36 acres SMALLfOOD. GUY Rt. 1 Argenta 210 acres SHEARER, LLOYD Maroa SMART, MRS. FERN J. Ureana Rt. 2 80 acres Rt. 1 240 acres 95 -^^■^ * SMART, FERN J. Rt. 1 Oreana SMITH, HANNA Rt. 1 Argen ta 200 acres ... .'V ' ^ SPORE, WM. Rt. 1 Cisco 18 acres STEWART, SAM Rt. 1 STOCKS, ERBOL L. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 400 acres STOUTENBOPDUGH, BOY Br, 1 Oreana 200 acres STOUTEN BOROUGH, RUSSELL Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres Argenta 4 acres SWIGABT, MARION (ESTATE) Maroa Rt. 2 160 acres 96 i ^ TAYLOR, WILLIAM H. Argenta 210 acres VAN DONGEN, CREA Rt. 1 Oakley 120 acres TEMPLETON, B. F. Rt. Maroa 160 acres WALLER, MR.& MRS. FRED L. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres THORNTON, CATHARINE STULL Rt. Argenta 230 acres WALLER. MR. & MRS. FRED L. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres ftESLEYAN UNIVERSITT Rt. 1 Marc a 240 acres WESTERMAN, HARRY Rt. 1 Argenta 140 acres 97 * 4''k~ ■^ ASH, CHARLES Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres AUSTIN, CHARLES Rt. 8 Decatur 28 acres msimms: ASH, E. GLENN & GJERDE, Mrs.R. L; Decatur Rt.S-Farm in Family since 1890' s 210 acres BAER, C. S. Rt. 1 Niant ic 120 acres BAER, CLINT W. E. Belcher Ht. 3 , Decatur 80 acres 104 BAILEY, MRS. GENEVA Rt. 1, Niantic Russell Faoiily Residence since 1900. 60 acres m'' BURRIS, GEORGE L. Rt. 8 Decatur 1 acre BAIR, LUTHUR Rt. 8 Nts. Decatu I 30 acres BURKS, GLENN Rt. 1 .'^T*mr- Niantic 80 aeres BATCHELDER, W. R. Rt. 8 Decatur 3 acres BENTLEY, GEORGE Decatur Twin Lakes-Parties, Fishing, etc. 35 acres BRUCE, B. J. Rt. 1 BRIX, WALTER Rt. 8 Niantic 172 acres Decatur 10 acres 105 CLINE, MERLE C. & FRANCES Rt. 8 Decatur 14 acres DIPPER, WALTER Rt. 1 Niantic 172 acres ■^i.r^^ OCX)PER, ALBERT Rt. 8 Decatur 198 acres DOWNING, DAVID Rt. 8 ^^. tki. -r Decatur 39 acres i^i7 DAVIS, LUCY Rt. 8 Decatur 80 acres DOWNING, DAVID Rt. 8 De c a tu r 7 3 acres Harrist o»n 319 acres DOWNING, RAY Rt. 3 Decatur 10 acres DUMMERMOUTH, E. F. Rt. 8 Decatur 80 acres DURFLINGER, R. W. Rt. 1, Niantic Lifetime Resident Macon City 125 acres DUNN, MRS. ARCHIE James Mathias Rt. 1 , Niantic 320 acres EPPERSON, LESLIE L. Rt. 8, Decatur Resident of County since 1942. 8X acres DUNN, GEORGE Rt. 1 Niantic GEMMER FARM Rt. 8 Decatur 220 acres DURFLINGER, HAROLD & FREDERIOi Niantic Rt. 1 80 acres GOUGE, CARRIE Rt. 8 Decatur 120 acres 107 GOUGE, IVA Opr. Harold W. Burcham Decatur 92 acres HAMILTON, WILLIAM Rt. 8 Decatur 60 acres GRAF, JOAN Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres HANKS, C. R. Rt. 8 Decatur 12 acres GULICK, HERBERT D. Rt. 3 De c a tu r 160 acres HARDY, FLOYD Rt. 8, Decatur Livastock Dealer Phone 29-6298 15 acres GULICK, THERON Rt. 3 De c a tu r 160 acres HASKELL, E. C. Rt. 8 Decatur 36 acres 108 HILL, EDIIH Rt. 8 Deca tu r 320 acres HOLMES, C. F. Harri stown 124 acres ^^ HIMSTEDT. FRANK M. Rt. 8 Decatur 120 acres HOOKER, LEE Rt. 8 Decatu r 80 acres HIMSTEDT, RAYMOND L. Rt. 8 Decatu r 80 acres HOOKER, LEE Rt. 8 Decatur 104 acres HOFFMAN, KATHRYN W. Rt. 8, Decatur Breeder of Reg. Suffolk & Haapshire Sheep. 180* HOSTETLER, J. C. Rt. 8 Decatur 109 HURST, PAUL Rt. 1 Niantic 160 acres JOYNT, R. 0. Rt. 8 Decatur 23 acres HURST, PAUL Rt. 8 Deca tur 240 acres KIICK, RAYMOND Rt. 3 Decatur 109 acres HUTCHINSON, ERNEST B. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres KRALL, T3NY Rt. 8 De c a tu r 190 acres JAMES, ANDREW Rt. 8 Decatur 10 acres LEONARD, H. EUGENE Rt. 1, Niantic Lifetime Resident Macon County 160 acres 110 '!*"'»^ « MILLER, HERMAN A. Niantic MURRELL, OTTO Decatur Rt. 1 52 acres Rt. 8 17 acres MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY Rt. 1 Decatur 212 acres BOYD, MRS. NELSON GILSON, MRS. HARRY Rt. 8, Decatur 240 acres MILNES, C. E. Rt. 8 Decatur 180 acres PARISH, BLDON K. Rt. 3 Decatur 280 : acres ^^^^BjP' ^^^^t^ ''^^^^^^^^^^^M ^^^^^^^^^^^fl HL fl^^^^to ^"^^1 ^^iS ^S^^hHBp^v MOORE, HUGH Rt. 1 Niantic 445 acres PARISH, GERALD Rt. 3 Decatur I acre 111 PARISH, JAMES H. Rt. 1 Decatur 275 acres ROBY, RIG & NQLLER. RUTH •^^- • ■iisgfef. -ass's; Rt. 8, Decatur 240 acres PARISH ORPHA Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres ROBY, R. G. Rt. 1 ASk-, Warrensburg 320 acres PHILLIPS, CARL Rt. 8 Decatur 240 acres BOTOWELL, MRS. CLARA Rt. 8 Decatur 200 acres RANDALL, W. G. Rt. 8 Decatur 3 acres ROTZ, H. W. 50 th Wedding Anni v. 19 54 Rt. 1, Niantic 40 acres 112 PRITCHETT, ELMER S. Rt. 1 Ni antic 200 acres SCHRISHUHN, KENNETH Rt. 8 Decatur 8 acres SANDERS, DR. ZINK Rt. 8 Decatur 80 acres SCROGGINS, NANCY Rt. 8 Decatur 240 acres ^•^-■.,^.- SAWYER, WILLIAM I. Rt. 3 Uecatu r 73 acres SHAWVER, SAM Rt. 8 Decatur 50 acres £^i««!^-. SCHIWICK, IDA Rt. 8 Decatur 52 acres SIMPSON, L. F. Rt. 8 Decatur 18^ acres 113 SMITH. UURA Rt. 4, Decatur Breeders of Herford Cattle 240 acres TURNER, DOROTHY P. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 360 acres /7 STENGEL, LEO A. Rt. 8 Decatur 160 acres TURNER, OSCAR Rt. 8 De c a tu r 20 acres WANTLING, DONALD Rt. 8 Decatur 6 acres '^^ 1*^ PL:v^ TRAVIS, IDA M. Rt. 8 Decatur 80 acres WARMOTH, HARVEY Rt. 8 Decatur 2 acres 114 WATTS, R. W. Rt. 8 Decatu r 40 acres W3LFE, A. W. Rt. 8 Decatur 70 acres ^m i"^ »*. r.-. v.^vr--' WHITLEY, MRS. J.T. Rt. 8 Decatur 273 acres WORKMAN, CHARLES Rt. 8, Decatur Home of Mr. & Mrs. Chas. Workman since 1943. 10 ac WILLARD, ALIE Rt. 8 . Decatur 320 acres WOLFE, A. W. Rt. 8 De c a tu r 107 acres 115 116 HICKORY POINT TOWNSHIP Forsythe Bearsdale 117 **eo »4?lC«te"< FORSYTHE Situated just north of Decatur, on US 51 and the Illinois Central Railroad, the village of Forsythe is one of two communities in Hickory Point Township, the other being Bearsdale. The population of the town- ship today is 3,178. The village of Forsythe, which was laid out in 1864 by Edward 0. Smith, derived its name from Colonel Robert Forsythe, a landowner of the region and first general freight agent of the Illi- nois Central Railroad. Among early settlers of Hickory Point Township (at first called Bull Point Township) were John and James Haoiks, cousins of Abraham Lin- coln. The first settler was David Florey, who arrived in 1825 and built a log cabin in the woods on the west branch of Stevens Creek. Later arrivals in the township were numerous members of the Church of God, and this denomination established the first church there in 1852. In addition to serving as Forsythe' s first postmaster, N. J. Fitch built one of the first houses in the village, became a dealer in grain, and conducted a general store. The first railroad agent at Forsythe was Charles Ruehl, and he, also, was a grain dealer, as well as builder of Forsythe' s first elevator. 118 BEARSDALE One day in 1854, when the Illinois Central Railroad was being built through Macon County, several road officials came to the present site of Bearsdale and asked if the place had a name. When told that it was called "Lickskillet, " the road officials thought they were being hood- winked and so decided to pick a name of their own for a station under construction there. The name they chose was "Bearsdale, " after Samuel Bear, an early settler of Hickory Point Township through whose land the railroad was built. It w£is because of a growth of hickory trees at the place where Stevens Creek left the timber and entered open country that Hickory Point Township got its name. Sometime in 1890 one Saimuel Troutmzui erected the first grain ele- vator at Bearsdale. After this was abandoned in later years and a new elevator built by William Ritchie, it was used for storage purposes. 119 L. D. HCXSERS FEED STORE Rt. Forsyth 3 acres BOILING SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 48 Boiline Sorinrs. Illinois GRACELAND ^rever beautiful CEMETERY "Rccosniud for Courteout Sarvic* and Car*" Visit the Exclusively Designed Estate Gardens For DisHncHve Family Lois Btry Btfor* N**d*d Monthly Paymvnt PLAN OFFICE AT CEMETERY Most ConvcnUnfly Located Only 4 Blocks from Bui Una 1900 N. Ooldond BRONZE MARKERS and PLAQUES CEMETBaiY LETTERING 7/^ti^^T — —n AOTHORIZIO; OF jflEAltt t \4G^/ ^ 2000 N. Oakland Decator, IlL VL World'. Zrineit Ljranitei Decatur's Largest Display MONUMENTS — MARKERS GEORGE E. TAYLC», MGH. QUflLITV MEMORIAL COMPANY PAYMENT PLAN AVAILABLE HOURS 8:00 AJA. to 5:00 PJ4. Dodly 2:30 to 5:00 P.M. Sundays DIAL 5439 DUPLICATIONS MAUSOLEUM BUILDERS WAUSAU s'red/ DEALER Dial 3-3831 120 V-?.(5i»'it.i ^■f^S. ALBERTS, BESSIE Rt. 4 De c a tu r 80 acres ALBIN, GEORGE H. Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres ABCHER, PHI UP Rt. 1 ATER, ETOEL C. (ESTATE) Rt. 2 Decatur 1 acre Decatur 30 3 acres ALBERT, KEITH Rt. 1 Oreana 200 acres 1- - mm "^ '■-.^ 1t-'^ m m y. m ^ iH ^%-% H J^^ g:^'** BARGEB, CASS Rf.. S ^t. uiXlt^' Decatur 10 acres ALBERT, KEITH Rt. 2 Macon 200 acres BAUER, MRS. AMELIA nt. 4 Decatur 165 acres lai BEAL, LLOYD Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres BEAL, LOREN W. Rt. 1 Decatu r 211 acres BEAR, WILSON Rt. 3 Decatur 96 acres BEAR, WIL93N 122 De c a tu r 80 acres BIRT, R. R. Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres 80 RK, JOHN Rt. 3 Decatur 10 acres BRENNING, NAOMI Rt. 2 Macon 112 acres BRETT, VERNA 0. Rt. 1 Decatur 80 acres BPDTHERTON, V. H. Rt. 2 Macon 100 acres BURBANK, CARL Rt. 1 Decatur 14 acres BUTLER, CARL B. Rt. 2 CASSITT, EDLA E. Rt. -Oreana Decatur 140 acres Macon 240 acres BUREHAM, 0. DALE Rt. 1 Dalton City 187 acres BURNS, CHARLES J. Rt. 1 De c a tu r 110 acres CASSITY, MRS. 0. Rt. 1 Decatur 220 acres CHENOWETH, JCHN E. Rt. 1 Oreana 75 acres 123 DISBHOW, E. B. Rt. 1, Warrensburg C. E. Disbrow- Tenant 80 acres (DLE, CD. Rt. 2 Decatur 96 acres CLARK, MR. Rt. 2 Decatu r 160 acres QDRMAN, MARTIN Rt. 7 Decatur 40 acres CLARKSON, ROY Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 160 acres OOFftlAN, MARTIN Oakley 75 acres aAPKaON, RDY A. Rt. 1 Oakley 90 acres CRONK, CEQL Rt. 1 De c a tu r 30 acres 124 DALTON, V. W. Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres ^ Ik. 1 * ■ .-zm-' EDWARDS, G. C. Rt. 1 De c a tu r 280 acres =**»-.. DANIEL, T. (ESTATE) Rt. 2 Macon 320 acres ■^.ar'*'^ EDWARDS, G. K. Rt. 3 De c a tu r 614 acres DECHANT, JAKE Rt. 1 Decatur 60 acres FISOJS, J. J. Rt. 5 Macon 40 acres ^.y" -^ [-^ i. EADS, PAUL Rt. 3 De c a tu r 52 acres FLACH, MRS. HENRY J. Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres 125 i* ,i'»\ Zir 'JIW FOX, JOHN Rt. 1 Decatur GREEN, CLIFFORD W. Rt. 3 Decatur 100 acres FOX, JOHN C. Rt. 1 Decatur 80 acres GULIOi, F.L. Rt. 2 Decatur 160 acres GOOD, FLETA Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres HANES, C. A. Rt. 1 Decatur 100^ acres fe "■"■sej^^ ■JS^S*" >i(-at*i^W'P'*T!llK-«-e*i#J GOOD, ROBERT E. Rt. 1 Decatur 80 acres HANES, MARTHA Rt. 2 Decatur 80 acres 126 5^ HARRISON, JOHN W. Rt. 2 Macon 17 acres HEDGES, DELLA Rt. 1, Warrensburg Melvin Lehn- Reg. Angus Cattle 216 acres HEDGES, WILLIAM Rt. 1 De c a tu r 160: acres HINKLE, EVERETT Rt. 1 »te. Decatur 10 acres HISER, FRANK Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres HOCKADAY, MRS. dUY Rt. 1 Decatur 240 acres HENDERSON, L. J Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres HOCKADAY, NOLA M. Rt. 1 Decatur 127 Ipil I- ■i'-"'^ K lit- r; HOOD, PAUL F. Rt. 3 Decatur 97 acres JANVRIN, LYNN Rt. 3 De c a tu r 154 acres HOPKINS, RAY Rt. 2 Decatur 80 acres KAPPER, A. E. Rt. 1 Decatur 5 acres HUB BELL, C. E. Rt. 3 P^I^S^if*^ Decatur 3 acres KEISTER, MISS MABEL Rt. 1 Decatur 80 acres JANVRIN, LYNN E. Residence since 1925 Rt. 3, Decatur 60 acres KEMMERER, RALPH Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres 12ti KINNAIRD, JOHN H. Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres LEWIS, MRS. STELLA Rt. Oreana Macon 124 acres KOSHINSKI, W. A. Rt. 3 Decatur 10 acres LIENHART. G. G. Rt. 1 Decatur 50 acres '*^'^:- i-'^" '*-•'• LEEK. CARL W. Rt. 1 LEHN, RUSSELL Rt. 1 Decatur 5 acres Warrensburg 80 acres LIMING, P. 0. Rt. 1 Argents 80 acres "l. MacGREGOR, J. P. Rt. 3 Decatur 1/4 acres 129 MACKLIN, S. W. Rt. 2 Moweaqua 165 acres McDANIEL, RALPH E. Rt. 1 Decatur 1 acre ■-dfe^r MATHEWS, D. Rt. 4 McCOOL, BERT W. Rt. 2 Decatur 160 acres Decatur 320 acres MARTIN, RUSSELL M. Decatur Mc KINLEY, RUBY Macon Rt. 2 400 acres Rt. 2 122 acres Ik McBOBERTS, MARTHA Rt. 1 MERYMAN, GLENN R. Rt. 1 Macon 161 acres Decatur 1 acre 130 MERYMAN, GLEN Rt.3, Decatur FLOYD GWSE. Ten. -Horses 240 acres B^^"' ^R #'. |.*5-^^ -^^^f^^'K' * MILLER, ROSS Rt. 1 Dal ton City 240 acres MERYMAN, CiEN R. Rt. 1 Decatur 240 acres MICHAEL, JOHN Rt. 1 Decatur /4 acre MIER, JOHN C. Rt. 3 Decatur 3 acres MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY Rt. 1 MOCABEE, C31ESTER Rt. 2 Decatur 160 acres «, r';^^^^H |^^A*^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^| ■ft' ^^^^^^^^H^^J Decatur 80 acres MONTGOMERY, ALBERTA Rt. 1 Decatur 80 acres 131 NEAL, BERT Rt. 2 NICHOLS, ARCHIE Rt. 2 De c a tu r 52 acres Decatur 98 acres PFEIFFER, W. R. Rt. 1 De c a tu r 160 acres PHILLIPS, ROY & LOEB, JACK Rt. 1, Decatur 224 acres OPALKA, FRED Rt. 3 PARISH, GERALD Rt. 3 Decatur 10 acres Decatur 160 acres PIERCE, 0. C. Rt. I wifti'a' i^iA De c a tu r 160 acres POWERS, JACK Rt. 1 Oakley 120 acres 132 POWERS. JACK H. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres REESER, HARRY Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres POWERS, JACK Rt. 1 Warrensburg 19 6 acres RICHARDS. JOHN H. Rt. 1 Oakley 15 acres ., L,'* RAINEY, JOHN C Pooe Farailv res. 27 vrs Rt. 2. Decatur 240 acres RIFE, JOSEPH A. Boulder Acres Rt. 3 Decatur oo «H^ ^^IRff REESER, HERBERT Rt. 2 Oe c a tu r 80 acres SAWYER, FRANK E. Rt. 2 De c a tu r 80 acres 133 SCOVILL MRS. G. Decatur 200 acres SIBTOORP, FRED L. Rt. 2 Decatur 80 acres SCOVILL MRS. G. Rt. 120 Decatur None SIBTOORP,, FRED Rt. 1 Decatur 240 acres Sr3P^^^^Bi?^^^l^ha^aB. SHAW, H. A. Rt. 3- Decatur 10 acres SIBTOORP, W. J. Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 180 acres anJTTER, L. w. Rt. 1 Decatur 30 acres SIBTOORP, WILL C. Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 187 acres 134 SMITO, LEWIS Rt. 2 De c a tu r SO: acres STEIDNER, EVELYN Rt. 1 Decatu r 160 acres a^ ^f- " ' 1^4 STROH, HARRY Rt. 2 STROH, MRS. HARRY Rt. 2 Macon 168 acres "I >>-• — .••.V Macon 160 acres STOUT, C. E. Rt. 2 Deca tu r 80 acres %mS9 STRDH, MRS. H. A. Rt. 2 Macon 140 acres SWEARINGER, SARAH Rt. 1 De c a tu r 80 acres THOMLEY, ROBERTC. Rt. 1 Decatur 135 THOMPSON, JOHN Rt. 2 Moweaqua SO acres TILLEY, A. P. Rt. 1 Decatur 320 acres raOMPSON.RDY Rt. 2 De c a tu r 40 acres TILLEY ESTATE Howard Butt, Sr. Rt. 1, Decatur 240 acres TTLLEY, A. P. Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres TRAVER, WILLIAM G. Rt. 2, Decatur Wendell Malone, Tenant 48 yrs. 210 acres TILLEY, MRS. A. P. Rt. 1 De c a tu r 320 acres TBDUTMAN. C. S. (ESTATE) Rt. 3 Decatur 61 acres 136 THOUBIAN, FRANK S. Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres WATXINS, JAMES F. Rt. 1 Decatur 80 acres I ^ w W^m i M ^*^^i^ 1 fc 4^.« ''-vVl f'' £^ S- ' ^ TRDUTMAN, FRANK S. Rt. 3 Decatur 188 acres WEAVER, ROY Rt. 3 Decatur 200 acres ■ I^^P ^H ^^^^^^^^^H^^^^ H ^^B^^^^-' isr^jT I^^^^bpc^' WALLER, GB3RGE Rt. 1 Decatur 265 acres WELTMER, LELA Rt. 1 Decatur 48 acr<».«! WAT KINS, G. L. Warrensburg 92 acres WHEAT. LAWRENCE C. Rt. 2 Decatur 160 acres 137 WHEAT, LAWRENCE C. Rt. 2 Decatur 159 acres WILLETS, RALPH Rt. 3 Uecatu r 100 acres WHEAT, LAWRENCE C. Rt. 2 Decatur WILSON, FRANQS Rt. 3 Decatur 18 acres WI ELAND. IVAN F. Rt. 2 Decatui 7 3 acres WOODWARD, DR C. E. WILKER90N, D. F. Rt. 1 Decatur 200 acres YOUNG, JOHN E. Rt. 3 Decatur 53 acres 138 GRAIN CO. HEMAN P.O. WARRENSBURG. ILL GRAIN STALEY FEEDS NORGE — PHILCO — MAYTAG JOHN DEERE SKELGAS CBS TELEVISION Where the toffee pot is always on 139 140 ILLINI TOWNSHIP Warrensburg 141 ■f,if''Vka&-»!. j!MiS^,j(^ VARRENSBURG Named after John K. Warren, one-time mayor of Decatur and prom- inent Macon County land developer, Warrensburg, almost in the center of mini Township, was established soon after the Pekin, Lincoln & Decatur Railroad was built through the township. This road, of which John K. Warren was a director, is now the Peoria branch of the Illinois Central Railroad. After the first house was built in Warrensburg by John Ritchie, a mercantile store was erected by Samuel Ritchie. Some years later Samuel Ritchie and his wife founded a newspaper, the Warrensburg Times, and this they continued to publish until their deaths. It was later con- ducted by A. R. Finkenbinder. The first supervisor of Illini Township (the Indian word "Illini" means "men") was Henry Pickrell, who was afterwards to become a prom- inent breeder of blooded livestock. For some years he was president of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association. In his later career he moved to Chicago. 14ii ILLINI CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Established 1875 DISBROW, WILLIAM Warrensburg Lakeview School Rt. 1 1 acre AUSTIN SCHOOL Rt.l, Warrensburg WARRENSBURG HIGH SCHOOL Warrensburg, Illinois ALBERT, CHRIS Farm & Garden Store Warrensburg Rt. 1 143 ALBERT, RUBY L. Rt. 1 Warrens burg 16 acres ABTOUR, CELIA HILDRETH Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres ■■■t ^ ALBIN, ORVILLE R. Rt. 3 Decat ur 160 acres BATCHELDER, CHAS. Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 160 acres ALSOP, RAVIVDND Rt. 8 De c a tu r 360 acres BATCHELDER, CHAS. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 100 acres ALi^UP, RAY'MOND Rt. 1 144 J^ Moros BATCHELLER, CLIFFORD Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 160 : acres BARaAY, oms Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg B^ acres BATCHELDER, H. F. & 33N Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 40 acres BATCHELDER, C S. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres BAUMAN, BETTHA Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres BATCHELDER, CLIFFORD Rt. 1 Warrensburg 72 acres BATCHELDER, E.L. (ESTATE) Decatur Rt. 3 305 acres BIDDLE, BERTHA Rt. 1 Warrensburg 147 acres BRINTLINGER (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres 145 ^^^^^^^BKS^^^^^I^^^BS^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H r . S:-- Jj.* 1^5 BRINTLINGER ESTATE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 180 acres BRITUNGER, ESTATE Bt. 1 Warrensburg 180 acres BHDCK, LIZZIE Rt. 3 Decatur 160 seres BPDWN, MRS. D. S. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 560 acres BROVm, H. B. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres BROWN, H. B. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 acres BROWN, HORACE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 150 acres BPDWN, HORACE B. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 146 BROWN, JOHN A. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres BROWN, MILDRED, L. Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres BPDWN, MRS. J.E. Rt, 3 De c a tu r 160 acres BROWN, NATHAN J. Rt. 3 Decatur 240 acres BROWN, KATHRYN S. Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 100 acres BROWN, NELLIE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 204 acres BROWN, MRS. Rt. 3 De c a tu r 160 acres BROWN, VONNA R. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 400 acres 147 BROWN, VONNA RITCHIE Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres CLEM. A. J. Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres BRUCE, CARL Rt. Warrensburg 160 acres CLIPSTON, J.H. & FANNIE B. Warrensburg Rt. 1 120 acres CARDER, EARL Rt. 1 Warrensburg 45 acres CONELY, EDITH Rt. 1, Warrensburg John F. Herron, Tenant 160 acres UlAMBKhLAlIN, MKTA Rt. 3 Decatu r 160 acres OJLP, WILMER E. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 acres 14« DAVIS, MRS. LUCY Rt. 3 Decatur 80 aerea DRESBACH, MRS. CLARA A. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres MTRICH, ANNA Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 80 acres ELLIOTT. HUBE Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acre* DOWNING, MARY L. Rt. 1 Latham 240 acres ENGLAND, LEE Rt. 1 Warrensburg r« DRAGSTREM, HAROLD Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres J 4% ENGLAND. LELAND Rt. 1 ENGLAND ESTATE Rt. 3 Decatur 240 acres FRIEND, E. W. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres ENGLAND, LELAND Rt. 1 War rensburg FRIEUND, EZRA Rt. 3 Uecatur 80 acres EYMAN, JAMES & MARGARET Rt. 1 Warrensburg 177 acres FUHRER, JOE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres FLACH, LOIS Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres GAMBRILL, MRS. ROY Rt . ^ Decatur 150 GANES, VERA Rt. 3 Decatur 180 acres -ids' HANES, JACOB Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres OILMAN, CAROLINE Rt. 3 Deca tur 160 acres HARMON, ALVAE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres .~,^" mm, GRACE Rt. 1 HANaLTON, M.C. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres Warrensburg 200 acres HASTINGS. H. E. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 acres HEFT, M. S. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 240 acres 151 n*iiwiM.»twii I - •^-'. ■' HENDERSON, MR. & MRS. WILLIAM Decatur Rt. 3 164 acres HUMPHREY, KATIE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres HOGAN, EVERETT Rt. 3 Decatu r 380 acres HUMPHRIES, ED «nd BEVERLY Decatur Rt. 3 80 acres lOLLAR, GRACE & RUTH Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres HURSH, JOE Rt. 3 De c a tu r 160 acres HUMfflBEY FARM Rt. 2 Maroa 240 acres HUR91, JOE Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres 152 HURSH, LAURA Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres JOHNER, FRED Rt. 4 Decatur 123 acres INGAM, GEORGE & BROWN, JOHN Rt. 1, Warrensburg 160 acres ^.^ INGHAM, GEORGE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 120 acres JOHNS, QDRWIN Rt. 2 Macon 200 acres JANVRIN, F. K. Rt. 1 Wa rrens burg IRWIN, MRS. NIRA C. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 200 acres JANVRIN, F. K. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 1S9 acres 153 KANE, F. M. Rt. 3 Decatur 320 acres m^' KEISTER, CLIFFORD L. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres KIICK, FREDERICK Rt. I Warrensbu rg 120 acres -«:r/V': ■ ^- _ %- LEHN, MRS. HOWARD Rt. 3 DeeatuT 160 acres LEHN, JOHN P. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 13 acres LEHN, RUSSELL Rt. 1 Warrensburg 240 acres npHj ■K--' 'J^^^A LEHN, HOWARD Rt. 1, Warrensburg Life-long resident Macon Co. 160 acres LYMAN, HOMER Rt. 1 Ni antic 80 acres 154 LYTLE, JOHN E. Rt. 3 Decatur 200 acres ^HHHM fe ---^:_ MAJOR, RALPH Rt. 3 De c a tu r 80 acres MARSHALL, JOHN E, Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres -— _ -* ^ £?y-^--7s--^ McCABTY, EL DO Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres McGUIRE, CHARLES R. Rt 1 Warrensburg 12 acres McGUIRE, GARTH Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres McGRATH, MRS. R. F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 acres MOORE, P. E. Rt. 3 Decatur 1 acre 155 NAUMAN. LOUIS Rt. 3 Decatur 160 acres PAGE, MARGARET ANN Rt. 1 Warrensburg- 160 acres NEAUMAN, ARNOLD Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 80 acres PARISH, L. R. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres NOTTELMANN, EMMA B. Rt. 1 Warrensbu rg 160 acres PARKS, W. S. & Eva C. Rt. 3 De c a tu r 160 acres OSBORN, HARRY Rt. 1 Warrensburg PEASE, MRS. FRANK Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres 156 ^ w^ PERISH, LEWIS Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres POWERS, ROBERT C. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 256 acres RDDGERS, FLOYD Rt. 2 4^:s^: Macon 200 acres SHAW, JOHN W. (ESTATE) Rt. 1 140 acres ,'*^- RANIM.E, FOSTER Rt. 3 Decatur 240 acres SHELLBARGER ANN Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres RAU, CLARENCE 0. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres SHELL ABARGER, MISS ANN Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres 157 STAHL, WALTEB D. Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 140 acres STONE, ROSS Rt. 1 Warrensburg 80 : acres STREICH, JOHN F. Rt. 1 STREICH, JOHN F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 200 acres Warrensburg None STOOKEY, M.C. Decatur 3 acres STREICH, JOHN F. Rt. 1 Wa r r ensbur g 275 acres ^^^p'wi ^■1 ^^p?s^?g^ "^^tfe^ J^mr \^^9Sut : ^ N. 1 . STREICH, JOHN F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg TAGGART, J. H. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 200 acres 158 THATCHER, EDWARD Rt. 3 THATCHER, O.E. Rt. 3 Decatur 240 acres Decatur 96 acres VAUGHAN, EVERT Rt. 1 VAPffl INKLE, LULA MUTZBERG, LELA Warrensbu rg 200 acres Rt . 3 , Decatur 167 acres TUCKER. MRS. J. T. Warrensburg \OELKER, VWLLIAM P. Latham Rt. 1 320 acres Rt. 1 100 acres TURNER, DOROTHY Rt. 1 Warrensburg 200 acres WELLER, CARRIE Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres 159 WILKINS3N, HELEN S. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 160 acres TOWN OF HE MAN Pop. 2 Suppliers of Satisfactory Merchandise since 1869 Linn and Scruggs Company 161 North Main Street Decatur 111. 160 LONG CREEK TOWNSHIP Long Creek Casner CASNER Some years after Peter Casner, a native of Pennsylvania, became one of the early settlers of Long Creek Township, he gave 80 acres of land to each of his five children, the gifts to become effective upon their reaching maturity. One of these was Lewis B. Casner, founder of the village of Casner. His farm lay north of the village. Although Casner was started in 1877, it was not officially platted until 1882. Lewis Casner built the first house there, and became first postmaster. He was assisted in laying out the village by the Rev. J. H. Crowder. The first church there, the United Brethren Church, was erected in 1876. The villages' s first physician was Dr. M. V. Lonergan. After living on his farm until 1891, Lewis B. Casner moved to Decatur, where for some years afterwards he was active in the banking field and in other business ventures. 162 "^'ti^ ■■i: -^^^ ^h^k^^* LONG CREEK The village of Long Creek, situated east of Decatnr on US 36, was at first a railroad stop for the surrounding farm area. Although a postoffice was established there as early as 1875, and a store was opened that same year by Kizer & Myers, it weis not until 1882 that the village of Long Creek was laid out formally. Today, it is in the center of a township with a population of 3,728 the largest of any Macon County township aside from Decatur Township. One of the best-known natives of Long Creek Township was the Rev. Nathan M. Baker, religious leader, astronomer and Macon County historian. He was born in the township in 1837 and spent most of his life there. His father, William D. Baker, was one of the first two settlers of Long Creek Township, arriving in 1829. The other was David Davis. Both men had married sisters. It was through this township that the old Decatur-Paris road was built in pioneer times. It followed roughly the route of present-day State 121. Several wayside inns in Long Creek Township served stage- coach passengers on this road in early days. 163 164 BERRY SCHOOL Rt. 1 Oakl ey 2 acres LONG CREEK METHODIST CHURCH Long Creek 165 »■ ■», i^^ .-«.•'< «L -*' *i ALBERT, MRS. JAMES Rt. " Decatui 70 acre? BEAR, A. LYNN Rt. 3 '-^■•C^' •*■;- Decatur 160 acres ..# ATCHISON, R.M. Rt. 7 Decatur 65 acres REALS, BRYAN J. Rt. 7 Decatur 5 acres ATTEBERRY, ALVA A. Rt. 1 Oakley 244 acres BEERY, ELDO Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 175 acres BARTELS, HENRY Rt. 1 BARNETT, GEORGE M. Rt. 5 Decatur 180 acres Decatur 40 acres 166 '^^w BEERY, JESSE Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 100 acres f BRITTON, MRS. ROXIE Rt. 1 Oakley 240 acres BELL, MRS. HARRY Rt. 1 BELL, MARVIN Rt. 1 Oakl ey 40 acres Oakley 1 acre BURNS. MRS. GL\DYS Decatur 40 acres ^ BUTZIEN, H. C. Rt. 6 De c a tu r 20 acres -^T^^ 9 BORK, AMEL E. Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres BEERY, a, DO Rt. 1 Oakley 17 5 acres 167 / CARR, MRS. W. A. Rt. '7 Decatu r 120 acres •^.5 -^ CLARK, ORAL Rt. 1 De c a tu r 160 acres CHAPMAN, B. E. Rt. 6 Deca tur 10 acres aAPKSON, C. R. Rt. 1 Oakl ey 60 acres J**'*- CHAPMAN, MR. E. B. Rt. 1 Oakley 460 acres CLAROON, E.G. Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 120 . acres m ^^r^^p^^^^^^^ J 1 : '■ m 1 i m ^"^ P m .- i5i' ^i i 1 ' r ^^ m ■ -^'. CHRISTIANSCM, C. R. Rt. 1 Oakley 240 acres CLARKSON, E. Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 1 acre 168 aXK, JANE IRVING Rt. 1 Oakley 200 acres GORMAN. LOUIS H. Rt. 7 Ueca tur 108 acres m 7T^_ 'V^-rv^'. T*-* COOK.L. W. Rt. 1 Macon 320 acres CLARK SON, LYNN Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 160 acres K^^^^ .^i»^ COOK, 'L. W. Rt. 7 Decatu r 15 acres CLESSON, MARION Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acres COOK, L.W. Rt. 1 Oakley 200 acres COAY, HELEN Rt. 1 Oakley 40 acres 169 risf '>^ J^ GORMAN, 0. D. & MEL Rt. 1 Lake City 160 acres CROOK, GUY & EDNA Rt. 5 Uecatur 140 acres CORMAN, 0. D. Rt. 7 160 acres MILLIKIN TRUST DALE, ALBERT Rt. 1, Oakley 9 5 acres ^SSfe^-- CRAIG, ROY Rt. 1 Oakley B acres :^ DANIEL, T. . DANIEL, B. , Oakley STRANGE, L. , MARSHALL, L. 240 acres CRAY CRD FT, MRS. JENNY E. Rt. 6 Decatur 215 acres DERR, CHARLES E. Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 160 acres i7U DISBPDW, E. B. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 135 acres DONOVAN, BEFNARD Rt. 1 Cerro bordo 254 acres DIVELEY, F. C. Rt. 7 Decatur 20 acres DRAKE, W. P. Rt. 8 De c a tu r 3 acres DONOVAN, BERNARD Cerro Gordo 1 acre EARNIST, VERA R. Rt. 1 Oakley 200 acres DONOVAN, BEPNARD T. Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acres EATON, JAMES R. Rt. 1 Oakley 20 acres 171 EMERY, C. E. Rt. Decatur 8 acres ^rs-j*^ % ff *f^ # ^ ^r^^ias,^.^/ l-i* ,.0^""%' '^Jf '^ FDRD, ARGEL C. Rt. 7 v^Mpr* De c a tu r 47 acres ■ :'*^,*-^ EVANS. RALPH H. Rt. 7 Decatur 1 acre FRAZEE, JOHN F. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 84 acres ^^ SOUTH, EXCELSIOR Rt. 5 Decatur FREITAG, ELMER G. Rt. 6 Decatu r 20 acres FIELDS, W. C. Rt. 7 Decatur 60 acres FULK, J. Rt. 6 Decatur 30 acres 172 :sfe RJLK, LEE Rt. 6 Decatur 120 acres GOOD, EMMET Rt. 1 Oakley 5 + acres y GARD. FRANK Rt. 6 Decatur 100 acres GREEN, FRED M. Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres GARDNER, FANNIE Rt. 3 Decatur 12 acres GREENFIELD, MRS. A. W. & HARLEY Decatur Rt. 7 7 4 acres GOOD, EDWIN H. Rt. 1 Oakley 40 acres GRINESTAFF, T. E. Rt. Decatur 3 acres 173 UKUfh, VIULA Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acres HILLMAN, CARL Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres GUSTIN, EARL Old log house remodeled Rt.7, Decatur 100 acres HUMPHREY, VEK^ & HUTH Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres HtLMBAUtttit, II. r. J. Rt. 6 uc 1. a V u r 3Bii acres JONES, HUGH W. Rt. 7 Oakley 104.88/100 acres HICKS, HERBERT E. Rt. 5 Decatur 17 5 acres JORDAN, ROY C Rt. 77 Decatur 1 acre 174 KRALL, CATHERINE Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo KIRK, R. L. Rt. 1 ^J^: Oakley 10 acres .*♦. • *!■ % -w*-?" KRALL, CATHARINE Rt. 1 Ce r ro Go r do 80 acres LAND, H\RRY B. Rt. 6 Decatur 20 acres KRALL, aARENCE Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 80 acres LIKINS, CHARLES Rt. 2 Maroa 340 acres KIRBY, TED C. Rt. 1 Decatur 20 acres MACY, C. A. Rt. 1 Cerro Go rdo 280 acres 175 ■•'^. ». * MALOOM, JOHN M. Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres MASTERSON, LILBERT L. Rt. 6 Decatu r 28 acres MANECKE, E. Rt. 1 Oakley 40 acres MAYBERRY, BILL Rt. 1 Oakley 170 acres MANECKE, W. R. Rt. 1 Oakley 220: acres McaURE, LOUISE Rt. 1 Cerr o Gordo 160 acres mf^ .a^ ,!>•* .>-, MARQUISS, ALLEN Rt. 1 Oakley 18 acres McCOY, E. V. Rt. - Decatur ] 5 acres lYU Kt^^*»' McCRARY, M. RAY Rt. 1 Oakley 20 acres MERRIS. C, S. Rt. 7 Decatur 160 acres Md(EDWN ESTATE Rt. 3 Decatur 80 acres MILES, HELEN D. Rt. 1 Cerro Gordo 160 acres McLaughlin, pat Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acres MILLER. JOHN L. Rt. 1 Oakley 2 acres McVITTY, EL L. Rt. 1 Oakley 27 3 acres MILLER, WILFRED Rt. 5 Decatur 140 acres 177 MORR, LOLA (ESTATE) Rt. 1 MUELLER, CLARIBELL Rt. 4 Oakley 120 acres Decs tu r 180 acres MYERS, R. C. Rt. 1 MYERS, R. C. Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acres Oakley 160 acres ■(%' MUIRHEID, MAHLDA E. Rt. 5 Decatur 40 acres NIMH03(, MRS. PETER Rt. 4 Decatur 10 acres MYERS, GERTOJDE Rt. 7 Decatur 113 acres NOTTINGHAM, WAYNE E. Decatu r 21 acres 178 ""^i^'-AM PARISH, L. R. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres PLANKENHORN, CLARK Rt. 1 PERKINS, T.H. Rt. 7 Decatur 80 acres De c a tu r ID acres PATTERSON, VIRGIL T. Rt. 6 Decatur 32 acres POPPELE, OBREV Rt. 1 Oakley 120 acres REDLICH, BILL Rt. 6 Decatar Rex Parkinson, Tenant PICKETT, LEWIS Rt. 1 Oakley 2 acres >V m^Jtit^- TREDLICHS, W.J. Rt. 6 Deca tur 7 50 acres 179 iw* -^' i:^- REEVES, CE. Rt. 1 Oakley 240 acres RICHIE, RUra Rt. 1 Oakley 120 acres REESE, MR. & MRS. OTTO Rt. 1 Ce r ro Go r do 110 acres RIlXiEY, DWIOIT Rt. 1 Lake City 40 acres REETER, W. W. Rt. 1 Lake City 400 acres RIDGLEY, RALPH Rt. 1 Lake City 400 acres RHOADES, LESLIE Rt. 7 Decatur 50 acres RIGDLEY, MRS. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres 180 ROBERTS, RUTH Rt. 1 RODDY, aARENCE R. Rt. 6 Oakley 12D acres /■■ y Decatur 10 acres PIJCKER, JAMES L. Rt. 7 RUCKER. PEARL M. Rr. 7 Decatur 1 170 acres Decatur 1 19 acres RDUOIER, SAM Rt. 1 Mo we a qua 200 acres RUTHERFORD, RAY V. Rt. 7 Decatur 1 20 arrp Q RUBLE. MRS. & M. Rt. 7 Deca tu r 26 acres HUTHERF3RD, JAMES Rt. 1 Oakley 1 80 acres 181 ^-^H? SCHWITEK, CHARLES W. Rt. 7 Decatur 12i acres SMITH, EARL E. Rt. 6 '-«»^r*^. ^ A -•\.. Decatur 60 acres SHEETS, MISS GRACE Rt. 7 Deca tu r 7C acres SPIRES.ROSCOEL. Rt. 7 Decatur 10 acres "^^i \ SHEETS, GRACE Rt. 7 Decatu r 70 acres STOART, E. M. Rt. 7 De c a tu r 10 acres SHOEWAKE, EVA Rt. 7 Decatur 40 acres TATMAN. EVA Rt. 1 Ce r ro Go r do 110 acres 182 TAYLOR, JOHN H. Rt. 6 Decatur 35 acres TILTON, TIIED C. Rt. 1 Lake Ci ty 140 acres ffV ^Hl %.»*„ TILTON, ANNA Rf- fi Decatur 160 acres TDLLADAY, MRS. 00 RA Rt. 5 Decatur 9 3 acres K;' tEF, TILTON, EARL E. Rt. 7 Deca tur 90 acres TOHILL, D. E. Rt. 1 Oakley 55 acres "'S'J '*.- W^^ TILTON, TED Rt. 7 Decatur 456 acres TRUEBLOOD ED Rt. 1 Oakley 17 acres 183 ^^i: <^ -^ i^> '^ %'W- VAN HORN, LYLE Rt. 1 ^^fm^_.^^ Oakley 160 acres 1. VEECH, LOYDE Rt. 7 Uecatur !4 acre VEECH, ANNA Rt. 1 -^A- Oakley 69 acres VEECH, ROBERT Rt. 1 Oakley 140 acres VEECH, CARL Rt. 1 Oakley 140 acres VEECH, STATION Rt. 7 .jr Decatur 40 acres VEECH. LLOYD Rt. 7 Deca tur 350 acres VOGEL, CHARLES Rt. 8 Decatur 23 acres 1«4 WALKER. FRANK C. Rt. 6 Decatu r 28 acres WEBB, W. A. Rt. 1 Lake City 169 acres WALLACE, MRS. JESSIE Lake City WIEDENKELLER, R. L. Decatu r 80 acres Rt. 3 5 acres WALLACE, JESSIE M. Rt. 1, Oakley A.J. Chapman bought farm 1854. 160 acres lib. ^^ WILT, MR. Rt. 1 :■■ '4.. Lake City 210 acres WATKINS, W. E. Rt. 7 Decatur 4 acres WRIGHIHOUSE, THEODORE Rt. 1 Oakley 120 acres L85 ^* ■^ .^. ?s^~=» YAKEL, MIRAH M. Rt. 1 Oakl ey 120 acres YODER, A. J. Rt. 7 A. Decatur 96 acres ■.-yVW4s-.*liVrt ■ SALES SERVICE PONTIAC J'itu ■'^.AwWS^ PARTS ACCESSORIES THE HOME OF GooDwill" USED CARS Dollar for Dollar you can't beat a PONTIAC B. B. BURNS COMPANY 402-432 E. PRAIRIE INC. PHONE 4217 /n DecaiuT Over 25 Years 186 MAROA TOWNSHIP Maroa 187 GRAIN FEED SEEDS FERTILIZER — FARM CHEMICALS LYMAN GRAIN CO. HARRISTOWN — BEARSDALE MACON COUNTY, ILL. Phones HARRISTOWN 6319 BEARSDALE 8-2263 PLANT OF BEAR HYBRIDS BEAR HYBRIDS VsfiB? BREEDERS OF HYBRID CORN SINCE 1925 BEAR HYBRID CORN CO., INC. DECATUR, ILLINOIS 188 MAROA At the northern edge of Macon County, on IIS 51 I Bloomington- Decatur road), lies Maroa, principeil town of Maroa Township. It (and the town- ship), according to local tradition, derived their curious names from a handful of letters of the alphabet pulled out of a hat by several Illi- nois Central Railroad officials a procedure used frequently in those days by road officiaLLs. Soon after the Illinois Central Railroad was built through the township in 1854, a station was erected, given the name "Maroa, " and John Crocker was installed as first station agent. He also was the village's first postmaster, first banker, and first lumber and grain merchant. The village of Maroa was incorporated as a town in 1889. Today, it has a population of 1,100. The first settler of the township was James Pettyjohn, who came in 1839. In 1855 there arrived Garrett J. Schenck and he built the first house on the site of the town of Maroa. Later he used his house as a store. Then he enlarged it into a hotel and cadled it the Schenck House. It stood on the site now occupied by the Presbyterian Church. 189 FIRST METHODIST CHDKCH First church dedicated I86fi Present church dedicated 1913 Maroa R. C. Norton, Minister Rev. D. C. Ellinwood FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MAROA Maroa Church founded 1859 Pastor Dean Abecuroth First sermon ever preached at Maroa was by Rev. Mr. Iftiison 190 MAROA GRADE SCHOOL Maroa MAROA HIGH SCHOOL W. D. Keyes, Supt. Maroa Built in 1931 MAflOA HIGH SCHOOL Mr. Keyes, Prin. lEmM Maroa 1 j^^'r If- i W^' '• *Ai. . MAflOA CEMETERY Owned by Maroa Township FARMERS CO-OP GRAIN CO. James E. Meece Maroa City Rt. RIDGE CEMETERY Ma roe Operated by City of Maroa 191 ADAMS, DICK Rt. 2 Maro a 240 acres AREHART, GEORGE J. Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres BENNETT, ROY Rt. 1 Maroa 200 acres BRADEN, C. R. Rt. 1 Maroa 120 acres AUSTIN, GEO. A. Rt. 1 Maroa 182 acres BRADEN, ERNEST Rt. 1 Maro a 80 acres AUSTIN, GEORGE A. m Maroa 120 acres BRADEN, E. R. Rt. 1 Maroa 140 acres 192 i^- BRADE.N, EDWIN R Rt. 1 Maroa 158 acres CRABTREE, ELUA, A. Rt. 1 Dec* tur 200 acrea BRADEN, RICHARD Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres CUNNINGHAM, liW. & MRS. JOHN J. Oreana Rt. 1 80 acres -risi *?fi,.. BRELSPDARD. ELMER Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres DAVIS FARM Rt. 1 Oreana 320 acres BURKS, MRS. E. Rt. 1 Marc a 80 acres "3«jt DEALEY, O.K. Rt. 2 Maroa 81 acres 193 DEWHIRST, MBS. D. M. Rt. 2 Maroa 320 acres ENGLAND, STANFORD & MARSHALL Rt. 1 Maroa 320 acres ENNIS, GEORGE Rt. 2 Maroa 17 5 acres ENNIS, GEORGE Rt. 2 Maro a 240 acres ENNIS, GEORGE H. Rt. 2 ENNIS, GEORGE H. Rt. 2 ENNIS, GEORGE H. Rt. 2 Maroa 320 acres Maroa 320 acres Maroa 640 acr^a FANCHER, EVA Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres 194 1-5^^' FOULKE, EDWARD Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres FRIIS, CHRIS & aARENCE Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres GALL. MRS. SHEFMAN Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres GRAY, ESSA Rt. 2 GRAY, HOWARD, E. Rt. 1 Maroa 133 acres '^ 1^ ^n WHi Wt ^ h ty^ i^ Mil*- «V ^f ^-' -^^1 Maroa 200 acres GRISSOM, IRA v., DR. Rt. 2 Maroe 219 acre: GLOSSER, RUTH & HEINTZ, ELIZABETH Rt. 2, Maroa 138 acres GROVES. H. 0. Rt. 2 Maroa 120 acres 195 »;^ HANES, BERNICE Rt. 1 Maroa 200 : acres HASTINGS, WALT EH K. Rt. 1 MaroE 120 acres HANES, ELTOOD Rt. 1 De c a tu r 1 acre HEISEL, EDWIN Rt. 2 80 acres HANES, ELWOOD Rt. 1 Decatur 159 acres HEIL, WILLIAM Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres HANKS, DRUSCILA Rt. 1, Marof Opr. byBertBiven, Reg. Shorthorn Breeder. 160 a HEIL. WILLIAM Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres 196 HOFFMAN, MR. & MRS JOHN, Jr. Maroa Rt. 2 160 acres JONES, HERBERT Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres HUNT, G. L. Rt. 2 Maroa 93 acres KAISER, EARL & LOUIS Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres WIKOFF, J. E. (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Maro a 120 acres KARBAN, R. E. & MARGUERITE E. Maroa Rt. 1 96 acres JOHNS, EUGEIVIA Rt. W Maroa 640 acres KAUFMAN, C W. Rt. 2 Maroa 120 acres 197 KELLER, EDWARD H. Rt. 1 Decatur 245 acres LAZSELL, MEL. E. Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres KELLEY, L. V. Rt. 1 Maroa 5 acres ■■Pi ^^> " LEACH, E. G. Rt. 2 Maroa ■ 93 acres KEMP SI ALL, W. LEE Maroa LEHN, HORACE Rt. 1 120 acres Rt. 1 Warrensburg 121 acres ^'^^T' KOONS, PETER (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres LEHN, WAGGONER Rt. 1 Maroa 312 acres 198 LEIMBACH, WILLIAM H. Del ward Leimbach- Tenant Rt. 1, Maroa 200 acres LIENHART, G.G. Rt.l, Decatur Lienhart Family Home since 1880*8. 160 acres % • K • ."Jk Kl . '■'W^«- ^ r«f»-^j«MeB.- LIENHART, A. L. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres LIENlUm, G. b. Rt. 2 Decatur 60 acres LIENHART, A. L. Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres LIHVHART, A. L. & ORA WHITE Rt. 2, Maroa 80 acres LIEiuiT, MBS. Rt. 1 Marc a 130 acres LIKIINS, CHARLES Rt. 2 Ui^iu- Maroa 336 acres 199 LIMING, M. L. Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres LYMAN, HOWARD F. Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres » ► ri9^- LIMING, MR PERRY Maroa 118 acres MALONE, H. Rt. 2 Marc a iO acres LONG, GEO. V. Rt. 1 Maroa 120 acres MARSH, CHARLES Rt. 1 Maro a 80 acres LONG, ORA Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres McGLIRE, W. C. Rt. 2 Maroa 40 acres 200 McNEIL, GEORGE Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres MILLIKIN TRUST Rt. 1 Maroa 120 acres METTLER, LOTTIE Rt. 1 Oreana 260 acres MILNES, W.D. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres SSJ:> MI OIL ESTATE Rt. 2 Maroa 200 acres MYERS. MAUDE, MRS. Rt. 2 Maroa 240 acres MILLER, JOHN H. M a ro a 20 4 acres OTTA, ELMER Rt. 1 MacOD 72 acres 201 ^^^BPa ^^i^ii^ (jpaftSK*— iF -'/^^HI^HSl- PABLIER, CHARLES H. Rt. 2 Decatur 55 acres PARKER, JOHN L. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres FARTHER, ROY Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres PARKER, MRS. LULU Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres PENSE, CARL D. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 150 acres PARKER, LULU M. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres PERSINGER, LEONA H. Decatur PARKER, MRS. LULU M. Maroa Rt. 2 Rt. 2 200 acres 202 ••"^JB ^.^•*» "^ '»*' PERSINGER, MRS. LEDNA Maroa QUERY, MRS. FLORINDA Maroa Hi- •> 240 acres Rt. 2 120 acres PERSINGER, ROBERTA Rt. 1 Oreana 1 acre "'^j-. T*-^'.' " >'■'.' •■ ;« ■ St \ ■„^".-i; . , r ''W^ Ik '^..^^ ^^ r -•Jh^ • QL'ERY, NELLIE Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres PHIEFFER, W. R Rt. 1 Decatu r 80 acres REED, HAROLD Maroa 3 acres PRATHER, ROY Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres REESER, RICHARD E. Rt. 1 Mar GB 120 acres 203 ''^\ REYNOLDS, RALPH GEO. Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres ROGERS, LEW C. Rt. 2 Maroa 240 acres 1^^' DR. RICH, CHINEY Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres ROGERS, LOUIS E. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 aeres fe-.'^V ROBERTS, EUGENE Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres ROSE, ALMA. E. Rt. 2 Maroa 60 acres ROGERS, CLAUDE R. Rt. 2 Maroa 92 acres SHADE, LEWIS Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres 204 SHADE, LEWIS W. Rt. 1, Decatur E. James & wf. life- long res. 160 acres SPENCER, HENRY D. Rt. 2 ^ Maroa 334 acres %. SHADE, L. W. Rt. 1 SHOEMAKER, GENEVRA SMITH, BEN Rt. 1 De c a tu r 240 acres Maroa 123 acres .^^ Argenta 80 acres SPRECKEL MEYER, VASHTI G. Rt. 2 Maroa 80 acres STAFFORD, FLORENCE B. Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres STEIN. GEORGE W. SR. Rt. 2 Maroa 162 acren 2U5 STIEBER, E. H. Rt. 1 m^- STOGSDILL, CHARLES Rt. 2 Warrensburg 160 acres '^•fS^ Maroa 80 acres STOUTENBOROUGH, C. P. & VAN GELDEREN, TI RRELL Rt. 1, Maroa 400 acres STOUTENBOROUGH, E. L. Rt. 1 Maroa 1 58 acres STOUTENBORDUOl, A. J. Rt. 1 Macon 81 acres STOUTENBOROUGH, FRANK B. Rt. 1 Marc a 240 acres ,*c '^>i?=^ -*«jf,fr i^l^^' >i» r STOUTENBOROUGH, A. J. Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres STOUT ENBOROUffl, GEORGE Rt. 2 Marc a 160 acres 206 STOUTENBOroUGH, GEORGE H. Rt. 1 Maroa 240 acres STOUTENBOROUGH, H. E. Rt. 1 Maro a 160 acres STOUTENBOROUGH, HAROLD Maroa Rt. 1 80 acres •*S,' STOUTENBOROUGH, R. C Rt. 1 Maroa 350 acres STREIGHT, FRAN Rt. 1 Argen ta 320 acres TOZER, FANNIE B. Rt. 1 Maro a 80 acres r r '"1- L WAITE, MAY Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres WALBRIDGE, EDNA Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres 207 W/LLACE, FLOSSIE & LEWETTA Maroa pt;_ 1 160 acres WALLER, GEORGE Rt. 1 Maroa 240 acres WALLBRIDGE, LUTHER Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres WARNER, JOHN C. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres i.j WALLER, GEORGE H. Rt. 2 Maroa 160 acres WARNER, JOHN Rt. 1 Maroa r' f Wf WALLER, GEORGE Rt. 1 Decatur 265 acres WEBER, ALBERT G. (ESTATE) Rt. 2 Maroa 208 WEBER, ALBERT G. (ESTATE) Maroa Rt. 2 265 acres WIDICK, R. A. Rt. 1 Maroa 80 acres WEHNER, LELAH Rt. 1 Maroa 130 acres WIESE, A. E. Rt. 2 Maroa 148 acres i WEILEPP, CARL N. Rt. 1 Oreana 160 acres WELDEN, GODDINA Rt. 2 Maroa 176 acres WIKOFF, FORREST Rt. 1 WIKOFF, J.O. Rt. 1 Maroa 160 acres Macon 96 acres 209 WIKOFF, V. H. Rt. 1 Maro a 160 acres WIKOFF, WILLIAM A. (ESTATE) Maroa Rt. 1 160 acres WIKOFF, VIRGIL L. Rt. 1 Maroa 150 acres Sh Cfo leuendon v^arciae THE ONE PLACE ... THE ONLY PLACE TO BUY YOUR CAR HUDSON KAISER PHONE 2-5051 WILLYS STEVENSON GARAGE DECATUR, ILLINOIS iilU MILAM TOWNSHIP 211 212 MILAM TOW^SHIP Although Milam Township is the Smaillest in Macon County and has no villages, towns or railroads, yet it is a region of fertile, pros- perous farms and industrious, friendly folk. It has a population of 286. When a name was being sought for the township, J. B. Gleason, early settler and first supervisor, looked about, and, on seeing the many Milam apple trees growing in the locality, suggested that it be called "Milam. " This name was adopted. It was not until after the Civil War that many settlers came to live in Milam Township. The first to dwell in the township, however, were James Greenfield and his son, Jesse, both of whom arrived in 1851. A school was built in 1866 and given the najne of Harmony; the first teacher here was Samuel Gregory. Recorded as the first child born in the township was Franklin Cloud, grandson of Joel Cloud, a settler of 1857. Milam Township was the last township set up in Macon County, it having been detached from Mt. Zion Township in 1869. 213 ALLSPACH, DALE Rt. 1 Rt. 1, Dal ton City 120 acres BERING, HORACE Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 165 acres i^ ^•f'^S^Wfi.'tr T • ysMsg y i wunnwiyif yi ALLSPACH, I. J: Rt. 1 Macon 180 acres BOTTRELL, MARGARET Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres ^■■■;iF«^i.r^ ^ r ARMSTRONG, HAROLD Rt. 1 Dalton City 200 acres BROWN, EDWIN 0. Rt. 1 Dalton City 240 acres ^> ASH, CHARLEY Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres BUM STEAD, JOHN Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres <214 ^ BUMSTEAD, JOHN Rt. 1 Dalton City 180 acres CARR, JOHN A. Rt. 1 Dalton City 234 acres BUMSTEAD, JOHN Rt. 1 Dalton City 220 acres CARR, WALTER A. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres CAMIC, CURTIS B. Rt. 2, HBethany Breeder of Reg. Pol led Herf ords 160 acres OOLE, DONALD Rt. 1 Dalton City 160 acres m * '***M^ CARLYLE, CHARLES Rt. 1 ^ Macon 160 acre-. COLE, JOE N. Rt. 1 Dalton City 240 acres COLE, KEIVNETH Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 260 acres EKISS, W. S. Rt. 1, Dalton City Breeder of Reg. Ab. Angus 170 acres DAVIDSON, CHARLES K. Rt. 1 Dalton City 240 acres PIERCE, E. C. Rt. 1 Macon 160 ! acres F '^Sr EKISS, SAM Rt. 1, Dalton City Floyd Spanhook, Resident 1 acre ERNST, ED Rt. 6 Decatur 10 3 acres d^ --«. EKISS, TOM Rt. 2 Bethany 160 acres EWING, LENA Rt. 1 Dalton City 240 acres 216 ^^ t 5i » -4C*- EWING ESTATE Rt. 2 Maroa 640 acres FREELAND, IRVING J. Rt. 1 Dal ton City 240 acres FREELAND, BERTHA Rt. 1 Dalton City 240 acres m FREELAND, MILBRA Rt. 1 Si Dalton City 160 acres FREELAND, ELLA Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty FREELAND, EWING Rt. 1, Dalton City Duroc Hogs & Short Horn Cattle 240 acres ^'Mgl.' M- ^ FREELAND, NANCY Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 160 acres FUNK. MRS. EDWINA E. Rt. 1 Macon 240 acres 217 1 1 E H^ ^ .pii^^ U: >^ Wf^^ K^ ^? I - ■ M . / 5^1^ p.^ -^■-f 'W-^.;^ ^ *. ^K., V j] fj*..; ■JP*"' ?^ mR^m. t . ^^iint^ -^s^^-« fe^ GORDEN. WALLACE Rt. 2 Moweaqua 160 acres HISERMAN, J. Rt. 1 Dalton City 80 acres HARRIS, WILL Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres WAITE, ETHEL & DOPDTYH HnPKTNS HFLFN Rt. 1, Macon 80 acres *..^ '^J^etr > *J Ji^- HAWLEY, W. J. Rt. 1 Macon 200 acres McCain, emmit Rt. 2 Be thany 91 acres ^.^is^'tfSS''^ HERBERT, ORIN L. Rt. 1 Dalton City 215 acres McCALEB ESTATE Dalton City Rtil-Everett Cullison, Tenant 197 acres 218 .«■. McGAUGHY. GLADYS Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 240 acres MONTGOMERY, HARRY Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 160 acres McNEAL, ETTA M. Rt. 1 Macon 162 acre* MGORE.W. I. Rt. 1 Macon 172 acres MELLERSH, MRS. CARRIE Rt. 1 Dal ton City 19 5 acres MOORE, W. I. Rt. 1 Macon 102 acres MILLS, ANDREW H. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 243 acres ^ ^V ^■^*»<' * . * MORRISON-SCHAEFFER Rt. 1, Dal ton City G. W. Steele, Tenant 240 acres 219 ^=^<^ -.BBBr;-..- BLAKE, NOLAND Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres SANNER, ARTHUR and T.Q. (Joint) Moweaqua Rt. 2 295 acres NOLAND, BLAKE Rt.. 1 Macon 320 acres SCAGGS, VIRGIL Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 160 acres jmi^,. RENERD, HOWARD E. Rt. 1 Dal ton City 63 acres SHADDOCK, PAUL Rt. 2 Moweaqua 88 acres RIGSBY, JESS (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 70 acres mM*: SHELTON, CARL W. Rt. 2 Bethany 160 acres '220 SHELTON, WILLIAM D. Rt. 2 Bethany 160 acres THOMPSON, FRANK J. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 213 acres »liTH, GDLDA D. Rt. 1, Dal ton City Pt. Orig. Land Grant 260 acres to E. 0. Smith II W.\St^^^^' 1 VANGUNDY, V. H. Tom Still, Tenant Rt. 1, Dal ton Ci ty 160 acres STEEL, GLENN W. Rt. ^^^ Macon 80 acres STEVENSON, ELEANOR Rt. 1 Dal ton City 160 acres "^ WHITE, ELLIS Rt. 1 Macon 120 acres WILSON, DEAN M. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres 221 WISE, BURT 0. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres WISE, EDGAR B. Rt. 2 Moweaqua 240 acres TODLUMS, G. A. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 240 acres GAS & ELECTRIC SALES OD. , INC Decatur Rt. 6 120 acres w ■JJiUJiI/C|^ of the hotel CHARLES pGom A Supper Club of Distinction PRIME AGED STEAKS FLOOR SHOWS NIGHTLY DINING and DANCING DIAL 4464 C. E. WITTS, Dirwter 555 N, Front HOTEL CHARLES Ftm Parking Acrou Ifc* Stnat at Waba«k Depot AIR CONDITIONED ROOMS Coffee Shop — Drug Store 222 MT. ZION TOWNSHIP Mt. Zion Hervey City 223 224 HERVEY CITY At the junction of the Illinois Central and Pennsylvania railroads, in Mt. Zion Township, lies Hervey City. It is also on Illinois 121. The town was named after Robert G. Hervey, who helped to build, and after- wards became president of, the Paris & Decatur Railroad, now part of the Pennsylvania System. Not far from Hervey City may be found one of the outstanding scenic attractions of Illinois. This is Spitler Woods State Park, a 200-acre tract of "the forest primeval" maintained by the state of Illinois. It contains picnic facilities, a shelter house, and many winding paths among the ancient trees of the area. This woodland tract was donated to the state by the late Ida B. Spitler, and her name was given to it. 225 MT ZION At an early day, the town of Mt. Zion was renowned in central Illinois as the seat of Mt. Zion Male and Female Academy, afterwards changed to Mt. Zion Academy. The institution was founded in 1856, and its two-story brick building remained in use as a school until 1904. In that year it was torn down and a new public school erected on its site. One of Mt. Zion's most distinguished native sons is William R. McGaughey, president of the Millikin National Bank of Decatur. At one time he was president of the Illinois Bankers' Association. Another well known native son was William Wheeler, Jr., who in his time served as sheriff, assessor eind collector of Macon County. It was in Mt. Zion Township that the first church building in Macon County was built. This was the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, erected in 1830. It stood on the site of the present church. Mt. Zion was in- corporated as a village in 1882. Today, it has a population of 438, while that of the township is 1, 396. 226 MT. ZION GRADE SCHOOL Mt. Zion 2 acres •x-«- # HIGHT SCHOOL Built 1899 Hervey City MT. ZION HIGH SCHOOL Mt. Zion 9 acres BAKEP, HUBERT W. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 120 acres ADCOCK, RALPH Rt. 1 Lake City 120 acres BAGGETT, W. C. Rt. 6 Decatur 6 acres BAKER, HUBERT W. Rt. 1 Dal ton City 480 acres ;-i#> 4 I BOYD, MRS. THOMAS Res. County 39 years Ry. 6 Mt. Zion 5 acres 227 wae^' ^ BOYS OPPORTUNITY HOME Rt. 1, Dal ton City Edward Gordon, Tenant 200 acres BROIUGHTON, RUSSEL Rt. 2 Macon 40 acres ■1T.-H i;?^. &■ BRITIDN, HOWARD & WAYNE *M Mt. Zion 2 acres BROUGHTON, RUSSELL Rt. 6 Decatur 225 acres BRITTON, PAUL H. Rt. 1 Mt. Zion 108 acres . ..- / „ ■■ff CAZIER. Rt. 1 GERALD «?•- Lake City 265 acres BROMLEY, WALLIS Rt. 1 Dalton City 325 acres C(»(NLLEY, LEWIS E. Lake City 192 acres 228 COOMBE, CLARENCE Rt. 1 Dalton City 244 acres COOMBE, CLARENCE Rt. 1, Dalton City Walter Britton, Tenant 250 acres ELLIS, JOHN W. Rt. 6 Decatur 67 acres •K* J )<-- , ^^v. ^> ELLIS, JOHN W. Rt. 6 Decatur 75 acres » ^ -',*«^ :^.. t^ DENNIS, BILL Lake City 200 acres EVEY, SAMUEL Rt. 6 Rt. 6, Decatur 160 acres DRAKE, STELLA MAY & LirfflER Rt. 6 De c a t u r 3 acres FALCONER, LESTER W. Rt. 6 Decatu r 44 acres 229 FARRELL. P. C. Lake City 120 acres nrZGERALD, JENNIE Rt. 1 Lake City 412 acres -% ^ ' FARRELL, W. F. and P. C. Rt. 1 Lake City 3 86 acres FLETCHER. M. R Rt. 1 Dal ton City 200 acres "^'^ FATHAUER, WALTER Lake City 216 acres FLETCHER, R. V. Mt. Zion 160 acres FATHEUER, WALTER Rt. 1 Lake City 436 acres GOODWIN, aVDE Rt. 7 Decatur 21 acres 230 GRABB, ELMER Rt. 1 Lake City 80 acres GREENFIELD, ARCHIE Rt. 1, Dal ton City Life-long res. Macon Co. 40 acres HALL, ROBERT Rt. 6 HAWKINS, B. Rt. 2 Decatu r 1 acre Macon 80 acres «g^- GREENFIELD, JOHN R. Rt. 1, Greenfield Born on Farm 1889 160 acres HEINZ, WILLIAM Rt. 1 Dalton City 240 acres GRIFniH, OOLMAN R. Rt. 6 Decatur 12 acres HENERY, MRS. RHJDA Mt. Zion 44 acres 231 ■'if" .k..- HENNEBERRY, MRS. ANNA Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 360 acres W ,'^%: '*<^, '**•*' ir^ ^: HIPSHER, BERTHA '.^ Lake City 110 acres HENRY RHODA Rt. 1 Dal ton City 160 acres HODGE, WILLIS Lake City 160 acres HENRY, RHODA S. Rt. 6 Decatur 210 acres HOGAN, CHARLES W. Rt. 1 Dal ton- Ci ty 160 acres HENRY, ROBERT B. Rt. 1, Dal ton City Featuring Hampshire Hogs 244 acres HOGAN, WALTER W. Rt. 1, Dal ton City In family over century 200 a^foo 232 HUBER, LESLIE Lake City 184 acres KARL. HERMAN Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 85 acres KARL, JOHN Rt. 6 KARL, OTTO F. Rt. 6 De c a tu r 140 acres KARCH, TOBERT Rt. 7 Decatur % acre ,^i^ KINSER, LEWIS & KENNETH K. ■2* Lake City 120 acres ,-•-0^ Decatur MILLIKIN TRUST 00. Rt. 1, Dal ton City 160 acres KRAFT WAM .. ■"^IS acres KREIG, JOSEPH Rt. 6 Decatur 178 acres 233 KHJSE, LESTER L. Rt. 6 Decatur 120 acres LEHMAN, HOMER Rt. 7 Decatur 80 acres KRUSE. LESTER L. Rt. 6 Decatur 120 acres LILLY, H.E. Rt. 6 Decatur 160 acres R^>*' a»f* ' i* p^^^ f^ .^ fc ■"-^ HF LANE, BEATRICE Rt. 2 Macon 104 acres LUPTON, CHESS Lake City 360 acres LEHMAN, H. F. Rt. 7 Decatur 40 acres MARSH, OSCAR J. Rt. 6 Decatur 4 acres 234 "■*Nk. MARHN, HOMOR Rt. 6 Decatur McGAUGHEY. D. S. Lake City 200 acres 214 acres MAYES, EDITH G. Rt. 6 Decatur 144 acres McMILLIN, R. C. Rt. 1 Warrensburg 320 acres m McCDY, HUBERT Rt. 6 Decatu r 5 7 acres MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY Lake City Sunny Valley Farm, Thurman Springman 200 acres ."V -^S" McDonald, a. f. Lake City 220 acres MUELLER ESTATE Rt. 1 L ak e Ci ty 254 acres 235 ' -^ygf^-a , "^ »-S HILL FAfW NO. 5 Decatur Myers, Martin J. Jr. Tenant 365 acres PURCELL, E. A. Lake City 200 acres ''»*fc^>^ NEECE, DR. I.H. Rt. 6 Decatur 165 acres PURCELL, E. A. Rt. Lake City 480 acres r-*"!!5^,1tir ^, PHILLPS, MINNIE Rt. 1 Lake City 208 acres REETER, ERR3L Rt. 1 Lake City 120 acres PRICE, PASO) Rt. 6 Decatur 3 acres RIDGLEY, H. F. and H. FORREST Oakley Rt. 1 189 acre* 236 RIDGLEY.R. W. Rt. 6 De c a tu r 160 acres HUraERFDRD, J. H. Rt. 1 Dal ton City 157 acres ROWE, MRS. CASS Rt. 6 324 acres ■ "i^iiitnrumj, JAMES Rt. 6 Decatur 80 acres ■1 iiSf- ROWE, TOBERT S. Rt. 1, Dalton City Hopewell Fam-Ponies & Herefords 454acres SCOTT, ALEX B. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 410 acres •■^ HUTOERFORD, J. H. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty ^ acre SCOVILL, ROSE W. ' MAHANNAH, C. W. Lake City 304 a^crea 237 SHAW, S. 0. Rt. 6 Decatur 10 acres STANLEY, CARL Lake City 80 acres SMALLWOOD, GUY (owier) Rt.l .Dal ton City Fred Hylaad, Tenaat 360 acres STEVANS, VIDA U. Rt. 1 Dal ton City 120 acres 311 TH. DELOSS Res. County 42 years Rt. 1, Dal ton ci ty 350 acres STOCKS, ERPDL L. Rt. 1 Dal ton City SMITH, SIDNEY M. Rt. 1 Dal ton City 326 acres STONER, MR. THOMAS C. Rt. 1 Dalton City 160 acres 238 STRR, SELLA Rt. 1 Lake City 135 acrea ' M^^^ «^-*'i. . *.**''' TRAUGHBER, JUDD Rt. 6, Decatur In Traughber Family 125 yeara. 160 acrea THORTON, MRS. KATHERINE Dalton City Rt. 1, Frank Stull, Tenant 240 acrea TRAUGHBER, JUDD Rt.6, Decatur In family 125 yrs. Purch. 1829 200 acres ■nOMPSON, VEST H. Mt. Zion 10 acres TUCKER, CLARA B. Rt. 1 Lake City 104 acres i--'->*«' TRUSNER, HOLMER Rt. 1 Dalton City 120 acrea TUCKER. JOHN H. Rt. 1 Lake City 10 4 acres 2liii WEI EWER, M. B. Rt. 1 Dal ton Ci ty 80 acres WEIDNER, M. B. Rt. 2 Macon 120 acres ■^■ WEIDNER, M. B. »t. 1 Dal ton City 300 acres WHEELER, MRS. BETTY Rt. 6 Decatur ''8 acres WHITE, DAVID L. Rt. 6 Decatur 6 acres PATIDN ESTATE WELLS, CHESTER T. Rt. 1, Dal ton City 280 acres JOM S. MILIS Route 1 Macon, III. SCOTCH SHDRTHDM CATTLE 240 NIANTIC TOWNSHIP Niantic 241 MANTIC Soon after the Great Western Railroad was built through Niantic Township in 1854, three early settlers, Thomas Lewis, George B. Richard- son and Calvin J. Lockhart, purchased twenty acres of land alongside the new railroad and laid out a town on the tract, naming it Prairie City. But the railroad station still bore its original name of Long Point, so-called after a little settlement about two miles south of present Niantic. Then, when Calvin Lockhart became postmaster, the community at the railroad station began to be known as Lockhart. As a result confusion developed, and eventually the citizens voted for the name "Niantic, " this having been suggested by a settler who came from Connecticut, where once lived the Niantic tribe of Indians. 242 ST. ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH (Mission Church) Msgr. T. F. McGrath Asst. Father Campbell 22 families in Parish LONG POINT CEMETERY Niantic Rt. 1 5 acres Long Point Church of Christ, 1856 Represents 500 families Dingman, Donor WESTFIELD SCHOOL, Unit 6 Niantic 243 ^ m ACOM, MRS. MARY Rt. 1 Ni anti c 1 acre 1^ \u^- >-*^' ACOM, MRS. MARY E. Homestead Since 1851 Rt. 1, Niantic '400 acres ixItttH^'-;^t,i?i^ffiPii^i^i^> >^'V^ ACDM, MARY Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 56 acres BABB, LLOYD Rt. 1 Ni antic 24 acres ACOM, MRS. MARY Rt. 1 Ni anti c 160 acres BALDRIDGE, MRS. CHAL Rt. 1 Niantic 160 acres AODM, MRS. MARY Rt. I Ni antic 200 acres BALL, ORVILLE Rt. 1 Ni antic 80 acres 244 BANTON, HUSTON J. Rt. I Ni antic 116 acras BLAIR, JOHN THOS. Rt. 1 Niantic 200 acres BECK, ARTHUR Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 80 acres if' y BRIDGEWATER, J. B. Rt. 1 Niantic 80 acres BUCKBURN. D. (ESTATE) Rt.- 1 Niantic )0 acres BROCK, LACY E. Rt. 1 Niantic 90 acres BLAIR, JOHN THOS. Rt. , Niantic Lifetine Resident of Macon County. 160 acres BBOCK, 0. E. Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 17 acres 245 ^^ X- ^*'^-^^ ^ BRUCE, CARL Rt. 1 Niantic COPENBARGER, BEN Niantic 200 acres Rt. 1 160 acres BRUCE, H. B. Rt. 1 Ni antic 80 acres CORRELL, W. Rt. 1, Niantic Res. sinr 19 40: Hobby- flowers 130 acres BRUCE, H. 0. Rt. 1 Niantic DAILY. wM. H. ( ESTATE) Ni antic 331 acres Rt. 1 240 acres CAUDLE, HUGH J. Rt. 1 Ni antic 39/i acres DAMERY, DARREL Rt. 8 De ca tur 80 acres 246 DINGMAN, IRENE Lived here since 1907 Rt.' 1, Niantic 40 acres DRAGSTREM. H. E. Rt. 1 Niantic 360 acres S< A DINGMAN, JOHN Ht. 1 Ni antic 140 acres DRAKE. C. Rt. 1 Niantic 100 acres DIPPER, WALTER Rt. 1 Niantic 167 acres DUNN, CARL A. Rt. 1 Niantic 120 acres LDWNING, MARY L. Rt. 1 200 acres EATON, EDGAR Rt. 1 .W)f^' Ni an ti c 80 acres 247 ERVIN, BLANCHE John Errin, Opr. Rt. 1, Niantic 133S acres GIDEL, H.C. Rt. 1 Ni anti c 80 acres FINSON, MERLE Rt. .1 Ni antic 80 acres GOLLINGS, FRANK Rt. 1 Niantic FORD, ETHEL W. Ni an ti c 80 acres GOLLINGS, MARIE Rt. 1 Niantic 400 acres '^'^yf^" FRANKLIN ' )( ESTATE) Rt. 1 Ni antic 125 acres GORDY. ROLLA & GENEVIEVE Niantic ESTATE - Rt. 1 140 acres 248 HALL, CLIKWKU Bt.4, Decatur ^ec. Memorial Day Peonies 10 acres '^■i HIMSTEDT, CECIL Resident 21 years. il:^ Rt. 1, Niantic 80 acres HAWK, MRS. EDI TO Rt. 2 Blue Mound 20 acres HIMSTEDT, CECIL Rt. 1, Niantic West Spring Town School 1 acre HAWKINS, FANNY Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 200 acres •^sty^p-". HIMSTEDT, JOHN Rt. 1 Niantic 160 acres :*¥ HIMSTED, CECIL Rt. 1 Niantic 120 acres HIMSTEDT, S. E. Rt. 1 Niantic 120 acres 249 M ■ __^.-. ^ ppgs !■ H': 'J^^B it ^ ^ 4 _^<«? ^r ^ f, B^ S» '■'^^S^'V-.i ^ j>»- i --. t ( ' "*^. HOBSON, CHARLES Rt. 1 Ni antic 120 acres JACOBSEN, GEORGE Rt. 1 Niant ic 15^ acres HULLINGER, FRED D. Rt. 1 Ni antic 33 acres JACOBSEN, GEORGE E. Rt. 1 Nian t ic 180 acres ?<5 HULLINGER, ROSS L. Rt. 1 Nianti c 40 acres JARUIS, E. P. (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Niantic 240 acres ^« AM JACKSON, CHARLES Rt. 1 Niantic 80 acres J0HNS3N, MRS. GRACE Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 180 acres 250 STAHL, WALTER D. & JULIA Rt. 1 Ni an ti c 159 acres LEEPER, A. F. (ESTATE) Niantic Rt. 1 - Aubrey Branel, Tenant 80 acres KNAP, TOM Rt. 1 Niantic 240 acres LOFTUS, GUS Rt. 1 Niantic 80 acres KOONCE, CLARENCE Rt. 8 Decatur LOFIUS, MRS. JOE Rt. 1 I lliopol is 80 acres LAHNERS, DR. THOS. Rt. 1 Ni antic 440 acres LYMAN, HOMER Rt. 1 Decatur 120 acres 251 m _ ■ M LYMAN, HOMER Rt. 1 Niantic 200 acres McGEE BROS. Rt. 1 Niantic 80 acres MADDOX, CHARLES Rt. 1 Niantic 86 acres MILLER. HELEN Rt. 1 Niantic 80 acres r: i«lt* M MARSHALL, J. W. Rt. 1 Ni an ti c MILLIGAN, KEITH Rt. 1 Niantic 7 acres 1^ MAXWELL, BESSIE Rt. 1 111 iopoli s 80 acres MOONEY, MRS. JENNIE Rt. 1, Niantic Hugh J.Moore & Family, Tenants 100 acres 252 •^^^mmmmm MOONEY, MATfflEW Rt. 1 Niantic 79 acres MOORE, ROBERT J. Rt.l. Niantic Howard Hartvix. Tenant 120 acres MOORE, D. L. Rt. 1 Niantic 263 acres S^- ■J. i jMi." i ■ 4 i^^^^^ 2' *■■■' •£^Kd&:^Hr mt^^*«gi*' MILLS, MARSH Oakley 86 acres NICKEY, C. 0. Rt. 1 Oakley 1 acre MIZE, HERMAN Rt. 1 Oakley 40 acres NICKEY, HERSCHEL Nickey Farms since 18 48 Rt. 1, Oakley 80 acres i V. > MOEFIELD, JOHN Rt. 5 De c a tu r 8 acres .VICKEY, HERSCHEL Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres MURRAY, WILLIAM H. Rt.l, Oakley Mr.& Mrs. W.H. Brown, Tenants 207 acres NICKEY, KENNETH & DAVID Rt. 1 Oakley 17 2 acres 275 NOLAN, HENERY Rt. 1 Oakl ey 160 acres REPLOGLE, LEE PDY Rt. 1 Oakley 30 acres OLDWEILER, JOHN G. Rt. 2 Decatur 160 acres HDOS, ELMER & FLORENCE Rt. 1 Chestnut 80 acres PATRICK, RUSSELL Rt. 1 ^i gsBggy ^ i : vegKStsxEs^ » POWELL, FRANK 276 Oakley 7 acres Oakley 3 acres RUCH, ALBERT Rt. 1 Oakley 17 5 acres •i'a ■*•,!>'■ ^M, wpI^Eh Jlll^^®*' •515 R* ••» .- iHi SALLE, HOWARD Rt. 5 Decatur 5 acres W-"^^W SEITZ, LEON D. Rt. 1 Oakley 6 acres SHAMBAUGH, MAUDE V. Rt. 1 Oakley 230 acres SHAMBAUGH, ANDREW P. Rt. 1 Oakley 60 acres SHAMBAUGH, MAUDE V. Rt. 1 Oakley 230 acres Stt)BE, E. E. Rt. 1 Oakley 10 acres SHEETS, MILLIE Rt. 1 Oakley 40 acres SHAFER, FREDRICK Rt. 5 Decatur 2 acres SHRIVER, ROY Rt. 1 Oakl ey 160 acres 277 SHAMBAUGH, T.J. & Son Rt. 1 '^'^^■■'wssj^^^SS Oakley 500 acres SNOKE, HERBERT Rt. 1 Oakl ey 1 acre SHAMBAUGH, T.J. Rt. 1 .■*J :- -M Oakley . I ■^::S'^'^*l(i STALDER, NOAH Rt. 1 Oakley 70 acres SIEVERS, RAY M. Rt. 1 Oakley STARE, MR. & MRS. HARRY Oakley acres Rt. 1 65 acres SMITH, HARRY Rt. 1 Oakley 45 acres ■k,"""'ISI!iS-'. ^ ^Mi STARE, RAYMOND Rt. 1 Oakl ey 140 acres 278 SULWER, GEORGE Rt. 1 Oakley 33 acres TM.LEY, GUY Rt. 1 Oakley 1 acre TRUMMEL, EDWIN Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres VAN roNGEN, CREA Rt. 1 Oakley 209: acres M TRUMMEL, FRED Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres VAN DONGEN, CREA Oakley 310 acres JBtefci WABASH TRUST CORP. Rt. 5 Oakley 5 acres VEECH, GAINES R Rt. 5 Decatur 247 acres 279 VEECH, OTIS Rt. 1 Oakley 1 acre WAGNER, HAPDLD Rt. 1 Oakley 70 acres VEECH, OTIS Rt. 1, Oakley Res. since 1898- 5th cous. A.Lincoln 80 a WAGNER, W. H. Rt. 1 Oakley WAFFLARD, WILSON Rt. 1 Oakley 100 acres WAG^ER, W. H. Rt. 1 Oakley 260 acres VX^ WAOVER, DAVID Rt. 1 Oakley 80 acres WALDERS, Wm Rt. 1 Oakley 75 acres 280 WHEELER, L.V. Rt. 1 Oakley 253 acres ZIMMERMAN, 0. K. Oak ley 28 acres WELLS, MAUDE, Rt. 1 Oakl ey 80 acres WHEELER, R. C. Rt. 1 Oakley 160 acres i«^ WHEELER, L. V. Rt. 1 Oakl ey 250 acres WHITTLE, JHON Rt. 1 Oakley 165 acres 281 282 PLEASANT VIEW TOWNSHIP Blue Mound 283 BLUE MOUND At the southwest corner of Macon County, on State 48, lies the village of Blue Mound, principal community of Pleasant View Township. It is also on the Wabash Railroad, The population of Blue Mound is 886, while that of the township is 1,375. When, in 1861, an early settler, Willieim Cummings, built a house for himself and family in the west central portion of the township, it is doubtful if he knew that a village would be built around his dwelling in the not too distant future. It was in 1870 that the village of Blue Mound was laid out on a tract around the Cummings abode. That same year, the firm of 0. Ullrich 8 Brothers moved a store to the new village from a point about one mile north. Also a postoffice was established, and the first postmaster was William Clements. Then ceime a hotel, opened by A. H. Eicholtz, and a mill and elevator, built by Henry Kain and Edward Eicholtz. An early resident of Pleasant View Township was Robert Warnick, son of Macon County's first sheriff and a friend of Abe Lincoln. 284 ABEL, ROSE B. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres ALLEN, ALBERT Rt. 1 Blue Mound 234 acres m ALBERS, GEORGE Sr. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres ASHBURN, MERVIL J. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres ■*^-^' ALBERS, GEORGE 0. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres AUSHN, MRS. ANNA F. Rt. 1 Bl u e Mo u n d 80 acres ALLEN, ALBERT Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres BAProRD, CHARLES F. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres 285 BAUGHMAN, HERSHEL G. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 200 acres BECKETT, DONALD E. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 31 acres I i BAUGHMAN, SOPHIA Rt. 2 Blue Mound 184 acres BECKETT, J. RALPH Rt. 1 Blue Mound 120 acres BEAN, C. DISMOND Rt. 1 Blue Mound 20 acres BECKETT, J. M. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 160 acres sm -':!pv BEAN, ROBERT R. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 160 acres H.ACK, MRS. WILLI Rt. 2 Blue Mound 118 acres 286 BLUE, ISAAC Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80: acres CAPMICHEL, BLON Rt. 2 Blue Mound 96 acres BOTTBELL, MARGARET A. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 160 acres CHAPMAN, JOHN D. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres BRAMEL, MRS. ALBERTA Blue Mound CHRI STI SON, MRS. EDNA Blue Mound Rt. 2 52 acres Rt. 1 160 acres BUCHTER, ETTA B. Blue Mound COFFIN, CEQL E. Blue Mound Rt. 1 160 acres Rt. 1 2 acres 287 COLLI NS. GEORGE W. Rt. 1 Moweaqua 110 acres CRAWFORD, IDA Rt. 1 Blue Mound 122 acres COTTLE, NyOMI G. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 131 acres CROW, EARL Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres CRANMER, WALTER B. Rt. 1 Bl u e Mound 73 acres CROW, MAUDE I. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 127 acres CRAWFDRD, AVNA Rt. 1 Macon 120 acres CURREY.MRS. DOROTHY Rt. 1 Blue Moun 210 acre 288 ^i^^e^^^^m DAMERY, CARL H. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 140 acres DIAL, POLL Rt. 1 Macoi 160 acres DAMERY, MRS. JOHN L. Rt. 1 Bl u e Mo u n d 160 acres DRAGSTRUM, MRS. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 1 60 acres DAY, R. A. Rt. 1 M oreaqua EAIO.N, DR. L. M. Rt. 1 Moweaqua 160 acres ^. >*-' DAY, R. A. Rt. 1 Moweaqua 320 acres ELDER, DONALD Rt. 2 Blue Mound 20 acres 289 nCXES, PDY T. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres 03 m NET, J. EVERETT Gt. 1 Bl u e M ou n d 160 acres FINLAYSON, R. R. Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres QOFFINET, J. EVERETT Rt. 1 Blue Mound 160 acres R)RDEN, BYPDN Rt. 1 Macon 240 acres GOLTRA, EVA L. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres GDFFINET J. EVERETT Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres GORDEN, EARL L. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 160 acres 290 GORDBV, LEE E. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres GRANT, MRS. MARY Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres GORDEN, LEE E. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 120 acres HALL, ARTHUR Rt. 1 Blue Mound 320 acres GORDEN, L. WAYNE Rt. 2 Blue Mound 19 3 acres HARBARGER, ELODA Rt. 1 Blue Mound GRISW3LD, HARRY Rt. 2 Blue Mound 118 acres HARrWIG, CHARLES UKAN Rt. 7 blue Mound 5 acres 291 WP" HARTWIG, H. F. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres HOPPE, CARL J. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 240 acres HASHNGS. FRED M. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 17 acres HOPPE, aiFRDRD L. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 200 acres HENDRIX. MRS. MARY FRAN a S Rt. 1 Mo we a qu a 320 acres HIMSTEDT, JOHN Rt. 2 Blue Mound 78 acres >:*iNfc' HOPPE, STELLA Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres JACK, MRS. C. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 19 3 acres 292 ^l^^^»W^ JACDBS. N. 0. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 161 acres KELLER, A.H. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres JOSTES, WILLIAM Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres KELLER, E. H. Rt. 2 Macon 254 acres JOSTES, WILLIE Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres KING, EDITH Rt. 4 De c a tu r 75 acres JOSTES, WILLIE Rt. 1 Blue Mound 240 acres KOELMEL, MARY Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres 293 KREHER, CHARLES F. Rt. 1 Biie Mound 12D . acres MOFFETT, IRA G. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 250 acres MAXHEIMER, CARL J. Rt. 1 M owe a qua 160 acres MOSS, EMMA M. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres McCLURE, A. W. Rt. 1 McCLURE, ELOISE Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres Blue Mound 160 acres MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY Rt. 1 Macon 110 acres MUIFHEID, GEORGE B. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 80 acres iJ94 NELSON, ROLLIE H. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 2 acres NOLAND, CHARLES F. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 72 acres NICHOLLS. a AIRE V. Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres NOLAND, THOMAS B. Rt. 1 Moweaqua 96 acres '** -.'i ^ifc**' NICHOLLS, CLAIRE V. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 120 acres PRESCOTT, JOHN Rt. 1 Macon 3 acres NICHXLS. DALE Rt. 2 Macon 118 acres ^^F^^i ,, ' *-^ *■ •j- PUTSCH, W. A. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres 295 REIS, FRANK E. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 40 acres SANDERS, ARTHUR M. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 40 5 acres RICE, ETHEL M. Bt. 2 Blue Mound 120 acres SANDERS, ARTHUR M. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 40 5 acres BITTER, JOHN a Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres SALISBURY, CARL A. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 100 acres HDTHTUS, MRS. W. J. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 83 acres SCAGGS, CALVIN Rt. 1 Blue Mound 200 acres 296 SCKOWSKA, PAUL J. Rt. 1 Bl u e Mo u a d 80 acres SNIDER, ROY V. Rt. 1 Moweaqua 180 acres SOOTT, MRS. MARGARET J. Rt. 2 STUMBAUTO, MRS. EDITH Rt. 2 Moweaqua 80 acres WWFT- i Ivt. -«iS*^ ^' y SMITH, HERMAN 0. Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres TRAUGHBER. ELMER J. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 170 acres SMITH, LOUIS 0. Rt. 1 Macon 40 acres TRIMBLE. EDGAR Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres 297 WALKER, RALPH Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres WETZEL, RHEEM E. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres WARD, MRS. ZELLA Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres .^■ WILCOX, MRS. MARY Rt. 2 Blue Mound 28 5 acres ■es.' %' i^-' ii WAYNE, W. G. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 200 acres WILLETT, JAMES G. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 297 acres WEISKOTIEN, MARY ALICE C Moweaqua WILLETT, JAMES G. Blue Mound Rt. 1 80 acres Rt. 2 297 acres 298 WILLETT, JAMES G. Rt. 2 Bl u e Mo u n d 297 acres WHITE. RICHARD Rt. 2 Mo we a qua 7 5 acres WILLIAMS, R. S. Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres YOUNG, HAROLD V. Rt. 1 Blue Mound 80 acres '""^jj ^^^^J ^^P^^HESti^^^^HHi ■ tit mf • ^ ^y^ -.*' w ■r ^^' WISE, BURT M. Blue Mound Grain Co. Blue Mound 0. J. Younker, Tenant Rt. 2, Macon 160 acres Fm» THE GLENWOOD HOUSE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLISM Rural Route No. 8 Decatur, III. ifgg^^ 5 Day In Patient Trmatmant iteqvirsd WISE, TDM E. Rt. 1 Moweaqua 80 acres 299 300 SOUTH MACON TOWNSHIP Macon City 301 .f'T ■ MACO^ CITY At Macon City is located the Eastern Star Sanitarium, an institu- tion maintained by the Order of the Eastern Star of Illinois. The city is situated on the Illinois Central System ajid on US 51. It has a popu- lation of 942. The population of South Macon Township is 1,533. Laid out by the Illinois Central Railroad in 1856, Macon City was incorporated as a village in 1868 and as a city in 1879. For some years after laying out the community, the Illinois Central maintained a land office at Macon City, and it was through this office that many early settlers of the township acquired their farms. A pioneer auctioneer of South Macon Township was David P. Keller, who afterwards was elected to the state legislator for several terms. Subsequently, he entered the banking field and became one of the founders of the Macon County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 302 METHODIST CHURCH-ZION CHAPEL Macon >^-«. f^ ^^j^^ ^^9 ST. STANISLAUS CHURCH Rev. ThcMBas Connolly Macon 303 SANNER CHAPEL Rt. 1 (Organized 1876) Macon Rev. Clifford D. Smith MACON HIGH SCHOOL Macon EXCELSIOR-NORTH SCHOOL Macon County RENaiAW SCHOOL Rt. 2 Macon 1 acre ■# '\ «^ ■)***. RICHARDS, ORVILLE Dal ton City SANDERS, MRS. E. C. Macon Rt. 1 17 7 acres Rt. 1 163 acres 315 SADLER, EAPL Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres aiiREY, chak.es Macon 40 acres SaBELY, C. B. Rt. 2 Macon 200 acres STICH, MRS. BESS Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres SCDTT, CARPDL Rt. 1 Macon IZ) acres ^■^■jj^^B 1 ^ STICH, MRS. J.O. Rt. 1 Macon 145 acres 311 REY. BRYCE Rt. 1 Oakley 100 acres STITCH, RUE T. Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres 316 STOMBAUffl, EDWARD Rt. 1 Macon 40 acres TANKERSLEY, MRS. MATILDA Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres STOMBAUGH, R. W. Rt. 1 Macon 118 acres TAYLOR, C. E. Rt. 2 Macon 40 acres «^: STOMBAUGH, R. W. Rt. 1 Macon 180 acres TAYLOR, C E. Rt. 2 Macon 40 acres STDTT, T. A. Rt. 1 Macon TAYLOR, C. E. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres 317 rSt^ TAYLOR, FRANK Rt. 1 TIMMONS, FRANK Rt. 1 Macon 140 acres Macon 160 acres TOMLINSON, T. W. Rt. 1 Macon 240 acres TOW SON , FRED Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres TIMMCNS, LETA G. Rt. 2 ■•^m^^^msm^sm^. h^m^m Macon 160 acres ,■4^ r TOWSON, SQDTT Rt. 2 *A Macon 160 acres TOMLINSON, J. B. Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres TRYDN, OWEN Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres 318 TRYDN, OWEN Rt. 2 Macon 100 : acres TOUNG, ALICE Auburn Ci ty 200 acres VANGUNDY, E. H. Rt. 2 Macon 320 acres WIEGAND, FRED Rt. 1 Macon 40 acres VAN PRAAG, ALEX, JR. Rt. 1 Macon 240 acres WILES, MRS. MINNIE Rt. 1 Macon 65 acres ||^«"^^^^^^:^^M«^ ''^*%^ WLLMER, G3DFREY Rt. 2 Macon 134 acres WISE, CHARLES F. Rt. 2 Me. r.on 1 60 a c 1 4 3 3:.J H ^flO^*^^; "^^ ^^^^^^^^K^^H^Hrv-^M^ JJHHbi ^ Jc" , , fl WYATT, CARL Rt. 1 Macon 80 acres %.^^-^ WISE, KENNETO Macon 160 acres YOUR ONE SOURCE For . . . • TIRES • BAHERIES • ACCESSORIES • APPLIANCES • RADIO • TELEVISION The B. F. GOODRICH COMPANY RETAIL DIVISION 317 W. Wood St. • Decatur, III. Silv erioare . Di amonds . }lat che s CREIGHTOIN'S JEWELRY STORE Vat c h Rep ai ri ng ALL type of special order work Rings Sized and Engrav ed while you Shop Telephone 3*6114 WESLEY 0. JREIGHTON 130 £. Prairie Ave. Decatur, Illinois SOUTH WHEATLAND TOWNSHIP Elwin 321 ELWIN At first called Wheatland, the town of Elwin, principal community of South Wheatland Tovraship, received its present appellation from a combination of the names of its two founders, Messrs. Elwood and' Martin. It was laid out soon after the completion of the Illinois Central Rail- road in 1854. In addition to being on that road, Elwin is on US 51. First elevator in the town was built by C. E. Connard. One of his sons, George S. Connard, became a well known Decatur banker, having served at first with the Decatur National Bank and later as cashier with the Citizens' National Bank. A life-long resiident of the township was Hiram Ward, son of one of the founders of the pioneer Ward's Settle- ment. He was first president of the Macon County Old Settlers Associa- tion. Most prominent native son of South Wheatlaad Township was John G. Imboden, a renowned cattle breeder. He was at one time president of the Illinois Livestock Breeders' Association. The first settler of the township was William Downing, who here built the first permanent home in Macon County. He sold his cabin in 1824 to John Ward, and this be- came the center of the later Ward Settlement. 322 BETHLEHEM PRESBYTEEIAN CHURCH Cross Roads SALEM CEMETERY Croaa Roads ALLENBUROUGH CEMETARY BANCRDFT, N. IRE\E Rt. 1 Moweaqu a 80 acres CARTER, H. MYRLE Rt. 8 Decatur 20 acres BARR. CARL Rt. 4 Decatur SUSAN CHILDS ESTATE Macon 6 acres Rt. 2 288 acres <^'^ #^-*. i.^ BETHERD, ODES I. Rt. 4 %* Decatur 10 acres BROWN, CHARLES Rt. 4 Decatur 180 acres CHRISTOPHER, H. F. Rt. 4 CLAUSEN, .MRS. MAUDE Rt. 4 Decatur 20 acres U Decatur 50 acres 324 CLAUSEN, S. A. Rt. 4 Deca tu r 30 acres QDRNTOWAITE, MAYE Rt. 6 De c a tu r 1 59 acres COCHRAN, SHELBY H. Rt. 6 De c a tu r 17 acres C(»NTHWAITE, MAYE Rt. 4 Decatur 160 acres COLLINS. EILEEN T. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres COTTLE, raJTO Rt. 2 Rlue Mound 200 acres CORNTHWAITE, MINNIE 0. Rt. 6 Deca tur 129 acres CRAWLEY, HAROLD R. Rt. -i De c a tu r ST>i acres 325 ^•i/-. CRAYCBOFT, WILBUR & JENNIE Rt. 2 Macon 280 acres DURHAM, ORVILLE R. Rt. 4 Decatur 100 acres DAILY, RAYMOND Rt. 1 Macon 160 acres ECKHARDT, JOHN 0. Rt. 8 Decatur 10 acres DAVIS, ANNA Rt. 2 Macon 93 acres ELLIS, IRVING Rt. 6 De c a tu r 80 acres DELANEY, ROBERT Rt. 4 Decatur 3 acres ^!«>»». ELLISON, RALPH Rt. 4 Decatur 80 acres 326 FALODNER, BOYD Rt. 6 Decatur 80 acres GLAN. ELMER M. Rt. 6 Decatur 160 acres FILE, FOREST Rt. 4 Decatur 120 acres GLAN, ROY Rt. 6 Decatur 60 acres GADBERRY ARVIS Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres GRAVES ESTATE Rt. 6 Decatur 180 acres GILBERT, 0. P. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres GRIMM, JOHN Decatur 2 acres 327 GUSTEN, RUSSEL J. Rt. i Decatur 4 acres HILL, EDITH Rt. 2 Macon 200 acres HAMMAN, MRS. ESTHER Rt. 1 Decatur 200 acres HILL, EDITH Rt. 2 Macon 220 acres HART, SAMUEL Rt. 8 Decatur 37 acres HOCKER, JOffJ H. Rt. 4 Decatur 40 acres HIBBARD BROS. Rt. 2 Macon 120 acres HOCKER, R. A. Rt. 4 Decatur 40 acres 'jaa HOCKER, R. A. Rt. 4 Decatur 100 acres JACOBS. 0. E. Harold Tomlinson, Mgr. Rt.2, Macon 114 acres HOCKER, R. A. Rt. 2 Macon 200 acres JAODBSEN, GEORGE E. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 27 3 acres "9*^ JACOBS. M. G. Rt. 2 Macon 90 acres JACOBSEN, GEORGE Rt. 1 Niantic 327 acres JAODBS, 0. E. Rt. 2 Macon 10 3 acres JINKS. DALE J. Rt. 4 Decatur 6 acres 329 V* JOHNSON, DONALD R. Rt. 4 Decatur 20 acres LEBO, CHESTER 0. Rt. 6 Decatur 27 5 acres KATER, B. F. Rt. 2 Macon 40 acres LeFORGE, ISABEL Rt. 6 Decatu r 240 acres "Z^"^. KATER, C. J. Rt. 2 Macon 40 acres LEFORGEE, ISABEL Rt. 1 Dalton City 320 acres ''^^^^^%te^. V ^^ KLEIN, GEORGE J. Rt. 4 Decatur 10 acres LUKA, RDBERT Argenta 72 acres 33U MILLER, CAHOLL Rt. 2 Macon 56 acres t.: ^1 MORIS, HARRY L, Rt. 4 ^^ -^-* Decatur 80 acres ''Ji^^ MILLER, CARROLL Rt. 6 Decatur 220 acres MOSEL, JOHN Rt. 4 Decatur 68 acres r W^^ " m MOFFETT, RAYMOND T. Rt. 4 Decatur 140 acres MOSSER, HOY Rt. 5 Decatu r 1'-^ acres MOORE, MR. Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres MYER, HENRY Rt- 2. Macon aifford W. Naber, Mgr. 160 acres Scotch Short HornsS Duroc Hogs 331 NOLAND, DAN Rt. 4 Decatur 100 acres OBERLINE, E.L. Rt. 4 Decatur 65 acres •m^ ^^i:^ ^^•v ^^ ^ W'i , '^S^^ nr ^-'~ •* ' R '^^^HHHIBB^ OERTWIG, JOHN F. Rt. 2 Macon 138 acres ,1 PAYNE, MRS. MARY Rt. 2 Macon 5 acres PHILLIPS, RAYMOND 0. Rt. 4 PIPER ESTATE Rt. 2 PRICE, JOHN a Rt. 4 Decatu r 35 acres Macon 12D . acres Decatur 40 acres PRICE, RALPH D. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres 332 PRICE, lUYMOND Rt. 4 Decatur 130 acres PURDUE, ORHIN B. Rt. 4 Decatu r 32 acres RDBY, MRS. aAIRE GEORGE E. SHARICK. Mer. Rt. 2, Macon 148 acres HUbY, MRS. CLARA G. Qiarlef Warnick, Ten. Rt. 3, Decatur 160 acres RILEY, AGNES Rt. 2 Macon SCHLIE, MRS. WALTER Macon 80 acres Rt. 2 100 acres RILEY, MBS. AGNES Rt. 2 macon 320 acres ouu^iimiVIAIN, MHb. MINNIE Rt. 2 Macon 333 SCHLINGMAN, MRS. MINNIE Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres SIMPSON, RAY Rt. 4 Decatur 172 acres SHAFFER, LOREN W. Rt. 6 Decatur SIMS, JOHN W. Rt. 1 Decatur 160 acres SHEPPARD ESTATE Rt. 4 Decatur 10 3 acres SMITH, WILLIAM Rt. 8 Decatur 5^ acres SHEPPARD, RUSSEL Rt. 4 Decatur 80 acres SPRAGUE, MRS. FRANK Rt. 4 Decatur 28 acres 334 SPRAGUE, JESS Rt. 1 Argenta 120 acres STICK EL, MRS. MARY Rt. 4 Decatur 198 acres S^ ^J^ Ijf J' STERR ESTATE Rt. 4 Decatur 90 acres SURFACE ESTATE Rt. 4 Decatur 240 acres STEVENSON, ELEANOR Operatad by Paul Seagl e Rt. 2, Macon 240 acres SURFACE, WALTER Rt. 4 ^m De c a tu r 165 acres STICKEL, MRS. MARY jlgjj^ Elwin 120 acres ■A SWIGART, ROBERT Rt. 4 Decatur 110 acres 335 - . * •'^..iTr'Bi^^i ^M.'^ ;§# * - w- .*-^' "».« •■•| •# TAYLOR, ROBERT Elwin 1 acre WELLS, MRS. TORA E. Rt. 2 Macon 80 acres WALKER, H. L. Rt. 4 Decatur 40 acres WOLFER, C. LOUIS Rt. 2 Macon 108 acres WALMSLEY, W. H. Rt. 6 Decatur 20 acres WHITAKER, HOWARD Rt. 2 Macon 4 acres 336 WHITMORE TOWNSHIP Oreana 337 OREAINA The town of Oreana the word means "gold" was laid out in 1873, or just after the Decatur & Monticello Railroad was built through the Township of Whitmore. First to build a house in the new town was Henry Morrison, and the first postmaster was S. G. Crocker. Among early busi- ness men of the town were S. G. Coale, Frank M. Pratt, and Ruddock and Kirby. It was in Whitmore Township that the first building to be erected by white men in Macon County was located. This was the Lorton brothers trading post, opened in 1816 and used for some ten years afterwards. Whitmore Township was named after John Whitmore, an early settler. We are told that when his children changed the original spelling of the family name from "Whittmore" to "Whitmore," he strongly objected to the substitution. Located on the Illinois Central Railroad and on Illinois 47, Oreana ^,> is in the center of a farming township with a toted population of 911. yy8 ..■SC5.1--..-- •i^-»«',i^r«!!Sa^-. , -■^" CHEISTIAN CHURCH Oreana First church erected 1874 Present church erected 1895 First Fastor-Brother Wiiiia Clough. Present, Rev.R.McConkey -»^.».A^. OREANA DIST. NO. 1 SCHOOL James 0. Edmondson, Supt. Ore ana UNION CEMETARY Rt. 1 Oreana LEROY CARROLL Night Owl Bar-B-Q, Oreana Motel - Bus. Est. Aug. 17, 1932 4 acres li39 ,/ ^^■ AOOM. raOMAS & PEARL Rt. 5 Decatur 60 acres ALLEN, EDWIN Rt. 1 Argenta 240 acres ACOM, WILLIAM H. Rt. 2 Decatur 160 acres ANDERSON, JOEL Rt. 1 Argenta 290 acres ALBERT, MAUDE M. Rt. Ureana 80 acres ANDERSON, JOEL Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres ALBERT, MAUDE Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres ANDERSON, N. JOEL Rt. Argenta 80 acres 340 t-^' ■.^ ■■ _^.,-Im**'!^%„ ■ i '*'>■•_ mp^^ :***^ \ ANDERSDN, N. J. Rt. 1 Argenta 290 acres I BEADLE SON, JOHN City i^ ^V*- - Orel ATER, HOY C. Rt. 1 Argenta 1 acre BECK, CLYDE Rt. 1 ■»»' ■*C' Argenta 63 acres fM*^-- -•V*'" BABCOCK, CHARLES H. Rt. 2 Decatur 156 acres BENNETT, GORDON Rt. 1 Argenta 80 acres BARNETT, CHAS. Rt. 5 De c a tu r 120 acres BENNETT, L. G. Rt. 2 Maroa )i acre 341 BENNETT, L.G. Rt. 1 Argents 160 acres J|i^ BLACK, PAUL Rt. 1 Ci SCO 20 acres BETZER, GILBERT Rt. 1 Argenta 226 acres BLENZ, GEORGE Rt. 1 Argentc 80 acres BETZER, LAWRENCE Rt. 1 Argenta 231 acres BLENZ, GEORGE Rt. 1 Oreana 9 7 acres s^Sitik ' BETZER, RENA Rt. 1 Argenta 2 acres BLOCH, H. K. Rt. 1 Oreana 3 acres 342 I r BLOCH, MARIE Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres BOYD, WILLIAM Rt. 5 Decatur BOYD, A. T. Rt. 2 Deca tu r 170 acres BOYD, W. B. Rt. 5 Decatur 40 acres tt-.^ m'-Vi?¥ BOYD, JOE Rt. 5 Decatur 40 acres iS^- ''>■'. 0^ BOYD, WILLIAM R. Rt. 5 Decatur 161 acres BOYD, LYLE A. Life-lone Res. Macon Co. Rt. 1, Argenta 240 acres BRICKER, CARL Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres 343 BRUNS, BOBBY E. Rt. 1 Argenta 10 acres CASEY, MRS. ORA Rt. 6 Decatur 100 acres BULLOCK. GUY Robt. E. Hupp, Tenant Life-long res. Macon Co. Rt. 1, Oreana 80 acres J J _- wm mi^'^^ S fr A J. DWIGHT .^_ BURGE, Argenta Rt. 1 80 acres '^(^•**'- 45;i£i aEMENS, BELL Rt. 5 CLINTON, WILLIAM T. Rt. 2 Decatur 77 acres De c a tu r 80 acres » '<£ BUSHART.RQY Rt. 5 De c a tu r 20 acres COBB, MRS. BERTHA & WALLACE. RS. MAUDE Rt. 1, Cisco 290 acres U44 CONWAY, A. E. Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres CREEKMUR, JOHN B. Rt, 1 Oreana 60 acres J^ f > -^ CDNWAY, HARDLn & RUTH Rt. 5 Decatur 35 acres OJNDIFF, FLOYD Rt. 1 Oreana 160 acres OJNDIFF, M. W. Rt. 2 DAVIS, GRADY Rt. 2 Decatur 90 arr^io Decatur 10 acres CREEKMUR, ROY N. Rt. 1 Oreana 76ii acres DODDEK, WILLIAM E. Life-long res. Macon Co. Rt. 5, Decatur 20 acres 345 DOYLE, J. A. Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres IXJNBAH, J. H. Rt. 1 160 acres ' '»1t> DOYLE, MARY (ESTATE) Rt. 1 Oreana 120 acres DUVALL, JOHN W. Rt. 1 Argenta 240 acres DRAEGERT, L. C. Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres ENNIS, GEORGE Rt. 2 Decatur 320 acres DRENCKHAHN, ANNA Rt. 1 Ci SCO 240 acres EVANS, JAMES R. Rt. 2 Decatur 80 acres 346 FESLER, LENORA Rt. 2 De c a tu r 78 acres GROSS, ROBERT P. Rt. 1 Oreana 76 acres FOMBELLE, ANNA H. & J.B. Macon Rt. 2 167 acres FRENCH, ARNOLD Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres HARDY, SCDTT Rt. 5 HARRIS, HUTU Buil t 18 54 for R. R. Sta. De c a tu r 162 acres Rt. 1, Oreana 90 acres GOOD, FRED Rt. 5 Decatur 40 acres HAWVER. JOHN W. (ESTATE) Purchased in 189 4 Rt. 1, Oreana 187 acres 347 HILL, W. A. & STELLA M. Purchased 1917 Bt. 1, Oreana 240 acres HOLM AN, roRA Rt. 2 Decatur 80 acres HILL, WILBUR A. Rt. 1, Oreana Eugene Hill (Grandson) Tenant 100 acres HOUMOV, CLARENCE S. Rt. 1 Argent a 120 acres HIRSCH, MRS. C. J. Oreana HOPPE, CHARLES H. Oreans Rt. 1 205 acres Rt. 1 100 acres .M* HIRST. MARY (Mrs. ) Rt. 1 Ureana HUFFMAN, JOHN & GRACE Rt. 8 Decatur 10 acres 348 HUFFMAN, STELLA Rt. 1 Oreana 40 acres KAUFMAN, JESSE H. Rt. 1 Argenta 177 acres IMGRUM, CORA M. Rt. 2 Macon 160 acres KELM, C. W. Rt. 1 Argenta 20 acres JOHNSON, JAMES E. Rt. 5 Deca tur 9K acres KIRBY, GERALDEAN Rt. 1 Or«an« 80 acres JOKISCH, E. W. , JR Rt. 1 Ureana 280 acres KIRBY, RICHARD Rt. 1 Oreana 180 acres 349 KONDRITZ, KARL, Rt. 7 Decatu r 3 acres LECHLEITER, RAYMOND H. Rt. 5 Decatur 12 acres KUNY, & ROOS Rt. 2 De c a tu r 18 5 a . ■< LIKINS. EVA Rt. 1 Argenti 120 acres KUNY-ROOS ESTATE Rt. 2 Decetur 186 acres LIKINS, OSCAR Rt. 1 Argenta 40 acres LANGE, HENRY Rt. 1 Oreana 10 acres LIKINS. ROSS Fartn purchased 1900' s. Rt. I, Oreana 160 acres 350 **. LOOJE, FLOYD H. Rt. 1 Argent a 20 acres MAJOR, LEWIS Rt. 1 Argenta 20 acres LONG, W. R. Rt. 5 Decatur 67 acres MAYBERRY, EARL Rt. 1 Oreana 87 acres LONG, WILLIAM R Re. 2 Decatur McaELLAND, MRS. E. B. Oreana 206 acres Rt. 1 200 acres LUNN, WAYNE Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres MclNTOSH, ARCHIE Rt. 2 Macon 167 acres 351 McINTOSH, A. P. Oreana Rt. Macon 80 acres MICHAELS, MRS. MAY Rt. 1 Argents 200 acres McINTOSH, A. P. Rt. -Oreana Macon 164 acres MONPDE. C. M. Rt. 1 ' Argenta 20 acres McINTOSl, ARCHIE P. Rt. 2 Decatur 167 acres McVEY, RALPH Rt. 1 Argenta 60 acres MOORE, RICHARD P. Rt. 1 Argenta 113 acres MOOTHART ESTATE Rt. 1 Oreana 109 acres 352 NILES, F. H. Rt. 1 Cisco 80 acres OLDWEILER, JOHN Rt. 1 Oreana 120: acres NILES, HARRY Rt. 1 Oreana 60 acres OLDWIELER, JO W Rt 1 Oreana 230 acres NIXON, D. H. Rt. 1 Oreana 10 acres OLDWIELER, JOHN G. Rt. 1 Oreana 265 acres OLDWILER, JOHN Rt. 1 Oreana 2 acres HATTBMGALE, LORES Rt. 1 Argent a 80 acres 353 PATIDN, A.E. Rt. 1 Oreana 10 acres PHILLIPS, HOY Rt. 1 Oreana 17 2 acres PERSINGER, ROBERTA Rt. 1 Oreana 159 acres POTRAFKA. H. R. Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres PHILLIPS, OSCAR D. Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres PUJOL, TIIUS J. Rt. 1 Oreana 82)4 acres PHILLIPS, ROY Rt. 1 Argenta 161 acres QUERREY, ROY Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres 354 RAE, C. E. Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres ROBINSON, W. H. Rt. 1 Oakley 40 acres RAGSDALE, ROBERT aYDE Rt. 1 Oreana 255 acres ROWE. HANFDRD Rt. 1 Oreana 240 acres Kijl jt ^ RAGSDM.E ESTATE Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres ROWE, WALTER H. & MARY S. Decatur Rt. 5 110 acres RECKWARDT, ANNA & MINNA Rt. 1 Argenta 40 acres SARGENT, IRVING Rt. 2 Deca tu r S% acres 355 :m 1^' SHYER, JOHN M. Rt. 5 Decatur 60 acres ■flOSWi* ■'i'S^ STAUDER, W. P. Rt. 1 Argeata 310 acres SIGMON, EARL Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres STODDARD HARRY C. Rt. 1 Argenta 39 acres J' SMALLEY, CRVILLE Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres STILES, EDWARD Rt. .S Decatur r.-'t^' ^•f "" STALEY, A. E. JR. Rt. 2 Decatur 200 acres STROH, H. A. Rt. 2 Decatur 410 acres 356 *l> SUMMERS, HIRAM C. Rt. 5 Decatur 37 acres THOMAS, FRANCES Rt. 1 Oreana 80 acres SUNDERLAND, C H. Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres TOTTEN, ROBERT B. Rt. 2 De c a tu r 120 acres TATE, F. W. Rt. 1 Oreana 33 acres TRAVER, TED Rt. 5 Decatur 195 acres TEAfPLETON, B. F. Oreana 196 acres TRUMMEL,( ESTATE) Rt. 1 Oreana 160 acres 357 h^ y^ y -^J" ■fr-* TURNER, BYFL E. Rt. 1 Argenta 35 acres WERNER, EDWARD D. , Sr. Rt. 2 Decatur 10 acres TURNER Rt. 1 Oreant 40 acre: WERTZ, MARTHA Rt. 1 Oreana 160 acres WAGOSNER, J. A. Rt. 1 Argenta 82 acres WHEELER, ETHEL Rt. 5 Decatur WACaSER, EMERY E. Rf 1 Argenta 10 acres WILBER, HAROLD Rt. I Oreana 160 acres 358 WILBER, W. C Rt. 2 De c a tu r 10 acres WILLIAMS, I. E. Rt. 1 p: Argenta 40 acres WILKS, RITCHIE Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres WILLIAMS Rt. 1 Ci SCO 60 acres -^^^v.-J, ^^^M WILSON, JOHN Rt. 1 Argenta 160 acres WININGS, J. W. Rt. 1 Oreana 120 acres WILSON, W. R. Rt. 2 Decatur 8 acres WINNING, GRACE Rt. 1 Argenta 220 acres 359 WISE, HELEN B. Rt. 2 Blue Mound 160 acres WISE, HELEN Rt. I 19^^ Oreana 160 acres - as YETTER, BRYAN Rt. 1 Oreana ■ ^^M. ILLINOIS- LARGEST S maf f Town ■^■■■1 w ||B tflB « »■" FURNITURE • Low Ovei • Low Price STORE rhead Dale E. Miller Lome Varvel 1545 Wert Sunwt _ .. Decotw,, III. Free Delivery Biu. Mound, in. PHONE 3-4518 PHONE 155 BLUE MOUND, ILLLINOIS PHONE 35 360 LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN THE VARIOUS STATES JAN. 1— Nsw Year's Day (all the States. Territories and possessions). JAN. 8 — Battle of New Orleans (in La.). JAN. 19— R. EL Lee's Birthday (in Ala., Ark., Fla.. Ga., Ky., Miss., N. C, S. C, Tenn. and Va. ). JAN. 20 — Inaugviration Day, beginning 1937 and every fourth year thereafter — by the 20th Amendment to the Constitu- tion (in the Dist. of Col. only). FEB. 12 — Lincoln's Birthday (Alaska, Cal., Col., Conn., Del., 111., Ind., la., Kan., Ky., Md., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Neb., Nev., N. J., N. Y., N. M., N. Dak., Ohio, Ore., Pa., S. Dak., Tenn., Utah, Wash., W. Va., Wyo., and observed by Gover- nor's proclamation in Mass.) FEB. 22 — Washington's Birthday (all the States, Territories and possessions). APRIL 16 — (3ood Friday (Conn.. Del., Fla., La., Md., Minn., N. J., Pa., Tenn., Philippines and Puerto Rico.) APRIL 19 — Patriote' Day (in Me. aod Mass.) . APRIL 21 — Anniv. Battle of San Jacinto (in Tex.). APRIL 26 — Confederate Memorial Day (in Ala., Fla., Ga., and Miss. ; World War Mem. Day, also, in Ga.). APRIL 26 — Fast Day (fourth Monday) in New Hampshire. MAY 10 — Confederate Memorial Day (in N. Car. and S. Car. ) . LEGAL HOLIDAYS - Continued OCT. 31 — Admission Day in Nev.). NOV. 2 — Election Day (1st Tuesday after 1st Monday in Nov.). Every State and Territory except Alaska, Conn., Dist. of Col., Hawaii, 111., Mass., Miss., Ohio, Philippines and Vt. In Illinois it is a legal holiday in Chicago, Springfield, East St. Louis, Galesburg, Danville, Cairo and Rockford. In Ohio it is a half holiday. In Maine it is a legal holiday only as to the courts, which also close on the State Election Day (biennially in even years, 2nd Monday in Sept.). NOV. 11— Armistice Day (all the Stetes. Territories and Possessions). NOV. 25 — Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday) Every State, Territory and Possession. President Roosevelt, on Dec. 26, 1941, approved Hous^ Joint Resolu- tion 41: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the fourth Thursday of November in each year after the year 1941 be known as Thanksgiving Day." DEC. 25 — Christmas Day (every State. Terr: ory and possession). LEGAL HOLIDAYS - Continued MAY 30 — Decoration or Memorial Day (all states and possessions, except Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N. Car. and S. Car.). MAY 30 — Confederate Memorial Day (in Va.). JUNE 3 — Birthday of Jefferson Davis (in Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., S. C, Tex. and Va. ) . JUNE 3 — Confederate Memorial Day (in Ky. and Tenn.) JUNE 15— Pioneer Day (in Idaho). JULY 4 — Independence Day (all the States, Territories and possessions). JULY 13— Birthday of Gen. Bedford For- rest (in Tenn.) . JULY 24— Pioneer Day (in Utah). AUG. 1 — Colorado Day (in Col.) AUG. 16 — Anniv. Battle of Bennington (in Vt.). SEPT. 6 — Labor Day (1st Monday) (every State, Territory and possession. SEPT. 9— Admission Day (in Ca!.). SEPT. 12— Defender's Day (in Md.). OCT. 12— Columbus Day (Ark., Ariz., Cal., Col., Conn., Del., Fla., Idaho, 111.. Ind.. Kan., Ky., La., Me., Md., Mass., Mich., Mo., Mont., Neb.. Nev., N. H., N. J., N. Y., N. Dak., Ohio, Ore., Pa., R. L, Tex., Utah. Va.. Vt., Wash., W. Va., also Puerto Rico. In Arkansas and Kansas it does not affect notes or judicial proceed- ings). TIME DIFFERENCES At Twelve O'Clock U.S. Eastern Standard Time, the clocks in U. S. cities are: Atlanta, Ga 12.00 Noon Baltimore, Md 12.00 Noon Birmingham, Ala 11.00 A.M. Boston, Mass 12.00 Noon Buffalo, N. Y 12.00 Noon Charleston, S. C 12.00 Noon Chicago, 111 11.00 A.M. Cincinnati, Ohio 12.00 Noon Cleveland, Ohio 12.00 Noon Dallas, Tex 11.00 A.M. Denver, Col 10.00 A.M. Detroit, Mich 12.00 Noon El Paso, Tex 10.00 A.M. Galveston. Tex H-OO A.M. Indianapolis, Ind H-OO A.M. Kansas City, Mo H-OO A.M. Los Angeles, Cal 9-00 A. M. Louisville, Ky H-OO A.M. Memphis, Tenn H-OO A.M. Milwaukee, Wis H-OO A.M. Minneapolis, Minn H-OO A.M. Nashville, Tenn H-OO A.M. New Orleans. La ^^"^^ A"^^" New York City 12.00 Noon Norfolk, Va 12.00 Noon Omaha, Neb ^}-^° A'^^' Philadelphia. Pa 12-00 Noon Pittsburgh. Pa 12-00 Noon Richmond, Va 12-00 Noon Salt Lake City, Utah l°;.'l° A-^I" San Francisco, Cal ?^'^1^; ^• Savannah. Ga 12-00 Noon Seattle, Wash ?:°L^.- ^• St. Louis. Mo U-^^d;-^- Toledo, Ohio 12-00 Noon Washington, D. C 12.00 Noon 361 RAILROAD MILEAGE BET WEEN AMERICAN CITIES To estimate the fare between any two cities; prevailing rate per mile for no} -aniqsBM 00 '2 »0 CO CO t^t^cooo OOOCOt^C^OCOiC »-H?OCOb-t^C^O b-^COOOiOiOiO COiOC^CIf-i'^W t^ob^-Tiooo iCCT>COt--C) MCOCOC^C^C^C4(NrHCJ. 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E^h nominal horse power of a boiler requires 30 to 35 lbs. of water per hour. To sharpen dull files lay them in dilute sulphuric acid until they are eaten deep enough. A horse power is equivalent to raising 33,000 lbs. one foot per minute, or 650 lbs. one foot per second. The average consumption of coal for steam boilers is 12 lbs. per hour for each square foot of grate surface. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water, multiply the height of the column in feet by .434 Steam rising from water at ita boiling point (212 degrees) nas a pressure equal to the atmosphere (11.7 lbs. to the square incn). LIST OF COMMON ELEMENTS WITH SYMBOLS AND ATOMIC WEIGHTS Aluminum Ai 86.97 Magnesium Mg C4.S2 Antimony Sb 141.78 Mercury HgSOO.M Argon A S9.944 Melybdenium Mo M.N Arsenic As 74.91 Neon Ne 20.188 Barium Ba 137.86 Nickel Ni 68.W Beryllium Be 9.02 Nitrogen N 14.W8 Bismuth Bi 809.00 Oxygen O IC.OOOO Boren B 10.82 Phosphorus P S«.98 Bromine Br 79.916 Platinum Pt 19f.*8 Cadmium Cd 112.41 Potassium K S9.M6 Calcium Ca 40.08 Radium Ra 296.05 Carbon C 13.010 Silicon Si 38.06 Chlorine CI SBM7 Silver Ag 107.88 Chromium Cr Bt.01 Sodium Na 22.997 Cobalt Co BSM Strontium Sr 87.68 Copper Cu e3Ji7 Sulphur S 32.06 FluorLoe F 19.00 Tantalum Ta 180.88 Gold Au 197.2 Tellurium Te 127.61 Helium He 4.008 Tin Sn 118.76 Hydrogen H 1.0080 Titanium Ti 47.06 Iodine I 126.92 Tungsten W 18I.9C Iron Fe 55.85 Uranium U 288.0T Krypton Kr 83.7 Vanadium V 50.05 Lead Pb 207.21 Zinc Zn 6«.n TJthiiim Li 6.94 ^r**^**'M*" Zr B1.M Surveyors' Measure 7.92 inches = 1 link 4 roda= 1 chain 25 links = 1 rod 10 square chains or 160 square rod3= 1 acre 640 acres = 1 square mile 36 sq. miles (6 miles sq.) = 1 township Cubic Measure 1,728 cu. in. = leu. ft. 128 eft. = Icord (wood) 27 cu. ft.= 1 cu. yd. 40 c.ft.= 1 ton (shpg.) 2,150.42 cubic inche3= 1 standard bushel 231 cubic inches = 1 standard gallon 1 cubic foot = about four-fifths of a bushel Metric Equivalents. (Linear Measure) 1 cm. = 0.3937 in. 1 in. = 2.54 cm. 1 dm. = 3.937 in. = 0.338 feet 1 meter =39.37 in.= 1.0936 yards ldkm= 1.9884 rods lkm= 0.62137 m. Square Measure 1ft. = 3.048 dm. 1 yard = 0.9144 meter 1 rod = 0.5029 dkm lmile= 1.6093 km 1 sq. centimeter = 0.1550 sq. in. ) 1 sq. decimeter = ) 0.1076 square foot ) 1 sq. m. = 1.196 sq. yd. 1 are =3.954 sq. rd. 1 hectare = 2.47 acres 1 sq. kilom'r= 0.386 ) sq. m. ) Weights 1 gram = 0.03527 ounce 1 ounce =28.35 grama 1 kilogram = 2.2046 lbs. 1 lb. = 0.4536 kilogram 1 metric ton= 0.98421) 1 English ton= 1.016 English ton ) metric ton Approximate Metric Equivalents 1 decimeter =4 inches ( 1.06 qt. liquid 1 meter = 1.1 yard 1 liter ( 0.9 qt. dry 1 sq. inch = 6.452 sq. centimeter 1 sq. foot =9.2903 square decimeters lsq.yd. = 0.8361sq.m. 1 sq. rd.= 0/2529 are 1 acre = 0.4047 hectare 1sq.m. = 2.59 sq. kilo- meters 1 kilometer = % of mile 1 hectare = 2 J^ acres 1 stere or cu. meter = ) V4 of a cord ) 1 hektoliter= 28/8 bush. 1 kilogram = 2 1-5 lbs. 1 met. ton= 2,204 lbs. Source: Knots and Miles United States Coast and Geodetic Survey The U. S. Statute Mile is 5,280 feet in length. On the Continent most of the old miles, which varied in length from about 3.300 feet to over 36,000 feet, have been replaced, officially at least, by the kilometer, which equals 0.6214 statute mile or 3,280.8 feet. The Nautical, Geographic, or Sea Mile at any place is considered, for purposes of navi- gation, to be equal to the length of one minute of latitude at that place. The U. S. Nautical Mile is 6,080.20 feet in length and equal to one-sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of a sphere whose surface is equal in area to the area of the surface of the earth (Clarke's spheroid of 1866). The Knot is a measure of speed ; a speed of one knot being a speed of one nautical mile an hour. A Nautical Mile — 1.1516 statute miles; a Fathom — feet; a Cable — 100 fathoms or 600 feet or approximately 0.1 nautical mile. To convert statute miles into nautical miles, multiply statute miles by 0.8684; to convert nautical miles into statute miles, multiply nautical miles by 1.1516, or roughly 11/7. United States Air Forces and the Navy use the knot as the standard aeronautical unit of speed and the nautical mile as the correspond- ing unit of distance. 863 States: Capitals, Settled, Entry into Union PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES State Capital Set- tled Entered Union Ala Ariz Ark Cal Colo Conn. . Del. . . . Montgomery. . . Phoenix Little Rock Sacramento. . . . Denver Hartford 1702 1848 1785 1769 ISoS 1635 1638 1565 1733 1842 1720 1733 1788 1727 1774 1099 1624 1634 1620 1668 1805 1699 1764 1809 1819, Dec. 14 1912. Feb. 14 1836, June 15 1850. Sept. 9 lS76,Aug. 1 1788, Jan. 9 1787, Dec. 7 Fla Ga. . . . Tallahassee. . . . Atlanta 1845, Mar. 3 1788, Jan. 2 1890, July 3 Ill Ind Iowa .... Kan Ky La Me. . . . Springfield Indianapolis. . . Des Moines Topeka Frankfort Baton Rouge. . . .'Augusta Annapolis Boston Lansing St. Paul Jackson Jefferson City. Helena 1818. Dec. 3 1816, Dec. 11 1846, Dec. 28 1861, Jan. 29 1792, June 1 1812, Apr. 30 1820, Mar. 15 Md 1788. .A.pr. 28 Mass Mich.... Minn.. . . Miss. . . . Mo Mont. . . 1788, Feb. 6 1837. Jan. 26 1858, May 11 1817, Dec. 10 1821, Aug. 10 1889, Nov. 8 NAME Bora naog. Died Nalrre Paitr George Washington 1732 1789 1799 Va. Fd. John Adams 1735 1797 1826 Mass. Kd. Thomas Jefferson . . 1743 1801 1826 Va. D-R James Madison . . 1751 1809 1836 Va. D-R James Monroe 1758 1817 1831 Va. U-K John Quincy Adams 1767 1825 1848 Mass. CI. Andrew Jackson . . . 1767 1829 1845 S.C. D. Martin Van Bnren . 1782 1837 1862 N.Y. D. WilliamH. Harrison. 1773 1841 1841 Va. W. John Tyler 1790 1841 1862 Va. W. James K. Polk 1795 1845 1849 N.C. D. Zachary Taylor. . . . 17S4 1849 1850 Va. W. Millard Fillmore. . . 1800 1850 1874 N.Y. W. Franklin Pierce. . . . 1804 1853 1869 N.H. D. James Buchanan. . . 1791 1857 1868 Pa. D. .\braham Lincoln . . 1809 1861 1865 Kv. R. Andrew Johnson. . . 1808 1865 1875 N.C. R. Ulysses S. Grant . . . 1822 1869 1885 Ohio R. RutherfordB. Hayes 1822 1877 1893 Ohio R. James A. Garfield . . 1831 1881 1881 Ohio R. Chester A. Arthur . . 1830 1881 1886 Vt. R. Grover Cleveland . . 1837 1885 1908 N.J. D. Benjamin Harrison. 1833 1889 1901 Ohio R. Grover Cleveland . . 1837 1893 1908 N.I. D. William McKinley. 1843 1S97 1901 Ohio R. Theodore Roosevelt 1858 1901 1919 N.V. R. William H. Taft.. . 1857 1909 1930 Ohio R. Woodrow T. Wilson 1856 1913 1924 Va. D. Warren G. Harding. 18G5 1921 1923 Ohio R. Calvin Coolidge 1872 1923 1933 Vt. R. Herbert C. Hoover. 1874 1929 Iowa R. Franklin Roosevelt. 1882 1933 1945 N.Y. D. Harry S. Truman. . 1884 1945 Mo. D. Dwight Eisenhower 1890 1953 Texas R. States: Capitals, Settled, Entry into Union (Cont.) State Nebr. . . Nev. . N. H.. N.J.... N.M.. . N. Y... N. C. . . N.D... Ohio.. . Okla. . . Ore Pa R. I.... S.C... S.D... Tenn. . , Texas . Utah.. Vt.... Va. .. Wash.. W.Va. Wise. Wyo. . Capital Lincoln Carson City . . . Concord Trenton Santa Fe Albany Raleigh Bismarck Columbus. ... Oklahoma City Salem Harrisburg . . . Providence. . . Columbia Pierre Nashville Austin Salt Lake City. Montpelier. . . Richmond. . . . Olympia Charleston . . . . Madison Cheyenne Set- tled 1847 1850 1623 161H 1605 1614 1650 1766 1788 1889 1811 1682 1636 1670 1856 1757 1691 1847 1724 1607 1811 1727 1766 1834 Entered Union 1867, Mar. 1 1864. Oct. 31 1788, June 21 1787, Dec. 18 1912. Jan. 6 1788, July 26 1789, Nov. 21 1889, Nov. 2 1803. Mar. 1 1907, Nov. 16 1859, Feb. 14 1787, Dec. 12 1790, May 29 1788, May 23 1889, Nov. 2 1796, June 1 1845, Dec. 29 1896, Jan. 4 1791, Mar. 4 1788, June 26 1889, Nov. 11 1863, June 20 1848, May 29 1890, July 10 Points of Constitutional Law. Congress must meet at least once a year. Congress may admit as many new states as desired. One State cannot undo the act of another. By the Constitution every citizen is guaranteed a speedy trial by jury. Congress cannot pass a law to pcnish for a crime already committed. A person who commits a felony in one State cannot find refuge in another. Treaties with foreign powers are made by the President and ratified by the Senate. The territories each have a delecrate to Congress who is allowed the privilege of debate, but not the right to vote. The Vice-President, who e3-officio presides over the Senate has no vote in that body except in case a tie ballot. If the President holds a bill longer than ten days while Congress is in session it becomes a law without his signature. An act of Congress cannot become a law over the President's veto except on a two-thirds vote of both houses. The House of Representatives may imi)each the President for any cnme, but the Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. Amendments to the Constitution of the United States require a two-third vote of each House of Congress, and must be ratified by at least three- fourths of the States. The President of the United States must be at least 35 years cf age; a Senator, 30; a Congress- man, 25; The President must have been a resident of the United States fourteen years. A naturalized citizen is not eligible to the office of President of the United States. A male child bom in a foreign land to American parents has an equal chance to become the IPresident with one bom on American soil. The United States shall guarantee to every State a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on ap- plication of the Legislature or of the Executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic trouble. 364 PLACES IN U. S. A. OF 25,000 AND OVER 1950 Census ALABAMA Anniston 31,066 Bessemer 28,445 Birmingham.. .326,037 Gadsden 55,725 MobUe 129,009 Montgomery . . 106,525 Ttiscaloosa .... 46,396 ARIZONA Phoenix 106,818 Tucson 45,454 ARKANSAS Fort Smith 47,942 Hot Springs. . . 29,30"^ Little Rock. . .102,213 North Little Rock 44,097 Pine Bluff. . . . 37,162 CALIFORNIA Alameda 64,430 Alhambra 51,359 Arcadia 28,733 Bakersfield 34,784 Berkeley 113.805 Beverly Hills . . 29,032 Burbank 78,577 Compton 55,645 E. Bakersfield. 38,177 Fresno 91,669 Glendale 95,702 Huntington Pk. 29,450 Inglewood .... 46,185 Long Beach. . .250,767 Los Angeles . 1,970,358 Lynwood 25,823 Oakland 384,575 Ontario 26,279 Palo Alto 25,475 Pasadena 104,577 Pomona 35,405 Redondo Beach 25,226 Redwood City. 25,544 Richmond .... 99,545 Riverside 46,764 Sacramento . . . 137,572 San Bernardino 63,058 San Diego 334,387 San Francisco . 775,357 San Jose 95,280 San Leandro . . 27,542 San Mateo. . . . 41,782 Santa Ana .... 45,533 Santa Barbara 44,913 Santa Monica. 71,595 South Gate.... 51,116 Stockton 70,853 Torrance 31,834 Vallejo 26,038 Whittier 29,265 COLORADO Colorado Springs 45,472 Denver 415,786 Pueblo 63,685 CONNECTICUT Bridgeport. . . .158,709 Bristol 35,961 East Hartford . 29,933 Fairfield 30,489 Greenwich 40,835 Hamden 29,715 Hartford 177,397 Manchester... 34,116 Meriden 44,088 Middletown. . . 29,711 MiKord 26,870 New Britain. . . 73,726 New Haven . . . 164,443 New London . . 30,551 Norwalk 49.460 19S0 Censua Muncie 58,479 New Albany . . 29,346 Richmond .... 39,539 South Bend . . . 115,911 Terre Haute... 64,214 IOWA Burlington 30,613 Cedar Rapids. 72,296 Clinton 30,379 Council Bluffs . 45.429 Davenport. . . . 74,549 Des Moines. . .177,965 Dubuque 49,671 Fort Dodge. . . 25,115 Iowa City f 27,212 Mason City . . . 27,980 Ottumwa 33,631 Sioux City .... 83,991 Waterloo 65,198 KANSAS Hutchinson . . . 33,575 Kansas City . . . 129,553 Salina 26,176 Topeka 78,791 Wichita 168,279 KENTUCKY Ashland 31,131 Covington .... 64,452 Lexington 55,534 Louisville 369,129 Newport 31,044 Owensboro. . 33,651 Paducah 32,828 LOUISIANA Alexandria. . . . 34,913 Baton Rouge. . 125,629 Lafavette 33,541 Lake" Charles. . 41,272 Monroe 38,572 New 0»^ leans. .570,445 Shreve -rt. .. .127,206 —continued MAINE Bangor 31,558 Lewiston 40,974 Portland 77,634 MARYLAND Baltimore 949,708 Cumberland. . . 37,679 Hagerstown. . . 36,260 MASSACHUSETTS Arlington 44,353 Belmont 27,381 Beverly 28,884 Boston 301,444 Brockton . ... 62,860 Brookline 57,589 Cambridge 120,740 Chelsea 38,912 Chicopee 49,211 Everett 45,982 Fall River 111,963 Fitchburg 42,691 Framingham . . 28,086 Gloucester .... 25,167 HaverhiU 47,280 Holyoke 54,661 Lawrence 80,536 Lowell 97,249 Lyim 99,738 Mai 'an • 59,804 Msoford 66,113 Mebrose 26,988 New Bedford. 109,189 Newton 81,994 Northampton.. 29,063 Pittsfield 53,348 Quincy 83,835 Revere 36,763 Salem 41,880 SomerviUe 102,351 Springfield 162,399 Taunton 40,109 1950 Census Stamford 74,293 Stratford 33,428 Torrington. . . . 27,820 Waterbury .... 104,477 West Hartford. 44.402 West Haven... 32,010 DELAWARE Wilmington . . . 110,356 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington. . .802,178 FLORIDA Daytona Beach 30,187 Ft. Lauderdale. 36,328 Gainesville.. . 26,861 Jacksonville. . 204,517 Key West 26,433 Lakeland 30,851 Miami 249,276 Miami Beach. . 46,282 Orlando .52.367 Panama City. . 25,814 Pensacola 43,479 St. Petersburg. 96,738 Tallahassee . . . 27,237 Tampa 124,681 W. Palm Beach 43,162 GEORGIA Albany 31,155 Athens 28,180 Atlanta 331,314 Augusta 71,508 Columbus 79,611 La Grange 25,025 Macon 70,252 Rome 29,615 Savannah 119,638 IDAHO Boise City 34,393 PocateUo 26,131 — continued ILLINOIS Alton 32,550 .■\urora 50,576 Belle\dlle 32,721 Berwyn 51,280 Bloomington . . 34,163 Champaign . . . 39,563 Chicago 3,620,962 Cicero 67,544 Danville 37,864 Decatur. . . 66,269 East St. Louis . 82,295 Elgin 44,223 Evanston 73,641 Galesburg 31,425 Granite City . . 29,465 JoUet 51,601 Kankakee... . 25,856 Ma-VTvood 27,473 Moiine 37,397 Oak Park 63,529 Peoria 111,856 Quincy 41,450 Rockford 92,927 Rock Island.. . 48,710 Springfield 81,628 Waukegan 38,946 INDIANA Anderson 46,820 Bloomington.. 28,163 East Chicago. . 54,263 Elkhart 35,646 Evansville . . 128,636 Fort Wayne. . .133,607 Gary 133,911 Hammond .... 87,594 Indianapolis.. .427,173 Kokomo 38,672 Lafayette 35,568 Marion 30,081 Michigan City 28,395 Mishawaka. . . 32.913 1950 Census Waltham 47,187 Watertown.... 37,329 Weymouth... . 32,690 Worcester 203,486 MICHIGAN Ann Arbor .... 48,251 Battle Creek . . 48,666 Bay City 52,523 Dearborn 94,994 Detroit 1,849,568 Femdale 29,675 Fhnt 163,143 Grand Rapids. 176,515 Hamtramck. . . 43,355 Highland Park. 46,393 Jackson 51,088 Kalamazoo. . . . 57,704 Lansing 92,129 Lincoki Park . . 29,310 Muskegon .... 48,429 Pontiac 73,681 Port Huron. . . 35,725 Royal Oak 46,898 Saginaw 92,918 Wyandotte 36,846 MINNESOTA Duluth. . . 104,511 Minneapolis. . .521,718 Rochester 29,885 St. Cloud 28,410 St. Paul 311,349 Winona 25,031 MISSISSIPPI BUoxi 37,425 GreenviUe 29,936 Hattiesburg . . . 29,474 Jackson 98,271 Laurel 25,038 Meridian 41,893 Vicksburg 27,948 — continued MISSOURI Columbia 31,994 Independence.. 39,963 Jefferson City.. 25,099 Jophn 38,711 Kansas City. . .456,622 St. Joseph 78,588 St. Louis 856,796 Springfield 66,731 University City 39,892 MONTANA BiUings 31,834 Butte 33,251 Great Falls 39,214 NEBRASKA Lincoln 98,884 Omaha 251,117 NEVADA Reno 32,497 NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord 27,988 Manchester. . . 82,732 Nashua 34,669 NEW JERSEY Atlantic City . . 61,657 Bayonne 77,203 Belleville 32,019 Bloomfield 49,307 Camden 124,555 Chfton 64,511 East Orange... 79,340 EUzabeth 112,817 Garfield 27,550 Hackensack. . . 29,219 Hamilton 41,156 Hoboken 50,676 Irvington 59,201 Jersey City.. . .299,017 Kearny 39,952 Linden 30,644 Maplewood . . . 25,201 Montclair 43,927 365 1950 Census Newark 438,776 New Brunswick 38,811 North Bergen. . 41,560 Nutley 26,992 Orange 38,037 Passaic 57,702 Paterson 139,336 Perth Amboy.. 41,330 Plainfield 42,366 Teaneck 33,772 Trenton 128,009 Union 38,004 Union City 55,537 W. New York.. 37,683 West Orange. 28,605 Woodbridge. . . 35,758 NEW MEXICO Albuquerque . . 96,815 RosweU 25,738 Santa Fe 27,998 ' NEW YORK Albany 134,995 Amsterdam . . . 32,240 Auburn 36,722 Binghamton... 80,674 Buffalo 580,132 Elmira 49,716 Hempstead.... 29,135 Ithaca 29,257 Jamestown. . . . 43,354 Kingston 28,817 Lackawanna . . 27,658 Lockport 25,133 Mt. Vernon. . . 71,899 Newburgh 31,956 New Rochelle. . 59,725 N. Y. City . .7,891,957 Niagara Falls.. 90,872 Poughkeepsie. . 41,023 Rochester 332,488 Rome 41,682 —continued Schenectady. . . 91,785 Syracuse 220,583 Troy 72,311 Utica 101,531 Valley Stream . 26,854 Watertown 34,350 White Plains . . 43,466 Yonkers 152,798 NORTH CAROLINA Asheville 53,000 Charlotte 134,042 Durham 71,311 FayetteviUe. . . 34,715 Greensboro.... 74,389 High Point 39,973 Kannapolis . . . . 28,448 Raleigh 65,679 Rocky Mount. 27,697 Wilmington . . . 45,043 Winston-Salem 87,811 NORTH DAKOTA Fargo 38,256 Grand Forks. . 26,836 OHIO Akron 274,605 Alliance 26,161 Barberton 27,820 Canton 116,912 Cincinnati 503,998 Cleveland 914,808 Cleveland Heights 59,141 Columbus 375,901 Cuyahoga Falls 29,195 Dayton 243,872 East Cleveland 40,047 Elyria 30,307 Euclid 41,396 Hamilton 57,951 Lakewood 68,071 T ,itTia 50,246 1950 Census Austin 132,459 Beaumont 94,014 Brownsville . . . 36,066 Corpus Christi.108,287 Dallas 434,462 El Paso 130,485 Fort Worth.. ..278,778 Galveston 66,568 Houston 596,163 Laredo 51,910 Lubbock 71,747 Odessa 29,495 Port Arthur. . . 57,530 San Angelo 52,093 San Antonio . . . 408,442 Temple 25,467 Tyler 38,968 Waco 84,706 Wichita Falls. . 68,042 UTAH Ogden 57,112 Prove 28,937 Salt Lake City . 182.121 VERMONT Bxirlington .... 33,155 VIRGINIA Alexandria 61,738 Charlottesville. 25,969 Dan\-iUe 35,066 Lynchburg 47,727 Newport News. 42,358 Norfolk 213,513 Petersburg 35,054 Portsmouth . . . 80,039 Richmond 230,310 Roanoke 91,921 WASHINGTON Bellingham.... 34,112 Bremerton .... 27,678 Everett 33,849 Seattle 467,591 — continued Spokane 161,721 Tacoma 143,673 Vancouver. . . . 41,664 Yakima 38,486 WEST VIRGINIA Charleston 73,501 Clarksburg 32,014 Fairmont 29,346 Huntington . . . 86,353 Morgantown . . 25,525 Parkersburg.. . 29,684 Wheeling 58,891 WISCONSIN Appleton 34,010 Beloit 29,590 Eau Claire .... 36,058 Fond du Lac. . . 29,936 Green Bay 52,735 Kenosha 54,368 La Crosse 47,535 Madison 96,056 Manitowoc 27,598 Milwaukee 637,392 Oshkosh 41,084 Racine 71,193 Sheboygan 42,365 Superior (city) 35,325 Wausau 30,414 Wauwatosa. . . 33,324 WestAlhs 42,959 WYOMING Cheyenne. .... 31,935 V. S. TERRITORIES Alaska 128,643 American Samoa 18,937 Canal Zone 52,822 Guam 59,498 Hawaii 499,795 Puerto Rico. 2,210,703 Virgin Islands . 26,665 1950 Census - Lorain 51,202 Mansfield .... 43,564 Marion 33,817 Massillon 29,594 Middletown . . 33,695 Newark 34,275 Norwood 35,001 Parma 28,897 Portsmouth . . . 36,798 Sandusky 29,375 Shaker Heights 28,222 Springfield 78,508 Steubenville. . . 35,872 Toledo 303,616 Warren 49,856 Youngstown. . . 168,330 Zanesville 40,517 OKLAHOMA Enid 36,017 Lawton 34,757 Muskogee 37,289 Norman 27,006 Oklahoma City243,504 Tulsa 182,740 OREGON Eugene 35,879 Portland 373,628 Salem 43,140 PENNSYLVANIA Aliquippa 26,132 AUentown 106,756 Altoona 71,177 Bethlehem 66,340 Chester 66,039 Easton 35,632 Erie 130,803 Harrisburg 89,544 Hazleton 35,491 Johnstown .... 63,232 Lemcaster 63,774 Lebanon 28,156 -continued McKeesport. . . 51,502 Newcastle.... 48,834 New Kens' gton 25,146 Norristown 38,126 Philadelphia . 2,07 1 ,605 Pittsburgh 676,806 Reading 109,320 Scranton 125,536 Sharon 26,454 Washington... 26,280 Wilkes-Barre.. 76,826 Wilkinsburg.. . 31,418 WiUiamsport . . 45,047 York 59,953 RHODE ISLAND Cranston 55,060 East Providence35,871 Newport 37,564 Pawtucket 81,436 Providence 248,674 V/arwick 43,028 Woonsocket. . . 50,211 SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston 70,174 Columbia 86,914 Greenville..... 58,161 Spartanburg. . . 36,795 SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City.... 25,310 Sioux Falls 52,696 TENNESSEE Chattanooga. .131,041 Jackson 30,207 Johnson City.. 27,864 Knoxville 124,769 Memphis 396,000 Nashville 174,307 Oak Ridge . . . 30,229 TEXAS AbUene 45,570 AmariUo 74,246 Weather Bureau Explanation of Flag Signals. No. 1, alone, indicates fair P weather, stationary temper- ature. No. 2, alone, indicates rain or snow, stationary temper- ature. No. 3, alone, indicates local rain, stationary temperature. 1^ No. 1, with No. 4 above it, njIpM indicates fair weather, yMHa warmer. l^^H No. 1, with No. 4 below it. indicates fair weather, colder. No. 2, with No. 4 above it, indicates warmer weather, rain or snow. No. 2, with No. 4 below it, indicates colder weather, rain or snow. No. 3, with No. 4 above it, indicates warmer weather, with local rains. No. 3, with No. 4 below it, V indicates colder weather, 1^^^^ with local rains. \^^^ No. 1, with No. B above it, p indicates fair weather, cold wave. No. 2, with No. 5 above it, indicates wet weather, cold wave. rf^—-^ Forecasts made at 10 a.m.. and B I displayed between 12 and 1 [/_ I p.m., forecast the weather I for the following: day until 8 p.m. No. 1. White Flag. Clear or Fair No. 2. Blue Flag. Rain or Snow. No. 3. White and Blue Flag. Local Rains. No. 4. Black Trian- gular Flag. Temperature. No. 5. White Flag. Black Centre. Cold Wave. 366 i UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 917.73AM3I C001 V001 AMERICAN AERIAL COUNTY HISTORY SERIES C 30 2 025337137