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FOUNDER OF MOUNT PULASKI 
 
 JABEZ CAPPS 
 
 Born Sept. 9, 1796 
 Died April 1, 1896 
 
. FIRST GIRL BORN IN MOUNT PULASKI 
 
 MRS. PRUDENCE ANN CAPPS BEIDLER 
 
 Born Dec. 18, 1841 
 Died Dec. 7, 1926 
 
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 100 l]edrs of Tllourit Pulaski 
 
 By LAWRENCE B. STRINGER 
 
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 The hill upon which Mount Pulaski is situated was the product 
 \>f the glacial age. Eons ago, when crystalline fleets from the arctic 
 were carrying rich cargoes of soil to what is 
 now central Illinois, ice-formed crafts deposited 
 their loads of silt in isolated places. 
 
 One of these places, being on the fortieth 
 degree of latitude, north, and near the nintieth 
 degree of longitude, west, was the "mount" of 
 Mount Pulaski. 
 
 ..... LOCATION 
 
 The surface of the country around and about Mount Pulaski is 
 an undulating prairie. To the north, about two miles, it is the main 
 channel of Salt creek, a tributary of the Sangamon river. About 
 seven miles to the south is the Lake fork of Salt Creek. 
 
 In prehistoric days, Salt creek was a considerable stream. 
 Ferdinand Ernst, a Hanoverian traveler, who saw it in 1819 and 
 wrote about it, called it a "navigable stream." The Kickapoo Indi- 
 ans called it the "Onaquispasippi" or "the river of the shell-bark 
 hickories." 
 
 In the same days, the Lake fork of Salt creek was a veritable 
 lake, covering thousands of acres at high water. At low tide, its 
 bordering lands were marshy moors, where dee r and wild fowl held 
 high carnival. 
 
 The earliest settlers were wont to hug to the timbered banks 
 of streams, where water and wood were handily accessible. They 
 considered the prairies, by reason of wild-grass and wind-swept 
 fires, together with lack of shade and shelter, as negligibly habit- 
 able. 
 
 THE ABORIGINES 
 
 When Illinois was admitted into the Union as a sovereign 
 state in 1818, there were no white settlements in what is now Logan 
 county. The lands in the Salt creek valley were, and for more than 
 \0 
 
a century had been, inhabited by roving bands of the Kickapoo 
 tribe, in whom possessory title was vested. 
 
 Civilization came into the Sangamon and Salt creek valley by 
 way of an old Indian trail which left the Mississippi near the present 
 site of Alton and wound out and into the heart of what is now Illi- 
 nois, past the present sites of Edwardsville, Carlinville, Springfield 
 and Lincoln and on to Lake Peoria. 
 
 During the war of 1812, Gov. Edwards, of the then territory 
 of Illinois, led a band of mounted rangers along this ancient trail, 
 from the Mississippi to the Illinois river, past Elkhart hill and across 
 Salt creek in what is now Logan county and the trail thereafter be- 
 came known as "the Edwards' trace." 
 
 On July 30, 1819, the Kickapoo chieftains, more or less under 
 duress, relinquished all their right and title to the lands in the 
 Sangamon and Salt creek valleys to the United States for a trifling 
 consideration which was never met in whole. 
 
 FIRST COUNTY SETTLEMENTS 
 
 Anticipating the Kickapoo treaty and the opening to settlers 
 of the Kickapoo land, James Latham and family, coming from Ken- 
 tucky in part by way of the Edwards' trace, located at Elkhart hill 
 in the spring of 1819. 
 
 In the fall of the same year, Robert Musick and family located 
 on Sugar creek, northwest of the present side of Lincoln. The La- 
 tham and Musick settlements were the first white settlements in 
 what is now Logan county. 
 
 Events followed. Official proclamation of the Kickapoo treaty 
 was made in 1821. In the same year, Sangamon county was created, 
 including therein all of what is now Logan county. The then new 
 settlement of Springfield became the county seat. 
 
 The government land office was opened for formal entries of 
 land in a double log cabin in Springfield, November third, 1823. 
 First entry of present Logan county lands was made by James La- 
 tham, November nineteenth, 1824. Robert Musick entered the next 
 day. Nine days later, James Turley entered. 
 
 Official dates of entries in land office records, however, are 
 only approximately indicative of dates of actual settlement. Formal 
 entries required cash in hand. Settlers did not always have it. 
 First locating, they then held by occupation until able to meet re- 
 quirements. Possessory claims were often sold but never "jumped." 
 
 EARLY TRAILS 
 
 An early pioneer trail left the old Edwards' trace at Spring- 
 field in a northeasterly direction. It entered present Logan county 
 
near present Cornland thence to the hill where Mount Pulaski now 
 stands, thence to Salt Creek following that stream to the present 
 Logan-Dewitt county line. 
 
 Another trail also left the trace at Springfield, ran near present 
 llliopolis and wandered across the Lake fork proper, meeting the 
 former trail at the hill of present Mount Pulaski. Later, both trails 
 became established roads. 
 
 Early settlers, following these trails, established two general 
 groups of settlements in the vicinity of present Mount Pulaski, one 
 to the north, known as the "Salt creek country", the other on lands 
 adjacent to the Lake fork, known as the "Lake fork country." Later, 
 they became political precincts. 
 
 THE LAKE FORK COUNTRY 
 
 The first settlements in the vicinity of present Mount Pulaski 
 were in the Lake fork country. To this locality, soon after the La- 
 tham settlement at Elkhart hill, came three adventurous spirits, 
 Jeremiah Birks, Robert Buckles and James Turley, and their respec- 
 tive families. 
 
 The Birks and Buckles came together, Mary, the daughter of 
 Jeremiah Birks, being the wife of Robert Buckles. With Robert 
 Buckles, came his three sons, Jeremiah, William R., and John. Later 
 his parents, John, and Anna Buckles, joined the settlement. 
 
 With Jeremiah Birks and wife, Elizabeth, came eight children. 
 In all, he was the father of fourteen children, five of whom, Roland, 
 Rial, Isom, David and Richard, later entered lands for themselves. 
 The Steenbergen cemetery, in which Jeremiah Birks is buried, was 
 laid out on his farm. 
 
 James Turley and wife, Agnes, located near present Lake Fork 
 station. He was the father of fourteen children, among them Char- 
 les and George W., who, with their respective families, located near 
 their father's location. James Turley was an arbitrator for the re- 
 maining Indians, who called him "Big Chief." 
 
 George W. Turley, son of James, was one of the founders of 
 Mount Pulaski and, as a justice of the peace, presided at law suits 
 in which Abraham Lincoln participated. He laid out the embryo 
 town of "Georgetown", which appears on many early maps of the 
 state, but which was superseded by Mount Pulaski. 
 
 Robert Buckles was an early commissioner of Logan county. 
 He died in 1866. His wife, Mary, otherwise known as "Polly", at 
 her death in 1888, was the ancestor of 287 descendants, mostly 
 living. 
 
 . . . . THE SALT CREEK COMPANY 
 
 The first permanent settlement in the Salt creek country, in 
 
the vicinity of present Mount Pulaski, was made by Robert Down- 
 ing. With him, came his wife, Jane Morrow Downing, and his par- 
 ents, John and Hannah Downing. Also about the same time, came 
 his brother and wife, James and Ruth Downing. 
 
 Robert Downing was the father of nine children, his sons being 
 John, Lorenzo, Alexander, Henry and Robert. John Downing enter- 
 ed land near his father's location. Robert Downing was a Black 
 Hawk war veteran and member of the first board of commissioners 
 of Logan county. He died in 1887, aged ninety-three years. 
 
 Shortly following the Downing settlement, the Vandeventers, 
 John, William, Abraham and James, among others, came to the 
 Salt creek bottoms. John Vandeventer's mill was well known to the 
 pioneers. Other early land entrants of this period were Charles 
 Brady, Andrew Lee, Samuel Evans and Preston and Champion Pend- 
 leton. 
 
 Closely following the Vandeventer settlements and of an equal 
 permanent character were those made by Eli Fletcher, Nicholas 
 Moore, the Shoups, John, Thomas, Jacob and James, the Laugherys, 
 David and Nathan, James Morrow and Samuel Martin. 
 
 Eli Fletcher and wife, Marion, were the parents of five children, 
 Moses, Martin, Ann, Mary and Sarah. Zachariah Fletcher was also 
 an early land entrant. The Laugherys were a well known pioneer 
 family. James Morrow and wife, Jane, were the parents of six child- 
 ren, and Samuel Martin and wife, Nancy, were the parents of one 
 son, John D. 
 
 John Shoup, above named, was an early captain of militia, 
 was one of the first board of commissioners of the county and lat- 
 er an assistant associate justice of the county court. The original 
 organization meeting of Logan county was held at his house on the 
 north side of Salt creek. 
 
 THE FIRST DECADE 
 
 Following the early settlements already noted, and within the 
 period of the first decade of county history, I 820 to I 830, inclu- 
 sive, permanent locations in the Lake fork country were made by 
 John Turner, Abraham LuGas, Michael Mann, Thomas R. Skinner, 
 George Girtman, Carter Scroggin, William Everly, John and Wil- 
 liam Copeland, Anthony Ridgeway, John Voshall and James Wade. 
 
 Other land entries, as shown by the government records, dur- 
 ing the decade or there-abouts, included Lewis, Lucien and Char- 
 les Barney, Larkin and John Johnson, Solomon and Barnabas Blue, 
 Thomas Suddeth, Landon Key, John McGee, Robert Cass, Cornelius 
 Dunham and Benjamin and Isaac Constant. 
 
 During the decade, many of the old trails were re-marked as 
 Sangamon county roads by the county commissioners. James Tur- 
 
ley was frequently appointed "road viewer" and road district 
 superintendents included George W. Turley, Oraneal Clark and 
 John Lucas. A precinct election was held at the house of John 
 Buckles in 1827. 
 
 PIONEER FAMILIES 
 
 Carter Scroggin came to the Lake fork country with his wife, 
 Phoebe, and his sons, Leonard K., Thomas J., Russell and Humphrey. 
 About the same time came John Scroggin, who was a Black Hawk 
 war veteran. Carter Scroggin was the father of ten children. He 
 died in 1859 and his wife in 1876. 
 
 Leonard K., son of Carter Scroggin, married Levina Buckles and, 
 after her death, Rhoda, daughter of George Girtman. He was the 
 parent! of thirteen children. He was closely identified with the com- 
 munity life of Mount Pulaski, built substantial brick structures in the 
 town and, at his death, was one of the most extensive landowners in 
 the state. 
 
 Thomas J., also son of Carter Scroggin, entered land in pre- 
 sent Elkhart township, near the Mount Pulaski township line, in which 
 according to the government report, a postoffice was established 
 at an early date, named "Scroggin", with Thomas J. as postmaster. 
 
 Abraham Lucas came to the Lake fork country in the later 
 twenties, with his wife, Marcy, and several children. Among his 
 children were John, Joseph, Thomas, Jesse K., James and Jabez. 
 Several of these entered lands for themselves in the Lake fork sec- 
 tion. 
 
 John Lucas, son of Abraham, was one of the most prominent 
 men in public service. Elected Justice of the Peace when just of age, 
 he was later chosen Sheriff of the county and, still later, a member 
 of the State Legislature. 
 
 Joseph Lucas assisted in the building of the first state house 
 in Springfield, now the county court house. A further Lake fork 
 settlement was made by George B. Lucas, who was the first Coroner 
 of Logan county. 
 
 Michael Mann, a Baptist minister, aTso the first Probate Justice 
 of Logan county, came to the Lake fork in 1828, with his wife, Eliza- 
 beth, his sons, Abraham, John L., Jacob, Henry and Philip and sev- 
 en daughters. He founded at Big Grove, near present Atlanta, one 
 of the first churches in the county. 
 
 The Copeland family, represented by John D. William, Isaac 
 and Abraham, made settlement in the southernmost portion of pre 
 sent Mount Pulaski township, south of Lake fork, in the section now 
 marked by the church and school which bears the family name. 
 
 Thomas R. Skinner, named above, was the first Surveyor of Lo- 
 
gan county and surveyed Mount Pulaski. He was elected County 
 Judge in 1849, when that office was first created, and continued as 
 such until his death in 1857. He was the son of Washington Skinner. 
 
 . THE DEEP SNOW 
 
 One of the most outstanding events in the early history of the 
 Sangamon and Salt creek valleys occurred in the winter of 1830-31- 
 It was known as "the deep snow." So pronounced was the event 
 that occurrences were afterwards dated as being either before or 
 after the deep snow* 
 
 Snow began to fall in the latter part of November and contin- 
 ued, with brief intervals, until it reached a level of four feet by Feb- 
 ruary following. Winds formed mountain drifts, obliterating trails 
 and covering cabins. Occasional rains made a crust of ice over 
 the snow. 
 
 Corn, ungathered, was inaccessible. Wood supplies were bur- 
 ied. Stock froze or starved. Settlers, penned in their rude cabins, 
 had short rations; in instances, none. Mills could not operate. Suf- 
 fering from cold and hunger was prevalent. 
 
 Prior to the "deep snow", cotton had been a staple crop. There 
 were numerous cotton mills along the Sangamon. The "deep snow" 
 changed the climate and thereafter cotton raising was abandoned. 
 
 In, all the years following the "deep snow", the pioneers, who 
 had survived the same were known ; as "snow birds" and were given 
 posts of honor at all pioneer gatherings and reunions. 
 
 THE SUDDEN FREEZE 
 
 Another remarkable climatic event, known as the "sudden 
 
 freeze", followed the "deep snow" six years later- Like the "deep 
 
 snow," it has not been paralleled since. It occurred December 
 twentieth, 1836. 
 
 A warm rain had been falling, when suddenly a cyclonic gale 
 swept from the north at a rate of seventy miles an hour. The ther- 
 mometer marking is said to have dropped forty degrees in a few 
 seconds and continued to drop until it reached forty degrees be- 
 low zero. 
 
 Cattle, hogs and chickens froze in their tracks. Stock perished. 
 Men on horseback on the prairies barely escaped with rheir lives. 
 A local illustration was the case of James Harvey Hildreth of the 
 Salt creek country. 
 
 Hildreth and a companion were on their way to Chicago when 
 the change came. They saved their lives by killing one of the horses, 
 disembowelling it and then crawling into the inviscerated carcass 
 of the animal. 
 
Even then, Hildreth's toes and fingers were so frozen as to 
 necessitate amputation of all, and, still later, his left leg. He con- 
 tinued a cripple to his death, which occurred in Mount Pulaski in 
 1858. 
 
 PIONEER LIFE 
 
 At the time of the "deep snow" and for many years thereafter, 
 the only habitations of the pioneers were log cabins, some single, 
 others double. The latter were marks of distinction. Cabin roofs 
 were of "shakes," often held down by weighted poles. The interstic- 
 es between the logs were clay-mortared. 
 
 Cabin floors, when not of split logs, called "puncheons", were 
 of bare earth. Single split-stick chimneys were held together with 
 mud. Doors were clapboards, secured to wooden hinges by wooden 
 pins. Wooden latches were operated by strips of buckskin. 
 
 First cabins knew neither nails nor glass. Windows were aper- 
 tures cut in the logs and covered with oil papper. Tallow dips furn- 
 ished light at night. Cooking was done in open fire-places and corn 
 meal, dried pumpkins and "hog-meat" constituted the bill of fare. 
 
 Furniture was home-made and crude. Bedsteads were located 
 in corners with single posts and side poles therefrom inserted be- 
 tween the outside logs- Ropes, woven back and forth, supported 
 mattresses of straw or corn-husks. Tables and chairs were of split 
 slabs. 
 
 Clothing was homespun and woven. Spindle and loom were 
 the factories- Wool was carded by hand. Jeans and 'lindseys', made 
 from flax, were colored by the walnut bark. Going barefoot was 
 varied in winter by the use of buckskin moccasins. 
 
 Quiltings, husking "bees" and barn dances constituted the so- 
 cialities- Wells,, where dug, were operated by pivoted sweeps. Cav- 
 es were refrigerators. Fire came from steel and flint. Coffee was 
 charred corn and sugar came from maple sap or wild honey. 
 
 PIONEER FARMING 
 
 Pioneer agriculture was necessarily crude. Plows were of wood, 
 rendered soil-penetrable to a short depth by bar-shares of iron 
 attached- They were more back-breaking than soil-breaking! Scour- 
 ing was done by wooden paddles. Seed was hand-dropped; wheat 
 cut by sickle and cradle and threshed by alternate flails. 
 
 Corn was shelled by hand. Wagons were home made, the 
 wheels being sliced from the ends of rounding logs. Their irregular 
 rotations emitted squeaks that could be heard great distances. 
 Tops of trees were used for harrows. 
 
 The first pioneers made corn-meal by grating the corn on tin 
 
perforated graters. Grain was also cracked and pounded in crude 
 wooden pestles and mortars. Handmills, with two discs of stone im- 
 pinged upon each other, came a little later- 
 Grists or band mills were an improvement. They had wheels at- 
 tached to crude grinders, operated by horses or oxen pawing 
 treads or walking around in a circle. Water mills at eligible points 
 finally took their places and farmers with grain waited their turns 
 for grinding, often for days at a time, camping out the meanwhile. 
 
 IN THE THIRTIES 
 
 The incident of the "deep snow" rather retarded settlement 
 
 for about a year, but settlement and entries of land began anew 
 
 in 1833- Many entries were made by land speculators from other 
 points with a view to future profits. 
 
 Among those who made permanent locations in the Lake fork 
 section, following the "deep snow" and prior to the founding of 
 Mount Pulaski were: 
 
 Baldwin and Samuel Harper, David Sims, John and Andrew 
 Huston, Drury Martin, Squire Foster, Hugh Collins, Elijah Friend, 
 John England, James Powers, Stephen Lloyd, Benjamin Davis, James 
 and Thomas Gardner, Ninian Cass, Samuel Fleming, John Gillett, 
 John C. Laughlin, Elisha Parks, Joshua Day, Riley Barber and Alex- 
 ander Rigdon. 
 
 Surnames of other Lake fork entrants during this period also in- 
 clude Hedrick, Myers, Starr, Price, Brown, Lynn, St. Clair, Hitchkiss, 
 Trent, Mitchell, White, Steele, Armstrong, Gillis, Stillman, Fenner, 
 Reynolds, Adams, Galoway and others. 
 
 Among those making settlements in the Salt creek section in 
 the above mentioned period were: 
 
 Alfred, John and Sampson Sams, William Hackney, James, 
 Brooks and Willoughby Randolph, Henry Dement, John P. Wiley, 
 William Mason, David Witter, Asa French, John Klein, Moses, 
 Washington and Granville Patterson, James and Joshua Bell, Wil- 
 liam Frakes and Theodore and John Lawrence. 
 
 In 1835, the Lake Fork and Salt creek sections became definite 
 election precincts of Sangamon county. The first election that year 
 in Lake fork precinct was held at the house of Jeremiah Buckles, 
 with Jeremiah Birks, William Copeland and Robert Buckles as elec- 
 tion judges- 
 
 In the same year, George Girtman, John Lucas and Thomas L. 
 Scroggin were appointed road viewers and John Vandeventer was 
 qranted a license to erect a mill dam on Salt creek in present Ches- 
 ter township. 
 
THE TOWNSITE CRAZE 
 
 The year 1836 was noted in early central Illinois history as the 
 year of the "townsite craze." The rapid rise of Chicago and the re- 
 sulting profits in town lots precipitated the "craze." New townsites 
 were laid out in all directions, most of which were never more 
 than paper towns- 
 
 Among these embryo towns which did not survive was one 
 called "Madison," laid out in April of 1836 by one William Car- 
 penter in present Chester township, near present Pleasant Grove 
 school. Thomas Neale was the surveyor and the chain carriers were 
 Alexander Morrow and William Vandeventer. 
 
 James Randolph later laid out the unsurviving town of London 
 in present Aetna township, along Salt creek- The town of Postville, 
 westward on Salt creek, was also laid out in 1836. Likewise, in the 
 same year, came into existence the town of Mount Pulaski. 
 
 JABEZCAPPS 
 
 The story of the founding of Mount Pulaski begins with the 
 early history of Jabez Capps, who came to America from England 
 in 1817 and three years later located in Calhoun, the early Sanga- 
 mon county town which began and became part of Springfield. 
 
 He first followed the profession of school teaching, taught the 
 first school in Sangamon county on the south fork of the Sangamon 
 river and later taught the first school established in Springfield. 
 
 Still later, he opened one of the first general stores in Spring- 
 field in a log building which housed the first postoffice of Spring- 
 field. He also established a branch store at Vandalia, then the capi- 
 tal of Illinois. 
 
 His first contact with Abraham Lincoln, who was his lifetime 
 friend, was on the occasion of a dinner given in honor of the first 
 steamboat which tried to navigate the Sangamon. Mr. Lincoln had 
 navigated the boat and the dinner was held at Mr. Capps' place. 
 
 Mr. Capps was united in marriage in 1829 to Prudence Ann 
 Stafford. Four sons blessed the union, three of whom survived to 
 maturity, Charles S., Ebeneezer S., and Oliver T. After the death 
 of his first wife, he married Elizabeth Baker, to which union ten 
 other children were born. 
 
 THE BEGINNING 
 
 Residing at the home of Mr. Capps in Springfield, was one 
 Dr. Alexander Shields, who had located in 1835 for the practice of 
 his profession. In the spring of the next year, he married Ann, wi- 
 dow of William Salisch, a sister of Mr. Capps. 
 
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In the spring of l#36, Dr. Shields was called on a professional 
 visit to the home of Nicholas Moore at "Hurricane Point", in the 
 Salt creek settlement, northeast of present Mount Pulaski. Journey- 
 ing by horseback, he noted the hill upon which Mount Pulaski is 
 located as being an eligible site for a town. 
 
 On his return to Springfield, Dr. Shields communicated his 
 discovery to Mr. Capps. Dr. Barton Robinson, physician from Buffalo 
 Grove, heard the conversation and became interested. Soon after, 
 Capps and Robinson visited the site in company with George W. 
 Turley. 
 
 The visit resulted in the formation of a sort of townsite com- 
 pany, composed primarify of Jabez Capps, Barton Robinson, James 
 T. Robinson, George W. Turley, J. F« Davis, Alexander Lindsay, 
 James Scott, George McDaniels and George Rice, who were later 
 named as proprietors of the new iownsite. 
 
 DEDICATION 
 
 As agent for the above named persons, Barton Robinson, on 
 July fifth, 1836, entered four hundred acres of land in section four- 
 teen, township eighteen, range two west, one hundred and forty 
 acres of which was to constitute the new townsite. 
 
 On July twentieth following, Thomas R. Skinner, an assistant coun- 
 ty surveyor of Sangamon county, co-worker with Abraham Lincoln 
 and a settler in the Lake fork country, surveyed the proposed town- 
 site and certified to same- The chain carriers were Samuel Wade 
 
 COUNT PULASKI 
 
 Casimir Pulaski was born in Po- 
 land March 4, 1747. He was a 
 military genius who was com- 
 pelled to flee from his country 
 during a civil and religious war- 
 fare. He joined the staff of Gen- 
 eral George Washington in 1777. 
 His unselfish devotion to the Am- 
 erican cause of liberty will for- 
 ever enshrine him as one of the 
 most lovable and heroic figures 
 of the Revolutionary period. Gen- 
 eral Pulaski died October I I , 
 1779 from a mortal wound re- 
 ceived in the battle of Savannah. 
 
 Mount Pulaski residents 
 well be proud of this hero 
 point to his life 
 pride. 
 
 can 
 and 
 with justifiable 
 
and D. F. Kinney. The townsite included forty-five blocks, block twen- 
 ty-three of same being set apart as a "public square." 
 
 On the twenty-second of July, Barton Robinson, in his own 
 name and in the name of the aforesaid proprietors, made dedica- 
 tion of the townsite before Thomas Moffett, justice of the peace, 
 which was officially recorded August seventeenth, 1836. 
 
 In the dedication of July twenty-second, the new townsite was 
 given the name it has borne for a century and still bears, the name 
 of Mount Pulaski. It is said to have been named for Count Pulaski 
 of Revolutionary tame. 
 
 Subsequently, in December of 1836, the lands entered by Bar- 
 ton Robinson, including the blocks and lots in the townsite, were 
 deeded to separate ownership and the proprietorship company 
 then ceased to be. 
 
 CAPPS HEADQUARTERS 
 
 Immediately after the laying out of the new townsite, Jabez 
 Capps began preparations to remove from Springfield to Mount 
 Pulaski. It is stated upon his own authority that in disposing of his 
 real estate in Springfield, he actually traded the land upon which 
 the present state house is located for a cook stove and a lot on the 
 public square for a side-saddle. 
 
 Bringing his family and his store goods with him, Jabez Capps 
 became the first resident of Mount Pulaski. A log structure obtained 
 from the adjoining farm of Jeremiah Birks was located on the west 
 side of the square and converted into a residence and store. A 
 sand-hole on the square itself, which had been a wolfs den, was 
 made to do service as a kitchen. 
 
 Population filtered into the new town slowly at first but settle- 
 ment around and about it rapidly increased. Settlements following 
 the year 1 836 were so numerous as to render enumeration herein 
 too voluminous. 
 
 Capps' store, otherwise known as "Capps* Headquarters," be- 
 came a popular mart for settlers in all directions and in 1838 Mr. 
 Capps replaced the original cabin with a two-stories frame struc- 
 ture, store below and residence above, which structure remained 
 until razed in 1867. 
 
 Jabez Capps retired from the mercantile store business in 1858 
 and, with his son, Charles, established an orchard nursery. At his 
 death in I 896, he lacked three months of being a century old and 
 had known the town he established full sixty years. 
 
 FIRST ARRIVALS 
 
 Jabez Capps, George W. Turley and Barton Robinson were the 
 
definite originators of Mount Pulaski. Turley and Robinson followed 
 Capps in establishing residences in the new town. The latter moved 
 to Kansas in 1858 and the former died in Mount Pulaski in 1865. 
 
 In a legal deposition in the county files, Horace B. Rowe de- 
 signates himself as "the fourth man in Mount Pulaski." He establish- 
 ed a carpenter business. The Danners, Christian and Andrew, mov- 
 ed in and established a blacksmith shop. Frank Schick opened up a 
 shoe making shop about the same time. 
 
 Others took up residence in the town in and about 1837- The 
 second store buiiding in the town was erected by Benjamin Davis. 
 Jefferson Scroggin built a residence where he accomodated tran- 
 sients. The incoming population warranted Shields and Capps in lay- 
 ing out an addition to the town on the south, which they did in 1837. 
 
 LOGAN COUNTY 
 
 By 1839, the territory now comprised in Logan county, then 
 part of Sangamon county, had attained a population of about two 
 thousand. For a number ot years previous, a movement had been 
 organized looking to the division of extensive Sangamon county. 
 
 Abraham Lincoln was chairman of the committee on counties in 
 the Illinois Legislature that year -and from his committee carre a 
 bill creating three new counties from territory carved from old Sang- 
 amon. The bill became a law February twenty-eighth, 1839. 
 
 One of the new counties thus created was Logan county. It 
 was named for Dr. John Logan, of Murphysboro, a co-member of 
 the Legislature with Mr. Lincoln, who had assisted Mr. Lincoln in 
 getting the state capital moved from Vandalia to Springfield- Dr. 
 Logan was the father of Gen. John A. Logan, the latter being 
 twelve years of age when the county was named. 
 
 On June third, 1839, the three commissioners named in the 
 bill to select a county seat for the new county, met and selected 
 Postville, a town of about one hundred population, which had been 
 laid out in 1836. One of the commissioners, Charles E. Emmerson, 
 of Decatur, who favored Mount Pulaski, dissented of record. 
 
 The new county was divided into two political precincts, named 
 respectively, the Postville and Mount Pulaski precincts. The first 
 election judges chosen for Mount Pulaski precinct were George W. 
 Turley, William Copeland and John Turner. 
 
 At the first county election in 1839, most of the county offices 
 went to residents of Mount Pulaski precinct and included Michael 
 Mann for Probate Justice, Jabez Capps for Recorder, Thomas R. 
 Skinner for Surveyor, William Hackney for School Commissioner, 
 George B- Lucas for Coroner and John Shoup and Robert Down- 
 
ing as two. of the three County Commissioners. 
 
 POSTOFFICE 
 
 The Mount Pulaski postoffice was established March second, 
 1839, at "Capps Headquarters", with Jabez Capps as Postmaster. 
 He continued in that office until January seventh, 1854, when he 
 was succeeded by J. L. Ream. Capps was both County Recorder 
 and Postmaster from 1839 to 1843. 
 
 Succeeding Postmasters of Mount Pulaski up to the time of the 
 Civil war included Ezekial Bowman, John Clark, N. M. Whitaker 
 and S. Linn Beidler, the latter a son-in-law of Jabez Capps. 
 
 The early mail was carried in stage coaches, which also car- 
 ried passengers over rather rough roads. A stage line ran from 
 Springfield, by way of Middletown and Postville, to Mount Pulaski 
 and thence to Clinton- John L. Clough was the mail carrier on this 
 route. 
 
 EARLY SCHOOLS 
 
 The first schools in pioneer days were subscription schools, 
 held at residences. The first school house built in the county was er- 
 ected on the land of John Turner in the Lake fork section. A fam- 
 ous pioneer school house, built in the Downing neighborhood on 
 Salt creek about 1836, was colloquially called "Brush College." 
 
 "Brush College" as described by Charles Capps, who attend- 
 ed it, was a log structure, clapboard roof held down by weight 
 poles, wooden hinges and lock, greased paper windows, split-log 
 desks and seats and a huge mud-chinked chimney, with a fireplace 
 capable of holding a quarter cord of wood. 
 
 William Hackney taught this school and his pupils came from 
 the Capps, Downing, Patterson, Parks, Fletcher, Morrow, Allen, 
 Jackson, Harry and Laughery families, as same were remembered 
 by Mr. Capps. 
 
 Another early school conducted on the Turley lands in 1841, 
 with Alexander Rigdon.James Wad-e and Thomas J. Scroggin as 
 school directors, was taught by Silas Alexander and, as shown by 
 a schedule, included pupils from the Sims, Mason, Turley, Cartmell, 
 Cass, Key, Matthews, Scroggin, Foster, Wade and Rigdon families. 
 
 A later school in the Lake fork section in I 845 was located on 
 the lands of John Huston, with J. M- Mcintosh and Clark Provin as 
 teachers in succession, and included pupils from the Huston, Mann, 
 Turner, Robinson, Vanderman, Friend, Dyer, Provin, Martin, Sims 
 and Lucas families. 
 
 FIRST MOUNT PULASKI SCHOOL 
 
 The first school house in Mount Pulaski, also log-built, was er- 
 
ected in 1 844, in the eastern portion of the town. The teacher for 
 that year was Michael Finfrock and the school directors were N. M. 
 Whitaker, George Snyder and William Friedrich. The pupils re- 
 gistered that year were: 
 
 Richard, Mary and Elizabeth Turley, James and John Sims, Sar- 
 ah, Amelia, Margaret, David and Abraham Bunn, Samuel, Morgan, 
 Oster, Brunson, Emily and Harriet Dement, Ebeneezer and Oliver 
 Capps, Charles, George, Benjamin and Alexander Snyder, Mary, 
 Harriet and Caroline Whitaker, Samuel and Nancy Morgan, John 
 Christopher and Robert Laughlin, John Tomlinson, Charles Friedrich, 
 Mary Wright, Henrietta Krieg, Martha Allen, Sarah Scroggins and 
 William Baker. 
 
 The same school in 1845 was taught by David P. Bunn, with ad- 
 ditions to the scholars above named of Findlay -and Dewitt Whitak- 
 er, Alexander Dement, Robert Tomlinson, Herbert, James and Cath- 
 erine Robinson, Hardin Morgan, Sarah and Mary Bunn, Mahala and 
 Mary Friedrich, William Krieg, Lewis, Emily and Mono Mitchell, 
 Mary Snyder, John and Charles Capps, Sarah Carlock, Margaret 
 Clark and Mary Crockett. 
 
 . . IN THE FORTIES 
 
 Settlements around Mount Pulaski became more numerous dur- 
 ing the early forties, stimulating the growth of the town. Thomas P. 
 Lushbaugh erected the third brick store building in 1846. Barton 
 Robinson followed with another brick store structure. 
 
 Tanneries were important functions in pioneer days, Carter Scrog- 
 gin having early conducted one on his farm. In the forties Frank 
 Schick established one in the town. He also opened a general store. 
 A Methodist church society, first in the town, was organized in 1841 
 at the home of Dr. John Clark. 
 
 The first regular hotel, known as the Mount Pulaski hotel, a 
 brick structure, was built in 1843 by Alexander Morgan, who con- 
 ducted it until 1848, when D. B. Wright took over its management. 
 Later, it was conducted by Ninian R. Cass and, still later, by N. M 
 Whitaker, who purchased it of Mr. Morgan. 
 
 . COUNTY SEAT TO MOUNT PULASKI 
 
 By the year 1847, Mount Pulaski had a population over three 
 hundred, exceeding that of Postville (then officially known as Cam- 
 den), the county seat. A movement was inaugurated to bring the 
 county seat from Camden to Mount Pulaski. 
 
 Pursuant to this movement, Michael Swing, State Representa- 
 tive, on February twenty-third, 1847, secured the passage of a legis- 
 lative law submitting to the voters of Logan county, at an election 
 
to be held on the first Monday of April, 1848, the proposition of 
 the removal of the county seat to Mount Pulaski. 
 
 At the April election, a substantial majority voted for the 
 change. The submission act had provided that in the event of relo- 
 cation the citizens of Mount Pulaski, as a condition thereto, were to 
 erect on the public square of the town" a good and sufficient court 
 house." 
 
 Upon the favorable vote, the citizens of Mount Pulaski and vi- 
 cinity raised the sum of $2700, which was supplemented by a coun- 
 ty appropriation of $300. The court house, still standing intact to- 
 day, was then erected and equipped. 
 
 The court house was ready for occupancy in the spring of 
 1848, when the county records were loaded into wagons at Post- 
 ville and moved to the new quarters. County officials, lawyers and 
 politicians followed to a new home. 
 
 Subsequently a two-stories brick jail was built at a cost of 
 $1000, which contained what was then a legal provision, namely, a 
 debtor's cell. Debtor's cells are no longer in vogue in any state. 
 
 THE MOUNT PULASKI COURT 
 
 At the time of the change of the county seat, Logan county 
 was a part of the old Eighth Judicial district, made famous by the 
 circuit itinerary of Abraham Lincoln, the lawyer. Judge David Dav- 
 is, of Bloomington, was the sole judge of, and David B. Campbell 
 the Prosecuting Attorney for the district. 
 
 There were two terms of the circuit court each year, beginning 
 the last Thursdays of May and October respectively. The early 
 court terms lasted but a few days, rarely more than three. Abraham 
 Lincoln was present practically at every term of the Mount Pulaski 
 court. 
 
 Other lawyers from Springfield and other adjacent points al- 
 so attended the Mount Pulaski court. They usually stopped at the 
 Mount Pulaski hotel, which was a busy place in court terms. Mr. Lin- 
 coln, however, was more frequently a guest at the home of Jabez 
 Capps. 
 
 The two leading resident licensed lawyers at the Mount Pul- 
 aski court were Lionel P. Lacey and Samuel C. Parks. Parks came to 
 Mount Pulaski from Springfield and was a tentative local law asso- 
 ciate of Abraham Lincoln. Parks rounded up the cases and Lincoln 
 tried them at law terms. 
 
 Parks was elected to the Legislature when a resident of Mount 
 Pulaski. Moving to Lincoln in 1856, he was a delegate to the Chi- 
 
cago convention in I860, at which Lincoln was nominated for Presi- 
 dent. President Lincoln appointed him federal judge in Idaho. He 
 was a member of the state constitutional convention of I 870. 
 
 Lacey came to Mount Pulaski from southern Illinois in the early 
 forties and was the towns first licensed lawyer. He introduced 
 Douglas to an audience in Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas con- 
 test for United States Senator. He died in 1866. 
 
 William H. Young v/as also a member of the Mount Pulaski 
 bar. as was also A. J. Turley. Among others who appeared in jus- 
 tice courts were Ezekiel Bowman, Horace Ballou and N. M. Whit- 
 ake\ Bowman was twice elected Sheriff of the county, once County 
 Treasurer and was an early School Commissioner. 
 
 Judge David Davis, who always presided over the Mount Pu- 
 laski circuit court, was appointed by President Lincoln to the Su- 
 preme Court of the United States and was later U. S. Senator and 
 acting Vice President of the United States. Judge Thomas R. Skin- 
 ner was continuously County Judge ar Mount Pulaski. 
 
 INCIDENTS 
 
 Under the law in force in Mount Pulaski county seat days, ail 
 "free white males" between the ages of eighteen and forty-five 
 were required to equip themselves with a "good musket, fuzee or 
 rifle" and enroll in the state militia. 
 
 Annual militia musters took place in April of each year and 
 these were gala occasions. Capt. John Shoup was the commander 
 of ihe company at Mount Pulaski. 
 
 Voters at elections were required to "first announce their own 
 names " to the election officers "and then the names of the persons 
 for whom they wish tc vote." 
 
 bxpense records show that the court house at Mount Pulaski 
 was lighted at night, when light was required, by tallow candles. 
 
 Ihe "horologica! cradle" case so famous in Lincoln biography 
 was tried at Mount Pulaski before Judge Davis, Abraham Lincoln 
 being attorney for the plaintiff. 
 
 IN THE FIFTIES 
 
 About the beginning of the fifties, George Meister established 
 a brick and tile works in the town and George and John Mayer 
 opened a general store. In 1851, Samuel C. Beam, established a 
 saw mill, which later developed into a flouring mill. Many new stores 
 and residences were built. 
 
 The first church building in the town was erected by the Metho- 
 dist society in 1851, the trustees being John Clark, John Harry, 
 
Norman Norton, James Snyder and John M. Downing. All Methodist 
 societies then in the county, some fifteen in number, were included 
 in the Mount Pulaski circuit. 
 
 In 1852, the society of the First Lutheran Zion church erected 
 a house of worship, it being the first Lutheran church building in 
 the county. Fred Dittus and William and Christian Rupp, among 
 others, were instrumental in the organization of the society. 
 
 . COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL 
 
 In 1852, the Alton & Sangamon railroad (now the Chicago & 
 Alton) extended its line from Springfield, through Logan county, to 
 Bloonnington. A town site was laid out in 1853 on the extension 
 right of way, one mile from old Postville. Its proprietors named 
 it Lincoln, in honor of their attorney, Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 In February of 1853, the said proprietors secured the passage 
 of a legislative bill submitting to the voters of Logan county the 
 proposition of again changing the county seat, this time from Mount 
 Pulaski to the new railroad townsite. 
 
 At the ensuing election in November of 1853, a majority voted 
 for the change, whereupon George W. Turley and others secured 
 trom Circuit Judge Davis an injunction restraining the erection of 
 county buildings in Lincoln, based on alleged irregularities in the 
 passage of the submission bill. 
 
 Later, Judge Davis dissolved this injunction on the ground that 
 the irregularities had been removed by later legislative action. The 
 case then went to the State Suoreme Court, which, at its Decem- 
 ber 1855 session, sustained the dissolution of the injunction. 
 
 . ACTUAL TRANSFER IN 1855 
 
 While the election transferring the county seat occurred in 
 November of 1853, actual transfer did not take place until the 
 rendering of the Supreme Court decision, which was handed down 
 subsequent to the second Monday in December of 1855. 
 
 The county records were destroyed by a court house fire in 
 Lincoln, April 15, 1857, but a transcript of the probate of the will 
 of Stephen Jones, filed after the fire, shows that probate took 
 place in the County Court in Mount Pulaski, November 17th, 1855. 
 
 Another will transcript, filed after the fire, shows probate at 
 Lincoln, February fourth, 1856. The actual transfer therefore took 
 place between the said dates and after the December 1855 deci- 
 sion, or probably in the latter part of December, 1855. 
 
 AFTER TRANSFER 
 
 The removal of the county seat, while disconcerting, did not 
 
affect the progress of Mount Pulaski as much as anticipated. The 
 population lost by the change of residence of county officials and 
 lawyers was more than offset by the incoming of others. 
 
 The government census reports show that the population of 
 Mount Pulaski in 1850, when it was a county seat, was 350 but that 
 in I860, after county seat removal, the population of the town had 
 nearly doubled and was 634. 
 
 The Evangelical Association society, organized in 1855, built 
 a house of worship in 1861, services before that year having been 
 held in the Universalist church which had been erected in the later 
 fifties. 
 
 St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic parish, organized in 1857, pur- 
 chased the Evangelical church building in 1 867 and held service 
 therein until 1884, when the Catholic parish built a more modern 
 church. 
 
 . EARLY BUSINESS DIRECTORY 
 
 The first wall map of Logan county, printed in the early sixties, 
 gives the following business directory of Mount Pulaski: 
 
 General merchants, George Mayer & Co., John H. Capps, 
 Philip Schweikert, Frank Schick, Samuel Turley; druggist, S. Linn 
 Beidler; tailors, Jacob Danner, John Krieg; undertakers, G. A. 
 Robinson, Clark & Gideon; shoemakers, Jacob Ebinger, Gotlieb 
 Seyter; nursery, J. Capps & Son; steam mill, S. C. Beam; cabinet 
 makers, John Zimmerman, C. C. Mason; brick manufacturer, Geor- 
 ge Meister; blacksmiths, W. A. Schafer, John M. Litterly; brewery, 
 Adam Bierlein; wagonmaker, M. Feuerbacher. 
 
 To the above list were added professional names as follows: 
 physicians, John Clark, J. M. Pumpelly, E. T. Savage, G. Fain; at- 
 torney, N. M. Whitaker. Henry Shriver was the hotel keeper. 
 
 THE CIVIL WAR 
 
 In the Civil war of the sixties, Logan county furnished 2,160 
 soldiers. All were volunteers. There was no draft in Logan county. 
 Every quota called for was promptly filled. 
 
 Mount Puaski and vicinity did full part in the Civil war. With 
 the close association of the community with Abraham Lincoln fresh 
 in mind, his presidential calls for troops to save the Union met a 
 ready response. 
 
 Mendret Wemple early organized a cavalry company which 
 saw service at Shiloh and on other famous battlefields of the war. 
 Wemple was later made major of the Second Battalion. 
 
 Company D of the 1 06th infantry regiment was composed al- 
 
most entirely ot men from Mount Pulaski and vicinity. It was offic- 
 ered as follows: 
 
 Captain (later promoted major) David Vanhise; lieutenants, 
 John Everly, Monroe Shoup, Joseph Ream; sergeants, W. W. Mar- 
 tin, A. J. Snyder, William Vandeventer, Thomas C. Shreve; corpor- 
 als, J. G. Chalfant, Robert Laughlin, Joseph Galoway, Reuben Bow- 
 ers, Alfred Tomlinson, Abner Jackson, James Bowers, Samuel Hunt- 
 er, John Dement, J. G. Bates. 
 
 George Dement of company D was promoted sergeant major 
 and D. L. Bnaucher quarter master-sergeant. William Frakes was cap 
 tain of company B, 32nd infantry and William Hackney, captain of 
 company H, seventh infantry. 
 
 Citizens of Mount Pulaski and vicinity in considerable numbers 
 were affiliated with other regiments and many gave up their lives 
 in service. Among the first war fatalities was that of John H. Duff, 
 killed at Shiloh. 
 
 . TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION 
 
 Following the Civil war, the movement, first inaugurated in 
 1858, reached final achievement in 1865. By it, county government 
 by three commissioners gave way to government by .a board of su- 
 pervisors. 
 
 Under township organization, Mount Pulaski township as now 
 existent was created. The first election for township officers, held 
 April second, i 867, resulted as follows: 
 
 Supervisor, Alexander Fisher; Town clerk, Charles S. Capps; 
 assessor, George W. Howe; collector, Henry Vonderleith; justices 
 ot the peace, John Weckel, J. N. Pumpelly. 
 
 RAILROADS 
 
 Prior to 1871, Mount Pulaski was an inland town, being without 
 railroads. In 1867, the Peoria, Lincoln & Decatur railroad was in- 
 corporated, with proposed right of way through Mount Pulaski. 
 The incorporation contemplated a county bond issue of $300,000. 
 
 The bond issue was twice defeated at special elections but 
 was finally approved in 1869. Litigation, however, resulted which 
 cost the county $20,000 but a compromise was effected on the 
 basis of a bond issue of $160,000. 
 
 The building of the road began in November 1869 and was 
 completed to Decatur in October of 1871. The name of the road 
 was changed in 1879 to the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville and the 
 road was later absorbed by the Illinois Central. 
 
 In 1867, the Gilman, Clinton & Springfield road was incorpor- 
 
ated with right of way through Mount Pulaski. Building began in 
 1870 and was completed in December of 1871. It is now the Spring- 
 field division of the Illinois Central. 
 
 . IN THE SEVENTIES 
 
 The coming of the railroads brought greater prosperity to 
 Mount Pulaski. The value of building improvement the next two 
 years amounted to over forty thousand dollars. The first bank in 
 the town, the Scroggin bank, opened its doors in 1872. 
 
 The Christian church society, organized in 1 868, erected a 
 church building in 1870 and the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran 
 church society, also organized in 1868, followed with a church 
 building in 1873. 
 
 In 1875, the Schick brick building was erected and in 1876 a 
 music hall. In 1878, the building and equipment of the Scroggin 
 hotel, opera house and bank building made a distinct improvement 
 to the town. 
 
 Three additions were laid out to the town, Mason's in 1871 
 and Beam's and Turley's in 1 872. The population of Mount Pulaski 
 reached 1,125 in 1880. 
 
 NEWSPAPERS 
 
 The first newspaper published in Mount Pulaski was the Sentin- 
 el, established by Francis M. Dalton in 1870. Having later changed 
 its name to the Star, it ceased twinkling in 1876. 
 
 Various other papers, by different publishers, appeared sub- 
 sequently for short periods of time until the Republican was estab- 
 lished by T. H. Smedly in 1884 and taken over in 1886 by S. Linn 
 Beidler. Otto Bekemeyer established the Times in 1882. 
 
 Following the death of Mr. Beidler, his sons, Rell C. and Paul 
 E. changed the name of the Republican to that of the News, which 
 combined with the Times, is now published as the Times-News by 
 Harry J. Wible. 
 
 OLD SETTLERS ASSOCIATION 
 
 An important event in 1873 was the organization of the old 
 settlers' association, with David W. Clark as president and S. Linn 
 Beidler as secretary. The first reunion occurred in the public square 
 in Mount Pulaski on October first of that year. 
 
 These reunions continued annually until 1910, most of the 
 meetings being held at Mount Pulaski. They attracted great crowds 
 from all over central Illinois. A barbecue reunion in 1882, at which 
 seven beeves, twelve hogs and thirteen sheep, steamcooked, furnish- 
 
ed provender, was said to have been attended by 15,000 people. 
 
 THE GRADE SCHOOL 
 
 By an act of the Legislature, passed in 1857, the Mount Pulaski 
 court house building was "donated" to the town "for school pur- 
 poses," Henry Vonderlieth, George W. Turley and Jabez Capps be- 
 ing named as trustees for two years. 
 
 The fact further provided that, at the expiration of the two years, 
 control of the building was to pass to the directors of the Mount 
 Pulaski school district. The courthouse thus became the school build 
 ing of the town. 
 
 Referring to the school conducted in the court house, County 
 Superintendent Chalfant, in his official report of 1869, reported 
 the school as being "conducted with efficiency and success by Mrs. 
 Nellie Shoup in the higher department and Mrs. Hattie Mills in the 
 primary department." 
 
 In 1877, a change was made from the former school system 
 to a grade system under a town board of education. A bond is- 
 sue provided $20,000 for the erection and equipment of a new 
 school building, which was built and ready for occupancy in Jan- 
 uary of 1878. 
 
 The court house being no longer used for school purposes was 
 turned over to the town auhtorities for community uses. For a num- 
 ber of years it has housed the government post-office. 
 
 . VILLAGE ORGANIZATION 
 
 Mount Pulaski was originally organized as a town at an early 
 date under the general law then existing. The records being non- 
 existent and the boundaries being in doubt, reorganization as a 
 village was effected in 1876. 
 
 At a special election held that year, village organization was 
 approved. The first village board consisted of Uriah Snyder, Char- 
 les S. Capps, William A Schafer, Alexander Fisher, John Krieg and 
 John W. Seyfer. 
 
 . IN THE EIGHTIES 
 
 The first telephone exchange in Mount Pulaski was installed in 
 1881. In the same year, C. E. Snyder established a fence and barrel 
 factory. The Meister building was erected in 1882 and the Jenner 
 building in 1884. 
 
 The Methodist church society erected a new church edifice in 
 1884 and the Catholic parish of St. Thomas Aquinas' built a house 
 of worship in 1886. In 1887, the First National bank was established. 
 
The Mount Pulaski mill and elevator was built in 1881. There 
 were three grain elevators in the village in 1882. Several additions 
 to the village were laid out in the early eighties. 
 
 In 1882 a coal mining company was organized and a shaft sunk 
 the following year. After passing into various hands at different 
 times, the shaft was abandoned about 1910. 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT 
 
 The burning of the McFarlin & Woods elevator in 1880, re- 
 built in 1882, and the destruction by fire of the Mount Pulaski mill 
 in 1885, at a loss of some $40,000, suggested the organization of a 
 volunteer fire department. 
 
 Thereupon, on March 13, 1885, the Phoenix fire department 
 was organized with eighteen charter members, with W. H. Stafford 
 as fire chief. The department celebrated its semi-centennial of con- 
 tinuous existence in 1935. 
 
 The Phoenix fire department won numerous state champion- 
 ship tokens and race prizes in its early history. It has been affiliated 
 with the state volunteer firemen's organization since 1889, of which 
 M. J. Myers, formerly president, is now vice president. 
 
 CITY ORGANIZATION 
 
 By a vote of its citizens, January third, 1893, village organiza- 
 tion in Mount Pulaski was superseded in that year by city govern- 
 ment under the general law. The city was divided into three wards. 
 The first city officials were: 
 
 Mayor, A. G. Jones; Clerk, Frank Fiegenshuh; treasurer, Geor- 
 ge W. Vonderlieth; aldermen, Jacob Jenner, George W. Connelly, 
 M. T. Vaughn, Jonathan Combs, P. H. Oyler, J. M. Whitney. 
 
 FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS 
 
 Following city organization and the creation of the fire depart- 
 ment, a water works system, equipped with wells, hydrants and a 
 reservois of sixty thousand gallons capacity, was established in 
 1 895 at a cost of $30,000. 
 
 In 1899, a city hall, with fire engine room, was built east of the 
 public square. A city library was established in 1896. Priorly, in 
 1890, an electric lighting plant had been established. The Mount 
 Pulaski windmill company was organized in 1902 and a building and 
 loan association in 1904. 
 
 In 1902, the Catholic parish built a new church edifice, an 
 Episcopal church was erected in 1904 and in 1907, the Methodist 
 church society erected their third house of worship on the old site. 
 
MODERN SCHOOLS 
 
 A disastrous fire occurred in September of 191 I, when the 
 combined grade and high school building was destroyed. A bond 
 issue was voted for rebuilding and a new school structure erected 
 at an original cost of $30,000. 
 
 In the reorganization, the grade school was divorced from the 
 high school, in contemplation of a proposed township high school. 
 A township high school, the first in the county, was built in 1913 
 and dedicated January 30th, 1934. 
 
 In 1929, improvements and additions were made to the town- 
 ship high school, including modern gymnasium, at a further cost of 
 $50,000. 
 
 Mount Pulaski enjoys the distinction of having public school 
 facilities equal, and in many respects superior, to those of any city 
 of its size in the state. They have excelled along both educational 
 and athletic lines. 
 
 WORLD WAR 
 
 One of the most outstanding events of late history was the 
 World War, still fresh in the public mind. In that struggle, nearly 
 two thousand Logan county men were registered and accepted in- 
 to the military service of the country. 
 
 In this world-wide contest, Mount Pulaski, as in all former wars 
 since its establishment a century ago, furnished its full quota of 
 soldiers and these gave loyal support to the country, its institutions 
 and the flag. 
 
 A thriving post of the American Legion, named in honor of 
 Dr. H. D. Ryman and Zachary Fuiten, who gave up their lives in ac- 
 tion, perpetuate the tradition of the Nation. Post-humous decora- 
 tion for bravery was accorded the memory of Dr. Ryman. 
 
 MODERN EVENTS 
 
 In the past decade, improvements in business, public and resi- 
 dential properties, as well as in civic movements, have kept apace 
 of the advancing times. Few localities in the country weathered the 
 "depression" more successfully than did Mount Pulaski. No bartk or 
 business failures marked the economic struggle. 
 
 A concrete state highway, constructed in 1934, connects Mount 
 Pulaski with Decatur and all points east and likewise Lincoln, Ha- 
 vana, Peoria and points west. A similar highway to Springfield is in 
 prospect. An improved road to Elkhart is now a reality. 
 
COURT HOUSE AGAIN 
 
 No event is of greater importance to Mount Pulaski and the 
 country in general than the recent taking over by the state of Illi- 
 nois, with local reservations, of the old court house and grounds as 
 a historic shrine. 
 
 Restored to former appointments, reminiscent as the building 
 is of pioneer and Abraham Lincoln days, the ancient structure and 
 park in which located, will prove a Mecca of patriotic pilgrimage 
 for years to come. 
 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 The above events, more or less briefly noted, constitute a cen- 
 tury of Mount Pulaski. What does the next century hold in store? 
 No mortal can answer. 
 
. . courthouse restored to original appearance 
 
 '■ - • •• ; . •'""- vh 
 
 Courthouse As It 
 Looked When Used 
 For Postoffice Building. 
 
1936 Census"Mount Pulaski 
 
 A 
 
 Abel, Mrs, Charles (Robert, Margaret, Minnie, Carl, Georgia) North 
 
 Park. 
 Aitchison, Robert D.— Lulu (Robert S.) Merchant; 108 North Vine 
 Allen, Robert — Maude (Willard, Ruby, Delbert, Leo, Glendora) labor- 
 er; West Wayne. 
 Allen, Ross — Sophia; laborer; 208 North Washington 
 Allison, Otto— Hazel; tavern; 310 North Washington 
 Allspach, Albert — Helen; retired farmer; 209 North Vine 
 Anderson, Delia M.; stenographer; 405 West Morgan. 
 Anderson, Dewey — Madge (Loren) merchant; 407 West Cooke 
 Anderson, Mrs. Harriet; 200 North Marion 
 Anderson, Kelsey M. — Helen (Harold) 402 East Jefferson 
 Anstine, Frank and James — Eva and Melissa, sisters; retired; 410 
 
 North Washington. 
 Arnold, Lloyd, stenographer, North Park 
 
 Arnold, William J. — Lillie (Mary, Virgil); painter; North Park 
 Ayers, Raymond — Verna (Edward, Frances, Loren) auto mechanic; 
 
 404 South Marion 
 Ayies worth, Mrs. Ida; housekeeper; 503 North Marion 
 Aylesworth, Roy — Geneva (Louise, Dorothy, Betty, Buddy, Richard) 
 truck driver: 415 West Cooke street. 
 
 B 
 
 Bailey, Dwight — Amelia (William); Clerk; 220 East Monroe 
 
 Bailey, James — Fern; contractor; 519 North Washington 
 
 Baker, Mrs. Carrie (Charlotte, Inas, Charles); North Garden 
 
 Barlow, Mrs. James; 314 North Marlon 
 
 Barton, John — Lila (Elton, Woodrow); elevator manager; 309 East 
 
 Jefferson. 
 Baumann, Carl — Josephine; retired; farmer, 101 North Vine street. 
 Banmann, Mrs. Elizabeth (Amelia) 306 South Lafayette Street 
 Beckers, William — Nettie; retired farmer; 306 North Garden street 
 Beldler, Everett — Esther (Delores Ann, Donna Marie); radio repair; 
 
 107 South Marion street. 
 Beldler, Mrs. Josephine (Barbara Ann) 207 North Lafayette 
 Beidler, Paul E. — Ethel; printer; 120 North Lafayette street 
 Beldler, Roll C— Etta; retired, printer; 101 South Marion street 
 Bellatti, Robert M. — Martha; retired farmer; 203 North Scott 
 Bender, Mrs. Katherine (George); 319 North Belmont 
 Bertoni, Renaldo — Pauline (Sam, Marie, Renaldo, Waldo) merchant; 
 
 119 North Marion. 
 Bertrang, Walter — Nelia (Helen, Irma, Lillian, Iva, Dean, Byron); 
 
 laborer; 102 East German. 
 Biesemeier, John — Helen (Joan); 110 South Garden 
 Binder, William F. — Amelia; wagon maker; 400 South Lafayette 
 Birks, W. E.— retired farmer; 420 North Lafayette street 
 Blackford, Dan — Pearl; truck driver; 620 South Spring 
 Blackford, Henry — Lorena; bookkeeper; 620 South Spring 
 Blanford, Mrs. Amanda Jane; West McDonald 
 
Stanford, Edward — Bertha (Gayford Wills, stepson); I. C. section 
 foreman; 302 South Lafayette. 
 
 Blickenstaff, James — Kitty; 610 South Spring 
 
 Bloye, Mrs. Kate, 303 North Vine street. 
 
 Bobell, Ferd (Wayne) 510 South Vine 
 
 Srannan, William; laborer; 200 North Marion 
 
 Bredenstiner, Ellis; laborer; 412 North Marion 
 
 Bressmer, Fred A. — Gertrude (Glen Tutwiler, grandson) truck driver, 
 500 East Cooke. 
 
 Brooker, Charles — Emma (Everett K., and Carlton Drake Jr., grand- 
 son) retired farmer; 202 North Vine. 
 
 Brooker, Mrs. Fredericka; 302 North Lafayette 
 
 Brown, S. L. — Harriet (Arline, Wendell, James); gas station; 416 
 South Lafayette. 
 
 Buckles, Charles F. (Ora) North Garden 
 
 Buckles, Claude — Constance; garage; 100 North Park 
 
 Buckles, Frank (Rose); retired; 200 North Marion 
 
 Buckles, Harry — Ida; West Side Square 
 
 Buckles, Mrs. Jennie, 420 North Lafayette 
 
 Buckles, John A., 401 North Belmont 
 
 Buckles, P. W., painter; 100 North Park 
 
 Buckles, Robert — Sadie; 625 North Vine 
 
 Billiard, Mrs. Kate; 215 South Vine 
 
 Capps, Harry B., nursery; 617 North Washington 
 
 Capps, William B.; nurseryman; 120 North Lafayette 
 
 Carter, Constance; 305 East Jefferson 
 
 Carty, William — Christie (Edna May, Sylvia, Joseph, Susie, Jack, 
 
 Lawrence, Hattie); laborer; Obermiller Heights. 
 Cass, Lincoln — Frances; stockman; 104 North Vine 
 Casto, Mrs. Dora; 506 North Washington 
 Cheek, David — Carrie; retired; 301 South Garden 
 Christmann, John A.; retired; 503 West Jefferson 
 Chris tmann, Louis, barber; 412 South Washington 
 Clare, Mrs. Thelma (William, Lois, Margaret); North Spring 
 Clark, Miss Meta; 317 N. Washington 
 Clear, Gene C. — Louise; merchant; 407 North Lafayette 
 Clements, Roy — Lucille (Larry, Carol Elaine) farmer; 208 South 
 
 Garden. 
 Clifton, Misses Grace and Sue; dressmakers; 219 North Washington 
 Clobes, William C. — Eva; blacksmith; 215 South Vine 
 Combs, August S. — Anna; retired; 316 East Chestnut 
 Conaway, Mrs. Martha (Ralph, Orville, sons; Russell Green, Eugene 
 
 Conaway, grandsons; 305 North Spring. 
 Conaway, Tom — Catherine; gas station; 400 South Vine. 
 Connelly, Dr. George S.— Ada (John H., George S.); physician; 107 
 
 North Lafayette. 
 Connolley, Eugene K. — Pearl (Franklin, Richard, Kenneth) druggist; 
 
 319 North Vine. 
 Connolley, Laura; telephone operator; 216 North Lafayette 
 Connolley, Virgil G. — Margaret; druggist; 317 West Cooke 
 Cook, Mrs. Fern (Mary, Alice) 209 East Jefferson 
 Copeland, Frank — Laura; retired; 405 East Cooke 
 
Copeland, Mrs. Jennie E.; 421 North Lafayette 
 
 Cowan, Wallace— Helen (Darwin L., Donald W.) truck driver; 402 
 
 North Spring. 
 Crane, Mrs. M. A. (Flossie) 318 North Vine 
 Crowe, Mrs. Alvada; 211 North Marion 
 Crowe, Mrs. Clarabelle; 206 North Lafayette 
 Crull, Charles W. — Emma; 306 North Belmont street 
 Cryan Mrs. Anna; 403 South Spring 
 Curtis, Fern; beauty shop; 907 South Spring 
 Curtis, Mrs. Grace (Barbara, Mary June Barnes); merchant; 111 
 
 South Marion. 
 Curtis, John — Naomi (Dorothy) grade school janitor; 319 East Cooke 
 Curtis, Russell S. — Mary; North Garden 
 Curtis, Shelby — Dollie; gas station; 800 South Spring. 
 
 Danner, Chris; retired farmer; 609 South Spring 
 
 Banner, Jacob — Anna; South Lafayette 
 
 Danner, John R. 'Boley' retired; 211% South Washington 
 
 Danner, Mrs. Margaret; Obermiller Heights. 
 
 Davis, Bert; truck driver; 506 North Washington 
 
 Davis, Lon — Bernice; teacher; 305 South Washington 
 
 Davis, Paul — Dorothy (Joseph, Robert); laborer; 516 North Garden 
 
 Dawson, Mrs. Eliza; 402 East Jefferson. 
 
 Deavers, Miss Sadie; 409 West Jefferson 
 
 Deibert, George (Alberta, Loretta, Mabel) Elkhart road 
 
 Deibert, Harry G.; clerk; 103 Jefferson 
 
 Deibert, Mrs. Joseph; 116 North Spring 
 
 Deibert, Morrell — Delia; electrician; 406 East Jefferson 
 
 Dickey, Jacob A. — Frona (Oscar); laborer; North Scott 
 
 Dillsaver, Albert F. — Agnes (John); barber; 206 South Vine 
 
 Dittus, George F. — Sophia; retired farmer; 221 North Lafayette 
 
 Doty, William — Katherine ( laborer. 
 
 Downing, Clarence W. — Lena (Darwin) auto mechanic; 507 South 
 
 Lafayette. 
 Downing, Ennis A. — Retta (Julian) ; banker; 519 North Vine 
 Downing, Harry — May; plumbing; 201 North Belmont 
 Downing, John T. — Anna (Dorothy Ann); clerk; 515 North Lafayette 
 Drobisch, Albert — Anna; clerk; 207 South Marion 
 Drobisch, Christian F. — Louise; sexton; 110 North Marion 
 Drobisch, Gustav — Emma (Viola) ; coal dealer; 300 South Vine 
 Drobisch, Louis H.; barber; 400 South Vine 
 Drobisch, Walter M. — Letha (Miller, Alvira) waterworks supt; 600 
 
 North Washington. 
 Duboce, Herman and Rodman; painters; 203 North Marion 
 Duboce, Mrs. Lila; 
 
 Duff, J. T.— Kittie; retired; 313 North Scott 
 Dunkel, Carl; auto mechanic; 305 S. Washington 
 Durchholz, Fred — Barbara; retired farmer; 503 North Belmont 
 
 Earles, Samuel — Gertrude; section foreman; 317 East Morgan 
 Edwards, Carl — Louise (Allen) telegrapher, 305 South Lafayette 
 
Edwards, Ernest — Minnie (Earl, Mary, Ruth, Richard); carpenter; 
 
 Obermiller Heights. 
 Ellenburg, James S., laborer; 420 South Garden 
 Ellenberg, John ; laborer; 420 South Garden 
 
 Ellis, Dan W. — Anna (Lucy Jane); carpenter; 201 North Washington 
 Ely, Ben W.; banker; 301 South Garden 
 
 Emery, Louis — Jessie (Wilna, Reva) farmer; 302 South Spring 
 Eminger, Mrs. Anna E.; secretary; 204 North Spring 
 England, Mrs. Tillie (John) ; 220 West Jefferson 
 English, Mrs. Lulu (Wyle); housework; 309 North Spring 
 Epting, Andrew — Kate (Fred) retired; 721 South Spring 
 Ey, Charles A. — Louise (Carl, Louise); baker; South Lafayette 
 Ey, Otto — Pauline; teacher; 119 West Harry 
 Ey, Vincent-— Virginia (Richard); clerk; 407 North Lafayette 
 
 Fant, Charles (Gwendolyn) tailoring; East McDonald 
 
 Fant, Mrs. Katherine (Fred) East McDonald 
 
 Felts, Mrs. Anna; 421 West Morgan 
 
 Felts, Edwin — Emma; retired merchant; 302 North Belmont 
 
 Feuerbacher, Mrs. Emily; 403 East Cooke 
 
 Field, Mrs. Ida (Cordie Starr, nephew); 305 North Marion 
 
 Foster, Dean — Marjorie (Virginia) mail carrier; 409 East Cooke 
 
 Frazier, C. L. — Goldie (Clarence, Gene, Lyle) telegrapher; 312 West 
 
 Jefferson. 
 Froschauer, Edward — Hazel (Edward) ; farmer; 404 West Jefferson 
 Fryer, Miss Cosetta; 291 North Lafayette 
 Fryer, Mrs. Mary V.; 291 North Lafayette 
 Fuhrer, Mrs. Caroline (Anna, Joseph); 114 Vine. 
 Fuhrer, Dan J. — Helen (Dale, Paul); service station; 208 North Vine 
 Fultz, William — Jennie; section worker; 225 South Spring 
 
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 Gasaway, Mrs. Elizabeth; 404 West Jefferson 
 
 Gasaway, Lee— Mattie (Walter, Hoy, Dale) laborer; 523 West Jeffer- 
 son. 
 
 Gieseke, Mrs. Christina; 209 North Spring 
 
 Girtman, Miss Mamie; 118 West Harry 
 
 Glick, Walter— Georgian; 206 North Vine 
 
 Glose, Chauncey E. — Pearl (Cerese, Dorothy Wanda) mail carrier; 
 306 North Vine. 
 
 Goben, Ellis — Hester (Anna Marie; Jimmy Wheeler, grandson) pen- 
 sioner; 320 South Lafayette. 
 
 Goddard, Edward — Carrie (Harry, Bill, J. CL); teacher; 403 South 
 Marion. 
 
 Goodman, James — Catherine (Virginia Dorothy, Joe; laborer 307 
 North Spring. 
 
 Goodman, James Sr. — Olive (Carl, Chester, Sheldon, Hazel) laborer; 
 401 South Lafayette. 
 
 Goodpaster, Mrs. Emily; 305 South Washington 
 
 Goodpaster, Ernest — Pearl (Wayne, Don, Edwin, Carol) janitor; 516 
 West Jefferson. 
 
 Gordon, Charles M. — Hattie; 210 North Mason 
 
 Gordon, Harvey F. — Clara; retired; 402 North Washington 
 
Graham, Edward — Kate; (Patricia Kelly, grand niece) laborer; 515 
 N. Marion. 
 
 Griffin, Byri — June (Mary Jean, Jack, Joan) section worker; East 
 McDonald. 
 
 Gruber, Henry C. — Sadie (Frank) newsstand; 214 South Washington 
 
 Gruber, Paul A. — Mino (Helen Shull, niece) ; painter; 520 East Cooke 
 
 Gulso, Mrs. Henry (Rose; and Charles Gulso, grandson;) 307 South 
 Washington. 
 
 Gulso, Mrs. Minnie (Robert, Dale, Dorothy); 411 North Washing- 
 ton. 
 
 Gun tern, Frank — Christina; retired; 115 N. Spring 
 
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 Hagenbuch, Mrs. Louis (Nora, Emma) ; 405 West Cook 
 Hagenbuch, Walter — Ruby (Junior) ; truck driver; 307 North Lafay- 
 ette. 
 Hahn, Boyd — Clara (Herschel, Boyd, Helena, Doris, Lois, Leota, Har- 
 ry) railroad fireman; 409 West Jefferson. 
 Hahn, Fred H. — Doris (Billie, Jean); deputy circuit clerk; 210 North 
 
 Washington. 
 Hahn, Herman — Margaret (Lola) 215 West Cooke 
 Hahn, Misses Lottie and Emma; 113 North Lafayette 
 Hahn, Mrs. Lottie (Jerry, John) 205 North Park 
 Hahn, Raymond — Mildred (Mary Lee); drug clerk; 603 North La- 
 fayette. 
 Hahn, William S. — Emma (Mildred); retired; 521 North Lafayette 
 Hanslow, Charles — Bessie (Emma, Charles, Ray, Lillian, Forrest); 
 
 janitor; 302 North Garden. 
 Hanson, Mil ford — Dorothy (Joanna Lee) teacher; 411 North Lafay- 
 ette. 
 Haggis, Lloyd L. — Helen (Robert, Gerard, Barbara Ellen); high 
 
 school principal; 420 West Cooke. 
 H&rgrave, Harold — Alma; carpenter; 416 West Cooke 
 Harper, Mrs. Almeda; 121 North Washington 
 
 Harper, Richard T. — Clara (Loren); retired; 214 North Washington 
 Harper, Ward — Helen (Rae); auto salesman; 600 South Washington 
 Harrison, Perry H.— Dora, 903 South Spring street 
 Harrison, Mrs. Sarah (Katie) ; 119 North Park 
 Hassett, Misses Jennie and Mamie; 219 South Garden 
 Hatfield, Guy — Gladys (Verna Mae, Richard, Leonard); mechanic; 
 
 West Morgan. 
 Heiserman, Mrs. Lena; 112 North Washington 
 
 Heller, August F. — Cordelia; retired painter; 313 North Washington 
 Henry, Miss Anna; 415 North Lafayette 
 Hershey, John T.— Anna; funeral director; 112 North Vine 
 Hildreth, Dr. C. E. —Margaret (Charles, Shirley) physician; 215 So. 
 
 Marion. 
 Holler, Mrs. Jane (sons, Claude Holler and William Brooker) 207 
 
 North Washington. 
 Holmes, Charles — Mary; retired; 317 South Marion 
 Holmes, Edward — Irene (Roy Edward) mechanic; 107 North Vine 
 Holmes, Fred— Hazel; garage; 203% South Washington 
 Holmes, Lawrence — Lois (Alfred) carpenter; 202 North Park 
 Holmes, William E. —Anna (Harry) ; garage owner; 206 North La- 
 fayette. 
 
Holmes, Willis— Zellma (Willis, Richard, Donald) ; laborer; 201 South 
 
 Lafayette. 
 Horn, Frank— Lillie (Emmerson, Delbert, Dean); carpenter; East 
 
 German. 
 Horn, George; retired; 100 South Vine 
 Horn, Henry— Louise (Nellie) retired; 915 South Spring 
 Horn, Miss Lizzie; 209 South Vine street 
 Horn, William; carpenter; 209 South Vine 
 Hubbartt, James — Vera (Jerry, son; Lena, Beulah and Annabelle 
 
 Dayhuffe, stepdaughters) laborer; 314 South Washington. 
 Hughes, Chester G. — Lena; retired; 112 North Marion 
 Hukill, Zolla — Opal; truck driver; 414 East Jasper 
 Humble— Mrs. Helen (Walter, Harvey, Donald); 310 North Vine 
 Hutchison, Frank— Ethel; dairyman; West German 
 Hutter, Joseph F. — Lydia (Cornelius, Ralph, Howard, Pauline, Doris, 
 Joseph, Margaret, Marilyn) trucker & buyer; 300 So. Lafay- 
 ette. 
 
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 Iselin, Charles — Mattie; laborer; 409 South Marion 
 
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 Jackson, Clarence— Delia; laborer; 420 North Marion 
 
 Jackson, Mrs. Ina (Ruth, Ruby, Richard, Lillie May) 300 North 
 
 Spring. 
 Jenner, Miss Katherine; 221 South Lafayette 
 Jenner, William B. — Clara; clerk; 114 South Garden 
 Jones, Robert N. — Delia; retired; 104 North Marion 
 
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 Kautz, Chris J.; retired; 503 West Jefferson 
 
 Kautz, Henry J. Jr. — Thema; express agent; 500 North Garden 
 
 Kautz, Henry J. Sr. — Clara; retired; 310 South Garden 
 
 Kautz, Miss Katie (James Kautz, nephew) ; 400 South Washington 
 
 Kautz, Mike — Eva; grain dealer; 111 North Marion 
 
 Kautz, Wallace — Opal (Wallace Jr.); 318 South Garden 
 
 Kautz, Wilhelm G. — Elsie (Virginia) ; grain dealer; 109 North Spring 
 
 Kautz, Willard — Norma; merchant; Bertoni apartments. 
 
 Keil, Miss Kathryn; 304 East Wayne 
 
 Keiser, Edward; tavern; 401 South Washington 
 
 Kelling, William, Minnie, Anna; 518 South Lafayette 
 
 Kemmer, Charles — Pearl; retired; 306 North Marion 
 
 Kemmer, Fred W. — Carrie; retired; 301 North Washington 
 
 Kennett, Mrs. Hermine (Donald Wayne) 211 North Marion 
 
 Kent, H. B. — Mary; blacksmith; 410 South Lafayette 
 
 Kerns, Edward J. and Sally; retired; 319 North Spring 
 
 Kiick, Mrs. Anna; 120 North Washington 
 
 Kinert, Mrs. Bessie (Mervin) ; 216 North Marion 
 
 Kinert, Mrs. Delia; 402 East Jasper 
 
 Kinert, Earl — Nola (Dale, Helen Jean, Earline) ; engineer; 413 South 
 
 Washington 
 Kipp, William — Ola; laborer; 102 North Washington 
 Klotz, David — Irene (David S.) street commissioner; 290 South 
 
 Washington. 
 
KJotz, Mrs. Henry; 220 North Washington 
 
 Klotz, Miss Tillie; 409 West Cooke 
 
 Klotz, Mrs, William; 220 East Monroe 
 
 Knauer, Otto — Anna (Erwin) 200 East McDonald 
 
 Kneebone, T. L. — Inez (William) minister; 203 North Vine 
 
 Kolp, Arthur C. Sr. — Irene (Lois, Katherine, J. Norman); I. C. agt.; 
 
 402 North Belmont. 
 Koltz, Miss Lucy; 418 North Vine 
 
 Kratzer, Willard — Lydia; produce dealer; 401 West Cooke 
 Krueger, Louis — Mabel (Alvin, Maxine) ; farmer; 412 West Jefferson 
 
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 Lachenmyer, Mrs. Sarah (Florence); 103 North Scott 
 
 Lane, Homer O. — Mary (Marion, Eloise, Bernadine) telegrapher; 
 
 309 South Vine. 
 Lang, Miss Mary; 300 East McDonald 
 Laramee, Ernest — Marie; laborer; East McDonald. 
 Laramee, Ferdinand — Rosina (Ernest, Eli, Marguerite, Harold) lab- 
 orer; 102 North Washington. 
 Laughery, John H.; carpenter; 210 North Garden 
 Laughery, Mrs. William; 317 North Washington 
 Law, Edward — Margaret; merchant; 411 East Cooke 
 Layman, Mrs. Hat tie (Russell, George, and granddaughter, Vera Mae 
 
 Hammond) ; 506 North Washington. 
 Leckbee, C. H. — Velma (Merwyn Dean); printer; 408 East Jefferson 
 Lee, Ora — Arvilla (Ray); policeman; 207 North Vine 
 Lee, Sidney — Ruth (Robert, David, Don); mechanic; 218 South Mar- 
 ion. 
 Lipp, Albert F. — Bertha (Frederick); insurance; 207 South Marion 
 Lipp, Carl — Cora (Dorthalene) plumber; 420 E. Jasper 
 Lipp, Mrs. Lorah Z.; 320 North Washington 
 Utterly, George — Ella (Doris and Jean Litterly, granddaughters) 
 
 retired; 514 North Washington. 
 Loetterle, Miss Winifred; 306 North Lafayette 
 Long, Harry; school teacher; 403 West Jefferson 
 Long, Mrs. Ruth; 403 West Jefferson 
 Lucas, Harry M. — Nell; teacher; 320 North Lafayette 
 Lucas, Mrs. Martha; 119 North Spring 
 Lucas, Mahlon— Mazzie (Merle); 204 North Vine 
 Lucas, Mrs. Mary E.; 114 North Spring 
 Ludwig, Frederick — Johanna; minister, 216 West Cooke 
 
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 McCarthy, Glenn— Marguerite (Patricia Ann) contractor; 103 North 
 Spring. 
 
 McCollough, Mark — Margaret (Bernard, Joe, Nancy, John); school 
 teacher; 404 North Vine. 
 
 McOurry, Thomas — Eva (Henry, Thomas, Carl, George, Annis; lab- 
 orer; 302 North Marion. 
 
 McDonald, John — Grace; retired farmer; 414 North Vine 
 
 McKellar, Mrs. Anna; 401 South Washington 
 
 McVey, Allen — Emma (Walter, Edward, Noretta, Cecil, Orville, 
 Bertha) ; laborer; 515 South Lafayette. 
 
 Manes, Eugene—Harriett (Harry E., Marilyn L., Colleen); clerk; 617 
 North Washington. 
 
Manes, J. P. — Lizzie; laborer; 305 North Washington 
 
 Mann, J. W. — Frances; tavern; South Washington 
 
 Marshall, William — Anna (Lucille, Marjory) laborer; 307 North 
 
 Scott. 
 Martin, Orville E. — Marjella (John, Margaret); elevator mgr.; 318 E. 
 
 Morgan. 
 Mason, Mrs. J. O.; 215 North Washington 
 Mattingly, Mrs. Josie (Woodrow, Charles, Homer, Anna Louise); 
 
 315 South Vine. 
 Maxheimer, Henry C; retired; 105 North Vine 
 Maxheimer, Miss Jane; 109 South Vine 
 
 Mayer, Edward O. — Minnie; retired merchant; 503 North Lafayette 
 Mayer, Fred G. Sr. — Nellie; telephone mgr.; 402 North Marion 
 Mayer, Fred, Jr. — Ruth (Robert); telephone lineman; 401 North 
 
 Lafayette. 
 Mayer, George A. (Gayetta); painter; 211 North Washington 
 Mayer, Henry J. — Ida (Louise, Bernice) cigar mfr.; 221 South 
 
 Washington. 
 Mayer, Mrs. Mary (Estella) 311 West Cooke 
 Mayer, Oscar W. — Janie (Elizabeth) ; retired; 201 North Belmont 
 Medford, Otis D. — Mattie; laborer; 409 West Cooke 
 Meister, Elmer — Ruby (Elmer, Mary) ; electrician; 414 East Cooke 
 Meister, Fred W. — Frances (Mary Frances) ; retired; 520 North Vine 
 Merriman, Dr. C. M. — Nell (Billy, Richard); veterinary; 502 North 
 
 Vine. 
 Mier, John C. (Allen); retired; 221 North Belmont 
 Millard, George — Rose; contractor; 408 East Chestnut 
 Miller, Art — Koneta (Marion, Richard); railroad clerk; 618 South 
 
 Spring. 
 Miller, Hubert — Doris; laborer; 408 South Vine 
 Milner, John — Daisy (Harry, Virginia); 213 North Mason 
 Moll, Walter — Emma (Mary Ellen, Virginia); gardener; 602 North 
 
 Washington. 
 Moore, Miss Annie; 500 North Washington 
 Moore, Frank — Mabel; 118 South Marion 
 Moore, Mrs. Lillian (Dalton) 506 South Garden 
 Moore, Louis — Flossie (Pauline, Albert, Harold, Junior, Doris, Betty, 
 
 Colleen); tiling contractor; 500 South Marion 
 Moore, Mrs. Myra; 500 North Washington 
 
 Moore, Paul R. — Loretta (Paula Joan, Marcia Ann, Myra Kay) ad- 
 vertising mgr.; 204 North Park. 
 Moore, Rodney, Jr. — Helen Marie (Richard Lee, Lillian Etna, Anna 
 
 Lorene, Helen Marie) Obermiller Heights. 
 Moore, Mrs. Rodney, Sr.; Obermiller Heights. 
 Moore, Mrs. T. W.; 118 South Marion 
 Mueller, Charles E. — Minnie; tinner; 120 North Park 
 Myers, Lee — Emma; retired; 414 West Cooke 
 Myers, M J. — Sophia; merchant; 110 South Marion 
 
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 Neal, William — Viola (Thomas Crawford) section laborer; 406 South 
 
 Marion. 
 Newton, Henry; retired; 800 South Spring 
 
Niedergesaess, Louis — Louise; retired; 119 South Vine 
 
 Niekrenz, Edward — Emily (Rochelle, Mildred, Winfred) laborer; 104 
 
 North Garden. 
 Nolan, Mrs. Margaret; 110 North Vine 
 
 Obcamp, Mrs. Florence (Billy, Jimmy), 118 South Marion 
 Obermiller, Mrs. Julia; 600 South Washington 
 O'Brien, Lawrence — Mary (Nancy, Billy Joe) 204 South Vine 
 O'Bryen, Raymer — Or teen (Roland, Dale); engineer; 421 West Mor- 
 gan. 
 O'Connor, Mrs. Mae; 307 North Marion 
 Oglesby, Edward; retired; 116 North Washington 
 Oglesby, Mrs. Emma; 214 North Marion 
 Oglesby, Glenn; clerk; 211^ South Washington 
 
 Passmore, Frank — Anita (Mary, Frank); upholsterer; 217 South 
 Marion. 
 
 Patterson, Levi — Fannie (Yvonna Price, niece) 501 North Washing- 
 ton. 
 
 Patterson, Roscoe — Telia (James, Roscoe W., Fern, Betty, Joseph); 
 barber; 314 North Marion 
 
 Peters, Harry — Ina (Thomas Edward) ; section laborer; East German 
 
 Phillips, Carl — Matilda (Millard, Billy, Earl) theatre owner, 109 N. 
 Marion. 
 
 Phiuney, E. G. — Mary (Barbara) merchant; 411 South Washington 
 
 Pinney, Mrs. Florence (Robert) teacher; 118 North Belmont 
 
 Potter, Mrs. Lottie; 308 North Garden 
 
 Potter, Omer— Irma (Shirley); oil dealer; 515 East Jefferson 
 
 Purget, John — Kate (Emma); laborer; 102 North Vine 
 
 Bandolph,Mrs. Eliza; 412 North Marion 
 
 Ray, Mrs. Mary; 508 South Marion 
 
 Ray, William; laborer; 508 South Marion 
 
 Reese, Dr. L. O. — Edith (Patsy) dentist; south side square 
 
 Regali, Miss Ilda; cook; 119 North Marion 
 
 Reinders, Mrs. Alma M.; 100 North Marion 
 
 Reinders, Dr. Fred W. — Hazel (Hazel Jean; Roy and Donald Beck- 
 ers); dentist; 506 North Vine. 
 
 Renner, Claude W. — Clara; farming; 618 North Marion 
 
 Renner, Guy — Louise (Frances, Claude, Ferol); laborer; 605 North 
 Washington. 
 
 Rentmeister, Mrs. Mary; 305 North Garden 
 
 Rentshler, Mrs. Diana — 116 North Spring 
 
 Rentshler, Mrs. Lillie; 510 West Jefferson. 
 
 Riedel, John — Pearl (John, Joseph); laborer; 308 South Vine 
 
 Ridgeway, Leslie— Teania (Russell, Myrtle, Jennie, June, Charles); 
 painter; 200 South Marion. 
 
 Rigdon, Miss Annetta; 118 North Belmont 
 
Rinker, Jacob; laborer; 508 South Marion 
 
 Bobbins, William and Irwin; poolroom; 210 North Marion 
 
 Roberts, John, Etta, Georgia; 318 North Belmont 
 
 Roberts, Mrs. Margaret (Joel) 313 South Marion 
 
 Ronrer, Mrs. John; 612 South Lafayette 
 
 Romer, Mrs. George; 501 North Scott 
 
 Romer, Herman — Minnie; tavern; south side square. 
 
 Romer, Jacob; retired; 221 South Lafayette 
 
 Romer, Roman — Dorothy (Joan, Tommy, Jimmy, Robert); Sieb Hat- 
 chery; East McDonald. 
 
 Ross, Russell — Fayetta (Leslie, Paul, Donald, Lois); carpenter; 118 
 North Lafayette. 
 
 Roth, Miss Anna; bookkeeper; 403 East Cooke 
 
 Roth, Fred J. — Grace; clerk; Bertoni Apartments. 
 
 Rothweli, Everett — Eula (Georgiabelle) ; salesman; 305 South Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Rothwell, John M. — Clara (Keith, Grace); lumber dealer; 320 West 
 Jefferson. 
 
 Rothwell, Thomas L. — Ora (Jackie Rothwell, nephew) 112 North 
 Spring. 
 
 Rounsevel, Mrs. Ada; 515 North Marion 
 
 Row, George — Pearl (Bernard) salesman; 414 North Vine 
 
 Row, Walter — Jennie (Herbert W.); laborer; 418 South Garden 
 
 Rule, Harry — Frances (George, Harriett) ; railroad signal repair- 
 ing; 321 South Washington. 
 
 Rupp, Mrs. Augusta; 209 North Vine 
 
 Rupp, George — Emma (Mildred, Irma) ; banker; 205 North Vine 
 
 Rupp, Mrs. Lida; 312 North Lafayette 
 
 Rutledge, Orrin — Iva; shoe cobbler; 206 North Lafayette 
 
 Ryan, Albert — Anna (Irma, Alberta, Clara, Amos, Robert); laborer; 
 113 North Mason. 
 
 Ryan, Edward — Lillian; laborer; 219 South Marion 
 
 Ryan, Harold — Ethel; laborer; 510 North Garden 
 
 Ryan, Mrs. James T. (Errol) 115 North Marion 
 
 Ryan, Wilford — Ida (June Ann, Wallace); laborer; 813 South Spring 
 
 Sargeant, John; painter; 316 West Jefferson 
 
 Sams, Louis F. — Hazel; Standard Oil mgr.; 216 North Lafayette 
 
 Schafer, Miss Anna; 111 North Belmont 
 
 Schafer, Fred A.— Lillie; 303 South Lafayette 
 
 Schafer, J. Fred; merchant; 111 North Belmont 
 
 Schafer, Henry W. —Margaret; merchant; 508 East Cook street 
 
 Schafer, Mrs. Lena; 119 North Scott 
 
 Schafer, Walter A. — Maynie; merchant; 419 North Vine 
 
 Schaffenacker, Austin W. — Jessie (Rhoda, Jane); garage mgr.; 307 
 
 West Cooke. 
 Schaffenacker, Mrs. Fannie; 302 North Washington 
 Schaffenacker, Fred G.— Mary; retired; 210 South Garden 
 Schahl, George E. — Julia; retired; 113 North Belmont 
 Schahl, Gottlieb F.—Katherine (Frieda, Norma) ; 406 East Chestnut 
 Schahl, Miss Regina; 503 North Vine 
 Schahl, Wilbert H.; funeral director; 107 North Vine 
 
Schenck, Mrs. Ella; 204 North Spring 
 
 Schick, Mike— Nora (Margaret) shoe repair shop; 110 South Vine 
 
 Scnmitz, Charles — Anna; city clerk; 402 East Cooke 
 
 Schroth, Mrs. Elizabeth; 312 North Lafayette 
 
 Schultz, Charles — Bess (Dean, Doris); merchant; 301 South Vine 
 
 Schwoerer, Wm. A. — Margaret (William, Barbara, Rose Mary, Louis) 
 
 300 East McDonald. 
 Scroggin, Byron — Ella (Harold, Howard); gas station; Route 121. 
 Scroggin, George L. — Ida (Betty) trucker; 404 North Marion. 
 Scroggin, Mrs. Ida; 316 West Jefferson 
 Scroggin, Oran O. — Lillie; 308 West Jefferson 
 Scroggin, T. A. — Mary; banker; 216 South Vine 
 Scroggin, Wilford — Lois (Thomas Arthur, Wilford) 301 West Cooke 
 Scott, George; laborer; 505 South Vine 
 Sellers, Harold; Kroger mgr.; 305 South Washington 
 Seyfer, Miss Clara; 303 North Vine 
 Shanle, Edward; laborer; 310 South Lafayette 
 Sheridan, George; retired; 104% South Side Square. 
 Shively, Mrs. Elizabeth; 413 North Spring 
 
 Shively, Rolla — Herma (Margaret) butcher; 110 North Belmont 
 Shoup, Frank — Myrtle; retired; 212 North Lafayette 
 Shrader, James H. — Emma; barber; 401 North Washington 
 Shull, Darrell — Kathryn (Tommy, Darven); laborer; 104% South 
 
 Side Square. 
 Shull, Hiram (Wilbur) laborer; 600 South Spring 
 Shull, Richard — Helen (Mary, Rita); auto mechanic; 408 South 
 
 Marion. 
 Shull, Russell — Fern (Dorothy May); clerk; 514 East Cooke 
 Sisk, Harry S. — Grace (William, Elwin, Harold, Don, Elizabeth, 
 
 George, Mary Anne) mail carrier; 505 East Jefferson. 
 Smith, Mrs. Clara; 515 East Jefferson 
 
 Smith, Frank — Mary (Frank, Harris, Richard) 210 North Marion 
 Smith, George J. — Bertha; lawyer; 106 Belmont 
 Smith, Mrs. J. Will; 418 North Vine 
 Snyder, Mrs. Angeline; 108 North Vine 
 Snyder, Charles D. — 119 North Mason 
 
 Snyder, Frank B. (John) ; contractor; 121 North Lafayette 
 Snyder, George — Nora; carpenter; 120 North Garden 
 Snyder, Willis W.; music store; 311 North Lafayette 
 Spenler, Fred C. — Charlotte (Gilbert, Winnifred) trucker; 217 North 
 
 Spring. 
 Stafford, Mrs. W. H.; 120 North Lafayette 
 Staley, J. Wayne — Veta (Darald, J. Wayne, Jr., Wendell) minister; 
 
 400 North Washington. 
 Starr, George and Christina; 100 North Park 
 Starr, John — Anna (Eva; grandson, Lester) 505 West Cooke 
 Stockton, Earl — Charlotte (Phyllis Jean) ; 408 East Chestnut 
 Stockton, William F.— Eliza (Lucille, Valeria, Gladys, Alice, Betty, 
 
 Katherine); 410 North Marion. 
 Stoll, John E.— Elizabeth (Wilbur); milk dealer; East McDonald 
 Stoll, Mrs. Minnie; 115 North Scott 
 Stratton, Mrs. James E. (Jessie, Benny, Norman, Wilma) ; 415 North 
 
 Spring. 
 Stratton, John—Emma (Dallas); laborer; 402 East Jasper 
 
Stuart, J. H. — Fern (Virginia, Gustavus); merchant; 405 South 
 
 Marion. 
 Soedmeier, George E. — Ada (Paul, Noel); policeman; 205 North La- 
 fayette. 
 Suedmeier, Henry J.; retired; 403 East Cooke 
 Suedmeier, Mrs. Minnie; 315 South Washington 
 S winner, J. C. — Eva (Lloyd); merchant; 308 South Washington. 
 
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 Taimage, Frank — Helen (Richard) merchant; 417 North Lafayette 
 
 Templeman, Miss Emma; 303 North Belmont 
 
 Tendick, Mrs. Minnie; 211 North Marion 
 
 Theobald; Frank; laborer; 401 South Washington 
 
 Thomas, John; retired; West Morgan. 
 
 Ttxickson, Carl — Ruth; barber; 211 North Marion 
 
 Thrasher, Arthur — Opal (James) North Mason 
 
 Tomlinson, Mrs. Frances (Joyce Ann) ; 305 North Garden 
 
 Tribbett, Mrs. Beatrice (Johnny West, nephew) ; 208 North Spring 
 
 Tribbett, Mrs. Christiann; 416 West Cooke 
 
 Tribbett, Mrs. Georgia; 119 North Mason 
 
 Tomer, Robert; laborer; 208 N. Washington 
 
 Turner, Troll — Frances; barber; 411 South Washington 
 
 Tutwiler, William U. — Lucinda; gardener; 408 North Garden 
 
 Tyler, Burton A. — Kate; lawyer; 219 North Scott 
 
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 Underbill, George — Irene (Jane, Virginia Robert) merchant; 51% 
 
 North Washington. 
 Inland, Clarence— Martha (John Lendell and Gordon Lee McCar- 
 
 thery) Chevrolet dealer; 317 North Lafayette. 
 Upp, Claude W. — Mary; railroad depot clerk; Bertoni Apartments 
 Upp, Mrs. Susan (Etta) 215 North Lafayette 
 Utterback, Chester — Margaret (Betty May, John Thomas) ; laborer- 
 
 400 South Vine. 
 
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 Vaii, Mrs. Ethal (Wilma, Juanita) merchant; 306 North Garden 
 Vaudeventer, Dave — Tillie (Hazel, Everett) North Spring 
 
 Vandevender, Mrs. Emma (Howard, Nellie) 207 North Spring 
 Vaa Hook, Dr. F. C. — Marie (Harry, Florence, Betty, Mildred); 
 
 physician; 106 North Marion. 
 Veail, Ira — Emma; retired; 604 North Vine 
 Veech, Jasper — Mary (Emagene, Merle, Wayne, Rhoda) ; laborer; 
 
 516 North Marion. 
 Vetter, John — Mary (Frances); retired; 103 North Spring 
 Vogelsang, Andrew — Izora; merchant; west side square 
 Voile, Mrs. Elizabeth (Louise, Everett, Esther, Ruth Ann) 411 North 
 
 Vine. 
 Voile, George A. — Florence (Dan, Frank) banker; 910 South Spring, 
 Voile, Henry (Alberta, Henry); retired; 407 North Vine 
 Voile, Misses Katie and Mary; 407 North Vine 
 
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 Wacaser, Walter D.; postmaster; 501 North Washington. 
 
Waddell, Loren — Elsie (Jean) laborer; 420 West Jefferson 
 
 Waddell, Mrs. Pearl (Page); 119 North Scott. 
 
 Wagner, Mrs. Katherine (Florence) 107 North Belmont 
 
 Wagner, Ottmar E. — Grace (Charles F.); mail carrier; 109 Belmont 
 
 Walt, Dr. G. F. — Blanche (Edwin) dentist; 520 North Lafayette 
 
 Walker, Mrs. Nell; 315 North Spring 
 
 "Warren, William — Rosa (Betty, Alice, ) laborerSouth La- 
 
 fayette. 
 
 Washburn, Mrs. Hattie (Delia) 103 North Marion 
 
 Weakley, Mrs, Elizabeth; 321 West Cooke 
 
 Weidenbacher, Louis F. — Grace; barber; 408 West Jefferson 
 
 Weidenbacher, Mrs. Matilda; 403 South Spring 
 
 Weidenbacher, Mrs, Theresa — 216 S. Spring 
 
 Weller, Charles — Carrie; retired; 108 North Belmont 
 
 Weller, Chris — Sarah; retired; 304 North Vine 
 
 Weller, George; coal dealer; 401 South Washington 
 
 Weller, Kenneth; ice dealer; 108 North Belmont 
 
 Wells, Harry — Dena, retired; 218 South Garden 
 
 West, Clarence — Dollie; retired; 301 North Lafayette 
 
 Wlble, H. J. — Mlargaret (Geraldine, Jean) publisher; 200 North La- 
 fayette. 
 
 Wlble, W. D. — Katherine (Donald Wayne); printer; 502 East Cooke 
 
 William, Dr. Everett — Rebecca (Hilma, Carl, Merle); veterinarian; 
 Obermiller Heights. 
 
 Wilson, David — Bertha (Marcella) retired; South Mason 
 
 Wilson, Miss Ida; 405 West Morgan 
 
 Wilson, Reide C. — Letitia; brick mason; 207 North Washington 
 
 Wlrth, Troy — Blanche (Elma Louise); North Garden 
 
 Witt, Mrs. Mary; (Ambrose) ; 400 North Lafayette 
 
 TOttrock, Rev. H. — Sophia (John, Arthur, Bernard) minister; 100 
 South Vine. 
 
 Wolf, Miss Ella; 110 North Marion 
 
 Wolfs, Mrs. Emma; 312 South Washington 
 
 Wood, Herman — Mildred (Jo Ann, John H., Shirley) carpenter; 601 
 North Marion. 
 
 Woodrum, Arthur — Grace; cafe; 316 West Jefferson 
 
 Wright, Charles; painter; 401 South Washington 
 
 Wynd, Mrs. Amanda (Florence) 310 North Marion 
 
 Wynd, H. V— Daisy (Nina); banker; 506 North Lafayette 
 
 Y 
 
 Yoder, Carl — Pauline; carpenter; 210 South Marion 
 
 z 
 
 Zah, Misses Elizabeth and Margaret; 410 South Marion 
 Zah, Gottlieb C. — Celia; custodian Lincoln shrine; 311 South Wash- 
 ington. 
 Zah, John — Emma; coal dealer; 601 South Spring 
 Zimmerli, Samuel — Lucinda; retired; 303 South Marion 
 Zlmmermann, Mrs. August; 220 South Lafayette 
 Zimmermann, Mrs. Effie (Theron) ; 291 North Lafayette 
 Zim merman n, Theodore — Marie (Frederick, Jack) carpenter; 523 
 
 North Vine. 
 Zimmermann, Miss Zenobia; grade school principal; 220 South Lafay- 
 ette. 
 
Centennial Pageant 
 
 SPONSORED BY MOUNT PULASKI WOMAN'S CLUB 
 
 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1936 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL GYM 8:00 P. M* 
 
 NARRATOR Gene C. Clear 
 
 FOUR BOYS— Dick Talmage, Miller Drobisch, Harvey Humble, 
 
 Wendell Staley. 
 
 FOUNDING OF MOUNT PULASKI 
 
 Jabez Capps Rev. J. Wayne Staley 
 
 Barton Robinson Dr. L. O. Reese 
 
 George W. Turley Oscar W. Mayer 
 
 THE FIRST STORE 
 
 Jabez Capps, Proprietor Rev. J. Wayne Staley 
 
 Mrs. Capps Mrs. W. H. Stafford 
 
 Prudence Capps Marilyn Manes 
 
 John Capps Harry Eugene Manes 
 
 Customers — Mrs. Clarence E. West and Mrs. Albert F. Dillsaver 
 
 Andy Danner's Boy Buddy Veech 
 
 John Buckles Henry Mayer 
 
 Jeremiah Birks Oscar W. Mayer 
 
 THE SCHOOL SCENE 
 
 Lake Fork School representing Brush College on ' 
 Salt Creek north of Mount Pulaski 
 
 William Hackney, teacher Thomas A. Gupton 
 
 Directors — Harta B. Tendick, William Carpenter, Roy Moore, Alex- 
 ander Morrow, William Vandevender, Clyde Fetus. 
 
 PUPILS 
 
 Meredith Patterson Meredith Peterson 
 
 Jean Laughery Jean Guffey 
 
 Paul Fletcher Paul Coats 
 
 Dorothy Capps , Dorothy Baumgardt 
 
 Richard Downing Richard Laatsch 
 
 Delia Mae Harry Delia Mae Koehler 
 
 Patricia Morrow Patricia Guffey 
 
 Wayne Parks Wayne Febus 
 
 Ray Allen _ Ray Peterson 
 
 Harold Lee Jackson Harold Lee Gaffney 
 
COURT ROOM SCENE 
 
 Abraham Lincoln E. H. Lukenbill 
 
 Judge David Davis B. A. Tyler 
 
 William & Lawrence, lawyers — Henry W. Schafer, Wilbert H. Schahl 
 Sheriff, Thomas J. Larison — Roy Moore 
 Clerk, Samuel Emmett — Oscar Horn 
 
 Spectators — William B. Capps, Harry B. Capps, John A. Christ- 
 man, J.C. Swinney, George Rupp, Dr. G. S. Connelly, John T. 
 Hershey, Dan J. Fuhrer, Harry Downing, T. A. Scroggin. 
 
 SEMI-CENTENNIAL SCENE 
 Semi-Centennial Committee 
 
 S. Linn Beidler Paul E. Beidler 
 
 T. H. Smedley Harry J. Wible 
 
 C. F. Schafer Walter A. Schafer 
 
 J. P. Fowler Paul R. Moore 
 
 M. J. Reinheimer Omer Potter 
 
 George Jenner Wilbur Stoll 
 
 I. L. Donaldson Dr. G. S. Connelly 
 
 W. M. Martin Harry Downing 
 
 Quartet— Harry J. Wible, Paul R. Moore, Omer Potter, Wilbur Stoll 
 Husking Bee and Quadrille — Mr. and Mrs. Ennis A. Downing, Mr. 
 and Mrs. Frank Rentshler, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis C. Downing, Mrs. Os- 
 wald Brooker, Albert F. Dillsaver. 
 
 Accompanists — Mrs. Frank E. Turley, the Misses Ridgeway. 
 
 THE GAY NINETIES 
 
 Mount Pulaski Woman's Club Chorus 
 Mrs. G. S. Connelly, director — Mrs. Frank E. Turley, Accompanist 
 Virginia Reel — Township High School Students 
 
 WORLD WAR SCENE 
 Elmer Meister, Paul A. Gruber, Leroy Buckles, Orville E. Martin, 
 Frank Talmage, George Meister, T. A. Gupton. 
 
 Sailor Harold Hargrave 
 
 Wounded Soldier Ben Ely 
 
 Red Cross Nurse Mrs. L. O. Reese 
 
 In Flanders Field Mrs. Virginia Ey 
 
 Taps Harry J. Wible 
 
 FINALE 
 
 Count Pulaski Glenn Bowers 
 
 Spirit of Future of Mount Pulaski Betty Van Hook 
 
 Ensemble of past and present Mount Pulaskians 
 
 Pageant Written and Directed by Gene C. Clear 
 Mrs. G. S. Connelly, Assistant Director 
 
1937 Picture of Mount Pulaski 
 
 Mount Pulaski, Logan County, Illinois, second largest city in the 
 county and at one time the county seat. Population 1400. Located 
 9 miles southeast of Lincoln; 23 miles northwest of Decatur; 30 miles, 
 northeast of Springfield. 
 
 Transportation: Serviced by two lines of the Illinois Central, 
 railroad. Main line between Chicago and St. Louis offers excellent 
 service with the Green Diamond, the last word in streamline trains, 
 stopping here enroute to St. Louis at 7:34 p. m. Branch line from 
 Peoria to Mattoon. On Route 121, Decatur to Peoria; $100,000 
 black top road connection with Route 4 at Elkhart 12 miles wesK 
 fine year-round gravel and oil connection south to Route 10 (De* 
 catur-Springfield). Entire township has gravel roads to every farm 
 home. Adjoining townships also gravelled. 
 
 City water supply system furnishes exceptionally good deep welt 
 water; is up to the minute and fully paid for. Extensive water mains 
 offer ample supply of water for fire protection. 
 
 Fine high school building and splendid curriculum and fine 
 teachers make it one of the outstanding schools of the state. Espe- 
 cially noted for its fine basketball teams. Splendid grade school 
 building and fine teachers. 
 
 Churches — St. John's Lutheran, Zion Ev. Lutheran, Christian, 
 Methodist, St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic, and Church of God. 
 
 Fire department which is well equipped, fully manned and uni- 
 formed has won three state championships. 
 
 Two banks whose ratings are exceptionally high, both weather- 
 ing the rigid requirements of 1933. There has never been a banlc 
 failure here. 
 
 Mount Pulaski is the home of a Lincoln Memorial Shrine, one 
 of the original courthouses in the state in which Lincoln held court 
 and practiced law. The building which stands in the center of the 
 city square is now in the process of being restored. 
 
 Community is surrounded by one of the most thrifty farming 
 sections and the best soil in the United States. Farms are practically 
 all owned by their occupants. The community is termed a wealthy 
 one. 
 
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Former Mount Pulaskians 
 
 Mrs. F. G. Adams, 3429 Berry Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 
 
 Wm. P. Addle-man — 614 Third Ave., Joliet, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. Brooks R. Aitchison (Irma Buckles) Dale, Brooks Jr., Urbana 
 
 111. 
 Robert S. Aitchison, Firestone Co. employee, 4536 Forest Park Blvd., 
 
 St. Louis, Mo., resident until 1936. 
 Mrs. D. C. Anderson, 355 S. Columbia St., Union City, Ind. 
 James H. Anderson, Orwisburg, Pa. 1879-1916. 
 Mrs. Lucy Andrews, 240 N. Park Place, Decatur, Illinois 
 Mrs. F. W. Arnold, 832 East Prairie, Decatur, Illinois 
 
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 Harry T. Barnard, 4301 Ellis Avenue, Apt. B., Chicago, 111. 
 
 D. L. Barr, 134 N. Adams St., Westmont, Illinois 
 
 A. C. Bartels, Lincoln, Illinois 
 
 F. A. Baumann, 1128 W. 49th St., Los Angeles, California 
 
 Jake Baumann, 2750 N. Richards St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
 
 Mrs. Katie Baumann, 1407 8th St., Greely, Colorado 
 
 Ernest Beck (Rose Herliska) Ernest Jr., Musician, Boxing Instr., 
 
 Chicago, 111., 313 Stanley Terrace 1911-1930. 
 John H. Beckers (M(ary A. Claus) Mary C. Beckers Attorney, Co. 
 
 Judge, Kankakee, 111., 378 S. Evergreen Ave., 1880-1903. 
 Earl Beebe (Doris Lachenmyer) Tommy, 805 19th St., San Marino, 
 
 California. 
 Donald C. Beidler, photographer, 22 Moro Court, Manhassett, L. I. 
 
 N. P. Born in Mount Pulaski. 
 George C. Beidler (Virgie) linotype operater Daily News, 6239 Black- 
 stone Ave., Apt. 102, Chicago, 111. 
 S. Lynn Beidler (Brownie Lawrence) Mary Lynn; 7528 Colfax Ave., 
 
 So. Shore Station, Chicago, 111. 
 Mrs. X. F. Beidler (Anna Martin) Secretary State School and Col- 
 ony, Lincoln, Illinois. Born in Mount Pulaski. 
 Walter Benzinger, 1112 N. Dearborn, Chicago, 111. 
 Mrs. Katie Bentley, 508 W. Iona Street, Onawa, Iowa 
 Chas. B. Bernard (Minnie Rhoads) Willard S. Bernard, Merchant 
 
 Men's Furnishings, Main St., Cheney, Wash., 1869-1879. 
 Wm. Bertrang — Hallie (Jean, Colleen) farmer, Kenney, Illinois. Born 
 
 in Mount Pulaski. 
 W. G. Bienefeldt (Cora L. Keys) Mrs. Hilda Bayne, Mrs. Mary 
 
 Shaw, Mrs. Esther Schultz, William K., contracting painter, 
 
 3271 6th Ave., Sacremento, Calif., until 1926. 
 C. A. Billington, Cisne, Illinois 
 Mary Binder, 258 North Main, Decatur, Illinois 
 Edward C. Birnbaum (Gladys C. Rupp) farmer, Lincoln, 111., R. 4 — ■ 
 
 1905-1920. 
 Harry M. Blout (Emma Rowcliffe) 'George W., Homer G., Byron B., 
 
 pastor M. E. Church, Roberts, Illinois — 1928-1935. 
 
Jessie Bowles, University Hospital, nurse, Chicago, 111. 
 
 Mrs. Dave Brady, Marshall, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. Joe Brown, Boulder Co. Box 144, Lafayette, Colorado 
 
 Aaron Buckles, Webster City, Iowa 
 
 Elias Buckles (Blanche Brothers) Eugene, Robert, Wholesale Auto 
 
 Supply, 237 Reed St., Waterloo, la., 1895-1912. 
 Bernard Buescher, 214 North Main Street, Edgerton, Wisconsin 
 William Buescher, 155 N. Waverly, Orange, California 
 Mrs. Charles Butler, 1023 Milton Ave., RR1, Springfield, Illinois 
 
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 Allen Cain, Amboy, Indiana 
 
 Mrs. Brooks Calver (Martha A. Hunt) Mrs. Alice M. Fisher, niece, 
 
 Kansas City, Mo., Box 2282—1893-1922. 
 Mrs. Helen Carter, 4115 Broadway, Chicago, Illinois 
 Charles Campbell, Fairfield, Illinois 
 George S. Capps (Anna Miller) Eleanor Capps, Printer, 4118 N. 26th 
 
 St., Tacoma, Wash., 1870-1883. 
 Miss Ida Capps, Vandalia, 111. 
 Linn B. Capps (Lavinia M. Andrews) Decorator, 1612 S. Eye St., 
 
 Tacoma, Wash.— 1874-1881. 
 P. A. Capps (Maud C. Chesney) Claudia K. Rogers, Topeka, Kansas, 
 
 905 Madison St., 1876-1889. 
 Walter Holden Capps ( Griffin) Custodian Scottish Rite 4307 
 
 Decatur, St., Omaha, Nebr., 1866-1883. 
 James W. Carroll, 1934 Arkansas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas 
 James Christian (Amy Adaline Huston) Chas Christian, patentright 
 
 and M£g„ Fonda, Iowa; Fred Christian, policeman, East St. 
 
 Louis, 111.; William Christian, contractor, Portland, Oregon; 
 
 Carry Christian, San Bernadino, Calif., retired farmer, Esther- 
 
 ville, Iowa, 1861-1903. 
 Mrs. Claries Clark (Leona Zah) 1359 N. Maple, Decatur, Illinois 
 Cletus Clobes, Arrick Engraving Co., Decatur, Illinois 
 Mrs. Jean Cochran (Margaret Zimmermann) 1360% N. Morgan, 
 
 Decatur, Illinois. 
 Ralph Cook, Route 2, Chandlerville, Illinois 
 W. T. Cowan, Allegree, Kentucky 
 John Crane, Lincoln, 111., R. R. 4 
 
 Perlie Craft, projectionist Vogue Theatre, Lincoln, 111., 1921-1935. 
 John Cravens, Williamsville, Illinois 
 Mrs. George B. Croll, 433 Briar Place, Chicago, Illinois 
 Mrs* Alma Cunningham (Alma Vonderlieth) bookkeeper, W. P. A. 
 
 office, Carry, Penn. 
 Mrs. C. J. Cunningham, 1713 North Madison, Peoria, Illinois 
 Maude A. Cusick, 311 West Stanton Street, Streator, Illinois 
 
 D 
 
 Mrs. Walter Damarin, Williamsville, 111. 
 
 William C. Danks (Tillie E. Lanham) Edna M. Latham, Willa E. 
 
 Marschner, Josephine J. Donald, Raymond B. Danks, Fern L. 
 
 Danks, Denver, Colo., 2230 Dexter, near Mt. P. 1893-1902. 
 Mrs. Oscar Banner, Harold, 464 Moss Ave., Oakland, California, 
 
 1893-1903. 
 Mrs. Chas. A. Dawson, 414 Forest Ave., Pacific Grove, California 
 Creed H. Dawson (Rachel Brewer) Farmer, 1852-1883. 
 
Mrs. Gus Deckard, West Liberty, Illinois 
 
 Arthur DeFrees, 4 Linden Place, Bergenfield, N. J. 
 
 Mrs. Kay Demmitt, 3428 Polk Street, Chicago, Illinois 
 
 George Dertinger (Florence Craig) George, Jr.. coach, Lewistown, 111. 
 
 Mrs. Harry L. Diller (Goldie Mason) 451 E. King St., Decatur, Illi- 
 nois. 1895-1920. 
 
 Mrs. Bertha Donnon, 219-3rd St., Peoria, Illinois 
 
 Dorsett, C. E., Lincoln, Illinois 
 
 Floyd E. Downing (Lela Irving) Richard, Rural Mail Carrier, Illiopo- 
 lis, 111., 1920-1933. 
 
 Mrs. Frank Downing (Irene Clark) 529 W. First St., Long Beach, 
 Calif. 
 
 Richard Downing (Mary Lucille Rothwell) Firestone Mgr., 4232 
 Forrest Park Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 OUie E. Drake, 816 Broadway, Mattoon, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. M. L. Drobisch, 5826 Erie, Chicago, Illinois 
 
 G. A. Drum (Erma M r Ater) Harry R., Rex A., Donald, Bess Drum 
 Haines, Publisher, Tolono, 111. — 1910-1929. 
 
 Dick Duff, 310 Gilette Ave., Waukegan, 111. 
 
 Thelma Ebert, former teacher, Washington, 111. 
 
 Mrs. E. E. Edwards, Rural Route, Owen, Wisconsin 
 
 Mrs. Lee G. Edwards, Butternut, Wisconsin 
 
 Mrs. H. F. Ely, Niantic, Illinois 
 
 Fercy Ely (Delia Moore) Mildred; Marshall Field & Co., 1133 
 George St., Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Charles E. Eminger (Blanche Berkley) Electrical Shop, Pasadena, 
 Calif., 760 N. Walnut St., 1890-1911. 
 
 Earle L. Eminger (Gladys Williams) June Ann Eminger Sinclair, 
 Loren Wayne, Carol Jean, Express Agent, Maywood, 111., 1616 
 S. 6th Ave., 1890-1909. 
 
 Enlow, Wm., Heyworth, Illinois 
 
 Dr. Lawren R. Evans (Neva McCleary) Robert H. Phi Psi, North- 
 western University, Evan William, dentist, Dixon, 111., 221 E. 
 Fellows St. 1891-1913. 
 
 F. W. Field, 833 South Third St., Springfield, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. Emma French, 834 N. Ridgewood Place, Hollywood, California 
 
 Mrs. W. E. Fry, 412 East Rafter St., Springfield, Illinois 
 
 Boyd Frye, 2003 E. Taylor, Bloomington. Illinois 
 
 F. W. Fuhrer, 700 West Barker St., Peoria, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. Ella Gaffney, Dawson, Illinois 
 
 J. W. Galloway, RR1. Woodward, Okla. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Gasaway, 431 So. 7th, Springfield, 111. 
 
 T. P. Gasaway, Annona, Texas 
 
 Clarence Robert Gilchrist (Wilma Purviance) salesman, Lincoln, 111. 
 
 120 Park Place —1899-1922. 
 Miss Mattie Gingry, 316 7th Ave., Peoria, Illinois 
 F. R. Gobleman, Holcomb, Kansas 
 
Joyce Goodburn, Worthing, South Dakota 
 
 J. H. Gordon, 3202 North 29th St., Tacoma, Washington 
 
 Fred Grathwohl, Sr., (Johanna Schuldt) Fred Grathwohl Jr., janitor, 
 
 Milwaukee, Wis., 1719 W. Keefe Ave., 1895-1920. 
 Otto Green, Pleasant Plains, Illinois 
 Mrs. Ray Gregory (Pauline Rupp) Feed and Fuel, 1922 Kelton Ave., 
 
 West Los Angeles, Calif. — 1919. 
 Herbert Greenslate (Fern Bailey) Decatur, Illinois, R. 1. 
 Mrs. Fred Grover, 224 West Prairie St., Decatur, Illinois 
 M. E. Gulso, Withee, Wisconsin 
 
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 Mrs. Frida Hagland, 512 'Grand Street, Danville, Illinois 
 
 Chester Haines (Bess Drum) Donald, druggist, 4562 Lexington, St. 
 
 Louis, Missouri, 1910-1927. 
 Mrs. M. E. Hall, Haines City, Florida 
 Ova A. Harbert (Bettie Lea Litterly) Marcella Ruth, Jessie Eloise, 
 
 Ralph Elias, farmer, Decatur, 111., RR3 — 1917-1932. 
 Florence Harding, Rockwell City, Iowa 
 
 Harry B. Harper (Louise DuBoce) Harry Jr., Foreman at IPL Gar- 
 age, 812 W. Waggoner, Decatur, 111. — 1890-1916. 
 Forrestine Harrison, 7353 N. Paulina Street, Roger Ok Sta., Chicago 
 Glenn H. Harrison, 1127 South Grant, Denver, Colorado 
 Mrs. Harley Haynes, Onawa, Iowa 
 Bertha Heckler, 715 South Second St., Springfield, 111. 
 Jodie Heller, 8137 Evans Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 
 Lawrence Herget (Emma Schahl) Farming, Geneseo, 111. — 1899-1934 
 H. I. Hershey, 151 W. 190th, P. O. Station O., New York 
 Minnie Hershey, 1243 W. Wood St., Decatur, Illinois 
 Dr. Noel Hershey (Mary) medical; 424 N. 4th, Niles, Michigan. 
 
 E. T. Heyne, Long Prairie, Minnesota 
 Mrs. Harold Hickey, Williamsville, 111. 
 
 F. E. Hill (Ailene Snyder) Lucre tia, druggist, Lander, Wyo. to 1924. 
 Mrs. W. L, Hodson, 1024 Enos Ave., Springfield, 111. 
 
 Rev. Wm. Hoffman (Amelia Roth) minister, Melbourne, Ky. 1885- 
 
 1904. 
 Floyd F. Holler. Clerk, 1062 W. Packard St., Decatur, 111., 1883-1917. 
 Earl E. Holmes, Beason, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. Ernest Hoist, 1205 E. Johns St., Decatur, Illinois 
 Louis M. Hopping (Helen Boutwell) Jean, Irene, George, William, 
 
 Assistant U. S. Attorney, 11996 Indiana Ave., Detroit, Michi- 
 gan, 1912-1923. 
 Arthur Horn (Elizabeth Deibert, deceased) Govt. Clerk in General 
 
 Accounting office, 1011-M. St., N. W. Washington, D. C. 
 
 1882-1905. 
 Elizabeth Horn, MSlliner, 2518 Wilson Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 Richard Willis Horn (Doris Alberta Lemon) Richard Kelly, Barbara 
 
 Lou, Marilyn Zane, Lloyd Evan, Capt. CCC Camp, Milford, 
 
 Utah, 1893-1916. 
 Mrs. Henry Hornbeck, 6232 N. Mozart, Chicago, Illinois 
 Oscar F. Huck (Rachel Hinrichsen) Merchant tailor, 706 S. Hill St., 
 
 Los Angeles, Calif., 1880-1905; 1915-1918. 
 Eli Huston, 1553 North College Street, Decatur, 111. 
 
J 
 
 Henry L. Jamison (Lois E. Clark) White Sulphur Springs, Montana. 
 William O. Johnson, 615 Stoddard Ave., Wheaton, Illinois 
 
 K 
 
 B. H. Keck (Fannie Scroggin) Sheriff Logan County, Lincoln, 111. 
 
 R. S. Keck (Amelia Buehler) Betty, Robert; Deputy Sheriff, Lincoln, 
 111. 
 
 Fred Kemmer, 1516 West 45th St., Los Angeles, California 
 
 Rev. W. N. King (Sara Belle Sutton) Minister, Fairview, 111., 1924- 
 1932. 
 
 Mrs. C. H. Koehnle, 12732 Freud Ave., Apt. 14, Detroit, Michigan 
 
 James C. Korkoskie (Louise Schmidt) Hotel Owner, 2 S. Locust St., 
 Pana, Illinois— 1910-1924. 
 
 Charles O. Kosischke (Caroline Danner) Karl D., Norman J., Dor- 
 othea A., International Silverware Co., 102 S. Spring St., 
 Meriden, Conn., 1888-1902. 
 
 Kate M. Kusterer, Moorland, Iowa 
 
 Mrs. Dan Kusterer, 1415 3rd Ave., North, Ft. Dodge, Iowa. 
 
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 Mrs. L. E. Lamkin, 408 North Prairie St., Champaign, Illinois 
 John H. Lassen (Fern E. Clem) Hilma, Dorothy, Mlarjorie, John Jr., 
 
 Dallas, New Castle, Ind., 1209 S. 25th, carpenter 1914-1934. 
 Roy Leapley, Shipping Clerk, 323 6th St., Peoria, HI. 
 Arthur W. Leslie (R. Alma Lacey, deceased) Real Est. Broker, Los 
 
 Angeles, Calif., 1545 N. Orange Grove, 1898-1918. 
 Mrs. E. M. Lincoln, 4325 8th Ave., Rock Island, Illinois 
 Roy Love, Broadwell, Illinois 
 
 Earl Lucas, 1122 East 67th Street, Jackson Park Sta., Chicago, 111. 
 George Lucas, Gorham, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. W. T. Lushbaugh, 307 S. Gillet St., Tulsa, Okla. 
 Helena Luther, former teacher at high school, Dundee, Illinois 
 
 M 
 
 Walter D. MacAllister (Mtedora Caroline Seyfer) Lois Katherine 
 MacAllister Hinsey, secretary Arkansas City Savings Building 
 and Loan, Arkansas City, Kans., 502 N. Second St., 1874-1894. 
 
 Frank C. McElvain (Jessie Capps) proof reader on Topeka Daily 
 Capital, 1020 Western Ave., Topeka, Kansas, 1872-1889. 
 
 Mrs. A. E. McDonald, 715 Eleventh Street, Greeley, Colorado 
 
 Mrs. J. H. McMath, 1205 No. Yakin, Lowell Apts. No. 3, Tacoma, 
 Washington. 
 
 Ed J. McNattin (Anna ) Cleaner and Dyer, 6411 N. Seminary, 
 
 Galesburg, 111., descendants of Jabez Capps. 
 
 Raymond McNattin, Electrician, 404 W. Vine St., Champaign, HI., 
 descendant of Jabez Capps. 
 
 Mrs. Robert Malone, Sims, Illinois 
 
 W. M. Martin, 2931 North Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 
 
 Mrs. Alfred Maxey, 524 Hillsdale Street, Inglewood, California 
 
 Mrs. Nancy Maxey (Amelia Rupp) 804 Fourth St., Santa Monica, Cal. 
 
 Carl Maxheimer, Lanesville, Illinois 
 
 W. A. Maxheimer, 3732 N. Monticello Ave., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Everett W. Mayer, Box 3542, Santurce, Porto Rico 
 
Louis F. Mayer, 3224 Richmond Ave., Mattoon, Illinois 
 
 Norman C. Mayer (Catherine Cryan) Statistician, Public Service Co. 
 
 of Northern Illinois, Chicago, 111., 72 W. Adams St. 
 Robert W. Mayer (Nelle De Atley) Nancy Catherine Mayer, Univer- 
 sity Instructor, Bethlehem, Pa., Lehigh University. 
 Kussel Miles (Velma Vetter) Mary Elaine, 7722 Oglesby Ave., So. 
 
 Shore Station, Chicago, Illinois. 
 Mrs. Carrie Miller (Carrie Rupp) 804 Fourth St., Santa Monica, Cal. 
 Mrs. A. Moelhenry, 2632 Lakeview Ave., Chicago, Illinois 
 Alex Morrow (Belle Wilson) Alsa Morrow, Mary Morrow Davies, 
 
 Edna Mjorrow, Postal Service, Kansas City, Mo., 212 E. 74th 
 
 St. 1884. 
 Mrs. A. Muldoon, Decatur, Texas 
 
 Mrs. Carrie Myers (Morris) 406 W. Oregon, Urbana, 111. 
 Dr. Jacob Myers (Gertrude B. Myers) Joanne (Mrs. Noah Fabrienet) 
 
 Jacob Jr., June, physician and surgeon, 5131 Woodlawn Ave., 
 
 Chicago, Illinois. 1890-1910. 
 
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 D. F. Nickols (Edith Holland) Franklin Jr., Dorothy Diers, deceased, 
 
 Supt. of City Schools, Lincoln, 111., 604 Peoria St., 1882-1904. 
 Fred C. Null, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
 
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 Margaret Ophardt, Lincoln, 111., 1118 E. Pekin St., 1880-1934. 
 
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 Raymond Passmore, 4066 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Geo. A. Pattison, 921 S. Spring, Springfield, Illinois 
 
 Sarah Popelle, 904 W. Main, Decatur, Illinois 
 
 Renzi Potter, 1211 South 'Grant St., Denver, Colorado 
 
 James Pugh, Kenney, Illinois 
 
 Virgilia Parke Pumpelly, Massapequa, N. Y. 
 
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 James Rainey (Mary Ralston) Mary Jeanette, Loans & Real Estate, 
 
 Estherville, Iowa, 924 E. Main 1880-1904. 
 Mrs. William Henry Ralston (Helen E. Lushbaugh) Bess Ralston, 
 
 Cedar Rapids, la., 815-18th S. E.— 1856-1917. 
 John O. Rames, 1272 Columbine Ave., Denver, Colorado 
 S. R. Reynolds, R. R. No. 1, Decatur, Illinois 
 T. N. Reynolds, U. S. S. Oklahoma, San Diego, California 
 Elizabeth Richmond, 221 Bigelow St., Peoria, 111., 1872-1886. 
 Mrs. Waldo A. Rigal, 2444 Van Buren Sta. D., Chicago, Illinois 
 Anna Rinker, 504 S. Cuyler, Oak Park, Illinois 
 Curtis Risk, Stockton, Calif. 
 
 Mrs. C. K. Roberts, 1485 Chicago Blvd., Detroit, Michigan 
 Edward Roth, Wellington, Ohio 
 Jennie Rowe, Kenney, Illinois 
 William Rupp (Helen Menke) Banking, Quincy, 111. 300 S. 12th St. 
 
 Until 1899. 
 Charles Rupp (Minnie Horn) Fresno, California 
 Miss Effie Rupp, 804 Fourth St., Santa Monica, Cal. 
 Mrs. Bernice Rutt, Maryland Hotel, Glendale, California 
 
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 Katherine Sams, 247 West Division St., Decatur, Illinois 
 Marie Sams, 3057 Washington Blvd. Chicago, Illinois 
 
 A. F. Schiltz, 754 Citizens Bldg., Decatur, Illinois 
 
 Mrs. Frances Binder Schmidt, Mildred Schmidt, Decatur, HI., 660 W. 
 
 Wood St. 
 Dewey Schroth, 1037 Laurel Ave., Hamilton, Ohio 
 William Schultz (Emma Eschbaugh) Minnie Fox, Anna Reed, Lucille 
 
 Stewart, Harry Schultz, Will Schultz, retired farmer, 7824 W. 
 
 Madison St., Forest Park, 111. — 1880-1930. 
 
 B. F. Scroggin (Arthilda Gasaway) Banker, Oak, Nebr., 1862-1887. 
 Dr. G. T. Scroggins, 624 Moore Bldg., San Antonio, Texas 
 
 Robert P. Seyfer (Marie A. Rockbud) Robert P. Seyfer, Jr., Account- 
 ant, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1200 N. 33rd St., 1872-1893. 
 M. J. Shafer (Anna Bender) Owensville, Indiana, Highway Construc- 
 tion work— 1902-1920. 
 Herschel Shrader, Lincoln, Illinois 
 Leslie Smith (Nona Hoist) Sonia Louise, Shirley Jean, Attorney, 
 
 Forest Park, 111., 851 S. Lathrop Ave., 1908-1924. 
 Mrs. Marvin Smith, 645 S. 21 Street, Maywood, Illinois 
 Harold M. Snowden (Vera Horn) John Horn, Marion Sciota, Account- 
 ant, 2518 Wilson Ave., Chicago, 111.— 1891-1921. 
 D. A. Snyder, 330 11th St., Neenah, Wisconsin 
 Joseph C. Snyder, 1452 Fargo Ave., Chicago, Illinois (until 1934) 
 Mrs. J. J. Snyder, Rl, Box 171, Thorp, Wisconsin 
 Lawrence O. Snyder, 302 N. 48th Street, Omaha, Nebr. 
 W. Walter Snyder, 613 Liberty Street, Flint, Michigan 
 Manley Sparks, 315% S. 5th Street, Springfield, HI. 
 Mrs. Walter J. St. John, No. 3 Briarwood, Bloomington, Illinois 
 Louis Stichler, Concordia, Kansas 
 D. F. Stockton, 1121 South 21, New Castle, Indiana 
 W. J. Stookey, retired, Box 173, Middletown, Calif., 1892-1901. 
 Gustavus Stuart, teacher at H. S. Paw Paw, Illinois 
 Mrs. L. Stuller, Thessalon, Route 2, Ontario, Canada 
 W. E. Suedmeier, Rural Route 4, Mitchell, South Dakota 
 Mrs. Susan Suttle, R. R. 1 Box 235, Placentia, California 
 
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 Carl Tendick (Mary Holmes) Teddy, Carol; interior decorator, 1010 
 Sixth Ave., S. E., Rochester, Minn. 
 
 A. H. Tomlinson, Jr., (Lorene Earles) Beth Elain, principal, Broad- 
 well, Illinois — 1906-36. 
 
 John Tomlinson, 13711 Graham Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 J. G. Toole, Route 3, Jackson, Mississippi 
 
 Mrs. J. S. Treft, 520 S. Court St., Cleveland, Mississippi 
 
 Elmer Turley, Greeneville, Mississippi 
 
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 Henry C. Unkauf (Johana Brown) Stationary engineer (2609 St. Vin 
 cent St.) Saint Louis, Mo. — 1898-1927. 
 
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 Mrs. A. E. Van Hook, Tecusmeh, Michigan 
 
 Major Henry Mitchell Van Hook (Dessa Scroggin) U. S. Army, Fort 
 
 Sheridan, HI. Until 1917. 
 Wesley Van Hook, 1521 E. Walnut, Decatur, Illinois 
 
Mrs. Margaret Voile (Margaret Horn) Springfield, 111., 628 E. Capi- 
 tal Ave., 1924. 
 
 M. E. Voile, Sec. & Treas., Champaign Production, Credit Ass'n. 
 Champaign, 111., 123 S. Neil St., 1905-1930. 
 
 Beva M. Voile, teacher, New Athens, 111. 
 
 Henry L. Vonderlieth (Jane Lyster Splint) Adolph, Executive Vice 
 President, Financial World, New York City, N. Y., 21 West 
 St., 1881-1904. 
 
 Leanore Vonderlieth (Vaughn De Leath) well known radio singer; 307 
 E. 44th St., New York City, N. Y. 
 
 Julius E. Vonderlieth (Josephine Moser) Traffic Manager, Cleveland, 
 Ohio— 1894-1918. 
 
 Walter Vonderlieth; Financial World; 5 Mile Road, S. Norwalk, Conn. 
 
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 Elmer B. Waddell (Frances M. Guntern) Dorothy C, Postoffice 
 Clerk, Decatur, 111., 1358 N. Union St. 
 
 Herbert L. Wagner (Lucia M. Hahn) Vernon H., Mona Louise, Mar- 
 garet Emilie, Donna Lucia, New York State Gas & Elec. Corp., 
 Lockport, N. Y., 515 Willow St. —1911. 
 
 Floyd O. Weckel (Cordelia Devantier) Cleatus and Fern Weckel, 
 Marjorie Weckel Haskins, Rock Island, 111., 602 Second St. 
 
 Paul L. Weidenbacher (Catherine Yazell) Co. Rec. of Deeds, Spring- 
 field, 111., 2548 S. 6th, 1903-1919. 
 
 Mrs. William Welch, Route 6, Lincoln, Illinois 
 
 Vivian Weller, Bovey, Minnesota 
 
 E. D. Wendling, 1755 N. Main, Decatur, Illinois 
 
 Leonard Werlich, 1106 Clinton Street, Lincoln, Illinois 
 
 Amos N. West, Rock, Kansas 
 
 Mrs. W. R. Wilcox, 2011 Pleasant St., Des Moines, Iowa 
 
 Wayne Wisegarver (Kitty B. Turley) Norma June, Irma Lee, Jessie 
 Mae, Farming, Deland, 111., 1895-1915. 
 
 Tom Witt, 307 y 2 Lafayette, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
 Mrs. Lillie Woelful (Lillie Rupp) 804 Fourth St., Santa Monica, Calif. 
 
 O. E. Wolcott (Dora Obermiller) Eutana; Insurance, Box 3, Cap Hill 
 Sta., Denver, Colorado. 
 
 George Wolfs, 14414 Mansfield Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 
 
 Frank Wood, Rural Route Three, Neillsville, Wisconsin 
 
 Mrs. Tena Woods, 217% E. Adams St., Springfield, 111. 
 
 William E. Wright (Maude E. Walker) Eugenia Wright McCullock, 
 Attorney, Nevada City, Calif. — 1876-1896. 
 
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 Claude M. Yocum (Grace Wylder) Truman R. Yocum, Mrs. Robert 
 
 McPheron, Stuart E. Yocum, farmer, Jerseyville, 111., R. R. 4, 
 
 1876-1903. 
 Mrs. George W. Yocum (Laura Alice Young) Clyde H., Claude M., 
 
 Mrs. Ross Chappell, farmer, Jerseyville, 111., 206 S. Arch. 
 
 1874-1903. 
 
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 A. G. Zelle (Kathryn Fryer) Mortician, Elkhart, Ind., 221 W. Lex- 
 ington, 1892-1910. 
 C. A. Zelle, Tolono, Illinois 
 W. J. Zeiss, Mission, Texas 
 
. . CHRISTIAN CHURCH 
 
 ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH 
 
. . ZION EV. LUTHERAN CHURCH 
 
 ST. THOMAS CATHOLIC CHURCH 
 
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Organisations and Officers 
 
 In the Centennial Year 
 
 Boy Scout Troop No. 22 
 
 Scoutmaster: Gene Manes 
 
 Assistants Harry Deibert and 
 Harry Sisk. 
 
 Troop Committee: 
 
 President: Frank Talmage 
 
 Sec.-Treas.: Ben Ely 
 
 Members: Orville Mlartin, C. 
 M. Merriman, Harry J. Wible 
 
 Organized Dec. 7, 1936. Meet- 
 ing 1 place at Grade School 
 gym, Monday nights. 
 
 Cemetery Association 
 
 President: William Becker 
 V. President: George Rupp 
 Secretary: Anna E. Eminger 
 Treasurer: H. Virgil Wynd 
 Trustees: William Beckers, Geo 
 Rupp, H. Virgil Wynd, Ed- 
 ward O. Mayer, George J. 
 Smith, Harry B. Capps. 
 
 Centennial Glee Club 
 
 President: Wilbur Stoll 
 Sec.-Treas.: O. W. Mayer 
 Bus. Mgr. : Harry J. Wible 
 Organized 1934 
 
 CHURCHES 
 
 Christian Church 
 
 Pastor: J. Wayne Staley 
 Elders: T. A. Scroggin, Henry 
 
 Horn, R. T. Harper. 
 Deacons and Deaconesses: O. 
 W. Mayer, O. O. Scroggin, F. 
 E. Turley, Charles Kemrner, 
 E. A. Downing, Harry Down- 
 ing, Dr. G. S. Connelly, Geo. 
 Underhill, Eugene Downing, 
 Mrs. J. M. Rothwell, Mrs. B. 
 A. Tyler, Mrs. Harry Down- 
 ing, Miss Sciota Horn. 
 S. S. Supt: Dean Cull en 
 Choir Director, Mrs. G. S. Con- 
 nelly. 
 Founded 1868. 
 
 Church of God 
 
 Pastor: Ben O. Williams 
 
 Methodist Church 
 
 Pastor: T. L. Kneebone 
 Trustees: John T. Hershey, 
 
 Wm. Beckers, Claude Upp, 
 
 Albert Shellhammer, Albert 
 
 Allspach. 
 S. S. Supt. Harry Sisk 
 Choir Director: Mrs. V. Con- 
 
 nolley. 
 Founded 1841 
 
 St. John's Lutheran Church 
 
 Pastor: Frederick R. Ludwig 
 Trustees: Gus Drobisch, Henry 
 
 Schafer, Fred Meister. 
 Deacons : Roy Aylesworth, John 
 
 Downing, Walter Drobisch. 
 Elders: W. B. Jenner, W. F. 
 
 Binder, Page Waddell, Sr. 
 S. S. Supt.: Mrs. F. Ludwig 
 Choir Director: Mrs. F. Ludwig 
 Founded October 26, 1868. 
 
 St. Thomas Aquinas 
 Catholic Church 
 
 Pastor: J. W. McGinn 
 Trustees: Frank Sams and Joe 
 
 Fuhrer. 
 Choir Director: Mrs. Lorah Z. 
 
 Lipp. 
 Founded 1860. 
 
 Zion Evangelical Lutheran 
 Church 
 
 Pastor: H. Wittrock 
 
 Trustees: Geo. F. Dittus, W. S. 
 
 Hahn, John H. Tendick. 
 Chairman: Herbert E. Finke 
 Treasurer: Raymond Hahn 
 Secretary: A. H. Hahn 
 S. S. Supt.: Arthur Wittrock 
 Organist: Mrs. Emilie Feuer- 
 
 bacher. 
 Founded 1851 
 
CLUBS 
 
 LODGES 
 
 Woman's Club 
 President: Mrs. Paul E. Beidler 
 V. Pres.: Sciota B. Horn 
 Secretary: .Mrs. Otto Ey 
 Treasurer: Mrs. Dan J. Fuhrer 
 Directors: Mrs. Katie Bloye, 
 
 Mrs. Harry Downing, Mrs. G. 
 
 S. Connelly. 
 
 Art Unit 
 
 Mrs. Oswald Brooker, Chairman 
 
 Garden Unit 
 
 Mrs. John T. Downing, Chair- 
 man. 
 
 Music Unit 
 
 Mrs. George S. Connelly, Chair- 
 man. 
 
 Junior Woman's Club 
 President: Dorothy Bender 
 V. Pres.: Virginia Kautz 
 Secretary: Jean Wible 
 Treasurer: Doris Schultz 
 
 Household Science Club 
 
 President: Mrs. Anna Eminger 
 V. Pres.: Mrs. Russell Ross 
 Secretary: Mrs. Chas. Schmitz 
 Treasurer: Mrs. Lida Rupp 
 
 Fire Department 
 
 Fire Chief: O. W. Mayer 
 Asst. Chief: Frank Snyder 
 Treasurer: M. J. Myers 
 Secretary: Claude Holler 
 Steward: George Snyder 
 Standing Committee: Chris J. 
 Kautz, Frank B. Snyder, 
 Walter M. Drobisch, William 
 F. Binder, Charles Schultz. 
 Truck Driver: Fred Holmes and 
 Walter Drobisch. 
 
 Horse Show Association 
 
 President: George L. Meister 
 V. President: Herbert Schaffeir 
 
 acker. 
 Secretary: Ed Dittus 
 Directors : Mike Schlachter, 
 Frank Rentschler, Frank Bueh- 
 
 ler and Steve Patterson. 
 
 Eastern Star 
 
 Worthy Matron: Mrs. Florence 
 
 Obcamp. 
 Worthy Patron: Ben W. Ely 
 A. Matron: Mrs. Irene Mat- 
 thews. 
 A. Patron: W. Glover Matthews 
 Sec: Mrs. Lois Scroggin 
 Treas.: Mrs. Kittie Duff 
 Conductress : Miss Alberta Voile 
 A. Conductress: Mrs. Ethel 
 
 Downing. 
 Chaplain: Mrs. Marie Van Hook 
 Marshall: Mrs. Bertha Smith 
 Organist: Mrs. Grace Waddell 
 Adah: Mrs. Margaret Hildreth 
 Ruth: Mrs. Eula Rothwell 
 Esther: Miss Georgiabelle Roth- 
 well. 
 Martha: Mrs. Mino Allspach 
 Electa: Mrs. Letha Drobisch 
 Warder: Mrs. Amelia Binder 
 Sentinel: F. W. Reinders 
 
 Mount Pulaski Lodge 
 No. 87 A. F. & A. M. 
 
 Worshipful Master: E. L. Roth- 
 well. 
 Senior Warden: Morrel Deibert 
 Junior Warden: C. E. Holmes 
 Treasurer: C. E. West 
 Secretary: E. A. Downing 
 Senior Deacon: John R. Curtis 
 Junior Deacon: H. V. Wynd 
 Senior Steward: G. F. Wait 
 Junior Steward: F. E. Turley 
 Chaplain: E. K. Rothwell 
 Marshall: A. W. Schaffenacker 
 Tyler: E. T. Goddard 
 
 Mount Pulaski Chapter 
 No. 121 R. A. M. 
 
 High Priest: G. F. Wait 
 King: E. K. Rothwell 
 Scribe: A. W. Schaffenacker 
 Treasurer: C. E. West 
 Secretary: E. A. Downing 
 Chaplain: B. W. Ely 
 Captain of Host — F. E. Turley 
 R. A. Captain: E. L. Rothwell 
 Principal Sojourner: C. W. Upp 
 Master 3d V.: G. J. Smith 
 Master 2d V.: H. V. Wynd 
 Master 1st V.: Geo. Underhill 
 Steward: W. B. Jenner 
 Sentinel: E. T. Goddard 
 
Mount Pulaski Commandary 
 No. 39 Knights Templar 
 
 Commander: William G. Mat- 
 thews. 
 Generalissimo: E. L. Rothwell 
 Captain General: B. N. Myrick 
 Senior Warden: L. F. McCann 
 Junior Warden: L. J. Oberry 
 Prelate: Claude W. Upp 
 Treasurer: C. E. West 
 Recorder: E. A. Downing 
 Standard Bearer: E. L. Kret- 
 
 zinger. 
 Sword Bearer: Geo. M. Under- 
 bill. 
 Warder: T. G. Bruce 
 Color Bearer: A. F. Lipp 
 Sentinel: E. T. Goddard 
 Finance Board: J. M, Rothwell, 
 chairman; G. A. Voile, C. M. 
 Merriman, E. K. Rothwell, 
 W. G. Matthews. 
 
 Modern Woodmen Lodge 
 
 Consul: Harrv Sisk 
 Adviser: Chris Beck 
 Banker: John Barton 
 Escort: Elton Barton 
 Clerk: Troll Turner 
 Asst. Clerk: Eugene G. Phinney 
 Watchman: Walter McVey 
 Sentry: Otis D. Medford 
 Managers: Henry W. Schafer, 
 W. A. Schafer and Wm. B. Jen- 
 ner. 
 
 burn, deceased; Mrs. Harry 
 Sisk, (filled vacancy). 
 
 Vice Grand: Miss Nellie Vande- 
 vender. 
 
 Past Noble Grand: Mrs. Alma 
 Hargrave. 
 
 Rec. Secretary: Mrs. Lottie 
 Hahn. 
 
 Fin. Secretary: Mrs. Anna E. 
 Eminger. 
 
 Treasurer: Mrs. Mattie Med- 
 ford. 
 
 Deputy: Mrs. Emma Brooker 
 
 Trustees: Mrs. Eliza Dawson, 
 Mrs. Delia Kinert, Mrs. Mary 
 Mier, Mrs. Ada Suedmeier, 
 Mrs. Sarah Weller. 
 
 Royal Neighbors Lodge 
 
 Oracle: Mrs. Cecil Buckles 
 Past Oracle: Mrs. John McDon- 
 ald. 
 Vice Oracle: M;rs. Russell Ross 
 Chancellor: Mrs. Elmer Mier 
 Recorder: Mrs. Lottie Hahn 
 Receiver: Mrs. Arthur Wood- 
 rum. 
 Marshall: Mrs. Paul A. Gruber 
 Inner Sentinel: Mrs. Edward 
 
 Goddard. 
 Outer Sentinel: Mrs. William E. 
 
 Holmes. 
 Musician: Mrs. Fern Cook 
 Managers: Mprs. Carl Lipp and 
 Mrs. Uriah Tendick. 
 
 Odd Fellows 
 
 Noble Grand: Harold Hargrave 
 Vice Grand: Theo. Aderman 
 Rec. Sec: Earl Kinert 
 Fin. Sec: James Shrader 
 Treasurer: M. J. Myers 
 Warden: Lon Davis 
 Conductor: Ellis Wood 
 R. S. N. G.: John Davis 
 L. S. N. G.: O. W. Mayer 
 R. S. V. G.: Elmer Mier 
 L. S. V. G.: Claude Bowles 
 
 0. G.: H. C. Gruber 
 
 1. G.: Arthur Woodrum 
 Chaplain: Harry Sisk 
 R. S. S.: Al O'Connor 
 
 L. S. S. George Gieseke, Jr. 
 
 Rebekah Lodge 
 
 Noble Grand: Miss Lillian Wash 
 
 OFFICIALS 
 
 City Council 
 
 Mayor: C. L. Frazier 
 Members: John M. Rothwell, R. 
 
 D. Aitchison, William Binder, 
 
 Henry Voile, W. Edward 
 
 Birks. 
 City Clerk: Chas. Schmitz 
 Supt. Water Works: Walter 
 
 Drobisch. 
 Street Com.: David Klotz 
 Treasurer: Mrs. Fayetta Ross 
 City Atty.: George J. Smith 
 Police Mag.: Lloyd Arnold 
 
 Township Officers 
 
 Supervisor: Charles Brooker 
 Clerk: Dan J. Fuhrer 
 
Com. of High.: George Sued- 
 
 meier. 
 Justices of the Peace: A. F. 
 
 Dillsaver and Shelby Curtis. 
 Constables: George E. Sued- 
 
 meier and Charles E. Schultz 
 
 Ryman-Fuiten American 
 Legion Post No. 447 
 
 Commander: Thomas A. Gup- 
 ton. 
 Adjutant: Frank Talmage 
 Chaplain: Wilhelm G. Kautz 
 Sergeant-at-arms : Dean Foster 
 Bugler: Ben W. Ely. 
 
 Ladies' American Legion 
 Auxiliary 
 
 President: Mrs. Paul Gruber 
 V. Pres.: Mrs. Frank Talmage 
 V. Pres.: Mrs. T. W. Moore 
 Secretary: Miss Lola Hahn 
 Treasurer: Mrs. Beatrice Trib- 
 
 bett. 
 Sergeant-at-arms: Mrs. R. Ber- 
 
 toni. 
 Chaplain: Mrs. Herman Hahn 
 
 War Mothers 
 
 President: Mrs. Ora Rothwell 
 V. President: Mrs. Delia Kinert 
 Secretary: Mrs. Lida Rupp 
 Treasurer: Mrs. Kittie Duff 
 Chaplain: Mrs. Anna Holmes 
 
 Rotary Club No. 4030 
 
 President: Harry J. Wible 
 V. Pres.: E. Keith Rothwell 
 Sec.-Treas.: H. Virgil Wynd 
 Sergeant-at- arms: Ennis A. 
 
 Downing. 
 Board of Directors: Austin W. 
 Schaffenacker, George J. 
 Smith, Guy F. Wait, George 
 L. Meister, Harry Wible, 
 Keith Rothwell, Virgil Wynd, 
 Organized November 13, 1936 
 Meeting place — Methodist Chu- 
 rch every Thursday at 12:15. 
 Membership thirty-five. 
 
 SCHOOLS 
 
 Mount Pulaski Township 
 High School 
 
 Superintendent: Lloyd L Hargis 
 
 History and coaching: Dolph 
 Stanley. 
 
 Mathematics: Otto Ey 
 
 Science: Harry Lucas 
 
 Manual Training: Herbert Sti- 
 vers. 
 
 Music: Paul Merry 
 
 English: Helen Moore 
 
 Commercial: Martha Moore 
 
 Home Economics: Alberta Voile 
 
 Latin: Florence Wylder 
 
 Janitors : Ernest Goodpaster 
 and Charles Hanslow. 
 
 Directors: Pres.: Wilhelm G. 
 Kautz. 
 
 Sec: H. Virgil Wynd 
 
 Harry M]artin, Charles Ey, John 
 T. Hershey, John Tendick, 
 George Underhill. 
 
 Mount Pulaski Grade School 
 
 Principal: Zenobia Zimmermann 
 
 Seventh: Lola Hahn 
 
 Sixth: Milferd Hanson 
 
 Fifth: Dorothy Ann Downing 
 
 Fourth: Elizabeth Mayer 
 
 Third: Grace Gehlbach 
 
 Second: Barbara Barnes 
 
 First: Florence Pinney 
 
 Music and Phy. Ed. Ruth Peter- 
 son. 
 
 Janitor: John Curtis 
 
 Board of Directors: president: 
 Orville Martin. 
 
 Secretary: C. M. Merriman 
 Kelsey Anderson, G. S. Con- 
 nelly, Theo. Zimmermann, 
 George L. Meister. 
 
 Zion Lutheran Parochial 
 
 Teacher: Arthur Wittrock 
 
 State Basketball Team 
 
 (Pictured herein) 
 
 Dolph Stanley, Coach 
 George Connelly, Guard 
 Merle Wilham, Forward 
 Carl Wilham, Guard 
 Franklin Connolley, Forward 
 Harry Milner, Forward 
 Junior Scroggin, Manager 
 Boyd Hahn, Forward 
 Earl Stockton, Forward 
 Herschel Hahn, Center 
 Harry Martin, Guard 
 Darald Staley, Forward 
 
We Extend Our 
 Sincere hanks 
 
 To the thousands of customers we 
 have served during our many 
 years of service to the residents 
 of Mount Pulaski and Community. 
 it has been thru their loyal patron- 
 age that this institution has pros- 
 pered and grown. 
 
 We pledge the same sincere and 
 courteous treatment in the com- 
 ing months and years. 
 
 Curtis Filling Station 
 
A Community's 
 Center of Trade 
 
 is determined by 
 
 Quality of Merchandise 
 
 and 
 
 Character of Service 
 
 and we pledge our Best in Both to 
 the residents of this community in 
 the coming years. 
 
 AITCHISON'S 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1932 
 
"SINCE 1903" 
 
 We have been serving MOUNT 
 PULASKI and COMMUNITY in 
 the business of GRAIN BUYING 
 as well as in furnishing LUMBER 
 TO BUILD better and more mod- 
 ern homes in this city and sur- 
 rounding territory. 
 
 Mount Pulaski Farmers 
 Grain and Elevator Company 
 
 ORVILLE MARTIN, Manager 
 
MOUNT PULASKI'S 
 
 ONE HUNDRED 
 YEARS 
 
 The history of this city in the past 
 can well be the inspiration for the 
 future and is a goal for those of us 
 carrying on today, to maintain 
 and help make the coming years 
 still greater for Mount Pulaski and 
 Community. 
 
 BROWN'S SERVICE STATION 
 
 "Gas For Less" 
 
 OILS GREASES TIRES ACCESSORIES 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1935 
 
We Dedicate 
 
 THIS 
 PAGE IN 
 
 "ONE HUNDRED YEARS 
 OF MOUNT PULASKI" 
 
 TO THE FOUNDER 
 
 OF THIS ESTABLISHMENT 
 
 THE LATE 
 
 C. R SCHAFER 
 
 ONE OF THE EARLY PIONEERS 
 
 WHO DID MUCH TO BUILD 
 
 AND SHAPE THE DESTINIES OF 
 
 THIS COMMUNITY 
 
 C. F. SCHAFER HDWE. CO. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1864 
 
A PIONEER BUSINESS 
 
 IN A PIONEER COMMUNITY 
 
 ESTABLISHED IN 1922. THE OLDEST 
 STATE ACCREDITED HATCHERY. 
 
 We are proud of the community we operate in and 
 confidently expect to continue to serve in the future as 
 we have in the past. 
 
 DEALERS FOR 
 
 KELVINATOR 
 
 ELECTROLUX 
 
 AUTOMATIC COAL STOKER 
 
 ZENITH RADIO 
 
 BUPANE GAS 
 
 TAPPAN RANGES 
 
 1922-1937 
 
 THE CHESTNUT HATCHERY 
 
 "Capacity 160,000 Chicks" 
 CHESTNUT MOUNT PULASKI 
 
Not 100 Years 
 
 Old 
 
 But- 
 
 
 Old Enough 
 
 
 to realize that we 
 fine community in 
 up our business. 
 
 chose a mighty 
 which to open 
 
 May we be worthy of the fine heritage given 
 us by the pioneers of this community, and 
 do our part in keeping this progressive 
 spirit alive. 
 
 *•«. LAW'S 
 
 25c to $1 
 
PROUD 
 
 TO BE A PART OF 
 THIS PROGRESSIVE 
 COMMUNITY... 
 
 It has been a pleasure to have served the 
 residents of this city and surrounding territory 
 and to share in its activities and its growth. 
 May the coming years be just as progressive 
 and forward-looking — just as happy and 
 friendly as have been those of the century 
 past. 
 
 SCHULTZ 
 GROCERY 
 
MOUNT PULASKI 
 
 and Its HOMES 
 
 1 00 years ago pioneers with 
 a vision and the desire to 
 found a city and build 
 homes selected the site of 
 Mount Pulaski. 
 
 It has been our privilege 
 to have played a part in the 
 building life of this com- 
 munity, aiding in the build- 
 ing and acquiring of homes. 
 
 J. M. ROTHWELL 
 
 LUMBER COMPANY 
 
ALMOST A 
 
 HALF CENTURY 
 of SERVICE 
 
 ESTABLISHED IN 1889 
 
 This firm has been a part of 
 the community serving as the 
 source of Men's and Boy's 
 Clothing and Furnishings. 
 
 Sharing in the growth and pro- 
 gress of the past years, we hope 
 the future justifies the spirit of 
 the founders and builders of 
 Mount Pulaski. 
 
 MYERS BROS. 
 
Mount Pulaski 
 Has Not Stood Still 
 the Past 100 Years-- 
 
 And we are proud of the fact that 
 this little city has ever been on the 
 move, going forward and keeping 
 pace with the ever-changing world 
 of today. May our service to this 
 community always be as progressive 
 and satisfactory. 
 
 N F. G Pease & Co. 
 
 j MOUNT PULASKI LATHAM 
 
 r ESTABLISHED 1 904 
 
A. F. LIPP 
 
 
 
 INSURANCE OF 
 ALL KINDS 
 
 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1915 
 
A Personal Message 
 To Our Customers 
 
 This firm wishes to express its sincere 
 thanks for the support and patron- 
 age given us, since we have been a 
 part of the business life of Mount 
 Pulaski and Community. 
 
 Dodge and Plymouth automo- 
 biles are assets to any com- 
 munity — we are proud to 
 handle them. 
 
 Community Garage 
 
 AUSTIN SCHAFFENACKER, Proprietor 
 
MOUNT PULASKI 
 GRAIN COMPANY 
 
 MOUNT PULASKI, ILLINOIS 
 
 For over forty five years this 
 company has been an integral 
 part of the business life of this 
 community, assuming a share 
 of all worthwhile community 
 activities. At all times en- 
 deavoring to perform an ef- 
 ficient service in the merchan- 
 dising of grain. 
 
 ESTABLISHED 189 
 
WE ARE GRATEFUL 
 
 For the splendid patronage and for 
 the many friendships that have come 
 our way during our part of the past 
 100 years. May 1936-2036 be even 
 more progressive and enjoyable. 
 
 West Side Food Mart 
 
 WILLARD and NORMA KAUTZ, Proprietors 
 
 fSTABLISHED JAN. 1, 1922 
 
 This firm has endeavored to give the 
 community a service worthy of the 
 growth of this territory. 
 
 May the next hundred years see as 
 much advancement as has been made 
 in the past. 
 
 Connolley Drug Company 
 
NOT PIONEERS- 
 BUT BOOSTERS 
 
 For Mount Pulaski and community 
 in helping to promote the good 
 and welfare of all. 
 
 We will help to make the next 
 100 years another period of pro- 
 gress in this community — with 
 
 PHILLIPS "66" 
 QASOLINE 
 
 BARNEY SCROGGIN 
 
 FILLING STATION 
 
 ON ROUTE 121 
 
Our Customers Are the 
 Best Friends We Have! 
 
 Our progress has been built 
 on the foundation laid by 
 striving to give our customer.* 
 the kind of service and court- 
 eous treatment they have a 
 right to expect. 
 
 We appreciate their friend- 
 ship as well as their patronage 
 and we pledge our best to the 
 community during the coming 
 years. 
 
 Vail's Food Market 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1936 
 
Pleasing People 
 
 - - - is not so hard to do when 
 you do the job the way you 
 would want it done yourself. 
 
 This is the simple but effec- 
 tive formula, whether your 
 needs be large or small, under 
 which we operate. 
 
 May we serve you in the fu- 
 ture as we have during the past 
 year. 
 
 ZIMMERMANNTS 
 
 CASH * CARRY 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1936 
 
All Eyes Are On 
 Mount Pulaski 
 
 This firm is proud of having 
 contributed a small part to 
 the growth of this commun- 
 ity. 
 
 Primarily, a business of serv- 
 ice, our aim has always been 
 to serve the community in ev- 
 ery way possible to the best 
 of our ability. 
 
 Fred Holmes Garage 
 
It Has Been 
 Our Privilege 
 
 AND PLEASURE to have shared 
 in the last twenty-five years of 
 the growth and prosperity of 
 Mount Pulaski, and we trust that 
 the years of the second Centen- 
 nial period will be more out- 
 standing than those of the past 
 One Hundred Years. We are 
 grateful to a loyal community. 
 
 CI 
 
 ear's 
 
1937 
 
 The Farmers Bank of Mount Pulaski has been 
 closely associated with the growth of the 
 community for the past 64 years. Established 
 to give to the community a banking service 
 commensurate with the expansion and growth 
 of the community, it is ever our policy to 
 foster and encourage further progress of any 
 commendable nature. 
 
 THE FARMERS BANK 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1872 
 
Congratulations 
 
 TO THE PIONEERS 
 OF YESTERDAY 
 
 They have built a fine community, and we 
 "YOUNGSTERS" will do our best to keep 
 right on building it. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 WILBERT H. SCHAHL 
 Director 
 
 NORMA SCHAHL 
 Lady Assistant 
 
 SCHAHL FUNERAL HOME 
 
IN THE LIFE OF 
 MOUNT PULASKI 
 AND COMMUNITY 
 
 Through its complete banking services to in- 
 dividuals in all walks of life and to represen- 
 tative local business concerns of every type 
 . . . and by its whole-hearted participation in 
 all constructive community activities . . . this 
 Bank earnestly seeks to be an active force in 
 the life of Mount Pulaski and community, and 
 to contribute its full measure towards insur- 
 ing another "Hundred Years of Progress." 
 
 The First National Bank 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1888 
 
A PIONEER INDUSTRY 
 
 of THIS COMMUNITY 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1902 
 
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 IflSKi 
 
 Towers 
 
 Tanks 
 
 Tank 
 Heaters 
 
 Pumps 
 
 Plumbing 
 
 and 
 Heating 
 
 Pipe 
 Fittings 
 
 Officers: 
 
 President 
 Geo. Rupp 
 
 V. President 
 Carl Lipp 
 
 Secretary- 
 Treasurer 
 
 A. F. Lipp 
 
 Mount 
 Pulaski 
 Illinois. 
 
 MOUNT PULASKI WIND MILL CO. 
 
 MANUFACTURERS OF THE YANKEE WINDMILL 
 with Automatic Pump Governor 
 
It Is A Wonderful 
 Achievement 
 
 to have attained the distinction 
 of a Centennial City, for 100 
 years dates back to real Pioneer 
 Days. 
 
 Many changes have taken place 
 but thru all these years the prin- 
 ciple of forward-looking move- 
 ments has prevailed and we are 
 proud to have been a part of 
 this progressive spirit for a por- 
 tion of these 100 years. 
 
 BUCKLES & LEE GARAGE 
 
 SIDNEY LEE CLAUDE BUCKLES 
 
It Is Our Privilege 
 
 To become a part of this 
 community after a period of 
 almost one hundred years. 
 We feel that the inspiration 
 afforded us by the pioneers 
 of this community will show 
 first in the growth of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 We pledge our support in any 
 program to further this 
 growth. 
 
 The Mount Pulaski Theatre 
 
A Modern Garage 
 
 fully equipped to render the fin- 
 est in Service and Quality 
 Workmanship is the contribu- 
 tion of this firm to the progres- 
 sive and up to the minute stand- 
 ard of this community. Just as 
 the pioneers found the horse 
 and buggy the dependable 
 mode of travel, so today their 
 descendants find CHEVROLET 
 the most dependable car. 
 
 Unland Chevrolet Sales 
 
 CLARENCE UNLAND, Proprietor 
 
62 Years of 
 Faithful Service 
 
 Founded by R. S. Hershey in 1875 
 the Hershey Funeral Establishment 
 has given the same courteous effi- 
 cient service to the community for 
 more than a half century. 
 
 The present management has 
 served the community since 1910. 
 In that time weathering the financial, 
 commercial and other vicissitudes 
 that come with years of service. 
 
 This firm was founded on the basis 
 of faithful, honest service and is still 
 able to withstand the storms of ev- 
 eryday life and expects to serve you 
 in the future on your approval. 
 
 John T. Hershey 
 
 FUNERAL SERVICE 
 
SIEB'S 
 HATCHERY 
 
 During the past nine years has furthered 
 the interests of the community by giving a 
 complete Poultry Service. 
 
 It has been and will continue to be our 
 policy to give to the community the utmost 
 in Service. 
 
 ROMAN ROMER, Mgr. 
 
 FOR OVER 
 HALF A CENTURY 
 
 This establishment has served the community. 
 One of the pioneers, we still approve the 
 continued growth and expansion of the com- 
 munity. 
 
 W. F. BINDER 
 
 WOODWORK WAGON WORK 
 
 Established 1867 
 
Serving the community for a number of years. It 
 has been a privilege to contribute to its pros- 
 perity. 
 
 ALBERT F. DILLSAVER 
 
 BARBER SHOP 
 
 As the community prospers 
 we shall continue to merit its 
 patronage. 
 
 KROGER STORES 
 
 It has been our privilege to share 
 in the growth of the community. 
 
 J. H. SHRADER 
 
 BARBER SHOP 
 
1912-1937 
 
 25 Years of Service 
 
 To this community. During which 
 time we have seen many changes. May 
 the community still prosper even more 
 in the future. 
 
 BERTONI'S CAFE 
 
 R. BERTONI 
 
 It Was Our Privilege 
 
 to have been a part of the growth 
 of this community and to share in 
 its development for over thirty 
 years. 
 
 EY'S BAKERY 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1904 
 
THIS FIRM 
 
 Has been a pioneer in Electrical and Radio 
 Service in this territory and has managed 
 numberless transactions to the advantage of 
 all concerned as a part of their community 
 service. 
 
 Stall's Radio & Electric Shop 
 
 Established 1933 
 
 Filling a Need I 
 
 This community, primarily a farm center for the 
 past one hundred years, has prospered as the 
 surrounding community has prospered. 
 
 Buy and Selling of Poultry, Eggs and Cream has 
 been our part in the building of this community. 
 
 Kratzer's Place 
 
 ESTABLISHED 1927 
 
1V37 Begins Another 
 One Hundred Years 
 
 We Delight In Presenting the 
 
 NEW 1937 PONTIAC 
 
 SERVING THE COMMUNITY AS 
 DEALERS FOR 
 
 G. M. C. TRUCKS 
 ALUS CHALMERS 
 NEW IDEA 
 
 TRACTORS-COMBINES 
 FARM MACHINERY 
 
 BROOKER'S 
 
 SUPER-SERVICE 
 
 E. K. BROOKER 
 
Professional Men 
 of Mount Pulaski 
 
 DR. G.S.CONNELLY 
 
 PHYSICIAN 
 
 DR. C. E. HILDRETH 
 
 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 
 
 DR. F.W.REINDERS 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 DR. G. F. WAIT 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 DR. L O. REESE 
 
 DENTIST 
 
 DR.C. M.MERRIMAN 
 
 VETERINARIAN 
 
 MR. GEORGE J. SMITH 
 
 ATTORN EY-AT-LAW 
 
 MR. BURTON A. TYLER 
 
 ATTORN EY-AT-LAW 
 
ESTABLISHED 1929 
 
 WOODRUM'S 
 
 WIDE-A-WAKE CAFE 
 
 JANE UNDERHILL BEAUTY SALON 
 
 Jane E. Underhill, Proprietor West Side Square 
 
SERVICE 
 
 COMBINED WITH 
 
 QUALITY 
 
 Makes An Ideal Combination 
 in Any Generation! 
 
 DAN J. FUHRER 
 
 SERVICE STATION 
 
 STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS 
 
UNDERHILL'S 
 
 1919 to 1937 
 
 Serving the community with a mo- 
 dern up-to-date Meat Market for 
 over eighteen years. May we con- 
 tinue to merit your patronage in 
 the future as we have in the past. 
 
 Underhill s Meat Market 
 
LIGHTING 
 
 As well as lightening the du- 
 ties of the home and busi- 
 ness houses in this progres- 
 sive city has been the privi- 
 lege and pleasure of this 
 company for many years. 
 
 ELECTRICITY is truly a 
 "Modern Alladin" in a Hun- 
 dred and One ways. It is 
 Safe, Convenient and Most 
 Economical, too. 
 
 CENTRAL ILLINOIS 
 ELECTRIC and GAS CO. 
 
MOUNT PULASKI 
 
 TIMES-NEWS 
 
 ON THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST 1932 
 
 THE MOUNT PULASKI WEEKLY NEWS 
 
 and 
 
 THE MOUNT PULASKI TIMES 
 
 were consolidated to form the 
 
 Mount Pulaski Times-News 
 
 which has since been selected as one of the 
 best 50 weekly newspapers among the 675 in 
 the state. 
 
 Member of National Editorial Association 
 
 Member of Illinois Press Association 
 
 The Times-News has its own PHOTO- 
 ENGRAVING PLANT which was installed in 
 July 1935. 
 
 PERSONNEL 
 
 Harry J. Wible, Publisher and Editor 
 Paul E. Beidler, City Editor 
 Mrs. Harold Hargrave, Bookkeeper 
 Paul R. Moore, Advertising Manager 
 W. Donald Wible, Foreman 
 Clifton H. Leckbee, Compositor 
 Noretta McVey, Linotypist 
 
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