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BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Crawford & Clark Cos., Illinois
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Wabash Twp. -
JOHN CASTEEL, farmer, P. O. Marshall,
is a native of Bedford County, Penn. He was born on
the 25th of August, 1804. His father was named
Archibald, and grandfather was of English birth and
named Shadrack Casteel. He came from England
accompanied by two brothers named Meshack and
Abednego Casteel, and from these three brothers have
sprung the families bearing their names. Archibald
Casteel was born in Pennsylvania, and was married to
Rebecca Dew, of Maryland. They had a family of
eleven children, John being the tenth and the only
one known to be living. He came to Muskingum County,
Ohio, with his parents when four years old. Here he
grew to manhood. He became the principal of a fur
company, and was sent among the Wyandot Indians when only
sixteen years old. Soon after this, he learned the
trade of potter, at which he worked for several years in
Ohio, and afterward in Indiana and Illinois. He was
married in Muskingum County, Ohio, on the 2d of December,
1824, to Miss Dorcas German, daughter of William
and Sarah German. She was born on the 22d of
January, 1801, and died October 30, 1869, having raise a
family of six children, of whom four are living, two of them
in this county. Mr. Casteel came to Clark
County, Ill., in 1850, and settled in Livingston, near which
place he bought land upon which his son lives. He was
formerly a merchant in Brownsville, Ohio, and afterward this
county. On the 9th of January, 1871, he was married to
his present wife, Mrs. Mary F. Rolison, widow of
Owen C. Rolison and daughter of Dr. Nathan Spencer.
She was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, on the 14th of
October, 1826, and began teaching at the age of fourteen,
and continuing until she was married in 174, to Mr. O. C.
Rolison, who died in the fall of 1866. Mr. and
Mrs. Casteel are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of Marshall.
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Wabash Twp. -
JOSIAH CHRISTINE, farmer, P. O.
Macksville, Inc., son of David and Hannah Christine,
who were natives of Pennsylvania, where they grew to
maturity and married, soon after which they emigrated to
Indiana, from whence they came to Clark County, Ill., in
1842. They first settled at Livingston, but soon after
bought a tract of land of Alexander McGregor, in the
center of Wabash Township, where David Christine died
Apr. 6, 1879. He was of German parentage, and was a
great hunter, on one occasion killing a stag with no other
weapons than a club and his pocket knife.
Mrs. Christine, mother of Josiah, is still
living, and resides in Kansas City, with a daughter.
They had a family of eleven children, Josiah being
the second. He was born June 14, 1843, in Wabash
Township, in which he remained until 1861, when, in May, he
enlisted in Company H, Twenty-first Illinois Regiment, in
which he served about four years. He participated in
the battles of Liberty and Hoover's Gap, Stone River and
Chickamauga, and at the latter engagement was made a
prisoner and held in various prison pens, including Bell
Isle, Danville and Andersonville, witnessing and
experiencing many of the horrors of those dens. He was
released in December, 1864, and afterward joined the
Thirty-third Indiana, in which he served until the close of
the war. He was married, Dec. 31, 1867, to Miss
Martha J. Brown, daughter of John and Rachel Brown,
and was born Feb. 18, 1848, in Wabash Township. Her
father was a native of Maryland, where he was born Aug. 3,
1860. The mother was born May 1, 1806, in Virginia.
They came from Ohio to Crawford County, Ill., where they
made a short residence, coming thence to Clark County about
1845. The father died September 25, 1878. Mr.
Christine has a family of four children, viz:
John E., born Oct. 9, 1868; Arthur E., Oct. 29,
1872; Charles, May 7, 1876, and Myrtie M.,
Oct. 30, 1877. They own the old Brown homestead,
consisting of eighty-three acres.
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Dolson Twp. -
SPERRY CLAYPOOL, farmer, P. O.
Marshall, was born in Licking County, Ohio, July 3, 1812.
His father, William Claypool, was a native of Hardy
County, Va., born July 3, 1781, a son of John Claypool,
who came from England. William Claypool served
in the war of 1812, and died in the spring of 1845.
The mother of our subject was a native of Virginia, and died
in Delaware County, Ohio. The parents had eleven
children who lived to maturity, our subject being the fifth
of the family. He received his early education in the
old subscription schools of Ross County, Ohio, and also
attended school a short time in Delaware County, of the same
State, to which county his parents removed in the spring of
1826, where our subject lived about ten years. He was
married in Ross County, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1835, to Nancy
Kirkendall, born Oct. 25, 1810, in Ross County, a
daughter of Jeremiah and Phoebe (Hopkins) Kirkendall,
who came from Pennsylvania. In 1839, our subject came
to his present place, and made a purchase of 320 acres, to
which he has made several subsequent additions. He has
now a farm of 195 acres, having distributed large portions
of his land to his boys. Mr. and Mrs. Claypool
are the parents of seven children, all of whom have farms in
the immediate vicinity. They are Jeremiah, Isaac,
Joseph, Elijah, Elisha, John and Nancy. Mr. and
Mrs. Claypool are members of the Blue Grass Christian
Church. In political affairs, our subject does not
draw any party lines, but votes for whom he considers the
best man.
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Casey Twp. -
MRS. A. CLOSSON, Casey, was born in
the State of Maine, Dec. 19, 1810, of a large family of
children born to Philip Powers and Sarah Ferguson.
Philip Powers was born in New Hampshire, son of Francis
Powers, a Revolutionary soldier, who died from a stroke of
lightning in the town of Hollis. Sarah was born
in Maine, daughter of John Ferguson. Philip
Powers and family moved to Ohio and settled in Delaware
County, and remained here until their death. The
subject of this sketch was married in Galena, Delaware
County, Dec. 12, 1833, to John Closson, a native of
Pennsylvania, son of Daniel Closson and Martha Devore.
John Closson removed with his father (of Holland
descent) to Delaware County when a boy. After the
marriage of Mr. Closson he settled in Berkshire
Township, where he engaged in farming, and continued here
until the fall of 1844, when he sold his farm and came to
Illinois and settled in Coles County, and came to this place
in the spring of 1858, and bought here 400 acres; much of it
was unimproved. Here he settled and remained until his
death, Sept. 17, 1872. He was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church for many yeas; he served as class
leader and steward for many years. He was a thrifty
and prosperous farmer and a kind-hearted man, a good
neighbor, a kind husband and an indulgent father. He
was a Democrat, yet he voted for the best men; in
Presidential contests he adhered to his party. He was
a member of the Masonic fraternity, and one of the charter
members of the Casey Lodge. They had five children -
Martha E., Sarah J., John Milton, Daniel C. and
James L.; but two living - Daniel C. and Sarah
J., wife of Andrew Drumm; Daniel C., resides on
the homestead; Martha E., was the wife of William
Boyd and died July, 1872, leaving three children -
John W., Milton L. and Mary A.; these
reside with Mrs. Closson; Milton died, aged
twenty-one, with typhoid fever; James L., has been
away from home many years (residence not known).
Mrs. Closson resides on the homestead farm. She
has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church over
forty-four years.
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Casey Twp. -
M. G. COCHONOUR, furniture, Casey.
Marion Green Cochonour is the principal and only dealer
in furniture and undertaking in town of Casey. He was
born Mar. 29, 1845, on the line of Clark and Cumberland
Counties, and has been a resident of this county up to the
present. His father, David, was born Sept. 22,
1818, in Baltimore County, Md., and removed to York County,
Penn., in 1820, and from here to Fairfield County, Ohio, in
1837, where he was married, Aug. 8k, 1839, to Rebecca
Mouser, daughter of Benjamin Mouser, a Virginian.
She was born May 28, 1820, in Fayette County, Ohio.
May 26, 1842, David Cochonour landed in Clark County,
and there settled and since been a resident of this
locality, now of Cumberland County. Of the children
borne them now living are Marion G., Mary C., Susan R.,
Lewis W., Perry L., Hardin C. and Stephen D.
The brothers are farmers and residents of Cumberland County;
one of the sisters resides in this township, wife of J.
R. Emerich, and the other is the wife of William
Kilgore, of Jasper County. His paternal grandsire
was Christian Cochonour, a native of York County,
Penn; his progenitors were natives of Wurtemburg, Germany;
his paternal grandmother was Catherine Mash, a
Pennsylvanian, where she was born in 1782. His
mother's grandparents on both sides served all through the
Revolution. Marion G. came West with his
parents at the time of their removal, and was brought up on
a farm, where he remained until eighteen years of age,
when he went to learn the carpenter's trade, at which he
worked until he came to Casey in July, 1870, where he
engaged in the furniture and undertaking business, being the
first to keep a general line of ready-made caskets, coffins
and undertaker's supplies in Casey, and has since carried on
a successful business. He has been twice married,
first time, Apr. 20, 1870, to Elizabeth Galbrath,
of Charleston. She died Mar. 6, 1871, leaving one
child - Elizabeth, Nov. 18, 1873, he married to
Marietta, daughter of Charles and Martha Geddes, of
this county. By last marriage he has one daughter -
Ida L. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and also a member of the A., F. & A. M.
Politically, he is a Republican.
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Casey Twp. -
JAMES B. CONDE, retired farmer, Casey,
was born May 24, 1811, in Oneida County, N. Y., the youngest
child of Adam Conde and Elizabeth Wilson. Our
subject removed with his parents when three years old to
Campbell County, Ky., and remained there about three years,
when they removed to Rush County, Ind., where his parents
died. Our subject was raised on a farm and lived at
home until forty years of age, making his parents' house his
home until his removal to Illinois, which was in June, 1851,
when he came to Jasper County, this State, bought a farm and
engaged in farming, remaining here until September, 1870,
when he removed to Casey and has since been retired.
Jan. 10, 1850, he married Elizabeth, who was born
Jan. 13, 1830, in Nicholas County, Ky., daughter of
Thomas Simms and Lucinda Hudson, both natives of
Virginia. From there they removed to Kentucky and
remained there until about the year 1840, when they removed
to Rush County, Ind., where a family of seven children.
Mr. Simms died in 1880, his wife in 1877.
Mr. Conde has but one child, Lucinda Olive, and
resides in Willow Hill, Jasper County. She is the wife
of Charles Spurgeon. Greenbacker.
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Casey Twp. -
M. L. COOK, mining, Casey.
Melvin Leroy Cook came to this county in 1849. He
was born July 21, 1840, in Chautauqua County, N. Y.
His father, John W. Cook, was born in the same county
in 1809, and married Lodeca Drake, daughter of
Hiall Drake, of Chautauqua County, who is yet living
(1882) and has attained the remarkable age of one hundred
and fifteen years. In 1849, Melvin L. Cook
removed West to Illinois with his parents, who settled in
Casey Township and engaged in the nursery business, which
his father carried on until 1876, when he removed to
Arapahoe County, Colo., and there resides being engaged in
the same business. Leroy was but a lad when he
came to this county. He was raised up in the nursery
business, which he carried on some time on his own account,
beginning in 1870 and continuing about four years. He
afterward engaged in the hotel business and ran the National
House for some time. Since then he has been interested
in the mining business in California, being Superintendent
of the Casey Mining Company. Mr. Cook has done
much for the town of Casey in encouraging the erection of
good buildings, and has put up the greater portion of the
substantial brick buildings in the village. He has
recently completed a handsome and substantial brick building
on the Lang corner, which contains three large rooms,
admirably adapted for mercantile and business purposes.
Apr. 20, 1870, he married Eliza, the youngest
daughter of John Lang, one of the old settlers and
pioneers of Casey Township. Mr. Cook has no
children. He had one son, Thomas F., born Nov.
1, 1880; died Jan. 4, 1882. Mr. Cook is not a
member of any church or society, but is a good Republican.
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Wabash Twp. -
EDWARD N. COOPER, farmer, P. O.
Marshall, was born in York Township, of Clark County, Jan.
5, 1832. His parents were Abner and Rebecca Cooper,
the former a native of South Carolina and the latter of
North Carolina. His parents were married in Butler
County, Ky., and came to Clark County, Ill., in 1828.
They made a residence of several years in Walnut prairie.
About 1840, they bought eighty acres of land of Cyrus
Sharp in Section 31. They entered 124 acres in
Section 32, and on the farm thus acquired they spent the
last years of their lives. They raised a family of
five children, of whom Edward N., is the younger, and
of whom but two are living. Although raised in the
days of primitive schools, E. N. succeeded in gaining
a fair business education, mainly under the instruction of
his mother, who, though she never attended school but three
days, had a very analytical and powerful mind. She was
born Oct. 11, 1796, and died June 24, 1879. The Father
was born in 1792. Mr. Cooper was married, Jan.
17, 1865, to Miss Mary Stephens, daughter of
Elijah Stephens and Ann Smith. She was born
in Des Moines County, Iowa, Aug. 9, 1843. Their family
consists of three children all of whom were born in Wabash
Township. Sheridan Cooper, born Oct. 8, 1865;
Minnie Cooper, born July 30, 1867; Robert Cooper,
born Feb. 23, 1870. Mr. Cooper, born Feb. 23,
1870. Mr. Cooper as a farming interest of 323
acres of land in Wabash Township and 114 acres in Darwin
Township. Residence, eight miles east from Marshall.
He is one of the most extensive and prosperous farmers in
the county.
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Casey Twp. -
ISAAC W. COOPER, retired farmer, P. O.
Casey. Isaac Walton Cooper is a native of the
Keystone State. He was born on St. Valentine's Day,
1813, in Lycoming County, Penn. His father was
Andrew Cooper, a native of Lancaster County, son of
James Cooper. His mother's maiden name was Ann
Walton, for whom he was named. She was a daughter
of Isaac Walton, whose wife was a Moore.
The Cooper family trace their ancestry to Scotland,
while the Moores are of Dutch descent. Isaac
Walton, the subject of these lines, removed with his
parents to Rush County, Ind., in 1825. His father was
a poor man, and rented land, and made several removes while
in Indiana. After three years' residence in Rush
County, he removed to Franklin County. Here they lived
three years, then moved to Fayette County, where they
sojourned for a time, then located in Shelby County; finally
made a tarry of several years in Marion County. Mr.
Cooper has been twice married; first, while in Marion
County, to Frances M. Parker. She died six
years after, leaving no issue. Sept. 12, 1850, he
married his present wife, whose maiden name was Melinda
Makin, who was born Apr. 21, 1829, in Greenup County,
Ky., eldest daughter of Charles Makin, who was born
Dec. 3, 1800, in Russell County, Va., son of Cornelius
Makin, who removed with his family to Greenup County,
Ky., in 1809. Charles Makin married Eunice
Gilkerson, daughter of John Gilkerson, who
removed with his family to Shelby County, Ind., in 1836.
Eunice died 1839, in Indiana. Charles
died here in this county Dec. 3, 1880. To them were
seven children born that grew up, viz., Daniel, James,
Mrs. Cooper, Lucinda, Mary J., Cornelius and Eliza.
Mr. Cooper made the several removes with his parents in
Indiana, as above narrated, and with them moved to Lee
County, Iowa, where, after a short residence, they came to
this county about the year 1852. He purchased a farm
in the northeast part of this township, located on the
southwest quarter of Section 2, where he engaged in farming,
improving his land, and in 1865 he located in Martinsville,
and engaged in the milling business for several years.
He purchased the farm he now owns shortly after the close of
the war, and returned here after his leaving Martinsville.
He had three sisters - Mary A., Martha and Sarah.
Mary is the wife of William Johnson, and
resides at Lyons, Neb.; Martha, Mrs. William Tomlinson,
of Kansas; Sarah, in Casey. Mrs. Cornelius.
Mrs. Cooper and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Mr. Cooper having been identified
with this organization for forty years, and politically he
was first a Whig. Since the dissolution of that party,
he has been a stanch Republican. He has but one child,
a daughter, Anna, wife of John Duncan who have
two children - Pearl Cooper, born Aug. 28, 1877;
Lulie M., born July 25, 1880.
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Wabash Twp. -
ANDREW CORK, farmer, P. O. Livingston,
was born in Berkeley County, W. Va., on the 8th of July,
1802. He is a son of George and Susan Cork.
The father was born in Maryland; the mother was born in
Virginia, in which State they were married. They made their
residence for several yeas in Virginia, on the east side of
the mountains, where five of their family of ten children
were born, the subject of this sketch being the fifth.
In 1804, the family removed to Harrison County, W. Va.,
where the other members of the family were born. They
moved from West Virginia to Ross County, Ohio, in 1822.
There Andrew was married, in 1834, to Miss Nancy
Storm, of Ross County, Ohio. She died in Ross
County in 1845, leaving a family of four children, besides
two who died previous to the death of their mother.
Their names are John, Jane, Eliza, Martha, Harrison
and Nancy Cork. The oldest of this family,
John Cork, was killed in Ross County, Ohio, by a
thunderbolt. Mr. Andrew Cork was married to
Miss Frances J. Clark, his present wife, in 1849 (April
2). She is a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Clark,
and was born in Highland County, Ohio, on the 10th of
January, 1821. They have one son, Andrew Cork, Jr.
He was born in Ross County, Ohio, on the 20th of December,
1854. He was married in Clark County, Ill., Feb. 10,
1875, to Miss Zetta Ball, daughter of Morton and
Elizabeth (Leach) Ball. Zetta Ball was born in
Franklin County, Ohio, Apr. 10, 1858. Andrew and
Zetta Cork have four children - Frances J., born
Nov. 20, 1875; William M., born May 16, 1877;
Charles A., born Nov. 2, 1879, and Elizabeth A.,
born Jan. 29, 1882. Mr. Andrew Cork came to
this county in 1855, and settled where his brother,
Joseph Cork, now lives. He now owns 337 acres of
land in Sections 5 and 6 of Wabash Township. The
family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Livingston.
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Anderson Twp. -
THOMAS CRAIG, Jr., farmer, P. O.
Marshall, son of William W. Craig and Catharine (Serwies)
Craig, and grandson of Thomas Craig, Sr., was
born in Anderson Township, Clark Co., Ill., June 27, 1853.
Mr. Craig's father, William W., was born in
Indiana Sept. 21, 1826, and died in Clark County, Ill., in
March, 1867. Catharine (Serwies) Craig, mother
of the subject of this notice, was born in Wurtemberg,
Germany, in 1827, came to America with her parents in 1829
or 1830, and at this writing (February, 1883), resides in
Anderson Township, Clark County. Mr. Craig was
the third of eight children, five of whom are still living,
three having died in infancy. Having completed his
education in the public schools of his native county, Mr.
Craig commenced business life as a school teacher, and
has followed that occupation for ten years; in May, 1877, he
was married to Miss Mary C. Holwick, daughter of
Daniel and Adeline (Fogle) Holwick. The wife's
father was born in Ohio about 1830; her mother, a native of
the same State, was born about 1835, are both living
(February, 1883) in Darwin Township. In politics,
Mr. Craig is Democratic, and he ahs been elected to
several offices by that party. In April, 1874, he was
elected Township Assessor, and served two years; in April,
1876, Township Collector, serving one year; in April, 1879,
School Trustee, serving three years, and in April 1882,
Justice of the Peace, which office he now (February, 1883)
holds. Mr. Craig has a well-improved farm of
160 acres in Anderson Township, on which he resides.
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