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W. F. HILSABECK,
M. D. The subject of this sketch is the
fifth in a family of ten children of W. F. and Elenor
(Walden) Hilsabeck. His father was a native of
Georgia. He left that state at the age of fifteen,
and came with his father’s family to Hillsboro,
Montgomery county, Illinois. Subsequently he
removed to Shelby county, where he at present resides.
Dr. Hilsabeck was born in Windsor
township, Shelby county, October 8th, 1846. He
received his education in the public schools of Shelby
county, at the seminary in Shelbyville, and at the Mt.
Zion Academy in Macon county, where he spent one year,
also attending the Normal School in Potsdam, New York,
one year.
In 1868 he commenced the study of medicine in the
office of Dr. Harnett, of Shelbyville, and
continued with him until he entered the Medical
Department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor,
where he remained one college year. In the winter
of 1871-72 he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and
graduated from that institution with the degree of M. D.
in the following year. He returned to Windsor and
commenced practice. In 1876 he entered the Missouri
Medical College at St. Louis, and also graduated from
that institution, and resumed his practice; and has
continued with great success to the present. On
the 24th of October, 1877, he was united in marriage to
Miss Eugenia Sargent, a native of
Claremont county, Ohio, but a resident of Moultrie
county at the time of her marriage. He is in
political faith a stalwart republican. He is a
member of the ancient and honorable Order of
Freemasonry, and belongs to Windsor Lodge, No. 322.
He is an advocate of temperance, and strictly a total
abstainer. The doctor has a large and growing
practice, and he gives it his undivided attention.
Source: Combined History of Shelby and Moultrie
Counties, Illinois -
Published by
Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia
Corresponding Office, Edwardsville, ILL -
1881 - Page 241 |
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Lovington Twp. -
CHARLES
HOWELL. AMONG
the prominent agricultural and stock men of
Moultrie county may be mentioned the name that heads
this biography. He was born in Shelby county,
Kentucky, March 20th, 1830. He was the son of
David and Elizabeth Howell; David Howell was a
native of North Carolina, and of Welsh descent; he came
to Shelby county when a young man and there married
Miss Elizabeth Bryant, a native of
Kentucky; her parents were also from North Carolina.
David Howell's father's name was John
Stephen Howell; he emigrated to Kentucky
in an early day and settled in Shelby county, where he
resided until his death. After David
Howell's marriage he began farming, an occupation he
was brought up to; he remained in Kentucky several years
after his marriage, and in 1836 emigrated to Illinois
and settled in what is now Moultrie county, near where
the subject of our sketch now resides. He bought
three hundred acres of land and began the improvement of
this tract; his health was not good after coming to this
State, and after seven years he died, leaving a widow
and nine children to mourn his demise. Charles
Howell was then in his thirteenth year; he remained
at home with his mother, and assisted in the management
of the farm until her death in 1851. His
advantages for receiving an education were very limited,
about nine months being all the schooling he received,
but in after life, by his own energies, he qualified
himself sufficiently to transact almost any ordinary
business. At the age of twenty-four he was united in
marriage to Miss Eliza E. Hill, daughter of William
Hill, of Fayette county, Ohio. Mrs.
Howell is of German ancestry. This marriage took
place January 4th, 1854. They have had born to them a
family of eleven children, and have never had a death in
the family. Mr. Howell was educated
to agricultural pursuits, a business he has followed his
entire life with marked success; he received less than
forty acres out of his father's estate, and by industry
and economy he acquired about 143 acres by the time of
his marriage, and by adding tract after tract he now
owns 1,620 acres of fine land, and his improvements are
among the best in the county. He has for years
been quite extensively engaged in stock-raising and to
this line of business is more particularly due his
success in life; what he has of this world's goods has
been acquired by his industrious habits and untiring
energy. During the early settlement of the county,
or before railroads were built through this section of
country, he bought hogs and drove through on foot to
Terre Haute, Indiana; and when a young man, before his
marriage, made trips through to Ohio with droves of fat
cattle, in the employ of Samuel Pancost.
In politics Mr. Howell is a republican,
but has never taken an active part in politics, desiring
rather to employ his time in the improvement of a model
farm. Religiously, Mr. and Mrs.
Howell are members of the M. E. Church.
Source:
1763 Combined History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois - Published by
Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia -
Corresponding Office, Edwardsville, ILL -
1881 - Page 229 |
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John T. Howell Residence |
Lovington Twp. -
JOHN
T. HOWELL was born in Shelby county, Kentucky,
Feb. 12th, 1832. He was the son of Ransom and
Nancy Howell. The family is of Welsh
extraction, the forefathers emigrating to America in the
colonial days. John Howell, the grandfather
of the subject of our sketch, emigrated from North
Carolina to Kentucky in the early settlement of that
state, and settled in Shelby county, on the waters of
Clear creek, where he improved a farm. He here
married a Miss Mary Busey, a daughter of one of
the old families in that part of the state.
They raised a family of nine children. It was here
where Ransom Howell was born and raised; he grew
to manhood on a farm, and afterwards married Miss
Nancy Gailey, of Shelby county, Kentucky.
There were two children born by this union, John T.
and Mary C. Mr. Howell was eight
years of age when his father died, and in consequence
was left to his own resources at a very early age.
He lived with his relations, and at times attended
school until about eighteen years of age, when he began
to learn the wagon-making trade; he remained at this
business about two years. At the age of twenty-two
he was united in marriage to Miss Susan Harris,
who was a native also of Shelby county, Kentucky.
They have a family of six children - Henry T., Shelby
W., Robert E., John R., Mollie G., and Jimmie.
Mr. Howell lived in Kentucky until 1864, when he
came to Moultrie county, and bought 140 acres of
Lovington county, where he now lives. He has
increased his landed possessions in this township until
he now owns 500 acres. A view of his residence and
scenes on his farm can be seen in another part of this
book. The principal part of Mr. Howells
property has been the fruits of his own industry and
strict attention to business. In politics he is a
democrat.
Source:
1763 Combined History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illinois - Published by
Brink, McDonough & Co., Philadelphia -
Corresponding Office, Edwardsville, ILL -
1881 - Page 229 |
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