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BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
Source:
History of Peoria County, Illinois
Chicago - Johnson & Company
1880
Note: The NAMES in 'CAPS' will have a
biography. All others do not have biographies available.
HALLOCK TOWNSHIP
NOTE: Names with (*) next to them have longer
description
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Ayres, R. E. farmer, P. O. West Hallock |
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Baggs, D. laborer, P. O. Northampton. |
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* BALDWIN, WILLIAM J.
farmer, Sec. 13, was born in Pittsburg, Pa.; is the only son
of a family of two children of Capt. Thomas Baldwin and Letitia
Jackson, both natives of the "Keystone State," where they were
married in 1834. Their only daughter, Fannie, is now
the wife of Dr. H. T. Coffey, of Peoria. Capt.
Thomas Baldwin was born on Dec. 7, 1804, near Pittsburg, Pa.,
where his father, Col. Robert Baldwin, owned a large farm and
a flouring mill, located on Chartier's creek. In shipping
their flour to market, Captain and his brother conveyed it up the
river in canoes and other small crafts, which was a tedious process,
and young Thomas resolved, while a mere youth, to do what he
could to develop a better system of water transportation, and such
progress had he made in the art of boating that at the age of
nineteen years he was captain of a steamboat on the Ohio river.
Nature had so well adapted him to his chosen work, that he became
one of the leading steamboat men of his time; devoted forty-five
years of his lfie to it, during which he built and was sole, or
part, owner of twenty-six steamboats, a number of which were among
the finest and swiftest upon the western rivers. Captain
Baldwin's boating experience was chiefly upon the Ohio, Mississippi
and Illinois rivers. He removed to Peoria in 1844, and when
the California gold fever broke out in 1849, Commander Vanderbilt
selected him to superintend a line of steamers to Central America,
that being then the principal route, at a salary of $10,000 a year.
His health failing, he resigned the position at the end of ten
months, and Mr. Vanderbilt presented him with a check for
$10,000 in gold. Soon after the beginning of the late civil
war he offered his services to the Government, which were accepted,
and he was put in command of a transport vessel; later was appointed
to the command of a transport vessel; later was appointed to the
command of the gunboat Romeo, which he retained till the close of
the war. He then retired from active business, and on Aug. 23,
1879, died at his residence in Peoria, ending a very active and
useful life. Mrs. B. still occupies the elegant
homestead on East Bluff. William J., being infused with
the prevailing patriotic spirit of the times, enlisted, secretly,
though a mere boy, and was in the army nearly a year, when his
mother, after much effort, secured his discharge. He married
Miss Jennie Sholes, a native of Peoria county. They
have three children, Leon, Harry C. and Letitia.
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Ballow, Emery, carpenter, P. O. West Hallock.
Barker, Chas., retired farmer, P. O. Hallock.
Barton, Ira, brick mason, P. O. Northampton.
Bennett, A. J., farmer, P. O. Southampton
Blue, Mrs., P. O. Chillicothe.
Boon, James S., retired farmer, P. O. Northampton.
Borchers, Geo., Gardener, P. O. Northampton.
Boylan, John, farmer, P. O. Chillicothe. |
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* BRAYTON, C. Y.
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Briggs, A., farmer, P. O. Lawn Ridge
Brown, Daniel, farmer, P. O. Southampton |
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* BRYDEN, WILLIAM, JR.,
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Burdick, H. D., wagon maker, P. O. west Hallock.
Burdick, N., blacksmith, P. O. West Hallock
Burdick, S. M., carpenter, P. O. West Hallock
Burnes, Geo., P. O. Hallock
Button, Elias, man of leisure, P. O. Lawn Ridge
Byrnes, Samuel, farmer, Lawn Ridge |
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Cashon, Wm., farmer, P. O. West Hallock
Chapin, Charlotte, P. O. Northampton.
Clarence, Wm., farmer, P. O. Lawn Ridge
Clark, John, bee keeper, P. O. Hallock
Collier, S. E., peddler, P. O. Chillicothe
Colwell, Geo., farmer, P. O. Hallock. |
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* COON, F. M.
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* CRADY, PETER W.
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Cratz, James, farmer, P. O.
Northampton.
Crosby, Moses, dairy farmer, P. O. West Hallock |
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Daball, I., farmer, P. O. Northampton
Devlin, Ellen, farmer, P. O.Northampton |
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