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OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES:
BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY,
ILLINOIS
by H. W. Beckwith
Publ. Chicago: H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers
1879
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Newell Twp. -
CORYDON
H. CAMPBELL,
Danville, farmer and fine-stock breeder, was born in Seneca
county, New York, on the 19th of December, 1825, and is a son of
John and Elmira (Hewitt) Campbell. The substantial
prosperity which Mr. Campbell
has wrought out for himself little indicates
his humble beginning. His early life was spent in roving more
or less in the southwest, and in handling and driving stock.
In 1840 he went to Missouri and lived there seven years,
meantime buying and driving hogs to the Cherokee nation, and
returning with cattle to Milwaukee. He brought three herds
through from that country. For many years he has been an
extensive stock-raiser, and has devoted his attention largely to
the breeding of blooded stock, of which he keeps the best
strains in the country. Mr.
Campbell was married
on the 11th of November, 1849,
to Julia
A. Howard, who died
on the 1st August, 1850. His second marriage, on the 22d of
November, 1858, was to Mary W.
Brittingham, who died on the 13th of
March, 1869. His third marriage was to Sarah
E. Current, on the
1st of January, 1870. He is the father of three living children
:
John J., Joseph B., Benjamin.
He owns eight hundred and sixty acres of land, worth $34,500.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 963
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Newell Twp. -
WM. R.
CAMPBELL, State Line, Indiana, farmer, was born in
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 23d of September, 1823,
and is a son of Obadiah and Delilah (Treen) Campbell;
descended from revolutionary stock. When he was one yea r old
his parents removed to Pickaway county, Ohio, thence, in 1830,
to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and in 1837 to Fountain county,
where Mr. Campbell resided until 1866, when he came to Newell
township. He was married on the 28th of December, 1847, to
Melinda A. Lucas, who was born on the 2d of January, 1828.
He has been in the mercantile business six years. He served as
school trustee several years, and filled the office of
supervisor for Newell township four terms. He has four living
children:
Maria E., Josephine,
John F. and Charles A. He owns three hundred and fifteen
acres of land, worth $12,500.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 968
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Elwood Twp. -
FREDERICK CANADAY, Vermilion Grove, farmer, was born in
Jefferson county, Tennessee, on the 27th of January, 1804, and
was raised a farmer, which occupation he has followed
successfully through life. He was one of the pioneers of
the county, coming here in 1820, and sharing with the few
settlers of that early day in 1820, and sharing with the few
settlers of that early day the hardships of a pioneer life.
Mr. Canady is considered one of Vermilion county's best
citizens. He has been very charitable in donating for
benevolent purposes. He was married in Tennessee in 1828,
to Charity Haworth, who also was born in Tennessee, and
is now deceased. They are the parents of ten children,
eight living: Jane, Matilda, William, Mary A., Henry,
Isaac, Sarah and John. Mr. Canaday was
then married to Anna Haworth, in 1849. There were
but two settlers in this part of the county when he came here,
and he was the oldest settler who attended the old settlers'
meeting at Danville in the fall of 1878. He owns nine
hundred and thirty acres of fine land. He is a republican
and belongs to the Friends church.
Source:
History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H.
H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 592 |
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Elwood Twp. -
HENRY F. CANADAY, Ridge Farm,
farmer, was born in this county on the 12th of December, 1839,
and is a son of Frederick Canaday, one of the first
settlers, and a man closely identified with the early history of
this county, and one who has done much to promote the interest
and welfare of the same. The subject of this sketch
enlisted in the late war in Co. A, 25th Ill. Vol. Inf., and was
in the battles of Murfreesboro, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain,
Buzzard's Roost, and several other engagements. He served
three years. On the 26th of September, 1875, he was
married to Maggie S. Canaday. Mr. Canaday is
an industrious business man, well respected by all who know him.
In politics he is republican. He owns 120 acres of land
worth $50 per acre.
Source:
History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H.
H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 597 |
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Danville Twp. -
W. M. CARNAHAN.
A grocery establishment recently opened in the city of Danville,
and one which bids fair to do its share of the business in this
line, is that of W. M. Carnahan. He is a native of
Attica, Indiana, though he has been a resident of Vermilion
county for about eighteen years. He began business in his
present line of April of 1879. His first year's business
will probably aggregate about fifteen thousand dollars, a
specialty with him being the miners' trade. To supply this
he is located near the North Fork bridge, which is as
convenient as possible to the Moss Bank mines. His store
is twenty-four feet front by eighty deep, and well stocked with
everything pertaining to the grocery trade.
Source:
History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H.
H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 430 |
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Newell Twp. -
SAMUEL CHESTER, SR.,
Danville, farmer, was born in Ross (now Fairfield) county, Ohio,
on the 9th of October, 1810. His father, Thomas Chester,
was a soldier in the second war with Great Britain, and died of
rheumatism, and congestive chills in teh year 1813.
Samuel's mother, whose maiden name was Ruth Peterson,
was thus left with seven small and helpless children, and being
poor, as the majority of the people then were, Samuel was
indentured at the age of seven to Elias Florence, and
served with him till he attained his majority. Immediately
on becoming of age he was married to Elizabeth Castel, on
the 16th of November, 1831. In 1834 he commenced driving
fat cattle and hogs over the Allegheny mountains to New York,
seven hundred miles. His droves ranged from one hundred to
one hundred and fifteen head. The round trip to New York
occupied eighty-three days; to Philadelphia, seventy-three days,
and to Baltimore, fifty days. He followed this business
eleven summers, and while thus employed, bought one hundred and
five acres of land in the neighborhood where he had been raised,
for $525. In 1852 he sold it for $2,100, and moved to
Vermilion county, Illinois, settling in Danville township, where
he purchased six hundred and twenty acres on the Middle Fork.
This he afterward sold for $8,500. Leaving the farm, he
lived in Danville six years. In 1862 he bought and moved
on the place where he is now residing, one and a half miles
north of Danville. Mr. Chester's first wife died in
March, 1858. On the 11th of June following he was married
to Elizabeth Skeels. She died on the 14th of
August, 1878. He married again on the 4th of November,
1878, to Susan Barker. Mr. Chester received but two
months' schooling. He made hi start in life by infesting
in three ewes, the increase of which amounted, in seven years,
to seventy-three head. In politics MR. Chester is a
staunch republican. He owns at present two hundred and
eighty-seven acres of land, valued at $12,000.
Source:
History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H.
H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 965
Contributed by Mary Paulius |
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Danville -
PROF. A. B. CHILCOAT was born in
Huntingdon comity, Pennsylvania. He came to Ohio when he was but
a year old, and here received a common-school education.
In 1861 he came to Illinois, and located in Paris, Edgar county.
In 1872 he graduated at Duff's Mercantile Business College, of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has taught school some eleven
years. Prof. E. Chilcoat was born in Ohio, and is a
graduate of one of the leading colleges of that state. He
has taught school for a number of years. In 1878 these
gentlemen came to Danville and commenced their present school,
which is in a very nourishing condition, and has fair prospects
of becoming one of the leading institutions of learning in this
vicinity.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 494 |
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Newell Twp. -
DAVID
CLAPP, State Line City, farmer, was born in Orange
county, North Carolina, on the 24th of November, 1817, and is a
son of John and Margaret (Huffman) Clapp. He came to
Newel1 township in 1838; was employed during seven years,
alternately, by Squire James Newell and Asa Duncan,
and thus accumulated enough to buy the first piece of land. By
successive additions he has increased the quantity to two
hundred and fifteen acres, valued at $8,500. He was married on
the 24th of February, 1847, to Hannah Blair, who died on
the 11th of September, 1852. He married again on the 16th of
August, 1854, to Mary Jane Cunningham, who was born on
the 25th of July,1834. Four living children have been born unto
them: Sarah
Jane, John Wesley, James Henry, Charles Asbury.
In politics he is a democrat, and in religion a Methodist.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 957
Contributed by Mary Paulius |
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Georgetown Twp. -
JAMES CLIFTON, Georgetown, farmer and
stock-raiser, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, near his
present place, on the 8th of October, 1833. He lived with
his parents until he was twenty-tree years of age; he then came
to his present place, and has lived here since. On the
15th of June, 1855, he married Miss Martha Barnhard; she
was born in this county. They had seven children, five
living: Ellen, S. A. D., Olive, Laura and James,
jr. Mr. Clifton owns two hundred and five acres in
this county, located three miles due east of Georgetown.
His parents, William and Jane Brown
Clifton, were natives of Ohio and Tennessee. They were
married near the present place. Both died in this county;
he in the winter of 1869, and she in the winter of 1877.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H.
Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 535 |
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HENRY J. COLE, Ridge Farm, farmer
and stock-dealer, is a native of this county, and was born on
the 3d of January, 1853, and is the son of John and
Nancy Cole. His chances for an early education were
good, having attended Hungerford College, New York, for six
years, and was for a time a surveyor. His father was one
of the pioneers of this county, having come to this state in
1833, settling on what is now known as the Draper farm,
three miles south of Danville. He remained there till
1852, at which time he moved one mile west of Ridge Farm, where
the subject of this sketch now lives. John Cole had
but little property with which to begin life; but he accumulated
until, at one time, he had $100,000 worth of property. The
subject of this sketch learned the art of painting. He has
given a good manifestation of his skill in that line by painting
four fine large pictures, which adorn his parlor, a very
beautiful one representing autumn in the Catskill mountains.
Mr. Cole was married on the 7th of October 1875, to
Anna A. Healy, who was born in New York on the 1st of
October, 1853. They have one child, Florence, born
on the 1st of August, 1877. Mr. Cole owns six
hundred and fifty-eight acres of land in this county, and a
dwelling which cost over $10,000.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 600 |
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Blount Twp. -
SAMUEL COPELAND, farmer, the subject of
this sketch, and one of the old pioneers of Vermilion county, is
the son of Samue, sen. and Anna (Hays) Copeland.
Samuel, sen., was born in Aramah, Ireland, about the year
1755, emigrated to the United States in 1770, and became a
soldier in the revolutionary war. About 1790 he married
Miss Anna Hays, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They
became residents of Butler county, that state, where the subject
of our sketch was born, on the 13th of August, 1801. In
1806, his parents became residents of the Texas Valley,
Virginia, and from there they removed to Gallia county, Ohio.
In this latter place the early life of Mr. Copeland was
spent. As the country was new, he had but little chance of
acquiring an education, there being nothing but the old
subscription system, and he being obliged to cross the Ohio
River to attend these, which at some seasons of the year was
impossible for him to do. While a resident of that county,
on the 15th of February, 1820, he married Miss Elizabeth Ham,
she being a native of Virginia. He remained a resident of
Gallia county for eight years after marriage. Then,
building a boat, he came down the Ohio to the mouth of the
Wabash, and then up this to Perryville, Indiana, this trip
requiring six months' time. His boat was loaded with salt.
He remained at Perrysville long enough to sell this, and then,
buying plank enough to lay a floor, he moved to his present
home, where he first built a house of "rails," and afterward a
log house. He was obliged to go from seven to ten miles to
get men enough to help him raise the structure. He located
in Blount township when there was not a single residence of a
white man between his place and Chicago. He first entered
the southeast quarter of section11, town 20, range 12.
With this small beginning, he, by industry and economy, has
accumulated a fine property. He has already given to his
children four hundred and eight acres, and has four hundred
acres remaining, besides some valuable city property.
There were born to them eleven children, all of whom married and
settled in the vicinity of the old home. We have the
authority from one of the sons to say that to these there have
been born sixty-six children and twenty-three grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have lived to a ripe old age, and
both are still smart and active. They are members of the
Baptist church, which they joined about twenty years ago.
Surrounded by an abundance of property, children, grand and
great-grandchildren, they are certainly living to enjoy the
fruits of the labors of their younger days.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 894 |
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Blount Twp. -
JOHN J. COSAT, Danville, minister of the
gospel, section 13, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, on
the 13th of March, 1844, and spent his boyhood days on a farm.
He had but little opportunity for acquiring an early education,
but by close study at home he succeeded in acquiring a
sufficient education to enable him to teach school, which he
continued for thirteen years. He commenced preparing for
the ministry at the age of twenty-five. He was ordained in
the Christian church in 1873, and has charge of two churches.
He is also elder in the church. HE was married on the 11th
of July, 1869, to Emma Cline who was born in Vermilion
county, this state, on teh 30th of September, 1851. They
have six children, three living: Ernest H., born on the
15th of May, 1870; Pleasant, born on the 5th of May,
1872, died May 8th, 1872; Theodore W., born on the 30th
of September, 1873; John D. born on the 25th of October,
1875, died on the 14th of November, 1876; Lafayette, born
on the 26th of August, 1877, and died on the 2d of October,
1877; Everett M., born on the 25th of September, 1878.
Mr. Cosat has held the office of town clerk one term,
township assessor four years, justice of the peace two years,
and this office he is still holding. He enlisted in the
late war in 1864, in Co. I, 5th Wis. Inf., as corporal. He
was one of the six men who captured Lieutenant Ewell.
He served one year and was in the battles of Cedar Creek,
Petersburg, Sailor Creek, and several other engagements.
He is a republican in politics. His parents were natives
of Kentucky. Mr. Cosat's father came to this state
in 1831, hence was one of the early settlers of this county.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H.
Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 900 |
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Newell Twp. -
PERRY C. COSATT,
Danville, farmer, was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, on the
1st of January, 1838, and is a son of Peter and Nancy
(Tooma) Cosatt. His father was born near Harrodsburg,
Kentucky;
was a life-long whig;
settled in Blount town-ship in an early
day;
died in November, 1859. The subject of this
sketch was married on the 23d of September, 1858, to Ellen
Wood, who was born on the 3d of January, 1839. He was
formerly a republican, but is now neutral in politics. They are
the parents of two children:
Commodore P. and Sarah D.
He owns one hundred and sixty acres of land,
worth $6,500.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 959
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SAMUEL G. CRAIG,
Danville (deceased, was one of the old pioneers of Danville.
He was born in the state of Kentucky in 1812. From that
state he moved to Indiana, and from there to Danville in 1838.
For twelve years he filled the office of circuit clerk. He
then engaged in the dry goods trade, which he followed for many
years. For a time he represented Vermilion county in the
state legislature. His death occurred in 1871. In 1856,
Mr. Craig was married to Mrs. Gilbert. She is
the daughter of Henry Klien, and a native of the state of
Pennsylvania. Her home is still in Danville.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 392 |
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WILLIAM CRAIG,
Danville, livery, was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, in
1848, and is the son of Samuel G. and Catharine A. (McCrea)
Craig, whose history appears in this work. Mr.
Craig, our subject, was raised in Danville. His first
business in life was clerking for his father in a dry goods and
shoe store. In 1875 he entered the livery business with
Wm. Jacob Kuykendall, and formed the firm of Kuykendall
Bros. & Craig, which is the leading livery firm in Danville.
These gentlemen own two first class stables, one located in the
rear of the Ætna House, on
North street, and the other on Hazel, between North and Main
streets.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 415 |
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Blount Twp. -
J. H. CRAMER, Danville, farmer, section
20, was born in this county on the 30th of May, 1838, and was
raised a farmer, and this occupation he has followed through
life. He was married on the 9th of November, 1860, to
Nancy Carpenter, who was born in Indiana. They
have had by this union eleven children, seven living:
William S., John W., Charles, Mary, Andrew, Fred and
Lillie. The deceased were Dora A., Margaret M.
and two infants. Mr. Cramer had but little when he
was married, but by industry, economy and hard labor he has
acquired a nice property, consisting of one hundred and nineteen
acres of fine farm land. He has held the office of school
director two years, and school trustee two years. His
parents were natives of Virginia. He is a republican in
politics.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H.
Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 898 |
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Grant Twp. -
OLIVER H. CRANE, Hoopeston, Farmer, was
born in Fountain county, Indiana, on the 4th of March, 1841, and
is the son of Joel and Elizabeth Jenkins) Crane.
His grandfathers, Jonathan Crane and Absalom Jenkins,
both served as soldiers in Virginia in the war of 1812. He
was reared a farmer. In 1858 he moved to this county, and
located where he now lives, in Grant township, on the S.
½ S. W. ¼ section 20, town, 23,
range 12. He was married on the 7th of February, 1861, to
Charlotte Bowling, daughter of Willis P. Bowling, Esq.,
of Fountain county, Indiana. She was born on the 3d of
July, 1843. They have had nine children: Luella,
born Nov. 13, 1861; died June 24, 1863; Clara Belle, born
July 13, 1863; died Oct. 24, 1864; Elmer E., born May 28,
1865; John N., born Sep. 3, 1867; Lilian, born
Jan. 6, 1869; Alfaretta, born Feb. 11, 1871; Mary Adra,
born June 24, 1879. He owns eighty acres of land, worth
$2,400. In politics he is a greenbacker.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill
and Co., 1879 - Page 730 |
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Blount Twp. -
JOSIAH CRAWFORD, Danville, farmer, section
2, was born in Virginia on the 9th of July, 1811, and spent his
early days on a farm. His father moved to Ohio in 1823,
where the subject of thsi sketch was married, in 1833, to
Hannah Watkins, who was born in 1812, and who died in 1860.
They had ten children by this marriage, five living:
Sarah J., William, Hester A., Benjamin and Mary E.
The deceased were Samuel, Almira, Lucinda, James and
Minerva. Mr. Crawford was then married in 1860, to
Minerva E. Firebaugh, who was born in Ohio. They have
had by this marriage three children, two living:
Elizora A. and Frank. The deceased was
Josiah. Mr. Crawford has held the office of road
commissioner. He frequently went to Chicago with a team
and produce, and returned with salt. There was at this
time only one house between his and Chicago. He had, when
he married, but seventy acres of land, but by industry and
economy has accumulated a nice property of four hundred acres of
nice land. His father was in the war of 1812.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 897 |
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Newell Twp. -
AMBROSE F. CUNNINGHAM,
State Line, farmer, was born in Newell township, Vermilion
county, Illinois, on the 2d of November, 1836, and is a son of
James and Mary Ann (Andrews) Cunningham. He was married
on the 17th of March, 1859, to Mary Ann Lockhart. He
has been assessor of Newell township two terms. Mr.
Cunningham has six living children
:
Oscar: Charley, Mattie, Ella,
Morton and Rolla. He owns one hundred and ninety-four
acres, worth $6,000. He is a republican in politics, and an
influential Odd-Fellow.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 956
Submitted by Mary Paulius |
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Newell Twp. -
JAMES CUNNINGHAM,
State Line City, Indiana, farmer, was born near Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania: on the 5th of March, 1810, and is a son of
William and
Mary (Humes) Cunningham.
His parents removed with him at an early age to Harrison county,
Kentucky. There Wm. Cuminingham and his sons, of whom he
had seven, cleared one-half of a farm of one hundred and fifty
acres. Much of the land in those parts was military land, and
the titles were defective. Mr. C. paid for his land
twice, when a third man presented himself and his title to the
unimproved half (which was now fenced). Declining to buy
this claim, he shortly after sold the remainder and removed to
Vermilion county, Illinois, settling in Newell township in the
fall of 1829. The subject of this sketch was married on the 8th
of September, 1833, to Mary Andrews. He was bred to
farming, and by hard labor and careful management acquired a
good property. He was a member of Col. Moore's regiment
during the Sac war. Shortly after his return from this campaign
he improved a farm, on which he has always lived until within
fourteen years, since which time he has resided in Illiana,
doing no business. His son William occupies the old
homestead. He is the father of four children:
Hannah C., Ambrose F., William O. and
James A. In politics he is a
republican. Both Mr. and Mrs. C. are Presbyterians.
Source: History of
Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 -
Page 951
Submitted by Mary Paulius |
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Newell Twp. -
JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM, State Line City,
Indiana, farmer, was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, on the
27th of February, 1828, and is a son of William and Mary (Humes)
Cunningham. His father removed to Newell township in
November of 1829. Mr. Cunningham was married in
Mary Ann Swisher, on the 5th of April, 1849. He is
always found on the side of right, encouraging justice, good
morals and good government. He has filled the office of
commissioner of highways the past six years. He has six
living children: Cleantha, John I., Nora, Eddie, Ida M.,
Joseph S. He owns two hundred and eighty-five acres of
land, worth $11,000. In politics he is a democrat, and in
religion, a Christian or Disciple.
Source:
History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co.,
1879 - Page 953
Submitted by Mary Paulius |
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Danville -
W. T. CUNNINGHAM, Danville, deputy circuit
clerk. This gentleman was born in Danville, Vermilion
county, Illinois, on the 8th of February, 1834, and is the son
of Hezekiah Cunningham who was born in Virginia on the 3d
of March, 1803. He was the son of David and Nellie
(Burnett) Cunningham. Both parents were of Irish
descent. His father was a farmer. In 1819 Mr.
Cunningham came west with his mother and the Murphy
family, by wagon, taking them seven weeks in making the
trip. They arrived and located on the North Arm, in Edgar
county, Illinois, in the fall of 1819, there being but ten
families in that part of the country. In 1825 Mr.
Cunningham came to Vermilion county and married Mary
Alexander, daughter of John B. Alexander, by whom
they had five children, two of whom are living, - the wife of
Judge O. L. Davis and of W. T. Cunningham, the
subject of this sketch. In 1828 Mr. Hezekiah Cunningham
moved to Danville, where he has resided ever since. While
a resident here he has been engaged in the mercantile business
some ten years. He was a soldier in the Blackhawk war of
1832-3. His wife was born in 1791, and died on the 5th of
September, 1867. She was buried in the old Danville
Cemetery. Mr. Cunningham helped to bury the first
corpse in the Danville Cemetery, which was in 1828. W.
T. Cunningham, our subject, was raised and educated in
Danville. He was clerk in a drug store for five years, and
for a number of years clerk in other departments here in
Danville and Washington City. He was appointed collector
of the seventh district by President A. Lincoln.
During his term of office he collected over $3,700,000. He
is now deputy circuit clerk, which office he has filled for some
eight years. Mr. Cunningham married, in 1859,
Miss Lucy A. Lemon, daughter of John Lemon, one of
the early settlers in Vermilion county. She died in 1876.
By this union they had five children, four of whom are living,
two boys and two girls.
Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill
and Co., 1879 - Page 380 |
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