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OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES:
Source:
PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL
RECORD ALBUM
of
VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS
containing
Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of
Prominent
and Representative Citizens of the County.
together with
Portraits and Biographies of all the Governors of the
State, and
of the Presidents of the United States
Publ: Chicago
Chapman Brothers.
1889
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SAMUEL
ALBRIGHT. The subject of this notice was one of the
first men to settle in Ross Township along Bean Creek, taking
up his abode there on the 11th day of October, 1855. His first
purchase was 240 acres of land where he built a small house,
and he was the first man to stir the soil with a plowshare. He
did a large amount of breaking himself, enclosed and divided
his fields with fencing, put out fruit and shade trees and
erected buildings as his needs multiplied and his means
permitted. He was prospered as a tiller of the soil and
invested his surplus capital in additional land which under
his wise management became very fertile and yielded handsome
returns. His property lies on sections 19, 30 and 31, and is
considered as including some of the most desirable land in
this part of the county.
About 1875, the first humble domicile of our subject
cave place to an elegant residence. While adjacent is a very
fine barn flanked by the other necessary buildings. He has the
latest improved machinery,
including an expensive windmill and an artesian well which
throws a running stream of water two feet above the ground,
with its source 130 feet below. In his stock operations, Mr.
Albright breeds mostly horses and cattle.
Mr. Albright, in March. 1886, rented his farm and
retiring from active labor, purchased a pleasant home in
Rossville where he now resides. His has been a remarkably busy
life, as in addition to his farming operations, he has given
considerable of his time to looking after the local interests
of his township. Officiating as School Director and serving as
Justice of the Peace for seven years. He usually gives his
support to the Democratic part and for a period of forty-five
years has been a member of the United Brethren Church. He has
been at two different times the candidate of his party in this
county for the Legislature, but being in the minority, was
beaten as he expected.
Mr. Albright was born in Fairfield County Mr. Albright
was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1816, and lived
there until a lad of twelve years. He then removed to Pickaway
County where he sojourned until his marriage, which took place
four miles southeast of Circleville the bride being Miss
Clemency Morris. Of this union there were born two
children-John M. and Mary Ellen, the latter the wife of
William McMurtrie of Potomac and is the mother of four
children. Mrs. Clemency (Morris) Albright died at her home in
Ross Township in 1865.
Our subject contracted a second matrimonial alliance,
Sept. 10, 1866, with Miss Mary M. Davis. This union resulted
in the birth of two children - Orrie Lulu and Lilly
Belle. The
elder is the wife of William Cunningham of Rossville and the
younger remains with her parents. Mrs. Mary M. (Davis)
Albright was born in Muskingum County, Ohio February. 1836,
and is the daughter of Amaziah Davis, who came to this county
at an early day and became one of its most prominent farmers
and citizens.
David Albright, the father of our
subject, was a native of Pennsylvania whence he removed to
Ohio when quite young. He was there married to Miss Phebe
Newman and they reared a family of nine children. Upon
leaving the Buckeye State they settled in Frankfort, Ind., where the father died some years ago.
The mother subsequently came to this county and made her home
with our subject until her death.
Source:
Portrait and Biological of Album of
Vermilion Co., Illinois
- Published: Chicago: Chapman
Brothers - 1889- pages 314
- (Submitted by Mary Paulius) |
A. T. Arbuckle |
ALPHONSO T.
ARBUCKLE, A. M., M. D., D. D. S., one of the best
established physicians and surgeons of this county, was born in
Symmes Township, Edgar County, this State, Dec. 20, 1856, and is
the son of Samuel Ross Arbuckle, a native of Knox county,
Ohio. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Ross Arbuckle,
Sr., a native of Knox County, Ohio. His paternal
grandfather, Samuel Ross Arbuckle, sr., was born in
West Virginia and was the son of Samuel Arbuckle, a
native of Scotland. The later emigrated to America at an
early day, when a young man, and settling in the Old Dominion
was there married to a lady whose name was Elizabeth Berry.
He engaged in farming pursuits and became the father of
seventeen sons and three daughters. His son, Samuel R.,
Sr., was reared in his native county and married Miss
Rebecca Meacher, a native of that State and of Scotch-Irish
ancestry. They emigrated to Ohio during the pioneer days
of Knox County, and sojourned there until 1827. They then
changed their residence to Symmes, Hamilton Co., Ohio, where
Grandfather Arbuckle kept a hotel known as the "Sixteen Mile
Stand."
This property is now owned by our subject. There
were then no railroads in Ohio, and Grandfather Arbuckle
engaged in teaming form Cincinnati to Logansport and
Indianapolis, driving six horses to a vehicle, and transporting
general merchandise. He died in 1875 at the advanced age
of eighty-two years. Many and great were the changes which
he witnessed in his adopted State where he lived to see the
country developed from a wilderness into farms, villages and
cities, with the iron horse rushing across the hills and
valleys, which then settled among them ahd been scarcely
disturbed by the foot of a white man.
Grandmother Arbuckle passed away one year prior
to the decease of her husband, dying in 1874. They reared
nine children - four sons and five daughters - and Samuel
Ross, Jr., the father of our subject, was six years old when
they took up their abode in Hamilton County, Ohio. He was
there reared to man's estate and in 1854 came to Edgar County,
Ill., where he lived one year, then removed to Macon County,
sojourning there two years; at the expiration of this time he
returned to Edgar in limited circumstances, the removal having
been made overland with teams, to Symmes Township, Edgar Co.,
Ill. There the father of our subject purchased a sawmill
which he operated while clearing the timber from his land.
At the time of his settlement in Illinois there was but one
store upon the present site of Paris. He put up a log
house containing one room and in that the subject of this sketch
was born. The father is still living and is a resident of
Embarrass Township, Edgar County, Ill. He now owns a farm
of 520 acres, embellished with fine buildings and well stocked
and there is every reason to suppose will spend this declining
years amid all the comforts of life.
Mrs. Lamanda (Vandervert) Arbuckle, the mother
of our subject, was born in 1829 in Fayette County, Pa., and is
the daughter of James and Margaret Vandevert. Her
family consisted of five children: The eldest daughter,
Medora, became the wife of Zolora Green, and
they reside in Oakland, Coles Co., Ill. Alphonso
T., our subject, was the second born; Byron E.,
occupies the home farm in Edgar County, Ill.; James L.,
is a traveling salesman; Walter V., is pursuing this
studies in the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, Ill.
Our subject was reared in his native county and
acquired his classical education in Paris, Ill., being a
graduate from the High School there in 1876 with the degree of
A. M. There also he began the study of medicine in 1881,
with Dr. William H. Tenbroeck, with whom he
remained two years. He next entered Rush Medical College,
Chicago, from which, after a three years' course, he graduated
in 1886. Two years of this time he practiced in Cook
County Hospital, and in the winter of 1885 and 1886 gave his
attention especially to dental surgery and was graduated.
He commenced the practice of his profession at Sidell on the 8th
of March, of that year, and eighteen months later came to
Danville, of which he has since been a resident and where he has
built up an extensive and lucrative practice. He is
popular among all classes and gives that conscientious attention
to the details of his calling which invariably brings success.
Dr. Arbuckle was marred Dec. 14, 1877, at the
bride's home in Sidell Township, this county, to Miss Mary E.
Rowand. Mrs. Arbuckle was born near Springfield, Ohio,
in 1861, and is the daughter of Rev. Edward and Margaret
Rowand, the former deceased, while the mother still
survives, and lives in Sidell. The doctor and his wife
occupy a neat home at No. 821 East Fairchild street, and enjoy
the acquaintance of the best people of the city. Our
subject is a member of the Medical Alumni Association of
Chicago, and occupies a position in the front ranks of the
fraternity in the part of the State. He meddles very
little with political matters, aside from casting his vote for
the man of his choice.
Mr. Arbuckle is considered one of the most
accomplished ladies in Danville, being a graduate of the
literary school, in which she ranked among the best of the
pupils, being ambitious in her studies and quick to learn, while
her retentive memory easily retained what it once grasped.
She is also considered as expert in all kinds of fancy work, and
is a graduate of a fine art school. She occupies a front
rank in the best society of the town she makes her home, and is
welcomed into the most select circles, which her education and
refinement fit her to adorn.
Mr. Arbuckle is represented elsewhere in this
volume by a fine portrait, which perpetuates the features of a
man well-known and highly respected among the entire community.
Source: Portrait and
Biographical Album of Vermilion County, Illinois - Published: Chicago:
Chapman Brothers
- 1889 - Page 451 |
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