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OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES:
BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
The History
of
Vermilion County, Illinois
A Tale of its Evolution, Settlement and Progress for
nearly a Century -
Vols. I & 2
By Lottie E. Jones -
Chicago - Pioneer Publishing Company -
1911
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HANES GARLAUGH,
late of Sidell, who was called from earthly scenes March 13,
1910, was recognized as one of the most progressive farmers of
Vermilion county and a man whose life and services reflected in
an eminent degree those virtues which most contribute to the
growth and permanency of society. His career presents valuable
lessons for any ambitious young man and his success as an
agriculturist should be an incentive to others to persevere in a
work that has large rewards for those who are capable of
exercising patience, industry and good judgment.
Mr. Garlaugh was born near Dayton, Ohio, February 17,
1853, a son of Jacob and Ann Elizabeth
Garlaugh, both of whom
were of Teutonic ancestry. Mrs. Garlaugh was the mother of
thirteen children, three of whom died in infancy. The eldest son
lost his life in the Civil war, in 1865, the death of our
subject being the first that occurred among the nine remaining
brothers and sisters during a period that extended over
forty-five years. They were Lydia Ann, Edward
E., Taylor, Mary Jane and Martha
E., twins, Harriet V., Jacob L., Sarah B. and
Hanes.
Mr. Garlaugh was educated in the public schools and
grew up at home, continuing under the parental roof until he was
twenty-six years of age, when he came west to Vermilion county
to assist in looking after extended landed interests, his father
having bought from John Sidell eleven hundred acres of land in
this county in 1873. The subject of this review was a good
farmer and made many valuable improvements on the tract. In 1891
he purchased half of the farm, his brother Taylor acquiring the
other half, and he continued in agricultural and stock-raising
operations, until 1904, when he built a handsome residence in
Sidell, to which he removed and where he lived until his death.
He was identified with the Masonic brotherhood and was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in all his connections, both
public and private, showing the sincerity of his professions.
Mr. Garlaugh was thrice married. In 1883 he wedded
Miss Nellie Martin, of Pilot Township, this county, who was a
daughter of Calvin J. and Elizabeth (Collison)
Martin, both
natives of Illinois and early settlers of Vermilion County.
Later they removed to Kansas, where Mr. Martin died.
Mrs. Martin
is now living in that state and is seventy years of age. Mrs.
Garlaugh was called away December 26, 1887, leaving two
children, Mamie Elizabeth, who is living at home; and
Ida May,
deceased. The mother was a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church and a woman of many excellent qualities.
In 1890 Mr. Garlaugh was married to Miss Ida Thomas, of
Palermo, Illinois, who died six months later. In 1897 he was
united in, marriage to Miss Alice N. Hall, of Fairmount, this
county, a daughter of Jacob H. and Ellen (McDonald)
Hall, the
father being a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana, where
they spent a few months and then came to Fairmount. At that time
the town had but eleven houses and Mr. Hall later was known as
its oldest resident. He conducted a hotel in Fairmount for
nearly forty years and acquired a wide reputation among the
traveling public on account of his genial qualities. Mrs.
Hall
was called away in 1903 and her husband departed this life three
years later. They were members of the Methodist church and had
many friends in the region where they spent a large part of
their lives. Mrs. Garlaugh makes her home in the handsome family
residence at Sidell, where she has lived for the past six years
and where she is highly esteemed for her many estimable traits
of character. Mr. Garlaugh will not soon be forgotten in a
community which learned to respect him for his energetic and
progressive qualities, and he ranked among the prominent men in
his locality. His death in the midst of a useful career was
regarded, as a distinct loss not only to his family and friends but to the entire community.
Source: History of
Vermilion Co., Ill. - Vol. II - Pub. 1911 - pgs 507 & 508 - Submitted by Mary Paulius |
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SAMUEL GILBERT AND SONS,
AND SOLOMON GILBERT
The family of Gilberts is well
considered together, since all of them were more or less great
factors in the making of Vermilion County. Samuel Gilbert, with
his family, consisting of his wife and three sons, Alvan,
James
and Elias, came to Vermilion County from Ontario County, New
York, in 1826. They had really come west the previous year but
stopped in Crawford County until this time. When they came to
Vermilion County they settled two miles south of Danville. There
was, at that time, no town in the county containing more than
fifty
White families. The nearest mill was at Eugene. The
great need of this section was a mill and in 1831, Mr. Solomon
Gilbert, the brother of Samuel came from the east and put up one
at near the mouth of the North Fork of the Big Vermilion.
Another brother, Jesse, established a ferry across the Vermilion
River, a much needed improvement.
Mr. Samuel Gilbert lived in Danville until 1839, when
he went to Ross township, made there was made the first justice
of the peace. He was also the first postmaster, serving in this
office for twenty years. He held the office of justice for ten
years. Mr. Gilbert's wife died the year he moved from Danville,
and was buried in the Williams' burying ground. Mr. Gilbert
afterward married Mrs. Elizabeth (Dougherty) Ferrier, the
daughter of one of the early settlers of Vance Township. Mr.
Samuel Gilbert lived to be seventy-two years old. He died and
was buried in the Williams J. burying ground.
Alvan Gilbert, the oldest son of Samuel
Gilbert, was
fifteen years old when he came to Vermilion County. He
spent the first years after coming here in the work provided by
the many interests of his father and uncles. In 1831 he married
Miss Matilda Horr and the following year he went with his father
to Ross Township, where his father-in-law owned land. Mr.
Gilbert bought a small farm of his father-in-law which he
afterward enlarged to 240 acres. This farm he afterward sold to
his father and brother James, and bought another farm of his
uncle Solomon. This later farm included the northern limits of
Rossville. He lived her about three years when he again sold and
bought another farm of Mr. Leggitt which included a part of the
southern limits of Rossville. He traded extensively in
real estate and personal property, and it has been claimed that
during his life he had more deeds recorded than any other man in
the county. Mr. Gilbert's first wife died in 1840, leaving two
daughters, one of whom afterward married George C. Dickson
and
the other became the wife of Frederick Grooms. Mr. Alvan Gilbert
served as Supervisor of his township for many years, being
president of the Board for a part of the time. Upon the adoption
of the township organization he was one of the three
commissioners appointed to divide the county into townships. He
was also one of the three commissioners appointed to divide the
swamp lands between this county and Ford, when Vermilion lost
that territory. Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Lamm represented the old
county and Judge Patton, the new one. He had Judge (Guy)
Merrill
and John Canaday as associates in the act of making the division
of the county into townships. The three who divided the swamp
lands were about three months in making the division. Mr. Alvan
Gilbert's second wife was Nancy (Horr) Elzy.
(Submitted by Mary Paulius)
Source: History of Vermilion County,
Illinois - Publ. 1911- pgs 124 & 125 |
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FRANK S. GOODWINE.
Among the family names well known in Illinois and Indiana on
account of the high character of its members and their success
as agriculturists and live-stock raisers is that of Goodwine.
Frank S. Woodwine, whose name stands at the
head of this review, belongs to this family and was born in
Warren county, Indiana, January 16, 1863. He is the son of
Abner and Barbara (Pence) Goodwine, both of whom were
born in Bartholomew county, Indiana. The father spent his early
years in that county and then moved to Warren county, where he
became a leading farmer, accumulating four thousand acres of
land, part of which he has given to his children. He and his
daughter Leola are now living at the old homestead,
enjoying the fruits of many years of diligence and good
management. In the family were twelve children, nine of whom are
now living.
Frank S. Goodwine was reared by
kind and loving parents, possessing the advantages of a peaceful
home, which are of much greater importance in determining one's
career in after life than anything else that could be named. He
attended the district school and became thoroughly inducted
under his father into all the operations of the farm, so that
when he arrived at manhood he was one of the best posted young
farmers in the region. He remained in Warren county until he was
thirty-one years of age. In 1894 he came to Vermilion county,
Illinois, and by applying the same principles that he had been
taught by his father he attained great success in his adopted
state, at the present time being owner of a farm of five hundred
and twenty acres, which is known as one of the most completely
equipped farms in the county. Being systematic and thorough in
his operations, Mr. Goodwine has met with the reward that
is usually the result of industry and well directed ability and
in the course of sixteen years he has developed a farming
property of which he may justly be proud and which is a monument
to his energy and progressive spirit.
In 1895 Mr. Goodwine was happily united in
marriage to Miss Alice Dice, and five children have
blessed their union, Abner, Dice, Mildred, Harry and
George J. Although Mr. Goodwine has contributed his
part toward the upbuilding of the farming interests of this
region, he has not been attracted to politics, preferring to
devote his energy to his private affairs. He is known as a man
of the strictest integrity, always giving patient attention to
arguments on the opposite side of any cause in which he is
concerned and willing to be convinced by a reasonable
presentation—a man of open, generous nature, thoroughly honest
in all business dealings, clear sighted, fearless and true.
Source: History of Vermilion Co., Ill. - Vol. II - Pub. 1911 - pp. 537 - 538 |
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JAMES GRAVES and his
wife were both natives of Kentucky. He showed rare soldierly
qualities in the war of 1812 and made General Harrison his
personal friend. Mr. Graves and his family came to Vermilion
County in 1828. He had made a trip previous to this time in
company with Isaac
Sandusky, and both took up land in Vermilion
County about a half mile apart. They brought their families in
1828 and in October of the same year the Graves settled on their
new land. Mr. Graves prospered and became the owner of four
hundred acres of land in George-town township. Mr. Graves was a
cabinet-maker by trade and he followed that for a dozen years
after he came to Vermilion County. After that time however, he
practically abandoned it, and turned his attention to farming.
Mr. Graves lived on his farm until 1857, when he died. His wife
survived him thirty years, remaining a widow until her death in
1887.
Source: The History of Vermilion Co.,
Illinois - Pub. 1911 - Page 129 - Submitted by Mary Paulius |
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U. Z. GREEN.
Perhaps no name in all Vermilion county is more widely known in
connection with stock-raising interests than that of U. Z.
Green, nor is his fame confined merely to the boundaries of
this county, for as a breeder of trotting horses his stables
have produced some of the finest racers in the entire country
and his entries in various national stock shows have been among
the finest displays in America. Vermilion county claims him as
one of her native sons, his birth occurring on the farm which is
now his home on the 26th of May, 1874.
His father, Lewis W. Green, was born in Ohio and
came to Vermilion county in the early '6os and was here married
to Miss Euphama Jane Sandusky, a
native of Vermilion county and a daughter of Abraham Sandusky.
Lewis Green, upon his arrival in this county,
purchased a farm to which he added until his possessions now
aggregate over two thousand acres, constituting him one of the
largest landowners in his section of the state. His time,
however, is given mostly to his stock-raising interests, and he
is recognized as one of the most extensive breeders of trotting
horses in the United States.
U. Z. Green was reared under the parental roof,
and he acquired a good education in the common schools and in
the Vermilion Academy, which was later supplemented by a
thorough course in the Terre Haute Business College. His
commercial course was pursued with the view of making the
banking business his life work, and upon its completion a
position awaited him in the Palmer National Bank at Danville. He
never entered financial circles, however, for, believing that
greater success awaited him in agricultural lines, he returned
home and took up his abode upon his father's Maple Grove ranch,
where he engaged for several years in the breeding of cattle and
fine hogs. Being as it were, "to the manner born," his early
training upon his father's farm was both thorough and
comprehensive, and this practical experience, combined with his
broad business training, well equipped him for the successful
conduct of large and independent agricultural interests. He
became an extensive stock-raiser and was the breeder of the
champion herd of English Berkshire hogs of America in 1897, and
it is also claimed that he raises more hogs than any other man
in Vermilion county. He also breeds fine shorthorn cattle and
raised the largest five year old cow exhibited at the
International Stock Show in Chicago in 1906, its weight being
twenty-two hundred and sixty pounds. In 1901 Mr. Green
came to his present home, known as the Maple Hill Stock Farm,
consisting of three hundred and twenty acres of valuable land.
Here he is conducting one of the most extensive stock-raising
enterprises in the state, making a specialty of cows, hogs and
horses. Until two years ago he has regularly exhibited at the
various international stock shows, where his entries have won
high awards. He raises heavy draft horses and standard bred
trotting horses, and his stables have produced some very fine
racers. He purchased as a yearling "William Mack,"
the greatest race horse of the country, whose record was 2:05^
and who won first money sixty-two times out of one hundred and
twenty-seven starts; 35 seconds; 9 thirds; 4 fourths; 12
unplaced. This racer he afterward sold and it is now dead. He
had a record of 2:07 on a one-half mile track.
Aside from his distinction as a stock-raiser Mr.
Green has also won a name for himself as a farmer of
importance, operating, aside from his home farm, eighteen
hundred acres south of where he resides which belongs to his
father's-in-law estate. He has been eminently successful in the
cultivation of grain, his fields averaging seventy-five bushels
of oats to the acre in the summer of 1909, while he produced one
hundred and three bushels and twenty pounds of corn to the acre.
He has spared neither time nor money in the development of his
property and his home farm is today one of the finest and most
highly improved properties in Vermilion county. He has erected a
beautiful brick residence and the buildings for the protection
and shelter of the stock are large, commodious and modern in
structure. The place is equipped with the latest improved farm
machinery and everything necessary for the successful and
adequate care of stock. Without exception it is the best tiled
farm in the county, thousands of dollars having been spent in
thus improving it, and 00 one tract of forty acres alone there
are ten thousand twenty-four inch tile.
In 1900 Mr. Green was united in marriage
to Miss Blanch Mills, of Indianola, and to them have been
born three children, Anna H., Margaret L. and Lewis
William. The family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and are well known in Vermilion county, within
whose borders Mr. Green's entire life has been
spent. In politics he supports the independent cause, but the
duties of an intensely active business life have left little
time for participation in political affairs other than casting
his vote for the men and measures which, in his opinion, are
best adapted to conserve the good of the community. The terms
progress and enterprise may well be said to be the salient
elements in the career of U. Z. Green, for the high place
which he today occupies in agricultural and stock-raising
circles in the country is due entirely to his own well directed
efforts and unfaltering industry. He has kept in touch at all
times with the progressive steps which have been made in those
lines of endeavor, and today no man is better equipped to speak
with authority on matters pertaining to those branches of
activity. His labors have not only resulted in the acquirement
of a success which in its extent ranks him among the most
substantial and prosperous men of Vermilion county, but are all
the greater because they have contributed to the general good
and have done much to promote agricultural interests in this
section of the country.
Source: History of Vermilion Co., Ill. - Vol. II - Pub. 1911 - pp. 559, 560 & 561) |
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L. V. GUNN, the owner
of an excellent farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section
5, Grant township, has been dependent upon his own resources
from the early age of fourteen years and the success which he
now enjoys has come as the merited reward of his well directed
labors and untiring perseverance. His birth occurred in New York
on the 20th of November, 1856, his parents being "Luther and
Lydia (Gage) Gunn, who were likewise natives of the
Empire state. The father passed away in Michigan, while the
mother was called to her final rest when still a resident of New
York. Unto them were born two children, namely: Jennie M.,
who lives with our subject; and L. V., of this review.
L. V. Gunn attended the common schools until
fourteen years of age and then began providing for his own
support. Going to La Salle county, Illinois, he there worked as
a farm hand for seven years, on the expiration of which period
he rented a tract of land, being actively engaged in its
cultivation for two years. In 1880 he came to Vermilion county
and purchased the farm of one hundred and sixty acres whereon he
has resided to the present time. Owing to his enterprise and
industry, the property is now lacking in none of the
improvements and accessories of a model farm of the twentieth
century, and the fields annually pay tribute to his labor in
rich and bounteous crops.
In 1877 Mr. Gunn was united in marriage to
Miss Alice Rogers, a native of La Salle county, Illinois,
and a daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Ferneigho) Rogers,
both of whom were born in England. They emigrated to the United
States at an early day, locating in La Salle county, Illinois,
where Thomas Rogers passed away. His wife was called to
her final rest while a resident of Vermilion county. Their
children were three in number. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Gunn
have been born eight children, as follows: Walter T., a
practicing attorney of Danville, Illinois; Roger F., who
follows farming in Indiana; Robert L. and Jennie,
both at home; Letha A., who is a graduate of the
Hoopeston high school and now follows the profession of
teaching; Myra; Jessie, who is deceased; and one
who died in infancy.
In politics Mr. Gunn is a republican and
at the present time holds the office of school director. He has
likewise served in the capacity of township trustee. Both he and
his wife belong to the Universalist church and are deeply
interested in its work. Their earnest Christian lives have won
them the respect of all who know them and they have a host of
warm friends throughout the community in which they reside.
Source: History of Vermilion Co., Ill. - Vol. II - Pub. 1911
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