DANVILLE TOWNSHIP
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BIOGRAPHICAL
(See Biographical Index)

     A. J. T. JOSLIN, Danville

     E. C. WINSLOW, Danville

     L. JAMES, Danville

     CHAS. T. YEOMANS, Danville

     MR. J. A. PHILLIPS,

     CHAS. M. SWALLOW

     KUYKENDALL BROS. & CRAIG

     CHICAGO STORE - VILLARS & S. T. KERN

     B. M. CHAFEE

     J. A. PATTERSON

     ROBERT POLLARD

     WATSON BROS.

     H. P. BLACKBURN

     E. R. DANFORTH

     C. M. AXTELL

     GOTTLIEB MAIER

     G. L. KLUGEL,

     D. C. VAUGHN

     BREDEHOFT BROS.

     H. KAHN & CO. & MR. ISAAC STERN

     WILLIAM P. CANNON

     FRANK W. PENWELL

     J. E. FIELD

     WM. WOODS

     J. C. HELM

     The ARKANSAS & TEXAS RAILWAY LAND COMPANY & Mr. E. D. Steen

     WM. STEWART

     H. L. DUNHAM

     MESSRS. HULL & HULCE

     F. W. BUTTON

     C. V. FELDKAMP

     MR. W. A. CLEMENTS

     WM. BAHLS,

     C. . DOYLE

     GEORGE GORDON MABIN

     F. G. IRWIN

     W. F. BAUM,

     MR. JOHN STEIN

     FRIELD MILLER & SON

     WILLIAM J. CALHOUN

     JOSEPH G. CANNON

     GEORGE KAMPER

     THOMAS J. ELLIOTT

     J. H. WHITE.  There always seems to be room in any city for a good, wide-awake business man, in whatever line of trade he may choose to engage.  A practical demonstration of this fact has been made by Mr. J. H. White, proprietor of the Danville Fruit House.  Some men in engaging in a business seem to gather their ideas almost wholly from other dealers in the same or similar lines of business.  This does not seem to be his method of success, as he is constantly on the watch to add some new public want to his already extensive business.  When he began business in Danville, on the 12th of June, 1877, it was in a little cramped-up corner of his present place of business, Nos. 56 and 68 North Vermilion street.  By good financiering, or a wonderful run of luck (a risky thing to depend on), he has gradually increased his business, until now he is doing both a retail and wholesale business in oysters, fruits, nuts, confectionery, etc.  He is also manufacturing extracts, baking-powers, washing-blue and New York beer.  During the season he also does a commission business in domestic fruits; this, in addition to a fine stock of fancy groceries, which he also carries, makes up a business of which he or any other "White" man ought to be proud.  We may also mention a new $250 steam peanut-roster that he has recently purchased.  This has proved to be a curiosity which thus far has been liberally patronized by all classes.  Mr. White is a native of Scott county, Illinois.  In 1855 he went to St. Louis, and in 1858 began boating, which he followed until 1869.  He then began traveling, remaining on the road until 1877, when he came to Danville and engaged in business as above stated.
     MR. D. G. MOORE.  In speaking of the railroad men of Danville we mention Mr. D. G. Moore as holding the most responsible position of any of those who are residents of the city.  Jan. 1, 1866, he first began his railroad life  by entering the employment of the C. B. & Q. R. R. Company, at Chicago.  In October of the same year he engaged with the T. W. & W. road, and has since been connected with his road, though the name of the line has recently been changed to the Wabash Railway.  From October, 1866, to Aug. 1, 1877, he was located at Springfield, Illinois, being connected there with the treasury department.  When he came to Danville, Aug. 1, 1877, it was to take charge of all business pertaining to the road at this point.  This being what is known as the joint station between the eastern and western divisions of the road, the importance of the work and responsibility connected therewith is greatly increased.  Mr. Moore has about thirty men under his supervision, some of whom are also filling very important positions, though the responsibility of all rests with himself.  To give a detailed history of the Wabash road at this point would require too much space.  We may add that under Mr. Moores management the business has been done in the best order possible,  there being few men equal to him in similar executive ability.
    Dr. H. H. CLARK

     RIGGS AND MENIG

     ALLEN COOKE,

     GEORGE LESLIE and SILAS BLACK

     ISAAC PORTER

     BRAND & HARPER

     MR. J. S. FRANTZ

     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.

     WILLIAM HOLBURN, foreman of Stewart's foundry and machine shops, Danville, is a native of Ayrshire, Scotland.  He has had about eighteen years' experience in his business, serving first a five years' apprenticeship in Scotland.  Coming to the United States in 1868, he spent three years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then went to Port Wayne, Indiana, where he spent about the same length of time; thence to Lafayette, where he was also about three years.  He then returned to Fort Wayne for about a year and a half, and in March of 1879 accepted his present position in Danville.  He now has about eighteen men under his charge, and has thus far conducted the business to the satisfaction of his employer.

     CHARLEY KAUFMANN

     MR. W. G. SHERMAN

     WILLIAM P. BLACK, lawyer, Chicago, was born in Smithland, Kentucky, on the 11th of November, 1842, and is the son of Rev. John and Josephine L. (Culbertson) Black.  His father was a Presbyterian minister; he died at thirty-seven years of age in 1847, in Alleghany City, Pennsylvania, at which time he was pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church at that place.  In 1847 the mother of Mr. Black, with a family of four children, came to Danville, Illinois.  In 1860 the subject of this sketch entered the Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, but the breaking out of the war interrupted the collegiate course, never to be resumed.  On April 15, 1861, Mr. Black enlisted with about forty others of the students of the college, including his only brother, as a private soldier in Co. I, 11th Ind. Zouaves, commanded by Colonel (afterward Major-General) Lew Wallace.  He was mustered out a corporal, and at once engaged in assisting in the work of recruiting a company in Vermilion county, Illinois, for the three-years service, of which company he was elected captain, and with which, as its captain, he was mustered into the service as Co. K, 37th Ill. Vol. Inf., a history of which appears in this work; his commission as captain, dated Sept. 1, 1861, being received before he had reached his nineteenth birthday.  This position he filled faithfully for over three years, - sharing with his regiment in its marches, skirmishes and battles, chief among which may be mentioned Pea Ridge, Prairie Grove and siege of Vicksburg, in the latter part of which Captain Black held the responsible and most dangerous position of brigade, the occupation of Texas, and the observation of the empire of Maximilian.  Captain Black returned to Danville, Illinois.  In the fall of 1865 he commenced the study of law in the office of Arrington & White, in Chicago; he was, in about sixteen months thereafter, admitted to practice.  He returned to Danville, where he remained for only a year engaged at his chosen profession.  In March, 1868, he returned to Chicago and formed a partnership with Mr. Thomas Dent, which has since continued.  These gentlemen have secured one of the largest and most respectable clientages in their city.  Captain Black, in his political views, is an Independent; he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.  Mr. Black was married May 28, 1869, to Miss  Hortensia M. MacGreal, of Galveston, Texas.  She is the eldest daughter of the late Peter MacGreal, who was one of hte leading lawyers of the Empire State of the southwest.

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