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BIOGRAPHIES Source:
History of Macon Co., Illinois
With Illustrations
Descriptive of Its Scenery
and
Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers
Published by
Brink, McDonough & Co.,
Philadelphia
Corresponding Office, Edwardsville, ILL
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A. R. ARBUCKLE.
EDITOR and proprietor of the Decatur Tomahawk, is a
native of Guernsey county, Ohio, and was born on the tenth
of March, 1851. His father, Robert Arbuckle, was born
and raised in Pennsylvania, and when a young man went to
Ohio, where he married Charlotte Freeman, a
native of Guernsey county. The first fourteen years of
Mr. Arbuckle’s life were spent in Ohio.
His father was a farmer. In 1864 the family moved to
McLean county in this state, and settled on a farm near Le
Roy. On the first of July, 1869, he entered the law
office of General Ira J. Bloomfield at Bloomington,
with the purpose of fitting himself for the legal
profession. He was admitted to the practice of the law
in June, 1871, and opened an office at Le Roy, where he
remained one year. He became a resident of Maroa in
the fall of 1874, and for about two years was occupied in
legal practice. Having a taste for the journalistic
profession he became connected with the Maroa News, which he
published six months. In the spring of 1876 he was
elected justice of the peace, which office he filled till
his removal to Decatur in September, 1878. For about a
year he engaged in the practice of law at Decatur, in
partnership with S. C. Clark. On the eleventh
of May, 1880, he issued the first number of the Decatur
Tomahawk, which has since rapidly increased in
circulation. It is conducted on an independent and
liberal platform, both as to politics and religion, and is
the only journal occupying this peculiar field published in
Central Illinois. He was married in September, 1873,
to Miss Anna Moore, of McLean county.
In his personal political views he has always been a member
of the republican party.
Source: History of Macon County, Illinois, Published
1880 - Page 147 |
Ira N. Barnes
Residence of
Ira N. Barnes,
Cor. North & College Sts.,
Decatur, IL |
IRA N. BARNES Source:
History of Macon County, Illinois, Published 1880 - Page 141 |
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DR. WILLIAM A.
BARNES. Dr. Barnes, a native of
Claremont, New Hampshire, and was born on the fifteenth of
March, 1824. His paternal grandfather was one of the
early settlers of New Hampshire, removing from Farmington,
Connecticut, to Claremont, when that part of the state was
almost a complete wilderness. His father, Ira N.
Barnes, was born at Claremont. He was a farmer in
comfortable circumstances; when only about thirty years of
age his death resulted from an accident. Dr.
Barnes’ mother, Harriet Eastman, belonged
to an old New England family, which has produced several men
of distinction. The subject of this sketch was the
oldest of five children. He was six years old when his
father died. From seven till he was fifteen years of
age, his home was with his grandfather. He had good
advantages for obtaining an education, the neighborhood in
which he was raised abounding in excellent schools. He
attended the Claremont academy. In the year 1839, when
fifteen, he went to Dayton, Ohio, to live with a cousin.
He attended school at Dayton, and in the year 1844, when
twenty, began teaching school in Montgomery county, Ohio.
He also for a time taught music, to which he had devoted
considerable attention. He began the study of medicine
in 1846, in the office of Dr. Van Harlingen, at
Centreville, Ohio. After completing his preparatory
studies, he attended his first course of lectures at the
Starling Medical College at Columbia. In the fall of 1849 he
went to Philadelphia and began his second course of lectures
at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated
in the spring of 1850. His marriage occurred on the
thirtieth of October, 1849, to Eleanor Sawyer,
a native of Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, with whom Dr.
Barnes had become acquainted while she was a resident
of Centreville, Ohio. His marriage took place in
Dauphin county, Pennsylvania.
In 1850 after his graduation, he began practice at
Centreville, Ohio, but in the autumn of the same year
removed to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he was engaged in the
practice of his profession for three years. In 1853 he
became a resident of Decatur. He purchased a track of
land four miles from town, and devoted his attention to its
improvement. In 1855 he succeeded Drs. King
and Chenoweth in the ownership of a drug store in
Decatur, which he carried on till 1859. He received
the appointment of master in chancery in 1861, and filled
the office throughout almost the entire period of the war,
resigning in 1865. He was one of the first to embark
in the manufacturing business, which has added so much to
the prosperity of Decatur. In 1860, in partnership
with William Lintner, he started a factory for
the manufacture of hay-presses, to which the making of pumps
and agricultural implements was afterwards added. His
was one of the first manufacturing establishments in
Decatur. He disposed of his interest to his partner,
from whom the factory passed into the hands of the present
proprietors, who carry it on as the Decatur Furniture
Factory. Since 1868 he has been principally engaged in
dealing in real estate, and the improvement of lands, of
which he owns several tracts in Macon, Piatt and Moultrie
counties.
Dr. Barnes was one of the old original
Republicans of Macon county, and has been a member of the
party from its first organization in this part of the state.
He took a deep interest in the support of Fremont, the
Republican candidate for the Presidency in 1856, and made
several speeches in his behalf throughout the county.
He has been one of the representative citizens of Decatur,
and has filled several public positions. Previous to
the war he was Mayor of Decatur, and has represented his
ward several times in the board of Aldermen. He has
been an advocate of every enterprise which he considered
likely to advance the interests of Decatur, and did his full
share toward securing to the city the system of railroads,
which now makes it such an important railroad centre.
He was one of the active members of the Citizens’
Association, organized to advance the public interests of
Decatur. In the educational interest of the city he
has always taken a warm interest. For several years he
has been one of the active members of the Board of
Education, and is now its President. With the
exception of one year he has been President of the Decatur
Public Library since its organization. These facts are
sufficient to show his connection with the best and most
important interests of Decatur, to whose superiority as an
educational centre, and place of residence few citizens have
done more to contribute.
Source: History of Macon County, Illinois,
Published 1880 - Page 143 |
Josiah Brown, M.D. |
JOSIAH BROWN, M. D.
Source: History of Macon County,
Illinois, Published 1880 - Page 148
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