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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
1880
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DR. SAMUEL McBRIDE.
Who has practiced medicine at Decatur since July, 1855, is a
native of Pike county, Ohio, and was born on the 17th of
December, 1822. His ancestors emigrated from Scotland
to the North of Ire- land and from there to America.
His father, William McBride, was born in
Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1777, and his mother,
Letitia McBride, in Westmoreland county, in the
same state, near Greensburg. Shortly after their
marriage his parents moved to Ohio. From Marietta,
their first stopping-place, they traveled through the
wilderness on foot to Ross county, where they settled in
what is known as the Cat Tail swamp. This was about
the year 1796 or 1798. They afterward removed to the
Beach Flats, near the Sun Fish mountains, in Pike county.
When the war with Great Britain broke out, in 1812, Dr.
McBride’s father volunteered and served under Gen.
McArthur in the campaign against the British and
Indians. The country in which Mr. McBride
was raised was hilly and mountainous, but was old-settled,
and had good common schools, which he attended, as he did
also the Salem Academy. He began the study of
medicine, and in 1849 was a student at the Starling Medical
College at Columbus, Ohio. According to the old custom
with young physicians, he began practice before graduation,
locating at Jasper, Pike county, Ohio, on the Scioto river,
between Chillicothe and Portsmouth. In the winter of
1851-2 he took his last course of lectures at the Starling
Medical College, from which he graduated on the 20th of
February, 1852. In 1855 he removed to Decatur and
established himself in practice as a physician. He was
married in September, 1867, to Miss Lida
Fariss, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He is a man of
studious habits, and throughout his life has been a great
reader. He has been a democrat in his political
belief, as was his father before him, who supported the
democratic party from the time of Jefferson.
Source: History of Macon County, Illinois, Published
1880 - Page 139 |
E. M. McClellan |
E. M. McCLELLAN Source:
History of Macon County, Illinois, Published 1880 - Page 136 |
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E. McNABB.
E. McNabb, architect and builder, was born in Centre
county, Pennsylvania, on the seventeenth of September, 1823.
His ancestors were Scotch, and emigrated to the north of
Ireland at the time of the religious persecution which drove
so many Protestants from Scotland. His grandfather
came to America shortly after the Revolutionary war; he
married a woman of Irish descent, by the name of Mitchell.
John McNabb, the father of the subject of this
sketch, was born in Pennsylvania, and married Mary
Young, a native of the same state. John
McNabb was a mechanic, but after his removal to Richland
(now Ashland) county, Ohio, in the year 1834, he engaged in
farming. He died in that county, as did also Mr.
McNabb’s mother. The subject of this
biographical sketch was the seventh of ten children.
He was eleven years old when he came to Ohio. He was
raised on a farm, and obtained his education in the ordinary
district schools. Two of his brothers received
excellent educations, and were ministers in the Methodist
Church. When seventeen he began to learn the trade of a
cabinet-maker at Ashland, Ohio, and followed it about five
years. He then studied architecture under O. S.
Kinney, a prominent architect, who resided at Cleveland,
Ohio, and became a builder. He resided a short time in
Cincinnati and Cleveland.
In 1854 he came to Illinois. His first work
in this state was the building of a church at Mechanicsburg,
in Sangamon county. In the spring of 1855 he settled
at Decatur, where he had purchased property the previous
year, and has since been continuously occupied as an
architect and builder. He has either designed or
constructed a large proportion of the buildings which have
been erected during his residence in Decatur. The
evidences of his taste and judgment may be seen in some of
the most prominent buildings in the city, which have been
erected according to his designs and under his supervision.
Among these are the First and Fourth ward school-buildings,
the residences of L. L. Haworth, J. L. Fenton, H. W. Hill
and George D. Haworth, the store of Linn
& Scroggs, a block of three stores on Merchant street
and the Christian church. He was married on the
twenty-seventh of April, 1845, to Maggie B. Heller, a
native of Huron county, Ohio. He has four children
living; Mrs. Mary Irene August; Willie O. McNabb;
Mrs. Emma F. Landis, and Arthur L. McNabb.
He has always taken an active interest in politics and
public affairs. In early life he was a democrat, but
when the question of the extension of slavery came to be
agitated, he stood with those in favor of free soil, and was
one of the earliest members of the republican party.
He was elected a member of the city council from the Second
ward in the spring of 1860, and altogether has served four
times, or eight years; in 1860, 1861, 1867, 1869, 1877,
1872, 1879 and 1880. He has been one of the active
members of the Council, and his practical business
experience has been of service in assisting to manage the
affairs of the city. In 1878 he represented Decatur
township in the Board of Supervisors. He has been a
member of the Christian church for a period of thirty years.
He has been a public-spirited and progressive citizen.
He was one of the original advocates of the establishment of
water-works, and has always been on the side of public
improvement.
Source: History of Macon County, Illinois, Published
1880 - Page 149 |
Enoch W. Moore
Residence of
Dr. E. W. Moore,
49 West Main St.,
Decatur, Ill. |
ENOCH W. MOORE
Source: History of Macon County, Illinois, Published
1880 - Page |
Residence &
Dairy of
Frank Moser,
Decatur, Macon Co., IL |
FRANK MOSER -
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