Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Jurgens, Hendrik Joseph, Surgeon, was born in Culemborg, Holland, Jan. 14, 1872, son of Herman and Masje (Van Tuusen) Jurgens. His father was a glass manufacturer and inventor. Hendrik attended grade and high schools in Holland and at the age of sixteen emigrated to...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
E. W. CHARLES KAEMPEN is president of the Buerkin & Kaempen firm, planing mills, lumber dealers and general contractors, a business that grew from individual services as carpenters forty years or more ago until now it constitutes an immense and well appointed...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
FUNK, James, wagon maker and plow maker, Beverly; was born in Adams county, Ill., in 1842; was married to Annetta Kelly in 1873. She was born in 1848. They have two children: Mary Frances and Florence Effie; commenced the manufacture of wagons, carriages, plows, and...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
This photo is of Zirelda Gould who was born in Quincy, Illinois in June of 1895. She was the daughter of David Tomilson Gould and Lydia Meyer. She died June 2, 1915. Her brother, David Gould, said she committed suicide by jumping off a bridge. She was a beautiful...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
SAMUEL S. HARKNESS. This history of Adams County is being published just ninety-five years after the first member of the Harkness family located here. Their first settlement was in Fall Creek Township, and in that community both his father and grandfather lived....Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Herron H. Laborer; P.O. Keokuk Junctin Herron John, farmer; sec. 30; P.O. Keokuk Junc. Herron, S.T., farmer and stock shipper; Sec. 10; P.O. La Prairie (son of William and Margaret Herron); was born in Washington county, Ind. July 30, 1825, and came to this county,...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Henry B. Dines, financially interested in various business concerns of Quincy and actively engaged in the real estate and insurance business as the senior member of the firm of Dines & Orr, and also as the secretary of the Gem City Building and Loan Association...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
CAPT. GREENLEAF H. DAVIS. Many times the name and career of Captain Davis have been made subjects of articles in the general press and other publications. He is a most interesting character not only in Quincy but in all the Middle West. Not nearly so much romance...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
BROWNING, Orville Hickman, statesman, was born in Harrison county, Ky., in 1810. He early in life removed to Bracken county, where he was educated. In 1830 he removed to Quincy, Ill., where he was admitted to the bar in 1831. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war. In...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
George Campbell was born on February 10, 1794 in Blount County, Tennessee. He is the first child of twelve born to Thomas Campbell and Sarah Wilcox. In 1823, George Campbell arrived on foot from Tennessee and erected a cabin on his claim in the north east quarter of...
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