Lemont Weekly Observer from Lemont, Illinois • 8

LEMONT OBSERVER SOU VOIR EDITION. dent L. B. Easton. Professor Eastoa Lemuel Brown.

rrMONG the old, and one of the old-mi est residents of Lemont, ia Lena is a man peculiarly fitted for the work he has in hand and to which he is de voted with a single and undivided pur hpI Rrown. man whose life pose. He began teaching in Longmont, Colorado, in 1886. after which he took has been active and full of interesting up a four years' coarse of study at the incidents. Born in Tioga county, near Oswego, New York, his early education was acquired in that state.

At the age of thirteen yean he moved with his par of about ten years. He resided with his father one year in New York and four years in the state of Wisconsin before he went to Lockport, this state, where he worked at the blacksmith trade one. and one-half years. From Lockport he came to Lemont and opened the shop on Lemont street between State and Illinois streets which he lias owned and operated ever since. In Mr.

Ingram served the village of Lemont as street commissioner. In 1874-5 be served as alderman and in 1876 was president of the board of aldermen. At about this time he moved to Chicago where he was for two years en- Illinois State Normal University at Normal, 111, which he completed in lim. lie was then made principal of the high school at Barrington, Illinois, ents to Ann Arbor, Mica, wnere an excellent education was completed at Ann where he remained until the close ot the snrins: term of 18M. Mr.

Easton Arbor University. About four years became superintendent of the Lemont client in this school, after which. Iowa, where lie served as sheriff and justice of the peace three and two years respectively. The fifteen years previous to 1873 were spent in farming in Clinton county, after which he moved to Kansas and waa engaged ten years in farming and stock raising. While in Iowa Mr.

Brown raised in one year 1,800 bushels of wheat, 1,600 bushels of corn and 1,500 bushels of oats His corn crop in Kansas amounted one year bushels. In 1883 he moved back to Lemont where he has since lived a quiet and retired life as the result of over a half-century's faithful and honest toil He is now seventy-eight years of age and is in the enjoyment of fairly good health a hale and hearty man of nearly four scores years. Swedish Evangelical Lutherau Bethany I HIS church is located on Lemont y(g street, almost at the top of the A hilL It was founded in 1878 with a membership of sixteen. In the beginning meetings were held at private Mr. Brown, at the age of seventeen, struck out into the wilderness of Mich schools and began the work In which he Is now engaged in September of last year, and in the comparatively short igan to nee what of good might there fun mi.

lie went first to Ionia coun than a third of a century ago, and has been more or less in public life many of the years of his residence here. He came in 1857 and engaged in fanning for X. J. Brown two years. After this and after farming three years for himself, he moved to town and engaged as gardi-er for IL M.

Singer with whom he remained seventeen years. He was then, for five years, engaged as night watchman for Bodenschats ft' Earn-shaw, and is now, and has been for four years past, engaged as night watchman for the Western Stone Co. In 187V he served as village trustee and has been three times elected, and is now serving as justice of the peace. Mr. Simon was born in Koblenz, Germany, April 8 1838.

In 1860 he came to America and located in Philadelphia where he conducted a butcher's business until he was compelled to give it up on account of rheumatism. In 1856 he came to, and remained one year in Chicago, after which he came to Lemont as stated, in 1857, In 1855 he was married in Philadelphia to Miss Amelia Schmitt No children were born of the marriage. Mrs. Simon died in 1885. Mr.

Simon is a veteran of the civil war, having served one year in Company D. of the 147th Illinois Volunteers. His office of justice is in the office of Attorney Welk on Canal street ty, Mich, where he sold goods one year for his brother, X. J. Brown.

The next winter he went to Clinton houses and the little flock was presided' over by the Rev. Sirs XyqulstandChall-man, of Chicago, but notwithstanding this small beginning plans were arranged and a church edifice on the site of the present place of worship, was built within one year from the time of organization. Six years ago an addition was built on to the original edifice For a man of his age Mr. Simon is well preserved and is in robust health, and thus a more commodious place of being able, if required, to perform as good a days work as many a younger worship was provided. The church now numbers five hun man.

dred and thirty-seven members and conducts a Sunday-school of one hundred and forty-five members. The choir numbers thirty-six members, and young peoples literary and educational society has a membership of fifty. PBOF. EASTON. Jacob Meyer.

Jf-ETERAX, citizen, business nun Xfj and major of a battalion of the Uniform Bank, Jacob Meyer is one of the most familiar figures of Lemon fs streets. lie is Lemont agent for the Sehring Brewing Co, and handles cask and bottled beer and ice. lie was jtnrn in Canton Basseland, LEMUEL BKOWX. The Rev. Linder, the present pastor, time that has elapsed since then has accomplished enough so that he now expects to be able to establish a high school department next year.

came here from Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 6th 1803, and already has in contempts-1 7i jm i Mi Mlj gaged in a livery business on Van Bur-en street This however did not interfere with his business at Lemont which he has conducted continuously for thirty-six years. The livery business did not prove satisfactory and at the end of two years was disposed of by Mr. Ingram who has since devoted himself exclusively to his Lemont business. His family resides at 878 West Polk street, near Ogden avenue, Chicago.

Mr. Ingram is thoroughly master of his trade which he proves by his skill as a horses hoer a branch of the trade that is skillfully mastered by but few. county, Mich, where he opened a store or trading establishment of his own the first store ever conducted in Clinton county by a white man. He remained there one winter trading principally with the Indians, who were at that time in the large majority in that section of the country. Furs and skins were given by the Indians, in lieu of money, for blankets, tobacco and commodities.

This was fluxing Jackson's administration auif at a time when land in llMriiiai iMM.iiWnff.boiiitaiid sold iii enormous tracts. 'The speculative erase' of the period was on at its full height A. M. Farua worth. NTS of the most venial and affable 1, gentleman -numbered among the business men of Lemont ia A.

M. inn Air. Drown, wnn mucn snrewuness and a keen eye to business, was not to be left in the lurch. Accordingly, while in Clinton county he entered into a number of speculative land deals by which he made considerable money and placed Farnswortli. vMr.

Fsrnsworth is proprietor of a large lumber businew located at the corner of State and Csnsl streets in which business he ha been engaged for the past two years. Us was born at Plattsburgh. New York, April 20tli 1802. ujiunrii nil buiiu uumiuii unaia lur SWEDISH LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL CHUHt'H. tion the building of a new ten thousand dollar church edifice.

The membership is enough to war any business that he might wish to per-sue later on. The following autumhe went to Shi-awassa where he continued in-the land business and was appointed first postmaster of Shiawassa county. lie was also the first county recorder of Shiawassa county. Here he bought an interest in a large farm and tavern, in the ball room of which was held the first court of Shiawassa county. lie was also married here on February 11 1838, to Miss Catherine Lyman, who is still living and in good health.

It was here also, that he took in a young man named Parsons, who came to him with a party of hunters, and gave him the start in life that was a factor, in the consequence of events, to the making of Governor Parsons, of Michigan. Some idea of Mr. Brown's success as a speculator may be gained from the fact that when married at the age of twenty-three, he had amassed the considerable little fortune of over $3,000 the result of his own individual efforts. When, about the close of the 30's, the snb-treaKury was instituted by President Jackson, and specie was demanded in payment for lands, the great specu rant this expenditure and is heartily with the pastor in this commendable enterprise to furnish a beautiful place of worship large enough to meet the de Switzerland, November 18, 1842 and came to America in June 186a August 11, 1868 Mr. Meyer entered the volunteer service to the Union army by enlisting with the 98dKeg.

of Illinois Mounted Infantry. His first battle was at Franklin, Tenn. He was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga and was taken prisoner at Millageville, then capital of Georgia, on the march with Sherman, to the sea. He was held two mands of a ranidlv srowinir coneren-a- Professor Easton is one of the few teachers who hold state certificates for a term of years, and enjoys the marked distinction of been awarded, at the Illinois State Fair in 1808, a certificate for the best eighth grade work exhibited by the teachers of Illinois. In 18U1 he had been awarded second prize at the state fair for the same grade of work.

He has been an extensive traveler in both America and Eurojie. and is a gentleman of superior qualifications, from a social as well as from an educational point of view. tion. The building is to be erected the coming summer and will be built of stone. It is to have a seating capacity of seven hundred, and will be one of the finest church edifices hi Lemont Mr.

Linder are larse. the services being always well attended. A. X. ABNHWORTII.

lative erase subsided, and, for a long time, very few land deals were made. It was at this time that Mr. Brown sold out and came to Chicago, where months at Florence prison, North Carolina, and three months in parole camp at Annapolis, Md. from which, by exchange, he was returned to his old He was in battles at Atlanta, Marietta and otlier famous battle grounds during his service and was mustered out at Chicago in June 1865. In 1864 Mr.

Meyer spent one month on furlough at his home in Joliet, during which time, in the month of January, he was united in wedlock to Miss Barbara Meyer of that city. After the war he settled down in Joliet where he remained until twelve years ago when he came here as agent for the Sehring company. Mr. Meyer is a charter member and past chancellor of Keepotaw Lodge Knights of Pythias and a major of the Uniform Rank. He is also past grand in the Odd Fellows Lodge and is first assistant chief of the Volunteer Fire lie had made two or three previous vis its, and where he intended to locate, but he did not remain there very long.

In June 1840 he came to Lemont. SjlJ He was the second postmaster of Le mont and held the ofllces of postmaster and justice of the peace for twelve con At about the age of twenty years ho came to Lemont where lie engaged in i lie work of carpenter snd builder. Mr. Fsrnsworth wss an expert carpenter and plied his trade with the kind of vigor and did his work so well that he had no difficulty about being constantly employed. After remaining one or two years in Lemont, lie however, siesed with a desire to go west snd in accordance with that desire he emigrated to Kansas where he stayed six VKsrs.

After six years residence in Ksnsas Mr. Farns-wnrth was satisfied to return to Illinois and to Lemont which lie did. Arrived at Lemont he went to work sgsin at his trade and for two years was again accounted one of the best carpenters and builders in Lemont. At the end of this time lie purchased the lumber yard of whi he is now proprietor. His ocenpation had for years been such as to eminently fit him for the business in which he wss shout to engage and his life as a lumber merchant has been a success from the very start.

He is member of the A. O. U. W. and K.

of P. lodges and is sgent for the Inter Ocesn Loan snd Homestead Association of Chicas-o. secutive years. In 1846 he was appointed one of the commissioners delegated to visit every township in Cook county and effect in Department of Lemont each township organization in accord ance with the then recently enacted Li. B.

Easton. state law bearing on such organisation, HE history of the public schools He did not accept this appointment but Lemont is one of success from A. Ingram. the very time of their institution, KKEDERICK SIIION. Thirty members nave been added since the coming of the present pastor.

The church is clear of debt and has money the treasury besides. is now nearly forty years since Mr A. Ingram came to Lemont and it is thirty-six years since he first en though the pupilage has, on account of a large attendance at the parochial schools, lever been as large, proportionate to the populates; as is usual in towns. of this size. The public schools was chairman ot the meeting held to name this town and is the author of the name La Mont from which the present name Lemont was devolved.

Could the importance of the quarries here have been forseen, Lemont would have been christened Marble City. In 1858 he moved to Clinton county, Frederick Blmon FIGURE well known to the peo gaged in tNebiacksmithing business in this city. He was born in county Arm-augh, Ireland, Aug. SO, 1836. He came to America with his parents at the age ple of Lemont ia that of Frod- I of the town of Lemont however, em- Hi! ts also a member of the Illinois.

Keteil Lumber Dealer Association. erick Simon. lie came here mora ploy seven teachers besides Superinten-.