A number of Jerome
Township boys left the parental home and the old farm
soon after the close of the Civil War, in 1865, and
took up the duties of citizenship in other States.
Robert A. Liggett went to Detroit, Mich., and was for
many years a prominent official in the Michigan Mutual
Life Insurance Company. William M. Liggett, after
serving two terms as Treasurer of Union County, moved
with his family to Minnesota, where he was very
prominent. First serving as Commissioner of Railroads,
for eighteen years he was Dean of the Agricultural
Experiment Station in connection with the University
of Minnesota.
David G. Robinson, after graduation at college, was
also
David
Curry
121st O. V. I. |
Corporal
Emmer Robinson
174th O. V. I. |
Addison
Curry
86th O. V. I. |
Forester
Beard
88th O. V. I. |
Captain
Otway Curry
121st O. V. I. |
Corporal
James Curry
187th O. V. I. |
Captain
William L. Curry
1st O. V. C. |
Andrew
Gill
86th O. V. I. |
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graduated as a theological student of the
Presbyterian Church and was an ordained minister of
that church. William McCrory went to Minneapolis,
Minn., where he was a prominent business man. He
projected and built the first interurban railroad line
from Minneapolis to Lake Minetonka. James D. Bain was
graduated as a physician, went to Great Bend, Kansas,
where he practiced a number of years and was elected a
member of the Legislature in that State.
All of the above named are deceased.
Of those who survive, Henry A. Brinkerhoff, who first
served as a Lieutenant in the 30th O. V. I., was
promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in the U. S. Army
before the close of the Civil War. He remained in the
Army and was retired a few years ago with the rank of
Colonel, and resides in Oak Park, Illinois.
James Curry was graduated from the University of
Wooster, Ohio, in 1872. He then went immediately to
San Francisco, California, where, after two years'
study, he was graduated from the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in that city. He was immediately
ordained as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of San
Pablo and Berkeley, and has been in the ministry
continuously for 40 years in the vicinity of San
Francisco. He is a Doctor of Divinity, and in service
is the oldest Presbyterian minister on the coast. He
has written a history of Presbyterianism on the
Pacific Coast, of which a large edition was published,
and he has for a number of years been the Secretary of
the Board of the Theological Seminary of San
Francisco. He is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Newark, California.
James Cone; Stephenson B. Cone, Daniel R. Cone, with
their families, emigrated to Oregon many years ago.
They live in the vicinity of McMinnville, excepting
Stephenson and family, who live in Portland, and they
have all prospered in a business way.
Alexander D. Gowans resides at Centerview, Mo., and is
now Mayor of that city. Thompson O. Cole is a
successful business man of Great Bend, Kansas.
James
L. McCampbell resides at Orange, California.
David Curry, for many years a fruit grower in California,
has recently changed his residence to Seattle,
Washington. William B. Brinkerhoff, piano
manufacturer, Brazil, Indiana. Immer Robinson, produce
merchant, Champaign, Ill..
Robert McCrory served two years as Clerk of the Courts
of Union County and afterward practiced law quite
successfully a number of years', is now a resident of
Spokane, Wash. James F. Chapman, Pomona, Cal.;
Heber
Woodburn, Minneapolis, Minn.; Jacob Ruehlen, Hiawatha,
Kan.; George Butler, Rush Center, Kan.;
Festus Edwards, Chase, Mich.; Samuel Nonnemaker, Topeka,
Kan.; Dunallen M. Woodburn, Hessington, Kan.,
druggist; A. M. Garner, railroad engineer for forty
years, Mattoon, Ill.; Edgar G. Magill, a prominent
physician of Peoria, Ill.
They were all schoolboys of Jerome Township, and it is
a pleasure to note that some of them have been
prominent in public life and all are respected
citizens of other States. There may be others whose
names are not recalled, but every effort has been made
to ascertain the present address of all who reside in
other States. |