History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

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HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 103
Wake the cbiming chorus, touch the great bells everywhere,
Swell the joyful music iu the lUmoisau air.
With our watchword "Victory!'' and "Peace" our battle prayer,
Hail to our loyal Lee County
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HENRY WARREN FREDERICK HELMERSHAUSEN.
Youngest son of Henry Charles Frederick Helmershausen, Jr.,
and Ms second wife, Mary, daughter of Major Daniel Moore Bradstreet,
born August 9, 1878, in Franklin Grove, Illinois ; graduate
of the Northern Illinois State Normal School at De Kalb, class
of 1903; junior in the L^uiversity of Chicago; principal of public
schools in Erie, 1903-1904; principal of public schools at Coal
City, 1905-1906; teacher in James Monroe school, Chicago, 1906-
1914.
CHARLES W. WAGNER.
Charles W. Wagner, giving his time and attention to the
development and cultivation of a fine farm of one hundred and
sixty acres on section 8, Bradford township, is a native son of Lee
county, born May 13, 1865. His parents, Jacob and Sophia (Reis)
Wagner, were natives of Germany and came to America in 1855.
The father farmed in Lee county for a number of years and he is
now living retired in Dixon, having survived his wife since 1883.
Charles W. Wagner was reared upon his father's farm and
assisted in its operation until his marriage, at the age of twenty-
three. He then rented land in his locality and after several years
purchased the property upon which he still resides. He has one
hundred and sixty acres on section 8, Bradford township, and he
has provided this with substantial barns and modern machinery.
He has also tiled the farm and made a great many other improvements,
the property being today one of the most productive and
valuable in this section of the state.
Mr. Wagner married Miss Anna Bower, a native of Lee county,
Illinois, and a daughter of Wolf G. and Christina Bower. Mr. and