History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

180 HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
On the 18th of March, 1874, at Fenton, Michigan, Mr. Ives
was united in marriage to Miss Eva J. Lamb, a daughter of the
Rev. Aroswal and Sophia Lamb, lier father being a pastor at
Hartland, Michigan. Our subject and his wife have three chil-
dren, as follows: William E., who is an expert machinist in the
employ of the Public Service Company; George S., a druggist
of Franklin Grove, Illinois; and Eva F., who is the wife of F. J.
Blocher, a clothing merchant of Fi'anklin Grove, Illinois.
Mr. Ives is a republican in his political views and has ably
served in the capacity of justice of the peace since 1901. He has
likewise acted as town clerk and has made a highly creditable
record as a public official. His religious faith is indicated by his
membership in the Baptist church, and he also belongs to the
Grand Army of the Republic. He is a dependable man under
any condition and in any emergenc3^ His quietude of deportment,
his easy dignity, his fi-anknoss and cordiality of address,
vpith the total absence of anything sinister or anything to conceal,
foretoken a man who is ready to meet any obligation of life with
the confidence and courage that come of conscious personal ability,
a right conception of things and an habitual regard for what is best
in the exercise of human acti^'ities.
GEORGE L. RICHARDSON.
While George L. Richardson is now a resident of Burke, South
Dakota, he is numbered among the pioneer settlers of Lee county,
where he has a wide and favorable acquaintance. He Avas born in
Cheshire county, New Hampshire, on the 2d of December, 1842,
and comes of genuine old New England stock. He is proud, how-
ever, to claim that his boyhood days were passed in Dixon, for he
was brought to the west by his parents in 1849, when a lad of seven
years. They arrived at Daysville, Illinois, in th.e month of Novem-
ber and from that time foi'ward George L. Richardson was an interested
witness of the growth of the county and of the events which
have shaped its history. E-^'en at the early age of seven years he
took great pleasure in assisting his grandfather, James Hatch, Sr.,
helping to swing the ox goad over two yoke of fine oxen which had
been brought to this district from Chicago. As there were no
railroads in those days and comparatively few horses in the county,
oxen were in great demand. In the winter of 1849-50 George L.