History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

392 HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
mile from his present place of residence April 29, 1849, and is a
son of John E.. and Elizabeth (Moore) Long, the former of whom
came from Pennsylvania in 1846 and settled on a farm in May
township. He was a pioneer in that locality and upon his arrival
found nothing but a wilderness of prairie land. He broke and
cultivated the tract which he took up and became in the course of
years one of the best known and most highly resj)ected residents
of the locality. He died May 7, 1889, at the age of sixty-seven,
and was long survived by his wife, who passed away September
23, 1913, being over eighty-eight years of age. She lived to be
one of the oldest white women in that part of Lee county.
She and her husband were married in Pennsylvania, March 6,
Austin, who died
1815, and became the parents of six children :
in infancy ; Mary, now the wife of R. L. Smith, of Fort Williams,
Canada; Lafayette, the subject of this review; Luciuda, who died
in infancy; James M., who passed away January 11, 1886, at the
age of thirty-three years; and Joseph W., whose death occurred
May 9, 1887, when he was thirty-one years of age.
Lafayette Long acquired his education in district school,
attending until he was twenty years of age. He afterward worked
as a monthly laborer for six years and at the end of that time pur-
chased one hundred and sixty acres of his present farm. He has
since added to this and has now two hundred acres, lying on sec-
tions 21 and 18, May township. He engages in mixed farming,
raising grain and keeping forty head of cattle and a number of
horses and hogs.
Mr. Long is a republican in his political beliefs and is connected
fraternally with the Masonic lodge and chapter. The success which
he has attained in his fai'ming operations is entirely due to his
own industry and enterprise and ])laces him among the men of
prominence and worth in his locality.
FRANK C. VAUCHAN.
Lee county has been signally favored in the class of men who
have occiipied her public office, for on the whole they have been
found trustwoi'thy and eom]ietont in the discharge of their duties
and the intei'ests of the county liave therefore been ably conserved.
On the list of officials at the present time appears the name of