History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

84 HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
Countryman Company with the subject of this review as president.
They haA'e the largest store in Dixon, occupying two floors, fifty
by one hundred and fifty feet and employing from fifteen to twentytwo
people. The steps in the oi'derly progression which mark the
life record of E. J. Countryman are easily discernible. With
marked ability to plan and perform, he stands as one of the conspicuous
figures in commercial circles in Lee county and his business
activity has found an even balance in his honorable methods.
In 1894 Mr. Countryman was united in marriage to Miss AKee
Sheaff, a native of Ogle county. They are well known socially in
Dixon, their home being the abode of a warm-hearted hospitality.
Mr. Countryman holds membership with the Masonic fraternity
and the Elks, and at no time has he ever been neglectful of the
duties of citizenship. For four years he was a member of the board
of education and for two years acted as its chairman, during which
time a neAv high-school building was erected. He is one of the
organizers and charter members of the Union State Bank and one
of its directors. Anyone meeting Mr. Coimtryman would know
at once that he is an individual embodying all the elements of what
in this country we term "a square man;" one in whom to have confidence,
a dependable man in any relation and any emergency. His
quietude of deportment, his easy dignity; his frankness and cor-
diality of address with 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, right conception of things and an habit-
ual regard for what is best in the exercise of human activities.
HELMEiiSHAUSEN
A. THE HELMEKSHAUSEN FAMILY IN WEIMAR
I. Jonas Helmershausen and Catharine Niedlingen.
II. Georg Casper Helmershausen and Barbara Rosen, daughter
of Johaun Rosen and Anna Catherine Rheinfrancken.
III. Georg Friedrich Helmershausen and Anna Clara Stammencenz,
daughter of Franciscus Eustachius Stammencenz and
Catherine von Seelen of Leipsic.
IV. Dr. Georg F^'ranz Friedrich Helmershausen and Maria Henrietta
Scheibe, daughter of Johann Benedict! Scheibe and
Charlotte Mosher, of Weimar.