Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

636 BIOGRAPHY AND RXMTNISCENCGS
married, residing in Bureau county, all in Illinois today. The father
of this family moved to Bureau county, Ill., April 10, 1859 ; purchasecl
land there, and uTas engaged in agriculture until his cleath in 1860.
Williain S. 'Smith receivecl a practical eclucation on the farin and in
the schools of liis clistrict. From the age of eighteen to the close of
his twenty-first gear he servecl an ayprenticesh~p to the blacksmith's
trade but on moving with his father in 1852 he aicletl hiin in improving
his Bureau county fnrin; subsequently he worked at his trade
there until September 17, 1861, ~vllen he enlisted in Company 13,
Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving steaclily with tl~nt
coinma.ncl until September, 1861. In the spring of 1865 he nlarriecl
Miss Elizabeth D., claophter of Thomas ancl Elvina, Cole, natives of
Virginia, but early settlers of Illinois, where their daugl~ter mas born.
After this marriage he llioved to Wisconsin ; in two years returned to
Bureau county, ancl four pears after settled at Castleton, being engaged
at his tracle all the time, ancl since coining here in blacksmitl~ing and
manufacturing. Their cliiltlren are : Wiliiaiil S., a telegraph operator
on C. I. R. R. in Knox county; Edith M., Mrs. Walter Eagelston,
Keokul;, Ia. ; Lillian IN., Rose E., Katie S., and Lawrence E., pupils of
the Castleton schools. Mr. Smith is a member of Diclcerson Yost, KO.
90, G. A. R. ; a illember of the I. 0. G. T. Lodge at Castleton, md
both he and Mrs. Smith are members of the 31. 1'. church.
Jo'n Sncwe, son of John P. ancl Estiier (Bnlcer) Snare, was born at
the old home in Pennsylrania, January 5, 1828, in IS47 canie to Illinois
and locatecl in Penn township. Elis first land purchase was nlacle
on section 12, Toulon, of 200 acres. On March 4, 1554, he inarriecl
Miss Maria, T. I-Iolgate, daughter of Judge IIolgate, (whose history is
given in this chapter), and to them five children mere born, of whom
three are living, Wilclen P., mayried, residino in Toulon t~wnship;
Wilna P.. wife of Watt P. MansBer. now of Yiansas, imcl Wilb~~r l'..
married, iesicling in Penn to1~~ns1~i-p~ Since his marriage Mr. snare
has aclcled 400 acres to his origirlal purchase, aggregating 600 acres in
Toulon ancl Penn townships. I-Ie llas al~vays been a t~ue Republican,
a part of the tii~ie an unconditional Abolitionist. IIe was elected
justice of the peace for Penn township. but uioving to Toulon, dicl not
hold this ofice, and as supervisor of Penn. Religiously, he is one of
the old lneinbers of the Methoclist Protestant c.hurch, ancl in scl~ool
work, an earnest friend of the system nntl conscientious official of his
district for years. A reference to the history of Nathan Snare,,given
in the chapter on Tonlon, contains much of the history of the ta~nily
in this count,y.
James S'rknre, son of John P. mtl Esther (13al;es) Snare, was'born in
EIuntingclon county, Pa., July 7, 3827. I-Ie attended school and
~vorlred on the home farm until thirteen years of age, wlien he v7as
inclentured to a tailor, who did not at all suit the young aspirant for
this trade, so that he was transferred to the shop of J. 31. Cline, also a
tailor combined witli the calling of a Dutch Winebrenarian preacher.
For two years he labored with this man, when he entered the employ
of John P. Gable, a tailor and Methodist class leacler. ~ubse~uenti~
he worked at his tracle at Newburg, purchased an interest in the Kis-