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PAST AND PRESENT OF PIKE COUNTY.
is now president of the Illinois Valley Fair Association
at Griggsville, whereby effort in behalf
of agricultural progress is greatly stimulated. He
is likewise the vice-president of the Illinois Valley
bank at Griggsville. A lover of good horses, he
always has some fine animals upon his place, and
at the present time these number about twenty.
He also has about one hundred and thirty head of
cattle on hand, of which seventy-five head have
been fattened and are ready for the market. He
has one steer which he expects to exhibit at the
fat stock show in Chicago and also one carload
lot of fat cattle. He likewise has about one hundred
and fifty head of hogs at the present writing.
In 1903 he and his brother, S. E., made an exhibit
of fifteen head of fat cattle at the Chicago
Stock Show, having an average weight of sixteen
hundred and sixteen pounds. He received
the second premium in a special shorthorn class,
and in this bunch was a pair of twins that weighed
thirty-six hundred pounds, on which he received
a second premium in a special class. He and his
brother attend the stock sales in Missouri and
throughout Illinois as buyers, and they have a
very wide and favorable acquaintance among the
leading stock dealers of that state. Both gentlemen
are excellent judges of stock, so that they are
able to make judicious purchases and profitable
and Pittsfield and taught her home school for fifteen
months prior to her marriage. She travels
with her husband on many of his trips, and they
are thoroughly progressive people, keeping in touch
with the world's progress and having comprehensive
knowledge of the questions of the day
and the subjects of general interest. In his business
career he has made rapid and substantial advancement,
and the methods he has followed have
been such as will bear close investigation. He has
labored along lines that all might profitably follow
and has achieved through well directed efforts
and unfaltering perseverance splendid success,
and also gained a reputation which has
made him known as a leading stock dealer of
Illinois.
SAMUEL EDWARD CARNES.
The student of history can not carry his investigations
far into the records of Pike county without
learning of the close and helpful connection
of the Carnes family with matters of public interest
and benefit. Samuel Edward Carnes is to-day
a worthy citizen, who is carefully and successfully
conducting farming interests, owning three
hundred acres of valuable land in New Salem
township. He was born in Pike county, Illinois,
sales.
On the 5th of September, 1878, Mr. Carnes November 30, 1865, his parents being Richard
was married to Miss Margaret White. Her parents
and Guldy E. (Moore) Carnes. His father's
were Thomas and Rebecca White, who had birth occurred in Harrison county, Ohio,
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five children, namely: Andrew, Elizabeth, Cadizville, June 23, 1832, and he was quite a
tiel. Margaret and John. Mr. and Mrs. White young lad when the family home was established
were active members of the Presbyterian church in Illinois. The great-grandparents of Samuel E.
of New Salem.
Carnes were Thomas and Elizabeth (Dunham)
In public affairs Mr. Carnes has taken a deep Carnes, natives of Maryland, in which state they
and helpful interest. He has been president of spent their youth. Following their marriage they
the school board and a director for the past nine
removed to Harrison county, Ohio, and established
in him i
their home in the midst of a district that was
years, finding warm friend. His political views arc in then wild and unimproved, but as the years passed
accord with republican principles and indeed by time and man wrought many changes and the
he is one of the stanch suporters of the evidences of frontier life were replaced by the
improvements of an advanced civilization. Both
party, doing all in his power to promote its
growth and insure its success, though never seeking
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carnes reached a venerable
office for himself. Mrs. Carnes is a member age and were long numbered among the valued
of the Presbyterian church of New Salem. She citizens of the locality where they made their
was educated in the public schools of Griggsville home. The principles of Christianity found ex-