Biographical Sketches of Glenville
Biographical Sketches of Glenville
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I. D. NEWELL, County Superintendent
of School, Clay County, Neb., is the son of a Baptist minister, who was
one of the early
home missionaries of that denomination in Illinois. He was born in Rushville,
Schuyler Co., Ill.,
July 2, 1837;
educated at Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill. When President Lincoln
issued his call for 75,000
men for three
months, he was the first man in Bunker Hill, Ill., to enlist. At the close
of the three months, he
enlisted a second
time as a private. Served four years in the army and came out as a Captain.
Was at the capture
of Fort Henry
and in the battles of Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, the siege of Corinth
and the second fight of
Corinth. In the
latter fight, he bore the colors of his regiment and received honorable
mention for bravery from the
Colonel of his
regiment and the brigade commander, in their reports of the fight. Spent
the last two years of the
war in command
of a vessel on the Mississippi River, under Gen. Ellet. After the close
of the war, he entered the
ministry of the
Baptist denomination; graduated in theology at Crozer Theological Seminary
and settled as pastor
in Moline, Ill.
Failing health induced him to remove to Clay County, Neb., in the summer
of 1872, where he took
a homestead on
Section 6, Town 6, Range 8 west. For three years he preached in the county,
until poor health
and the lack of
an adequate support drove him from the field. Was first elected County
Superintendent in Clay
County in the
fall of 1877, and has continued in office until the present time, his present
term expiring in January,
1884. A man of
positive character and entertaining high views of education, his administration
of the office he
holds has awakened
some opposition, but in the main his policy is approved by the people of
the county.
MARK A. PERKINS, physician
and surgeon, was born in Wayne County, N. C., June 23, 1838. He studied
medicine at New
Garden, Guilford County, under Dr. Samuel D. Coffin, and began the practice
of medicine in
1862, at Pikeville,
N. C., where he remained for a year, engaged in that capacity; then in
Dublin, Wayne Co.,
Ind., for four
years; then in Pikeville, N. C., off and on for several years. He went
to Cartersville, Darlington Co.,
S. C., where he
practiced, carried on a turpentine factory and was engaged in mercantile
business, residing there
some six years;
subsequently practiced and farmed in Richland County, S. C., for four years.
The Doctor came
to Glenville May
7, 1881, and at once began to practice. One June 1, 1882, he purchased
a drug store, which he
conducts in connection
with his practice.
THOMPSON R. ELDER,
farmer, Sutton P. O., was born in Brown County, Ohio, November 18, 1837,
and
was reared on
a farm. He removed to Champaign County, Ill., in 1859, and followed farming
there until he
enlisted, August
22, 1862, in the Seventy-sixth Illinois Infantry, and was discharged in
February, 1865, on
account of disability.
Returning to his home in Illinois, he again followed farming. Mr. E. came
to Nebraska April
8, 1872, and homesteaded
160 acres in Sheridan Precinct, Clay County, on which he now resides. He
is one of
the leading politicians
among the farmers of this county and is President of the County Alliance.
He was married
in Brown County,
Ohio, September 5, 1859, to Mary M. West. They have six children--Bettie,
Ada, Phillip,
Sarah W., Fannie
B. and Addie T.