Born: Wayne County, Illinois, 1868.
Died:
Was born on his father's farm in Wayne County, Illinois, 1868. Attended the schools of the community. He is a man of energy and resolution. For twenty-two years he has given the Christian Churches of Wayne County his best work as a preacher. He served a term in the Spanish-American War. Now he looks after a 320-acre farm, cries an average of 150 public sales a year, and preaches every Lord's Day. In 1912 he was elected to the House in the forty-eighth General Assembly.