there) and Talitha (who is the wife of Taylor Eky, of Ohio, a horticulturist and fruit-grower ). Lemuel Holmes Beckley obtained his education in the old subscription schools of Ohio, and acquired a sufficient fund of useful information to fit him for the practical duties of life. At the age of twenty he began the life of an agriculturist on his own responsibility, his means that time being less than a dollar, but on the 26th of March of the same year he was married in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, to Miss Delilah Stecher, who was born in Pennsylvania, May 26, 1835. In time a family of nine children were born to them, their names being as follows: John (who married Frances Crouse, is engaged in farming), Warner (is a city drayman in Aurora, Hamilton County, Neb., and is married to Agnes Tipton, a native of Ohio), David (is farming in Story County, and was married to a Miss Jacobson), George (who is tilling the soil in Story County), Charles S. (who married Fannie E. Cronk, June 25, and who is working on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway), Allie, Bertha and Effie, the latter of whom expects to become a school teacher. Minnie B., a bright little girl, died at the age of nine years. Mr. Beckley has always been a Republican, and his first presidential vote was cast for John C. Fremont. He has been a director in his school district ever since he has resided in Union Township, and is a stanch supporter of the public school system—the bulwark of the State and nation. In 1867 they came to Story County, Iowa, from Ohio, coming through with a four-horse team, and they can tell with accuracy of the primitive condition of Story County, even at that date. They came across country from Nevada to Cambridge, as there were no highways at that time, and narrate with interest their experience in crossing the numerous sloughs between those places. Mr. Beckley has an excellent farm of 180 acres, and one of the prettiest building sites west of Cambridge. He can farm every foot of his land, although at one time a man on horseback could not pass over the same ground. This desirable state of things is the result of a thorough system of farming and draining, and their farm, which is one of the finest for its size in this portion of the county, has been earned by honest and faithful endeavor, frugality and economy. They now have all necessary comforts, and here, surrounded by numerous friends, acquaintances and their dutiful family of children, they expect to spend the rest of -their days. They have ever been noted in their neighborhood as open-hearted and benevolent patrons of worthy enterprises, and as friends and neighbors have not their superiors. While living in the East, Mr. Beckley was a member of the Lutheran Church, but since his residence in the West has not been connected with any religous denomination. In conclusion, it might be added that Mrs. Beckley's maternal grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812, and that a pension is lying at Washington, D. C., for his heirs.
D. A. Bigelow (deceased). Callimachus wrote:And this, written over 2,000 years ago, is as true now as then, true at all times and in all countries ; the good man never dies. The influence of his life is imperishable. During his career Mr. Bigelow lived a life that has left a tender memory behind, and that was an exemplification of the purest and most exalted principles. He was born at Chester, Mass., November 24, 1839, and came to Illinois in 1856, locating at Kewanee. In 1861 he entered the University of Chicago, with a view of a professional life before him, but at the breaking out of the war he was filled with a patriotic