. Past and present of Montgomery County, Illinois . ontgomery county, Illinois. Hav-ing no capital with which to purchase land, hebegan work as a. farm hand and was thus em-ployed for two years, alter which he rented afarm for several years. Subsequently he pur-chased a part of his present farm, becomingthe owner of an improved place of one hun-dred and sixty acres, and with characteristicenergv he began iis further cultivation ami de-velopment. At a later date he extended itsboundaries by the purchase of an additionaltract nf forty acres. He has been raising goodgraded shorthorn cattle, boss
. Past and present of Montgomery County, Illinois . ontgomery county, Illinois. Hav-ing no capital with which to purchase land, hebegan work as a. farm hand and was thus em-ployed for two years, alter which he rented afarm for several years. Subsequently he pur-chased a part of his present farm, becomingthe owner of an improved place of one hun-dred and sixty acres, and with characteristicenergv he began iis further cultivation ami de-velopment. At a later date he extended itsboundaries by the purchase of an additionaltract nf forty acres. He has been raising goodgraded shorthorn cattle, boss and horses, andas a stock-raiser and dealer he has met withgratifying and well merited success. He con-tinued his labors uninterruptedly until 1889,when he returned to his native country andvisited his parents and friends, remaining forone year in the Old World. He also went toScotland and Ireland, visiting the importantcities of those countries and other points ofhistoric and modern interest, and also spenttwo weeks in the city of London. In 1890. ME. AND MRS. W. T. QUARTLEY LIBRARY Of THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PAST AND PRESENT OE MONTGOMERY COUNTY 225 he again came to America, and in 189*2 hemade a second visit to England, where he re-newed the friendships of his youth. Mr. Quartley married while abroad, havingfor fourteen years been in eorespondence withthe lady whom he made his wife. It was onthe 1th of February, 1893, that he was joinedin wedlock to Miss Marian Pish, who was bornin England, hut was of Scotch lineage. Herfather was a farmer of England, and they weremarried in the Id church in her native was born in Elworthy and had remainedunder the parental roof until she gave herhand in marriage- to Mr. Quartley. Theysailed from Liverpool on the 8th of February,and on the steamship Majestic they arrived inthe New York harbor on the 16th of thatmonth. They then went south on a weddingtrip and afterward came to Illinois, where areception was held Im- them on the 2
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