. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws ... as 21 years of age, hisfather claimed §150 for his time, which was paid. He is a Repub-lican, and both himself and wife are members of the M. E. O., Summer Hill. Monroe Baughmon, farmer, sec. 11; P. O., Summer Hill: wasborn in this county Oct. 5,1848, and is a son of Jacob and Cath-arine W. (Heler) Baug
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws ... as 21 years of age, hisfather claimed §150 for his time, which was paid. He is a Repub-lican, and both himself and wife are members of the M. E. O., Summer Hill. Monroe Baughmon, farmer, sec. 11; P. O., Summer Hill: wasborn in this county Oct. 5,1848, and is a son of Jacob and Cath-arine W. (Heler) Baughmon, who were married in 1835 and had 5children, of whom Monroe is the eldest. The latter received acommon-school education, and is now following farming in Atlas tp. Capt. Uriah Brock was born in Missouri in 1820, and is a sonof Armstrong and Theresa Angle (Brown) Brock, the former of En-glish descent and the latter of German; was educated in the subscrip-tion schools of the time; at 15 he went upon the river and workedat cooking and pulling oars on a flat-boat* in 1839 he went on asteamer to learn the river as cub pilot; in 1840 he was promotedto the position of pilot on the steamer lone, and for the same man iPUBUC LIBRARY- ASTOR. LENOX ANOTILOEN FGUN0*T^ON9_ ,1^-S0^ ^^^^. E^^, ^o^ ATLAS TP je^m-^^^-^^ HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY, 787 he rail steamers for 7 years on the Ohio river, inakin2; 10 yearsaltoorether which he worked for one man; has followed the riveras pilot every summer since he learned the business, and expectsto as long as he can see and turn a wheel. lie has been moderate]}successful, having as much as $2,500 for one summers work. Atpresent lie gets only $600 for a seasons work, lie married MissCaroline Marsh in 1855, and they have 6 children, all living in thistp., where he spends the winter with his family. Four of the chil-dren are married. He has a neat and substantial residence inSummer Hill, and 12 acres of land. In politics he is a liepubli-can, and lie an
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