Past and present of Menard County, Illinois .. . ting thathe would be there was lost in the mail andere he reached his destination she startedfor New York and when he arrived he wasgreeted with the new- that his mother hadalready sailed to America. He hurried backand found her with friends in New York andafterward brought her and his sister to Menardcount v. Mrs. Frackelton was a member of thePresbyterian church, strict in her religiousfaith and living a life of absolute conformitywith her belief. Her father bad been a min-ister of the Presbyterian church in , for more than thir
Past and present of Menard County, Illinois .. . ting thathe would be there was lost in the mail andere he reached his destination she startedfor New York and when he arrived he wasgreeted with the new- that his mother hadalready sailed to America. He hurried backand found her with friends in New York andafterward brought her and his sister to Menardcount v. Mrs. Frackelton was a member of thePresbyterian church, strict in her religiousfaith and living a life of absolute conformitywith her belief. Her father bad been a min-ister of the Presbyterian church in , for more than thirty years. continued a resident of Menardcounty until her death, which occurred in 1872,when she was eighty-four years of age. Lauding in America Mr. Frackelton andhis brother remained in New York only a fewdays anil then made their way to Illinois, andgoing lit about eight miles from Springfieldthey established a subscription school in whichMr. Frackelton taught for six months, whilehis brother continued teaching for nine Jj J^ £L-\ W. M. Cow-gill and came to Petersburg in 1844 to be-come a clerk in a general store, receiving fiftydollars per year in addition to his board andwashing. Ee occupied that position for twoyears and Ins -alary was increased to one hun-dred and fifty dollars per year. IL- businessaptitude and capability being Eully demon-strated in that time, In was thru admitted toa partnership tinder the firm style of WilliamM. Cowgill & Company and this relation wasmaintained for eleven years. His brotherRobert also became a partner at the same timeand when they severed their business relationswith Mr. Cowgill they continued merchandisingtogi ther under the style of R. & 1). Frackelton,continuing to conducl their enterprise until1874. In connection with that business theybegan banking in L865. Robert Frackeltondied in is; | verj suddenly and I
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