. 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 .. . store intown, near where L. Klemmes building now stands, but also car-ried a stock of miscellaneous gofKJs. He was an Irishman bybirth. Well educated, and with a high sense of business has been dead for some years. The name of Cu\. William Ross is intimately associated withthe
. 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 .. . store intown, near where L. Klemmes building now stands, but also car-ried a stock of miscellaneous gofKJs. He was an Irishman bybirth. Well educated, and with a high sense of business has been dead for some years. The name of Cu\. William Ross is intimately associated withthe early history of Pittstield, and with its advancement and i»ros-perity, up to the time of his death. He was its most pntminentcitizen, and aided nearly every enterprise. He was born in .Mas-sachusetts in 1792, emigrated to this county in 1.^20, subsc(iucntlyremoviui; to the new town of Pittstield. A i;(»od sketch of his lifeis given in the biographical department of the history of thistownship. Cv\. D. B. Bush, also a native of Massachusetts, born in 1790,settled in Pittstield a year after the town was laid out, and has beena prominent and active citizen ever since. He practiced at theBar. and has held several ofHces. He is still remarkably healthy for V -•■■ ^^■tt^^. if ■, ^.. i^P^MTMOru PITTSFIELD HISTORY OF PIKE COUNTY. 657 his years, and can be seen almost daily greeting his many friendswith gonial humor. Hon. AVilliam R. Archer, the veteran member of the Bar, isstill in active practice. lie was born in New York in 1817, andemigrated to Pittsfield in IS^S. He lias rejieatedly representedthis district in the State Senate, and is known and honored tlirough-out the State. He has a numerous familv of sons and dauirhters,and the whole community call him friend. Mr. Samuel Crane, who conducted the Union House for manyyears, is another surviving veteran, who can be seen any morningin the week, basket on arm, doing his own marketing. He has aneat place in the west part
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