The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . where Mrs. Bratton spentthe greater part of her girlhood. I>y hermarriage she became the mother of twochildren, but Lennie died in 1890 at the ageof eighteen years. The son, Charles S., isstill \\ith his parents. Both Mr. and are devout members of RossvilleChristian church in which he is serving asan elder and trustee, and in the work of thechurch they take an active and deep inter-est. Ililitically he is independent, casting hisballot in support of the candidates whom heregarils best cpialified for office and of themeasi
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . where Mrs. Bratton spentthe greater part of her girlhood. I>y hermarriage she became the mother of twochildren, but Lennie died in 1890 at the ageof eighteen years. The son, Charles S., isstill \\ith his parents. Both Mr. and are devout members of RossvilleChristian church in which he is serving asan elder and trustee, and in the work of thechurch they take an active and deep inter-est. Ililitically he is independent, casting hisballot in support of the candidates whom heregarils best cpialified for office and of themeasiues which be thinks will most largelyserve the genera! good. He is a friend ofthe cause of education, believes in havinggood schools and cm])lo\ing competentteachers, and for ;i (|uarl(.r nf a centnr\- hehas done effective service in this regard byserving as a member of the school has been on the tciwn school boardfor seven vears and used bis intluence to se-cure the present substantial school build-ings of which Rossville has everv reason to. MR. AND MRS. JAMES H. DICE. THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 433 be prond. During his long residence inVermilion county he has become widely andfaxorably known. The traveler of to-daylooking upon the cities with their pulsing-industrial and commercial activity and uponthe fine farms of Vermillion count}^ canscarcely realize that within the memory ofMr. Bratton this district of the state waslargely a wild and unimproved regioncrossed with sloughs, while much of theland therefore was swampy. He has seendeer and wolves in the county and has rid-den for miles over the wild prairie unim-peded by a fence, i)ut there came to thisregion a class of people with resolute spiritand progressive ideas and through theirefforts Vermilion county has been splendidlvdeveloped, Mr. Bratton bearing his sharein all the work of improveiuent. JAMES H. DICE. James H. Dice, the well known pvn-prietor of the South Side Jersey farm andone of the leading business men
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