The source for the biography is:
(ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp)
SHELBY M. CULLOM, of Illinois, was remarkable for the great length of his public career, beginning before the breaking out of the war for the Union, and only terminating with his death in 1914. He was born November 22, 1829, at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, son of Richard Northcraft and Elizabeth (Coffey) Cullom. His father removed to Tazewell County, Illinois, and frequently sat in the Legislature.
Shelby M. Cullom attended the Rock River Seminary at Mt. Morris, Illinois, for two years, and then removed to Springfield, which was his home the remainder of his life. He studied law in the offices of Stuart & Ed wards, and while so engaged became an inti mate friend of Abraham Lincoln. He was admitted to the bar, entered upon practice, and was soon afterward elected city attorney. He was a Whig presidential elector on the Fillmore ticket in 1852. He aided in the organization of the Republican party of which he was ever afterward a most devoted member. In 1858 he supported Lincoln for the United States senatorship, in the historical political struggle against Stephen A. Douglas, who was the successful contestant. In 1860 he was elected to the Legislature, notwithstanding the fact that his district was strongly Democratic. The Republicans had the ascendancy, and Mr. Cullom was made speaker, being the youngest man in the state upon whom this honor had ever been conferred. In 1862, under appointment by President Lincoln, with George S. Boutwell and Charles A. Dana, he was occupied in the investigation of the accounts of United States quartermaster and commissary officers. In 1864 he was elected to Congress from the Springfield district, defeating his warm personal friend, John T. Stuart, and was continued as a member of that body by successive reelections until 1871. In April, 1865, he was chairman of the house committee of Congress which accompanied the remains of Lincoln to their interment at Springfield. As chairman of the committee on territories he was the first to undertake the suppression of polygamy in Utah. In 1868 he was a leading figure in the National Re publican Convention. In 1870 his congressional district was recovered by the Democrats, and he was relegated to private life, and engaged in banking. In 1872, in the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, Mr. Cullom, as chairman of the Illinois delegation, placed General Ulysses S. Grant in nomination as a candidate for a second presidential term. In the same year he was elected to the Legislature, and was made speaker; and he was reelected to a second term. He was elected Governor in 1876, and succeeded himself in that office, in the second election defeating former Senator Lyman Trumbull, but resigned in 1882, having been elected United States Senator to succeed Davis. He was made chairman of the interstate commerce committee, and conducted the investigation of railroad corporation affairs, and led in the formulation of legislation for their regulation, his report on the subject, submitted to the Senate on January 18, 1886, resulting in the enactment of a law bearing his name, and establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission. He was a member of the Senate until March 3, 1913, and served as chairman of the committee on interstate commerce, and as a member of the committees on foreign relations and appropriations, and was also a member of the committee charged with the establishment of a government in the Hawaii an Islands. His mental characteristics were practical and solid, rather than brilliant, he was not a gifted editor, but a clear and convincing speaker. He died January 28, 1914.
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William Ira CALLAWAY
P.O. Manito
Farmer
Member of M.E. for 13y.Born 1826 in Campbell Co., VA.
Parents: Isiah and Lettice CALLAWAY
Came to this State in 1836 with his Parents and to this county in 1851.1st Marriage- Ruth A LOWRY in 1851. She died April 1, 1878.
They had 6 Children:
Siralda S. , Sarah Bell, Rhoda J., Louis F., Henry A. and Fannie A.
Siralda S. married Wm McFARLAND
Rhoda J. married Isaac SCHINICK
Sarah Bell married John McFARLAND2nd Marriage- Catharine SHERRER on Nov. 10, 1878
The source for these Sketches came from the History of Tazewell County, IL, 1880.
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J.G. CLATON
P.O. Prettyman
FarmerBorn 1844 in Shelby., IN.
Parents: James and Sarah Ann (GUILE) CLATON, Natives of Ohio
Came to this County in 1865 from Iowa. He was educated in the common Schools of Iowa.In 1870 he married Sarah E. VANORSTRAND.
Their Children
Thomas A. b. Dec. 28, 1870
Cora b. Oct. 23, 1872The source for these Sketches came from the History of Tazewell County, IL, 1880.
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