History of Albion, (Edwards County) Illinois United States of America

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Benjamin Orange Flower, author, was born in Albion, Ill., Oct. 19, 1858; son of the Rev. Alfred and Elizabeth (Orange) Flower; and grandson of George Flower, who in 1818 founded an English settlement at Albion, Ill. He was educated in the public schools of Evansville, Ind., and at Kentucky university, Lexington, Ky. He was editor of the American , Sentinel a social and literary weekly, at Albion, Ill., 1878-80. He removed to Philadelphia in the summer of 1880, and to Boston in 1881, where he established the American Spectator, which was merged into the Arena, which he founded and of which he was sole editor from 1889 to 1896. He was one of the editors of The New Time, a Chicago magazine, in 1896-97, and in 1897 became editor of the newly established Coming Age, Boston. He is the author of: Lessons Learned from Other Lives (1890); Civilization's Inferno (1892); The New Time (1893); The Century of Sir Thomas More (1896); Persons, Places and Ideas (1895); Gerald Massey, Prophet and Mystic (1895); and Whittier (1896); besides many contributions to the leading periodicals.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Herman Henry Kohlsaat, publisher, was born at Albion, Il1., March 22, 1853; son of Roimer and Sarah (Hall) Kohlsaat. His father came from Germany in 1830, and his mother from England in 1819. He was educated in the public schools of Galena, Ill., and removed to Chicago in 1865, where he was a paper carrier and later cash boy in a dry-goods store, and travelling salesman for a wholesale baker, 1875-80. He held a controlling interest in the Chicago Inter-Ocean, 1891-94, and in 1895 became owner and editor of the Chicago Times-Herald and Evening Post. He was also largely interested in real-estate operations, 1885-92. He presented a statue of General Grant to the city of Galena, Ill., in 1891. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions in 1888 and 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

George Frederick Pentecost, clergyman and author, was born in Albion, Ill., Sept. 23, 1842; son of Hugh Lockett and Emma (Flower) Pentecost; grandson of Scarboro and Phebe (Lockett) Pentecost and of Georg and Eliza Julia (Andrews) Flower, and a descendant of English (Flower), Huguenot (Pentecost), and Jewish (Andrews) ancestors. He was educated in the public schools; learned the printer's trade, and served as clerk of the U.S. district court for Kansas Territory in 1858 and as private secretary to Gov. Samuel Medary in 1858-59. He matriculated at Georgetown college in Kentucky in 1861, but left the following year to enter the Union army in the 8th Kentucky cavalry, in which he attained the rank of captain. He resigned to accept the chaplaincy of the regiment, which position he held, 1862-63. On Oct. 6, 1863, he was married to Ada, daughter of Dr. Augustus Webber of Hopkinsville, Ky. Having been licensed to preach in the Baptist church in 1862, he was settled pastor at Greencastle, Ind., 1864; Evansville, Ind., 1866-67; Covington, Ky., 1867-68; Brooklyn, N.Y., 1868-71 and 1880-87, and Boston, Mass., 1871-80. He engaged in evangelical work in Scotland, 1887-88, and as a special missioner to the English speaking Brahmins in India, 1889-91. He was minister to Marylebone Presbyterian church in London, Eng., 1891-97, and pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Yonkers, N.Y., from 1897 until 1902, when he resigned, to resume work of evangelistic and missionary character. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Hamilton, 1870, and that of D.D. from Lafayette, 1884. On Sept. 13, 1902, he was sent to the Philippine Islands, China and Japan as special representative of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions and of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions. He edited Words and Weapons for Christian Workers, a monthly, 1885-90; and is the author of: In the Volume of the Book (1876) The Angel in the Marble (1876); A South Window (1876); Out of Egypt (1884); Bible Studies (10 vols., 1880-89); Birth and Boyhood of Christ (1896); Forgiveness of Sins (1897); Systematic Beneficence (1897); Precious Truths (1898); and several tracts and pamphlets.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor