History of Morgan County Illinois United States of America

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Marshall Monroe Kirkman, author, was born in Morgan county, Ill., July 10, 1842. He attended the district school, and when fourteen years of age entered the service of the Chicago and Northwestern railway, passing through the various grades of telegraph-operator, train-despatcher, auditor, general accounting officer and vice-president. In 1876 he began the publication of books on railway affairs. Besides his railway connection he became a director in various financial institutions in Chicago, and he was a director and president of the beard of transportation of the World's Columbian exposition. He was a member of the Evanston club and of the Evanston county club and president of the latter for eleven years. He was married in 1867 to Fanny Lincoln, daughter of Henry Spencer, of New York. He is the author of the following works on railway transportation: Railway Equipment; Railway Organization; Financing, Constructing and Maintaining; Train Service, Safety Appliances, Signals, etc.; Passenger, Baggage and Mail Service; Freight Business and Affairs; Disbursement of Railways; Economic Theory of Rates?Private versus Government Control of Railroads ; Fiscal Affairs?Collection of Revenue; General Fiscal and other Affairs; Origin and Evolution of Transportation; Engineers' and Firemen's Manual. These were republished as The Science of Railways (12 vols., 1894). He made a notable collection of engravings from all quarters of the globe, illustrating modes of carriage, which he published as: Classical Portfolio of Primitive Carriers (1895). He is also the author of an historical novel, The Romance of Gilbert Holmes (1900), which was immediately successful.

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

Charles Frederick Joy, representative, was born in Morgan county, Ill., Dec. 11, 1849. He was educated in the country schools, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1877. He was admitted to the bar and entered the practice of law at St. Louis, Mo., in September, 1876. He was declared elected a representative in the 53d congress in 1892 but was unseated by the contest of John J. O'Neill, his Democratic opponent, April 3, 1894. He was a Republican representative from the eleventh congressional district of Missouri in the 54th, 55th, 56th and 57th congresses, 1895-1903.

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

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