Endnotes

  1. Memoirs, Eden, Walter (unpublished), 1932, p. 35. Walter Eden, Roses's younger brother, was born in 1862. He was elected Mayor of Sullivan in 1887 and served two terms, until 1891. In 1909 he moved to California where he worked in the abst ract business, then practiced law, and in 1918 was elected to serve in the state legislature.
  2. The Bench and Bar of Illinois, ed. Palmer, John M., Chicago, 1899, Vol. II, p. 973.
  3. Combined History of Shelby and Moultrie Counties, Illino is, Philadelphia, 1881, p. 86.
  4. On March 28, 1864, Congressman Eden was in Charleston, Illinois, for a Democratic party rally, when a riot broke out between local Democratic Southern sympathizers and Union Troops. nine men were killed and twelve w ounded. As Eden was escorted out of the local courthouse by the sheriff, two men were met with gunfire. The sheriff returned the fire, while the congressman dashed away from the courthouse. the story of the "Charleston riot" and its aftermath is told in " Pretty Damned Warm Times," Sampson, Robert D., Illinois Historical Journal, Vol. 89, Summer, 1996, at 99.
  5. Memoirs, Eden, p.10.
  6. Id., p.26.
  7. Id., pp. 9-10.
  8. Id., p.18.
  9. Id., p. 24.
  10. Gran dma's Memories, harpster, Nancy M., (unpublished, undated), p. 48.
  11. Fragments of Martin Family History, Martin, R. Eden (editor), Chicago, p. 155.
  12. Id., p.167.
  13. Id., p.168.
  14. Id., p.168.
  15. Id., p.16 9.
  16. Grandma's Memories, Harpster, pp. 33-34.
  17. Fragments of Martin Family History, p. 170.

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  18. Id., p.294.
  19. Combined History, pp. 86-87.
  20. Id., p.87.
  21. < I>Century I, Sullivan, Illinois, Moultrie County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1973, p. 15; Notes on the History of Moultrie County and Sullivan, Illinois, Martin, I. J. Sullivan, 1990, p. 15.
  22. Atlas of Moultrie County, Chicag o, 1875, p. 5.
  23. Combined History, p. 71.
  24. Notes, Martin, I. J., p. 45.
  25. Century I, p. 19.
  26. The proprietor of the old saloon had been Joel Earp, said to be a relative of the famous gunslinger.
  27. Atlas, p. 16.
  28. Notes, Martin, I. J., p. 51.
  29. Century I, p. 34.
  30. Reflections, 1840-1990, First Christian Church, Sullivan, 1990, p. 4; memoirs, Eden, p. 14.
  31. The facts with respect to the 1886 campaign are set forth in a manusc ript "copybook" written by Ivory Martin in 1927, now in the possession of the editor. See also Illinois Elections, 1818-1990, Allen, Howard W. and Lacey, Vincent (eds.), Carbondale, 1992, pp. 22-23.
  32. Frank M. Harbaugh was a young lawyer in Sull ivan--educated in Moultrie and Shelby counties, and a graduate of the University of Michigan law program in 1880. (Combined History, p. 79.) he practiced law and was an influential man in county affairs until his death in 1930. (Inventory of the County Archives of Illinois, No. 70, p. 52.)
  33. In their letters, Ivory and Rose referred to "Mr. Snapp" without ever using his first name or initials. however, it is likely that the Snapp in question was george N. Snapp. In a scrapbook compiled la ter by Ivory and consisting largely of family-related items appear two newspaper clippings--both undated--referring to one "G.N. Snapp." the first reports an occasion when "Mr. Snapp's friends" presented him with a photograph album, and describes Snapp as a "Professor" who "has made our school in [the] future." the Professor was reported to be leaving us "next week for Normal to attend school this summer." (Rose's letter of May 18, 1886, refers to Mr. Snapp as having "left Normal." Supra, p. 107.) The second brief clipping, which appears just below the first, notes a "sermon by G.N. Snapp, and all of the Snapps we ever saw, we never saw a Snapp, Snapp, like that Snapp, Snapped." In his notes on Martin family history, which appears in Fragments of Martin Family History, ed. martin, R. Eden, Chicago, 1990, Ivory later wrote briefly about his younger brother Joe's education, noting he had a succession of good teachers in the Whitley point community where the family lived, including "George N. Snapp." (p. 169.)

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    An unpublished Snapp family history is in possession of Mrs. Martha Schrodt of Decatur, Illinois--one of whose grandfathers was a member of the Snapp family--contains a brief section on " George Newton Snapp," born April 13, 1854, near Paradise Lake in Coles County, not far from Whitley point. This George N. Snapp attended school at Normal and taught in a number of schools, including those in Moultrie County. He married Cora Niles in eithe r 1888 or 1889, and they had one son. He served for several years as a county superintendent of Piatt County. the Joliet Evening Herald-News reported in February 1924 that this george N. Snapp, suffering from a chronic illness and "seventy years ol d, former assistant county superintendent of schools, fired a bullet into his head at 6:45 o'clock last night, dying at his home from its effects a few minutes later." (Snapp Family history, unpublished, p. 41.)
  34. On June 2, 1886, President Grov er Cleveland married 21-year old Francis Folsom. the marriage attracted great public attention and newspaper coverage. Cleveland was the only President to be married in the White House.
  35. Fragments of Martin Family History, p. 192.

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