Identifier: historyofillinoi00raum (find matches)
Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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cuous figure in the halls of legislation. In1887 he reached the highest honor of a member of the legislature of Illinois, thatof being elected speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. Calhoun was amember of the legislature at the time of the great Logan contest for the senator-ship, and was one of the managers of that campaign, which resulted in his elec-tion in 1885. Mr. Calhoun became so deeply interested in the politics of thestate that in 1889 he abandoned the profession of dentistry, and removed toDecatur, Illinois, and embarked in the newspaper business. He is now the polit-ical editor of the Decatur Herald. and is a large stockholder in the Company.This is one of the most influential papers in central Illinois. Mr. Calhoun is now postmaster of Decatur. He was appointed to thatoffice in 1897 by President McKinley. William F. Calhoun was married in 1879to Miss Blanche Derthick. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun are popular people atDecatur. Illinois, and have a wide circle of friends. 398
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Yx5 .§. i^OdiU^ 399 IRA CLIFTON COPLEY. Ira C. Copley of Aurora. 111., was born October 25, 1864. on a farm nearAltona. Knox county. 111. His father. Ira B. Copley, was born on a farm in thewestern end of the Catskill Mountains in the State of Xew York. He receivedhis education there, and when twenty-four years of age came to Illinois, settlingin what afterwards became Copley Township in Knox county. Mr. Copleymarried Ellen Whiting in 1853. Mrs. Copley was born in West Hartford,, Conn.She was educated in the common schools, and at Miss Porters School for Girlsat Farmington, Conn. When sixteen years of age she came to Illinois with herfathers family. Mr. and Mrs. Copley were descended from good Xew Englandstock. They settled at Aurora. Illinois, in 1867. where they had a wide circle ofacquaintances and friends, and where they raised their family of three daughtersand one son. Air. Copley was a man of great enterprise and industry, and at thetime of his death was operating the gas work

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