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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



HATHAWAY, WESLEY, was born Dec. 2, 1814, in Boone county, Ky. His parents moved to Montgomery county when he was about twelve years old. He came to Illinois in May, 1831, first stopping at Jacksonville. Mr. Hathaway returned to Kentucky in 1832, and remained two years at Sharpsburg and Mt. Sterling as a clerk. He came back to Morgan county, Ill., in 1834, and in 1835 went to the Job settlement in McDonough county, and engaged in merchandising as a partner of Dr. George B. Rogers, with whom he came to the State in 1831. He closed his business there, and came to Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, in 1838, and first engaged in teaching. A year or two later he commenced merchandising with B. Logan Hall. Wesley Hathaway and Mary M. Hall were married Sept. 18, 1845, in Sangamon county. where they had seven children, namely--

ALICE O., born Dec. 30, 1847, married May 9, 1872, to Joseph H. Grubb, who was born Nov. 21, 1848, in Perry county, Pa. He enlisted at Springfield for one year, March 2, 1865, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., served in that regiment until it was mustered out in July, 1865, when he was transferred to Co. D, 58th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged March 2, 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Grubb live at Illiopolis.

JULIET, born Aug. 22, 1849, died in her sixth year.

WALTER A., LUELLA B., DAVID L., MARY AUGUSTUS and ANNA MAY, live with their parents in Buffalo, Sangamon county, Ill. Mr. Hathaway is a merchant there.



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