JAYNE, GERSHOM, born Oct. 15, 1791, in Orange county, New York, received his diploma from the New York medical authorities, and came west, locating, in 1820, at what became Springfield, Illinois, being the first practicing physician that settled in the place. He was married in 1822, to Sibyl Slater. They had four children--

JULIA M., born in June, 1824, in Springfield, was married there, June 1, 1843, to Hon. Lyman Trumbull, a native of Colchester, Conn. He was, at the time, Secretary of State for Illinois. In 1848 he became one of the Supreme Court Judges of Illinois. In 1854 he was elected representative in Congress, and elected in January, 1855, as one of the two United States Senators from Illinois. He was twice re-elected, serving, in all, eighteen years, ending in 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Trumbull had six children. Three only are living, WALTER, PERRY and HENRY. Mrs. Julia M. Trumbull died in August, 1868, in Washington, D. C. Hon. Lyman Trumbull resides in Chicago Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 8, 1826, in Springfield, was educated at Illinois College, Jacksonville, studied medicine with his father in Springfield, and graduated in the medical department of Missouri State University in 1849. Dr. William Jayne was married Oct. 17, 1850, in Jacksonville, Ill., to Julia E. Witherbee, who was born in 1830, in Vermont. They had six children, four of whom died young. Of their two living children, WILLIAM S., born Oct. 18, 1851, in Springfield, Illinois, was married in his native city, Nov. 18, 1875, to Margaret E. Palmer, daughter of Ex-Governor John M. Palmer. She was born March 20, 1854, in Carlinville, Ill. William S. Jayne is connected with the office of the Auditor of State, and resides in Springfield, Ill. LIZZIE, born July 10, 1855, in Springfield, resides with her parents. Dr. William Jayne, in addition to his professional duties, has found time to engage in politics. He was elected, in 1859, Mayor of Springfield. In 1860 was elected State Senator for one term of four years, and resighed, in 1861, to accept an appointment by President Lincoln, of Territorial Governor of Dakota. In April, 1876, he was again elected Mayor of Springfield, and is consequently the Centennial Mayor of the Capital city. Dr. Wm. Jayne still continues the practice of medicine, and resides in Springfield, Illinois. As this goes to press--June, 1876--he is on a visit to the great American Centennial Exposition, at Philadelphia.

HENRY, born June 8, 1837, in Springfield, enlisted as a private in Co. I, 7th Ill. Inf., for three months, re-enlisted in the 7th Ill. Cav., was hospital steward, and afterwards commissioned Lieutenant of Co. K, by Gov. Yates. He was appointed, by President Lincoln, aid-decamp, with the rank of Captain in the fifteenth army corps, and in that capacity served until the close of the rebellion, when he was appointed, by President Johnson, Lieutenant in the United States Cavalry, but did not accept. Henry Jayne attended medical lectures at Ann Arbor, Michigan, University, in 1865, and located in Taylorville in 1866, for the practice of medicine. He was married Sept. 8, 1868, to Jennie Cheney, daughter of Thomas Cheney. See name of Archibald Sattley. Dr. Henry Jayne is engaged in the drug business in Taylorville, and resides there.

MARY ELLEN, born Nov., 1842, in Springfield, resides with her mother.

Dr. Gershom Jayne was one of the first Commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan canal, appointed in 1830 and '31. When he located in Springfield there was not another physician so far north in the State. He practiced forty-seven years, and died April 17, 1867, in Springfield, and his widow resides there.