near Peru, and for one year was in the law and literary depart-
ment of Notre Dame University. Returning to Kewanee in 1900,
because of bad health, young Mulligan was a telegraph operator two
and a half years at the National Tube Company. The subsequent
two and a half years were spent in the office of Charles E. Sturtz,
then state's attorney, and one of Kewanee's prominent lawyers.
While with Mr. Sturtz he worked as stenographer, and thus paid
his way and also kept up his reading. Mr. Mulligan was admitted
to the bar at Ottawa, Illinois, April 5, 1906, and has since been in
active practice, always as an individual, and he has found the law
both a congenial and profitable field. Mr. Mulligan served as city
clerk of Kewanee during 1905-06.
Charles E. Mulligan was the second of three children born to
Toseph H. and Merilla Catherine (Dixon) Mulligan. In 1852 the
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Mulligan family emigrated from Ireland and settled in Kentucky,
and in 1862 moved to Illinois, locating at Kirkwood. Joseph H.
Mulligan for a number of years has held the position of station
agent at Kewanee for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway.
He is a man of no little prominence in Kewanee, and served for two
terms in the Illinois Legislature, being a member of several importa-
ant committees, including railroads and educational.
Charles E. Mulligan is an honorary life member of the Benevo-
lent and Protective Order of Elks and is on the law committee of
the Mystic Workers of the World. He is also affiliated with the
Modern Woodmen of America. Politically Mr. Mulligan is a demo-
crat and a member of the Catholic Church. His office is at 224 North
Tremont Street and his home at 114 North Park Street. He is
unmarried.
AMOS MILLER. The high standing of Judge Miller as one of
the leading members of the bar of Montgomery County, finds its
secure basis on ability well proved and on large and worthy achieve-
ment. He has been engaged in the active practice of his profession
at Hillsboro for more than forty years, and the history of juris-
prudence in this section of the state records his interposition in much
important litigation in the various courts within that period, as well
as denoting many noteworthy victories won by him as an advocate
of fine discrimination and marked resourcefulness.
Judge Miller claims the historic old Buckeye state as the place
of his nativity, but has been a resident of Illinois from the age of
seventeen years, as he accompanied his parents on their removal
from Ohio to Montgomery County, Illinois, in 1862. Judge Miller
was born in Carroll County, Ohio, on the 25th of January, 1845, an d
is a son of Joseph W. and Isabella (McClintock) Miller, the former
a native of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and the latter a native
of Ohio, in which state their marriage was solemnized. As a young
man Joseph W. Miller removed from his native commonwealth to
Ohio, and there he continued to be concerned with agricultural pur-
suits until he came with his family to Montgomery County, Illinois,
in 1862. He purchased a farm in this county and here continued
to reside on his homestead until his death, in 1873, at the age of
sixty-two years. His widow lived to attain to the extremely vener-
able age of ninety-one years, and was summoned to eternal rest in
1906. Of the seven children four are now living, and of the num-
ber Judge Miller of this review was the fourth in order of birth.
The common schools of Ohio afforded to Amos Miller his early
educational facilities, and after the family removal to Illinois he
attended Hillsboro Academy for a time, as did he also the University
of Illinois. He obtained a clerical position in the office of the county
clerk of Montgomery County without solicitation on his part, and
in this connection he earnestly availed himself of the privileges
afforded him for the reading of law under the able preceptorship of
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Judge Edward Lane, having directed his studies with much circum-
spection and with manifest sympathy and interest. Judge Miller was
admitted to the bar in 1869, but he continued to be associated with
the office of the county clerk until 1873, since which time he has been
numbered among the active and prominent lawyers of Hillsboro,
with a professional reputation that extends beyond the limitations of
Montgomery County, and with inviolable place in popular confidence
and good will. Judge Miller has for years controlled a substantial
and representative practice, the same extending into the various
state and Federal courts of Illinois. He is an appreciative and
honored member of the Illinois State Bar Association, served one
term as city attorney of Hillsboro, two terms as state's attorney and
one term as county judge of Montgomery County. The judge is
an exponent of high civic ideals and loyalty, has taken a lively inter-
.est in that that has tended to advance the social and material welfare
of his home city and county, has been influential in public affairs of
local order, especially those of municipal order, and for twenty years
was a zealous and valued member of the Hillsboro board of educa-
tion, besides being also a member of the board of trustees of the
public library of the city. His political allegiance is given to the
democratic party, and he has become prominently affiliated with
the Masonic fraternity.
In the year 1871 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Miller
to Miss Mary R. Rice, of Hillsboro, her father, the late Judge
Edward Y. Rice, having been one of the most honored and influ-
ential citizens of Montgomery County, where he served for sixteen
years on the bench of the Circuit Court. Judge and Mrs. Miller
have two children, Isa, who is the wife of Henry O. Pinkerton, of
Gillespie ; and Rice, who was graduated in Cornell University, at
Ithaca, New York, and who is general superintendent of the Hills-
boro Coal Company.
WILLIAM S. CONE. Interested in agriculture in Coles County
and in other business enterprises, William S. Cone, a member of
the board of aldermen of Charleston, is also a prominent attorney,
for the past twelve years having been actively engaged in the prac-
tice of law in this city. Mr. Cone was born May 26, 1869, in Ohio,
and is one of a family of three children born to his parents who
were William S. and Margaret (Sefton) Cone. The father, William
S. Cone, was born in Hamilton County and the mother in Harrison,
Ohio, and the latter survived until 1911. The father was a well-
known business man at Cincinnati, a railroad contractor, and died
in that city in 1869, when his son was an infant.
In the public schools of Cincinnati, William S. Cone was an apt
student through boyhood and after completing the high school course
entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and this was followed by
attendance in the Cincinnati Law School, where he was graduated
in 1896. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and engaged
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in practice in his native state until 1902, when he located at Charles-
ton. Mr. Cone possesses the personality that is so necessary a qual-
ity in the successful practice of law and in his profession, and in
the other activities that engage his attention, he is able to inspire
confidence, make friends and bring business undertakings of all
kinds to the conclusion satisfactory for all concerned. He has
always been a loyal republican, but has not been anxious for political
preferment, consenting, however, to serve in the office of city alder-
man when elected and through true public spirit and exceedingly
practical ideas, has proved a very valuable addition to the municipal
board. He is a member of the Coles County Bar Association and
the Illinois State Bar Association, and maintains his offices in the
Scherer Block.
Mr. Cone was united in marriage with Miss Ozeta Wheatley,
who is a daughter of James Wheatley, who is president of the
Charleston State National Bank, and they have three children : Wil-
liam W., Mary E., and Russell Allen, aged respectively, fifteen, thir-
teen and nine years. Mr. Cone and family are members of the First
Presbyterian Church. He is identified with a number of the leading
fraternal organizations, including the Masons, Elks and Knights of
Pythias. The family resides at No. 901 South Eleventh Street.
HON. WILLIAM H. MCDONALD. As dean of the Cumberland
county bar, William H. McDonald occupies a prominent position in
legal circles and has honorably and efficiently served in offices of
great responsibility in his profession, and has been equally con-
spicuous in political and business life. For thirty-four years he has
maintained his home at Greenup and is numbered with the city's
most substantial and respected residents.
William H. McDonald was born March i, 1841, in Ross County,
Ohio. His ancestors came from the highlands of Scotland about the
time of the Revolutionary war, and they can be traced from their
early settlement in Pennsylvania, to Kentucky and thence to Ohio.
Both grandfather and father of Mr. McDonald bore the name of
John. The grandfather was a civil engineer by profession and
was also an author, as testified by his interesting history of the Scioto
Valley and Indian wars in Ohio. John McDonald, the father, was
born in Ross County and mainly followed agricultural pursuits.
He was a man of considerable importance in public life and served
as sheriff and afterward as state senator from the counties of Ross
and Highland. He reared a family of ten children, William H.
being the sixth in order of birth.
Until he was nineteen years old, William H. McDonald remained
under the home roof, giving his father assistance and attending
school with such regularity that he secured a dependable education,
an excellent foundation upon which to build further, as a student of
law. In 1860 he entered the office of Judge Safford and under his
supervision pursued his law studies and on October 2, 1862, was
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admitted to the bar of Ohio. After two years of practice in his
native state he came to Illinois and looked over the professional
field at Toledo, East St. Louis and other points and then returned
to Ohio and resumed practice. In 1880, however, Mr. McDonald
returned to Cumberland County and located at Greenup and has re-
sided here ever since. He soon became known in his profession and
in a comparatively short time had built up a satisfactory practice, a-
business condition which has existed ever since. Active in the ranks
of the democratic party, Mr. McDonald has been signally honored
by the. same, in 1872 being elected to the State Legislature and to
other official positions, serving as master in chancery and also three
terms as state's attorney, being first elected in 1888, re-elected in
1892 and again in 1900. While in the Legislature Mr. McDonald
took an active part in the work of revising the laws of the state, and
was the introducer of the bill, which subsequently became a law,
non-exempting property from execution where the debt was due to
laborer or servant.
Mr. McDonald was married May 16, 1867, to Miss Sarah Camp-
bell, of Greenup, Illinois, and they have one child, John C. McDon-
ald. During his many years of professional life in Cumberland
County, Mr. McDonald has been connected with many cases of
grave importance and often his legal triumphs have been won over
practitioners "worthy of his steel." While he is one of the city's
ablest lawyers he is also one of the most stable citizens. He owns
considerable city realty together with farm lands, his investments
showing how much faith he places in the present and future im-
portance of Greenup.
WILLIAM C. KELLEY. Actively engaged in the practice of law
in the City of Shelbyville for nearly forty years, Mr. Kelley is con-
gistently to be designated as the dean of the bar of Shelby County.
He has been concerned with much of the important litigation in the
courts of this section of the state, is known as a fine lawyer of
marked versatility and resourcefulness and has been earnest and
indefatigable in the work of his chosen profession, which has been
dignified and honored by his character and achievement. Further
interest attaches to his career by reason of his being a native of
Shelby County and a representative of one of the sterling pioneer
families of the county.
Mr. Kelley was born on the old homestead farm in Rural Town-
ship, this county, on the 3ist of July, 1848, and is a son of Chatten
and Elizabeth (Smith) Kelley, the former of whom was born in
Tennessee and the latter in Kentucky. Chatten Kelley came to
Shelby County in the early pioneer days and here reclaimed a pro-
ductive farm. He became one of the prominent agriculturists and
influential citizens of the county, won success through industry and
careful management, and at all times held the unqualified confidence
and good will of his fellow men. After his retirement from active
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labors he established his residence in the city of Shelbyville, but he
was sojourning at Sweet Springs, Missouri, at the time of his death,
in 1899, at the age of eighty years. Mrs. Elizabeth (Smith) Kelley
was summoned to the life eternal in 1865, at the age of forty years,
and of the seven children the only son is he whose name introduces
this review.
William C. Kelley gained both vigor and inspiration during the
period of his early identification with the work of the pioneer farm-
stead, and after availing himself duly of the advantages of the com-
mon schools of his native county, he was enabled to realize his
ambition for broader educational training. He attended the Shelby-
ville Seminary and then completed a four years' literary course in the
University of Kentucky, at Lexington, in which institution he was
graduated. In consonance with his well formulated plans he soon
afterward began the study of law, in the office of the firm of Thorn-
ton & Windling, of Shelbyville, and was. admitted to the bar in the
Centennial year, 1876. In the following year he engaged in the
practice of his profession at Shelbyville, where for many years he
was senior member of the law firm of Kelley & Ragan, and where
later he was associated in practice with Rowland J. Hamlin, under
the firm name of Hamlin & Kelley. He early became known as a
close student and as an advocate who was keen, alert and resource-
ful, so that his success has been of unequivocal order during the
many years he has been engaged in practice at Shelbyville. Mr.
Kelley is recognized today as one of the best fortified counselors of
the Shelby County bar, and is still active in the general practice of
law, with a large and representative clientage and with inviolable
vantage-place in the esteem of the community which has been his
home during his entire life. He served as state's attorney of Shelby
County for two terms, 1888-96, and at one time he had the strong
endorsement of his own and other counties for the office of supreme
judge. The history of the bench and bar of Illinois that was issued
under the editorial supervision of the late Hon. John M. Palmer,
spoke of Mr. Kelley in the following terms: "He has been state's
attorney of Shelby county, was an efficient, honest officer, and is an
able, careful lawyer. He is a great reader and all-around good
citizen." Mr. Kelley was for two consecutive terms master in chan-
cery. He is a stalwart and effective advocate of the principles and
policies for which the democratic party stands sponsor and is affili-
ated with the Masonic fraternity.
In December, 1876, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Kelley
to Miss Antha D. Harper, of Tower Hill, this county, her father,
the late A. V. Harper, having been an early settler of Shelby County,
, where he passed the remainder of his life and where his venerable
widow still maintains her home. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley became the
parents of three children: William Lloyd Kelley, who was born in
1887, studied law under the able preceptorship of his father, with
whom he is now associated in practice ; Leo. H. Kelley was born in
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1897, was graduated in the Shelby ville High School and still remains
at the parental home; and Elizabeth died at the age of thirteen
years.
WILLIAM H. WHITAKER. Character, ability and achievement
have given Mr. Whitaker distinct priority as one of the leading mem-
bers of the bar of Central Illinois and, as a member of the law firm
of Whitaker, Ward & Pugh, of Shelbyville, he is associated in the
control of a large and representative practice in Shelby County.
Mr. Whitaker was born in Douglas County, Illinois, on the 23d
of June, 1867, and is a son of John and Hannah (Davis) Whitaker,
both of whom were born and reared in the State of Indiana, whence
they came to Illinois in 1850 and established their home in Douglas
County, where the father became a substantial farmer and did much
to further the social and industrial advancement of the county, and
where he long held precedence as one of the influential citizens of
that section of the state. He celebrated in 1914 his eighty-first birth-
day anniversary and is now living retired in the City of Vincennes,
Indiana. Mrs. Hannah (Davis) Whitaker died in the year 1883, at
the old homestead in Douglas County, and she was forty years of
age at the time of her demise. Of the five children William H. was
the third in order of birth.
Reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, William H. Whitaker
acquired his early education in the public schools of his native
county, and thereafter he attended Wesley College for a period of
three years. He early 'formulated definite plans for his future career,
and in harmony therewith he finally went to the City of Chicago and
entered the law department of Northwestern University. He was
graduated in 1892, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was
forthwith admitted to the bar of his native state. Mr. Whitaker
initiated the practice of his profession at Sullivan, Moultrie County,
where he remained nine years and where he built up a substantial
law business. For two years thereafter he was engaged in practice
in the City of Chicago, and in 1904 he established his residence at
Shelbyville, the judicial center of Shelby County, where he has
gained distinctive success and prestige in the work of his pro-
fession, and where he has been at the head of the representative law
firm of Whitaker, Ward & Pugh since 1913. Mr. Whitaker has ap-
peared in much important litigation in this section of the state and
has established a high reputation for resourcefulness and strength
as an advocate and also as a well fortified counselor. He is now
serving in the office of master in chancery, is a stalwart democrat
in his political allegiance, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity,
including the Ancient Arabic order of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, and is a loyal and public-spirited citizen. In addition to other
interests Mr. Whitaker is identified with the zinc and spar mining
industry, as president of the Hoosier Mining Company, of Indiana.
In the year 1895 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitaker
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to Miss Dode Monroe, daughter of John S. Monroe, of Stillman,
this state, who is now deceased, but whose widow is still living. Mr.
and Mrs. Whitaker have two children, Horace Baird, born in 1896,
and William H., Jr., born in 1900.
FRANK M. RAMEY. Engaged in successful general practice in
the City of Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Mr. Ramey is one of
the able and popular young lawyers of his native county and his
success and prestige are such as to have justified most fully his choice
of vocation.
Mr. Ramey was born in Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois,
on the 23d of September, 1881, and is a son of James T. and Mary
M. (Ammerman) Ramey, both of whom were natives of this state
and representatives of sterling pioneer families. Both passed the
closing years of their lives in Montgomery County, where Mrs.
Ramey was summoned to eternal rest in the year 1906, at the age
of fifty-two years. Her husband attained to the venerable age of
eighty-two years and his death occurred in 1913. James T. Ramey
was a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, as a member
of Company C, Twenty-fifth Illinois Infantry, and he participated in
many important engagements marking the progress of the great con-
flict, including the memorable siege of Vicksburg and many sangui-
nary battles.
Frank M. Ramey, sixth in order of birth in a family of nine
children, attended the public schools until he had completed the
curriculum of the Hillsboro High School, in which he was graduated
as a member of the class of 1900. At Hillsboro he studied law in the
office of the firm of Lane & Cooper, and in the meanwhile he added
to his financial resources and gained valuable experience through
his connection with the Hillsboro Journal, chiefly in an editorial
capacity. He was admitted to the bar in December, 1906, and early
in the following year he initiated the practice of his profession,
to the work of which he came well fortified by natural predilection
and thorough preparation. Mr. Ramey served as city attorney of
Hillsboro from 1907 to 1911, but his private practice now has
reached such compass as to place exigent demands upon his time and
attention, so that he has not appeared as candidate for any other
official preferment. He is a stalwart in the local camp of the repub-
lican party and is a member of the precinct committee of the same
in the ward in which he lives. Mr. Ramey is affiliated with the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal
Order of Eagle's, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Improved Order of
Red Men and the Knights and Ladies of Security. He has high
standing in professional circles and is popular also in social affairs
and coteries, as one of the eligible young bachelors of his native
county.
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JOHN FULLER. Few practitioners of law were better known in
Central Illinois, than the late John Fuller, eminent as a criminal
lawyer and a man of great intellectual force. Equipped by Nature
with talents that insured unusual achievement, he won high position
at the bar and in so honorable a way that he preserved respect and
won personal esteem that was almost universal.
John Fuller was born in Rutledge township, DeWitt County,
Illinois, May 9, 1859, and was the fourth born in a family of ten chil-
dren. His parents were William and Rebecca (Parker) Fuller.
William Fuller was born in Greene County, Pennsylvania, February
19, 1823, and was a son of Daniel and Nancy (Whitlatch) Fuller.
The Whitlatch family came from England, but the Fullers were of
Ireland, where Daniel Fuller, the great-grandfather of John Fuller,
was born, later emigrating and settling in the United States. The
second Daniel Fuller was born in Pennsylvania and William Fuller
was his oldest child. The latter was a farmer and school teacher
in his earlier years. In Madison County, Ohio, he married Rebecca
Parker, a daughter of Soloman Parker. In 1848 William Fuller
came to DeWitt County, and in 1850 was admitted to the bar and
entered upon the practice of law at Clinton. He was. a prominent
democrat, served at one time in the office of internal revenue col-
lector, and in 1854 was elected sheriff of DeWitt County.
Although his father was a man of means and influence, John
Fuller seems to have been the architect of his own fortunes. He
helped his father on the farm and went to the district schools, in
the course of time succeeding in taking a course at the Wesleyan
University at Bloomington, and after seven years of persistent en-
deavor, earning his own way through manual labor on farms, he
reached his goal and in 1891 was graduated from the law department
of this institution. He immediately opened a law office at Clinton and
public confidence in his ability and integrity was shown unmistakably
by his election, in the fall of 1892 to the office of state's attorney,
in which election Grover Cleveland carried the county by twenty-
eight votes, while Mr. Fuller received 151, and at his second election
he had a majority of 161 votes. As state's attorney he proved a
great controlling force and during his administration of the office
a certain lawless element was exterminated from DeWitt County
and communities were saved expense and neighborhoods made safe.
Like other great men, Mr. Fuller took a warm interest in young
men and only his nearest confidential friends ever were permitted