to wait till the Sheriff came, feeling that that official now had command. Seaton and Mitchell advanced toward each other, the former with a drawn revolver, the latter swinging above his head his heavy club. The Sheriff was the first to speak and said: 'Surrender, or I will shoot you.' 'I will never surrender,' replied Mitchell; 'shoot and be damned!' Twice the officer commanded him to surrender, but no attention was paid to the order, and when Mitchell was within a few feet of him the Sheriff fired. The man wavered, but before he could do anything, Holland, who had by this time recovered, rushed upon him and threw him to the ground. A fierce struggle ensued, during which Mitchell succeeded in getting hold of the Sheriff's revolver and tried to wrest it from him. The officer's hand was badly cut, but he managed to hold on to the weapon. Mitchell fought hard, but at last gave up and was sent back to jail.

"Carl meanwhile had taken refuge in a corn-field a little way beyond, and had crouched down, hoping to escape observation. However, it was known that he was there, and Seaton going into the field soon found him and compelled him to surrender.”

Since the spring of 1903 Mr. Seaton has made his home with his daughter, Mrs. Fannie Louise Ives, at Galesburg, Illinois, having permanently retired from business.

CHAPTER XXI.

LEONARD BARNA SEATON, Son of Willard and Mary (Adams) Seaton, was born March 14, 1814, either in Jefferson county, New York, or in Ohio, according to different correspondents. He went to Canada with his father's family "soon after the close of the War of 1812," lived there until about 1830, having married Almira W., daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Sperry) Wing, the latter of whom was a descendant of that Deborah Wing, a widow, who settled at Sandwich, Massachusetts, in 1629. Upon the death of Almira's father, her mother married a second time, her second husband being a Mr. Brisbin. Almira was born at Champlain, Clinton county, New York, April 22, 1817. The family moved to Hope township, Durham county, Ontario, where Almira met her future husband. She died at Aldercoign, Toronto, the residence of her son-in-law, J. H. McNairn, on February 26, 1895, and was buried at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

Leonard Barna Seaton learned the trade of wagon- and carriagemaker at Port Hope, Canada. He worked seven years as an apprentice to learn the business, then some years as a foreman for the man with whom he learned his trade. He moved to Bletcher's Corners in 1838, and finally to Newcastle, in Clark township, where he bought a farm covered with timber. This tract he traded for eight acres in Newcastle, where he built several good houses for that time. He also built quite a large shop and started the manufacture of wagons and buggies on his own account. The business grew steadily for years, until he was possessed of a competency and retired from active business, leasing his shops to two young men who had learned the trade with him.

About the time he quit the business to enjoy the fruits of his labors, his health began to fail. His doctors said he would die of consumption in a short time, but, Seaton-like, he declared he would not die, but would outlive every doctor who said he would

die of consumption. And he did outlive every one of them. After a few years he regained his old-time health, and, with the return of health, his ambition for business returned, and thinking he ought to be doing something, he launched out in the mercantile business and kept what is now denominated a department store, then called general store.

The Grand Trunk Railroad was in course of construction at that time, and business was booming. Like many others, he made plenty of money for a time, but business depression set in, as it is sure to do occasionally, and "down came baby, cradle and all." Mr. Seaton was undismayed, but with indomitable will determined to take Horace Greeley's advice and "go West and grow up with the country." So in 1859 he ticketed to Leavenworth, Kansas; but he remained there only a short time, then went to Plano, Illinois. This was about 1862. In Plano he made some property, not very much, but enough to be getting along nicely. Finally the time came for him to lay his burdens down, and he was summoned home to receive his reward, dying as he had lived, with no murmurings, at Plano, on the 20th of March, 1890. He was a Methodist in religion. In Canada he was a Reformer and in the United States a Republican.

The children of Leonard Barna and Almira (Wing) Seaton were: Sarah Elizabeth, born in Clark township, 3d of February, 1837, died, and was buried in Newcastle in 1847; Mary Elizabeth; Emeline Irene; and Leonard Turner Seaton.

THE CHILDREN OF DANIEL AND AURILLA SEATON.

George Perry Seaton, the eldest child of the family, was named for Mr. George Perry, a merchant who was an intimate friend of the family. George Perry Seaton was a great traveler in his younger years. He contracted the gold fever when only seventeen years of age and went to California, coming back after three years with gold enough to buy and stock a good farm, build a comfortable house and supply himself with many conveniences. His friends then thought he was about to settle down and take unto himself a wife, but a number of his young friends, including his brother John, wanted to visit the land of gold, and desired him to

accompany them; so, after being at home for about a year, he again crossed the desert and the mountains. He put in two years there, and then returned around Cape Horn, having made the first trip across the Rockies and returned by way of the Isthmus of Darien. Going to California so young cut off his studies; so, after his second return, George attended Mount Morris Seminary for another year. He then married and settled down. He had two daughters and a son. The eldest daughter was named Mary and the son Frank, but we have not been advised as to the name of the other daughter nor of the wife.

George was a successful farmer until the end of his life, both he and his wife dying at Flora, Illinois, where it is supposed some of the children may be living.

JOHN HILL SEATON, Son of Daniel and Aurilla, went to California in search of gold, remaining about a year. After his return he remained on the home farm until he was married, when he bought a place in Sandwich, Illinois, but he soon traded his town property for a farm, where he was living at the time of his death. He was named John Hill Seaton, for John Hill, who married Esther Olmstead.

John Hill Seaton had one son, John Channer Seaton, a pharmacist, who resides at Somonauk, Illinois, and who has furnished us quite an amount of copy, but neglected to give his own biography, though asked especially for it;-another example of the extreme modesty of the Seatons when speaking of themselves.

John Channer Seaton was married to Josephine, daughter of Mr. T. J. Phillips, of Newark, Illinois, (where Josephine was born, September 14, 1862,) on her nineteenth birthday. They made their home in Newark and Plano for about six years, then removed to Somonauk in the fall of 1887, where Mr. Seaton has since been in business continuously.

A daughter, Nina Seaton, was vouchsafed to these loving parents, and it is a safe prophecy that she has seldom known an unsupplied want.

Mrs. Seaton had three brothers: Carson E., of Springfield, Missouri; Thomas Leland and Charles B. Phillips, of Aurora,

Illinois; and two sisters, Mrs. Ida R. Flower, of Paw Paw, Michigan, and Mrs. Louise Harding, of Aurora.

Mrs. Seaton was a prominent church worker, and was a member of the Congregational choir for seventeen years. She was also the contralto in the Somonauk Ladies' Quartette, and an active member of the Eastern Star. She died from the effect of a tumor, on November 26, 1904, and the funeral was held at the Congregational Church in Somonauk, Monday, November 28, the Rev. W. L. Lewis officiating. The members of Pearl Chapter, O. E. S., attended the funeral in a body. The remains were interred at Millington Cemetery.

Aurilla Seaton, the eldest daughter, married D. Gardner Cook. They had a son, Willard Cook, who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He married Edith Kisnor, and has two children, Lorie and Harold Cook.

Aurilla Seaton taught school a few summers, the school-house being located on her father's land, only a short distance from the home. She went to spend a summer with her uncles Willard and George Perry, and there met Mr. Cook, who was a maker of wooden pumps and was doing well. They were married, and he built a house and shop in Sandwich, Illinois. Their children were: Willard, born five years after the marriage, and Mary, who was born when her brother was six years old.

After Mrs. Cook died, November 25, 1881, Mr. Cook rented his place in Sandwich, and went back to Red Bank, New Jersey, his old home, where all of his relatives were, stayed ten years, and then returned to Sandwich.

Willard went to Chicago to work when he was old enough, and is a pattern-maker in the McCormick reaper works. He is said to have made all of the models shown by the McCormicks at the Paris Exposition, and is considered a genius at his business.

Mr. D. Gardner Cook died in 1898.

HARRIET LOUISE SEATON married E. K. Freeland, at Sycamore, Illinois, September 18, 1865. Mr. Freeland was born at Newark, New Jersey, in 1840. He is of German descent, and had six sisters and two brothers. Captain A. W. Freeland and John