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FREDERICK SCHRIEBER, who is numbered among the honored pioneer settlers of Randolph County, located here in 1837, more than half a century ago. He at once took up land from the Government and began the development of a farm. With the history of frontier days he was familiar, and the hardships and trials of pioneer life were known to him through experience. He was a man of an industrious and enterprising disposition, and through his untiring labors he developed a fine farm, continuing its cultivation until his death, in September, 1867. He left a widow and five children. The former afterward became the wife of his brother, Charles Schrieber. The members of the family are, Fritz, who now resides in Washington County; Henry, who is also living in Washington County; Charles W., the third in order of birth; William, who makes his home in this county, and Ed, who is also living in Washington County.

Charles W. Schrieber was born on the old homestead farm in 1854, there spent the days of his boyhood and youth, and has made it his home since attaining to years of maturity. It is therefore doubly dear to him. In the common schools of the neighborhood he acquired a good education, which well fitted him for the practical duties of life. After his father’s death, when the estate was settled up, he received the old homestead of two hundred and forty acres as his share of the property and has since here carried on general farming. In connection with this he has a general merchandise store in Prairie and is doing a good business along that line.

In 1882 was celebrated the marriage of Charles W. Schrieber and Miss Annie Sawyer. One child graced their union, Ida. The mother was laid to rest in 1887, and Mr. Schrieber afterward married Miss Mary Goetting, by whom he has one child, Stalla.

In politics our subject has followed in the political footsteps of his father and is a stanch Democrat. He takes an active part in local politics and does all in his power to insure the success and promote the growth of his party. Public spirited and progressive, he manifests a commendable interest in everything that pertains to the welfare of the community and is ever found in the front ranks of those enterprises which are calculated for public advancement. Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and the community in which his entire life has been passed finds in him a worthy and valued citizen and one who has the high regard of all with whom business or social relations have brought him in contact.

JAMES H. MORELAND, a prosperous agriculturist and successful stock-raiser, residing upon one of the best farms in township 5, range 6, Randolph County, is the proprietor of two hundred and forty acres of land. He is the son of James Moreland, who was born in the North of Ireland in 1787, and when a young man accompanied his father to America, landing in New York City. Upon locating in Greene County, Ohio, he purchased sixty acres of land, on which he continued to reside until 1833. In that year he came to Randolph County and made his home on section 3, township 5, range 6, where he died in 1848. In Ireland he followed the trade of a weaver, but after coming to the United States he engaged in farming.

The paternal grandfather of our subject, William Moreland, was also a native of the Emerald Isle, and upon coming to America with his son, located in the Buckeye State, where he remained until death. Mrs. Elizabeth (Killough) Moreland, the mother of our subject, was born in the Abbeyville District, S. C., and at the death of her mother removed with her father to Ohio. Her parents were William and Elizabeth Killough, natives of South Carolina and of English descent. She was married to James Moreland in 1816, and by him became the mother of eleven children, of whom Sarah, Mary Ann, James Killough, Thomas and Lydia A. (Mrs. Elliott) are deceased. Those living besides our subject are Amelia, Mrs. David Tweed, of Sparta; William G., who makes his home in Page County, Iowa; John L., a retired farmer in Kansas City, Mo.; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Dickey, a farmer of Kansas; and Margaret, the wife of Theron McLean, who resides in Sparta.

James H. Moreland was born in September, 1838, in Randolph County, and was given a good education in the district schools. After the decease of his father he remained at home with his mother until her death, and was only sixteen years of age when he took charge of the home farm. In 1861 he joined the Union army, enlisting in Company C, Thirtieth Illinois Infantry, under Capt. James C. Wilson. His first engagement was at Britain Lane, where one hundred and eighty-nine Confederates and two Union soldiers were killed. The last battle in which he participated was that of Atlanta. During his entire period of service he was neither wounded nor taken prisoner.

When mustered out of service, in December, 1864, at Savannah, Ga., young Moreland returned home and located upon the place which is his present home. The lady whom he married January 1, 1878, was Miss Nellie E., daughter of John K. and Elizabeth (Gillespie) Burke. Mrs. Moreland is a native of this county, while her parents were born in South Carolina and were of English descent. To our subject and his wife were born six children, of whom two died in infancy. Effie is a student in the schools of Sparta; Ida, William and Bessie are at home.

In his political relations our subject is a stanch Republican and takes a leading part in local matters. He was elected County Commissioner in 1891, and is recognized as one of the foremost citizens of his township. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church and are ever ready to assist in the religious work for the benevolent enterprises of the vicinity.