Matt E. Mason was the son of Norwegian immigrants, Edward and Catherine Mason who moved to the United States in 1849. According to U.S. census records, Matt was born in April of 1849 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the eldest of five children. He had...
Emma Jane Cook Davis (aka Jennie C. Davis, aka J.C. Davis, aka Mrs. Herbert Benton Davis) was born on October 17, 1851 in White Pigeon, Michigan. Davis lived in various locations growing up. At the age of four, her family moved to Iowa. When she...
Leonard John Rose was born in Bavaria, Germany in 1827. His family moved to the United States in 1839, where they lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and then moved to Waterloo, Illinois. Rose attended Shurtliff College in Alton, Illinois. He became a...