Attorney and once a State Legislator. There were at least two other Joseph Hammers. Joseph S. finally owned 440 acres in Section 14 of Greene Twp. and lived near the center of the south side of that section.

HAMMERS, Joseph T. Jr. – A justice of the Peace in Greene Twp. in 1852-3. It was possibly this Joseph Hammers who purchased the SW 1/4 of Section 11 on November 8, 1855.

HAMMERS, Joseph T. Sr. and Phoebe T. – From Greene County in Pennsylvania, settling in Greene Twp. about 1850. There were two other Joseph Hammers. Joseph T. Sr. patented his first land in Section 21 on June 12, 1851.

HAMMERS, M. B. – Born in Metamora area in 1838, probably a son of Jesse Hammers, who came into Woodford County in 1835. We find M. B. Hammers acquiring a total of 525 acres of land in Greene Twp. Sections 21, 22 and 28, his home being at the road crossing in the middle of Section 28.

HAMMERS, Samuel and Melissa – Lived in Greene Twp. with the other members of this family probably as early as 1850, when he patented the W 1/2 SE 1/4 of Section 14 in Greene Twp. on July 1, 1850.

HANNA, J. H. and Eliza Fishburn – J. H. Hanna was born 1-9-31 and died 5-7-85. Eliza was born in 1837 and died in 1908.

HANNA, O. D. and Ann – O. D. Hanna was the first Assessor in Greene Twp. in 1855. He sold SW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 22 on December 4, 1854.

HANNAH, Joseph J. and H. S. – Lived in or near El Paso in 1858. They buried a son in Evergreen who died April 26, 1858. Joseph Hannah's name is on Methodist Church books of Panola-El Paso Circuit in 1858. He served on Panola Twp.'s first board of highway commissioners in 1855.

HARPER, James M. – Came from Indiana in 1854 with William W. Harper, and settled in Harper's Grove, later in El Paso, where he became an early manufacturer.

HARPER, John T. – John was born near Lafayette, Indiana, November 20, 1840, and died in El Paso on February 5, 1878 at the age of only 38. He came to Illinois in 1854 with his father, William W. Harper, pioneer of Harper's Grove west of Panola. He was a teacher, lawyer, and soldier member of Company G., 4th Illinois Cavalry, many of whose members were recruited by him. He was a Lieutenant, and was brevetted a Lieutenant Colonel after the battle of Shiloh. A graduate of Chicago Law School, he set up legal offices in El Paso in 1865 after the war, and for a time had a partnership with Robert G. Ingersoll of Peoria and J. J. Cassell of Metamora, who moved to El Paso. He was a prominent charter member of GAR Post named for S. T. Rogers. He founded the El Paso Journal on April 5, 1865, but soon sold it, devoting his time exclusively to his law practice. He was one of the defense counsel in the Kingston manslaughter trial.

HARPER, William W. and Sarah J. – William was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia, March 16, 1815, and died near El Paso on September 7, 1887. He came into Harper's Grove in 1854 from Indiana, after buying the SW ¼ of Section 36 in Greene Twp. on August 12, 1853. There he eventually accumulated 600 acres, and Harper's Cemetery is named for him although there were burials in it twelve years before his arrival. He was one of the first Police Magistrates of Greene Twp. after it was formed in 1855, the other being Benjamin Sample. He was the father of John T. Harper, noted El Paso teacher, lawyer, and soldier.

HARSEIM, Rudolph and Katharina – Early Secor area residents. Rudolph was born May 8, 1830 and died December 21, 1905. Katharina lived from 1836 to 1921.

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