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Dennis Van Beveren / Vicki Lynne Loveland
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Dennis Van Beveren / Vicki Lynne Loveland
| Husband: Dennis Van Beveren | |||
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| Wife: Vicki Lynne Loveland | |||
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| Name: | Bethany Van Beveren [10291] | ||
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| Name: | Holland Van Beveren [10263] | ||
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| Name: | Seth Van Beveren [10272] | ||
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| Name: | Ann Van Beveren [10257] | ||
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Pedigree Chart for: Dennis Van Beveren
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Pedigree Chart for: Vicki Lynne Loveland
/--Josiah Howe Loveland Sr.
/--Josiah Howe Loveland Jr.
| \--Esther Ada King
/--Odell Cyrus Loveland
| | /--Cyrus Tolman
| \--Nancy Afton Tolman
| \--Eliza Ann Riley
|--Vicki Lynne Loveland
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| /--Benny Richard Branham
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\--Roberta Estelle Branham
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\--Ola May Kelley
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[10287] This person is presumed living.
[11142] This person is presumed living.
[10291] This person is presumed living.
[10263] This person is presumed living.
[10272] This person is presumed living.
[10257] This person is presumed living.
N. Lehner / Irmgard Bremser
| Husband: N. Lehner | |||
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| Wife: Irmgard Bremser | |||
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| Father: | Robert Bremser | ||
| Mother: | Anna Diels | ||
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Pedigree Chart for: N. Lehner
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Pedigree Chart for: Irmgard Bremser
/--Johann Peter (Martin) Bremser
/--Wilhelm August Viktor Bremser
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(--?--) / Experience Root
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| Wife: Experience Root | |||
| Born: | 13 Feb 1723 | at: | Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died: | 2 Mar 1797 | at: | |
| Father: | Joshua Root | ||
| Mother: | Margaret Gilbert | ||
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Pedigree Chart for: Experience Root
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George Luzerne Avery / Miriam Hunter
| Husband: George Luzerne Avery | |||
| Born: | at: | Galesburg, Knox, Illinois, United States | |
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| Father: | Cyrus Minor Avery | ||
| Mother: | Minnie Evalena Bartholemew | ||
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| Wife: Miriam Hunter | |||
| Born: | at: | Chillicothe, Illinois | |
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| Father: | E. F. Hunter | ||
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Pedigree Chart for: George Luzerne Avery
/--William Thomas Avery
/--George M. Avery
| \--Phebe Throop
/--Cyrus Minor Avery
| | /--Aaron Noble Phelps
| \--Seraphina Princess Mary Phelps
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|--George Luzerne Avery
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Pedigree Chart for: Miriam Hunter
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[13823] G.L. Avery occupies a position of leadership as a representative of industrial activity in Peoria, being secretary of the Avery Company, owning and controlling one of the most extensive manufacturing plants in this city. It is true that he entered upon a business already established, but he has contributed to its enlargement and to its successful management and today there is no resident of Peoria who occupies a more honorable or enviable position in trade circles here. He has proven his worth in every connection, has learned the lessons which each day brings and has used the knowledge thus acquired for the furtherance of a business which is a feature in the general prosperity as well as in individual success. Mr. Avery was born in Galesburg, Knox county, Illinois, in 1879, and is descended in the eighth generation from Christopher Avery, the ancestral line being traced down through James, Thomas, Abraham, Nathan, William and George to Cyrus Minor Avery, his father. George Avery was the founder of the family in the west, establishing his home in Galesburg in 1837. There he built the second house in what was then known as Log City, in the midst of a tract that came to be called the Avery farm. He married Saraphena Princess Mary Phelps, who came to the west with her brother and mother, settling in Knoxville, Illinois, where she married Mr. Avery. For many years Mr. Avery continued to engage in general farming but at length retired and took up his abode within the limits of Galesburg, living on North Cherry street. There the fruits of his former toil supplied him with all of the necessities and many of the comforts of life up to the time of his death, which occurred on the first of January, 1884. His wife also died at the Cherry street home. They were members of the First Congregational church, in the work of which they took active and helpful part, Mr. Avery serving as deacon for many years. His political indorsement was given to the republican party. In the family were six children : Robert H., who died September 13, 1892; Mary, the wife of W. R. Butcher, living at 1912, Illinois; John T., who died August, 1905, at Galesburg; Cyrus M. ; Phoebe T., who is living in Biloxi, Mississippi ; and George, also of Biloxi. The first named and his brother, Cyrus M. Avery, uncle and father of our subject, were the founders of the business now conducted under the name of the Avery Company. Cyrus M. Avery was educated in the public schools of Galesburg and Knox College, and after working with his father on the farm for a time engaged in manufacturing. It was early in the 1875 that he joined his brother, Robert Hanneman Avery, in the establishment of a plant for the manufacture of agricultural implements in Galesburg under the style of R. H. & C. M. Avery. They conducted the business there until 1882, when they removed their factory to Peoria. The following year the Avery Planter Company was organized with a capital of two hundred thousand dollars. Ten years afterward the authorized capital was increased to three hundred thousand dollars and in 1900 the name was changed to the Avery Manufacturing Company, at which time the capital stock was increased to one million dollars. After the business was incorporated R. H. Avery became its president and so continued until his death, which occurred on the 13th of September, 1892. At that time C. M. Avery, who was vice president, succeeded to the presidency and remained at the head of the business until his death. From the time of the removal of the plant to Peoria he divided his time between that city and Galesburg. In the latter he was married, October 4, 1877, to Miss Minnie Evalena Bartholomew, who was born at Elmwood, Illinois, February 25, 1856, and is a daughter of Luzerne and Sarah Elvira (Payne) Bartholomew. They became the parents of five children: Elvira Princess, born September 25, 1878; George Luzerne; Grace Ophelia, born October 8, 1883; Harriette, June 20, 1886; and Cyrus Minor, May 29, 1899. The mother is still a resident of Galesburg but the father died on the 15th of September, 1905. He occupied a most honored and prominent position in the business circles of the city and his son. G. L. Avery, has followed in his footsteps. The latter was largely reared in Peoria but was graduated from Knox College at Galesburg in 1902. He has since been connected with the Avery Company and is today occupying an executive position as its secretary. After his graduation in 1902 he became connected with the business, as private secretary to his father, who was then president of the company, and following his father's demise was appointed secretary and also was made one of the directors of the company. His associate officers are : J. B. Bartholomew, president ; H. C. Roberts, vice president ; and Ellwood Cole, treasurer. The first two have been connected with the company for thirty-three consecutive years and the last named for three years, so that the different officers are thoroughly acquainted with their departments of the business. The plant of the Avery Company covers a total of twenty-seven and five-hundredths acres and the main factory building, together with the various warehouses, have a total floor space of six and a half acres. The various departments of the factory are united by an improved type of trolley system of the company's manufacture which greatly facilitates the rapid handling of both finished and unfinished goods at a minimum of expense. That harmonious and notable relations exist between the company and its employes is indicated by the fact that labor troubles are unknown in their factory. The company manufactures steam and gasoline traction engines, self-lift plows, traction steam shovels, traction hauling wagons, threshing machinery and all its various attachments, mounted steel water tanks, farm wagons, corn planters, riding and walking cultivators, single and double row stalk cutters and gasoline tracts - both farm and city. Their output is sent to all parts of the country and into foreign lands as well. They have branch houses located at Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Grand Forks and Fargo, North Dakota, and Aberdeen, South Dakota. They have a large traveling force upon the road and their Canadian trade is handled from Winnipeg. Their foreign shipments go to Mexico, Argentine Republic, Brazil, Russia. Austria-Hungary, the Philippines, Portugal, China, Sweden, Cuba and Egypt. The foreign trade gives an outlet for much machinery at a time when the shipping season for the home trade is lightest. The officials of the company work together in the utmost harmony and their relation is one of close social as well as business interests. Mr. Avery was united in marriage to Miss Miriam Hunter, of Chillicothe, Illinois, a daughter of E. F. Hunter, and theirs is one of the attractive and hospitable homes of the city. Mr. Avery belongs to the Creve Coeur Club and is recognized aside from other connections already mentioned as a citizen of worth, cooperating heartily and generously in support of many projects which have constituted valuable features in the city's growth and improvement. He is a broad and liberal-minded man of progressive spirit, keeping in touch with the tendency of the times and always holding to the high standards which have made the name of Avery the synonym not only for enterprise but for incorruptible integrity in business circles. -- Rice, James Montgomery, "Peoria City and County, Illinois: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement." S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1912. p. 182.
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