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J. Hartsell Puterbaugh, who has long been known more familiarly by the abbreviated personal name of Harts, gained his early education in the schools of Tazewell County, was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, and he eventually became a successful grower of and dealer in live stock, a line of enterprise in which he was associated with his brother Jacob during a period of fully thirty years, the two brothers having developed also a substantial business in the buying and shipping of grain at Mackinaw.
Mr. Puterbaugh became one of the directors of the' old Porter & Puterbaugh Bank, and later became a stockholder in the Mackinaw State Bank, with which he continued his association during the remainder of its business activity, he having become also a stockholder in the First National Bank of Mackinaw. He is a loyal supporter of the cause of the republican party, and he and his wife are earnest members of the Christian Church at Mackinaw. Among the noteworthy achievements in which Mr. Puterbaugh has played a leading part was the reclaiming of Spring Lake in Tazewell County. He was one of the eight men who financed this immense project and brought from the waters of that swamp region 12,000 acres of productive land in the fertile valley of the Illinois River, southwest of Pekin, the region having been redeemed into one of the fine grain districts of this section of Illinois.
January 18, 1877, recorded the marriage of Mr. Puterbaugh and Miss Mary Porter, who was born at Mackinaw, in a house adjacent to that in which she now resides, June 7, 1857, and who is a daughter of John H. Porter, an honored and influential representative of one of the sterling pioneer families of Tazewell County.
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Mr. and Mrs. Puterbaugh have two children: Ethel is the wife of Claude Sparks, of Mackinaw, and they have one child, Dorothy. Ralph Puterbaugh, who continues to reside in Mackinaw, married Stella Speed, _ and they have two children, Doreen and Lucile.
Within recent years Mr. and Mrs. Puter- baugh have indulged in much travel. They have visited the various states of the West and South, have covered both coasts, as well as the interior of Mexico, and have made a close study of natural phenomena, the while they have' collected an extensive assemblage of geological and zoological specimens, as well as handicraft of the natives or American
desert regions. Reptiles from the smallest creeping snake to the alligator; birds of plumage, from equatorial regions; fur-bearing and other animals, duly given over to the taxidermist for preservation; case upon case of minerals and other valuable specimens are to be found exhibited in the attractive home of Mr. Puterbaugh at Mackinaw. Every winter the Puterbaugh family visits either Florida or California, and in each of those states Mr. Puterbaugh gives much time to hunting and fishing, his predilection for which may have been inherited from his father, who was a mighty hunter in his day.
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1848 - 1941 (92 years)