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Title: History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Raum, Green B. (Green Berry), 1829-1909
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S.)
Publisher: Chicago, Rollins Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e or more menas clergymen in the Baptist faith, and one, Dr. Jonathan Going, was Presidentof Granville College, O. His mother, whose maiden name was Mary A. Clen-dening, was of Scotch-Irish extraction, her father having been a prominent pio-neer local minister of the Methodist faith. Three of her brothers became min-isters of high standing in Rock River Conference of the Methodist church. During his early life upon the farm young Going attended the district schoolduring the winter months. In 1869 the father died, and the care and trainingof the family of two girls and three boys fell upon a devoted mother who neverwavered in her duty, but taught them lessons of industry, perseverance andhonesty which have been the stepping stones to their success in life. In theAutumn of 1873 the family removed to Chicago, where young Going attendedthe public schools, working as occasion offered at any honest employment, andwhere he put into practice the lessons he had learned in early youth. Then 472
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il^fe^ 473 when barely in his teens he taught a country school, for a year afterwards wasclerking for a dry-goods merchant of Warren, 111., and burned the midnight oil- ach advantage that he was able to enter the University of Illinois at Cham-paign, in 1877. Under the magnetic influence of that eminent educator and dis-tinguished publicist. Dr. John M. Gregory, who was president of that institu-tion. Mr. Goings mind took a decided impetus forward, and his career as astudent was a most laudable one. However, his university course was inter-rupted, only to be renewed in 1881. when he returned from teaching the youngidea, to resume his studies. He was graduated in the class of 1883. The fol-lowing September he entered the Union College of Law in Chicago, and wasgraduated in June. 1885. Immediately afterward he opened a law office, andlater he was appointed justice of the peace by Gov. Richard J. Oglesby. Hewas appointed to succeed himself, but within a month resigned to accept theoffice

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