Lemuel Arnold

Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Peoria County, 1902
Transcribed by Diane Minor!

Banker: Monica, Princeville Township, born on the border line between Texas and Indian Territory near Fort Townson December 5, 1837. He is the eldest son of Peter and Lydia (Chapman) Auten. He was educated in the public schools in private schools at Elmwood, Henry and Farmington, Illinois and at Union College, Schenectady, New York. He owns a farm near Princeville but resides in Monica. He has charge of the branch bank in that village of Auten & Auten of Princeville. He married Esther R. Cutter a native of New Hampshire on April 8, 1863. To them were born seven children as follows: Edith Robah born March 16, 1864 graduate of Peoria High School is the wife of James Corney of Jubilee Township; Maria Emily born February 8, 1867 graduate of Louisville (Ky.) Kindergarten Training School wife of Chris W. Fry of Peoria has one son, Paul Auten; Andrew born January 3, 1869 is a graduate of Princeville Academy 1891 later a student at Bussey Institution, Agricultural School of Harvard University now a landscape gardener residing at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, married Alice M. Coe and has one son George C; Laura born August 6, 1871 graduate of Princeville Academy 1893 of Oberlin College, Physical Culture Course, 1895 a teacher for three years at Walpole, Massachusetts, wife of W. L. Tambling of Chicago and has one son Robert Leicester; Anna Rebekah born October 11, 1873 graduate of Princeville Academy 1891 and of Oberlin College, 1896 a teacher for three years in Princeville Academy since then in Huguenot Seminary, Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa; Julia Cutter, born December 19, 1878 graduate of Princeville Academy 1896 now studying voice and piano in Boston; Esther Hall, born April 23, 1881 graduate of Princeville Academy 1900 two years in Bradley Polytechnic Institute Peoria and now in Oberlin College, Ohio. Partly from a desire to have a good school at home for his children, Mr. Auten assisted materially in maintaining the second Princeville Academy. Mr. Auten held the office of Justice of the Peace in Akron Township for one term and frequently declined that and other offices. He votes the Prohibition ticket and Mrs. Auten is an active W.C.T.U. worker and State office. While residing on the farm they were members of the Princeville Presbyterian Church. For more than twenty years beginning in 1870 Mr. Auten was a Ruling Elder and a large part of that time Clerk of the Session; he also served at different times as Trustee, Treasurer and Secretary in the same church. On the removal to Monica there being no Presbyterian Church there he and Mrs. Auten united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of that place. He is a class-leader a Trustee of the Oak Hill Camp Meeting Association and has held various other offices in his church.

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