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CHAS. A. R0WE TAKEN BY DEATH
     Very Successful Jacksonville Farmer Was Foremost in Farm Organization Service.
     RECALLING HIS LARGE WORK
     Charles A. Rowe, prominent farmer just northwest of Jacksonville, died, Tuesday evening after a long illness. He was president of the Illinois Association ft Mutual Insurance companies, and his fellow officer, Vice President S. B. Mason of Bloomington and Secretary Charles Holz of Buckley, will go to Jacksonville Friday to attend the funeral at 2 p. m. Rev. W. E. Keenan of Bloomington, a personal friend, will also attend the funeral.
     Mr. Rowe was one of the foremost men in the state in working out practical farm improvement, in cooperating with the U. of I. college of agriculture, and in serving the various organizations of farmers. He was 62 years of age at the time of his death, and from the first annual winter gatherings at th U. of I. college of agriculture, Urban, 30 years ago, he attended the sessions and was one of the first group of corn judges that helped conduct those short courses.
     Serving the People.
     The Jacksonville Journal says of Mr. Rowe: "He was one of the frst farmers in Morgan county to carry on agriculture on a scientific basis. For years he has been known as a grower of fine seed corn, and he has not only provided many bushels of first class seed corn for Morgan county fields but his advice given in lectures and demonstrations at public meetings throughout a long period of years has resulted In the growing of other fine grain in the county and state.
     "As he gained knowledge of farming, particularly corn growing, be applied his knowledge to good advantage and was considered one of the county's most prosperous farmers.
     "Mr. Rowe also found time along with his many farming duties to devote some attention to civic and church affairs.
     He was a faithful member of the Ebenezer M. E. church and was always active in its welfare. He was often called on to sing at funerals and always gave of his service gladly. He was a member of the church choir for several years. He was a close student of the Bible and was able to quote many passages from memory."
     Charles A. Rowe has been personally known to the agricultural editor of The Dally Pantagraph for many years. He was a very modest man and a grant student of his business, and wall liked by all who knew him. a most careful, conscientious and useful citizen, widely known.
     The Rowe Farm Plan.
     Mr. Rowe's father, W. H. Rowe, developed a very intelligent and successful system of farming, scarcely improved upon by the latest methods studied and recommended today. He divided the 80 acres of tillable land in his 120-acie farm into four equal fields, and followed a four-year rotation. One of those fields was in clover pasture every year, and pigs were raised in the clover; the next year the clover and pigs were in another field. Sow and pigs occupied the same field only once in four years. The simplest movable equipment was used, and great pains taken with every detail of the work.
     The business prospered so that a second, a third, and as the writer remembers, a fourth small farm was purchased and all operated separately on the same plan. Seed corn and hogs have been the principal products. The Rowe farm, its methods and results, have been written up several times in this paper, beginning about 2$ year ago.
     Subject of U. 8. Bulletin. When knowledge of this very economical and successful plan came to the attention of the U. S. department of agriculture. W. J. Splllman published an illustrated bulletin upon the Rowe farm. In careful practice, Mr. Rowe had hit upon nearly all the essentials of the McLean county system or hog sanitation, which was developed here 25 or 30 years later and is the best system known to agriculture today.
     Charles 9. (sic) Rowe grew up in this work with his father and continued it after the later's death several years ago. The Rowe's grew soybean for pig feed 20 year or more ago.
     Most Valuable Leaders.
     These men, father and son, represented the best farm life and citizenship we have today. They were thoroughly intelligent, studious of all Items and developments in their field, seeking for practical knowledge everywhere it could be found, economic and thrifty, but liberal in carrying anything they knew to thousands of their fellows. They were all around men and pioneers in the best farming and wholesome rural life Their work and influence is deeply interwoven with the very best of Illinois agriculture.³

Farmer Charles Rowe Leaves to Passavant His $200,000 Estate
     The Daily Pantagraph recorded the recent death of Charles A. Rowe, Jacksonville farmer, prominent as a seed corn student and grower and hog raiser, closely identified with the winter short courses at the U. of I. college of agriculture for more than 30 years and widely known for his work in agriculture.
     Mr. Rowe left an estate of about $250,000 and by his will four-fifths of this goes to the Passavant Memorial hospital, Jacksonville. He also gave $10,000 to the Illinois college at Jacksonville; $5,000 to the Woman's college of that city; $1,200 to Ebenezer Methodist church; $10,000 to Chadduck school for boys at Quincy; and $5,000 to the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. Small sums were bequeathed to friends and relatives. It is provided that after the several sums named are paid, all the rest and residue of his estate shall go to the Passavant hospital as a memorial to his father and mother, William H. and Nancy E. Rowe. The will also specified that any final remaining portions of small sums left in trust to individuals shall go to the hospital, which is named as his residuary legatee.
     Rowe "Lived For Community"
     The Jacksonville Daily Journal says in an editorial: "Charles A. Rowe has left the bulk of his large estate to educational or philanthropic purposes. The terms of the will give abundant proof of Mr. Rowe's belief that man is but a steward of the possessions that may come into his hands. Certainly he (sic) was a faithful stewardship.
     "Mr. Rowe lived plainly and unselfishly. His accumulations came partially through inheritance but in a large measure as a result of intelligence, industry and economy.
     "the will reveals that after all this citizen lived for the community and certainly the generosity displayed in the estate instrument has builded an imperishable monument. Mr. Rowe has made it possible for Passavant hospital to continue and expand the splendid service for humanity in which the institution has engaged for so many years."
     Figure It Up
Such was the man, Charles A. Rowe, ever studious of his business, ever ready to impart to others any helpful information, always energetic in his own work and a worker with his fellows in several fields of service. Yes, he "lived for the community;" and the total of his life work and the property he left to go on working for many years to come--These are things to ponder. One man can go far when he trains all his powers steadfastly upon a definite high goal.
     A.J.B.²

Among the first unexpected guests of my early home life on the Jackson Hill was an urgent call from Elizabethtown, Hamilton Co., OH. "Come over and get us." This was my first meeting with Bertha Belle Miller Guard (b.1869), Eva Mae Miller DeHart (b.1874), and Lou Ella Miller Irvin (b.1879) and their children. Ruth Alma Guard (b.1898) was a very pretty young teenager, too fat to run; then the two Irvin girls: Dorthy Bell (b.1903), perhaps also a little too plump, a blond; and her sister, Gladys (b.1899), an exceedingly lovely vivacious brunette; then the son Lowell M. (b.1899) of Eva and Allen DeHart (b.1870), a young slender lad. He and Gladys led in the race and these lively youngsters romped and played around and around the big house which today we know as the "House on the Hill."
     The fun began because there were too many for the spring wagon. The young man of the house met the situation by hitching the farm team to the hay wagon with a generous supply of hay to make it comfortable.
     Floyd Stanley Jackson (b.1881) started to E-Town in high glee to pick up his beloved cousins, the children of Father Jackson’s (John Harrison Jackson b. 1854) oldest sister, Margaret E. Jackson Miller (1843-1882). This was the first and only time I ever saw Bertha Miller Guard as she died early in her married life, as did her sister, Goldie Miller Sanders (1871-1903), mother of Vena Sanders Brown. How did I get onto this gloomy side of the picture? For this was indeed a happy party.
     It did not take a nice car or a fine home to have fun. I don’t know what I cooked, but I remember I did freeze ice cream and had the big table set; a little black cook stove, a big wooden box for a table or a large cabinet a very large one; I expect 4 X 6 with an oil cloth on top and I had to almost crawl inside to reach things to cook in, a curtain tacked across the front and the floors were covered with rag carpets.
     Another of my very early getting acquainted with my new relatives was in the fall of 1908 - the evening Mabel Grubbs and John Liddle were to be married. Mabel was very very dear to me. She was like a doll; the little sister of my very dearest school mate and seat mate and I had been in their home so much during our school days. Then in 1899, when Stella Grubbs was eighteen years old, “Angie” the lovely mother, was taken by death.
     Word had come that Aunt Mary Isabell Jackson James (b.1851) and Uncle Charlie W. James from Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL. were coming to visit us on the noon train. I was very upset. I wanted so much to go to Mabel’s "Chivalry." Father, John Harrison Jackson, came home with empty seats, his sister and husband were not on the train; I was hilariously happy. There was another train at the Lawrenceburg Junction at 4 o’clock and Father had gone to meet that. I was sitting on the step where I could see the gate which led from the last bend of the road and turned into the yard. I was putting on my Sunday stockings which were neither silk or rayon and my Sunday shoes. Even with all my wistful thinking, I kept my eyes on the winding road and this time the seats were filled; really filled! Aunt Mary was large, I expect 200 lbs., but Uncle Charlie James weighed between 400 and 500 lbs.
     Nora Jackson never really swore. I did, however, say "gog-on-it" but I loved Aunt Mary, she was understanding. That word can mean so much, especially to a young wife who had come into a home where there was so much work. (During my young life on a farm I never did understand why my mother had to work all day. I would say, "Can’t you take the afternoon off?" but the most I remember, my Mother would wash her face, comb her hair smoothly back, put on a light clean wrapper, and lie down on the simple lounge for fifteen minutes.)
     To get back to my story, I will mention three things: Father, Aunt Mary, Uncle Charlie and myself, went to a funeral at Bright (I don’t remember whose). Father drove with the whip in his hands, and except for up and down the hills, the horses were kept trotting. Aunt Mary said “that is exactly like my father, the horses never dared walk; he was always in a hurry.” We did not tarry after the services. Dear Aunt Mary said, “I can see how much work you have waiting to be done at home.” Then the rest of the day she spent with me. After changing our Sunday best to a house dress, she followed me to the cellar where she chatted while I worked and patted the butter milk out and smoothed the sweet delicious butter. Then at supper, she bragged about my pumpkin pies; she always thought pumpkin had to be cooked hours. She said “Now Charlie, this pumpkin Nora didn’t cook very long at all and these pies are so good.” Now do you see why I loved Aunt Mary James? She too was a very pretty woman. Uncle Charlie would walk up and down the road fast just for exercise, and they broke the bed down. After all, there was over 600 lbs. of them to like or dislike and I liked them or her. I should say very very much They had two sons, Clifford (b.1875) and Loyd N. Jackson (b.1874).
     As I reminisce, I recall Aunt Nancy E. Jackson Rowe (1844-1911). I too saw her only once. She came to our wedding on September 5, 1906. I really saw her to remember at the breakfast table at my husband’s home on September 7th. I felt rather shy of her. She was not pretty like plump Aunt Mary; she was tall and proud, rather haughty, much given to boast. She married William H. Rowe, who was raised by the Blasdel family in the New Alaces community. They went to Jacksonville, Morgan Co., IL. to live and they had only one son, Charlie. Uncle Will became quite wealthy for that day. Charlie Rowe (1866-1928) never married. He was worth $160,000 when he died in 1928. Our grandfather clock came from his estate.⁹

Sergeant Ronald Eugéne McKean
Collingwood Police Service
Ontario
End of Watch: Wednesday, October 12, 1977
Cause: Gunfire

Biographical Info
Age: 33
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available

Sergeant McKean and fellow officer Constable Clifford Lippsett were on routine patrol. When they checked a location in front of a downtown hotel a shot rang out killing Sergeant McKean.

Collingwood Police and the Ontario Provincial Police had the area closed off and were searching for suspects.

An escaped convict from Collins Bay maximum security penitentiary, who was serving time for armed robbery was charged and convicted of the crime.

Sergeant McKean was a native of Collingwood had been with the town police for 11 years. He had served with the Metropolitan Toronto Police before returning to Collingwood 48 kilometres southeast of Owen Sound.

Sergeant McKean is survived by his wife and 3 children.⁸

Survivor(s): Margaret Lambert. Predeceased: Alta Loyd.³