NECROLOGIST'S REPORT Members of the Illinois State Historical Society Who Have Died During the Year, January 24, 1906 to January 24, 1907. JOSEPH MERRICK BUSH. Joseph Merrick Bush was born January 16, 1822, in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and died at Pittsfield, Illinois, June 14, 1906. Joseph Merrick Bush, editor and proprietor of the Pike County Democrat, was born Jan. 16, 1822, in Pittsfield, Berkshire county, Mass.; graduated at Williams' College (Mass.) in 1838, and removed the same fall to Pittsfield, Pike county, Ill., where he has ever since resided. He was admitted to the bar, and in 1848 he married the daughter of John U. Grimshaw, and devoted most of his time to farming up to 1865, when he purchased and took the control of the Democrat. He afterwards held the office of State Senator, United States Commissioner for the Southern district of Illinois, master in chancery, president of the board of education, Pittsfield, president Pike County Agricultural Society, and took an active interest in all measures looking to the advancement of the public interest. JACOB SCHNECK, M. D. Jacob Schneck was born near New Harmony, Posey county, Indiana, Dec. 11, 1843, and died at Mt. Carmel, Illinois, Dec. 18, 1906. John F. Schneck, the father of Dr. Jacob Schneck, was born in Germany, August 23, 1812. In 1839 he emigrated to America and settled in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and there remained until 1843, when he removed west to Indiana, and settled at New Harmony, in Posey county. He married Miss Elizabeth Burkhart, of Lancaster, Pa., January 26, 1843. She was a native of Alsace, then a province of France, born in 1823, but was only seven years of age when her parents emigrated to America, and settled near Millerstown in the above named county and state. Jacob, the subject of this sketch, was the eldest of the family of John F. and Elizabeth Schneck. He was reared upon the farm, and received a fair education in the schools of his native county. He remained at home until soon after the breaking out of the civil war, when, on the 13th day of November, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company E of the 60th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was captured while on the skirmish line at the battle of Jackson, which occurred a few days after the fall of Vicksburg. He was paroled and sent north. Owing to some irregularity in the exchange, he failed to be exchanged regularly, therefore did not rejoin his command, but re-enlisted, entering the naval service at Brooklyn, New York. The date of the latter enlistment was May 18, 1864. He was assigned to duty on a vessel that had a roving commission, and whose chief duty it was to watch and capture blockade He was subsequently assigned to duty on the Metacomet, and took part in the naval campaign off Mobile and at Fort Morgan and Spanish Fort. He was mustered out and discharged from the service at Philadelphia, May 31, 1865. He returned home, and feeling the necessity of having a better education went to school and spent some time in the academy at Owensville, fitting himself for the profession of teaching. In 1867 he went to Olney, in Richland county, Illinois, and taught school, and while there concluded to enter the profession of medicine. He commenced the study under the direction of Dr. Goslin, of Olney. The next year he came to Mt. Carmel, taught school and continued his studies under Dr. William Graham. In the winter of 1868-69 he took a course in the Chicago Medical College. His money being exhausted, he was compelled to go back to teaching, by |