Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Drew, Charles E May 5, 1859 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 20, 2006, 7:49 am

Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Drew, Charles E. – A citizen whose activities in business life have added 
materially to the commercial prestige of Grundy County, Ill., is Charles E. 
Drew, of the firm of Hargreaves & Drew, who are proprietors of elevators at 
South Wilmington and Gardner, and deal extensively in grain and livestock.  
His career has been one of persevering effort, and the success which he has 
attained has come through the medium of his own industry, integrity and 
inherent business ability.  He was born at Naperville, Du Page County, Ill., 
May 5, 1859, and is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Chilners) Drew, natives of 
England.  Thomas Drew was born in 1833, and as a youth of nineteen years 
emigrated to the United States, settling in Du Page County, Ill., where he was 
engaged in farming until his retirement, in 1896.  At that time he located in 
Emington, Ill., and has since remained at that place, with the exception of a 
short period of 1912, when with his son, Charles E., he visited the scenes of 
his boyhood days in his native land.  Mrs. Drew died in 1908, and was laid to 
rest in the Emington cemetery.  She and her husband were the parents of six 
children:  Charles E.; Wesley R.; Harry; Caroline, who is the wife of George 
E. Hargreaves; Mrs. Alice Robinson, and one child who died in infancy.

Charles E. Drew was reared to agricultural pursuits, spending the summer 
months in assisting his father on the home farm, while the winter terms were 
passed in acquiring an education in the district schools.  When he reached the 
age of nineteen years, he began to learn the butcher business, in which he was 
engaged for many years, gaining therein an enviable reputation as a business 
man.  On October 15, 1906, Mr. Drew came to Gardner, and here, in partnership 
with George E. Hargreaves, he formed the firm of Hargreaves & Drew.  This 
venture has proven very satisfactory to both partners, and the business has 
grown to such an extent that it now operates a branch at South Wilmington.  
Mr. Drew is a man of great quickness of perception, business capacity and 
judgment, and is thoroughly relied upon by those who have had business 
transactions with him.  He has cared little for the struggles of the political 
arena aside from taking a good citizen’s interest in his community’s welfare, 
but supports Republican candidates and principles.  Fraternally, he has 
numerous friends in the local lodges of the Masons and the Modern Woodmen of 
America.

While a resident of Livingston County, Ill., Mr. Drew was married to his 
former schoolteacher, Miss Emily Judson Clark, born in January, 1859, of 
LaSalle County, Ill., December 13, 1882.  Six children have been born to this 
union:  Mabel Rosella Hulva, who is now deceased; Cyrus, who is in business 
with his father; Mildred, at home; Hazel, who is deceased; Ellsworth, and one 
who died in infancy.  With his family, Mr. Drew attends the Presbyterian 
Church.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p805

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/drew199nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 3.6 Kb