Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Pease, Capt Havilah 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Capt. Havilah Pease, weighmaster of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway 
elevator at Fulton, Ill. The elevator was built in 1866, and has a storing 
capacity of 65,000 bushels of grain. It is operated by an engine of 100-horse 
power. Mr. Pease has held his present position since the completion of the 
elevator in 1867. He was born at Albion, Kennebec Co., Me., April 18, 1825, 
and is the son of Seba and Mary C. (Ripley) Pease. He was brought up on a farm 
and removed with his parents to Rockland, Knox Co., Me. When 21 years old he 
went to sea engaging in the New York, West India, European and coast trade. He 
was made master and sailed as such in the American coasting trade till the 
breaking out of the late war, when he enlisted, in April, 1861, as a private 
of Co. B, 4th Maine Vol. Inf., and served in the Army of the Potomac. He 
participated in the following named battles and skirmishes: First Bull Run, 
siege of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Peach Orchard, White Oak Swamp, 
Glendale, Malvern Hill, Mouth of the Monocacy, Fredericksburg, battle of 
Chancellorville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, Kelly's Ford, Orange Grove, Mine 
Run, battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court-House, Taylor's Bridge, 
Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor and other minor engagements, till the expiration 
of his term of enlistment. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant and was 
mustered out of the service July 18, 1864. On his return from the war Capt. 
Pease resumed sailing, and continued to follow the sea till the spring of 
1867, when he came to Fulton, Ill., to accept the position he now occupies 
with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company. Captain Pease voted with the 
Republican party from the time of its organization till 1884, when he 
identified himself with the Prohibition party. He is a member of Fulton City 
Lodge, No. 189 A. F. & A. M., and of the G. W. Baker Post, G. A. R., of 
Clinton, Ia. He is actively interested in the cause of temperance, and is a 
member of Leota Lodge, No. 428, I. O. G. T. He has served two' years as 
Alderman in the Fulton Common Council, and was once elected Mayor, on the 
Prohibition ticket, but resigned. He was married Dec. 28, 1869, in Rockland, 
Maine, to Miss Hannah I. Gould, daughter of Edward Gould. Mrs. Pease was born 
in Ellsworth, Maine. 

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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