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Obit:
Ivory H. Pike, Civil War Veteran Who Knew Lincoln, Dies
Ivory Pike, civil war veteran, former justice of the state supreme court, member of the state legislature for two terms and notable figure in Oak Park since 1898, died Thursday, September 5, at the age of ninety-one years.
Funeral services took place last Saturday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews of 432 North Kenilworth. Dr. George A. Fowler of the First Methodist church of which he was a member, paid a fine tribute to his memory and Siloam Commandery gave their beautiful service. Mr. Pike's grandson, Richard Pike Dearlove and his nephews, Henry Gale, Burton Gale, William Cornell and Hugh W. Matthews acted as pallbearers and an escort from Oak Park Post No. 15, American Legion accompanied the body to its final resting place in Elm Lawn. The services at Elm Lawn closed with taps.
Mr. Pike was born August 26, 1844, in Casco, Maine. His family moved to Bloomington, Ill., when he was a boy of seven years and there he grew to manhood, a stalwart figure of six feet, five. His father, Harrison Wallace Pike was one of the prominent men of the state.
He was an ardent admirer of John A. Logan and one of the Senator's most active workers in his long war with Mike McDonald, Chicago gambler and Democratic leader. Ivory Pike's reminiscences of Illinois history were famous for their vivid picturesqueness. Abraham Lincoln was frequently in Bloomington, and Mr. Pike often said of him, “I knew Lincoln, but he didn’t know me. When I’d see him around Bloomington he might say, 'You're one of Wally Pike's boys', but he wouldn't know my first name.
“I saw him many times when he’d come to my uncle’s hotel, the Pike house in Bloomington, and as a little fellow sat on his lap, but so did a lot of other Bloomington boys.
“I’ve seen him come to the courthouse a little before court convince and kill time by jumping a fence and shooting marbles with small boys. Then when he was squatting down with them he’d say, ‘Who’s your father?’ and get to talking. He knew the boy would tell it at home and please his father. Mr. Lincoln was quite a politician.
“He looked, on horseback, just like an old farmer going out to buy a load of hogs, but when he got to be president I saw he was a great man, the greatest we’ll ever have, for all his looks.
Pike's good health and longevity was for the last twenty years a matter of remark among physicians considering his service in the civil war, where he, as a 16-year-old boy, killed two confederate horsemen in a spectacular and one-sided fight between the lines of opposing cavalry and also considering the more than two years he spent as a prisoner in Andersonville. from which the majority of captives emerged as corpses or invalids.
He was a past commander of Phil Sheridan Post of Oak Park, member of the Borrowed Time club, Siloam Commandery, K.T., and an honorary member of the Lion's club.
During his full life of ninety-one years he had almost perfect health and until a few months ago was able to drive his own car.
Surviving Mr. Pike is his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews and four grandchildren, Richard Pike Dearlove, Margaret, Elizabeth and Virginia Dearlove.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 13 Sep 1935, pg. 27
Obit:
Ivory H. Pike, Civil War Veteran Who Knew Lincoln, Dies
Ivory Pike, civil war veteran, former justice of the state supreme court, member of the state legislature for two terms and notable figure in Oak Park since 1898, died Thursday, September 5, at the age of ninety-one years.
Funeral services took place last Saturday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews of 432 North Kenilworth. Dr. George A. Fowler of the First Methodist church of which he was a member, paid a fine tribute to his memory and Siloam Commandery gave their beautiful service. Mr. Pike's grandson, Richard Pike Dearlove and his nephews, Henry Gale, Burton Gale, William Cornell and Hugh W. Matthews acted as pallbearers and an escort from Oak Park Post No. 15, American Legion accompanied the body to its final resting place in Elm Lawn. The services at Elm Lawn closed with taps.
Mr. Pike was born August 26, 1844, in Casco, Maine. His family moved to Bloomington, Ill., when he was a boy of seven years and there he grew to manhood, a stalwart figure of six feet, five. His father, Harrison Wallace Pike was one of the prominent men of the state.
He was an ardent admirer of John A. Logan and one of the Senator's most active workers in his long war with Mike McDonald, Chicago gambler and Democratic leader. Ivory Pike's reminiscences of Illinois history were famous for their vivid picturesqueness. Abraham Lincoln was frequently in Bloomington, and Mr. Pike often said of him, “I knew Lincoln, but he didn’t know me. When I’d see him around Bloomington he might say, 'You're one of Wally Pike's boys', but he wouldn't know my first name.
“I saw him many times when he’d come to my uncle’s hotel, the Pike house in Bloomington, and as a little fellow sat on his lap, but so did a lot of other Bloomington boys.
“I’ve seen him come to the courthouse a little before court convince and kill time by jumping a fence and shooting marbles with small boys. Then when he was squatting down with them he’d say, ‘Who’s your father?’ and get to talking. He knew the boy would tell it at home and please his father. Mr. Lincoln was quite a politician.
“He looked, on horseback, just like an old farmer going out to buy a load of hogs, but when he got to be president I saw he was a great man, the greatest we’ll ever have, for all his looks.
Pike's good health and longevity was for the last twenty years a matter of remark among physicians considering his service in the civil war, where he, as a 16-year-old boy, killed two confederate horsemen in a spectacular and one-sided fight between the lines of opposing cavalry and also considering the more than two years he spent as a prisoner in Andersonville. from which the majority of captives emerged as corpses or invalids.
He was a past commander of Phil Sheridan Post of Oak Park, member of the Borrowed Time club, Siloam Commandery, K.T., and an honorary member of the Lion's club.
During his full life of ninety-one years he had almost perfect health and until a few months ago was able to drive his own car.
Surviving Mr. Pike is his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews and four grandchildren, Richard Pike Dearlove, Margaret, Elizabeth and Virginia Dearlove.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 13 Sep 1935, pg. 27
I bought This photo at an antique store in Oregon. Please contact me if you are a family member and would like to have it. [email protected]
Obit:
Ivory H. Pike, Civil War Veteran Who Knew Lincoln, Dies
Ivory Pike, civil war veteran, former justice of the state supreme court, member of the state legislature for two terms and notable figure in Oak Park since 1898, died Thursday, September 5, at the age of ninety-one years.
Funeral services took place last Saturday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews of 432 North Kenilworth. Dr. George A. Fowler of the First Methodist church of which he was a member, paid a fine tribute to his memory and Siloam Commandery gave their beautiful service. Mr. Pike's grandson, Richard Pike Dearlove and his nephews, Henry Gale, Burton Gale, William Cornell and Hugh W. Matthews acted as pallbearers and an escort from Oak Park Post No. 15, American Legion accompanied the body to its final resting place in Elm Lawn. The services at Elm Lawn closed with taps.
Mr. Pike was born August 26, 1844, in Casco, Maine. His family moved to Bloomington, Ill., when he was a boy of seven years and there he grew to manhood, a stalwart figure of six feet, five. His father, Harrison Wallace Pike was one of the prominent men of the state.
He was an ardent admirer of John A. Logan and one of the Senator's most active workers in his long war with Mike McDonald, Chicago gambler and Democratic leader. Ivory Pike's reminiscences of Illinois history were famous for their vivid picturesqueness. Abraham Lincoln was frequently in Bloomington, and Mr. Pike often said of him, “I knew Lincoln, but he didn’t know me. When I’d see him around Bloomington he might say, 'You're one of Wally Pike's boys', but he wouldn't know my first name.
“I saw him many times when he’d come to my uncle’s hotel, the Pike house in Bloomington, and as a little fellow sat on his lap, but so did a lot of other Bloomington boys.
“I’ve seen him come to the courthouse a little before court convince and kill time by jumping a fence and shooting marbles with small boys. Then when he was squatting down with them he’d say, ‘Who’s your father?’ and get to talking. He knew the boy would tell it at home and please his father. Mr. Lincoln was quite a politician.
“He looked, on horseback, just like an old farmer going out to buy a load of hogs, but when he got to be president I saw he was a great man, the greatest we’ll ever have, for all his looks.
Pike's good health and longevity was for the last twenty years a matter of remark among physicians considering his service in the civil war, where he, as a 16-year-old boy, killed two confederate horsemen in a spectacular and one-sided fight between the lines of opposing cavalry and also considering the more than two years he spent as a prisoner in Andersonville. from which the majority of captives emerged as corpses or invalids.
He was a past commander of Phil Sheridan Post of Oak Park, member of the Borrowed Time club, Siloam Commandery, K.T., and an honorary member of the Lion's club.
During his full life of ninety-one years he had almost perfect health and until a few months ago was able to drive his own car.
Surviving Mr. Pike is his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews and four grandchildren, Richard Pike Dearlove, Margaret, Elizabeth and Virginia Dearlove.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 13 Sep 1935, pg. 27
Obit:
Ivory H. Pike, Civil War Veteran Who Knew Lincoln, Dies
Ivory Pike, civil war veteran, former justice of the state supreme court, member of the state legislature for two terms and notable figure in Oak Park since 1898, died Thursday, September 5, at the age of ninety-one years.
Funeral services took place last Saturday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews of 432 North Kenilworth. Dr. George A. Fowler of the First Methodist church of which he was a member, paid a fine tribute to his memory and Siloam Commandery gave their beautiful service. Mr. Pike's grandson, Richard Pike Dearlove and his nephews, Henry Gale, Burton Gale, William Cornell and Hugh W. Matthews acted as pallbearers and an escort from Oak Park Post No. 15, American Legion accompanied the body to its final resting place in Elm Lawn. The services at Elm Lawn closed with taps.
Mr. Pike was born August 26, 1844, in Casco, Maine. His family moved to Bloomington, Ill., when he was a boy of seven years and there he grew to manhood, a stalwart figure of six feet, five. His father, Harrison Wallace Pike was one of the prominent men of the state.
He was an ardent admirer of John A. Logan and one of the Senator's most active workers in his long war with Mike McDonald, Chicago gambler and Democratic leader. Ivory Pike's reminiscences of Illinois history were famous for their vivid picturesqueness. Abraham Lincoln was frequently in Bloomington, and Mr. Pike often said of him, “I knew Lincoln, but he didn’t know me. When I’d see him around Bloomington he might say, 'You're one of Wally Pike's boys', but he wouldn't know my first name.
“I saw him many times when he’d come to my uncle’s hotel, the Pike house in Bloomington, and as a little fellow sat on his lap, but so did a lot of other Bloomington boys.
“I’ve seen him come to the courthouse a little before court convince and kill time by jumping a fence and shooting marbles with small boys. Then when he was squatting down with them he’d say, ‘Who’s your father?’ and get to talking. He knew the boy would tell it at home and please his father. Mr. Lincoln was quite a politician.
“He looked, on horseback, just like an old farmer going out to buy a load of hogs, but when he got to be president I saw he was a great man, the greatest we’ll ever have, for all his looks.
Pike's good health and longevity was for the last twenty years a matter of remark among physicians considering his service in the civil war, where he, as a 16-year-old boy, killed two confederate horsemen in a spectacular and one-sided fight between the lines of opposing cavalry and also considering the more than two years he spent as a prisoner in Andersonville. from which the majority of captives emerged as corpses or invalids.
He was a past commander of Phil Sheridan Post of Oak Park, member of the Borrowed Time club, Siloam Commandery, K.T., and an honorary member of the Lion's club.
During his full life of ninety-one years he had almost perfect health and until a few months ago was able to drive his own car.
Surviving Mr. Pike is his daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Matthews and four grandchildren, Richard Pike Dearlove, Margaret, Elizabeth and Virginia Dearlove.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 13 Sep 1935, pg. 27
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