PANCAKE FAMILY RECORDS
OF
LA SALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
CENSUS RECORDS COUNTY HISTORIES
CENSUS RECORDS
1900 U.S. Census, LaSalle Co., Illinois, microfilm T623-315
Allen Township, Enumeration District 31, Sheet 9B, Dwelling 117, Family 119:
Pancake, Ernest Head W M Aug 1874 25 married Ohio Ohio Ohio Farmer
- , May Wife W F May 1873 27 married Illinois Germany Germany
- , Adam Son W M Sept 1898 1 single Illinois Ohio Illinois
Wilson, Irving Farm Laborer W M May 1882 18 single Illinois Ohio Ohio Farm laborer
Other information on the census record: Ernest and May had been married for three years.
May had given birth to one child, who was still living. Ernest and May owned their farm
but had a mortgage on it.
COUNTY HISTORIES
History of La Salle County, Illinois: Past and Present of La Salle County
U. J. Hoffman, S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., Chicago, 1906
Pages 995 and 996:
ERNEST PANCAKE.
Ernest Pancake, one of the young and enterprising farmers of Allen township, living on section 13, was born on the 20th of August, 1875, in Ironton, Ohio. His father, Andrew J. Pancake, is also a native of Ohio and a farmer by occupation. He devoted many years to agricultural pursuits but is now living retired, his home being about six miles east of Ironton, Ohio. During the Civil war he served for three years under Captain John Brown in the Fifth Virginia Cavalry and was twice shot through the body and they were able to draw a silk handkerchief through the wounds.
Upon the old homestead farm in Ohio Ernest Pancake was reared, his time being occupied with the duties and pleasures consistent with his years. He worked at home until sixteen years of age and then supplemented his early educational privileges, acquired in the common schools, by study in Lebanon (Ohio) University. He afterward engaged in farming for a year in the Buckeye state and later removed to West Virginia, where he was employed in a sawmill for six months. He then worked in the Sunnyside coal mine at a place called Hawk's Nest, and when a year had passed he returned to Ohio, where he engaged in the butchering business for about a year.
On the expiration of that period he came to Illinois and bought a half interest in a harness shop in Ransom, his partner being B. T. Seguin. This relation was maintained for two years, when he sold out to his partner and through the succeeding year was employed as a farm hand by George Berge, whose daughter he afterward married. He then purchased the land whereon he now resides and began the improvement of the farm, building fences and cultivating the fields and adding modern accessories and equipments which are always found upon a model farm. He owns altogether one hundred and sixty acres of good land on section 13, Allen township, and in addition to the tilling of the soil he is interested in raising pure blooded Duroc Jersey hogs, having at present about one hundred and ninety head upon his place. He built a hog house that cost fifteen hundred dollars, and he belongs to the Duroc Breeders Association. At the head of his drove of hogs is a male, Kant Top Notch, that cost four hundred dollars, the registered number being 47,327. The sire of this hog, which sold for five thousand dollars, and also the sire of his mother took first grand champion prize at the St. Louis World's Fair. Mr. Pancake is well known as a breeder and raiser of high grade swine and his business ranks him with the leading stock feeders of this section of the state.
In 1897 Mr. Pancake was united in marriage to Miss Marie Berge, who was born on the old farm homestead on section 27, Allen township. Her father, George Berge, was a native of Germany and married Miss Christina Rosenkrantz, also born in that land. The father came to this country about a half century ago and engaged in farming near Streator for a number of years but eventually removed to the farm which he now makes his home, on section 27, Allen township, having here two hundred and eighty acres of rich and productive land. Unto him and his wife have been born nine children: George, who married Alice Kime and is engaged in farming in Iowa; Elizabeth, the wife of John Lehi, a resident farmer of Allen township; August, who married Lottie Linford and follows farming in South Dakota; Carrie, the wife of William Baker, who is engaged in farming near Budd, Illinois; Christina, at home; Emma, the wife of Henry Seidentop, who is engaged in farming in Livingston county, Illinois; Mrs. Marie Pancake; Adam, who married Lizzie Baker and is farming near Ransom, Illinois; and Willie, who wedded Mary Ramey and operates the old home place.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Pancake has been blessed with one child, Adam, who was seven years of age on the 16th of September, 1906. Mr. Pancake is a republican in his political views. His wife belongs to the Evangelical chuch. They are both widely known in this community and have a pleasant home noted for its hospitality and good cheer.
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