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- SOURCE: "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations,"1878
HARRISON W. DRULLINGER - The name of Harrison W. Drullinger of St.Joseph township appropriately appears in a work of his character. Hewas born in Butler county, Ohio, on the 6th of August, 1819. He isdescended from a German family which early settled in Pennsylvania.His grandfather emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio, about the yearl794, and settled in Hamilton county, where the city of Cincinnati nowstands. At that time there was only one house with a shingle roof inthe whole town. Philip DRULLINGER, the father of the subject of thissketch, was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1790, and was four yearsof age when he came to Ohio. The family afterward settled fifteenmiles north of Cincinnati. Philip Drullinger married Catharine WEST,of Pickaway county, Ohio. There were three children: Eliza, now Mrs.John O'BRIANT, living in this county; Julia, who married James COWDEN,one of the first settlers of St. Joseph township, both now deceased,and Harrison W. Drullinger, the only son.
When Mr. Drullinger was about nine years of age, his father moved withthe family to Union county, Indiana. Here Mr. Drullinger went toschool. Subscription schools were held in log school-houses; slabs andrails answered the purpose of benches, and educational advantages werelimited in comparison with those of the present day. In 1839 he cameto Vermilion county, Illinois, his father having removed to thatlocality the previous year. October 1st, 1840, he married MaryBARTLEY, the daughter of George BARTLEY, one of the earliest settlersof St. Joseph township; he came from Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1832,and entered the land now owned by Mr. Drullinger, west of the SaltFork. From 1840 to the present time, with the exception of three yearswhen he lived on land which he entered a mile west, Mr. Drullinger hasbeen living on his present farm, which is composed of 212 acres. Heowns three hundred acres altogether, and at different times has boughtand paid for nine hundred acres, the greater part of which is nowdivided out among his children.
His first wife died in 1848. His second marriage occurred in May,1849, to Elizabeth WHITING, daughter of S. S. WHITING. Mrs. Drullingerwas born in Pickaway county, Ohio, and came to Champaign county in1847. Mr. Drullinger has nine children; by his first marriage twodaughters, Eliza and Mary, the latter the wife of George LUDWICK; andby his second marriage William S., Lewis S., Henry P., Charles P.,Julia A.; Harrison S., Walter W., Minnie F., and Nora F. William S.,Henry P., and Charles P. are farming for themselves, and Lewis S. isdealing in stock at St. Joseph.
He was originally a Democrat in politics, and in 1840 cast his firstvote for President for Martin Van Buren. With the exception of 1848,when he voted for Gen. Taylor, he continued to vote the Democraticticket till the agitation of the slavery question, when he tookdecided ground against the further extension of that evil in theterritories. On the rise of the Republican party he became one of itsearliest members, as he has since been one of its firmest supporters.In 1856 he voted for Fremont---the first National candidate of theparty, and has supported the Republican ticket at every electionsince. In the spring of 1866 he was elected supervisor of St. Josephtownship, and was re-elected the following year. While holding thisoffice the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western railroad bonds wereissued, the people of the township having previously voted almostunanimously in favor of such a step. Mr. Drullinger in this matteracted in his official capacity, and in a perfectly legal and propermanner. His action was in accordance with the known sentiment of thepeople of the township at that time, and has since been sustained bythe United States Courts, on the validity of the bonds beingquestioned. He is a man whose influence has been exerted on the sideof morality. He joined the Methodist Church in Indiana, when nineteenyears of age. His temperance principles are of the strictestcharacter. He has not tasted a drop of whiskey for thirty years, norused tobacco in any form since he has been in the State.
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Abt 1806 - Abt 1875 (~ 69 years)
