JOHN D. ROCK, dry goods, Urbana. Mr. Rock is a native of Champaign Co., born in Urbana in 1831. He was trained to business in his youth, and, in 1850, entered the dry goods store of W. D. & C. McDonald, and continued in the same store with the different firms who succeeded one another until he became a partner with H. D. McDonald, with whom he is now associated. Their stock is complete and their business a continuance of the success which has attended their predecessors who have at different times owned and operated this old established and reliable dry goods house. Thus it will be seen Mr. Rock is emphatically a self-made man, having, by close attention to business, passed up through all the stages from " store-boy " to proprietor of one of the principal business houses of Urbana. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he is an Elder and active worker, and is now, and has been for the past fifteen years, Superintendent of the Sunday school connected with that church, He married, in 1854, Miss Mary N., daughter of Rev. David Merrill, who, at an early day, was for a number of years Pastor of the Presbyterian Church here. Mrs. Rock is also a nlttive of this county and an esteemed member of the church. The issue of this union has been two children-Alice G. and William M.