thrifty in appearance. He carries on general agricultural pursuits and raises fruit and in his business efforts he has met with a gratifying measure of success. In politics he is a democrat. His wife belongs to the United Brethren church at Baylis and they are people of genuine worth, respected and esteemed by all who knew them.                                                     _______________                                                 MARTIN  V.  SHIVE         Martin V. Shive, living on section 11, Pleasant Hill township, is one of the practical, progressive and prosperous farmers of this community, where he owns and operates one hundred and twenty-two acres of land. A native of Cumberland county, Kentucky, he was born August 16, 1839, and is a son of Martin Shive, a native of Kentucky, while his grandfather, George Shive, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany. Martin Shive, Jr., was reared in the state of his nativity. Martin V. Shive's father died June 7, 1839, three months prior to the birth of his son, and his mother when he was in his third year. He was reared by his grandmother and in his nineteenth year came to Mason county, Illinois, where he worked for his uncle for some time, remaining there for two years. He next came to Pike county, where he was employed at farm labor for some time and then returned to Mason county. In response to the country's call for aid he enlisted in 1861, joining the boys in blue of Company K, Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The troops proceeded to Peoria and were there drilled on the fair grounds. He first enlisted for three months' service, but joined the United States service on the 25th of May, 1861, and went from Peoria to Alton, Illinois. The order then came to proceed to St. Louis, Missouri, after which they went to St. Charles and afterward returned to St. Louis, continuing at the arsenal for a few weeks. Later the regiment joined the Cairo forces and established what was called Fort Holt. Later, however, the company was ordered back to St. Louis and then proceeded to Pilot Knob, from which place they marched to the Mississippi river. They participated in the engagement at Cape Girardeau, the first battle occurring October 21, 1861, with the troops under Jefferson Thompson at Frederickstown, Missouri. The Seventeenth Illinois was commanded by Colonel Ross and the regiment formed a part of the forces under General Fremont. Later this regiment joined the troops under Commodore Foote at Cairo, Illinois, and with thirty thousand soldiers took up the march along the Tennessee river to Fort Henry. The principal fighting there, however, was done from the gunboats, and the gunboat Tyler ran the blockade and captured the Confederate boats. The engagement was carried on in the midst of a heavy rain and sleet and the Union forces camped on the rebel barracks and held the fort. The next battle in which Mr. Shive participated was at Fort Donelson, where the army under General Grant was victorious, but won the victory at great loss, suffering more there than at any other time during the war. The rebel forces surrendered about seventeen thousand prisoners to General Grant, which was his first victory, General Halleck having been in charge when the other battle was fought at Fort Donelson. Many members of the regiment to which Mr. Shive belonged were killed and the surviving members were attached to the Eighth Illinois Infantry. Mr. Shive was wounded on the second day of the battle at Shiloh and was taken to Mound City Hospital, where he remained for some time and was then granted a furlough about the 25th of April, 1862. He then went to Bath, Illinois, where he spent three months in recovering from his injuries, while later he rejoined his old company at Bolivar, Tennessee, but not being able to resume active field service, was discharged in 1862. He returned to Pike county and as soon as his health permitted resumed farming.      Mr. Shive was married on the 18th of December, 1862, in Pleasant Hill township to Miss Carolina L. Ricketts, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of Henry Ricketts, also of Kentucky, who came to Illinois in the early '50s. For a year after his marriage Mr. Shive engaged in cultivating rented land, and then bought his first tract of sixty acres in 1863. While at Shiloh he had been wounded with buck shot and ball shot; and