Samuel Waugh
Source: Biographical & Genealogical Record of LaSalle Co., Ill - 1900
[Page 76] SAMUEL WAUGH - Peru farmer. Born in the Ligonier Valley, of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1828. His parents being James and Jane (PARKE) WAUGH, who were also natives of Penn. The paternal grandfather, Richard WAUGH, was of Scotch descent, and was native of Cumberland Co., Penn, and a farmer. William PARKE, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was native of Westmoreland Co., Penn., and was son of Zebulon PARKE, of the same county, who served in the Revolutionary War under Gen. WASHINGTON for seven years. William PARKE was a farmer and came west with the WAUGH family, spending his last days at Lost Grove, Illinois. He died at eighty-eight years, and left six children. James and Jane (PARKE) WAUGH were parents of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom eight are living: William, of Rapid City, S. Dakota; Samuel, of this review; Catherine, wife of A. T. HAGAN, of Los Angeles, Calif.; James, of Princeton, Ill.; Caroline, wife of Nathan LINTON, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mary A., of Los Angeles, Calif; Martha, of Chicago, Ill.; and Rankin, in Chicago. In early life, James WAUGH, the father of our subject, was a member of a stage-coach company in Pennsylvania. He was also proprietor of a hotel in Ligonier, Penn. In October, 1847 he came with his family to Peru, Illinois, where he had a hotel. In 1849 he moved to Lost Grove, Bureau Co., Illinois, where he purchased a farm. He died in 1863, age sixty-five. His wife died six weeks later, age fifty-five. Samuel WAUGH, of this sketch, came with his father to Peru, in October, 1847 and in 1849 he started buying cattle, which business he carried on for forty-five years. In 1853, went to the Sacramento Valley of Calif., then to the mines of St. Louis, Sierra Co., Calif., where he stayed nine years. In 1862, he returned to Illinois, and until 1871 was in ice business in Peru and Cairo, Illinois, with brothers-in-law, A. T. HAGAN and Nathan LINTON. From that time till 1877, was in farming . then he went into live stock commission business with brother, Rankin WAUGH, until 1894. In April of that year he came back to La Salle County. October 14, 1868, Samuel married Miss Elizabeth MAZE, daughter of S. N. MAZE, of Peru. They had three children: Jessie, wife of W. E. MEANS of Peru; Charles L.; and Elizabeth.
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