rebuilt on a more expensive scale, its capacity exceeding the old one by forty thousand bushels, its present capacity being one hundred and twenty thousand. The principal brands of flour manufactured by the firm are Crystal Gem, Principia, Superlative and Dow's Dew Drop. The capacity of the mill is six hundred barrels of flour and the company manufactures all of its barrels, having a large brick cooper shop in the rear. They furnish employment to about fifty men altogether, so that the enterprise is a most creditable one to the city as well as a source of gratifying income to the proprietors.      Mr. Dow has figured prominently in public affairs and in 1892 was elected to the state legislature for a two-years' term. While acting as a member of the house he served on the committees on canals, river improvements, commerce, drainage, state municipality, indebtedness, and on the visiting committee to charitable institutions, and he gave to each question which came up for settlement his careful consideration and he ably represented his constituents, his course reflecting honor upon the county that honored him. In 1894 he was appointed one of the trustees of the Illinois Institution for the Blind at Jacksonville and served for four years, during which time Hon. N. W. Branson was president, while Hon. Augustus Dow and Hon. Edward Rew, of Chicago, were trustees and Frank H. Dow is widely recognized as one of the leading republicans of Pittsfield and has been a member of the central committee. He has also figured prominently in municipal politics, being mayor of Pittsfield for four years and president of the central board for a number of years. He has likewise been a member of the county board of supervisors, and his excellent business talents and executive ability made him an enviable official. He is one of the directors of the First National Bank of Pittsfield and was one of the trustees that built the Opera House in this city. He has been connected with all of the improvement of a local nature and his name stands high in financial circles far beyond the limits of the county.      Mr. Dow has been married three times. He first wedded Miss Jennie E. Winans in 1865. She was a native of New Jersey, born in 1841, and her death occurred in 1870. In 1872, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Dow was married to Judith W. Morton, who was born in Massachusetts in 1840, and they had one son, Harry A., who spent two years as a student in the Illinois College, four years at Yale and three years in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is now private secretary and attorney for N. W. Harris & Company, of Chicago, the largest bond house in the United States. On the 21st of September, 1904, he married Miss Florence Bachelder, of Ypsilanti, and they now reside in Chicago. Mr. Dow, in company with his son Harry, traveled abroad, visiting England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Following the death of his second wife, in 1887, Mr. Dow was married to Mrs. Mary S. Bates, who had one daughter, Sarah, now the wife of Fred Utt, a druggist residing at Glen Ellyn, Illinois.      Mr. and Mrs. Dow hold membership in the Congregational church, in which he has been a trustee for many years. He owns a beautiful home in Pittsfield and has been a resident of this city since 1858. He is not only well known in Pike county, but throughout this section of Illinois. His trade extends over a wide territory, and in this connection he has been the promoter of what has become one of the leading industrial enterprises of Pittsfield. His success has been the result of honest, persistent effort in the line of honorable and manly dealing. His aims have been to attain to the best, and he has carried forward to successful completion whatever he has undertaken. His life has marked a steady growth and now he is in possession of an ample competence and, more than all, has that contentment that comes from a consciousness of having lived for an honorable purpose.                                                          ______________                                          WILLIAM  OLIVER  SKINNER,  M. D.        Dr. William Oliver Skinner, physician and surgeon of Griggsville, whose ability in the line of his profession has gained him a constantly growing practice, was born in Franklin county,