He was the father of Jad Foster, the grain merchant. He engaged in the hotel business and kept the second hotel in the county. Owen Foster was originally from Vermont and came west with the colony. He next moved three miles south, east of Havana, and then to Havana. He first located in the Sangamon bottom, but nearly shook his life out with the ague. He has no doubt been dead for many years. Kemp celebrated his golden wedding in 1874. Kemp moved to Wisconsin and Rockwell back to New York. While making a trip east, Adams lost his life during an altercation on a steamboat. Foster, Kemp, Adams and Rockwell came from Canada.
Fisk was a Yankee and settled in 1837, where his son, Cooley, now resides. Silah Wheadon was well known in Mason county in after years as a newspaper man.
The Wheadons were from New York they did not stay long in Mason county. Rockwell, Abel Kemp, Eli Fisk and the Wheadons. Reinforcements arrived in 1835 these were Owen Foster, N.J. His girls used to bring cord wood to Havana by rafting it down the river. When a school was established, he took his plow and made a road for his children to go to school. John Barnes settled at the mounds above Havana in 1829 or '30. Henry Myers came about the same time as Ross, but moved to Fulton county in a short time. Steel and the other married Judge William Kellogg. The Ross family consisted of four sons and two daughters Lewis, Harvey, Leonard and Pike were the sons. He had a brother Jim who lived there for a number of years but moved away. Ross built the hotel in 1829, which was the first hotel in Mason county. He would take their baggage in a canoe, while their horses were made to swim beside it.
Prior to this there was an arrangement for taking people across the river on a Saturday of each week. Ross established the ferry at Havana in 1823 or '24. In the spring of 1821 he moved to Lewistown and was one of the proprietors of that town, which was named for his son, Lewis Ross. Ross came from New York to Illinois in 1819 and first settled in Madison county. Ross may be set down as the first permanent settler. He did not remain long, however, and O.M. There is but little doubt that he was the first white man that squatted on Havana's sandy soil. It was known that he kept the ferry for Ross, where the city of Havana now stands and it is supposed to have been established on this side of the river as early as 1824. The first white man to settle in Havana township was believed to be James Hokum. Pioneers of Menard & Mason Counties-HAVANA TOWNSHIP PioneersĪll Mason Co pages transcribed by Kristin Vaughn © 2007
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