Lewis FIELD

                   Daniel Field was an early merchant, born in Jefferson County, Kentucky and settled at Golconda, Illinois.  in 1818, dying there in 1855.  He was a man of great enterprise, engaged in merchandising, and became a large landholder, farmer and stock-grower and an extensive shipper of stock and produce to lower Mississippi markets.  He married Elizabeth Daily, of Charlestown, Indiana and reared a large family of children, one of whom, Philip D., became sheriff, while another, John, was county judge of Pope County.   His daughter, Maria, married General Green B. Raum, who became prominent as a soldier during the Civil war, and later , as a member of Congress and Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Pension commissioner in Washington.
                  

                   Taken from Field Genealogy, Vol I  by Frederick Clifton Pierce Historian and Genealogist   Published 1901
Lewis Field was born in Kentucky, and emigrated to this region with his father, making the entire trip in wagons, and landing at Goleonda, where he took up land from the government, paying 1.25 per acre.  The tract of 160 acres, which he owned was about the first sold in this locality.   From time to time he added adjoining lands to his original purchase, until he found himself possessed of some 640 acres, all of which were located in this county.  He is numbered among those who have paved the way to the present prosperity of this region, having overcome and conquered the obstacles and difficulties of pioneer life with courage and fortitude well worthy the emulation and admiration of their descendants.  He spent his remaining days on his farm, which was located on section nineteen, the identical homestead on which our subject now resides, and was called to his final reward July 20, 1859, at the age of sixty-two years.