Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

CHARLES M. SPRING, druggist, Beardstown; is a native of 
Pike County, Ill., born March 29, 1851, and at fourteen 
years of age, entered a drug store at Naples, Scott Co., 
Ill., remaining there five years. He then engaged with 
Anderson & Watt, wholesale druggists, of St. Louis, Mo., 
with whom he remained three years, engaged as traveling 
salesman a portion of the time. In 1872, he came to 
Beardstown and opened a drug, book and jewelry store, on 
Park Row, where he has since carried on business, meeting 
with good success. In 1880, in addition to his other 
business, he established a whole sale tobacco, cigar, 
confectionery and grocery house, and the following year a 
retail grocery. In 1882, he bought a half interest in the 
Park House, the management being under the firm name of 
Spring Bros. In 1876, he married Maria, daughter of E. B. 
Seward, of Beardstown.

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