For the high rank of her bench and bar Illinois has always been
distinguished, and it is gratifying to note that in no section of the
commonwealth has the standard been lowered in any epoch of its history. To
the subject of this review, who is at the time of this writing, 1908, the
popular and influential Clerk of the Circuit Court at Salem, Marion county,
we may refer with propriety and satisfaction as being one of the able and
representative members of the legal profession of the state. He prepared
himself most carefully for the work of his exacting profession and has ever
been ambitious and self-reliant, gaining success and securing his technical
training through his own determination and well directed efforts. He not
only stands high in his profession but is a potent factor in local politics,
his advice being often relied upon in the selection of candidates for county
offices and he has led such a career, one upon which not the shadow or
suspicion of evil rests, that his counsel is often sought and heeded in
important movements in the county, with gratifying results.
D. D.
Haynie was born in Marion county, Illinois, November 22, 1848. His father
was William D. Haynie, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, where he was born
August 29, 1798. He came with his mother to Winchester, Tennessee, when he
was ten years old, and remained there until he reached young manhood. He was
a soldier in the War of 1812, having performed gallant service in the same,
after which he returned to Kentucky, settling near Hopkinsville, where he
married Elizabeth B. Frost, and where he lived for several years, finally in
1832 moving to Salem, Illinois, bringing three slaves with them, which they
later liberated. They lived in Salem, developing the primitive conditions
which they found, for many years, rearing eleven children, namely: Abner F.,
deceased, having died in 1850; General Isham N., who died in 1868, having
been adjutant general at the time of his death, formerly colonel of the
Forty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry;
William M., died in 1855;
Rebecca was the wife of James Marshall, who moved to Texas and died there
about 1857; George W., quartermaster of the Forty-eighth Illinois Volunteer
Regiment, who died in 1891, when seventy years old; Mary and John B., both
died in infancy; Elizabeth is the widow of Hon. B. B. Smith, who was one of
the first and best lawyers in southern Illinois, and who died in 1884, his
widow now residing at Mount Vernon, Washington; Martha J., now deceased, was
the wife of Dr. Thomas Williams, of Jacksonville, Florida, dying in
Philadelphia in 1906; Sarah C. is the wife of L. L. Adams, of Spokane,
Washington; D. D., our subject, was the youngest of the family.
Our
subject made his home with his father until he died in 1870, the subject's
mother surviving until 1884. They were people of excellent qualities of mind
and heart, and spared no pains in giving their children every advantage
possible, and the wholesome home influence in which they were reared is
reflected in the characters of the subject and the other children.
D.
D. Haynie attended the common schools when a boy, making rapid progress.
Being ambitious and thirsting for all the book learning possible, he entered
the State Normal at Bloomington, Illinois, after a course in which he made
an excellent record, he returned home and clerked, but believing that his
true life path lay along the higher lines of the legal profession, he begun
the study of law and was admitted to the Salem bar in 1871. His success was
instantaneous and he soon built up a good practice. His unusual attributes
soon attracted attention and he was appointed clerk in the Pension Agency
located in Salem, which position he held with much credit for a period of
six years. He then devoted some of his time to farming with gratifying
results, at the same time continuing his law practice which had by this time
been built up to a very large practice. He has continued with great success
ever since he first began practice in 1885. During this time he has served
his county and city in many official capacities. He was twice elected
president of the City Board of Education, and afterward was a member of the
same for two terms; during his connection with the same the educational
interests of the city were greatly strengthened. He was elected Police
Magistrate in 1904 and elected Circuit Clerk as a Republican and is serving
in this capacity in 1908, making one of the best clerks the court has ever
had. In all his political and official career, not the least dissatisfaction
has arisen over the manner in which he has handled the affairs entrusted to
him, and he has by this consistent record gained a host of admiring friends
throughout the county.
Mr. Haynie's happy and harmonious domestic
life dates from August 26, 1875, when he was united in marriage with Emma J.
McMackin, the accomplished and cultured daughter of W. E. McMackin, who was
lieutenant-colonel of Grant's Twenty-first Illinois Regiment, and a well
known and influential man in his community.
One bright and winsome
daughter was born to the subject and wife, who was given the name of May E.,
and who is now the wife of William W. Morrow, of Oklahoma City. The
subject's wife was called to her rest January 21, 1878, and he was married
the second time, this wife being in her maidenhood, Maggie Bobbitt, daughter
of Joseph J. Bobbitt, who was a soldier in the Eighth Kentucky Regiment. She
proved a worthy helpmeet and to this union the following interesting
children were born: Edith M., now living in Spokane, Washington; Donald C.,
of Salem, Illinois, is clerk for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway
Company. The subject's wife died in April 1890. The subject then married
Rose M. Haley, the daughter of Rev. J. L. Haley, a well known Cumberland
Presbyterian minister, the date of the wedding falling on July 14, 1891. No
children have been born to this union which has been a most harmonious one.
Fraternally the subject has been a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows for thirty-seven years, having occupied the chairs of the same,
and he has been a member of the Masonic Fraternity since 1879, a chapter
member.
The subject in his political activity had occasion to become
intimately acquainted with Governor Oglesby, Gen. John A. Logan, Col. Robert
G. Ingersoll, Governor Tanner and most of the noted men of the state.
Mr. Haynie delights to recall reminiscences of his great grandfather on
his father's side, who was named Donald Campbell; who migrated from Scotland
to Norfolk, Virginia, where he bought up all the land between what was then
Norfolk and the wharf, which is now known as Campbell wharf. Mr. Campbell
died in February, 1795. Mr. Haynie has in his possession a copy of
Campbell's will executed February 2, 1795. Donald Campbell's father was
Archibald Campbell, who survived his son and died in 1802. There are many
descendants of the Campbell family living today in Philadelphia and
Virginia.
Extracted 07 Jul 2017 by Norma Hass from 1909 Biographical and Reminiscent History of Richland, Clay and Marion Counties, Illinois, pages 44-47.