Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Daniel Harmon Brush was born in Vergennes, Vermont, on April 15, 1813. In 1829, Brush came to Brownsville in Jackson County. In 1852, Brush learned that the Illinois Central Railroad would build a line through Jackson County. He purchased land between two stations planned for DeSoto and Makanda with the hope that he could persuade the railroad to build another station. Brush was successful and named the new town Carbondale. He died on February 10, 1890.

Dr. William Richart was born in Pennsylvania in 1818 and came to southern Illinois with his family in 1839. Dr. Richart, one of three founders of Carbondale, surveyed the area and joined Daniel Brush and Asgill Conner in laying out the new town. Richart died in 1868, and although he and his wife Elizabeth are buried at Snider Hill Cemetery in Carbondale, a marker was placed in his memory in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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