Thomas
J. Costello was born in Western Mound township, Macoupin county. He is a
son of the late John and Ellen Costello, highly respected pioneer
residents. Mr. Costello was the fifth child of a family of ten children.
When a lad his parents moved from Western Mound to Bird township where
they resided for a few years, moving back to Western Mound in the year
1888. The boyhood life of Mr. Costello was not much different from that
of the average country youth. He attended country schools and when he
had finished the eighth grade went to Western Normal College, at
Bushnell, Illinois. He attended there for a part of two years where he
fitted himself for teaching. In 1899 he secured and taught his first
school. He continued, in this work for eleven years, spending his summer
vacations working on the farm.
In 1909 he was offered and
accepted the position of Deputy Circuit Clerk and Recorder under the
late Thomas Cain. He continued with Mr. Cain for two terms of four years
each. At the expiration at his second term as deputy clerk under Mr.
Cain, which was in 1916, Mr. Costello spent two years in which he
prepared a set of abstract books, which occupied his time until 1918,
when he opened an abstract office for himself in Carlinville, in which
business he is engaged today. Mr. Costello, not having been born in the
lap of luxury, necessarily made his own way since leaving the country
schools. He always put his best efforts into any undertaking in which he
was engaged, having in mind that a job that was worth undertaking was
worth doing well. In the position of school teacher, deputy circuit
clerk and of conducting his own business he has been conscientious,
painstaking and diligent, and success has followed. Mr. Costello takes
pride in the fact that he never went back on a friend.
Mr. Costello's many friends all over
Macoupin county know him and appreciate his worth for the excellent
citizen that he is. Mr. Costello is of Irish descent.
Extracted 15 Dec 2018 by Norma Hass from History of a Famous Courthouse, by W. B. Brown, published in 1934, page 44.
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