History of Bureau County, Illinois, Part 58

Author: Bradsby, Henry C., [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Chicago, World publishing company
Number of Pages: 776

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Mineral Village-was surveyed and platted in 1857 by William Riley. Two ten-acre additions have been since added. The same year Mr. Riley erected a building and opened a store, Calvin Cooper built a dwelling and Mr. Lenhart a storehouse. John Reynolds, William Smith and others soon afterward put up buildings and settled in the place.

This first prosperity soon declined, and in a little while no business house was in the place. Edward Hooley and West Meeks had

blacksmith shops, and Gleason & Cooper a shoe-maker's shop, and these were the only business establishments in the place in 1859.

In 1865 another change came to the place, and prospects revived. Phillips Bros. opened a store, which was sold to Emerson, Burnett & Co. in 1868. This firm remained one year, and sold to M. G. Brainard & Bro., who remained until 1874, and sold to W. M. Crandall.

Conibear & Son opened a general store in 1866. In 1872 they commenced also the lumber trade, and this branch they sold to Abbott & Scott. An elevator was erected in 1868, and this added for a time materially to the business of the place.

The first school-fifteen pupils-was in William Riley's house. They now have a school building that cost $3,600.

On Section 22, three miles southeast of Mineral, was commenced the erection of a Union Church. The union and the church were both a failure, as its walls stood nearly four years without a cover, when it was given to the United Brethren Church and com- pleted.

An Educational Association was formed in Mineral in 1883. It is in connection with the County School Association, and was the first town organization of the kind. The first officers: C. C. Pervier, President; M. G. Brainard, Vice-President; J. W. Boling, Sec- retary; F. G. Williams, Assistant Secretary; Ella B. Conibear, Chorist; A. M. Laird, Treasurer. At present the officers are: G. T. Squires, President; M. G. Brainard, Vice- President; Ella B. Conibear, Chorister and Secretary; A. M. Laird, Treasurer, and F. J. Williams, Assistant Secretary.

Concord. - The first settlement in this town was a temporary trading place with Indians at Devil's Grove, by Thomas Hartzell, in 1833. In 1834 Thornton Cummings made

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an improvement on the north side of French Grove. In 1835 Caleb Moore lived in the Hartzell cabin. Afterward he went to his improvement on Section 30, at Coal Grove. J. G. Reed settled near Moore's. The same year Paul Riley and James Loughrey settled on Section 30, G. W. Reed on 31, Abram Fry at Menominee Grove, and Sampson and Benjamin Cole at Bulbona Grove. In 1836 John Stevens, T. J. Stevens, Joseph Lyford, Judge Jesse Emmerson and Moses Stevens settled at Bulbona Grove; in a short time came Peter Fifield, John Loughrey, James Car- roll, Samuel Fifield, Joseph Foster, Amos Whittemore, John Mason, Benjamin and El- bridge Stevens, S. Brainard and C. P. Mason, the last now one of the most enterprising farmers in the county (see his biography).

Henry Cummings was born in here Sep- tember 20, 1834, the first white child.

In the fall of 1837 Elder Chenoweth mar- ried:Allen Tompkins and Mary Ann Lough - rey, and on the same occasion G. C. Mills and Ellen Riley. Thus the first wedding was a double one, or twins, so to speak, or really two weddings at once.

John Stevens built the first saw-mill on Section 38, near the head of the grove, in 1840. This was the first saw mill ever built in the county on the prairie. The same year Riley and Kemp built on Section 30.

The Cummings and Mason families are among the oldest now living in the town.

Buda-is in Section 34, and joins the south line of the township. It is among the neatest and thriftiest villages in the county. It is one of the results of building the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad through the county, and was only laid out in 1854. Prior to this French Grove Postoffice was a little trading and meeting point for the peo- ple. But the road ran south of French Grove, and the result was when Buda started up

French Grove came down. So much was this a railroad town in its inception, it was named by the railroad authorities after Buda, Hungary. Judge Jesse Emmerson laid off on his land the plat of the town. James S. Zink laid out the land on the west, and on which the main or business part of the town is. Judge Emmerson's residence is on the part laid out by him.

Judge Emmerson made the first important improvements in the place; opened the first store, and erected shops for workmen who de- sired to locate here, even hiring blacksmiths and putting them to work on salary, in order to give the town the best possible start in life. He also similarly hired Peter J. West- ervelt, a shoe-maker, and also a wagon-maker, named Louis Stety. It was thus, as it has before happened in the world, that the lib- eral enterprise of a single individual was the turning point in the history of the new place, that made this a prosperous town, full of business and business men, while other equally well located places apparently dwin- dled and nearly decayed.

The next man to erect a store house and open a store, was W. H. Bloom. In 1855 Dr. Holten, physician, located here. J. B. Stewart & Co. erected a large flonring-mill here in 1869. It had a capacity of 100 bar- rels a day. But the change in farming and the abandonment of wheat-raising in the county has induced them to arrange at this time to remove their mill to the wheat- growing districts.

The branch railroad known originally as the Buda & Rushville Railroad, was built in 1869. The same year the Buda Manufactur- ing Company was organized by J. B. Stewart and Capt. Ford. It was a joint stock com- pany. The shops were completed and started August 29, 1871; Capt. Rufus Ford, Presi- dent; James W. Stewart, Treasurer. These

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parties ran it two years, first manufacturing reapers and mowers, and then they manufac- tured cultivators ou a royalty, and introduced these valuable farm implements into use in this section of the country. They continued in this line for some time, and sold the fac- tory to George F. Chalender & Co., who have owned and run the works since 1882. In 1881 Mr. Chalender, Superintendent of motive power of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, leased the works of Mason & Ford. In 1883 a charter was obtained and the name changed to Ford & Mason Company, with a paid up capital of $24,000; W. J. Watson, Chicago, President; Charles C. Shepherd, Secretary and Treasurer. The business now is the manufacturing of railway and mining supplies, architectural iron works, casting and forging of all kinds in iron, and also woodwork. The works employ an average of forty to fifty men.

Bourbonnais .- In March, 1864, John H. Robinson began sinking a shaft on his land, and soon afterward the village of Bourbon - nais was platted, and the year following a switch was built at the village, and it had a postoffice known as Lovejoy. The mining operations were continued till in the fall of 1881, when they were discontinued. Mr. Robinson after continuing the business for some years sold out to Charles Barney, who leased the coal interest except the last two years of their operating, when he continued the business himself. During Mr. Robinson's connection with the mines he was associ- ated with different parties-first with Binks & Bradbury, of Kewanee, and afterward with Binks & Higman. Robinson was a farmer and not a miner, and so did not run it suc- cessfully; but some of the other parties were experienced miners and made money. Other parties also opened shafts in this vicinity - six shafts in all. Higman &

Akar opened two shafts, one on John Owen's land, and then on Elbridge Stevens' farm, and ran it four years. The depth to which they had to go was about seventy-five feet, and thus reached the second vein, which is about five feet thick. The most to con- tend against was the great abundance of water. About 1876 the postoffice was discon- tinued.

The business of the village was done by one store, which was first started by S. Parks and Robinson, and then Charles Shepard was in it for two or three years, when Binks, Higman & Co. bought him out, and then the firm of J. H. Morgan & Co. took charge of the store in 1874, and discontinued in 1877.

Sheffield. - It is a miner's town in a rich agricultural country. It was laid out by the Sheffield Mining & Transportation Company, in 1852. The company and town were named after Joseph E. Sheffield, of New Haven, Conn., who was one of the original owners of the tract of 1,000 acres of land purchased of John G. Reed by the company. The other chief men in the original company were Ebenezer Cook, Henry Farnam, and Charles Atkinson. The original scheme was to develop the coal in their land. The com- pany erected the Sheffield Hotel, and opened their first shaft in Mineral Township, near the village of that name. They paid $10,- 000 for the land alone. The account of the mines as now operated is given in the preced- ing chapter.

In 1852 E. Smith opened a store in a building afterward occupied by B. M. How- ard. Mr. Alex Ruthven was the first Secre- tary of the Mining Company. In 1855 the railroad put up the elevator. In 1860 A. G. Scott erected another. H. C. Porter succeed- ed Ruthven in the coal company, and he is now remembered as one of the most public spirited men ever in the place. He left in 1875.

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I. G. Reed was the first settler here. The Mining company put up a frame building in a very early time, and hauled the lumber for it on wagons from Chicago. This company certainly did a great work in developing the county's coal interests, and building up one of its most thriving towns.

Wyanet .- As fully told elsewhere, the very first settlement made in the county was at Bulbona Grove, by old Bulbona, and his In- dian wife and half-breed children. Then John M. Gay settled on Section 4, on Bureau Creek. Gay sold to Abrain Obrist and he to J. Allen. In 1831 Thomas Washburn made a claim in Section 23, just west of the County Farm, and here L. Triplett lived some years; he transferred his claim to Benjamin Lamb and he sold it to James Triplett in 1834. John Phillips settled on Section 10, iu 1833, and about the same time E. Chilson on 35. This was afterward D. Herriott's farm. Thomas Finley settled on Section 21. George Coleman made the first improvement where the County Farm now is, and Edward Triplett just south of the farm. In 1834 Aquilla Trip- lett came. In 1835 Solomon Sapp, Leumel and Rufus Carey settled here.

Milton Cain, William Allen, Thomas Clark, William Frankerberger, Ellis and Edward Mercer were all early settlers.

Ellis Mercer built a saw-mill in 1837 on Big Bureau, Section 36. He put up another mill on Section 27. Amos Leonard built the first flouring-mill on Section 35. In 1835 Ainos Leonard built a mill south of this in Indiantown.

Wyanet Village-was laid out in 1856, by Henry King. William Moffatt put up the first house. Franklin Crittenden was the first man to establish a business in the place. He remained a number of years and now has a fruit commission house in Chicago. Ham- lin Prunk engaged in business here a short

time before Crittenden did, but remained only a short time and left. John Stubbs was the first blacksmith. Mr. Crittenden built the Wyanet Hotel in 1858. The railroad did not erect depot buildings until 1857. A warehouse was put up in 1855. William Moffatt shipped the first car-load of grain from here in 1854.

The village was regularly incorporated in 1857. Andrew Sapp, George Douglas, Isaac Dysinger, F. A. Robinson, L. F. Hough- ton were the additional early prominent men of the place.

Selby-is drained by Bureau, Brush and Negro Creeks, all running from the northeast to the southwest. The early settlers here made this a noted place. Amos and Daniel Dimmick were the first and they sold to John Hall. Then there was Judge Hoskins, the Seatons, Kellums, and last but not least the Searles and Haslers. Extended accounts of all these people are given previously. The negro that settled on Negro Creek was said to be Enoch Love.

De Pue-originally called Trenton. It may be said to have been founded in 1835, as this year John Hall put up a large ware- house here, and then steamboats began to come to his landing. The boats would load here and go to St. Louis. In 1836 a com- pany was formed and purchased land of John Clark and put up two large warehouses, and this became the great shipping point for all the country west of the river. Benjamin Newell purchased the property, and in April, 1853, laid out the town. The postoffice then was named Selby, but the town was called Trenton. But as the river men knew of Trenton, Miss., and not of Trenton in Bureau County, there soon grew confusion and trouble, and the people petitioned for a change of name, and in 1866 the name was changed to De Pue. The growth and pros-

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perity of the place were sadly affected by the building of railroads all over the country. It is now a great ice-packing point for one of the St. Louis breweries. The lake furnishes fine fishing.

Du Pue Lake is three miles long-a clear and placid body of water, and hence the ice crop here is very valuable. The name given the lake indicates a French origin, and was no doubt known to the early French discov. erers. The now queer little dilapidated vil- lage looks like a strange exotic, grafted on the quiet and agricultural world about it.

Neponset-was originally Brawby, in con- sequence of many Englishmen residing there, who were from a locality of that name in England. The Board of Supervisors changed it to Neponset in 1866. This town is the southwest corner of the county. As there are four towns in the county that were within the bounds of the military bounty lands-a subject that at one time made much confu- sion, often disputes as to land titles, and materially delayed settlements here for years -it may be proper to give a short account of the subject. These lands, with others, were set apart by Congress for the soldiers of the war of 1812-15, and were designated on the early maps as military lands. The patents therefor were issued to soldiers, and were generally regarded as of little or no value. Parties generally neglected to pay taxes, even long after the county was settled up, and lawsuits about them, after they began to become valuable, were frequent. The Mili- tary District was a large scope of country, extending to the Mississippi River.

William Studley entered in Section 8, aud made a farm in 1836. Soon William Norton came; U. P. Botteril settled on Section 6, George Norton on Section 15, and James Tibbetts on Section 19.

The other early settlers were E. Kent, Levi Lewis, George Bowen, Robert Norton and Mr. Batriam.

Neponset Village-was built after the railroad had made a depot here, and a post- office established. M. H. Lee, the first sta- tion agent, and eighteen years in the posi- tion, built the first house in the place. The depot was erected in June, 1855. June 16, 1855, Caleb J. and Henry G. Little and Clark M. Carr filed the town plat for record. The railroad company wanted to compliment Mr. Lee in naming the place, and suggested "Leeponset;" bnt Mr. Lee named it Nepon- set, after a Massachusetts town.

Benjamin Drew built a hotel; Joseph How- ard and Joseph Lyford erected stores.

The farmers here are mostly Englishmen, and they have succeeded most admirably in raising fine stock, especially French and En- glish draft horses.

Arispe .- The first settler here was Amos Leonard, then Michael Kitterman and Dave Jones, then Cyrus Watson, Dr. A. Lang- worthy, Mr. Argrove, Alexander Holbrook, Ferrill Dunn, Joseph Beeler, Joseph Booker, Elijah Searle, Alanson Benson and Elder J. B. Chenoweth. A very complete account of all these early settlers will be found in pre- ceeding pages.

Dr. James Swanzy came in 1836; Oliver Milling, same year; A. M. Sheldon, 1837; Henry Obermier, 1840; David Brown, 1841, and Peleg R. Brown, 1842.

Leepertown. - This town on its eastern bor- der winds along the banks of the river and is therefore very irregularly shaped. It was named after John Leeper, who built the first flouring-mill on the site of the Leepertown mills. A full account of Mr. Leeper appears elsewhere. The bottom and swamp lands in this town lie in front of Hennepin and when this was Putnam County these and the

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river were a great trouble to the people west of the river.

Timothy Perkins was the earliest settler, then Leonard Roth, A. Perkins, Henry George, David Nickerson, David S. Miller, Jesse Perkins, Charles Leeper, John McEl- wain, and William Shields were among the early settlers.

Of these see full account in preceding chapters.

Bureau Junction-is the junction of the Bureau Valley and Rock Island Railroads. It is on the bottom lands. It was commenced in 1853, but the town was not laid out for some time. The company put up a large ho- tel for the accommodation of their travelers and those changing cars here. The place was laid out by Maj. William Shields.

West Hennepin .- Lewis Durley, A. S. Needham and G. T. Gorham laid off this place in 1836. From 1842 to 1852 it was quite a shipping point, and hence was a con- siderable pork and grain market. It had sev- eral large warehouses. The railroads de- stroyed the place.

A ferry was established here in 1831, at the time Hennepin was made a town.

Milo .- John Dixon was the first settler, and then his brother-in-law, Charles S. Boyd, succeeded him. The settlement was made at the famous Boyd's Grove. After Boyd left the grove it was in the possession of the Whipples for years. Boyd was alone here for ten years. In 1840 David Bryant settled on the south side of the grove, and about the same time Barney Hagan and Mr. Clark made improvements on the north side. In 1841 John A. Griswold came, and also Isaac Sutherland, on Section 22. The year before Edwin Merrick and A. E. May settled on Sections 2 and 3. In 1842 J. W. Harris aud J. V. Thompson settled on Sections 24 and 2. R. Steinhauer, C. R. Cook, H. Griswold,

R. Hay and J. Sutherland were early settlers. A full account of these settlers is in the gen- eral county history.

A few years ago gas was found here escaping from certain springs, and also in sinking wells at many points, at about a depth of thirty-tive feet. It would burn and roar with great violence from many wells, aud often burn furiously. A com- pany was organized in Marshall County to dig for coal oil. They went down several hundred feet, and of course found nothing, all of which a slight knowledge of geology would have told them, and saved them all their disappointments.

The more recent settlers were W. B. Whipple. Alfred Thompson, J. Reid, Seneca Hunter, A. H. Ford, R. Berry. George Down- ing, C. Benson, A. J. Nevitt, A. Cook, U. Weidman, H. Rich, N. Pullman, S. G. But- ter, J. P. Swift, J. Whittmore, G. W. Ewalt, T. R. Capperrune, B. Brewer, William Mus- ser, J. E. Hayes, J. W. Lea, R. P. Note- man, R. M. Keerns, Walter Galbraith, Will- iam Kimball, David Chrisman, J. H. Gudgell, W. W. Pettigrew, William Maclin, O. Rob- inson, O. C. Berry, J. Demaranville, D. Steinbrook and John Bothan.

Wheatland - is a half congressional township, divided in the center north and south. The most noted spot in the county is Lone Tree. A full account of this is given elsewhere. The town was not organized un- til 1857, being attached to Milo. Lone Tree Postoffice was originally on Section 16, and was moved to Section 20, and the name changed to Petit, but afterward it was again changed back to Lone Tree.

Locust Spring, on Section 7, is another old noted spot. There was a lone locust tree near the spring. Here from time immemo- rial came the buffalo and game and the In- dians to drink of these waters. Old, deep-

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cut trails ran out in nearly every direction from it. Buffalo bones in great profusion at one time were found about this locality and along the Senachwine. This spring was the last place in all these parts that the deer abandoned from the approaching white man.

The Andersons, many of whom are yet in the township, and S. Miller, G. W. Henry, Raleigh Rich, S. M. Clark, J. Merritt, E. and S. Hunter and J. Miller were the early set- tlers.

John and T. Kirkpatrick in 1841 built a mill on Crow Creek. This was the first set. tlement in the town. The same year J. Larkins settled on Section 16. Then came Nelson Ballman. Alpheus Cook and Michael Jennett came in 1843.

The township was late in settling up, on ac- count of being iu the military tract, and as late as 1845 it was one almost unbroken stretch of prairie, except the fringe of Crow Creek timber ou the south.

The town was first divided from Milo, and then placed back again in that township, and finally, as named above, it was again made a separate town. It was named by Justus Stevens after Buchanan's home. But this did not influence the politics of the people, as they always give reliable Republican ma- jorities. The State Road ran diagonally through this township, and this was about the only road the people had until 1856.

The more recent settlers were Joseph Mer- ritt, G. W. Ewalt, John Bell, Joseph Merritt, J. W. Meelick, John King, Abner Fox, Ezek- iel Sales, John Pettit, J. P. Swift, R. R. Vail, Thompson Gordon, Simeon Brown, Rawley Rich, Levi A. Roberts, William Brown, Justus Bare, John Miller, Gardner Rodgers, R. S. Kirk, Leander Packard, Rob- ert Hunter, N. H. Barto, Thomas Funson, F. M. Wells, John Holly, Christian Zerline, Silas Miller and Thomas A. Runnells.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES,

JACOB B. ADAMS, Fairfield, was born January 19, 1837, in Dayton, Tippecanoe Co., Ind. He is a son of William and Isa- bell (Bushong) Adams-the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Kentucky. They were the parents of five children, viz .: Sam- uel, Mrs. Margaret J. Rinehart, Jacob B., our subject, Mrs. Catharine Meek, Mary M. (deceased). and Francis Adams. The parents came to Bureau County, Ill., in the fall of 1840, and settled in Fairfield Township, Sec- tion 12. William Adams yet survives. Jacob B. Adams was reared in Bureau Coun- ty, where he has made farming his occupa- tion, and now owns a farm of eighty acres. Po- litically, he is connected with the Republican party. Mr. Adams was married March 28, 1872, to Nellie Olson, a native of Sweden. Mrs. Nellie Adams was a good wife, and the fond mother of four children, viz .: Annie I., born January 25, 1873; Almie M., born July 13, 1876; Fannie M., born October 8, 1879, and Minnie Grace, born June 13, 1881. Mrs. Nellie Adams died September 3, 1884.

DANIEL ALBRECHT, Arispe. The his- tory of the Albrecht family in this county dates back to November, 1837. It was then that Christian and Elizabeth (Engel) Al- brecht, with most of their children, came from Bavaria to the United States, and set- tled where their grandson, Daniel Albrecht, now resides. They died here, and are buried on the farm which they settled and improved. The names of their children are: Jacob, de- ceased; Peter, Johannes, Joseph, Christian, Mrs. Barbara Ioder, Mrs. Elizabeth Zeirlein, Mrs. Catharine Orendorff, the last three de- ceased, and Mrs. Magdalena Burkey, of Ne-

braska. Of the above, Joseph Albrecht was born March 19, 1817, in Bavaria. He came here with his parents, who entered 160 acres of land. He, like them, followed farming, and owns now a farm of 420 acres, which his son, Daniel, manages. Joseph Albrecht was married in 1841 to Barbara Gingery, born May 3, 1815, in Hessen Darmstadt. She died here June 25, 1883. Her parents were Johannes and Magdalena (Ackhart) Gingery. She was the mother of four chil- dren, viz. : Catharina, Joseph W., Daniel and William. Of the above, the oldest is at home. Joseph W. married Jennie Butler. They have one son-William W. Albrecht. Daniel, our subject, was born February 8, 1848. He is married to Lena Unzicker, born June 19, 1851, in Tazewell County, Ill. She is the daughter of Jacob and Maria (Krabiel) Unzicker, and is the mother of Otto F. and Edward U. Albrecht. William Albrecht was born April 18, 1850. He died December 17, 1877, at Brooklyn, in the prime of life. He was a graduate of the Lombard University. He traveled extensively in Europe, visited the Centennial, and then commenced the study of medicine at Long Island College, in Brooklyn, where he died. While traveling in Europe he visited Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and there studied its language at Giessen; then went to Switzer- land, Italy, France and England, collecting many notes and mementoes, which are yet preserved in the family. Daniel Albrecht and family, and also his parents, are mem- bers of the Mennonite Church.

JOHN ALBRECHT, Arispe, was born April 3, 1814, in Bavaria, Germany. He is a

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son of Christian and Elizabeth (Engel) Al- brecht. (See biography of Daniel Albrecht.) John Albrecht was reared in Germany, where he entered the regular army at the age of twen- ty-one years and served six years in a cuirassier regiment. Unable, on account of military duties, to accompany his parents to America in 1837 he waited patiently till his time ex- pired, when he borrowed $100 of a relative and in August, 1843, came to America. He was fifty-four days on the ocean and running out of money after landing, was obliged to borrow of a traveling companion with whom he came to St. Louis, Mo. He reached home in Bureau County, poor in purse but rich in strength of mind and body. He worked by the month for three years, paid what he owed and got married. He then rented land aud farmed for four years, after which he bought eighty acres of prairie and forty acres of tim- ber land at $5 per acre. From time to time he bought more land till now through his and his children's indomitable perseverance and industry he is in the possesion of 1, 192 acres of land. He was married in March, 1847, to Mary Ackerman, who was born in May, 1819, in Bavaria. She is a daughter of Henry Ackerman. She is the mother of the follow- ing children: Mrs. Catharine Stalter, Mrs. Mary Ropp, John A., Christian, and Henry V. Albrecht. Mrs. Mary Albrecht died Janu- ary 27, 1875. The whole family are mem- bers of the Mennonite Church. Politically they are Democratic. Of the above children John A. Albrecht was born April 20, 1849. He is farming a place of 240 acres. He was married February 9, 1873, in Tazewell County, Ill., to Elizabeth Burkey, who was born July 2, 1851. Her parents are Valentine and Elizabeth (Springer) Burkey, natives of Germany. Mrs. Elizabeth Albrecht is the mother of five children, viz. : Mary E., born January 18, 1874; Simon, February 18 1876; Johannes born April 4. 1877, Bertha F., born August 17, 1878; and William D. born September 19, 1881. Christian Albrecht was born November 22. 1850. He is at home working the old homestead. He was married March 10, 1878, to Fannie Stecker, born July 2, 1856, in Ohio. She is a daughter of Nicholas and Magdalena (Eimer) Stecker. This union was blessed with one son,

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History of Bureau County, Illinois, Part 58

Author: Bradsby, Henry C., [from old catalog] ed Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Chicago, World publishing company Number of Pages: 776

Author: Bradsby, Henry C., [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Chicago, World publishing company
Number of Pages: 776