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Dr. Patten graduated from the University of Halle with high commendation from his professor in political economy, and returned to America in December, 1878, after an absence of three years. In September, 1879, he entered Northwestern University Law School. He had been there only about two months when he was obliged to give up his work on account of failing eyesight, and for three years was unable to do liter- ary work. During this time he worked on his father's farm, but thought much of the theme in which he was so deeply interested-political economy. In 1882 he consulted an able oculist in Philadelphia and was enabled to resume his studies and write his first book, "The Premises of Political Economy."
After 1882 he taught for several years in Homewood, Illi- nois, and later was superintendent of the schools of Rhodes,
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Iowa, for a year. By this time his book had won for him the reputation of a deep thinker and a master in the field of polit- ical economy. With this book to his credit, and the recommen- dation of Dr. Edmond J. James, he secured the chair of Polit- ical Economy in the Wharton School of Finance and Com- merce in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Patten taught continuously in this great institution for twenty-nine years, when he reached the age of sixty-five years, the age of retire- ment fixed by the university. His length of service entitled him to a Carnegie pension for university professors. Dr. Patten assisted financially many young men who could not otherwise have finished their courses. Dr. Edmond J. James said of him, "Professor Simon Nelson Patten was a prince of a teacher and a father to the boys."
Dr. Patten wrote a number of books on political economy and kindred subjects, which were used in schools as text-books, also numerous articles which he contributed to economic and scien- tific magazines. After his retirement from the university in May, 1917, he continued to live in Philadelphia and devoted his time to literary work as long as his health permitted. "The Development of English Thought," "The Theory of Pros- perity," "Heredity and Social Progress," and the "Economic Basis of Protection" are some of his other works.
During 1908 and 1909 Professor Patten was president of the National Educational Association. He attended the Eco- nomic Conference at Washington at the invitation of President Roosevelt.
Simon Nelson Patten married Charlotte Kimball, daughter of Solon Dexter and Jennie (Green) Kimball, in Canton, New York, September 2, 1903; she was born September 2, 1873, in Adams, Jefferson County, New York.
William (5) Patten married second, August 12, 1856, Miss Jane Somes, born in Argyle, New York, April 17, 1829; died in Oklahoma, August 21, 1911. Mrs. Patten was a daughter
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of Jonas and Lois (Hanks) Somes and a granddaughter of Timothy and Anna (Andrus) Somes, all of Argyle, New York. Her portrait faces page 210.
Children:
i. Charles J. (6), born Sept. 7, 1857.
ii. Anna Mary, born July 17, 1860.
iii. Alexander Robertson, born July 18, 1864.
iv. William Somes, born May 21, 1869.
v. Frederick Livingston, born July 20, 1872.
The Revolutionary ancestor of Mrs. Jane Somes Patten was Sergeant John Hanks, who was among the men from Connecticut towns who marched for the relief of Boston in the Lexington Alarm in April, 1775. He served in General Israel Putnam's regiment and was in action at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Later, he served in Canada under General Ben- edict Arnold.
William (5) Patten died at Yuma, Colorado, February 1, 1897, while on a visit with his son Edward and daughter Jen- nie, having just passed his eightieth birthday. He was brought to Somonauk for burial. Dr. G. H. Robertson, of Sandwich, Illinois, conducted the service in the United Presbyterian Church, attended by devoted friends and relatives. He is buried at Oak Mound Cemetery, near his home church in the family lot where his wife and other members of the family lie, and where the good he accomplished keeps fresh his memory.
CHARLES J. (6) PATTEN, born September 7, 1857; mar- ried first, in West Alden, New York, March 28, 1884, Harriet Clare Field, daughter of Oliver and Harriet (Coleman) Field; married second, September 29, 1925, Mrs. Phoebe Nichols Lett, daughter of Alonzo and Hannah (Moyer) Nichols.
ANNA MARY (6) PATTEN, born July 17, 1860; died in Edmond, Oklahoma, March 14, 1910; married in the home
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Robert (5) Patten First Member
Mrs. Robert Patten (Catherine Sibley )
Sarah French Charter Member
Charles J., Anna M. and Jennie M. Patten
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of her brother, Charles J. Patten, in Sandwich, Illinois, August 3, 1905, Charles Gilbert McDougall, of Chicago, Illinois.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON (6) PATTEN, born July 18, 1864; lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.
WILLIAM SOMES (6) PATTEN, born May 21, 1869; married in Edmond, Oklahoma, April 6, 1898, Erma May, daughter of Addison A. and Adeline (Harreld) Howard. Mr. Patten has been for twenty-five years president of the First National Bank of Edmond, Oklahoma.
Children:
i. William Howard (7), born Dec. 20, 1898.
ii. Charles Harold, born Aug. 21, 1908. A student at Leland Stanford University.
WILLIAM HOWARD (7) PATTEN, born December 20, 1898; married in Knoxville, Tennessee, September 6, 1924, Mildred Eaton Simpson. Their home is in Edmond, Okla- homa, where he is cashier of the First National Bank.
Children:
i. William Robert (8), born July 26, 1925.
ii. John Howard, born Sept. 20, 1926.
FREDERICK LIVINGSTON (6) PATTEN, born July 20, 1872; married first, at Collins, Iowa, September 13, 1899, Clara May McNew; married second, in Kingfisher, Okla- homa, November 27, 1912, Grace Cooper.
ROBERT (5) PATTEN, son of James (4) and Mary (Robertson) Patten, was born in the village of Granville, Washington County, New York, April 13, 1820. His father having died in 1827, Robert, in 1838, at the age of eighteen, went to Bennington, Vermont, where he lived for six years. There, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. Patten was chosen cap-
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tain of a company of Vermont militia. That year, 1841, a general muster of the state militia was held at an encampment at Bennington, and Robert Patten was awarded a first prize for the best-drilled company in the state of Vermont. In April, 1861, he helped to recruit and drilled the first company of Civil War volunteers raised in Sandwich, Illinois, but was prevented by ill health from going to the front as its captain.
In May, 1844, Robert Patten with his mother, sister Martha N., and brother Alexander R. came west to settle in Somonauk. After one year he returned to Bennington and on March 4, 1846, married Catherine Sibley, a daughter of John and Lovica (Clinch) Sibley. Soon after his marriage he returned with his young bride to Somonauk and settled on his farm adjoining that of his brother William, on the north, where he made his home until April, 1854, when he removed with his family to Sandwich, Illinois, to begin a business career.
Mr. Patten built and owned the first dwelling house in Sandwich after the railroad was constructed through that point. This house still stands and is part of the Methodist manse. He was the first station agent, serving for two years, and was postmaster for several years. He started and owned the first lumber yard, George Culver later becoming a partner. Mr. Patten also built and owned the first grain elevator and grist mill.
About 1856 a Presbyterian church was organized, and Rob- ert Patten took his certificate from the Somonauk Church, seven miles to the northwest, with which he had united March, 1847. Entering with zeal into the activities and building up of the Sandwich church, he was early made a ruling elder, and continued in the office until he removed to Hillsdale, Kansas, in 1870, where he died, June 1, 1876.
Children:
i. Mary Catherine (6), born Dec. 6, 1846; married Owen Lindsay Post, Aug. 13, 1867.
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ii. Helen Martha, born Dec. 29, 1849; married John Melvin Mannen, Mar. 12, 1884.
iii. Alice Lovica, born May 14, 1853; married Robert Dale Protzman, Sept. 29, 1875.
iv. Gilbert Robertson, born June 9, 1857; died April 1, 1858.
v. Julia Frances, born Feb. 5, 1859; died Dec. 28, 1863.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON (5) PATTEN, the young- est son of James (4), was born on his father's farm near East Greenwich, Washington County, New York, August 14, 1823. His father died in Salem, Washington County, when this son was but four years old, and the mother with her family moved back on the old East Greenwich farm, which was the family home until they removed to Illinois in 1844. Mr. Pat- ten attended the district school and later, with his sister, the academy in Argyle, New York.
In May, 1844, with his mother, sister Martha and brother Robert, he came to Somonauk to seek and make a future home. That year the three brothers, William, Robert and Alexander, rented a farm from Mr. James Scott near Little Rock. On it they raised a crop of spring wheat and harvested it with the heavy cradle scythe. About 1848, Alexander R. Patten and James H. Beveridge (afterwards brothers-in-law) opened a general store at Somonauk Corners, one and a half miles east of the church, at the crossing of the Galena stage road and the state road running from Ottawa and Sycamore. They con- tinued in business at the Corners until the railroad opened in the spring of 1854, when they moved to Sandwich, where Alexander Patten built and opened the first store in the new town.
February 18, 1851, Alexander R. (5) Patten married Agnes Beveridge, the eighth child of George and Ann (Hoy) Beveridge. She was born at Greenwich, Washington County,
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New York, June 17, 1829, and came to Illinois with her parents in 1842, when thirteen years of age.
On the removal of the family to Sandwich a new house was built an the northwest corner of Main and Third streets, in which the three younger sons were born. Mr. Patten soon be- came one of the prominent business men of the thriving little town. In the midst of his prosperity his store, which was a wooden structure, burned to the ground. Nothing daunted, he at once replaced it with a substantial brick building. This build- ing is owned at the present time by his son, Henry J. Patten, and has been occupied by a drug store for over sixty years.
In 1857 Daniel Seymour, then auditor for the C. B. & Q. Railroad, visited Sandwich and became acquainted with Alex- ander Patten. This incident is interesting from the fact that nearly sixty years later his grandson Leslie Wheeler married Violet Patten, Alexander Patten's granddaughter.
Mr. Patten, deeply interested in the community's welfare, was always ready to contribute liberally in money or time for that purpose. He was a man possessed of uncommon business ability, and gave by inheritance liberally of that quality to his sons.
Mr. Patten united by profession with the church at Somon- auk, March 28, 1847, where he continued a faithful member until he died, June 23, 1863, at his home in Sandwich, just two months before reaching forty years of age. In his short business career he accumulated a property, the income of which enabled his widow to give her children a good education. The youngest child was less than one year old when his father died.
Mrs. Patten remained in Sandwich until the death of her mother in 1865, when she went to live on the old Beveridge homestead farm in order to care for her aged father. She re- mained on the farm until 1874, when she returned to the family home in Sandwich. In the last years of her life she made her home with her son, James A. Patten, on Ridge ave-
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Alexander R. Patten First Member
Mrs. Alexander R. Patten (Agnes Beveridge) First Member
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nue, Evanston, Illinois, where she died July 9, 1909, having just passed her eightieth birthday. She was a woman of beau- tiful character and unusual ability.
Children :
i. James A. (6), born May 8, 1852.
ii. George W., born Feb. 7, 1854.
iii. William L., born Oct. 28, 1856.
iv. Thomas Beveridge, born Apr. 30, 1859.
v. Henry J., born June 30, 1862.
JAMES A. (6) PATTEN, born May 8, 1852, at Somonauk, Illinois; graduated from the academy of Northwestern Uni- versity in 1869, with the expectation of entering the univer- sity. For many years he has been in the grain business on the Chicago Board of Trade. He lives in Evanston, Illinois, which city he served as mayor in 1901-3. He married, April 9, 1885, Amanda Buchanan, of Chicago, a daughter of James and Sophronia Foster (Ballou) Buchanan, born December 20, 1858, at Cumberland, Ohio.
Children:
i. Agnes (7), born Sept. 3, 1891, in Chicago.
ii. Thomas Beveridge, born July 23, 1893, in Chicago; deceased.
iii. John Lourie, born Feb. 19, 1896, in Chicago.
GEORGE W. (6) PATTEN, born February 7, 1854, at Somonauk, Illinois; was a graduate of Monmouth College, in the class of 1876. He taught one year in the Sandwich High School and later entered partnership with his brother James on the Chicago Board of Trade. He lived for many years in Evanston, Illinois, where he died, September 30, 1910.
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON (6) PATTEN, born at Sand- wich, Illinois, October 28, 1856; died May 20, 1860.
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THOMAS BEVERIDGE (6) PATTEN, born April 30, 1859; died October 19, 1883, in his twenty-fifth year. He was a young man of much promise. He attended Monmouth College one year and in the spring of 1880 he entered the office of Beveridge & Dewey, the former his uncle, ex-Gov- ernor John L. Beveridge. Because of his fine abilities and trust- worthiness the firm sent him to New York City to establish a branch house there. Becoming ill with a recurrence of inflam- matory rheumatism, he was taken to the home of his uncle, the Reverend Andrew Beveridge, in Lansingburg, New York, where his mother was visiting at the time, and died there shortly afterward. He was brought to Somonauk and buried in the family lot in Oak Mound Cemetery.
HENRY J. (6) PATTEN, born June 30, 1862, in Somon- auk, Illinois; graduated from Cornell University in the class of 1884; married, December 18, 1893, at Pasadena, Cali- fornia, Emma Therese Herpin, daughter of Auguste and Laure (Martin) Herpin, of Jordoigne, Belgium. Mr. Patten has been in the grain business with his brothers for many years.
Child:
i. Rhoda Violet (7), married Leslie Wheeler, son of Charles Pinckney and Martha (Seymour) Wheeler, of Evanston, Ill., Jan. 15, 1916.
Children:
i. Leslie (8) Wheeler, born Sept. 17, 1917.
ii. Henry Patten Wheeler, born Dec. 18, 1919.
The Randles Family
ANDREW (1) RANDLES and family came from County Monaghan, Ireland, prior to the War of the Revolution and settled in Hebron, Washington County, New York. He mar- ried in Ireland, about 1756, Phoebe, daughter of Andrew and Phoebe (Strane) Todd.
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James A. Patten, Aged 19
George W'. Patten, Aged 21
Thomas B. Patten, Aged 14
Henry J. Patten, Aged 18
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Children:
i. Hugh (2), born 1759.
ii. John, married Sarah Foster.
iii. Andrew, not traced.
iv. William, head of a family in Hebron in 1790.
v. Martha, married James Foster.
vi. Elizabeth, married William Hutchens.
vii. Phoebe, married Alexander Coulter of Cambridge, N. Y.
HUGH (2) RANDLES, born in County Monaghan, Ire- land, in 1759; died in Hebron, N. Y., in 1825; married there, Jane, daughter of Alexander McClellan.
Children:
i. Hugh(3), married Elizabeth Livingston.
ii. Alexander, married Mary Ann Louden.
iii. William, married Nancy Guthrie.
iv. Andrew, married Elizabeth Barkeley.
v. James, a lawyer, died in Michigan.
vi. Jane, married James H. Flack.
vii. Margaret, married Col. William McClellan.
ALEXANDER (3) RANDLES, born in Hebron, Washing- ton County, New York, April 9, 1791; died there January 14, 1860; married September 15, 1815, Mary Ann Louden; born July 14, 1797; died April 24, 1860.
Children:
i. Martha Jane (4), born June 22, 1816; married Joseph (2) Gilchrist. (See page 124.)
ii. Andrew, born Apr. 3, 1822.
ANDREW (4) RANDLES, born in Hebron, New York, April 3, 1822; died in Waterman, Illinois, March 16, 1896; married in Argyle, New York, February 13, 1845, Margaret
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Ann McGeoch; born in Argyle, New York, February 15, 1825; died in Waterman, Illinois, March 28, 1891; daughter of Alexander McGeoch and wife Jannet, daughter of Wil- liam (2) McClellan.
Children:
i. Alexander (5), born in Hebron, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1846.
ii. William J., born in Greenwich, N. Y., Aug. 9, 1848. iii. Mary Jeannette, born Aug. 14, 1850; died Feb. 6, 1881; married Dec. 20, 1870, William Doig McCleery. (See page 177.)
Andrew (4) Randles, at the age of twenty-four years, was elected a ruling elder in the United Presbyterian Church in East Greenwich, New York, continuing to serve as elder until his removal to Illinois in 1867, where he was an elder in the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church until his death, fifty years in all.
Mr. Randles owned for twenty years the Patten homestead near East Greenwich, New York, where Alexander R. Patten was born and reared. Coming to Illinois in the spring of 1867, they bought an improved farm in Clinton township for $35 per acre. Here they spent the remainder of their lives.
WILLIAM J. (5) RANDLES, born in Greenwich, New York, August 9, 1848; died May 23, 1917; married in Somonauk, Illinois, December 17, 1873, Emily, a daughter of Thomas (3) White; born February 19, 1851; died Feb- ruary 17, 1888.
Children:
i. Martha (6), married first Archie Howison; second, George McCleery. (See pages 157 and 181.)
ii. Roy, married Marie McCleery.
iii. Andrew, married Myrtle Beitle.
iv. Anna, married Wallace Cox.
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The Robertson Families
In Washington County there were several distinct groups of Robertsons of no known kinship.
I
GILBERT (1) ROBERTSON, married Isabel Johnston, of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Child :
i. John (2).
JOHN (2) ROBERTSON, married Anne Hamilton. Child:
i. William (3), born at Peterhead, Jan. 19, 1752.
WILLIAM (3) ROBERTSON, born January 19, 1752, in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died in Argyle, Wash- ington County, New York, February 15, 1825; married in Argyle, now Greenwich, September 24, 1775, Mary, a daugh- ter of Archibald and Eleanor (McNaughton) Livingston, owners of lot No. 66 in the Argyle Patent. Mary Livingston, born in Tappan, Rockland County, New York, September 26, 1757; died in Argyle, August 7, 1793, when her ninth child was born. For the Livingstons, see with McNaughton in Ap- pendix.
Child:
i. Mary (4), born in Argyle, August 7, 1793; married James (4) Patten. (See page 210.)
RUFUS ROBERTSON, who married Ann Fitch, is believed to belong to this branch of the family.
ELEANOR ROBERTSON, an aunt of Ann Hoy Beveridge, married William (1) Henry. (See page 148.)
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II
JOHN (1) ROBERTSON and his wife Christie Mc- Laughlin came from Blair Athol, Scotland, and settled in Putnam township, Washington County, New York, about 1800. John died in 1806, at thirty-six years of age.
Child :
i. William (2), born Aug. 25, 1805.
WILLIAM (2) ROBERTSON, born in Putnam, New York, August 25, 1805; died in Aurora, Illinois, February 18, 1885; married first, in July, 1835, at Putnam, New York, Isabella, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Ray) William- son; born in Putnam, Washington County, New York, March 15, 1815; died in Clinton township, De Kalb County, Illinois, May 6, 1855. In 1843 they immigrated to Illinois and settled on a prairie farm in Clinton township, De Kalb County. They were charter members of the Somonauk Associate Church. Mr. Robertson kept the post-office at Dorset for a number of years, using his house as his office. One year his salary amounted to $5.68. Portrait, page 236.
Children :
i. John (3), died aged 7 years, at Putnam, N. Y., July, 1843.
ii. Daniel, died aged 5 years, at Putnam, N. Y., July, 1843.
iii. Charles, died aged one month, at Putnam, N. Y., March, 1840.
iv. Alexander, died aged 2 years, at Putnam, N. Y., July, 1843.
v. Henry, born in 1844; died a soldier in the Union Army, at Jackson, Tenn., in 1863.
vi. William Russel, born Nov. 21, 1845; married Julia Fullerton, 1869, and died in Franklin, Neb., March, 1926.
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vii. Robert Andrew, born March, 1848; served as a sol- dier in the Civil War for nearly three years; mar- ried Anna McFarland. Mrs. Robertson died early in 1926 and Mr. Robertson Nov. 3, 1927. viii. Margaret Isabel, born August, 1850; died in Lincoln, Neb., in 1915; married first,
Douglas; second, Rev. Elam Phillips, who died in New York about 1890.
William (2), Robertson married second in Putnam, Wash- ington County, New York, September, 1856, Margaret; born there October 28, 1824, daughter of William Graham and Jane (French), a daughter of Benjamin and Charlotte (Miller) French of Argyle, New York, and granddaughter of David and Susanna (Blair) French, of Cambridge, New York. Children :
i. Nettie (3).
ii. Christie.
William Robertson, his two wives and his daughter Christie are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
III
JAMES (1) ROBERTSON, with wife Margaret and their three children, came from Scotland and settled in Cambridge, New York, in 1794. His brothers William and Patrick came the same year. James (1) died April 30, 1829, aged seventy- six years. His wife died February 15, 1798, aged thirty-eight years.
Children :
i. James (2).
iii. William.
ii. John.
iv. Helen.
JAMES (2) ROBERTSON, married Agnes Oliver, daugh- ter of Robert Oliver, who in 1794 was elected a ruling elder in the Coila United Presbyterian Church.
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Children :
i. Robert Oliver (3), married Elizabeth Henry, sister of James Henry, of Somonauk, Ill.
ii. Margaret.
iii. William, born in Greenwich, Washington County, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1823; died in Somonauk, Ill., Dec. 25, 1885; married in Greenwich, N. Y., June 14, 1850, Anna Pamelia (3) Henry, born in Green- wich, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1822; died in Sandwich, Ill., Dec. 12, 1896, daughter of John Vetch (2) Henry and wife Pamelia Johnson.
Children:
i. William J. (4), for many years supervisor of Sandwich township, Sandwich, Ill.
ii. Anna Pamelia, married David James Arm- strong, of Sandwich, Ill. (See page 81.)
The Shankland Family
JOHN (1) SHANKLAND, born in Sangour, Scotland, in 1774; died at South Argyle, New York, April 18, 1825; mar- ried Jannet -, who died December 19, 1863, aged eighty years.
Children:
i. John (2), a physician.
ii. James, a clergyman.
iii. Moses.
iv. Elizabeth, died Jan. 3, 1852.
v. Margaret, married Peter Mott, of Albany, N. Y.
DR. JOHN (2) SHANKLAND, was a charter member of the Somonauk United Presbyterian Church. The church rec- ords give his wife's name as Mrs. M. E. Shankland. They had three children, Perry (3), Alice and Nettie. Dr. Shankland left Sandwich, Illinois, and went to Battle Creek, Michigan, about 1860.
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The Stewart Family
JOHN (1) STEWART, a Scotch Covenanter, fled from Scotland to County Down, Ireland, between 1665 and 1685 to escape penalties incurred from noncompliance with royal edicts respecting religious worship and attendance at the Parish Church. The North of Ireland had become a refuge for pro- scribed Protestants and condemned Covenanters, and thither he went, preferring to abandon his native hills rather than to renounce the Solemn League entered into by the Scottish Chris- tians in 1643.
John Stewart died in 1720, and of his family we have rec- ord of one son only, Robert. The following heads of the gen -* erations from John Stewart are:
ROBERT STEWART (2), born in 1665.
SAMUEL STEWART (3), born in 1698.
ROBERT STEWART (4), born in 1732.
WILLIAM STEWART (5), born in 1765; married Mary Stewart.
Children:
i. Elijah (6).
ii. Mary, born June 5, 1812; married William (1) McKee. (See page 199.)
ELIJAH (6) STEWART, second child of William (5) and Mary (Stewart) Stewart, was born April 5, 1803, in Adams County, Pennsylvania; died December 15, 1881, on his farm in Somonauk township, De Kalb County, Illinois. He held the office of ruling elder in the Associated Church and in the United Presbyterian Church for thirty-seven years.
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Elijah Stewart married first, June 16, 1825, Agnes, daugh- ter of Alexander and Rebecca Torrance McGaughey; born April 11, 1803, near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; died Decem- ber 19, 1872. They lived fourteen years in Coitsville, Ohio, removing in 1839 to Mercer County, Illinois. In 1853 they removed to Somonauk, Illinois, where they lived for the rest of their lives. They are buried in Oak Mound Cemetery.
Children :
i. Alexander McGaughey (7), born Jan. 7, 1827.
ii. William, born Oct. 11, 1828; died June 7, 1863.
iii. Rebecca, born Apr. 29, 1831.
iv. Mary, born Oct. 20, 1833; married John Boyd. (See page 104.)
v. Sarah Ann, born Aug. 8, 1837; died Dec. 13, 1880.
vi. Annette, born Jan. 23, 1840, in Mercer County, Ill .; married James McLean (4) Dobbin. (See page 109.)
vii. Emeline Amanda, born May 8, 1842; married James McClellan. (See page 186.)
viii. Samuel James, born Nov. 8, 1845. He was a minister of the gospel.
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