The History of Livingston County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., Part 78

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WILLIAM P. DAVIS, farmer, P. O. Cornell ; was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., in 1833; he came in early childhood to La Salle Co., Ill., with his parents, Na- hum and Nancy Davis; March 4, 1856, he came to Amity Tp., Livingston Co., and located where he now resides ; he owns 80 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre. He married Lucetta C. Miner, in Serena, La Salle Co., Oet. 27, 1852 ; she was born in Bradford Co., Penn., Jan. 8, 1832; they have seven children living, one dead -Ezra K., Theodore P .. Marcia A., Esma- ralda J., Charles M., Gurden H., William G. Has held the office of School Director. 1

AMOS EDWARDS, farmer ; P.O. Cor- nell; he was born Dec. 15, 1860, in Saratoga Co., N. Y., remained there twenty- eight years ; moved from there to Sandusky Co., Ohio, remaining there four years and a half. thence to Livingston Co., Amity Tp. He married Abigail Coffin, Sept. 19, 1833; she was born Dec. 1, 1811, and died Oct. 14, 1840 ; had three children -Maria, Harriet Ann and Henry C. Married Mrs. Laura Lownsberry, in 1841; she was born Jan. 1, 1807, and died Jan. 27, 1875 ; had one child-Sarah. deceased ; she married J. H. Bruce, leav- ing two children ; he again married Mrs. Jemima Talbot, May 21, 1876; she was born Dee. 16, 1809. He has commissions from different governors as Deputy P. M., for thirteen years, and County Surveyor for twelve years. Taught school in his own house, his own and neighbors' children, receiving as compensation fifty cents per day; he entered land from the Govern- ment at $1.25, which would not have sold for $5.00 per acre, until S. A. Douglas got the grant for the Illinois Central R. R., in 1852, when land raised to $25 per acre ; in 1862 he refused $40 per acre for his land.

CHARLES EARP, deceased, farmer ; P. O. Cornell ; was born in 1808 in Not- tingham, England ; in early childhood, he came to America with his parents. William and Sarah. He was married in 1831, to Esther Morledge, at Pittsburgh, Penn. ; she was born 1811, at Derbyshire, England, and came to U. S. with her father, John Morledge, her mother having died when she was but four years of age; her father first settled in Columbiana Co., Ohio, where he died 1837 ; Mr. Earp died Oct. 7, 1873; owning at the time of his death about 440 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre, which since his death has been di- vided among his children, of which there are eight living-William, Caroline, Omer Desaline, Sarah A., Charles S., Mary Ellen, and John W. Mr. Earp located in Living ston Co., Amity Tp., in 1842.

MORRIS FOLEY, farmer ; P. O. Cor- nell ; was born in Ireland, 1827 ; he came to America in 1851, and his parents and their family came the year following ; he located in La Salle Co., Ill .. staying there five years, and then removed to Livingston Co., and has lived on his present farm

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for the past twelve years ; he owns 252 acres of land in Amity Tp., valued at $40 per acre, and eighty in Newtown, valued at $30. In 1858, he married Bridget Whalen ; she was born in Ireland in 1840 ; they have ten children living-Patrick H., born March 22, 1859; Mary Ellen, born Dec. 17, 1860; Morris, born Oct. 22, 1862; John W., born May 26, 1864; Francis Jane, born Jan. 13, 1866; Dennis, born Feb. 13, 1868 ; Thomas Edward, born Oct. 1, 1870 ; Hannah, born Oct. 10, 1872 ; Philip C., born March 31, 1875; Katie Ann, born Dec. 14, 1876 ; also one child deceased-Katie Agnes, born Sept. 11, 1874, died Aug. 10, 1875. He at present holds the office of School Di- rector.

ALFRED GAURLEY, farmer ; P. O. Cornell; was born in East Virginia in 1826, and came to Amity Tp. in 1865; farmed in Virginia; when he came to Amity he located where he now resides ; he owns 250 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre ; he also owns 320 acres in Kan- sas, valued at $3 per acre. He married Rebecca J. Farris, in West Virginia, in 1856 ; she was born in West Virginia, in 1842; they have nine children living- Sarah E., James, Josephine, Abel, Thomas B., Edgar, Mary, Alice J., Columbus. He is present incumbent of office of Road Com- missioner, and also has held the office of School Director.

J. P. HOUSTON, farmer and minister ; P.O. Cornell ; was born in Bourbon Co., Ky., Nov. 14, 1824 ; in 1841, removed to Indiana with his mother ; 1845, returned to Ken- tucky, and was married Jan. 26, 1846, to Miss Sarah A. Horton ; in 1857, he re- moved to Missouri, but remained but a short time, and then came to Illinois, lo- cating in La Salle Co .; in 1865, he re- moved to Livingston Co., Amity Tp., where he now resides; his wife died Oct. 22, 1850, leaving one child-Samuel Lee ; married Jan. 3, 1854, to Sarah A. Holtz- man ; she was born in Hardy Co., Virginia, in 1834; they have four children, three living-Louisa, Harvey R., Fannie D .; Carrie L. deceased ; Pearl Myrtle. He owns 257 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre; he makes stock a specialty. Has held the office of Supervisor three years, also been Assessor, School Trustee and Di- rector.

JAMES H. HAYES, farmer ; P. O. Cornell ; was born in La Salle Co., Ill., in 1837 ; came to Livingston Co., in 1857. In 1861, he enlisted in Co. C, 53d I. V. I .; in the battle of Hatchie he was wounded in the shoulder, and was in hos- pital for seven months, and was honorably discharged after seventeen months' service; for two or three years Mr. Hayes was not able to do much on account of wounds. He married Rachel Mabee, in this township, in 1867; she was born in Canada West, 1844; they have two children living- Freddie and Zella ; he owns 120 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. Has held the office of School Director.

SIMON JAMISON, farmer, P. O., Cornell ; was born in Ross Co., Ohio, May 31, 1837 ; his parents moved when he was about 8 years of age, to an adjoining county, but in time removed to Mercer Co., Ohio, where they both are at present living; their names are William and Sarah Jamison ; the subject of this sketch came to Amity Tp., Livingston Co., in 1868. He married Mary E. Kline, in Fayette Co., Ohio, Jan. 6, 1859 ; she was born in Fayette Co., Ohio, Dec. 17, 1838 ; they have three children-Edward A., born Oct. 23, 1859 ; Sarah C., Aug. 10, 1861 ; Carrie Allen, Dec. 19, 1865. He owns 160 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre on Secs. 17 and 20. Has held the office of School Trustee for nine years, and he is the present incumbent of the office of Road Commissioner, which office he has held for six years.

EDWIN R. LUCUS, farmer ; P. O., Cornell ; was born in Vermilion Co., Ill., in February, 1844 ; in early childhood his parents removed to Mo., but remained there only one year and returned to Liv- ingston Co., Amity Tp., in 1857 ; the sub- ject of this sketch enlisted in July, 1862, at Pontiac, in Co. A, 129th I. V. I .; was in the service about three years, passing through many battles without receiving a scratch. He married Martha Conwell, in Waldo Tp., this county, April 10, 1870; she was born in Ohio, in 1851 ; they have four children living, one dead; those liv- ing are Anna A., Viola G., Viota G., Lillie L. He owns 80 acres of land on Sec. 19, valued at $35 per acre.

LEVI LOUDERBACK, farmer; P. O. Cornell ; was born in Vermilion Co.,

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Ill., in 1832 ; he came with his parents in 1837, to Livingston Co; Levi now lives on the old homestead. He married S. J. Streach, in Amity Township, March 1, 1863; she was born in Tippecanoe Co., Ind., in Feb. 19, 1840; they have four children living-Ulysses, born March 1, 1864; Hattie C., born Oct. 26th, 1865 ; Ella, born July 11, 1867 ; John S., born Feb. 10, 1869; Guy, born Feb. 3, 1875. He owns 1453 acres of land. Mrs. Louderback's parents are living on their farm close by the children.

LIBERTY LOUDERBACK, farmer and Justice of the Peace ; P.O. Cornell ; he was born in Ohio, Brown Co., in 1824 ; he came in early childhood with his par- ents, Thomas and Sarah Louderback, Nov., 1831, to Vermilion Co., Ill .; in April, 1837. they removed to Amity Tp., Livingston Co., Ill. On 26th day of April, 1849, he married Mary Jane Corbin, in Livingston Co., Rook's Creek ; she was born Oct. 9, 1827, in State of Virginia. He settled on Government land. They have six children-John H., born March 25, 1850; George, born Oct. 9, 1851; Chester, born April 9, 1854; Julia A., born Oct. 18, 1856 ; Hersie J., born Sept. 28, 1863; Harriet C., born April 26, 1868. He was elected Justice of the Peace in Nov., 1854, and has been contin- ued with the exception of three years ; also been Supervisor three or four terms ; has acted in the capacity of School Treas- urer eight years, and has filled other school offices ; he owns 255.75 acres of land on Secs. 16, 20 and 23, valued at $35 per acre ; he is one of self-made men of the town, never having had over eight months' school in his life. Mrs. L. was the oldest lady settler but one in the township, coming here with her parents, David and Cathe- rine Corbin, in 1831, and has resided here ever since.

WILLIAM McVAY (deceased ), farm- er ; P. O. Cornell ; was born in Washing- ton Co., Penn., July 15, 1820. He mar- ried Dee. 2, 1847, Greene Co., Penn., to Matilda Mills ; she was born in Washing- ton Co .. Penn., Jan. 18, 1826. He fol- lowed farming after his marriage, until 1857, when they came West, locating in Livingston Co., Amity Tp., where his family now resides, at the time of his death, which occurred July 15, 1874, he owned

280 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre ; had since coming to this township held the offices of Road Commissioner and School Director, also was Deaeon of Christian Church. . They have had eight children, five living-Almina, Isa- bell, Albert (dead); Francis, Ida (dead); Ira, Willie P. (dead); Willis. Mr. McVay was much respected by all who knew him, and his loss was deeply felt by his family and friends.

JOHN MITCHELL, farmer ; P. O. Cornell ; was born in Norway. Stavanger, in 1819 ; when old enough, Mr. Mitchell went on the ocean as seaman, on merchant vessels, and was in port in America twice before coming here to settle ; he also was at different ports in different countries, sailing for nine years ; in 1847, he came to America, locating at no par- ticular place, but going from Chica- go to New Orleans, working for two years in Louisiana and adjoining States on the levees ; he also ran a boat from La Salle to Chicago, on the Canal ; his first loca- tion was on Otter Creek, in La Salle Co., in 1850. Dec. 1, he married Bertie Oak- land, in Ottawa ; she was born in Norway, in 1831; they have six children-Isabella C., Albert N., Johnnie, Elizabeth M .; James Murry, Joseph D. In 1853, he came to Amity Tp., and took up forty acres ; when he came he had only horses and wagon, and the third year he was taken sick, not being able to work for two years, and was obliged to sell everything he had in order to pay his doctor bill ; but through hard, honest, persistent industry, has ac- cumulated around him 766 acres, all in good cultivation. and among the best build- ings in the township ; he also owns in Iowa, 150 acres; the land at home val- ued at $40 per acre, and the Iowa land at $10 per acre, besides owning considerable personal property. Mr. Mitchell for many years in the early times was called "the Norwegian King," a name given by his generosity to his fellow countrymen.

EBEN NORTON, physician, Cornell ; was born in Franklin Co., Me., in 1825, March 5th ; when about 4 years of age, his mother dying, he went to an adjoining town and lived with an aunt; 1844 his aunt removed to Warren Co., Ohio ; when 21 years of age, he worked on a farm four months, and then went to school at

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Lebanon Academy, Warren Co., attending three terms, and from school commenced reading medicine with a man in same county, attending lectures in Cincinnati ; commenced practicing medicine in Main- ville, Ohio, in 1850, staying there about four years ; then came to Livingston Co. and located at what was then called New Michigan, but now called Newtown ; he practiced medicine until 1871, when he moved to Cornell and started a drug store, which he now owns ; does not practice but very little, making the drug business his main occupation. He married Phebe Jane Cain, in 1853; she was born in Maine, 1832 ; they have three children-Joel Har- rison, A. C., Eben Douglas. He was one of the first Board of Supervisors sent from Newtown, and acted in that capacity three terms from that place, and has been sent from Amity Tp., five times; he also is one of the Board of Trustees.

CHARLES H. ROWELL, laborer ; P. O. Cornell ; was born in Boston, Mass., in 1853 ; in 1861 he removed with parents to Maine, his father entering the service ; in 1867 they came to Livingston Co., Ill., Amity Tp. In 1876 he married Cora B. Buckles ; she was born in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 16, 1859; her mother lives in Jackson Co., Ill. He has been a resident of Amity Township eleven years ; has been farming for himself until the present year.

JOHN J. REEDER, insurance and real estate, Cornell ; was born in Troy Grove, La Salle Co., Ill., March, 1841; he enlisted in February, 1862, at Ottawa, Ill., in Co. A, 53d I. V. I., for three years ; when his time was up he re-enlisted and passed through the siege of Vicksburg, Atlanta and others, and was slightly wounded in the head ; at the close of the war he was mustered ont at Louisville, Ky., July 27, 1865 ; the year following he came to this county, locating at Odell, working three years at carpentering, and dealing in real estate and insurance one year ; went to south part of the State, remaining three years, thence, to Cornell, Amity Township, making real estate and insurance his main occupation. Married Mary J. Longnecker, at Pontiac, Ang. 28, 1867 ; she was born in Sunbury, Livingston Co., Ill., Jan. 1, 1850; they have had two children-Mildred J., born Nov. 17, 1868, died Nov. 14, 1874;

Edna N., Nov. 27, 1877. Held the office of Township Clerk two years in Odell and serving second year in this township in same capacity.

A. L. TRIM, Justice of the Peace, Cornell; was born in Wayne Co., N. Y., in 1820 ; in 1835 went to New York City, and shipped on sea ; was gone five years, staying home but a short time, and shipped again in 1841 ; was made Captain, sailing as Captain for three years; his parents having within this time removed to Porter Co., Ind., he returned home in 1844 ; his father at that time was Sheriff of Porter Co. ; his eyesight failing, the son acted as Deputy Sheriff for two years ; in 1847 he again shipped on the sea, going to Gibraltar and to Mobile; in 1848, took agency for Western Fur Co .; from 1849 to 1854 he was in store, hotel and farming ; went to sea in 1852, and in 1854 was mar- ried to Amarilla S. Hayes ; she died in January, 1856, leaving one son-Moses Lee, born in January, 1856 ; January, 1857, he married Sarah M. Hayes ; since which, up to 1865, he has been on the sea five years, also run hotel, store and rectifying houses ; in 1865, he was all burned out, and came West and located in Newtown, Livingston Co. ; was in the mer- cantile trade up to 1868, when he sold out and went to farming, which he continued until 1873, when he went to Cornell and worked at carpentering ; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1877, which office he now holds. Mr. Trim has been burned out entirely three times in his life, and also lost at one time $2,875 by pickpockets.

JAMES W. WILLIS, collection ; P. O. Cornell ; was born in Hennepin, Putnam Co., Ill., in 1832; is the oldest white per- son living who was born at that place ; he lived in Putnam, Bureau and La Salle Cos., excepting six years spent in Minn. and Iowa, until 1861, when he enlisted as pri- vate in Co. E, 4th I. V. C .; he served as private, First Sergt., Second and First Lieuts. until the Fall of 1864, after which he spent three years South in employ of the Government and Adams Express Co., after which he engaged in livery busi- ness at Minonk, Woodford Co .. Ill. ; moved to Cornell in Fall of 1872, in which place he has held the offices of Justice of the Peace and Village Clerk respectively four and three years, and now conducts the principal

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collection agency of the place ; also practices in Justice of the Peace Courts ; is enjoying a pleasant home with his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Baxandale ; she was born

in Pennsylvania in 1835, and was married at Hennepin, Ill., in 1857 ; they have two children, named Frank P. and Flora C., aged respectively 20 and 18 years.

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WALTER C. ALLEN, farmer ; P. O. Collins. Liberal ; Democrat. Born in England, June 24, 1847 ; came to this country with his mother in 1860; his father died in England, May 20, 1859, aged 60 years ; his mother is still living ; she was born in England, Dec. 18, 1803. Mr. Allen is the youngest of ten children- Charles died in Australia in 1868, aged 41; John was drowned in the Termaken River, New Zealand, April 10, 1865, aged 21; Emma died in England in 1868; James and Ellen reside in Australia, hav- ing been there fifteen years ; Joseph was a soldier in the late war ; served one year in the 129th I. V. I .; was then detailed to serve in the Quartermaster's Department ; after the war he obtained a position in the Surveyor's office at Washington, D. C., under the Hon. Wm. Forsyth, Surveyor of the District of Columbia, where he still remains. He married a daughter of the above-named gentleman ; she died in 1875, leaving no children. Walter resides on a farm of 133 aeres in Newtown Tp., which belongs to his brother Joseph. his aged mother residing with him.

HENRY BRANDES, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Smithdale. Protestant ; Repub- liean. Owns 160 acres, valued at $3 per acre ; born in Germany, Aug. 16, 1848. Married Carrie Hacke, March 6, 1878; born in Germany Sept. 11, 1858. Mr. Brandes came to this State from Germany in 1871; remained in Chicago three years, working in a furniture factory principally ; worked at carpentering in this neighbor- hood for four years ; commenced farming this Spring.

B. C. BOWN, farmer, Sec. 18 ; P. O. Collins. Episcopal ; Democrat. Owns 240 aeres ; was born in England in March, 1820. Married Eliza Allen, a sister of Walter Allen ; she was born in England, Feb. 4. 1825. Mr. Bown emigrated to

this country in the year 1868, bringing his family of ten children with him; he settled on the land that he now owns soon after his arrival ; and has made all the im- provements that are on it; Albert, the eldest, was born June 15, 1847; Charles Edward was born Sept. 23, 1848; Laura Julia, born Aug. 28, 1850; Eliza, born April 21, 1853; Annie, born July 28, 1855; Kate Helena, born Sept. 3, 1857; Thomas, born June 6, 1859 ; Ada Lillian, born March 12, 1861; Benjamin C., born March 1, 1863; John Allen, born May 9, 1866. Mr. Bown is a man that is much respected in the community where he resides, and has held several offices of trust.

ABEL K. BROWER, stock raiser and dealer : P. O. Collins. Liberal ; Green- back. Owns 240 acres, part in Amity and part in Sunbury Tps., valued at $35 per acre ; born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, March 11, 1843. Married Nov. 27, 1868, Josephine C. Nichols, daughter of Cap- tain James Nichols, of Sunbury Tp. ; she was born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 3, 1842; have had five children, four of whom are now living-Mary, born Sept. 15, 1869; James Arlineus, born Oct. 3, 1871 ; Charles Abel, born Feb. 13, 1874 ; William Nichols, born June 29, 1876; Harry Ireneus, born Feb. 25, 1878, died of small-pox April 4, 1878. Mr. Brower came to this county with his parents. from Ohio, in April, 1862 ; remained with his father until he was 21, during which time he attended school at the Ottawa Academy, at Ottawa, Ill., one year; since he has been of age he has been farming princi- pally. The small-pox broke out in his family March 10, of the present year, and all were sick, including Mr. Brower's father and mother; also a young man of the name of Wm. Miller, and a young lady of the name of Maggie MeKcown;

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they all recovered but the youngest, an infant, an account of which is given else- where. Mr. Brower held the office of Su- pervisor three years in Sunbury.

JOHN L. CUSICK, farmer, Sec. 28; P. O. Collins. Liberal ; Greenback. Owns 120 acres, valued at $50 per acre; was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Sept. 1, 1843. Married Isabella A. Leonard, Feb. 15, 1864; she was born Feb. 27, 1847, in Du Page Co., Ill .; have three children, all living-Mary, born March 13, 1855 ; Frank, born Dee. 5, 1866; John, born March 23, 1869. Mr. C. can properly be classed as one of the best farmers in this county ; a glance at his finely cultivated fields shows at once that he is thoroughly skilled in his profession ; he is a great reader and keeps himself and family well supplied with newspapers and books, in the selection of which he is very particu- lar to have only those that contain matter that has a tendency to educate and refine.

JAMES CALDER, farmer, Sec. 36; P. 0. Collins. Presbyterian ; Greenback. Owns 406 acres (140 of it in Iowa, val- ue $20), valued $40. Born in Ohio, June 14, 1821. Married Mary E. Brown, May 25, 1854; she was born July 21, 1833; have had ten children, seven of whom are now living-John W., born April 11, 1855 (he now lives on the Iowa farm) ; Charles Lester, born May 24, 1856, died March 18, 1863; George Thomas, born Sept. 10, 1858, died May 1, 1877 ; James Carleton, born Oct. 3, 1859 ; Robert Oliver, born Feb. 28, 1861, died Feb. 26, 1874 ; Anna O., born Jan. 4, 1863; Lucretia and Luella (twins), born March 1, 1865 ; Marion D. and Mary C. (twins), born Feb. 4, 1873. Mrs. C.'s father came from his native State (Penn.) to this county about the year 1836, and settled on Mud Creek, in the township now known as Sun- bury, which township he named after the town in Pennsylvania where he. formerly resided ; in the early settlement of the country he carried the mail between Dan- ville and Ottawa, making weekly trips and carrying it on horseback ; he also carried on the business of farming at the same time ; he died about the year 1850, at the age of 44. Her mother died in 1866; she was born in Pennsylvania, and was about 65. Mrs. Calder is one of the old- est settlers in the county, she having lived

in this immediate neighborhood for forty- two years; she can remember going to Pontiac when she was a girl; she said that at that time there were only two or three log houses and a Court House, the latter a two-story frame building; between Pon- tiac and her father's house on Mud Creek, in Sunbury Tp., a distance of twelve miles, no houses were to be seen. Mr. C. held office of Justice of Peace four years, also several other minor offices ; he came here in the Spring of 1851 ; taught school eighteen years.

CYRUS CUSICK, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O., Collins. Christian ; Greenback. Owns' 302 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre - born in Ulster Co., N. Y., Nov. 28, 1812 Married Sardine Marr, Jan. 1, 1835 ; sh was born Nov. 26, 1812; have had six children, only three of whom are now liv ing-Helen, born June 25, 1838; F an nie, born Jan. 27, 1840 ; she married L G. Pearre, Esq., of Dwight, and resides in that place; John L., born Sept. 1, 1842; James, born July 19, 1846, died Sept 27, 1858; Rose L., born Nov. 17, 1849, died Jan. 20, 1870 ; Clark G., born March 21, 1853, died Sept. 13, 1877, from damps, while descending a well on the O. F. Pearre farm, an account of which is given elsewhere. Mr. C. emi- grated from N. Y. to Michigan when he was 20 years of age; remained there about two years and then returned to N. Y .; then from there to Ohio and then to Michigan, and in 1851 to this county and settled on the place where he now resides ; he has been engaged in the business ot farming ever since, he has resided here.

JOHN FOLEY, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Cornell. Catholie; Greenback. Owns 252 acres, valued at $35 per acre; was born in Wexford Co., Ireland, about 1833. Married Catherine Whalen April 12, 1856 ; she was born in the same county in Ireland, June 24, 1838 ; have had nine children born to them, all of whom are living -- Dennis, born Aug. 24, 1858 ; Ellen, June 14, 1860; Oney, June 14, 1862 ; Mary, July 5, 1864; Philip, July 1, 1866; Anna, Oet. 24, 1868; Katie, Feb. 28, 1871 ; John, March 23, 1873; Maggie Elizabeth, May 18, 1876. Mr. F. emigrated from his native country in 1852 ; he landed at New Orleans April 1, and soon after came direct from there to Ottawa, Ill .; he worked

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out by the month a few years and then rented land on Indian Creek, in La Salle Co., and engaged in farming, remaining there about seven years; from there he came to this township and settled where he now resides, and has continued the busi- ness of farming ever since with success.

JOHN W. FLESHMAN, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Collins. Methodist ; Repub- lican. Owns 190 acres, valued at $40 per acre ; born in Vermilion Co., Ind., April 23, 1827; emigrated to this State in 1861; engaged in farming, which business he still continues to follow ; for the past few years he has cultivated from 200 to 300 acres. Has been married three times ; he married Margaret J. Lockett March 27, 1849 ; she was born June 18, 1828 ; died Oct. 21, 1850 ; one child was born to them from this union ; married Nancy J. Lowe Feb. 26, 1852; she was born Oct. 19, 1833, died Oct. 3, 1858, leaving one child-Ida, born Sept. 8, 1858 ; married Mary M. Hoobler, his present wife, Oct. 2, 1859; she was born Dec. 27, 1834; have had seven children, five of whom are living-Flora B., born April 27, 1862, William, Jan. 29, 1864 ; Frank, March 14, 1866; Ira Hull, Jan. 31, 1868, died Oct. 15, 1868 ; Amos, July 2, 1870; Minnie Myrtle, Sept. 15, 1872; Charles E., Nov. 10, 1874, died Oct. 9, 1875. Flora is a very fine musician, both vocal and instrumental ; although only 16 years of age, she has at present a large musie class, which occupies most of her time. Mr. F. at one time owned one-third interest in the steam mill at Newtown ; held office of Justice of the Peace four years ; also offices of Town Clerk and Assessor.

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The History of Livingston County, Illinois : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, &c., Part 78

Author: Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Chicago : W. Le Baron Number of Pages: 884

Author:
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Chicago : W. Le Baron
Number of Pages: 884