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GEORGE W. KOHL, farmer, Sec. 30; P. O. Freeport; born in Penn- sylvania, July 12, 1847; came to Stephenson Co., Ill., with his father, in 1850, at the age of 3 years; he has occupied his present farm ever since settlement, having 200 acres, which he values at $40 per acre. His politics are Republican. In April, 1870, he married Miss Louisa Herbruck ; they have two children, named Harvey and Mary. George, like his father, has held both township and school offices. He also enlisted in the 142d I. V. I., Co. E., and served three months.
AARON KOSTENBADEN, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Freeport; born in Columbia Co., Penn., March 22, 1817; left there in 1823, and went to Union Co., where he stayed till 23 years of age; went, in 1840, to Hancock Co., Ohio; from there to Seneca Co., where he worked at cabinet-work, and has made all his own furniture ; is now making his sons'. He stayed in Seneca Co. until coming here; he was a single man when he arrived in Stephenson Co., Ill., November of 1845; he then returned to his native State, in 1846, and, in 1847, returned to Illinois, and, in the fall, married Miss Margaret Newcomb, of Pennsylvania; the marriage took place four miles from the city of Freeport, at her home, now called the Reasoner farm; after 17 years of married life, his wife died, in May, 1864; he has since been a widower. He owns 334
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acres, valued at $60 per acre ; near his house, he has one of the best stone-quarries in the State, if properly opened; curious to say, he has been on the farm without inter- mission for twenty-six years, except a visit to Cedarville of three years. His politics are Republican ; Fremont was his first candidate. Hc belongs to the German Reform Church. It is a curious fact, that his father had a family of ten boys, all alive, and the oldest is now 70. Of his present neighbors, Murdaugh came before he did two years, and Flausburg one year. He had eight children by his marriage-Samuel, Susanna, Lizzie, Henry, Jacob, Reuben, Daniel and Solomon. Samuel, his oldest, in October, 1875, married Miss Mary Ann Crow ; he is a carpenter and farmer; built his own house (and owns 40 acres in Sec. 16); Samuel and his wife are at John Smallwood's house; she is a native of this State; they have two children named Laura Mabel and Aaron.
LEVI LAW, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Cedarville; born in Lebanon Co., Penn., Dec. 13, 1824; came to Stephenson Co. in 1856; from 18 years of age he has followed milling; when he came here he run the Scioto Flouring Mills for eight years ; then, his health failing, he bought this farm, in 1865, and moved into the house in 1866; owns 70 acres, valued at $50 per acre; with the help of his boys has carved his fair acres from the dark forest; the people of the township made him Road Commissioner ; he has also held school offices. In politics a Republican, and belongs to the Lutheran Reform Church. In 1846, he married Miss Rebecca Dierweicher, of Pennsylvania ; they had six children-William J., now in Iowa; Amanda A., Roland M., John H., Jerome F. and Aaron A., now in Iowa, married, and one child. Mr. Law had two brothers in the army; Henry S. was taken prisoner on Missionary Ridge and starved to death in Andersonville; John, with his family, now lives in Cedarville, Buckeye Township.
MARTIN LAWLESS, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Damascus ; born in Ireland County of Dublin, in 1822, Feb. 3, within seven miles of the city of Dublin ; sailed from Ireland for New York, in 1848, and went to work for Harvey Otis, of Kingston, Ulster Co .; stayed with him five years, then went to Freeport, where he stayed until he went to work Col. Putnam's farm near the city, where he was for six years, then for five more on Elias Perkins' place ; he moved from there to his present home, about the year 1865; his farm embraces 75 broad acres, valued at $45. He has held township and school offices. In politics a Democrat, and belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1847, on the 3d of October, he married Miss Mary DeLap, of Ireland ; they have six children living-John, Hubert, Martin, William, George and Charles; George is a teacher ; in the summer he works the farm, and in winter teaches school.
OLIVER P. McCOOL, Sec. 24; P. O. Freeport; born in Union Co., Penn., Aug. 29, 1820; he came to Stephenson Co., in 1840, with his father, Joseph McCool; they took a boat at Pittsburg, Penn., and landed at a place named Keithsburg, consisting of two or three cabins ; it has since been the county seat ; during the summer they were there, Dr. Van Valzeh, who was running for the Legislature, came down there and induced them to go to Stephenson Co., where they arrived in October, 1840; Lancaster Township was their first location; then moved on to Sec. 13, Harlem ; were there from 1840 to 1843, when they settled on the land where they now live. Joseph McCool was a public man, and served as Sheriff of Stephenson Co., and died in 1844, Feb. 14, while in office ; his wife is now living with Oliver P., on the old place, at the ripe old age of 87 years ; their family consisted of nine children ; eldest son now lives in Freeport ; Eliza Ann, now wife of Robert Bell, lives in Freeport; three daughters- Jane, Lucretia and Margaret-are in Fayette Co., Iowa; Mary Foster is a widow and lives in Madison, Wis .; Henrietta is dead, and James, the youngest, is now an engineer on the railroad; Oliver P. has a farm now of 110 acres, valued at $60 an acre ; he has been a public man all his life; first served in Lancaster Township, when the present part of Harlem, where he lives, belonged to that township; has been Overseer of Highways, Trustee, two terms Board of Supervisors ; his second term was served in 1867; in 1873, was County Treasurer, and again in 1875. He married Miss S. B. Barber, of Union Co., Penn., May 2, 1854; their family numbers eight children, one is dead-Susan B., lives with the Barber family ; James B., Nellie, Emily B., Joseph,
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Henrietta and Charles B., all at home. Mr. McCool is a Democrat, and used to belong to the M. E. Church. Mr. McCool's father was born in Rockridge Co. Va., in the immediate vicinity of the great Natural Bridge, May 25, 1794 ; when a boy be removed to Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky., and grew up to manhood there; by this time he had traveled some, and had seen the effects of slavery ; he made up his mind never to make his home in aslave country ; when a young man, he went to Union Co. Penn., and married there, March 18, 1818, to Miss Eleanor Nevins, who was born in Union Co., Penn., Oct 29, 1793 ; Mr. McCool died Feb. 14, 1844; Mrs. McCool is still living with her son, at the age of 87 ycars.
EDWARD MARTIN, farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Freeport ; born in En - gland, Jan. 10, 1827; came to America with his father in the spring of 1849, and traveled with the family to Chicago by team, and on to Stephenson Co., Ill .; at Albert Hall's tavern, got out before daybreak and went on to the old Tisdale Tavern, or what was known as Pleasant Hill, and got his breakfast, then went on to Waddams Grove, and went to work ; here he earned his first dollar, and from this start has gone on until he bought himself a farm in 1854, of 40 acres, valued at $50 per acre; after getting through with his work at Waddams Grove, he wanted to find his father and mother, whom he had left at Hall's Tavern some time before; in going back there he found them on the spot where his house now stands. He is a Republican in politics, voted for Fremont, has held the office of Tax Collecter, Overseer of Highways, also school offices. Sept. 1, 1854, he married Miss Polly Clay, of Ohio ; was married near Wad- dams ; they had eleven children-Delilah, Sophia, Mary E., Harriet, John F., Margaret, William, Ellie F., Kate, Huldah Ann and Edward.
JOHN MARTIN, Sr., farmer, Sec. 17; P. O. Freeport; born in Sussex, Co., England, May 6, 1802; did not leave his native country until 1849 ; was farming land owned by his father, and when he died, a legacy of £1,000 was left John, who then farmed for himself, but with such poor success that at the age of 47 he found he had lost all, so started for America; he landed in New York in 1849 ; came West and bought 40 acres, on which he lives, now farmed by his son, John Martin, Jr .; it is valued at $50 per acre. He is a Republican, and belongs to the Episcopal Church. Mr. Martin, in 1823, in July, married Miss Mary Ann Fedard, of England ; they were married in Whiteside, Kent Co .; have had nine children-Harriet, Edward, John, Elizabeth, Stephen, Thomas, Henry, Mary Ann and James.
WILLIAM MEADS, farmer; P. O. Cedarville; born in Maryland, July 19, 1817 ; he lived there until 1879, engaged in the shoe trade, milling, and farming with his father ; the old family numbered six boys, of whom four are living- James Meads, now in Iowa ; William, the subject of this sketch ; Nathan, in Pennsyl- vania, and Aquilla. Mr. Meads, on the 21st of January, 1839, married Miss Ann Gibson, of Pennsylvania; their family were-Franklin, deceased ; William ; Amos, deceased ; Mary Ann, now Mrs. Akins; Benjamin, living in Freeport; Leah, in Penn- sylvania, and Nathaniel. Mr. Meads now lives quietly on his town property. In politics he is a Democrat, and belongs to the Evangelical Church of Cedarville.
GEORGE MERNITZ, farmer and blacksmith, Sec. 36 ; P. O. Freeport ; born in Germany, Sept. 10, 1837 ; he emigrated to America with his parents in 1852, and settled in Stephenson Co. in 1861, where he has given his attention to farming and overseeing his blacksmith shop, which he erected when he first came ; he owns 8 acres of land, valued at $150 an acre, with his city property. In politics, he is a Repub- lican. He married in 1868, Miss Susan Sanspzer, of Illinois ; they have two children -Willie and Albert.
THOMAS METZ, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Freeport ; born Nov. 12, 1834, in Northampton Co., Penn., and came to Stephenson Co. with his father in 1838; he formerly lived on the David Walkee farm, where they lived for sixteen years, and have been on this place for twenty-five years ; he owns 16 acres of timber and 55 acres of improved land ; the probable value is $45 an acre. His politics are Democratic. Mr. Metz was married in the spring of 1867, in March, to Miss Eliza Merrill, of New York ; they have five children-Flora, George, Fred, Verne and Mary.
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LEWIS MEYERS, wagonmaker, Sec. 18 ; P. O. Eleroy ; born in Germany, April 25, 1827 ; came to this country in 1853, when 26 years of age; from New York he went to Bradford Co., Penn., and moved West to Stephenson Co. in 1855, and worked for Mr. Kreitte in Freeport, for one and a half years ; he then moved to Loran, and worked at his trade ten years there, and finally went to Eleroy, where he carried on wagon-making for six years, and in 1873 moved on to his present location ; but it was not until the spring of 1878 that he moved his shop down ; he owns now 80 acres, which he farms, valued at $55 an acre. In 1855, he married Miss Matilda Trich ; they have seven children-Mary (now Mrs. L. Gilman), William H., Liddie L., Tillie E., L. Frank, Charles E. and Clyde G. Mr. Meyers enlisted in the 15th I. V. I., Co. H, and was mustered out in Springfield in 1864. Conrad is here on the farm ; his sister, Charlotte (now Mrs. Flickinger), and William, living in Jefferson Township. Lewis is a Republican ; also belongs to the Evangelical Church, of which he is a class-leader, and Rev. Charles Feler, minister.
E. R. MULNIX, farmer and school teacher, Sec. 15; P. O. Freeport ; born in Delaware Co., N. Y., Aug. 23, 1826 ; lived at home until 1855 ; farmed and studied from 1848 to 1855; he taught, clerked and finally went West ; during his first visit he stayed on the very spot where his house is now built; he then went on to Iowa, farming and teaching in the winter for some thirteen years; didn't like it in Fayette Co., Iowa, so he sold out and came back, and settled on this place in 1869, and has been here since. He owns what used to be three farms-the Jim Smallwood farm, the Henry Smallwood farm and the piece his house stands on, called the Sheller farm. The farm now con- tains 220 acres, valued at $60 per acre. While in Iowa, Fayette Co., on March 27, 1856, he married Miss Desdemona Dunham, of Mercer Co., Penn .; they have had six children-Mahlon D., Stella, Romana D., Corintha A., Sarah D. and Lola D. Mr. Mulnix, in politics, is a Republican, or what he terms an equal-rights man, and a member of the Christian Church, or what he calls a Union man. His references are Matt., 16th c., 18th v., and John, 17th c., which prove that the union of the church is what is desired, and so he is a Union man in religion.
O. B. MUNN, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Freeport; born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 16, 1817; living in his native county until he attained his 24th year ; then coming directly to Stephenson Co. in the year 1841, Sept. 20, and has been engaged farming since ; owns at present 160 acres, valued at $75 per acre. Politics, Republican ; religion, united with the Presbyterian Church in 1842. Has held township and school offices. Married in 1845, Miss Ellen W. Vandyke, of Pennsylvania ; six children in all- Joseph O., Charles H., Edgar W., Mary Ellen, Mary Emma and Carrie. Parents of Mr. Munn native Americans ; grandfather Munn was with Ethan Allan at the capture of Ft. Ticonderoga.
JOSEPH R. MURDOUGH, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Damascus. Joseph's father, James Murdough, came to Stephenson Co. in 1839; lived first in Buckeye and then in Lancaster Township, and then settled on Sec. 8 in 1846, living in a log house until 1857, when he built a grout house, which is now occupied by C. A. Hart; in 1865, he moved on to the present homestead in Sec. 9. In 1841, he married Miss Margaret McGee, of Ireland ; their family consisted of ten children-one son died in the army, Joseph R., Margaret A., Sarah J., Thomas S., Mary R., Hannah W., Elizabeth D., Mary C., Ebenezer D .; Joseph is taking care of the farm ; Margaret is now Mrs. William Laird, of Nebraska; Mary C. is with them; Elizabeth, now Mrs. William Waddams, lives in Waddams, the rest are dead; Joseph R. was born Sept. 8, 1843, and in 1863 started West ; teamed and mined in Montana, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho and Utah, and came back in 1866; he then went to Nebraska, Pawnee Co .; kept bachelor's ranche till 1879, and got back home 19th of April. He married Miss Sophia Beke, of Penn- sylvania, 10th of May, 1880, by Squire Jaeger. Has held township and school offices, and is a Democrat.
FRANK PICKARD, farmer, Secs. 18 and 7; P. O. Eleroy ; born in Stephenson Co., Ill., Dec. 10, 1856 ; his ancestors were old settlers in the West; grand- father, Smith W. Pickard, born in Ovid, Seneca Co., N. Y., Sept. 24, 1795 ; was a
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soldier in 1812; moved to Stephenson Co. in 1838; left his son, Jonas L. Pickard, and went back to Wisconsin and went to farming; in 1813, was a licensed preacher of M. E. Church ; as was his wish, he died in church, Oct. 18, 1873; Jonas L., the father of Frank, was born Nov. 25, 1817, in Cayuga Co., N. Y .; learned wool-carding as a trade ; came out West with his father in 1838, and settled at Waddams ; bought this, the home- stead, in 1842; the patent was signed by James K. Polk; he died Jan. 25, 1875, leaving a family of six children-Willard Scott, born Feb. 10, 1845 ; Marion Winfield, born Jan. 28, 1848; Lorenzo Finley, born April 5, 1849; Emily, born March 30, 1852; Frank Fremont, born Dec. 10, 1856; Delta, born July 4, 1860 ; Frank F. now farms the estate, containing 83 acres, valued at $50 an acre. He is a Republican, and belongs to the Evangelical Association. Married Miss Susan Herrbruck, June 2, 1877, of Pennsylvania ; had one child, named Delta Inez, who died when 22 months of age.
WILLIAM F. PRESTON, farmer, Sec. 22; P. O. Freeport ; was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, June 19, 1819, and while there was farming and also learned the cabinet trade ; he went to Butler Co., Ohio, in 1838, and ran a grist mill, but, it not paying, he sold out and came West to this county, where his brother was then working the farm where Mr. Preston now lives, which he had taken as a claim ; his father was living here at that time-fall of 1838-having been surveying for the Government in the State of Michigan from 1816 to 1819 ; he was a very popular man and a good surveyor, and at one time it was thought that he could have laid out the site of the city of Freeport on the land now occupied by his farm; he died at the advanced age of 92 years. Mr. Preston, after coming to this county, settled down to farming, which he followed until 1848, when he went to California, getting there 7th of October, 1848, having then driven oxen from Butler Co., Ohio, to the Pacific, and walking all the way, with the exception of about 250 miles; having made a stake in Calfornia, set sail in a steamer for the Isthmus of Panama ; he walked from Panama across the Isthmus to the River Chagres, and by boat down to the city of the same name ; from thence to Havana, and then to New Orleans, up the Mississippi to Galena, and by stage home to his farm, getting there in 1851; and, in 1856, put up a saw-mill, and run till January, 1869. then turned his mill into a corn-crib, and has been farming since ; owns 140 acres, value $60 per acre. He has been Overseer of Highways and Township Clerk for a number of years ; is now holding last-named office; is a Democrat, and belongs to the United Brethren Church in Harlem Centre, which he helped to build and organize in 1869. In 1860 he married, and again, to his present wife, in August 25, 1874, Miss Amy S. Brigham, of Pennsylvania ; he has three sons, named William, Tecumseh and Rupert.
R. C. SCHOFIELD, Sec. 36; P. O. Freeport; born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., April 1, 1812 ; came to Stephenson Co., Ill., Oct. 21, 1844; has been engaged in farming all his life to present time ; owns - acres of land, which he lives on, besides three dwellings in the city of Freeport. Politics, Democrat from Andrew Jackson's time ; religion, Baptist. Married, in 1830, Miss Mary Sterns, of Vermont ; have five children living-Margaret E., Silas C., Elizabeth C., Milton E. and Julia O .; and two deceased, Mary A. and Aurelia Ann. Mr. Schofield is uncle to Gen. Schofield, of West Point at present.
GEORGE F. SCHOENE, farmer, Secs. 5 and 8; P. O. Damascus ; born in Baden, Germany, 17th of May, 1838; left for America in 1846; landed in New York, and went to Hamburg, Erie Co .; carried on the dairy business ten years, when he took the Western fever, sold out and went to Peoria, Ill., where he was taken sick, and remained from August to next April ; his mother and family had followed him west, going into Iowa; hearing that he was sick, his brother went down and took him to Dubuque, Iowa; from there they came to Freeport ; from there went to a place on Sec. 11 and worked for T. Cockrell ten years ; he then bought his present farm, located on Secs. 5 and 8, of 120 acres, valued at $50 per acre. He has held township and school offices, is a Democrat, and has been a member of the Lutheran Church. On Nov. 7, 1865, he married Miss Louisa Yerk, of Pennsylvania ; they had four children, two living-Emily, born in 1874 ; and Mary, 1877 ; two deceased ; adopted one boy.
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A. J. SEYLER, of the firm of Eel & Seyler, Cedarville, manufacturers of the Eel & Seyler Middlings Purifier, patented 1876 and 1877; this firm was estab- lished in 1865, as a mill-wrighting business, and was about to be dissolved, but A. J. Seyler conceived the idea of inventing a purifier ; in the fall of 1874 he commenced the machine which has now proved such a success, that, by perfecting from time to time in John H. Addams' flouring mills, it is now supplanting other machines in the mills throughout the county. They have two in Goddard's mill, in Freeport.
GEORGE SEYLER, tailor, Cedarville ; born in Centre Co., Penn., Sept. 26, 1815 ; learned his trade when 14 years of age, and has been at it for fifty years; has made clothes for Grandfather Clingman ; he left Pennsylvania in 1846, and came up to where Cedarville is now, nothing but woods then, and but few neighbors ; he thought he must starve, but soon had a good trade, and built himself a cabin on what was then the Ilgen part of town site, it being owned by Ilgen, John H. Addams and Montellius ; he lived in the log cabin until 1850, then built a brick dwelling, where he lived for two years and then sold ; Mr. Sill now lives there; he then built this house and has lived here since. In 1839, he married Miss Mary Potts, of Pennsylvania ; they have six children-Amelia, William M., both deceased ; George A., lives in Cedarville ; Martha A., Andrew J. and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Shaffer. George's father, Peter Seyler, had twelve children in his family ; seven now alive, only two, however, in Illinois.
JOSEPH SMITH, farmer and tailor, Sec. 3; P. O. Cedarville ; born in Baden, Germany, May 14, 1827 ; came to America in 1847, when 20 years of age, and stayed in Buffalo, N. Y., till 1853, working at tailoring ; he then went to Chicago, Ill., where he worked at his trade and kept saloon for three years, and in 1856, moved to Cedarville, where his father and mother lived then, but they are now dead ; he worked at his trade up to 1866, when he bought the farm he now lives on, which consists of 76 acres, valued at $40 an acre. He is a Democrat, and belongs to the Catholic Church. In 1860, July 26, he married Miss Mary Swartz, a native of Darmstadt, Germany ; she has been dead six years ; they had four children-Francis, John, Mary and Kate ; all at home but Francis, who lives at Mr. Levi Law's.
FREDERICK SPANGLER, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. Freeport ; born in Stephenson Co., Ill., April 23, 1853; from boyhood he has farmed, and the farm he lives on now has always been his home, though before he was married he roved through the adjoining States ; finally, thinking there was no place like home, settled on the old farm, which embraces 70 acres in Secs. 26 and 27, valued at $45 an acre. In politics is a Democrat, and belongs to the Catholic Church. In Dec. 23, 1877, he married Miss Maggie Kinniger, of this State ; their family now consists of two children-Joseph M. and Frederick J.
JOHN STEFFEN, farmer, Sec. 11 ; P. O. Freeport ; born in Prussia, March 23, 1835; started for America Oct. 16, 1860, and came right to Stephenson Co. ; he now owns 40 acres of land, valued at $55 an acre. He farmed until 1865, and then went into the army ; was private in 38th, I. V. I., Co. A; was taken sick with small-pox, and got a furlough of three months ; was with his regiment in North Caro- lina, and went through several lively skirmishes ; was mustered out in 1866, at Victoria, Texas. He then came home, after leaving the army, but went back to Kentucky, and there he married Miss Margaret Lenewemper, of Kentucky, who was born in his own country; they were married Sept. 11, 1867 ; he then gardened at Covington, Ky., for four years, sold out and came here, and has worked the old farm since ; their family consists of five children-John, Annie, Rosa, Mary and Emma.
HENRY W. STOCKS, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Eleroy ; born in England Jan. 11, 1841; came to America in 1842 with his father, David Stocks, who was a molder in the old country; worked at it in Pennsylvania, and helped start Williams Foundry in Freeport ; after landing in New York, they went to Pennsylvania and lived about seven years ; they then came to Stephenson Co. and stayed with Martin Murphy ; bought this farm and moved on it in 1850; two years after this, when eleven years old, he began to plough, and has been a farmer since; he owns 100 acres, now valued at $40 an acre. In politics, he is a Republican. In 1860, Sept. 2, he married Miss Matilda
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Reber ; they have three children-Rosa A., Charles H. and Cora J. Mr. Stocks enlisted, in February, 1864, in Co. A, 92d I. V. I., and was mustered out in July, 1865 ; he was in all the engagements from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and with Sherman on his " March to the Sea." Henry W. also hunts and traps in the winetr; in 1873, he went through Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, and got back home in 1874 ; he has a claim he bought, in 1873, in Kansas.
JOHN W. STOCKS, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. Eleroy ; born in Holdersburg, Blair Co., Penn., Dec. 22, 1843; his father and family, during his youth, were living at different times in Holdersburg and in Martinsburg, attending to his business-that of molder in the foundry; John W. was going to school at this period of his history. David Stocks bought his farm of three different parties: the first 80 of Badger, the second 80 of Flansburg and a 40 of Justice Coats ; and, afterward, two more 80's ; they moved to Stephenson Co. in April, 1850, and on to the farm. Mr. Stocks lived in Erin Township for six years, and was School Director while there; is a Republican in principles. Has taught school for six terms, from 1865 to 1866, and then went to school at Mt. Morris in 1866-67, and taught again from 1868 to 1874; he owns 200 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. In 1871, Feb. 20, he married Miss Susan Wagner, of Northumberland Co., Penn., born Sept. 8, 1849 ; they have four children-C. May, J. D., M. Ellen and Laura.
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