Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
George W. Berrian, deceased, was one of the early farmers of Ellington township. He was born in New York city in 1823 and is descended from French ancestors, who came to America at an early period in the colonization of the new world. His paternal grandfather was...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
George J. Flesner has spent his life quietly but with a record of real achievement and accomplishment as a prosperous and progressive farmer in Northeast Township, and is one the very able and influential men of that section of Adams county. He was born in the...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
James Campbell is the oldest resident of Clayton township. Living a retired life in the village of Clayton, he is now enjoying the rest which has come to him as the result of his activity and energy in former years. For over more than six decades he was one of the...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
The Craig family have been identified with Liberty Township for over eighty years. The late James H. Craig was born in that township nearly seventy-five years ago, and was long one of the most capable farmers and hardworking and straight-forward citizens. He was born...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
In the field of practical achievement, in the clearing up and development of land, the making of two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, one of the men whose work deserves special mention is Adam Keil of Fall Creek Township. Mr. Keil resides twelve miles...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Almeron Wheat, deceased, was for many years one of the prominent attorneys of Quincy and a man of influence in the community. He was born near Auburn, New York, on the 7th of March 1813, and was the son of Luther and Elmira (Marvin) Wheat. His father was a native of...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Mrs. Anna Bakerbower, living in Clayton, was born in Schuyler county, Illinois, March 25, 1867, her parents being Conrad and Catherine (Bedenbender) Smith. Her father was born in Switzerland in 1830 and her mother’s birth occurred in Germany in 1840. After...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Asa Tyrer, the first coroner of Adams County, was a native of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, born 1788. He first visited the Illinois country in 1818, that he might locate a quarter section of land in the Military Bounty Tract, which he had purchased from a soldier...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
The German element in the citizenship of Quincy has been an important one. A native son of the fatherland, Carl Becker, now connected with the manufacturing interests as a member of the Wiebmer-Becker Machine Company. was born in Rhine Pfalz, Germany, November 27,...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Carl Edward Gillhouse is one of the prosperous farm owners in that splendid agricultural district southeast of Quincy in Payson Township. He is a member of the well known Gillhouse family, a son of Ernest Gillhouse, one of the oldest men in Adams County and...
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