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...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Christopher Seals, who for fifty-four years has been a resident of Adams county and has operated land of his own since 1853, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, February 22, 1831, his parents being James and Catherine (Smith) Seals. The father was born November 15,...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Cicero F. Perry, of Quincy, was born near Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois, January 22, 1855, and was reared in Hancock and McDonough counties. July 15, 1880, he was united in marriage with Rebecca K. Morey. They moved the same year from Colchester to Quincy,...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Fred G. Johnston, who is successfully carrying on general farming in Melrose township, his home being on section 18, was here born August 23, 1857. His father, F. G. Johnston, now deceased, was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1815, and came to Illinois in 1837,...Oct 14, 2016 | Biographies |
Fred Christian Kaiser, one of the well remembered old timers of Fall Creek Township, was born February 20, 1832, in Prussia, Germany. He came to America when a young man and at Quincy October 24, 1860, married Anna M. Struck. She was born September 24, 1837, in...
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