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    F.A. Warden     F. A. WARDEN, senior member of the firm of Warden& Son, proprietors of the Rushville Republican, was born inClermont county, Ohio, January 2, 1839.His father, Moses Warden, was a native of Pennsylvania, and in his youthwas converted to the Christian religion and became a preacher of the gospel;be learned the trade of a saddler, and followed this vocation in additionto his ministerial labors. When quite a young man he went to Ohio, andthere was married to Margaret Anderson, a native of Brown county, Ohio.Mr. Warden lived in Bethel, Clermont county, and there worked at … Read more

    FrederickE. Berry    FREDERICK E. BERRY, one of the managersof the National Union store at Rushville, was born in Schuyler county,Illinois, December 23, 1841, a son of Daniel and Mary A. (Crow) Berry,natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania. Samuel Berry, the paternalgrandfather, was also a resident of Washington county, Pennsylvania. DanielBerry was reared to the occupation of a farmer. He emigrated to Schuylercounty, Illinois, in an early day, and settled in Rushville township, wherehe purchased eighty acres of land, partially improved; here he lived untilhis death in 1871; his widow still resides on the home farm. They had afamily … Read more

    FransH. D. Kruse    Frans H.D. Kruse was born in East Friesland,Germany, in 1821. His father , Dierk Kruse, son of George Kruse, was bornin the same place. The father of the present subject learned the tradeof mill wright and followed it in his native land. He bought several importantmillsites erected mill and set them in successful operation and sold them.In 1835, he came to America, in Virginia, a ship sailing from Bremen, bringingwith him his sons Frans H. D. and Sunke M. and landed in New York, July4. From there he went to Albany, by way of … Read more

    FrancisM. Curry    FRANCIS M. CURRY, a highly respected citizenof Mount Sterling, was born in Scott county, Kentucky, April 9, 1825, ason of John R. Curry, who was born October 19, 1803. The paternal grandfather,Alexander Curry, the honored founder of Mount Sterling, Illinois, was bornOctober 14, 1770, in the State of Maryland, the son of Archibald Curry,a native of Scotland, who emigrated to America in colonial times and settledin Maryland, where he passed the remainder of his life. Alexander Currywas a pioneer of Scott county, Kentucky; he purchased a tract of land onthe Lexington pike, on which he … Read more

    FredW. Korsmeyer    FRED W. KORSMEYER, one of the most successfulmen of this locality, lives on section 30, township 17, range 12. He isa German, being born in Hanover, January 15, 1838. His parents were J.H. and Mary (Lovecamp) Korsmeyer, who were born in the same place, anddescended from the best German blood. When our subject was thirteen yearsof age they came to the United States in the fall of 1851. They took theusual passage of their fellow countrymen, from Bremer to New Orleans, andfrom there up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown. They locatedvery near the … Read more

   F. WilliamMeyer F. WILLIAM MEYER, a prosperous farmerand stock-raiser of section 17, range 11, was born in Westphalia, Prussia,Germany, in 1838. In 1849. He came to America with his parents (see biographyof Fred Meyer) and has been living in this country ever since. Here hegrew to manhood, obtaining a little knowledge of English and English books.While he is not a well educated man he has good judgment and is very intelligent.He is the eldest of his father’s family, of whom all are married and livein the United States. Mr. Meyer owns a well improved farm of 160 acres,all under … Read more

  FrederickW. Rottger  FREDERICK W. ROTTGER, one of the most successfuland enterprising business men of Mount Sterling, was born near Mendon,Prussia, August 8, 1844. His father, William Rottger, was born in the samecountry, and there was reared and married. In 1845 he determined to tryhis fortunes in the New World, and left his family behind until he shouldseek out a home for them in the strange, new land. He located in Morgancounty, Illinois, where he died about a year later. His wife was left invery humble circumstances, with four little children. In 1850 she broughther family to America, sailing from … Read more

    GeorgeBordenkircher    GEORGE BORDENKIRCHER, Chairman of the CountyBoard of Supervisors, was born on a farm in Ohio, May 1,1842. His father was named Wendal, and wasborn in Germany; and his father, David, was born in Germany, and theremarried and came to America about 1833 and settled in Coshocton county,Ohio. He bought a large tract of land there, and lived there until hisdeath. Wendal was eighteen years old when he came to America, and he residedwith his parents until his marriage, when his father gave him land in Coshoctoncounty, and he lived there until 1851, when he moved to … Read more

    GroveConingham    GROVE CONINGHAM, deceased,was a native of New York city, born December 27, 1816. His father, GroveConingham, Senior, was born in Londonderry, Ireland, about 1766. He emigratedto New York city at an early age and married Betsy Baldwin, of Putnam county,New York. They had nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch wasthe eighth. The father died in December, 1831, in New York city. His wifesurvived him thirty-eight years. Our subject received hiseducation in New York and at the age of sixteen came to Schuyler county,Illinois. In 1843 he returned to his native city and lived … Read more

 GeorgeHenry Eifert  GEORGE HENRY EIFERT settledin Schuyler county, January 13, 1857. He was born in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany,February 11, 1823. He had five brothers and two sisters; the former allcame to the United States, where the brother, John, died in Schuyler county;George also died there, while Ludwig died in this county; Valentine wentaway during the civil war, and was never heard from again. George was the youngest,but his father died when only forty-one years old, so he had to work veryhard, as there were nine small children left. He came to the United Statesand first stopped in Maryland with a Dunkard … Read more