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    JohnMcCabe     JOHN McCABE, well-known in business circlesin Schuyler county, Illinois, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, September11, 1828. His father, John McCabe, Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania, butwas taken to Ohio when quite young by his parents; there he learned theblacksmith’s trade, which he followed until 1844. In that year he emigratedto Indiana and settled in Marion county; here he resumed his occupation,remaining for three years. In 1847 he came to Illinois, and settled inthe town of Woodland; he afterward entered a tract of land on which heerected a log house; he followed his trade … Read more

    JosephMeservey    JOSEPH MESERVEY, of Elkhorntownship, was born here, June 22, 1841. He is the son of Joseph and ElizaMeservey. Joseph was the son of Nathaniel, both of Vermont. He spent hislife there and died when nearly ninety years of age. Joseph followed thebusiness of shipping horses for nine years, and then went into a distillery,and then sold out and came to this State at an early date. He continued at home untilhis marriage, worked with his father, and attended the subscription schoolwhen able. When he married he had a little farm, and afterward he boughtmore land. He … Read more

    JamesN. Robison     JAMES N. ROBISON of Lee township, was born inHuntingdon county, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1823. His father, Henry Robison,was born in the same county, April 22, 1798, and his father was born inScotland, but spent his last years in Huntingdon county, dying when hisson Henry was six years old. Henry after his father’s death was obligedto earn his own living and remained on a farm in the same county until1824, and then with his wife and infant son emigrated to Ohio and livednear Cadiz for two years, then returned to Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania,there engaged in … Read more

    JonathanPatteson     JONATHAN PATTESON was born in State of Virginia,June 1, 1797. His father was Charles Patteson, also a native of Virginia,who removed from that State to Green county, Kentucky about the year 1800,and was thus one of the pioneers of that locality. He bought a tract oftimber land, and erected thereon a log cabin, in which were domiciled thefamily. They were in a wilderness and were compelled to live off the productsof their little place and the game that was found in abundance in the woods.Mr. Patteson was an owner of slaves, and they cultivated flax … Read more

    JohnS. Dodge    JOHN S. DODGE, one of themost prominent farmers of Littleton township, Schuyler county, Illinois,was born in Bloomington, McLean county, this State, March 14, 1837. Hisparents, Solomon and Betsey (Springer) Dodge, were both natives of Ohio,his father being a carder and filler by trade. His mother’s ancestors wereoriginally from Cork, Ireland. In 1833, his parents came by way of theOhio and Mississippi rivers to Bloomington, Illinois, where our subjectwas born in his father’s hotel, which was the first in that town, calledthe Caravansary. His father retired about twenty-five years before hisdeath, he being ninety-one years of … Read more

 J.S. Nicholson  J. S. NICHOLSON, editorof the Beardstown Illinoian, was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England,in 1832. The family left Liverpool on the anniversary of the Queen’s marriage,and, like so many emigrants, had a slow passage to New Orleans, thenceup the Mississippi river, settling at last, after a journey of eleven weekswith teams, at Jacksonville. In 1850 the family settled on improved landsnear Beardstown. They farmed this land. Part of the family moved to Rome,Peoria county, where the father died, aged seventy-three years, four monthsand twenty-eight days. He had been a good, quiet citizen. The war of theRebellion changed his politics … Read more

    JacobS. Pruett    JACOB S. PRUETT, who for many years hasbeen prominently identified with the agricultural interests of Schuylercounty, was born at St. Mary’s, Hancock county, Illinois, December 3, 1834,a son of Constant Pruett. His father was a native of Roane county, Tennessee,and his grandfather was a farmer of that State, and spent his entire lifewithin its borders. Constant Pruett was reared and married in Tennessee,and emigrated to Illinois in 1829, accompanied by his wife and one child;they journeyed on horse-back to Kentucky, and then secured a cart in whichthey completed the trip. They first settled in Cass … Read more

    JohnSandidge    JOHN SANDIDGE, one of themost intelligent and prosperous farmers of Oakland township, Schuyler county,was born in the State of Kentucky in 1829. His father, Daniel Sandidge,was a native of Virginia, born in 1804; there he married Pamelia Tate,born in the same place in 1803. The paternal grandfather of our subject,John Sandidge was a Virginian by  birth; he married a native of Virginia,and in an early day removed to Kentucky, settling in Lincoln county; hebecame a wealthy planter, owning a large number of slaves. They had a familyof nine sons and four daughters: Daniel, Clayton, Joshua, James, … Read more

    JohnShank    JOHN SHANK, a successful farmer, horticulturistand florist, and a prominent citizen of Mount Sterling, Illinois, was bornin Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana, July 11, 1843. His paternal grandparentswere John and Catherine (Dosing) Shank, the former a native of Pennsylvaniaand of German descent, while the latter was of French ancestry. The formerwas an early settler of Ohio, when that State was the frontier of civilization,his last days having been passed at his home in Preble county, near Eaton,that State. His son, William Shank, the father of the subject of this sketch,was born in Montgomery county, Virginia, in May, … Read more

    JohnT. Bradbury    JOHN T. BRADBURY was born in Harrison county,West Virginia, March 4, 1840. His father is James Lee Bradbury, born inVirginia in 1816. He was reared on the farm and when he was twenty-threehe went to Kentucky and engaged in teaching for some forty years. He cameto Illinois in the fall of 1847, bringing his wife and two children. Theycame across the country in a lumber wagon and a horse team. It took themabout thirty days to make the trip. Mr. Bradbury soon secured a schoolin Brown county. They soon moved into Mt. Sterling, where they … Read more