Biographies

Biography of Israel Hill of Oakland township, Illinois

Israel Hill, one of the pioneer farmers of Oakland township, was born in Indiana, in 1827, a son of Ishmael Hill, a native of North Carolina, born in October, 1808. He was married April 4, 1850, to Miss Louisiana Pemberton, a daughter of Thomas Pemberton of Kentucky.

Biography of Christian Pilger of Beardstown, Illinois

Christian Pilger, a live man and old citizen of Beardstown, was born in Waldeck, Prussia, in 1836, and came of a good old German family. His father, Fred Pilger, was at one time Mayor, as had been his father and grandfather before him. He was married in this city to Miss Margaret Schuman, born in Baden, Germany, and came to this country when eighteen years of age. Her parents also came to Beardstown and died here consistent members of the Lutheran Church.

Biography of Samuel M. Schroder of Oakland township, Illinois

Samuel M. Schroder, a rising young business man of Oakland township, and one of the most progressive agriculturists of Schuyler county, was born in McDonough county, Illinois, in 1860, on the 27th day of April. His father, Nicholas Schroder, was a native of Germany, but emigrated to America with his mother when a lad of eleven years, in 1837. Mr. Schroder was united in marriage, in 1880, to Miss Sarah E. Smith, a native of Fulton county, Illinois, and a daughter of John and Rebecca (Barcus) Smith, natives of Pennsylvania and Illinois, respectively.

Nancy P. Seckman Biography

 NancyP. Seckman  NANCY P. SECKMAN was bornin Harrison county, Kentucky, August 18, 1814. Her father, James Taylor,and her mother, Katie Bishop, were both born in Maryland, near Snow Hill.They went to Kentucky, when young, were married there, and were well-to-dofarmers. They moved to Illinois in the fall of 1832, when this daughterwas nineteen years old. They brought ten children with them in a prairieschooner, being twenty-one days on the route. They hired a man to bringthem with his five-horse team, and they brought three horses and saddlesof their own. They had a most delightful time, a continual picnic of twenty-onedays, … Read more