Biographies

David D. Wilson – Biography   DavidD. Wilson   DAVIDD. WILSON, a popular and successful business man of Virginia, Cass county,Illinois, dates his birth in Oldham, Lancashire, England, November 23,1841. His father, James Wilson, was born in the same shire, his parentshaving passed their lives in England. James Wilson and his brother, Thomas,and three sisters, were the only members of the family who came to America.Thomas settled in Cass county in 1841, and has since made his home here. JamesWilson was reared and married in Oldham, and was there employed in a cottonfactory till 1842, in the spring of which … Read more

Edward N. Treadway Biography  EdwardN. Treadway  EDWARD N. TREADWAY, a farmerof Beardstown, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, February 23, 1825. Hisfather was Edward Treadway, a native of Maryland, of English stock. Hegrew up as a farmer in Maryland, and married Elizabeth Anderson, who wasreared and educated in Hartford county, Maryland. She came of Scotch ancestry.He and his wife moved to Hamilton county in 1816, and later came to Illinois,into Cass county, and settled in what is known as the Monroe precinct.This was in 1829. The wife died about two years after the family settledin this county, being then only … Read more

George D. Utter Biography  GeorgeD. Utter  GEORGED. UTTER, a prosperous farmer and stock-raiser of Frederick, Schuyler county,Illinois, was born in that place on November 13, 1846, the youngest childof John and Charlotte (Brines) Utter. Both of his parents were nativesof Allegany county, New York, where the father was born November 11, 1810,and the mother April 11, 1807. In 1815, when five years of age, his fathercame to Palmyra, Illinois, where his youth and early manhood were spent.He was there married to Charlotte Brines, December 5, 1834, and in 1839removed with his wife and family to Schuyler county, same State, settlingon … Read more

Biography ofEdward Bertholf

Biography of George P. Huff

Charles Bockemeier Biography   Charles Bockemeier   CHARLES BOCKEMEIER, general farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Prussia, not far from the river Rhine, August 16, 1835. His father, Charles, lived and died in Prussia, a blacksmith by trade. His wife came to the United States six months after his death, joining her sons in Cass county, dying at the age of eighty-two. She and her husband were life-long members of the Lutheran Church. Charles was a young single man when in 1854 he set out for the United States. He took the usual route via New Orleans, Mississippi, Ohio and … Read more

Biography of Charles H. Juett

Biography of Edward Guinn Hall

Biography of George Ritchea

Christian Dupes – Biography  ChristianDupes  CHRISTIANDUPES, of the firm of Dupes & Blohm, dealers in general merchandiseand farm implements, was born in Monroe precinct, Cass county, where hehas always lived. He was reared and educated in his native county as afarmer. He is the son of David Dupes, a native of Pennsylvania, who cameto Illinois when a young man early in the forties. He was married, in 1844,in Schuyler county, to Katie Neathamer, a native of Pennsylvania, who wasreared in her native State. She came when young to Schuyler county, Illinois,and was married to Mr. Dupes at the early age … Read more