Biographies

Henry W. Meyer – Biography

  HenryW. Meyer  HENRYW. MEYER, a successful farmer and stock raiser of section 7, township 18,range 11, was born near Arenzville, this county, in 1853, December 26.He is the younger of the children, Fred and Catherine Meyer, the latternow deceased and the former yet living (see biography). Henry is the onlyone of the family who was born in the county. He was reared and educatedin his native county. He has a farm of 133 acres, all well stocked. Hehas farmed it on his own account for thirteen years. He has spent his entirelife in this county, as a farmer on … Read more

Joseph Gifford – Biography

  JosephGifford JOSEPHGIFFORD, a well-to-do and highly esteemed farmer of Versailles township,Brown county, Illinois, where he has lived for twenty years, was born inCambria county, Pennsylvania, in December, 1833. Hisparents, Joseph and Sarah (Davis) Gifford, were both natives of the KeystoneState, where his father was born in 1802. His paternal grandfather, alsonamed Joseph, was of English parentage, and is thought to have been bornin England. He was a prosperous farmer in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania,and left, at his death, a good estate to his family, consisting of fivesons and four daughters, all of whom became heads of families, some attaininga great … Read more