Biographies

Ichabod Perry – Biography

  IchabodPerry  ICHABOD PERRY, one of theearly setters of this county, residing in Mount Sterling, was born in Claibornecounty, Tennessee, July 18, 1815. His father, Edmond Perry, was a nativeof North Carolina and served in the war of 1812, receiving a land warrantfor 160 acres; but it is not known that this was ever located. His fathercame from the same State, and removed from there to Claiborne, Tennessee,where he purchased land and carried on farming until 1831, when he cameto Illinois. He spent his last years in Brown county. The maiden name ofhis wife was Rebecca Yarberry, also a native … Read more

William B. Manlove – Biography

WILLIAM B. MANLOVE was born in Schuyler County, December 28, 1830, near the town of Rushville. He is the son of Jonathan and Charity (Bodenhamer) Manlove. The former was a farmer of North Carolina and came to this county in the fall of 1830, traveling overland all the way, and settled near Rushville, where he stayed the first winter. The next spring, he went south and settled near Sugar Grove; and in 1834, he sold and moved to Birmingham Township and bought a farm where our subject still lives, of eighty acres. He put up a log house, in which … Read more

Thomas I. McDannold Biography

 ThomasI. McDannold  THOMAS I. McDANNOLD, anextensive farmer of Pea Ridge township, was born in Bath county, Kentucky,July 5, 1826. His father, John, was born in Montgomery county, Kentucky,in 1797, and his father, Reuben, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia,in 1750; and his father, Alexander, was born near Aberdeen, Scotland, comingto America in colonial times, and settled in Culpeper county, Virginia,where he spent the rest of his days. Reuben emigrated to Kentucky at anearly day, secured a large tract of land, which he improved with slavelabor, and resided there until 1834, then sold out and emigrated to Pikecounty, Missouri, settled near … Read more