BlockMacoupin County, Illinois - Chapter 21: Jersey Street., 1911 (part 2 of 2)
From History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911. 124 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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124 wordsMachine-read from scans of History of Macoupin County, Illinois : Biographical and Pictorial, published 1911. Nothing has been corrected: fixing what looks like a misspelled name is how an invented one gets published. Source changes are marked where they occur.
As the years sped on he prospered and other acres were added to the original quarter section until at the last he owned six hundred and forty acres, all told, when he went to California in 1869. At that time his health failed him, and renting his farm, he took up his residence at Reo Vista with his family. In a short time thereafter he allied his business interests with a man by the name of Charles Pine, who was proprietor of a general store, the name of the firm being Pine & Palmer. This man Pine subsequently decamped with all the available funds of the concern, leaving my father with a large shortage of $84,000, to meet. Most of it represented Pine's speculations.
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