Divide, Illinois

JOBN C. McCONNELL, farming, P. O. Dix, was born January 6, 1825, in Jefferson County. 111., son of Burl McConnell, from Sumner County. Tenn.. late of Jefferson County, 111., deceased. MJr. McConnell is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was in the Mexican war in 1846 and 1847, and was married, August 25, 1847, to Miss Sarah J., daughter of Samuel Cummins, of Jefferson County, 111., and has had seven children, five living, viz., Samuel F., William H., Harriet, John D. and James W. Mrs. McConnell died April 18, 1879, and he was again married, to Amering Howard, of Saline County, 111. He was educated in Jefferson County, and owns 480 acres of land, and is engaged in farming and stock-raising, . DR. WILLIAM K. PARKER, physician. Divide, was born in this county March 3, 1851. He was brought up on the farm, and attended the common schools. He farmed until twenty-one years of age, when he began to read medicine and also worked for railroad companies for about four years. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa, in the spring of 1883. He at once began the prai^tice of medicine at his home in Field Township, and is building up a good practice. His father, James T. Parker (deceased), was born in Kentucky in 1824; came to this county with his parents when a child; was married to, Mickey A. Hutcherson, by whom he had six children, viz., Mary C, our subject, Elsah E., Nettie V. (deceased), Charles F. and Wincey A. The father died December 14, 1864. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in good standing, a consistent Christian and a temperance worker.

Passage source: History of Jefferson County, Illinois, published 1883.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Field Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.