Farm Ridge, Illinois

Farm Ridge embraces all of Township 32, Range %, except Sections 31 and 32, which lie on the south west side of the Vermillion, and are attached to and form part of the town of Vermillion. It is all Prairie except the extreme southwestern portion, which borders the Vermillion. The most striking topographical feature is a high ridge or swell extending northwest and sontheast, parallel with the general course of the river, from which the town derived its name.

Passage source: History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877.

Isaac Wheatland, and wife, came from England to Ohio, and from Ohio here; made a claim on Section 33, in 1836, where he lived till his death. His wife died about 1843, and he again married. About the year 1846 he was drowned while crossing the Illinois river at Ottawa. He left six children: Elizabeth, married William Wedgebury, now living in Iroquois County; Mary Ann, who married and went to Livingston County; one son died single; William, married Miss Casey, lives in Farm Ridge; Georg: a Ellen

Passage source: History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877.

Sketch of Setilers - Farm Ridge. 389 Dr. Johnson Hatch, and wife, came from New Preston, Ot., in 1837, and bonght the farm of Kirjeth A. Hont. An old experienced physician, his services were in demand during the sickly seasons of 1838 and '39, and the release from labor which he songht by coming West was hardly found ; "he returned to Connecticut in 1841. dJolm W. Calkins, and wife, Miss Page, came from Salisbury, (t., in 1838, and settled on Sec. 19. Mrs. Calkins died in 1888. He married Miss Beards! of Connecticut, who died soon after. He then married Oynthia Bishop, of Conneoticnt, Mr. Calkins removed to Deer Park in 1842, and subsequently Ottawa, where he died, leaving four children: James, who married, was engaged in the lomber frade in Ottawa, subsequently in Chicago, and is now manufacturing lumber at Manistee, Mich. ; Helen, married Edgar Baldwin, from Connecticut, and lives near Vermillion Mary, married Henry M. Baldwin, from Connecticut, and settled In D. Park - Mr. Baldwin died, y is now the wife of Henry Page. in Cs William W., married Louise Hossack, and li og Charles H. Green, son of Henry Green, of Ottawa, tame to Illinois with his father, and settled on S fion 3; he married Jane Loyd, and has thre danghters. Mr. Green cultivates a large farm and has a fine herd of short-horn stock.

Passage source: History of LaSalle County, Illinois : Its Topography, Geology, Botany, Natural History, History of the Mound Builders, Indian Tribes, French Explorations, and a Sketch of the Pioneer Settlers of Each Town to 1840, with an Appendix, Giving the Present Status of the County, Its Population, Resources, Manufactures and Institutions, published 1877.

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