BlockCherry Valley Township (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2 of the account of this township in The History of Winnebago County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing ... a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1877. 183 words, covering 24 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
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The chapter
183 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Winnebago County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing ... a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1877. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
SHIJMWAY D. S. Farmer; Sec. 21; P. O. Rockford; born Jamaica, Windham Co., Vt., March 27, 1S03 ; married, Nov. 20, 1825, Sallie Greeley, a relative of Horace Greeley, of N. Y. City; slie was born Feb. 8, 1800, at Andover, Windsor Co., Vt; they came to this Co. 1836, and have lived on the same section since their first settlement, when but two buildings were to be seen, a log house and a shanty; have had eight children, five living: Romanzo, Rolenzo, Alvaro, Rollaud, Monroe; Mr. Shumway bore a conspicuous part in the early settlement of the county.
SHrMWAY R. B. Farmer and Stock Dealer; Sec. 27; P. O. New Milford; born May 25, 1835 ; came to this Co. May 29, 1836; one of the oldest settlers in the Co; married March 2, 1856, Sarah Hall, born in Canada; have six children: Alva E., Carrie F., Hattie M., Nora J., Minnie C. and Harry ; has filled the offices of Assessor 4 years, Road Commissioner 3 years. Township Treasurer, and until 1876 has been School Director since 22 years of age.
Provenance
Text from The History of Winnebago County, Illinois : Its Past and Present, Containing ... a Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics ... History of the Northwest, History of Illinois ... Etc, published 1877, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.