|
Source:
HISTORY OF LA SALLE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Together with Sketches of it's Cities, Villages and Towns,
Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political
History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and
Biographies of Representative Citizens.
VOLUME I.
Also containing
History of Illinois Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races,
Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and A Brief Review
of its Civil and Political History.
- Illustrated -
Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Co.
1886.
< CLICK HERE to RETURN to 1886 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX >
< CLICK HERE to RETURN to LIST of BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES >
| |
Adams Twp. -
KNUD HALVERSON, section 21, Adams Township,
was born near Christiana, Norway, July 20, 1813, the son of
Halver Knutsen, a native of the same place. Mr.
Halverson came with his parents to the United States in 1838,
and lived in Rutland Township, La Salle Co., Ill., until 1840, when
he came to Adams Township, which has since been his home. He
was married in 1841 to Elizabeth Olson, a daughter of Ole
Thompson. They are the parents of ten children, eight of
whom are living - Nels, Alex, John, Charles, Betsey, Annie, Ellen
and Elias. Two sons, Haver and Ole, died
while fighting for the Union in the late war. Mr. Halverson
commenced life in limited circumstances. He worked on the
Illinois Canal until he made enough to purchase two cows. When
the family reached Chicago they had no money, and had to walk all
the way from there to Marseilles, women and all. He worked
hard, and by good management he now owns 130 acres of land. He
was Highway Commissioner for ten or twelve years. He and his
family are members of the Lutheran church.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ. 1886 -
Page 23 |
| |
Adams Twp. -
OLE H. HANSON, farmer and stock-raiser,
section 15, Adams Township, was born in Norway, Jan. 22, 1827.
He was a son of Hans Olson, a native or Norway, who is now
deceased. He came to the United States in 1839, and settled in
LaSalle County, and the following spring located in Adams Township,
where our subject has since lived. His father died here about
forty years ago. Mr. Hanson was married Mar. 22, 1855,
to Miss Isabella Osmonson, a daughter of Charan Osmonson.
They are the parents of six children - Henry M., George M., Emma
C., Charles F., Joseph and Simon. Henry married
Miss Julia A. Klove, and lives in Lee County, Ill. He has
three children - Ada, Ruby and Orvil. Emma
married Christian Jacobson, and lives with her father.
Mr. Hanson died Jan. 29, 1873. Mr. Hanson has
always followed agricultural pursuits, and is the owner of 220
acres.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ.
1886 - Page 24 |
| |
Adams Twp. -
DARWIN HINKLEY, physician and surgeon at
Leland, Ill., was born in Norfolk, Va., Aug. 29, 1809, a son of
Samuel Hinkley, a native of Georgetown, Me. The genealogy
of the Hinkley family is as follows: In 1635
Samuel Hinkley, his wife and four children came from County
Kent, England, and settled in Massachusetts. His son
Edward married a daughter of the Indian chief Massasoit,
and another of his sons, Samuel, was Governor of the
colony eleven years. Edward Hinkley's son Samuel
settled in Brunswick, Me., in an early day, and his sons Samuel
settled in Georgetown, Me., his son John, being grandfather
of our subject. The latter was a native of Massachusetts, and
was a Captain in the war of the Revolution, where he met his death.
Our subject's father was Quartermaster in the war of 1812. Our
subject was a soldier in the Aroostook war in Maine, and also served
in the late war three years, for which he raised part of the
Fifty-third Illinois Infantry, Coggswell's Battery. He
participated in the battles of Shiloh, Fort Donelson and Lookout
Mountain, and was discharged in 1864 for disability, for which he
draws a pension. He began reading medicine in 1832, and
graduated from New York Medical College in 1834, and from the
Chicago Medical College in 1860. He came to LaSalle County,
Ill., in 1846, and practice four years at Hardin, since which he has
practiced at Leland. He was married in Pennsylvania to
Cynthia Hayden, in 1835, who died in 1836, leaving one
son- Samuel F., a wholesale merchant in Stockton, Cal.
Mr. Hinkley was again married in 1838, to Martha C. Pease,
daughter of Captain Lemuel Pease (deceased). Of the
four children born to George Holmes, of DeKalb County, Ill.,
by whom she has seven children k- Ella, Mary, Wright, George,
Letitia, Bert D. and Clyde R. Samuel F. married
Mary De Wolf, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has two children -
James was a soldier in the late war, enlisting in Company E,
Eighty-ninth Illinois Infantry. He married Mary Dailey,
and to them have been born one son - William W. James
is now a traveling salesman for the San Francisco Tea
Company. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows orders.
The Doctor is a member of the Boylston Medical Society, of Boston,
Mass.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ.
1886 - Page 24 |
NOTES:
|
