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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.
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Mission Twp. -
LEVI H. ROOD was born in Sandersfield, Mass.,
Jan. 15, 1i803. At the age of nineteen he went to Northern
Georgia, where he taught three years, afterward engaging in
mercantile life, in Talbottom, that State, for eleven years.
In 1835 he came to Illinois, settling on the Fox River, in Mission
Township, La Salle County, his parents and brothers soon following
him. He was married Oct. 3, 1837, in Colebrook, Conn., to
Miss Laura Ann Phillips, who died June 15, 1852, leaving four
children - James P. Dr. Joseph B. (now deceased), Mrs.
Mary H. Evans and Rufus B. In 1853 he was married
to Miss Mary E. Wyman of Woburn, Mass., by whom he had six
children, four of whom are living - Levi W., Grace, Benjamin B.
and Lillie. Our subject led a life of business
activity, being for many years Western agent and business manager of
the extensive interests of Joseph Battell, Stephen Whitney
and Harvey Loomis, now deceased, all millionaires of New York
City. He was Justice of the Peace for many years. He
died June 17, 1875.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ.
1886 - Page 463 |
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Mission Twp. -
LEVI W. ROOD, a prosperous young farmer and
stock-raiser, was born in the house where he now lives, on section
4, Mission Township, June 11, 1855, a son of Levi H. Rood, a
pioneer of this township. He was reared on the farm, receiving
a good education, completing it at Naperville College, then located
at Plainfield, and the college at Adrian, Mich. After leaving
school he took charge of the home farm, and after the death of his
father succeeded him in his extensive real-estate and loan business,
having thousands of acres of the finest land for sale in Livingston
County, Ill., and money always on hand to loan in sums of $500 up to
$10,000 on real-estate security at a low rate of interest. He
also deals largely in Western land. He is also engaged in
stock-dealing, buying in in the fall and keeping till the following
fall. He has on hand at all times from 200 to 250 head of
cattle, wintering them on the home place and driving to his
Livingston County pasture each spring. He owns 1,000 acres of
land, 663 acres in Colorado, and the rest in Livingston and La Sale
counties, Ill. He has been a successful business man, adopting
his father's method of strict accuracy in all transactions. He
was married Sept. 15, 875, to Josephine V., daughter of
Enoch Spaulding.
They have one daughter - Edith Ray. Mrs. Rood is
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ.
1886 - Page 464 |
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Mission Twp. -
ALEXANDER ROWE, section 28, Mission Township,
was born in New York City, Aug. 12, 1804, a son of Robert Rowe,
a native of Edinburg, Scotland, who came to the United States in
1801. He was a cabinet-maker by trade, and Alexander
early learned to use tools, and worked at the carpenter's trade
several years. In 1818 his parents moved to Rock Ridge,
Dearborn Co., Ind. in the spring of 1835 he came to La Salle County,
Ill., and entered 400 acres of Government land, which had not been
surveyed. He now owns 300 acres of valuable land. He was
married Feb.8, 1826, to Eliza Ann Phillips, daughter of
John H. Phillips. Ten children were born to them, three in
Indiana, two in Cincinnati, Ohio, and five in Illinois - Robert
Alexander, born Oct. 1, 1826, Ann Euphemia, July 27,
1828; John Hopkins, June 5, 1830; Francis E., born
Mar. 27, 1832, died Apr. 13, 1833; James Loury, born Apr. 5,
1834; Ebenezer Melrose, Mar. 25, 1837, died in 1851;
Isabella Maria, born Jan. 21, 1839; Edward Mitchel, July
13, 1841; Henrietta Louise, Feb. 16, 1843, and a son, born
and died June 15, 1845. Robert Married Fearly B.
Hosford; John, of Ottawa, married Mary Austin;
Edward, of Sheridan, married Jane Angevine; Maria is the
wife of Freeborn Rawling, of Ottawa, and Henrietta is
the wife of Morris Law. John, James and Edward
were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion. Ann E. was
the wife of Hamilton Rawling, and died at the age of
forty-nine years. Mrs. Rowe died in August, 1860. Mr.
and Mrs. Law live on the homestead with the father. In
religious faith Mr. Rowe is a Universalist; in politics, a
Republican. Thanksgiving Day, 1883, he was run into and
knocked down by a colt, and has never recovered from the effects of
his injuries.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ. 1886 -
Page 465 |
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Mission Twp. -
ROBERT ROWE was born in Edinburg, Scotland,
Jan. 10, 1802. His father, Robert Rowe, Sr., was a
native of the same place. Our subject came to the United
States in 1817, and after living one year in New York City settled
in Dearborn County, Ind. He and his father were both
cabinet-makers, but after coming to Indiana he farmed. He was
quite a talented and intelligent man, taking up and mastering the
study of astronomy without the aid of a teacher. He had not
attended school after he was eight years old. He built an
observatory in Sheridan several years ago, which he used in the
study of the heavenly bodies. In 1824 he was married to
Mary McMath, daughter of Samuel McMath. Ten
children have been born to them, five of whom are living.
Mr. Rowe died June 14, 1879. He was a member of the
Universalist church, and a pioneer of Mission Township, settling
where Sheridan now stands.
Source: History of La Salle County, Illinois - Vol. I - Publ. 1886 -
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