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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
HISTORY OF
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Containing
A History of the County - its Cities, Towns, &c.; a Directory of its
Tax-Payers; War Record of its Volunteers in the late
Rebellion; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;
General and Local Statistics; Map of Livingston County
History of Illinois, Illustrated;
History of the Northwest Illustrated;
Constitution of the United States,
Miscellaneous Matters,
&c., &c.
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published Chicago:
Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co., 186 Dearborn Street
1878
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Amity Twp. -
EBEN NORTON, physician, Cornell; was
born in Franklin Co., Me., in 1825, March 5th; when about 4
years of age, his mother dying, he went to an adjoining town
and lived with an aunt; 1844 his aunt removed to Warren Co.,
Ohio; when 21 years of age, he worked on a farm four months,
and then went to school at Lebanon Academy, Warren Co.,
attending three terms, and from school commenced reading
medicine with a man in same county, attending lectures in
Cincinnati; commenced practicing medicine in Mainville,
Ohio, in 1850, staying there about four years; then
came to Livingston Co. and located at what was then called
New Michigan, but now called Newtown; he practiced medicine
until 1871, when he moved to Cornell and started a drug
store, which he now owns; does not practice but very little,
making the drug business his main occupation. He
married Phebe Jane Cain, in 1853; she was born in
Maine, 1832; they have three children - Joel Harrison, A.
C., Eben Douglas. He was one of the first Board of
Supervisors sent from Newtown, and acted in that capacity
three terms from that place, and has been sent from
Amity Tp., five times; he also is one of the Board of
Trustees.
Source: History of Livingston Co.,
Ill. - Published Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co. - 1878 -
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