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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. -
JAMES W. WILLIS, collection; P. O.
Cornell; was born in Hennepin, Putnam Co., Ill., in 1832; is
the oldest white person living who was born in that place;
he lived in Putnam, Bureau and La Salle Cos., excepting six
years spent in Minn. and Iowa, until 1861, when he enlisted
as private in Co. E, 4th I. V. C.; he served as private,
first Sergt., Second and First Lieuts. until the Fall of
1864, after which he spent three years South in employ of
the Government and Adams Express Co., after which he engaged
in livery business at Mononk, Woodford Co., Ill.; moved to
Cornell in Fall of 1872, in which place he has held the
office of Justice of the Peace and Village Clerk
respectively four and three years, and now conducts the
principal collection agency of the place; also practices in
Justice of the Peace Courts; is enjoying a pleasant home
with his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Baxandale;
she was born in Pennsylvania in 1835, and was married at
Hennepin, Ill., in 1857; they have two children, named
Frank P. and Flora C., aged respectively 20 and
18 years.
Source: History of Livingston
Co., Ill. - Published Chicago: Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co. -
1878 - Page 704 |
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