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BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
Source:
History of Peoria County, Illinois
Chicago - Johnson & Company
1880
Note: The NAMES in 'CAPS' will have a
biography. All others do not have biographies available.
PRINCEVILLE TOWNSHIP
NOTE: Names with (*) next to them have longer
description
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Reese,
Harriett, J., P. O. Princeville.
Rial, Leslie, farmer, P. O. Princeville.
Rial, Mary, P. O. Princeville. |
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* RICE, JAMES,
hotel keeper, P. O. Princeville. Pg.
818 |
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Rogers, J. W.,
laborer, P. O. Princeville. |
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* RUSSELL, JOHN
H., grocer, P. O. Princeville Pg.
818 |
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Scanlon,
Pat., farmer, P. O. Monica
Scott, B. S., farmer, P. O. Duncan. |
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* SELBY, WILLIAM
G., hotel keeper, P. O. Princeville,
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* SHANE, WILLIAM
C., livery, P. O. Monica, Pg. 818 -
819 |
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Shade, Jacob,
farmer, P. O. Princeville.
Shane, Wm., liveryman, P. O. Monica |
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* SIMPSON,
WILLIAM, merchant, P. O. Princeville.,
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* SLANE, F.,
farmer, Sec. 35, P. O. Princeville.,
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SLANE, J. T.,
farmer, Sec. 23, P. O. Princeville., was born in Peoria
county in 1837, and is the son of Ben. J. and Delia
Slanae, who came to Peoria county in 1831, and were
among the early settlers in this section. Mr. Slane
came to Princeville in 1840, and has resided in the
neighborhood ever since. Moved to his present location
on Sec. 23, in 1863. Married in 1860, Mary M. Green,
who was born in Ohio in 1842, by whom he has one child.
Mr. Slane and his brother, S. S. Slane,
own 307 acres of land, worth about $17,600, of which 247
acres are under good cultivation, the balance being pasture
land.
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SLANE, JOHN Z.,
farmer, Sec. 26, P. O. Princeville, was born in Morgan
county, W. Va., Oct. 16, 1827. Came to Peoria county
Nov. 7, 1831, and has resided in the neighborhood of
Princeville ever since 1841. Has resided on Sec. 26
for over twenty-five years, and witnessed the making of
nearly all the present improvements. Mr. Slane
enlisted in Co. K., 86th Ill. Inf., Aug. 9, 1862, and with
his company took part in many engagements and skirmishes,
among them that of Perryville, Ky., Chickamauga, Mission
Ridge, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree
Creek, Jonesboro and Smithville, besides many smaller
encounters. Was mustered out at Chicago, June 22,
1865. On Mar. 14, 1867, he married Miss Mary P.
Patton, who was born in Clifford county, Pa., in 1836,
and by whom he has had five children, two of which survive.
He owns 346 acres of land, worth about $15,500.
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SMITH, ARCHIBALD,
farmer, Sec. 7, P. O. Monica, was born
in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1837, and came to Peoria county
with his parents in 1844. They settled on Sec. 7 of
Princeville township, where they opened a farm and made many
improvements, and both of them died there, his father in
1852, and his mother in 1877. Mr. Smith
married, in 1877, Miss Mary E. Nickelson, who was
born in Marshall county in 1853, by whom he has one child,
Jennie B. Smith, born Apr. 26, 1879. On Aug. 8,
1862, he enlisted in Co. K., 86th Inf., and with the
regiment took part in the engagement at Perryville, Ky.
Transferred to Invalid Corps. Nov. 1, 1863, and was
discharged for disability in May, 1865. He owns 110
acres of land, worth $4,500, and has 90 acres under
cultivation. Has helped to make all the improvements
thereon, it being part of the old homestead. Mr.
and Mrs. Smith are members of the Baptist Church.
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Smith, D.,
farmer, P. O. Monica
Smith, Delilalh H., farmer, P. O. Monica |
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SMITH, JOHN,
farmer, Sec. 7, P. O. Monica, was born in Glasgow, Scotland,
in 1822, emigrating to this country in 1842. he came
to Peoria county in 1844 and in 1848 married Miss Jane
Payne, who was born in Carroll county, Va., in 1825,
coming to Peoria county with her parents in 1842, and
settling on Sec. 7, of Princeville township, which was then
in a very wild and unimproved state. Her parents
resided on their homestead in Sec. 7, till their death.
Mr. Smith came to his present home in 1844, and has
so in industriously improved his farm that the 290 acres
which compose it are worth in the neighborhood of $15,000;
has had eight children, all of whom are alive. Mrs.
Smith and five children are members of the Presbyterian
Church.
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SMITH, WILLIAM P.,
farmer, P. O. Princeville, was born in Lincoln county,
Maine, Nov. 24, 1807 and in 1829 came to Peoria county, and
settled near Princeville; married in 1835 Miss Fanny
Silliman, who was born in N. Y., in 1813. Her
father was one of the earliest settlers in this county,
coming here in 1828, and settling in Hallock township.
They have had nine children, five of whom are now living.
They had two sons in the army during the war: Cyrus,
who enlisted in the 11th Ill. Cavalry, who died at home,
though still in the service, and Isaac, who enlisted
in Co. K., 86th Ill. Infty., in1862, and was killed at
Tunnel Hill, Ga., Feb. 26, 1864. Mr. Smith has
seen all the existing improvements in the county made, there
being at the date of his coming, neither farm roads nor
school-houses existing, and he helped to build the first
school-house erected in it. It was made of round logs,
and stood just over the line in Akron township. His
father was one of the first ministers in the county, was a
Close Communion Baptist, and preached many a time in the old
log school-house. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, by hard
labor and economy have acquired a competency, owning 160
acres of land, besides at a house and six lots, in
Princeville, worth in all about $7,000. All their
children but two are married, and have families.
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Smith, R. W., P.
O. Monica
Springer, Geo., farmer, P. O. Duncan
STEVENS, WM. C., retired, P. O. Princeville.
Stowell, A. N., lumberman, P. O. Princeville. |
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THOMPSON,
CHARLES H., horse trainer, P. O.
Monica, was born in Monmouth county, N. J., in 1854; was
raised on a farm, and is the son of Samuel R. and Ellen
Thompson, who still reside in his native county; married
married Miss Lulu Calhoun, on Jan. 1, 1879.
Mr. Thompson has trained many horses since coming to the
county, in 1877, and some of them give promise of great
speed.
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Turner, W. H.,
farmer, P. O. Duncan. |
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