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BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY Source:  History of Peoria County, Illinois Chicago - Johnson & Company 1880   Peoria City Akron Brimfield Chillicothe Elmwood Hallock Hollis Jubilee Kickapoo Limestone Logan Medina Milbrook Princeville Radnor RICHWOODS Rosefield Timber Trivoli Note:  The NAMES in 'CAPS' will have a biography.  All others do not have biographies available. RICHWOODS TOWNSHIP NOTE:  Names with (*) next to them have longer description ABCD EFGH IJKL MNOP QRST UVW XYZ   Page 836 - Rell, Charles, farmer and gardener, P. O. Peoria   Schnebley, C. C., farmer, P. O. Peoria Schnebley, E. M., farmer, P. O. Peoria Schnebley, J. C., farmer, P. O. Peoria Schuline, Leonard, gardner, P. O. Peoria Sipp, Adam, farmer, P. O. Peoria   * SLOUGH, JACOB Pg. 836   Smith, John R., retired merchant, P. O. Peoria   * SORNBERGER, GEORGE Pg. 836   Spanler, Casper, farmer, P. O. Peoria STAFFORD, WILLIAM, farmer, and gardener, Sec. 15, P. O. Peoria Stanley, John, farmer, P. O. Peoria Steele, Godfrey, farmer, P. O. Peoria Stringer, Wm., farmer, P. O. Peoria   * SUTLIFF, ANGELO A., Pg. 836   Swartz, Nicholas, farmer, P. O. Peoria Sweat, Eliza, farmer, P. O. Peoria   * TINKER, DANIEL M., retired, P. O. Peoria, was born in North Adams, Mass., Feb. 2, 1810, and is the son of Giles Tinker, a native of that State.  He is one of a family of thirteen children, five of whom are now living.  When twenty-two years of age, he went to Honeye Falls, N. Y., in the foundry business, and the following year embarked in the stove business, shipping principally to Rochester.  In this he continued eight years, and then removed into Rochester for one year, and thence to Kingsville, O., where he started a foundry on his own account; resided there two years and then removed to Kent, O., where for the next six years he continued in the same business.  In 1856 he came to Peoria, and after two years in a foundry, started a restaurant and conducted it for three years, buying at the end of that period his present location on the borders of Richwoods township, about two miles from the court house.  He married, Aug., 1829, Miss Ann Darling, who was born in Birkshire county Mass., Nov. 11, 1810, by whom he had six children, three of whom are now living: Susan, now Ms. Isaac Cady, of Stafford, Conn.; Lida, now Mrs. O. P. Norton, and Louise, now Mrs. John Waugh.  Mr. Tinker engaged very extensively in the raising of fruit. Pg. 836 SHARON WICK's NOTE: There is a Tinker in Ashtabula Co., Ohio that invented a special non-rustable metal and made beautiful tombstones.   TRENT, W. M., farmer, Sec. 19, P. O. Peoria ...