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Pike County
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BIOGRAPHIES

Source #1: History of Pike County, Illinois. - 1880

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JOHN M. KELSEY, was born in this county in 1852, son of Samuel and Annie E. Kelsey, the former born Nov. 18, 1827, and the latter April 26, 1834.  In 1875 he married Matilda Smith, who was born in this county in 1859, and they had 3 children.  Mr. K. is a farmer and also follows grain threshing with the Spence machine.  He is a member of the Christian Church.  His father was in the late war, belonging to Co. B., 99th Reg. Ill. Inft., and died at Memphis, Tenn., while in service.
ANDREW KLEINLEIN was born in Germany in 1820, and is a son of Peter and Martha Kleinlein.  At the age of 33 he crossed the ocean and landed in Baltimore, Md., and followed butchering for 10 months, then worked in an engine house 2 years for the Great Western R. R. Co., and in 1858 came to this county and commenced farming.  In 1856 he married Miss Caroline Berceka, who was born in 1833 in Hamburg and came across the ocean in 1855.  Of their 9 children 7 are living, 2 of whom are married.  Mr. and Mrs. K. have been members of the German Lutheran Church, and he owns 140 acres of good land.

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