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† Source #1: History of
Pike County, Illinois. - 1880
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GEORGE L. THOMPSON,
blacksmith, Chambersburg, was born in Woodford county,
Ky., son of William and Elizabeth Thompson, the
former a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of
Scotland; in 1833 he emigrated to Indianapolis with his
grandparents, and the next year with his parents, to
Perry township, in this county; in the spring of 1835 he
left his parents, returning to Indianapolis, where he
learned his trade; in the fall of 1855 he settled at
Chambersburg, where he has since followed his trade.
In 1845 he married Harriett S. O'Harrow, who was
born June 20, 1829, in Hamilton county, Ohio, and they
have had six children. Being an early comer to this wild
West, Mr. T. has often seen large packs of wolves
and killed many a deer. One day when well on his
way home with a deer on horseback, the wolves attacked
him, and he was compelled to abandon his booty and seek
safety. The wolves devoured the deer with
characteristic greed. Mr. Thompson used to
go to the town of Perry to buy such things as were kept
for sale in an old log hut 12 feet square, kept by
Joseph King, who was an old bachelor, and cooked,
ate and sold goods in the same room. His wife is a
Methodist. |
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FRANKLIN TODD was born
in 1825 in Bourbon County, Ky.; his father, John P.,
was born in Vermont, and his mother, Mary, in
Pennsylvania; his father died in 1827, and in 1832 he
accompanied his mother to their new home in
Chambersburg, when there were but two cabins there,
occupied by James and John Fike. In
1843 Mr. Todd married Lucretia Draper, who
was born in Scott county, Ill., in 1825, the daughter of
Samuel and Huldah Draper, her father a native of
Massachusetts, and her mother, of Ohio. Mr. and
Mrs. T. have had 11 children, 7 of whom are living.
From 1840 to 1855 Mr. T. followed coopering in
Chambersburg, part of the time when there were 40
coopers at work. Since that time he has been a
successful farmer, and now owns 160 acres of land.
Twelve years ago he was $4,000 in debt, but has now paid
it all. He has been School Director and Road
Commissioner. He and his wife are members of the
Christian Church, and are public-spirited, worthy
citizens. |
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ROBERT TODD was
born in Bourbon county, Ky., in 1819, son of John and
Mary Todd, natives of Maryland and South Carolina,
respectively. His father died in 1828, and in 1832
he came with his mother to this county. In 1843 he
married Margaret Edwards, who was born in 1824 in
Greenup county, Ky.; they have had 3 children.
Mr. T. now owns 120 acres of good land on sec. 5,
besides other valuable property; he has been Constable,
Tax Collector, School Trustee and Director, and was in
the Mormon war. In his early day here Indian
trails were sometimes his only guide in traveling over
the country6,and for two years St. Louis was his trading
post. P. O., Chambersburg. |
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ELI D. TUCKER was
born in 1857 at Sutton, Worcester Co., Mass., son of
Ebenezer and Elizabeth T., the former a native of
Rhode Island, and the latter of Massachusetts; both his
parents dying while he was very young, he was bound out
at the age of 7, but at the age of fourteen, being
maltreated, he ran off to West Warren, Mass., where he
worked at $10 a month on a farm; commencing in 1871, he
worked two years in a rubber manufactory; in 1874 he
came to Illinois, worked on a farm and repairing
telegraph wires on the O. & M. R. R.; in 1877 he became
an employee at the Perry Mineral Springs; Nov. 8, 1878,
he began to learn the blacksmith's trade under Frank
Marden, of this place, and is doing well. |
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