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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of
Sangamon County, Illinois
Together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships,
Educational,
Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits
of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of
Representative Citizens.
HISTORY OF ILLINOIS
Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and
Political and Military History
- ILLUSTRATED -
Publ. Chicago:
Interstate Publishing Company
1881.
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JOSEPH S. CANTRALL, was
born on Cantrall creek, near Cantrall, Sangamon county,
Illinois, Oct. 16, 1841, where he remained until twenty
years of age, when he went into the cattle trade, feeding
and shipping until 1872, when he and two others laid out the
town of Cantrall, Illinois. He then furnished ties and
lumber for the S. & N. W. Railroad, from Petersburg to
Springfield, and, in 1874, built the Cantrall Elevator, and
went into the grain trade, his present occupation. He
is now building a large corn-crib, at Cantrall, with a
capacity of 75,000 bushels of ear corn; it is two hundred
feet long and thirty-five feet wide. J. S. Cantrall
was married to Miss Margaret A. Canterbury, Jan. 16,
1868; the fruits of this marriage are two children: Daisy
and Hattie. Mr. and Mrs. Cantrall
are members of the Christian Church. In politics, he
is a Republican; having cast his first vote for A.
Lincoln. Mrs. Cantrall was born in Sangamon
county, and is a daughter of John F. Canterbury, born
in Fleming county, Kentucky, Aug. 27, 1820; he was married
in Sangamon county, Feb. 22, 1842, to Miranda M. Brittin,
who was the mother of six children.
The father of Joseph S., Levi Cantrall, was born
in Botetourt county, Virginia. He was taken by his
parents to Bath county, Kentucky, in 1789, where he was
married to Miss Fannie England, Nov. 30, 1809,
and in 1811, moved to Madison county, Ohio, and to Madison
county, Illinois, October, 1819, and Dec. 4, 1819, moved
where the city of Springfield now stands; on the 5th he
selected a location, and commenced building a cabin Dec. 8,
1810; they had seven children; he died Feb. 22, 1860, and
she resides with her son, Joseph S., who is a Mason,
and a member of Lavely Lodge, at Williamsville, Illinois.
Source: History of Sangamon Co., IL - publ. 1881 -
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