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Sidell Twp. -
C. L. EATON, Broadlands, Illinois,
farmer, is the son of Benjamin and Hannah Eaton,
who were of English descent and were natives of Massachusetts.
They removed to Ross county, Ohio, in about 1818, where C. L.
Eaton was born in 1820. He received his education and
remained there until 1854, then made the trip to Europe and
Australia, and returned in 1860. In 1861 he came to
Champaign county, Illinois, where he was manager of twenty-five
thousand acres of land for the Broadland estate until 1871.
He then came to Vermilion county. Mr. Eaton
represented Franklin county, Ohio, and the city of Columbus in
1853-54 in the legislature of that state. He was formerly
a whig until the organization of the republican party; he then
joined its ranks, where he has acted without any cause of
regret. Mr. Eaton has the confidence and
respect of those with whom he comes into business relations.
He has seen much of the world, and is wide awake to all matters
of public concern.
Submitted by Mary Paulius from
History of Vermilion County, Illinois - H. W. Beckwith - 1879
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Newell Twp. -
THOMAS ELDER,
State Line, farmer, was born in Pike county, Ohio, on the 3d of
March, 1822. His parents, Thomas and Rachel (Boiler) Elder,
moved to Perrysville, Vermilion county, Indiana, in 1830;
thence in 1838 to Danville township. His father was a native of
North Carolina, and his mother of Virginia. On the 11th of
December, 1840, he was married to Sarah Brewer, who was
born also in Pike county, Ohio, on the 12th of May, 1824. In
1828 her parents removed to the neighborhood of Lafayette,
Indiana; thence to Newell township, Vermilion county, Illinois,
in 1830. Mr. Elder settled in Newell
township
in 1841, and in the following year moved to Marion county,
Illinois, returning from there to Newell in the fall of 1848.
He began poor;
split rails for twenty-five and
thirty-seven and a half cents per hundred to buy a few
necessary articles for housekeeping and farming, but by industry
and frugality has acquired an honorable competence. Mr.
and Mrs. Elder have been members of the M. E. church,
respectively, since 1843 and 1839. He has held the office of
school trustee in town 20, range 10, for twenty-two consecutive
years, and been steward in the church twenty-three years. He is
the father of seven living children:
Richard M., Simeon A., Rachel,
Charles W., John H., George A. and
Frank. He owns four hundred and twenty acres, worth $16,500.
Submitted by Mary Paulius from History of Vermilion
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