Biographical Sketch of Joseph Ashton
Joseph Ashton, farmer, P. O. Morris, was born in Delaware County, Penn., in September, 1829, and lived there until he became twenty-two years of age, when he, with his parents, moved to Kendall County, Ill., and settled near Lisbon, where they bought a farm. Mr....
Autobiography of Ida Woods Foster
When Kathleen (Madison) graduated from High School in 1936, the English teacher asked each one of the English Class to choose some book, make an outline of its contents, and also give an autobiography of its author. This work of course, required a greater part of the last semester for its compilation, and in the English Class was termed their ‘term theme’. In trying to furnish some sort of an autobiography for Kathleen to work from, her ‘term theme’ has become something like an heirloom for the family.
Biography of William Elder Armstrong
The name of no man living or dead is so intimately connected with and interwoven in the early history of Grundy county and the city of Morris as that of William E. Armstrong, from its inception, birth and christening to the time of his death. He was the third son of...Biography of Hon. George Washington Armstrong
“Wash” Armstrong, as he is called by all who knew him, is the second son of Joseph and Elsie Armstrong and was born upon their farm on the east fork of the Licking, in Licking county, Ohio, December 11, 1812, and came to Illinois with his mother and family in the...Biography of Charles Goold Armstrong
In a profession where advancement is dependent upon knowledge and skill, success is achieved only through individual merit. It is a wise provision of nature that learning cannot be inherited, that we enter this world on an equal intellectual basis, and therefore are...
Biography of Perry Austin Armstrong
The publishers have requested us to write a sketch of our life—a difficult and delicate thing to do. We are like the boy who said he was not used to having his teeth pulled and was afraid it would hurt. We have written many obituaries (not our own), but have never...
Biography of John Antis
John Antis, physician and surgeon, Mazon, was born in Montgomery County, N. Y., in 1817, and early in life commenced the study of medicine, graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western University of New York, in the year 1838. He practiced his...Biography of Zelotes J. Andrews
Zelotes J. Andrews, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Oneida County, N. Y., July 7, 1840, son of William S. and Amanda (Convis) Andrews, natives of New York State; the father was a farmer by occupation, and died in 1878, aged seventy-eight years; the mother, who is...Biography of Martin Anderson
The farmer of today faces many problems. While the price paid for farm products has increased, the cost of labor has risen, and the difficulty of marketing multiplied. The agriculturalist is not now content to trust to luck in his operations, for they cost too much,...Associations
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