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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.




HARRIS, JOB F., was born Sept. 19, 1798, in Rockbridge county, Va., and was taken by his parents to Barren county, Ky., in 1806. He was apprenticed to learn the business of cabinet making, and moved to St. Louis, in 1816. Business being dull, his master released him, and he spent some time on the lower Mississippi, and went from New Orleans to the Rocky mountains, with a company of trappers, returning in the fall of 1818. In the fall of 1822 he came to Sangamon county, in what is now Ball township. In 1827 he enlisted in a Sangamon county company to fight the Winnebago Indians, but the campaign ended without fighting. Job F. Harris was married, May 24, 1844, to Mrs. Mary Phillips. They had two children--

ELIZABETH B. and JOHN M.

Mr. Harris died July 29, 1866. His widow and children live two and a half miles northeast of Auburn.

Mr. Harris voted for Abraham Lincoln every time he was a candidate for any office, from Captain of a military company to President of the United States for the second time.




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