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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.




HOLLENBACK, ANDREW F., born Jan. 14, 1807, in Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Mass. He came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 11, 1830, at Rochester, but a few days before the "deep snow," and remembers that Archibald Sattley and himself gathered corn during the whole winter, and fed sixty head of cattle and fifteen horses. They kept a wagon road open through the fields and each would take a basket and bring the corn to the wagon. He thinks the snow was from four to four and one-half feet deep. He was married in Rochester, Dec. 30, 1838, to Juliann E. St. Clair, who was born Oct. 9, 1818, in Vermont. They had three children; two died in infancy. Their son--

RANSOM A., died at Buffalo, Dec. 21, 1867, in his twenty-fifth year.

Mrs. Hollenback died Aug. 29, 1873. Mr. Hollenback was appointed Postmaster at Buffalo, in April, 1870, and holds the office to the present time. A. F. Hollenback was married Feb. 3, 1875, in Joliet, Ill., to Mrs. Mary A. Ledyard, whose maiden name was Carpenter. She was born Dec. 18, 1818, in Barre, Orleans county, New York. She has a son, George R. Ledyard, who lives with them, at Buffalo, Sangamon county, Ill.




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