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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.
HOPPIN, DANIEL
, was born Sept, 16, 1819, in Madison county, N. Y. He visited Sangamon county, in company with his father, in 1839, and bought land in Chatham. In the fall of 1840, he came out with a flock of five hundred sheep for himself, and about two hundred for Edward F. McConnell. He was one of the earliest and most extensive wool growers in the county, and continued it for many years. Daniel Hoppin and Cordelia Bradley were married March, 1848, at Chatham. They had three living children:
ANNA E. married Allen E. Parmenter. She died in 1875, in Talkington township. See his name in connection with the family of Charles T. Hoppin.
GEORGE B., and
CHESTER B. live with their parents.
Daniel Hoppin and wife reside near Pocahontas, Bond county, Ill. - 1874.
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