RANSOM, JOHN G., was born April 27, 1808, at Chazy, Clinton county, N. Y., and was there married, Sept 30, 1830, to Lucy M. Gregory. They moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving June 6, 1835. Mr. Ransom commenced work as a journeyman wagon and carriage maker, and in a short time established the business on his own account. He made, as he believes, the first buggy ever put up in Springfield. In 1838 Mr. Ransom moved to Chatham, which had just been laid out, and he was among the first to erect permanent buildings in the town. He engaged in carriage and wagon making there. In 1840 he moved to Whitehall, Ill., and back to Chatham in 1842. In 1845 he moved to Galena, Ill., where Mrs. Lucy M. Ransom died, Mar. 18, 1846, leaving three living children, with whom Mr. Ransom returned to Chatham. Of those children--

EDWARD H., born in Sangamon county, married Gazena A. Brurink. He was a soldier in Co. B, 114th Ill. Inf., and spent several months in prison at Andersonville, Georgia. The privation and disease contracted there caused his death in Feb., 1869. He left a widow and four children in Virden, Illinois.

AMELIA M. married William Montgomery. They have seven children, and live at Stonington, Christian county, Illinois.--1874.

MARTHA married in Plattsburg, New York, to William L. Wood. They have one child, and live at Stonington, Christian county, Illinois.

John G. Ransom was married July 1, 1847, in Chatham, to Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley, whose maiden name was Hand. They had seven children, two of whom died young. Of the other five--

AUGUSTA E., born in Chatham, married Henry D. Cogswell, has one child, and lives in Bloomington, Illinois.--1873.

EMMA, CHARLES, JOHN E. and MARIA T. live with their parents.

John G. Ransom and family reside in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.