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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.



ST. CLAIR, LEVI H., was born May 6, 1800, in New York, near Lake Champlain, and there married to Lorinda Spaulding, a native of the same State. They had four children in New York, and moved to the vicinity of Cleveland, Ohio, where one child was born, thence to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving June, 1833, in what is now Rochester township, where two children were born. Of their seven children--

H. CICERO, born July 18, 1825, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, Nov. 6, 1851, to Eliza E. Neal. Mrs. St. Clair died near Rochester, Illinois, Sept. 27, 1854, leaving one child, MINNIE, who was born in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, and resides with her grand-mother, Neal. H. C. St. Clair was married Oct. 7, 1858, to Katie Ring at Lancaster, Ohio. He enlisted at Mt. Pulaski in 1862 in Co. G, 35th Ill. Inf., for three years, was commissioned as second lieutenant, and after serving one year was transferred to the quartermaster's department, in which he served the remainder of the three years. Mr. St. Clair lived in Logan and Macon counties until 1871, when he moved to Belle Plain, Sumner county, Kansas, where he was elected county commissioner in 1873, and state senator in 1874. H. C. St. Clair and family reside at Belle Plain, Kansas.

HELEN, born Sept. 24, 1826, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, Feb. 21, 1850, to George L. Ormsby. He died in August, 1868, leaving a widow and one child, ALBERT, in Decatur, Illinois.

MARION J., born Sept. 18, 1828, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, Oct. 19, 1852, to S. D. Fisher, who was born March 7, 1822, in Charlotte, Chittenden county, Vermont, brought up in Essex county, New York, and came to Sangamon county in 1844. Mrs. Marion J. Fisher died Nov. 10 1867, and he married E. M. Benton. They reside at Atlanta, Illinois. S. D. Fisher was elected in 1872 for four years to represent the thirteenth district in the State Board of Equalization. He served four years, from 1870, as a member of the State Board of Agriculture, and was elected January, 1875, for two years as secretary of the same, with his office in Springfield, Illinois.

MARY, born Oct. 11, 1829, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Francis J. Taylor. See his name.

OSCAR L., born Jan. 31, 1832, in Cleveland, Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, Feb. 10, 1853, to Nancy E. Neal. O. L. St. Clair died Oct. 15, 1853, in Mt. Pulaski, leaving a widow and one child, OSCAR C., born May 6, 1854. They reside at the Neal family homestead, one mile west of Rochester. O. C. Neal is clerk in the State National Bank, Springfield, Illinois--1875.

MORTIMER, born Oct. 11, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Lizzie Kimball. She died suddenly July, 1869, near Rochester, Leaving two children, MAGGIE L. and LEWIS S., who reside with their grand-mother, West, in Springfield, Illinois. Mortimer St. Clair resides at Belle Plain, Sumner county, Kansas.

AMELIA, born April 8, 1843, in Sangamon county, was married there to Calvin C. Johnson. See his name. They have two children, EMMA FAY and O(???), and reside in Chicago.

Mrs. Lorinda St. Clair died Feb. 21, 1853, near Rochester. Mr. St. Clair was married in Springfield, Illinois, to Mrs. Eliza Rague. He died in April, 1866, near Rochester, Illinois, and his widow resides in Madison, Wisconsin.



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