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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.




DAWLEY, HARRISON, was born July 17, 1817, in Chatauqua county, N. Y., came to Springfield in March, 1839, and four or five years later went to Island Grove, where he was married, Oct. 26, 1847 to Jane Campbell, a daughter of Hugh Campbell. She was born March 11, 1826, in Tennesse, and raised on Richland creek. They had nine children; three died young, namely--

PATIENCE was killed in her third year, by a runaway horse belonging to Dr. J. M. Gibson.

MATILDA died in her third year, and

MAXWELL died in infancy.

CYNTHIA A., born Sept. 4, 1848, married Oct. 28, 1869, to M. F. Kibbey. They have three children, and live at El Paso, Sedgwick county, Kan.

JOHN H., WILLIAM E., EDWARD, JOSEPH C. and GEORGE T., live with their parents two miles south of Rochester




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