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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.



HAMLIN, HENRY N., was born Jan. 30, 1816, in Oneida county, N. Y. He came to Sangamon county in the Spring of 1837, to assist his uncle, Asa Hamlin, who had a contract to build several miles of the Northern Cross--now T., W. & W. R. R. His uncle died in the fall of that year, leaving his contract unfinished. Henry N. had loaned him all his savings from several years school teaching. He not only lost that, but his wages while he was with his uncle, also. On realizing the situation, he went to Morgan county, near Franklin, and resumed his profession as a teacher. He was there married, Dec. 30, 1838, to Eveline Scott. In March, 1839, they moved to Sangamon county, in what is now Chatham township. He engaged in farming, and taught school in the winter. In the spring of 1840 he returned to Morgan county, and remained there until 1847, when he came back to Sangamon county. They had five children--

MARY ANTIONETTE, born Oct. 3, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 29, 1859, to James N. Puntenney. They have five children, CHARLES SUMNER, LIZZIE ETTA, MINNIE ETHEL, SARAH EVELINE and a daughter, and live near Butler, Montgomery county, Illinois.

DWIGHT MONSON, born Oct. 23, 1843, in Morgan county, enlisted at Springfield, August, 1862, for three years, in Co. D, 126th Ill. Inf., served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged in 1865. He was married Jan. 23, 1872, to Anna Chambers, who was born Dec. 6, 1850, near Madison, Ind. They have two children, HENRY NOBLE and CHARLES CARROLL, and live in Springfield.

ERASTUS EMMONS, born July 9, 1845, in Morgan county, raised in Sangamon county, and lives at Centralia, Nemaha county, Kansas.--1874.

FRANCIS L., born June 8, 1848, in Sangamon county, lives with his mother.

LAURA H., born April 10, 1851, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 26, 1871, to Samuel L. Ridgeway, and lives in Atchison county, Mo.

Henry N. Hamlin died July 30, 1853, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides near the centre of Ball township, four and a half miles southeast of Chatham.

H. N. Hamlin was an ordained minister in the M. E. Church, but never entered into the traveling connection. Emmaus Hamlin, of Mason & Hamlin, Organ Manufacturers, Boston, and W. Hamlin, manufacturer of the George Wood organ, at Cambridge, Mass., are brothers of Henry N.



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