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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.
LYMAN, CORNELIUS
, was born August 10, 1792, in Brookfield, Vt. He was there married, about 1814, to Betsy Cushman, and moved to Potsdam, N. Y., where they had two children. The family moved to Clinton county, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1833, as part of the colony of fifty-two persons. After residing in Sangamon county many years, they moved to Minnesota with the first emigration, and settled at St. Croix Lake. Of their two sons--
CORNELIUS S., born in 1816, in New York, married at Chatham, Sangamon county, to Emily Kincaid. They have a large family, and reside near Stillwater, Minn.
DAVID P., born in New York, married in Sangamon county to Ann J. Hannah. They have a family, and reside near Stillwater, or Marine Mills, Minn.
Cornelius Lyman died Jan. 31, 1864, and his widow died, both near Stillwater, Minn.
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