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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.



VREDENBURGH, JOHN S., was born March 11, 1809, in Somerset county, New Jersey. The family moved in 1821 to New York city, where he was married, Sept. 22, 1832, to Ann E. Doremus. She was born there Oct. 12, 1810. They had two children in New York, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving July 20, 1835, in what is now Curran township, where they had two children. In 1837 they moved to Springfield, where they had four children. Of their children:

MARIA V. D., born June 28, 1833, in New York city, was married March 22, 1853, in Springfield, to Edward R. Ulrich, who was born Oct. 10, 1829, in Duchess county, New York. They had eight children, LOUIS, ANNA V., EDWARD R., Jun., CATHARINE, CHARLES, HENRIETTA, PAUL and MARIA. Anna V. died March, 1876, in her nineteenth year. All the living children reside with their parents in Springfield. Edward R. Ulrich came to Springfield in 1841, and was for many years a lumber merchant there. He has since been engaged in stock and grain dealing.

FRANCES D., born April, 1835, in New York city, lives with her parents in Springfield, Illinois.

PETER, born Feb. 7, 1837, in Sangamon county, was married Dec. 27, 1866, to Mary A. Canfield, daughter of Rev. Josiah Canfield. She was born in New Jersey. They live one and one-half miles northwest of Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS D., born March 15, 1841, in Sangamon county, was married in Warsaw, Illinois, May 22, 1866, to Maria Reynolds. They have one child, WILLIAM R. T. D. Vredenburgh is with his father, in the lumber business, and resides in Springfield, Illinois.

JOHN S., Jun., born Sept. 1, 1844, in Springfield, Illinois, was married Oct. 15, 1868, to Elizabeth H. Kilman, who was born August 2, 1845, in Godfrey, Madison county, Illinois. They have two adopted children, and reside in Chicago, Illinois.

ANN E., born April 19, 1850, in Springfield, was married May 6, 1874, to James Partridge. They live in Springfield, Illinois.

MARGARET lives with her parents.

LA RUE, born in Springfield, Illinois, is attending college in New Brunswick, New Jersey--1876.

John S. Vredenburgh was formerly a farmer, but has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in Springfield nearly forty years, and is now in the lumber trade. He served two terms as alderman, and one term, from April, 1864, to April, 1865, as mayor of the city. He now--November, 1876--resides in Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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