Of English descent, native of Vermont, farmer and lumber manufacturer.
Cleared his own timbered land in New York.
Came to the Mississippi valley/Illinois 1837, returned to New York, went again to Illinois 1862 settling in Rushville, where he died 1885.
Member of Presbyterian church.
Father of seven children.
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