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- Biographies from "Biographical Album of Peoria County, Illinois" (on microfiche)
- by Biographical Publishing Co., of Chicago, Pub. 1890.
- The biographies in this excellent book contain genealogical information. It mention parents, grandparents and children, often telling where the family originated. There are many full page portraits which can be printed at library or Family History Center with a microfiche reader/printer.
- The list of biographies at the beginning serves as an index. The biographies of United States Presidents have been left off the fiche. The fiche include pages 193 to 984 which is the biographical section. The text is light, yet clear and readable. (10 microfiche)
- Sample biography:
ELI MITCHELL: A stroll through the streets of the thriving city of Chillicothe will present to the view many business establishments, and bring before the mind of the observer many queries as to the standing of the proprietors in financial circles, and the traits which have led to their position. Should inquiry be made regarding a jewelry establishment located on Secnd Street, and bearing the name of Eli Mitchell, it would be found that it was established in June, 1862, and from a small beginning a good business was built up. A skillful artisan, Mr. Mitchell has a particularly good business in repairing, his reputation being second to none in the city.
Mr Mitchell was born n Yorkshire, England, not far from Hallifax, March 22, 1820, being of pure English stock and a member of a family which had been represented in Yorkshire for generations. He grew to maturity in his native shire, learning the trade of a jeweler in Ovenden, and afterward working as a journeyman. He married Miss Mary Ashworth, who was born and reared in the same part of England as himself, and is of an equally pure English lineage. After the birth of five children, including a pair of twins that died in England, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell determined to seek a home in America, believing that here they would secure greater prosperity and better opportunities for their children.
The couple set sail from Liverpool on the "Chicago" in the latter part of April, 1858, passing four weeks on the broad Atlantic. During this time their youngest child died and was buried in the great deep. They landed in New York, and continuing their journey westward via Chicago, located in Chillicothe, Ill. Here Mr. Mitchell established a permanent business, which has grown, by reason of his thorough workmanship and reliable dealings, into a flourishing enterprise.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell well represent their race, and have long been known among the better class of citizens, whose lives are spent in quiet usefulness. Mrs. Mitchell attends the Reformed Episcopal Church. Mr. Mitchell is a supporter of the Republican party. Four children have been born to the worthy couple since they came to America, but all died young. Their two living children are Anna, wife of Lyman Andrews, a prominent grocery dealer of Chillicothe, and Eli A., now Postmaster here, who married Miss Helen Fisher, of this city.
The father of our subject was David Mitchell, a mechanic and spinner for wollen cloth. He did much work in the mechanical department of the factory in which he was engaged, and was regarded as a skilled workman in both lines of his acquirements. He died at the age of fifty six years, in Elland, in his native shire. His wife survived him and died at the age of sixty-two years. Both were identified with the Methodist Church of England. They were the parents of six children, two of whom died in early life. Edward, Grace and Elizabeth are now living in Halifix, Yorkshire, our subject being the only one of the family to come to America. His brother is a carpenter, and he and his sisters are married.
Surnames on this fiche are:
Aby Adams Aiken Allen Amerman Anderson Andrew Antcliff Apple Armstrong Arnold Arthur Atwood Austin Avery
Bassett Beall Beecher Bell Bennett Bergner Berry Beveridge Biederbeck Bills Bird Birket Bishop Bissell Black Blakesley Blanchard Boal Bohanan Bond Bontz Bowers Bowman Boylan Bradley Brayshaw Breier Bridson Brodman Brooks Brotherson Brus Bryner Buchanan Bull Burdick Burt Bushnell Butcher Butts
Cahill Calloum Callender Campbell Carlin Cary Carter Case Catton Challacombe Chamberlain Chamberlin Chase Clark Cleveland Coe Colbuirn Cole Coles Collier Conklin Cooper Cornelius Cornwell Cotton Coulter Cowley Coyner Cramer Crandell Cremer Cullom Cutter
Dalton Dammann Darst Davis Dawson Deal DeLoss Detweiller Dewein Doty Doubef Donbet Dougherty Duke DuMars Dunean Dunlap
Easton Edwards Elliott Emerson English Erler Ernst Evans Ewalt Ewing
Fahnestock Fash Fifer Fillmore Finch Finley Fisher Flaglore Flanegan Ford Forney Francis Franks French Fritz Fry Frye Fulton
Gale Gales Gallup Gantt Garfield Garrison Gauss Geiger Gelling Gerdes Gilbert Giles Gillett Gilfillan Gillfillan Gilliam Gipps Gordon Graham Grant Graze Green Griggs Griswold
Hagerty Hakes Hall Haller Hamilton Hamlin Hammett Hauly Hanna Hanny Hansel Harding Hardy Harkness Harlan Harmon Harrison Hart Hassellbacher Hathaway Hawley Hawver Hayes Heneberry Hensel Hepperly Herr Herschberger Hicks Higgins Higgs Hill Hindle Hines Hinkley Hinman Hitchcock Hong Hoffman Hogan Holl Holmes Holton Hopkins Hornbaker Hough Houston Hovenden Howarth Howe Huber
Jack Jackson Jacobs James Jaques Jefferson Jones Joos Jordan
Karr Keach Keith Kellar Keller Kelley Kelsh Kemp Kendall Kenyon Kershaw Ketchum King Kingman Kinnah Kleffman Klinck Kreuter Krumpe Kuntz Kyle
Lambert Lane Larkin Law Lawrence Letterman Lietz Linck Lincoln Lind Lonsdale Look Lyon
Macy Madison Mahler Mallen Mansfield Marsh Marshall Martin Mathers Matteson Matthews McAlister McCormick McCoy McCullough McDermott McDonnell McDougal McFadden McGair McGogney McHree McHvaine McIntire McKinney McLean McNeill Meals Meeker Merchant Meyer Mihigan Miles Miller Mitchell Moffatt Moffitt Molchin Monroe Moody Mooney Morrow Moss Mott Moul Muller Murphy
Neal Nelson Newsam Niehaus Nightingale Noel Norvell
Oakford Ocrtley Off Oglesby Oswalt
Pacey Page Palmer Parmenter Parr Patterson Payson Peirce Perkins Pfander Phares Pierce Pillsbury Pinckney Pinkney Pitney Pitt Plack Polk Poplett Porter Potts Powell Pratz Purseil Putnam
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Radley Randall Randle Raum Reed Reents Reynolds Rice Richard Richardson Riner Roberts Robbins Robison Roelfs Rogers Roszell Rowcliffe Ryer
Sanger Schaub Scheeller Schenck Schimpil Schlink Schlots Schnebly Schofield Scholes Schroeder Scott Scovil Scovill Seabury Secretan Sedgwick Seelye Seltzer Seykour Shade Shehan Shepard Shoff Sholl Shurtleff Siegel Sikes Silliman Singer Slane Slayton Sloan Slough Slygh Smith Spurck Starr Starts Stegens Stewart Stevens Stone Stookey Stowell Straesser Streitmatter Sturm Switzer
Tallyn Taylor Temple Thomas Thompson Todd Traub Treasure Truitt Tucker Turbett Turner Tyler
Vanarsdale Van Buren Van Petten Van Tassel Vars Varnes Vicary Voorhees
Wachettheimer Wakefield Walker Wallace Warner Warren Washington Wasson Watrous Weatherwax Weaver Weber Weiennett Wenker White Whiting Whitneyu Whittaker Whittemore Whitten Wickwire Wilder Wiley Wilkinson Will Wilson Wing Winkelmeyer Woeltle Wold Wolland Wonder Wood Woodruff Wookey Wollner Worthington Wrigley Wykoff Waterhouse
Yates Yerion Young
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