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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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STERNE, JOHN WALLER, farmer; Sec. 5; P. O. Quincy; was born in Stafford county, Va., April 11, 1792, and came to this county in 1829. He served in the war of 1812, under Gen. Harrison, in Col. Richard M. Johnson’s regiment of mounted volunteers. When Mr. Sterne came to this county he settled in Quincy, which was then in a deplorable condition on account of sickness, there being about 500 citizens, two-thirds of whom were sick, in what is now a city of 45,000 inhabitants; held the office of County Treasurer in 1830, but his aspirations have not been toward office-holding; was married to Miss Elizabeth Duncan, of Pendleton county, Ky., in 1824. She was born Jan. 25, 1801. They have one child, Wm. C. W., born Dec. 3, 1824; has 345 acres of land in a high state of cultivation, and very valuable. Republican in politics; has always been an old line Whig up to the birth of the Republican party, which he joined. Is Universalist in belief.
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This family biography is one of 1444 biographies included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. View the complete description here: The History of Adams County, Illinois
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