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ROOD, NATHANIEL P., farmer; Sec. 5; P. O. Quincy; was born in Knox county, Ohio, July 8, 1820; received his education in the schools of his native county; and in the Fall of 1838 moved west and settled in Carroll county, Mo., where he lived until the Spring of 1839, when he moved to Adams county, Ill., and settled in Fall Creek township; in June, 1843, he was married to Miss Lucina L. Bennett, a native of Indiana. She died in 1862. By this marriage there were three children, only one of whom is living — John R. In 1863 he was married to his second, and present wife, who was Mrs. Henrietta N. Hortenstine, widow of James Hortenstine, of Clay county, Ill. The fruit of this marriage was three children, only one of whom are now living — Liona L. He owns 240 acres of land, which, for fertility of soil and improvement, will compare favorably with any in the county. He is Democratic in politics, and a member of the Christian church. He is Township Trustee of Fall Creek, has been School Director for about twenty years, and is numbered among the large and well-to-do farmers of the county, notwithstanding he began life poor.