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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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BENNESON, ROBERT S., retired; residence, 214 Jersey street; born in Newcastle county, Delaware, in 1807; moved to Philadelphia in 1828, and to Quincy, Illinois, in 1837. He married Electa A. Parks in 1842. She was born in Vermont in 1810. Have four children: Alice A., Annie J. Caroline and Cora Agnes. Are members of the Unitarian Church. He is a Republican. Seeing the necessity of raising funds to put the public schools in a more effective condition, he got up a petition to the Legislature for a tax of 12 ½ cents upon $100 of the assessed value of property in the city, to be used under the control of the proper officers for school purposes, which was granted. He was Alderman six years, and Mayor in 1859. He was a stock-holder in the Quincy Savings Bank, and director of the First National Bank, and one of the incorporators of the gas company, and president of it six years, and a director since its organization. He was in the lumber business in 1840, and shipped by steamboat from Cairo, Ohio, the first lumber he sold in Quincy, His youngest daughter, Cora A., is studying law.
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