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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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LIKES, WILLIAM, farmer and stock-raiser; Sec. 27; P. O. Barry, Pike county, Ill.; was born in Davis county, Ind., in 1828; came to Adams county, and located in Richfield township in 1841. His father died in 1865, and his mother in 1870; was married to Miss Adaline Havard in 1854. She was born in 1834, and died in 1858. He had, by his first wife, two children: Alexander H., born in 1856, and Maggie, born in 1858; was again married in 1860, to Miss Mary E. Ham. She was born in 1834. He has, by his second wife, ten children: John W., Annie, Abraham Lincoln, Charles C., Mary E., Luella, Ellen, Stephenson T., Lizzie, and Henry, the three latter being dead. He owns 478 acres of improved land, under the best of cultivation, worth $20,000. He makes a business of fattening cattle and hogs. Mr. L. and wife are members of the M. E. church, and he is, also, a member of the Masonic Fraternity. Politically, he is a Republican. Alexander H. Likes is educating himself for a physician, in Wesleyan University.
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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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