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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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SIMON, WILLIAM, farmer; Sec. 26; P. O. Coatsburg; was born in Lippe, Germany, April 19, 1826; came to this country, 1854. He has eighty-five acres of land under good cultivation, valued at $4,000. He married Minnie Shaffer. She was born in the same place, Nov. 3, 1833. They have nine children, six boys and three girls: August, William, Theodore, Matilda, Johnny, Helene, Eddie, Charles, and Minnie. They are members of the Lutheran church. Politics. Democratic. Emigrated from Bremen on a sailing vessel; was sixty-three days making the voyage; landed at New Orleans, thence up the Mississippi river to Quincy, where he lived six months, and drove team for $8 per month, then rented for twelve years, and has been on his own place for eleven years. Mr. Simon has a good comfortable home, and is well off; was in the German army three years.
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