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ERISMAN, JACOB, proprietor of the United States Flouring Mills, originally an old landmark on the banks of the Macoupin, but rebuilt in 1865. Jacob Erisman was born in the year 1833; he had attained his fourth year when his parents, Christopher and Catherine Erisman, emigrated to Ohio, where young Erisman grew to maturity, and became apprenticed to the trade of a miller, and subsequently became a journeyman workman, and in 1859, he was united in marriage to Miss Rachel Cromwell. In 1865 he came to Greene County, where he has principally resided, and where he has for the past ten years assumed the proprietorship of the mills above mentioned, which are fitted up with all modern machinery, and where he is fully prepared to do custom work; owing to his superior brand of flour, Mr. Erisman receives many orders in Greene and adjoining counties. Mr. E. is a shrewd business man, and what is still better, a liberal whole-souled gentleman, whose enterprise crops out on many occasions. Mr. E. has but one child, Katy A., now living. Mary F. the youngest child, died on the 22d of February, 1878. Note. The U. S. Mills are owned jointly by Mr. E., Mrs. Charlotte King and heirs.