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A. H. CONGER, farmer, stock-raiser and shipper, Sec. 18; P. O. Towanda; one of the old settlers of Blue Mound Township. Baptist; Republican. Born in Licking Co., Ohio, March 19, 1830. In 1855, he emigrated to McLean Co., Ill., and was employed as farm laborer until 1859, when he rented land one year, and, in 1860, purchased eighty acres of his present place, locating upon the same the following year. Upon the 28th of April, 1861, he was united in marriage with Ellen J. White; she was born in Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Oct. 12, 1839; they have six children now living, having lost two by death; the living are Clara A., Charlie C., Cora A., Bertice H., Pearl F. and Blanche E. Upon the marriage of Mr. Conger, he worked by the month to obtain means to put up his house, which was 12x16, in which he lived four years. Mr. Conger came to this county with a capital not to exceed $50; he now owns 195 acres, which he has improved by his own hard labor, with good farm buildings, all of which he has accumulated by his own exertions. In 1876, he engaged in the agricultural trade, in Towanda, since which time he has been engaged in buying and shipping stock to the Chicago market. Mr. Conger is now Town Collector of Blue Mound Township. Mrs. Conger is a daughter of George C. White, one of the old settlers of the county, and whose sketch appears in this work.