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J. R. MEANS, Justice of the Peace, Saybrook; was born in Lewis Co., Ky., March 22, 1825; his parents, in the year 1829, moved to Little Vermilion, Vermilion Co., Ill., and the same winter his father came to Cheney’s Grove, and having built a cabin upon the north side of it, returned the next spring to Vermilion Co. and brought his family out, arriving here in March, 1830, being among the early settlers of this county. His father died upon the home stead Aug. 6, 1836, and his mother, March 1, 1875. The subject of this sketch lived with his mother up to the date of his marriage with Miss Nancy Stanbury, May 7, 1844, when he rented a farm, remaining upon it three years, when having entered and purchased Congress lands in Sec. 25, of this township, moved upon them and remained until the year 1863, when he came to the village of Saybrook and purchased a mill, carrying it on for nine months; having sold the farm he originally entered, he purchased a farm on Secs. 21 and 16 and lived there until 1867; in 1869, he returned to Saybrook, where he still resides; he held the office of Supervisor for the years 1877-78, and has been Justice of the Peace for fourteen years. His wife was born May 11, 1827, in Tennessee. They had six children, four living — Mary A., (now Mrs. John Pitts, of Kentucky), Sarah M. (now Mrs. J. S. Barwick, of Logan Co.), Ulrich L., and John H.; two deceased — Amos and James E.