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ROBERT J. ELLIOTT, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 19; P. O. Lexington; was born in Mahoning Co.. Ohio, July 14, 1839; the family descended from John Elliott, the missionary, and the first man to translate the Bible into the Indian dialect; his parents died when he was quite young. At the age of 16 he went to Lawrence Co., Penn., to live with an uncle, and was living there at the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion; he enlisted in Co. D, 134th Penn. V. I., in 1862 and was mustered in at Harrisburg, Aug. 10; he served nine months in the army of the Potomac, taking part in the five-days battle of Fredericksburg, and the five-days battle of Chancellorsville; he was mustered out in May, 1863, and, in the fall of the same year, came to Illinois, and settled on a farm in Lexington Township; in 1871, he removed to Chenoa Township where he now resides. He was married Nov. 1, 1864, to Miss Emeline Flesher, a daughter of George Flesher of Lexington Township; she was born in McLean Co., March 31, 1845; they have five children — George H., Willie D , Peter W., Frank L. and Arty C. Mr. Elliott has served six years as School Director.