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ROBERT REID, sheep-raiser, Sec. 30; P. O. Downs; born in the Parish of Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, Nov. 7, 1830, where he obtained a good, common-school education, and followed farming until he emigrated to America, landing in New York in the spring of 1852; coming directly to Illinois, he remained in Knox Co. several months, and, after seven months in Sangamon Co., he went to California, where he followed mining for eighteen months, when he returned to Illinois, and, in the spring of 1850, he hired out with Mr. H. Bishop, and worked with him until his decease, when he engaged in raising sheep, which business he has followed for nearly one-fourth of a century, and during which time he has made five trips to Scotland; he now rents upward of four hundred acres of land, for which he pays cash, and then re-rents for grain, which he feeds his sheep, of which he has upward of seven hundred; he reserves some two hundred acres for sheep pasturage.