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WALTER W. CHURCH, post-office Carthage, farmer and stock-raiser, located on section 35, Sheridan township, was born in Walworth county, Wis., March 30, 1850. He was reared on a farm and educated at Big Foot Academy and Normal Institute, Sharon, Wis. In 1864 he taught his first school in McHenry county, Ill. He returned after his school was out to Wisconsin and attended school the next summer, and continued to attend school until 1868. He then came to Jasper county, locating in Sheridan township, and farmed one year, and taught school in the Hackney schoolhouse in 1871; then returned to Wisconsin and attended school. He intended going to Ann Arbor, Mich., but instead went to Kenosha county, Wis.; from there he returned to Jasper county and engaged in teaching, and has taught most of the time since until 1882. He was married to Miss Amanda, daughter of Elias and Maria L. Keener. Her father was a native of Ohio and her mother of Virginia. Of seven children Mrs. Church was the fourth child; she was born in Henderson county, Ill., and moved with her parents to Jasper county in 1867. She was married Aug. 15, 1880, and by this union they have one child, named Willard. In politics Mr. Church is a Greenbacker. He has a good farm of 160 acres, on which is a good spring and good well of water; has a good orchard and fair buildings. He is well known and universally respected.