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Below is a family biography included in The History of Adams County, Illinois published by Murray, Williamson & Phelps in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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REATH, HENRY, proprietor Clayton House, Clayton; is the son of Henry and Catherine Reath, both born in Germany; father died in 1840 and mother in 1843. He was born in same country, May 15, 1834; came to America, with his parents, in 1838, and settled in Louisville, Ky.; removed to Indiana, in 1841, thence to Jacksonville, Ill., in 1866. He enlisted as a private in the United States army in the war of the Rebellion, in Co. I, 120th Regt. Ind. Inf., in September, 1862; was promoted to 2d Lieutenant in the fall of 1863; resigned from disability in the fall of 1864. He has worked at the harness trade since he was sixteen years old; came from Mount Sterling, Brown county, to Clayton, in the summer of 1878; married Miss Sarah Smith, April 8, 1857. She was born in Orange county, Ind., Nov. 3, 1839. They have five children: Ida, Josephine, Gertrude, Catherine, and Frederick. Mr. Reath is a memer of the I. O. O. F., and they are both connected with the M. E. church. Politics Republican.
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