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ANDERS, JOHN, farmer and stock-dealer; Sec. 35; P. O. Camp Point; is the son of Adam and Nancy Anders, of Maryland, in which State they were married, and removed to Hamilton county, Ohio, where he was born, April 12, 1819. The school districts in the county at that time were twelve miles square, and his parents lived eight miles from a school-house, with a river between, consequently his opportunities for attending school were very meager. He left that county and went to Dearborn county, Ind., when he was 24 years old, at a time when the settlers in that county were obliged to go eighty miles to mill, carrying their grists on horses. He came from there to Columbus township, Adams county, Ill. He lost his team on the way, and, not being able to buy another, he carried the rails to fence his first crop. He was married, Feb. 10, 1840, to Elva Wood, who was born in Hamilton county, Ohio. She died in the spring of 1855, leaving three children: Elizabeth Lewis, Martha J. Simmons, and George Anders. He was married again, in December, 1856, to Mildred Curl, of Kentucky. They have one child, Elva Anders. They came to Camp Point township in 1868. He has always devoted his attention to farming, and for twenty-five years has dealt quite extensively in livestock; owns 128 acres of improved land in Camp Point, worth $40 per acre, and 160 (half improved) in Columbus township, worth $25 per acre.