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JAMES N. PEED is one of the early settlers of Sheridan township He was born in Mason county, Ky., Sept. 14, 1834. He is the son of William and Mary Peed, natives of Kentucky. They had four children, James being the eldest child, and moved to Indiana when he was ten years old He was raised on a farm, and at the age of fourteen his mother died, and his father broke up keeping house. The subject of this sketch has taken care of himself ever since he went to working on the farm by the month; he worked at one place two years, then worked for another party at seventeen dollars per month; he then got twenty dollars a month from another party, and then rented a farm from a party in Champaign county Ill. He was married to Margaret Stover, March 22, 1857, and in June 1861 he enlisted in Company I, Tenth Illinois Cavalry; he was in the field for two and one-half years, and was in the fight at Prairie Grove, Ark; Little Rock Battle of Helena, and a good many skirmishes, and other small engagements. After he had served two and one-half years he re-enlisted, and was hospital steward from that time until Nov. 4, 1864, when he was mustered out in Texas. At the time Lincoln was killed he was stationed at New Orleans, and there took a boat and went to Shreveport; from there he went across the country via Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, and then to Brownsville; then back to San Antonio, where he was mustered out. He then took a boat across the gulf to New Orleans, then up the Mississippi home. He was discharged June 16, 1865, at Camp Butler. He was married March 26, 1866, to Amanda McCarty, daughter of John son and Catharine McCarty, natives of Indiana. In September, 1866, he moved to Jasper county, Mo., and located in Preston township two years, then bought his present farm and improved it, and built the second house in the township out on the prairie. He now has two hundred acres 140 under cultivation and the rest in pasture; he has a fine residence, two granaries, a stable, and a good orchard. Mr. and Mrs. Peed have five children, named Emma, George, Luella, Carrie, and Frederick. Mr. and Mrs. Peed are members of the Presbyterian Church, and are very highly respected.