Biographical Sketch, 1881

Transcription

JOHN GARRISON, farmer and stock raiser, Nachusa, is a son of William and Amelia (Oman) Garrison, and was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, July 29, 1835, and came to Lee county, Illinois, with his parents in the spring of 1845, arriving here June 4. Thus it will be seen that John Garrison early became identified with Lee county. He was raised on the farm and educated as a hardy son of toil, with but a very slim chance of school learning. March 26, 1861, he was united in marriage with Miss Maranda, daughter of Mr. Jonathan and Sallie A. (Klintob) DePuy. She was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1842, and came to Lee county with her parents when a small child. They are the parents of eight children: Emma J., wife of C. B. Brader; Charles A., Addie M., George H., Priscilla M., Lucinda R., Elizabeth E. and Jacob F. In the spring of 1866 he moved on the farm where he now lives, in Sec. 25, T. 22, R. 9. His real estate comprises 240 acres of good land. His home farm is one of the very desirable ones of Nachusa township. He is engaged in stock raising as well as farming.

Source & Notes

Transcribed from pp. 549-550 of History of Lee County, Together with Biographical Matter, Statistics, etc. (Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1881) in June 2010. John's father, William Garrison, is profiled in the same book just five pages earlier, and a bio sketch of one of John's brothers-in-law, Alexander DePuy, appears immediately below John's own. This is a full and exact transcription. I have checked it twice against the original, and it is identical in every character.