Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . SU^. OHN LOWRiE BEVER-IDGE, Governor 1873-6, wasborn in the town of Green-wich, Washington Co., N. Y.,July 6, 1824. His parentswere George and Ann Bever-) idge. His fathers parents, An-drew and Isabel Beveridge, be-fore their marriage emigratedfrom Scotland just before theRevolutionary War, settling inWashington County. His fatherwas the eldest of eight brothers, theyoungest of whom was 60 years ofage when
Portrait and biographical record of Shelby and Moultrie counties Illinois, containing ..sketches of prominent ..citizens ..the governors of the state ..the presidents of the United States . SU^. OHN LOWRiE BEVER-IDGE, Governor 1873-6, wasborn in the town of Green-wich, Washington Co., N. Y.,July 6, 1824. His parentswere George and Ann Bever-) idge. His fathers parents, An-drew and Isabel Beveridge, be-fore their marriage emigratedfrom Scotland just before theRevolutionary War, settling inWashington County. His fatherwas the eldest of eight brothers, theyoungest of whom was 60 years ofage when the first one of the num-ber died. His mothers parents,James and Agnes Hoy, emigratedfrom Scotland at the close of theRevolutionary War, settling also inJQ Washington Co., N. Y., with theirfirst-born, whose native land wasthe wild ocean. His parents andgrandparents lived beyond the timeallotted to man, their average agebeing over 80 years. They belonged to the Asso-ciate Church, a seceding Presbyterian body of America from the old Scotch school; and so rigidwas the training of young Beveridge that he neverheard a sermon from any other minister except thatof his own denomination until he
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