Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . John .^ C^5^ /^ r. ALTGELD, the presentGovernor of Illinois, is a nativeof Prussia, born in IS-tS. Shortlynfter his birth his parents emi-urated to America, locating ona farm near Mansfield, but a mere lad, 30ungAltgeld had to walk from thefarm to Mansfield with butter,eggs and garden produce, whichhe peddled from house to 1856, his parents movedto the city of Mansfield, and fora time our subject was engagedmorning and evening in dri
Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . John .^ C^5^ /^ r. ALTGELD, the presentGovernor of Illinois, is a nativeof Prussia, born in IS-tS. Shortlynfter his birth his parents emi-urated to America, locating ona farm near Mansfield, but a mere lad, 30ungAltgeld had to walk from thefarm to Mansfield with butter,eggs and garden produce, whichhe peddled from house to 1856, his parents movedto the city of Mansfield, and fora time our subject was engagedmorning and evening in driv-ing cattle to and from the pas-tiwe, a distance of eight miles. When fourteenyears of age he hired out as a farm hand, and con-tinued in that avocation the greater part of histime until he was sixteen years of age, when heenlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and served until the close ofthe war. On being mustered in, the regiment wassent to Washington and was actively engaged inthe various campaigns in and around that cityuntil the surrender of Lee. In the fall of 1864,young Altgeld was taken sick, whil
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