. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. him of whom we write wasborn in Greene County, N. Y., near her husbandsold home. She departed this life in Belvidere,shortly after his decease, at an advanced came of a very prominent family in the Em-pire State, who are well known in [)olitical andsocial circles. The father of our sul)ject grew in Greene County, N. Y., a
. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. him of whom we write wasborn in Greene County, N. Y., near her husbandsold home. She departed this life in Belvidere,shortly after his decease, at an advanced came of a very prominent family in the Em-pire State, who are well known in [)olitical andsocial circles. The father of our sul)ject grew in Greene County, N. Y., and was theremarried to Mary Dean, whose parents were farmersof that county, of which place they were nativesfor several generations back. Soon after his mar-riage Abraham .Sager came to Illinois and settledat Belvidere, where the father was in business fora number of years. He also became the proprietorof a large landed estate, upon which he made hishome for six or seven years on account of failinghealth. Dr. Sager is the eldest of the three children com-Ijrising the parental family. His bnjther Williamis a member of the firm of & Baker, locatedat No. .5) North Clinton Street, C!hicago, wherethey do a large wholesale business in hardware. 6^-M^^ PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 287 and are also the Western branch for the Co-opera-tive Stove Company of Cleveland. Ills sister Maymakes her home with her parents in original of this sketch was married, in K<iek-ford, to Miss Agnes Dow, who was born in thiscity in 1862. She received an excellent educa-tion in the city and High Schools and is a daugh-ter of Charles and Mary Dow, natives of Scotland,who, on coming to America, located on a farmnot far from Rockford. There the father improveda splendid estate and lived until his decease, whichwas tlie result of typhoid fever when in middlelife. The home farm is now owned by the eldestson, Charles Dow. The mother after the death ofher husband came to Rockford and
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