Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . -two years, aiul his wife inthe sixtjfourth year of her age. Mrs. Garretson is the youngest of their six chil-dren and by her marriage she has six children:James T., who died at the age of twelve years;Susan Ann; Charles, a resident farmer of RochesterTownship; Frank, also engaged in farming in thattownship; Minerva, wife of Norris Lobdill; andHarriet, who died at the age of six months. Mr. Garretson owns three hundred and seventeenacres of land situated in Cear Lake and RochesterTownships. He has madi many impiovementsupon his far
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . -two years, aiul his wife inthe sixtjfourth year of her age. Mrs. Garretson is the youngest of their six chil-dren and by her marriage she has six children:James T., who died at the age of twelve years;Susan Ann; Charles, a resident farmer of RochesterTownship; Frank, also engaged in farming in thattownship; Minerva, wife of Norris Lobdill; andHarriet, who died at the age of six months. Mr. Garretson owns three hundred and seventeenacres of land situated in Cear Lake and RochesterTownships. He has madi many impiovementsupon his farm and the well-tilled fields yield to hima golden tribute for his care and cultivation. Hepossesses good business ability, is energetic and H^. JOHN SMITH. PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 651 enterprising and ranks among the valued citizensof the fomniiinily. Botli lie and his wife are earnestChristian people. At the age of eighteen he unitedwith tlie Methodist Episcopal Church, and whensixteen years of age she became a member of theChristian Church. \Y OHN SMITH, one of the good farmers ofAVoodside Iownship, owns and occupies afertile tract of land wheieon a sulficientnumber of well-cunstructed buildings maybe found, such as are necessary and convenient incarrying on the work of the estate. The farmconsists of two hundred and fifty-eight acres ofthe fine land so conspicuous in Central Illinois,and has been so well developed by the use ofapproved methods of cultivation and fertilizationthat it stands above par in productiveness. Apart of this estate was purchased by Mr. Smithin 1853, and for some fifty years he beenclosely connected with the agricultural growth ofthe county. Our subject is a son of John and Maria (Stole
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