. 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. i:OEL A. MATTESON, Governor1853-6, was born Aug. 8, 1808,in Jefferson County, New York,to which place his father had re-moved from Vermont three yearsbefore. His father was a farmerin fair circumstances, but a com-mon English education was alltiiat his only son received. YoungJoel first tempted fortune as asmall tradesman in Prescott,Canada
. 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. i:OEL A. MATTESON, Governor1853-6, was born Aug. 8, 1808,in Jefferson County, New York,to which place his father had re-moved from Vermont three yearsbefore. His father was a farmerin fair circumstances, but a com-mon English education was alltiiat his only son received. YoungJoel first tempted fortune as asmall tradesman in Prescott,Canada, before he was of returned from that place tohis home, entered an academy,taught school, visited the prin-cipal Eastern cities, improved a farm his father hadgiven him, made a tour in the South, worked therein building railroads, experienced a slorm on theGulf of Mexico, visited the gold diggings of NorthernGeorgia, and returned via Nashville to St. Louis andthrough Illinois to his fathers home, when he mar-ried. In 1833, having sold his farm, he removed,with his wife and one child, to Illinois, and entereda claim on Government land near the head of AuSable River, in what is now Kendall County. Atthat time there were not more than two neighb
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